Bloc Party are a British band. Bloc Party band consists of Kele Okereke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Russell Lissack (lead guitar), Gordon Moakes (bass guitar, synths, backing vocals, glockenspiel), and Matt Tong (drums,backing vocals). Their brand of music is almost similar from such bands as The Cure, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, and in their more recent work, Radiohead.The band was shaped at the 1999 Reading Festival by Okereke and Lissack. They went through a types of names before settling on Bloc Party in 2003. Moakes joined the band after answering an advert in NME magazine, while Tong was picked via an audition. Bloc Party got their break by giving BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq and Franz Ferdinand's lead singer, Alex Kapranos, a copy of their demo "She's Hearing Voices".
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