Tuesday, January 30, 2007
The Secret's Out...another new Bloc Party song?!?
Nope, no-one saw this one coming...a brand new Bloc Party track has surfaced online...'Secret', and it's a scorcher! (Think 'Luno' with some extra "ahh-oooh"s, an old-skool-Bloc guitar line and a beautifully warm chorus). Apparently this isn't going to be available anywhere else, so enjoy!!
Nope, no-one saw this one coming...a brand new Bloc Party track has surfaced online...'Secret', and it's a scorcher! (Think 'Luno' with some extra "ahh-oooh"s, an old-skool-Bloc guitar line and a beautifully warm chorus). Apparently this isn't going to be available anywhere else, so enjoy!!
Labels: Audio
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Bloc Party Vcast (episode 3)
Number three in the series of six, in which "Kele and Gordy do their best to talk us through the creative process from initial idea to final stages of making 'The Prayer' and indeed the whole album, 'A Weekend In The City'. Gordy also provides us with a studio snapshot of life next door to Air and Nigel Godrich during the final stages of recording. Which is rather fun as it goes..."
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Number three in the series of six, in which "Kele and Gordy do their best to talk us through the creative process from initial idea to final stages of making 'The Prayer' and indeed the whole album, 'A Weekend In The City'. Gordy also provides us with a studio snapshot of life next door to Air and Nigel Godrich during the final stages of recording. Which is rather fun as it goes..."
[Subscribe and download]
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Radio 1 tonight & try before you buy
Tune in to BBC Radio 1 between 7pm and 9pm GMT tonight to hear Bloc Party performing at BBC's Maida Vale Studios. They'll be going out live on Zane Lowe's show, and you'll also be able to listen online.
Also, you can now listen to the new album on Bloc Party's Myspace!
edit: listen to the 45 minute live session here.
Tune in to BBC Radio 1 between 7pm and 9pm GMT tonight to hear Bloc Party performing at BBC's Maida Vale Studios. They'll be going out live on Zane Lowe's show, and you'll also be able to listen online.
Also, you can now listen to the new album on Bloc Party's Myspace!
edit: listen to the 45 minute live session here.
Labels: A_Weekend_In_The_City, Audio, Radio_sessions
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Monday, January 29, 2007
'The Prayer'...out now!
'The Prayer' entered this week's Official UK Singles Chart at #13 on downloads alone, so buy it now to push it even higher next week!
If you don't live in the UK, or prefer to keep things digital, download the single (including the brand new tracks: 'England', 'We Were Lovers' and 'Version 2.0') for the bargainous price of 77p per track here.
Labels: Singles
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Friday, January 26, 2007
Tellycopter
Bloc Party will be making lots of Channel 4 TV appearances over the coming week...
edit: Watch all five 4Music performances and vote for your favourite here!
Bloc Party will be making lots of Channel 4 TV appearances over the coming week...
- Fri 26th Jan - Channel 4, pm - 'The Album Chart Show' (performing 'The Prayer')
- Sun 28th Jan - Channel 4, pm - '4Music Presents: Bloc Party - You Choose' (performing 'Hunting For Witches')
- Mon 29th Jan - Channel 4, pm - '4Music Presents: Bloc Party - You Choose' (performing 'I Still Remember')
- Tues 30th Jan - Channel 4, pm - '4Music Presents: Bloc Party - You Choose' (performing 'Waiting For The 7:18')
- Wed 31st Jan - Channel 4, pm - '4Music Presents: Bloc Party - You Choose' (performing 'Uniform')
- Thurs 1st Feb - Channel 4, pm - '4Music Presents: Bloc Party - You Choose' (performing 'Sunday')
- Sun 4th Feb - Channel 4, pm - '4Music Presents: Bloc Party' (special 30 minute programme)
edit: Watch all five 4Music performances and vote for your favourite here!
