Many of us are still scratching our heads about last Friday. As you will recall, Radiohead were rumored to play a show at Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park to support the Occupy Wall Street protests. Throughout the day, it became more and more clear that this wasn’t happening, despite confirmation from the Occupy Wall Street organizers, saying they were in direct contact with the band. Later on, they admitted that they were victims of a hoax.

Over the weekend, the Village Voice posted the fake email which started the whole thing, supposedly from Radiohead manager Bryce Edge:

From: Bryce Edge

Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011

Subject: RE: Radiohead @ Occupy Wall Street

To: arts_culture@nycga.net

Dear Occupiers, My name is Bryce Edge, and I’m one of the managers for the band

Radiohead. The guys are really impressed with what you have managed to

pull off, and they wanted to stop by and play a couple songs in

support before leaving New York. I don’t want to create a big media

circus that might worry the police or endanger what you’ve built, plus

the band wants to play for the people who have been camped out, not

everyone in New York who didn’t get a ticket for Thursday’s show. I

was told this was the committee to email – do you think this would be

possible? They have some unscheduled time Friday afternoon between 4

and 6, would that work? I read that the police aren’t allowing sound

equipment, but they could do acoustic. Let me know. Best,

Bryce Edge Courtyard Productions, Inc

8383 Wilshire Boulevard # 526

Beverly Hills, CA 90211-2425

Yesterday, Gothamist posted an email from the supposed “trickster” (pun intended) who says he started the rumor to get people to come down to the protests: