The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch has traveled to London to scout out possible UK locations for a Tibetan Freedom Concert later this year.

Yauch is expected to meet with promoters and publicists about the feasibility of staging a 2001 edition of the concert there, according to the band's reps at Nasty Little Man.

The Beasties have been eyeing the UK as a possible site, since organizers for the Glastonbury Festival announced they would take this year off to address some crowd-control issues (see [article id="1435937"]"Glastonbury Festival Taking Year Off To Deal With Crowds"[/article]).

It hasn't been established how many Tibetan Freedom Concerts would be staged this year, or if the Beastie Boys would headline a U.S. edition of the show, as they have in the previous years the concerts have been held.

Organized by Yauch and the Milarepa Fund, the inaugural Tibetan Freedom Concert was held in San Francisco in 1996, followed by concerts in New York in 1997 and Washington in 1998. The 1999 Tibetan Freedom Concerts incorporated four separate shows, in Sydney, Australia; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Tokyo; and East Troy, Wisconsin.

The Tibetan Freedom Concert took last year off, although Yauch predicted the event's return the day before the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards in the fall (see [article id="1425411"]"Beasties' Adam Yauch Talks Fate Of Rage Tour, Tibetan Concerts"[/article]).

"I think there will probably be [more] Tibetan Freedom Concerts in the future," Yauch said then. "I'm sure there will be."

Yauch launched the Tibetan Freedom Concert as a means of raising awareness about the plight of Tibet, which has been occupied by China since 1959. Proceeds from the events are also donated to the Milarepa Fund, a nonprofit organization that promotes universal compassion and non-violent social change.

"I think there's still quite a ways to go on the Tibetan movement for Tibet to gain its freedom," Yauch also said the day before the award ceremony. "I think it'd be a mistake to start counting our blessings before the job is done. But I think it is getting closer."