Labels: Television, Videos
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London Mean Fiddler (Xfm Session), 25.01.07
Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
Positive Tension
Banquet
Waiting for the 7:18
The Prayer
This Modern Love
Uniform
Like Eating Glass
So Here We Are
Helicopter
I Still Remember
She's Hearing Voices
Sunday
Two More Years
Despite appearing onstage a good half hour late, Kele Okereke is upbeat and grinning; the music press is shitting itself at the possibility of something more quotable than reticence. It's decidedly uncharacteristic: quips and exchanges from the famed nonchalant who once barked at a journalist, "Why is it important to know what I had for breakfast?". In a nod to stories of 'A Weekend in the City''s leak, Kele asserts himself again: ""As you know, we've got a new record. Who's heard our new album already? And who's going to buy our new album?"
The Party get straight into it with 'Song for Clay', the first track from the follow-up to 2005's #3 charter 'Silent Alarm'. Despite the volte-face from the angled art-rock movement that Bloc Party headed up, everyone here's still going at it like each offering is an anthemic gem. That first set were famously cut and polished by Paul Epworth. However, to appreciate the new quarry of songs, mastered by 'Jacknife' Lee, you have to dig deeper, as the angular jerk is buried beneath swathes of strings and up-tempered rhythm and blues beats, such as forthcoming single 'Uniform' demonstrates.
'Positive Tension' sees things back on familiar territory, summed up best by the perfect drop for everyone to scream the ideal reproach "so fucking useless!" to Kele's angsty "Why d'you have to get so pissed off?"
An early surprise is 'Banquet'. Were Bloc Party a weaker band, that song would have been shored up for later as a second helping to the alcohol feast the crowd is having of its own. But the calibre of this band's catalogue makes set list assault tactics unnecessary.
Only one other band has written such a classic song about shyness and that was The Smiths with 'Ask'. Bloc Party's take on the affliction, 'The Prayer' is otherworldly in its composition. Foreboding yet optimistic, Kele prays "Tonight make me unstoppable, I will charm, I will slice, I will dazzle them with my wit" – this seriously is quite amazing.
'This Modern Love' reminds us that Bloc Party do sensitivity just as well as staccato guitar lines and hyperkinetic drumming. It's the musical expression of their oft-quoted "You can't pigeonhole us" line when they emerged from the New Cross scene by way of a demo famously finding its way into Steve Lamacq's hands at a Franz Ferdinand gig.
We're taken back to those early days as Kele says, "This is our first hit single, from January 2005, 'So Here We Are'." His beautifully wounded vocals entice lighters aloft. Clearly no one here's worried about the Price of Gas.
Waiting for Bloc Party to reappear is probably the easiest way of making five minutes seem like an hour. Kele beams, "You may be wondering why we have two drum kits on stage. Cue multi-instrumentalist Gordon!" Cue some tedious scuffling and a couple of nervous twangs from guitarist Russell Lissack more like. His trademark three year-long indie fringe clearly isn't enough to hide his awkwardness. "Sorry, we still haven't perfected our change-overs yet." It doesn't matter really; let's just see Gordon on the drums! And to chants of "Gordon, Gordon!", the bassist hammers the skins alongside Matt Tong in a thrashing delivery of 'Sunday'.
"This is our last song, London, 'Two More Years'". Let's just hope we don't have to wait that long again until the next record. This is a remarkable return to duty.
[Another review] [Photos]
Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
Positive Tension
Banquet
Waiting for the 7:18
The Prayer
This Modern Love
Uniform
Like Eating Glass
So Here We Are
Helicopter
I Still Remember
She's Hearing Voices
Sunday
Two More Years
[Reviewed by Michelle Connolly]
No matter how you introduce one of the country's most successful acts of recent times, it's never going to quite nail the anticipation. That task this evening fell to Iain Baker: "These guys have sold out that place 35 yards to my right three nights next week so to catch them here in such an intimate venue…well, tonight's going to be amazing." Cue even more jostling for position and it's job well done by the Xfm DJ.Despite appearing onstage a good half hour late, Kele Okereke is upbeat and grinning; the music press is shitting itself at the possibility of something more quotable than reticence. It's decidedly uncharacteristic: quips and exchanges from the famed nonchalant who once barked at a journalist, "Why is it important to know what I had for breakfast?". In a nod to stories of 'A Weekend in the City''s leak, Kele asserts himself again: ""As you know, we've got a new record. Who's heard our new album already? And who's going to buy our new album?"
