Do you like Bloc Party?

Question

I love Bloc Party.

GOD BLESS THEM

Answer 1

Yes... I do...=-)

Answer 2

what's that??

Answer 3

no

Answer 4

East London/Essex, UK

Genre(s) Art rock

Indie rock

Post-punk revival

Years active 2003–present

Label(s) Vice Records

Wichita

V2

Website http://www.blocparty.com/

Members

Kele Okereke (Vocals/Guitar)

Russell Lissack (Guitar)

Gordon Moakes (Bass/Backing Vocals)

Matt Tong (Drums/ Backing Vocals)

Former members

David Searston

James David Wootton

James Chorley

Bloc Party are a British indie rock band. In February 2005, the band released their critically acclaimed debut album Silent Alarm, which the magazine NME later made their Album of the Year. Bloc Party's second studio album, A Weekend in the City was released on February 5, 2007 in the UK and February 6 in the US.

Contents [hide]

1 History

1.1 Formation and rising popularity (1998–2004)

1.2 Silent Alarm (2004–2006)

1.3 A Weekend in the City (2006–present)

2 Musical style

3 Use of music in film

4 Use of music in television

5 Tours

6 Discography

6.1 Studio albums

6.2 Remix albums

6.3 EPs

6.4 Singles

6.5 Compilations

7 References

8 External links



[edit] History

[edit] Formation and rising popularity (1998–2004)

Bloc Party have been together since 2002, with names such as Superheroes of BMX, The Angel Range, Diet, and Union, before settling on Bloc Party in September 2003. Band members Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack have formed the fulcrum of these various incarnations, and were subsequently joined by bassist Gordon Moakes who answered an advert in the NME, and most recently drummer Matt Tong. Lissack and singer/guitarist Kele Okereke first met in 1998 in Essex, where Lissack had grown up and Okereke attended school. Lissack attended Bancroft's School and Okereke attended Ilford County High School until 16 then Trinity School for sixth form. They bumped into each other again in 1999 at the Reading Festival and soon after formed the band Union.

In 2003 they changed their name from Union to Bloc Party. The name is a play on block party,[1] a name for an informal neighbourhood festival, which might hire a local band as entertainment. The band has said that the name was not intended to be an allusion to the Soviet Bloc or the Canadian political party Bloc Québécois.

However, the band's bassist, Gordon Moakes, said on the group's official internet forum that it was more a merging of the eastern "Blocs" and the western "parties", in the political sense. Moakes notes that the name was not driven by politics, but rather it "looked, sounded, seemed fine so we went with it."[2]

In November 2003, Bloc Party had their track "The Marshalls Are Dead" featured on a compilation CD called The New Cross released by Angular Recording Corporation. Soon after they released their debut single "She's Hearing Voices" on the then fledgling record label Trash Aesthetics.

The band got their break after Okereke went to a Franz Ferdinand concert in 2003, and was able to thrust a copy of the single into the hands of both Franz lead singer Alex Kapranos and Radio One DJ Steve Lamacq. Lamacq subsequently played the song on his radio show, labeling the track "genius", and invited them to record a live session for the show.

The buzz generated off the back of the single sparked some A&R interest, leading to another single "Banquet", this time released by the label Moshi Moshi, and to the eventual signing with indie label Wichita Recordings in April 2004.

[edit] Silent Alarm (2004–2006)

Their debut album Silent Alarm, released in February 2005, was met with critical acclaim and broke sales records, being voted by NME critics as the 2005 album of the year and reaching #3 on UK album charts (selling platinum in the UK). The debut single from the album "So Here We Are" made the top 5 on UK charts. Further singles "Banquet" (which reached #13 in NME's "Top 50 singles of 2005"), "Helicopter" (which featured on the FIFA 06, Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, Project Gotham Racing 3 and Burnout Revenge game soundtracks) and "The Pioneers" (July 2005), whilst failing to repeat this success, managed to make dents in the UK top 20. The animated video for the single "Pioneers" was number one in the NME video charts for 4 weeks and was made for a tiny budget in four weeks by the Shoreditch based Mini Vegas design agency.



Bloc Party’s Lissack and Okereke on stage in Cardiff in October 2005The band were met with good reviews from critics in the U.S.A and they toured there heavily