The Beastie Boys, former Clash frontman Joe Strummer, Pulp and Morcheeba are among the first round of performers slated to play this year's incarnation of the Tibetan Freedom Concert.

The fifth concert of its kind will be held at Brockwell Park in London on September 15, according to event organizers. Like previous editions, the 2001 Tibetan Freedom Concert will raise money for the Milarepa Fund, an international organization dedicated to supporting the Tibetan people's nonviolent struggle to regain their freedom from China, which has occupied the country since 1959.

The full lineup will be announced soon, and organizers say Robbie Williams is a likely addition.

The Tibetan Freedom Concert series was started in 1996 by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch with the intention of raising awareness of the situation in Tibet. The inaugural TFC took place in San Francisco and featured the Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, Beck and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others. Shows were subsequently staged in New York (1997) (see "Beastie Boys, R.E.M., Porno For Pyros To Play Tibetan Freedom Fest") and Washington, D.C. (1998) (see "Pearl Jam, Wyclef, Blues Traveler, Kraftwerk Added To Tibet Show Line-Up"). In 1999, the concert made a global impact by simultaneously occurring in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Sydney, Australia; Tokyo; and East Troy, Wisconsin, near Chicago. No concert was held last year.

Though the U.S. concerts proved more profitable for the cause — with the Washington show raising $1.2 million, according to the Milarepa Fund — it wasn't just money that factored into the decision to take the show overseas.

"We've done it four times in the U.S., and we just thought it would be good to do it in some other countries to help spark the Tibetan movement a little more in those places," Yauch said Monday.

"With each subsequent Tibetan Freedom Concert ... there's been a wave of people becoming involved and active," bandmate Mike D added. "So I think it's really crucial in terms of having it in London, which can really be a focal point of the whole European continent. The situation with the Chinese occupation in Tibet is clearly going to take a lot more than pressure from the people active in just the United States. It's gonna take a worldwide awareness to effect change."