The Party get straight into it with 'Song for Clay', the first track from the follow-up to 2005's #3 charter 'Silent Alarm'. Despite the volte-face from the angled art-rock movement that Bloc Party headed up, everyone here's still going at it like each offering is an anthemic gem. That first set were famously cut and polished by Paul Epworth. However, to appreciate the new quarry of songs, mastered by 'Jacknife' Lee, you have to dig deeper, as the angular jerk is buried beneath swathes of strings and up-tempered rhythm and blues beats, such as forthcoming single 'Uniform' demonstrates.
'Positive Tension' sees things back on familiar territory, summed up best by the perfect drop for everyone to scream the ideal reproach "so fucking useless!" to Kele's angsty "Why d'you have to get so pissed off?"
An early surprise is 'Banquet'. Were Bloc Party a weaker band, that song would have been shored up for later as a second helping to the alcohol feast the crowd is having of its own. But the calibre of this band's catalogue makes set list assault tactics unnecessary.
Only one other band has written such a classic song about shyness and that was The Smiths with 'Ask'. Bloc Party's take on the affliction, 'The Prayer' is otherworldly in its composition. Foreboding yet optimistic, Kele prays "Tonight make me unstoppable, I will charm, I will slice, I will dazzle them with my wit" – this seriously is quite amazing.
'This Modern Love' reminds us that Bloc Party do sensitivity just as well as staccato guitar lines and hyperkinetic drumming. It's the musical expression of their oft-quoted "You can't pigeonhole us" line when they emerged from the New Cross scene by way of a demo famously finding its way into Steve Lamacq's hands at a Franz Ferdinand gig.
We're taken back to those early days as Kele says, "This is our first hit single, from January 2005, 'So Here We Are'." His beautifully wounded vocals entice lighters aloft. Clearly no one here's worried about the Price of Gas.
Waiting for Bloc Party to reappear is probably the easiest way of making five minutes seem like an hour. Kele beams, "You may be wondering why we have two drum kits on stage. Cue multi-instrumentalist Gordon!" Cue some tedious scuffling and a couple of nervous twangs from guitarist Russell Lissack more like. His trademark three year-long indie fringe clearly isn't enough to hide his awkwardness. "Sorry, we still haven't perfected our change-overs yet." It doesn't matter really; let's just see Gordon on the drums! And to chants of "Gordon, Gordon!", the bassist hammers the skins alongside Matt Tong in a thrashing delivery of 'Sunday'.
"This is our last song, London, 'Two More Years'". Let's just hope we don't have to wait that long again until the next record. This is a remarkable return to duty.
[Another review] [Photos]
Labels: Gig_reviews, Setlists, Tour
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Bournemouth Old Fire Station, 24.01.07
Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
Positive Tension
Banquet
Waiting for the 7:18
The Prayer
This Modern Love
Hunting For Witches
Little Thoughts
So Here We Are
Helicopter
Sunday
She's Hearing Voices
Kreuzberg
Two More Years
[More photos]
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Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
Positive Tension
Banquet
Waiting for the 7:18
The Prayer
This Modern Love
Hunting For Witches
Little Thoughts
So Here We Are
Helicopter
Sunday
She's Hearing Voices
Kreuzberg
Two More Years
[More photos]
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
iTunes pre-order bonus tracks
Pre-order 'A Weekend In The City' on iTunes for some bonus Bloc:
Pre-order 'A Weekend In The City' on iTunes for some bonus Bloc:
- iTunes UK users will receive the 'The Prayer' (Does It Offend You, Yeah? Remix).
- iTunes US users get the better deal...two brand new songs: 'Cain Said To Abel' and 'Atonement'!
