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Equally inspired by Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Gang of Four, and the Cure, East London art punkers Bloc Party mix angular sonics with pop structures. Consisting of singer/guitarist Kele Okereke, guitarist Russell Lissack, bassist/singer Gordon Moakes, and drummer Matt Tong, the band was formerly known as Angel Range and Union before settling on Bloc Party. Okereke and Lissack met each other through mutual friends at the Reading Festival, and discovered that they had musical tastes as well as friends in common. Tong and Moakes soon joined their collaboration, and under the name Union, the quartet issued a demo in early 2003; later that year, they switched their name to Bloc Party.
The group's demo and concerts began to attract attention from both the press and their peers; Okereke sent a copy of the demo to Franz Ferdinand, who invited them to play at the Domino tenth anniversary bash in fall 2003. Early the following year, the band released one of the demo's tracks, "She's Hearing Voices," as a single on Trash Aesthetics. A few months later, Banquet/Staying Fat arrived on Moshi Moshi. That spring, Bloc Party signed to Wichita to release their full-length album in the U.K., and to Dim Mak for U.S. distribution. The band spent summer 2004 recording and touring. Late that summer, Bloc Party, which collected the band's first two singles, arrived in the States. Their debut album, Silent Alarm, appeared early in 2005 and was released by Vice Records in the States to widespread acclaim. Later that year, Silent Alarm Remixed capitalized on the band's burgeoning popularity, as did the 2006 EP Helicopter. A Weekend in the City, Bloc Party's second proper album, followed in 2007. A Weekend in the City leaked onto the Internet months before the album's street date, which inspired Bloc Party to issue their third album, Intimacy, online in late summer 2008; the album was released on compact disc that fall.
Discografie:Albums2005 Silent Alarm
2005 Silent Alarm Remixed
2007 A Weekend in the City
2008 Intimacy
EP's2004 Bloc Party
2004 Little Thoughts EP (alleen in Japan)
2006 Two More Years EP (alleen in Japan)
Singles2004 She's Hearing Voices
2004 Banquet/Staying Fat
2004 Little Thoughts/Tulips
2004 Helicopter
2005 Tulips
2005 So Here We Are
2005 Banquet (re-release)
2005 The Pioneers
2005 Two More Years
2006 Helicopter (US release)
2007 The Prayer
2007 I Still Remember
2007 Hunting for Witches
2007 Flux
2008 Mercury
2008 Talons
Links:Officiële site van de bandWichitaFansite BlocParty.netVorige delen:Bloc partyBloc Party #2De band speelde 25 oktober nog in WATT, Rotterdam. Audio te beluisteren op de website van 3VOOR12,
hier te downloaden.
18 en 19 februari 2009 zullen ze een concert geven in Paradiso, Amsterdam. Die concerten zijn inmiddels uitverkocht.
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