Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Happy Holidays!
Happy Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa to all BlocParty.net readers...see you in 2009! If you get bored of Christmas TV, click here to watch a Bloc Party video interview dating back to October 2003, unearthed last week by Tom on AND!
On the twelfth day of Bloc-mas, my true love sent to me...
Twelve Tongs a-drumming
Eleven fats a-staying
Ten Gordys glowering
Nine feet a-dancing
Eight Okerekes
Seven Russell Lissacks
Six tongues a-loosening
Five Compliments
Four Modern Loves
Three Uniforms
Two More Years
And a ban on mixes by Jacknife Lee!
Happy Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa to all BlocParty.net readers...see you in 2009! If you get bored of Christmas TV, click here to watch a Bloc Party video interview dating back to October 2003, unearthed last week by Tom on AND!
And here's a festive ditty to close the year (to be sung to the tune of 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'!)...
On the twelfth day of Bloc-mas, my true love sent to me...
Twelve Tongs a-drumming
Eleven fats a-staying
Ten Gordys glowering
Nine feet a-dancing
Eight Okerekes
Seven Russell Lissacks
Six tongues a-loosening
Five Compliments
Four Modern Loves
Three Uniforms
Two More Years
And a ban on mixes by Jacknife Lee!
Labels: Random
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
San Diego, CA - House Of Blues, 16.12.08
[Setlist]
[Setlist]
One Month Off / Hunting For Witches / Positive Tension / Waiting For The 7.18 / Song For Clay (Disappear Here) / Banquet / Signs / Letter To My Son / Two More Years / Talons / So Here We Are / Like Eating Glass
Halo / The Prayer / The Sun Always Shines On T.V. (A-ha cover) - Flux / Helicopter
Ares / This Modern Love / She's Hearing Voices
P.S. Here's a new mashup of 'Mercury' with Britney Spears' 'Womanizer', featured on Stereogum & team9 Present... MySplice III.
[Download] 'Britney Gets Bloc-ed' (Britney Spears - 'Womanizer' vs. Bloc Party - 'Mercury')
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Anaheim, CA - The Grove of Anaheim, 15.12.08
[Setlist]
[Setlist]
Trojan Horse / Hunting For Witches / Positive Tension / Signs / Song For Clay (Disappear Here) / Banquet / Better Than Heaven / Letter To My Son / Mercury / The Once And Future King / This Modern Love / The Prayer
Sunday / Price Of Gasoline / The Sun Always Shines On T.V. (A-ha cover) - Flux / Helicopter
Ares / Like Eating Glass
Related news: Bloc Party visits young fan with cancer
'The Sun Always Shines On T.V.' into 'Flux'
Labels: Setlists
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Friday, December 12, 2008
Watch the 'One Month Off' video!
Watch below the brand new, and decidedly creepy, video for 'One Month Off', released on January 26th. As with the promos for 'Flux' and 'Mercury', there's no sign of Bloc Party in the video, just lots of nursery rhyme characters being blown into smithereens...
Watch below the brand new, and decidedly creepy, video for 'One Month Off', released on January 26th. As with the promos for 'Flux' and 'Mercury', there's no sign of Bloc Party in the video, just lots of nursery rhyme characters being blown into smithereens...
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey
Then came a grenade which exploded beside her and turned the poor girl to sorbet
Then came a grenade which exploded beside her and turned the poor girl to sorbet
Edit: The video was directed by D.A.D.D.Y. (Design, Animation, Design, Design, Yay) and based on Ray Harryhausen's 1940s/50s stop-motion fairy tale animations:
"We acquired a number of the [Harryhausen] fairy tale stories and re-edited them to the track, so we had a strange narrative set in this animated fairytale world. A place inhabited by all the classic characters from Little Miss Muffet to Red Riding Hood. Taking the re-edited vintage animations, we then reanimated over these beautiful old stop-motion films, adding some 'reality,' so they lost that innocent feeling and meaning they once had. We have no idea what Mr. Harryhausen will think if he sees them, but some of the new cartoon violence makes parts of the video darkly funny, which he might like."
[Download] Bloc Party - 'One Month Off' video
Ray Harryhausen's Little Red Riding Hood (1949)...this time, she doesn't get vapourised by a tank
Labels: One Month Off, Singles
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Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena, 11.12.08 ('Not So Silent Night' radio show)
[Setlist]
[Setlist]
One Month Off / Halo / Hunting For Witches / Signs / Song For Clay (Disappear Here) / Banquet / This Modern Love / Flux / Helicopter
Labels: Setlists
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
Los Angeles, CA - Club Nokia, 10.12.08 ('Wreck the Halls' radio show)
[Setlist]
[Setlist]
Trojan Horse / One Month Off / Hunting For Witches / Positive Tension / Signs / Song For Clay (Disappear Here) / Banquet / Mercury / This Modern Love / The Prayer / Flux / Helicopter
Labels: Setlists
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Bloc Party's 'Signs' soundtracks Gossip Girl
A mixture of the acoustic and album versions of 'Signs' plays during a recent episode of American teen drama Gossip Girl. No idea on the plotline, but it's all a bit emotional...
A mixture of the acoustic and album versions of 'Signs' plays during a recent episode of American teen drama Gossip Girl. No idea on the plotline, but it's all a bit emotional...
Labels: Television
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Friday, December 05, 2008
BlocParty.net on Facebook!
BlocParty.net has rather belatedly jumped onto the Facebook bandwagon...join the group here! However, unfortunately, the Always New Depths forum has decided to stop working (you can still post, but the template has gone wrong) so please use the Facebook group for Bloc-related discussion until the forum is back up-and-running again!
BlocParty.net has rather belatedly jumped onto the Facebook bandwagon...join the group here! However, unfortunately, the Always New Depths forum has decided to stop working (you can still post, but the template has gone wrong) so please use the Facebook group for Bloc-related discussion until the forum is back up-and-running again!
Edit: False alarm! The forum is back up again, albeit with a temporary template. As you were...
Labels: BlocParty.net, Random
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Thursday, December 04, 2008
Kele falls off his chair!
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In perhaps the most exciting Bloc Party news for...oh, at least a week, Kele has fallen off his chair during an interview in Australia. Balancing precariously on his chair throughout the questioning (he claims to enjoy that hovering sensation), Kele tipped himself back that little bit too far during a lengthy Matt monologue. Kele meet carpet, carpet meet Mr. Okereke.
It's a well known fact that watching someone fall off their chair is one of the funniest things known to man. It is, however, not known whether Kele's fall was a genuine victory of gravity over chair-balancing finesse, or a cunning publicity stunt to drum up a few extra sales of the new album...
[Watch] Second part of interview with Kele's fall (the first part of the interview is here)
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Bloc Party to play cinema gig
Bloc Party will play a T-mobile 'Street Gig' in Germany on February 7th 2009. The venue of the gig is a secret, though the official poster gives some clues (the event will be called The Bloc-Buster, and it's in a cinema). Tickets are not available for sale, but fans can register and enter here to win a pair of tickets.
And for some free choonage, go here to download a free live version of 'Ares', taken from the iTunes-only 'Live from London' EP.
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Monday, December 01, 2008
Belvoir Parklands, Perth, 30.11.08
[Setlist]
[Setlist]
Trojan Horse / Halo / Hunting For Witches / Positive Tension / Signs / Song For Clay (Disappear Here) / Banquet / This Modern Love / Ion Square / Mercury / Two More Years / So Here We Are / Like Eating Glass
Ares / Flux / The Pioneers / Helicopter
Blue Light / The Prayer
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