'Atonement' was played on last March's fanclub tour, and was described as being "centred around a breakbeat evocative of The Stone Roses' 'Fools Gold'. Contains a very sparse verse, with the only instruments being Russell's guitar and Kele's vocals against the drums. Has a huge, anthemic chorus."
Labels: A_Weekend_In_The_City
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Bloc Party bring the party!
This week, Bloc Party begin their mammoth international tour, supported by an all-star cast including Metric, Fields, Final Fantasy and Albert Hammond, Jr.
If you're going to any of the dates, feel free to send in your reviews, photos, videos and setlists to the usual address. They'll be posted up on BLOG PARTY as the tour progresses, so expect lots of updates over the coming weeks!
This week, Bloc Party begin their mammoth international tour, supported by an all-star cast including Metric, Fields, Final Fantasy and Albert Hammond, Jr.
If you're going to any of the dates, feel free to send in your reviews, photos, videos and setlists to the usual address. They'll be posted up on BLOG PARTY as the tour progresses, so expect lots of updates over the coming weeks!
P.S. You can buy 'The Prayer' on iTunes now...making it eligible for chart entry this week on downloads alone.
Bear witness to the results of rehearsing that little bit too hard
Labels: Tour
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Black Session, French radio, 22.01.07
Download Bloc Party's 'Black Session' for France Inter's 'C'est Lenoir' show...
Notice anything unusual? (Photo: Robert Gil)
1. Waiting For The 7:18
2. Positive Tension
3. Banquet
4. Hunting For Witches
5. This Modern Love
6. The Prayer
7. Uniform
8. I Still Remember
9. So Here We Are
10. Little Thoughts
11. Helicopter
12. Sunday
Thanks to David St Hubbins
Download Bloc Party's 'Black Session' for France Inter's 'C'est Lenoir' show...
Notice anything unusual? (Photo: Robert Gil)1. Waiting For The 7:18
2. Positive Tension
3. Banquet
4. Hunting For Witches
5. This Modern Love
6. The Prayer
7. Uniform
8. I Still Remember
9. So Here We Are
10. Little Thoughts
11. Helicopter
12. Sunday
Thanks to David St Hubbins
Labels: Audio, Radio_sessions
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Monday, January 22, 2007
French Black Session - tonight
Bloc Party are in session on France Inter's 'C'est Lenoir' radio show tonight. This is actually the band's second 'Black Session'...their first was recorded almost two years ago, just before the release of 'Silent Alarm'.
Tonight's session goes out at 10:00pm local time (9:00pm GMT), and you'll be able to listen live from here (click on the 'direct' link). Expect to hear some new songs played live for the first time!
Bloc Party are in session on France Inter's 'C'est Lenoir' radio show tonight. This is actually the band's second 'Black Session'...their first was recorded almost two years ago, just before the release of 'Silent Alarm'.
Tonight's session goes out at 10:00pm local time (9:00pm GMT), and you'll be able to listen live from here (click on the 'direct' link). Expect to hear some new songs played live for the first time!
Labels: Radio_sessions
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Saturday, January 20, 2007
BLAG PARTY: Cover #6
Cover #6 of the BlocParty.net covers project is a tender, folky take on 'Blue Light', recorded by Jon Solo in his Brooklyn home studio.
Download: Jon Solo - Blue Light
Click here to listen to the other BLAG PARTY covers so far, or to find out how you can submit your own.
Cover #6 of the BlocParty.net covers project is a tender, folky take on 'Blue Light', recorded by Jon Solo in his Brooklyn home studio.
Download: Jon Solo - Blue Light
Click here to listen to the other BLAG PARTY covers so far, or to find out how you can submit your own.
Labels: Blag_Party
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Something for the Weekend...
- Watch an interview with Matt and Gordy on MSN.
- Two competitions: win tickets to see Bloc Party in Reading and Glasgow.
- Listen to three new Bloc Party songs (including 'Hunting For Witches'!) right now on MTV2's The Drop.
