Bloc Party are planning to audition for a new singer

Bloc Party's sisger Kele Okereke has dropped his bandmates are planning to audition for a new singer, according to guitarist Russell Lissack.

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Okereke, the group announced a hiatus in 2009 when his solo album The Boxer which was released last year to allow it to function.

Block Party in April to speculate on future Lissack emerged when working on a new album planned to confirm this, while Okereke claimed not to have been informed.

Earlier this month, the star admitted she is not sure if he is still a part of the line-up, saying, "I hope I haven't been fired. I don't really know what's going on, because we haven't really spoken recently and I'm a bit too scared to ask."

Okereke and Lissack again to include the recognition they are tired of waiting and a new singer is looking to hire.

He tells NME, "It's not really a secret because Kele's been pretty busy doing solo stuff and it looks like he's going to be doing that a bit longer. The other three of us wanted to meet up and make music. We were talking about just doing an instrumental thing, but now we might get a singer as well, to properly put some music out and play some shows.

"Because it's the three of us, I guess there'd be some degree of expectation from people to at least play the songs we wrote. I don't think any of us (including Kele) would object to that."

However, Lissack is adamant there is no rift with Okereke, adding, "We've still got the same management and stuff, so he might have known, he might not. He's doing his own thing and we wanted to play together, so it wasn't like we were going behind his back. I haven't spoken to Kele for a couple of months, I guess since the festivals when I was doing stuff with Ash. But there's no bad vibes."

Bloc Party's Kele Okereke claims, he is not sure whether for frontman and band member

Block Party frontman Kele Okereke claims that he is not sure whether he is still the frontman and band member.

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He saw his bandmates call or a recording studio into the season without it.

He said, “I was actually having lunch about three weeks ago, and I saw somebody walk past and I recognized the haircut. It was Russell. I was like, ‘Hey!’ but he didn’t see me.”

He continued, “I followed him around the corner and then I saw Matt, Gordon, and Russell all standing outside this rehearsal space. They all went inside.”

The band frontman is released his first solo album, The Boxer, previous year; in addition, a solo EP, The Hunter, is due out late next month.

But any hint of their individual projects within a Bloc Party never had a problem.

He did confess, “I hope I haven’t been fired. I don’t really know what’s going on, because we haven’t really spoken recently and I’m a bit too scared to ask.”

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Bloc Party frontman Kele new solo single 'What Did I Do' - Video

Bloc Party frontman Kele new solo single 'What Did I Do' was unveiled for the video, its video seen below.

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The track, which features Lucy Taylor's upcoming EP, 'Hunter' is the first single to be taken.

Released on October 31, the EP also sees Kele cooperation with a number of artists including Sub Focus, Fred Falke, RAC and QNESS.

Meanwhile, Block Party returns this year to set the guitarist Russell Lissack's left is ashes.

Brake band in 2009 after his third album Intimacy 2008 "tour is completed.

The full tracklisting for 'The Hunter' is:

'What Did I Do? feat Lucy Taylor'
'Release Me'
'Devotion'
'Goodbye Horses'
'Cable's Goodbye'
'Love As A Weapon'
'You Belong To Someone Else'

Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke fears he has been dropped

Bloc Party frontman british singer Kele Okereke fears that without his bandmates after a recording session has been dropped.

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The Helicopters hitmakers in 2009, while the gap has announced a solo album, Okereke worked, but guitarist Russell Lissack confirmed in April that the group's reform plan was started on a new album.

However, the band's singer, told the Planning and Okereke was left stunned when Lissack, bassist Gordon Moakes and drummer Matt Tong staged a jam session together in New York without him.

He tells NME.com, "I was actually having lunch about three weeks ago... and I saw somebody walk past and I recognized the haircut. It was Russell. I was like, 'Hey!' but he didn't see me and I followed him around the corner and then I saw Matt, Gordon and Russell all standing outside this rehearsal space. They all went inside."

And Okereke can only hope he hasn't lost his job with Bloc Party: "I hope I haven't been fired. I don't really know what's going on, because we haven't really spoken recently and I'm a bit too scared to ask."

Bloc Party DJ tour wil takes in clubs across Australia in October

Bloc Party DJ tour wil takes in clubs across Australia in October, has been announced.

Kele Okereke is a frontman, who recently appear at Splendour in the Grass Festival on this weekend with bandmate Russell Lissack set to head up the Bloc Party DJ tour that kicks off in Perth on October 5.

The band's guiarist Lissack, one half of electronic side project Pin Me Down and weirdly, member of 90s rockers Ash, said the tour will feature, “dance anthems with very special indie classics, edits and remixes.”

The dates are:

Wednesday October 5, Villa Nightclub, Perth, WA
Thursday October 6, Apple Bar, Adelaide, SA
Friday October 7, Platinum Nightclub, Gold Coast, QLD
Saturday October 8, Warehouse, Melbourne, VIC
Sunday October 9, The Buddha Bar, Byron Bay, NSW
Thursday October 13, OneFiveOne, Wollongong, NSW
Friday October 14, Oh Hello!, Brisbane, QLD
Saturday October 15, The Metro, Sydney, NSW

Block Party's Kele Okereke has hinted the band will release fresh material this summer

Kele Okereke is one of the Bloc Party's band member, who has hinted that the band will release fresh material this summer.

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The singer said the band was ready to release "new stuff", speaking exclusively to NME at Latitude.

Okereke said: "There are some plans for new stuff. I'm not sure what I can say... I'd be surprised if there wasn't some new stuff before the end of the summer."

The Bloc Party band would get back together on this year in September, according to the band's guitarist Russell Lissack.

He said: "Kele and I started working on Bloc Party stuff together and separately. We're having a bit of a break until the festivals are over, because people have commitments during the summer, but we're going to get back properly in September and sit in a rehearsal studio to work on new band material."