EDDIE VEDDER - SICK RELATIVE PROMPTS VEDDER TO CANCEL FESTIVAL SCREENING

SICK RELATIVE PROMPTS VEDDER TO CANCEL FESTIVAL SCREENING

Rocker EDDIE VEDDER was forced to pull out of a special screening of the anti-war documentary he has partly scored at the South by Southwest festival in Texas on Thursday (13Mar08) to nurse a sick relative back to health. Vedder, who recorded new material for and curated the soundtrack to Body Of War, was expected to join other musical activists like Billy Bragg and Tom Morello at the screening. When he didn't show, fans were told the rocker was caring for an ailing relative and unable to make the premiere of the film and concert. Instead, Bragg, Morello, Serj Tankian and Ben Harper performed brief sets after the screening of the hard-hitting film, about paralysed Iraq war veteran Tomas Young. Morello ended the rousing anti-establishment concert by performing Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land with Bragg and Tankian.