- Watch Bloc Party perform 'The Prayer' live on Channel 4's T4 this Sunday. They're on at around 9:40am, so set your alarm for 9:35am and go back to sleep after!
Labels: A_Weekend_In_The_City, Television, Tour, Videos
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Exclusive: 'I Still Remember' video shoot
BLOG PARTY tracked down the directors behind Bloc Party's stunning new video for 'I Still Remember' to find out how it was made. The duo from NYC, known as Aggressive, kindly obliged:
BLOG PARTY tracked down the directors behind Bloc Party's stunning new video for 'I Still Remember' to find out how it was made. The duo from NYC, known as Aggressive, kindly obliged:
"The stage with the green screen was filmed at this small dig on the outskirts of London, barely large enough to pass for a two car garage. It was chilly and overcast; foreboding and perfectly appropriate for the 14 hour shoot day looming before us.
The Bloc Party guys arrived one by one and headed upstairs to the kitchen, where they kicked back, checked emails, and shared some tea and toast with jam and marmalade (Hey, it's the UK, and it was a nice departure from the bagels and cream cheese we're used to).
This video is designed to look like one shot, in which our camera continually pulls backwards through the aisle of a train, all the while encountering multiple versions of Kele, the band, and friends from different 'memories' in his life, all visible on-screen at once.
To achieve this, we had to shoot on green screen, breaking down all the scenes to whatever might take place on a single pair of train seats. So, that's all we had on stage. Two vintage, maroon-leather seats, bolted into a green floor. As a result, we had a phenomenal amount of footage to shoot to make this train look convincingly full of people. Fortunately, we lucked out. They were fresh. Bloc Party were scheduled for another shoot the next morning at a pub in the area for 'The Prayer'. We were glad to get them first because it was going to be a LONG day.Acting on a green stage for a realistic scene can be horrifyingly difficult. You need to deliver a convincing performance for a scene that doesn't yet exist. You're alone, standing on a nearly empty stage, no room to walk around or walls to lean on. There is a giant camera focused on you and a room full of crew and extras watching you sweat under hot lights and you've got to 'imagineer' yourself into the expected shot. You're so completely exposed you might as well be naked. If you think it's tough to be a musician stepping onto a stage in front of thousands, try this. It's worse."
Watch 'I Still Remember': [Quicktime] [Windows Media] [YouTube]
For a technical description of the video-making process, head over to Video Static...the greatest music video website known to man.
Labels: Videos
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Kele video interview (German)
Labels: A_Weekend_In_The_City, Interviews, Press, Videos
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Channel 4 takeover bid
Bloc Party have teamed up with Channel 4 to host a week of exclusive track performances. '4Music Presents Bloc Party' is to be aired on Sunday 4th February and will see the band showcasing new tracks from 'A Weekend In The City'.
In the week prior to the 4Music Presents special (Sunday 28th January - Thursday February 1st), Channel 4 will also show an exclusive performance of one track per day from 'AWITC'. Viewers will be asked to choose which of the five songs is their favourite and this will determine the playlist for Sunday's programme. The most popular Bloc Party song will be announced on T4 (Saturday January 3rd). Keep up at the back!
The special will be presented by Miquita Oliver and as well as playing four new tracks from their new album, Bloc Party will also give an exclusive performance of one of their old hits. Phew. Anyone for a garibaldi?
Bloc Party have teamed up with Channel 4 to host a week of exclusive track performances. '4Music Presents Bloc Party' is to be aired on Sunday 4th February and will see the band showcasing new tracks from 'A Weekend In The City'.
In the week prior to the 4Music Presents special (Sunday 28th January - Thursday February 1st), Channel 4 will also show an exclusive performance of one track per day from 'AWITC'. Viewers will be asked to choose which of the five songs is their favourite and this will determine the playlist for Sunday's programme. The most popular Bloc Party song will be announced on T4 (Saturday January 3rd). Keep up at the back!
The special will be presented by Miquita Oliver and as well as playing four new tracks from their new album, Bloc Party will also give an exclusive performance of one of their old hits. Phew. Anyone for a garibaldi?
