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Bloc Party man's Young Legionnaire album Release in May

Gordon Moakes's bassist of Bloc Party band has another band named Young Legionnaire and his new band will release their debut album in May.

The band, which also consists The Automatic’s Paul Mullan, have called the album 'Crisis Works'. It will be out on May 9.

Debut single, ‘Chapter, Verse’ have been made by the group,available as a free download from their official website, Younglegionnaire.com.

Younglegionnaire is currently on a UK tour,They are also confirmed for Austin's South By South West festival in March and the Live At Leeds event, which takes place on April 29-May 1.

Bloc Party frontman releasing a book

Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke is writing a book revealed by himself.Singer is now heading towards New York in order to finish off the project – but did not reveal what kind of book he was writing.

"I'm moving to Manhattan in the next couple of weeks," he said. "I'm writing a book and I want to go somewhere and finish it."

He added: "We [Bloc Party] had a meeting before Christmas, but I'm just focused on the book at the moment. I'm not thinking about anything like that right now."

Bloc Party had been in dispute since 2009, while Kele released his first solo album, 'The Boxer', last year.

In the Shockwaves NME Awards 2011 Kele has been nominated for his song 'Tenderoni.'