Labels: A_Weekend_In_The_City, Television
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Monday, January 15, 2007
Kele mashes it up
Kele made a minimix for Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show last Friday featuring:
Justin Timberlake – 'SexyBack'
Madonna – 'Get Into The Groove'
Salt & Pepper – 'Push It'
New Order – 'Blue Monday'
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – 'Y Control' (Tommie Sunshine's Brooklyn Fire re-touch)
Bloc Party – 'Banquet' (Phones Disco edit)
The Cure – 'Boys Don’t Cry' (Fiction)
Guilty pleasures galore!
Listen here, along with a short interview (fast-forward one hour in) or download here (thanks to Epo from AND). ¶ 10:53 PM 0 comments links to this post
Kele made a minimix for Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show last Friday featuring:
Justin Timberlake – 'SexyBack'
Madonna – 'Get Into The Groove'
Salt & Pepper – 'Push It'
New Order – 'Blue Monday'
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – 'Y Control' (Tommie Sunshine's Brooklyn Fire re-touch)
Bloc Party – 'Banquet' (Phones Disco edit)
The Cure – 'Boys Don’t Cry' (Fiction)
Guilty pleasures galore!
Listen here, along with a short interview (fast-forward one hour in) or download here (thanks to Epo from AND). ¶ 10:53 PM 0 comments links to this post
Sunday, January 14, 2007
US/Canada tour support
Here's who'll be supporting Bloc Party on their March US/Canada tour:
11.03.07 (Seattle) - 17.03.07 (San Francisco): Final Fantasy, Smoosh
19.03.07 (Los Angeles): Final Fantasy, The Like
20.03.07 (Los Angeles): The Like, tba
23.03.07 (Chicago) - 30.03.07 (New York): Sebastien Grainger, Albert Hammond, Jr.
31.03.07 (New York): Sebastien Grainger, tba
You lucky people! 'tba' means that the second support band for that date hasn't yet been announced.
Here's who'll be supporting Bloc Party on their March US/Canada tour:
11.03.07 (Seattle) - 17.03.07 (San Francisco): Final Fantasy, Smoosh
19.03.07 (Los Angeles): Final Fantasy, The Like
20.03.07 (Los Angeles): The Like, tba
23.03.07 (Chicago) - 30.03.07 (New York): Sebastien Grainger, Albert Hammond, Jr.
31.03.07 (New York): Sebastien Grainger, tba
You lucky people! 'tba' means that the second support band for that date hasn't yet been announced.
Labels: Other_bands, Tour
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
'I Still Remember' video premiere
The new video for 'I Still Remember', the first US single to be taken from 'A Weekend In The City', premiered today on MTV2 and MTVu. Directed by Aggressive, the video takes place on an eventful train journey. It's a world away from the video for 'The Prayer'; the dingy, druggy ambience being replaced by a shimmering feast for the senses (well, sight and hearing anyway) which should earn Bloc Party a lot of recognition Stateside.
Watch: 'I Still Remember' video
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The new video for 'I Still Remember', the first US single to be taken from 'A Weekend In The City', premiered today on MTV2 and MTVu. Directed by Aggressive, the video takes place on an eventful train journey. It's a world away from the video for 'The Prayer'; the dingy, druggy ambience being replaced by a shimmering feast for the senses (well, sight and hearing anyway) which should earn Bloc Party a lot of recognition Stateside.
Watch: 'I Still Remember' video
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Monday, January 08, 2007
New US/Canada Tour! Final Fantasy! Albert Hammond Jr!
Following on from the sneak preview a couple days ago, Bloc Party have announced a tour of the US and Canada for March, including a stop at SXSW. They're also bringing along a veritable slew of friends to support them, including The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr., violin-looping genius Final Fantasy, The Like, Sebastien Grainger (formerly of Death From Above 1979) and tweenagers Smoosh. Let's hope they're better company than Panic! At The Disco.
The new dates in full:
11.03.07 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre
12.03.07 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
13.03.07 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
15.03.07 Austin, TX - SXSW
17.03.07 San Francisco, CA - Concourse Exhibition
19.03.07 Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern Theatre
20.03.07 Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern Theatre
23.03.07 Chicago, IL - Congress Theatre
24.03.07 Detroit, MI - Royal Oak Theatre
25.03.07 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
27.03.07 Montreal, Ontario - Metropolis
28.03.07 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre
30.03.07 New York, NY - United Palace Theatre
31.03.07 New York, NY - United Palace Theatre
Following on from the sneak preview a couple days ago, Bloc Party have announced a tour of the US and Canada for March, including a stop at SXSW. They're also bringing along a veritable slew of friends to support them, including The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr., violin-looping genius Final Fantasy, The Like, Sebastien Grainger (formerly of Death From Above 1979) and tweenagers Smoosh. Let's hope they're better company than Panic! At The Disco.
The new dates in full:
11.03.07 Seattle, WA - Paramount Theatre
12.03.07 Vancouver, British Columbia - Orpheum Theatre
13.03.07 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
15.03.07 Austin, TX - SXSW
17.03.07 San Francisco, CA - Concourse Exhibition
19.03.07 Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern Theatre
20.03.07 Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern Theatre
23.03.07 Chicago, IL - Congress Theatre
24.03.07 Detroit, MI - Royal Oak Theatre
25.03.07 Toronto, Ontario - Kool Haus
27.03.07 Montreal, Ontario - Metropolis
28.03.07 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre
30.03.07 New York, NY - United Palace Theatre
31.03.07 New York, NY - United Palace Theatre
Labels: Tour
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Saturday, January 06, 2007
Heard it through the grapevine...
The Ticketmaster website has details of two Bloc Party shows at United Palace Theatre, New York City in late March. No details have been officially announced yet, so this is just a quick heads-up for anyone who wants to get their tickets early. According to Ticketmaster, the presale begins today at 11:00 AM EST.
Bloc Party are also strongly rumoured to be playing this year's SXSW Festival in March...start organising those road trips to Texas!
The Ticketmaster website has details of two Bloc Party shows at United Palace Theatre, New York City in late March. No details have been officially announced yet, so this is just a quick heads-up for anyone who wants to get their tickets early. According to Ticketmaster, the presale begins today at 11:00 AM EST.
Bloc Party are also strongly rumoured to be playing this year's SXSW Festival in March...start organising those road trips to Texas!
Labels: Tour
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
BLAG PARTY: Cover #5
Cover #5 of the BlocParty.net covers project is an 'electremo' version of 'Like Eating Glass', created by Gordi Shephard on his laptop using just a keyboard, a microphone and some nifty software. It's Bloc Party meets Daft Punk meets The Postal Service!
Download: Tempera[mental] - Like Eating Glass
Click here to listen to the other BLAG PARTY covers so far, or to find out how you can submit your own.
Cover #5 of the BlocParty.net covers project is an 'electremo' version of 'Like Eating Glass', created by Gordi Shephard on his laptop using just a keyboard, a microphone and some nifty software. It's Bloc Party meets Daft Punk meets The Postal Service!
Download: Tempera[mental] - Like Eating Glass
Click here to listen to the other BLAG PARTY covers so far, or to find out how you can submit your own.
Labels: Blag_Party
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Xfm Live Session
Bloc Party will be playing at London's Mean Fiddler as part of the Xfm and O2 Live Sessions on Thursday January 25th. The gig, part of a new series hosted by the London radio station, falls just before the band's upcoming UK tour.
You can only get tickets for the show by listening on air or by entering the exclusive Xfm Plus competition here.
Bloc Party will be playing at London's Mean Fiddler as part of the Xfm and O2 Live Sessions on Thursday January 25th. The gig, part of a new series hosted by the London radio station, falls just before the band's upcoming UK tour.
You can only get tickets for the show by listening on air or by entering the exclusive Xfm Plus competition here.
Labels: Tour
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