Genre joy Bloc Party's

Bloc Party don't worry about their fans' opinions.
The pair say they are glad to change genres with every album they release as they always want a new challenge, even at the risk of alienating their supporters.
Asked about the effect the change in sound has on their fan base, bassist Gordon Moakes said: "That kind of thingworry was doesn't us.
"We've been conscious of that from when we were demoing. We come from a place of not needing to do what we've done before we've been talking about from day one. You might say we are no bigger a post punk band but why do what we've already done? That's how we've ended up where we are recently."
Despite an extensive back catalogue, the pair are always striving to give the best performance possible when they play live and scraps to make life easy for themselves.
Gordon added to the North Wales Chronicle newspaper: "I think in a way we've gone out of our way in how we attack our recording and how we then interpret that for the live stage. One of the most important things is how we play that music instead of pre combining it into a hard drive.
"I know it mean for me a lot for me to be honest about how we replicated tracks, I didn't just need to let the backing track go, I needed to find an actual way of going that. That has been an interesting journey. I have learned a lot learned to play some instruments better. It's a bit of a non sequiter, but someone said if you're not learning you should quit. That's a nice analogy to put into music."

Top 5 interrupted gigs, Music poll

The Doors' 1967 gig at the New Haven Arena in New Haven, Connecticut tops the list of most famous interrupted gigs, according to a current poll by the ticket agency, viagogo.
During that performance or half-performance singer Jim Morrison was arrested on stage by police for breaking the state's obscenity laws and inciting the crowd to riot. (In a video below, Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek gives a full account of the incident.)
A 2007 concert in Utrecht, Holland by Bloc Party comes in a close second: The band stopped playing when the crowd spotted a couple having sex in the audience. This prompted other members of the crowd to do the nasty. Realizing they were now in the midst of an orgy, Bloc Party exited the stage.
Third place goes to Britney Spears for her May 2009 gig in Vancouver. Britney stormed off the stage after 15 minutes, claiming the auditorium was too smoky and she was uncomfortable with the number of fans smoking marijuana. Spears returned to the stage 40 minutes later and admonished her fans for smoking weed.
The Top 5 interrupted gigs
1. 9 December 1967 - The Doors, New Haven Arena, New Haven, ConnecticutJim Morrison was arrested on stage by local police for attempting to incite a riot.

2. 28 April 2007 - Bloc Party, Utrecht, HollandRampant sex stops the gig. After a couple in the audience started getting it on, the crowd started cheering and followed suit. The band brought the concert to an early end. (Talk about premature climaxes!)
3. 8 April 2009 - Britney Spears, GM Place Stage, Vancouver, British ColumbiaBritney Spears sulks off the stage, reportedly saying it was too smoky in the venue for her to perform. Fans were stunned at her reaction and booed her for leaving. When she returned, she told the audience not to smoke pot.
4. 7 June 1977 - The Sex Pistols, River Thames, LondonHaving just released God Save The Queen, The Sex Pistols performed on a private boat, sailing down the River Thames, past Westminster and the Houses Of Parliament. The event was designed to mock the Queen's river procession planned for two days later to celebrate her Silver Jubilee, but it ended in chaos with police forcing the boat to dock and constabulary surrounded the gangplanks on the pier.
5. 21 February 2008 - Vampire Weekend, ULU, LondonThe pair abandoned the stage at the Shockwaves NME Awards Show after the fire alarm sounded mid-way through the appropriately titled The Kids Don't Stand A Chance, forcing the Brooklyn band and the audience to evacuate the building.
As for us, we would have voted for the many incidents during The Rolling Stones' free concert at the Altamont Speedway in 1969 (drummer Marty Balin for the opening act Jefferson Airplane got knocked out by a Hells Angel; later, the Stones stopped playing several times because of fights breaking out in the crowd and then, of course, there was that horrifying stabbing).

Bloc May Support Harper in Canada Parliament, Gazette Says

Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe said he may support Canada’s governing Conservative party in a budget vote this week as long as it doesn’t include a “poison pill,” the Montreal Gazette reported.
Duceppe said his party, which along with the two other opposition parties holds the balance of power in Canada’s Parliament, would support a motion to adopt Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s home-renovation tax credit, the Gazette reported. The newspaper didn’t say where Duceppe made the comments.

BLOC PARTY IGNORE VIDEOS

Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke says he is distressed with the band's promotional videos as the end report is never as good as the planned footage.
Bloc Party don't care about their videos.
Frontman Kele Okereke says he never watches their promotional clips back as they never turn out the way they were initially imagined.
He said: "With the video making operation I don't pay consider anymore. You always get these intervention advised to you then you get the video and it looks nothing like the intervention do I made a decision of letting others decide because it's not actually worth an argument. So 'Flux', I've only seen it a few times, I don't watch videos much. Some members of the band are more opinionated on what they do and don't like and I trust them. We tend to get things done."
The singer whose pair performed at the Reading and Leeds festivals last week also admitted he dislikes playing festivals because it is "hard work."
He explained to Absolute Radio DJ Simon Mundie: "I guess it's lots of people in a field and when it's good it's a great feeling but you never actually know. It's not like doing your own show, it's harder work and I'm lazy."

Bloc Party – One More Chance

Bloc Party have backed a lot of ground since 2004s “Silent Alarm”. Gone are the jagged hooks, mournful howling and perhaps some of the expectation too.
“One More Chance” is the latest single from the London clemence and it signals a further progression on the path towards total electronica. The song opens with a solid beat before being joined by a piano riff that wouldn’t sound out of place on a ‘90s Ibiza compilation.
Kele’s “Give me one more chance to love you” opening at least assure us that Bloc Party themes of rejection and loss are still present. Some things will never change. After coming to terms with the piano, the track colonize down into a acceptable but uninspiring blend of bass-heavy chorus and a New-Order style of percussion.
Whilst “One More Chance” is a perfectly enjoyable tune, it would be a lie to say that it shows Bloc Party at their best.
Maybe one day the boys will get scare stiff of playing with synthesizers and start to play actual music again. Until then, this will do…

Bloc Party Breif Introduction

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".

Bloc Party - Biography

Initially known as Union, this London, England-based art-punk quartet came out in 2004 as one of the year's most fascinating prediction. Kele Okereke (b. Kelechukwu Rowland Okereke, 13 October 1981, Liverpool, Merseyside, England; vocals/guitar) and Russell Lissack (b. 11 March 1981, London, England; guitar) first met in 1998 and after several efforts to begin their own band, at last found two musicians, Gordon Moakes (b. 22 June 1976, England; bass/vocals) and Matt Tong (b. 29 April 1979, Bournemouth, Dorset, England; drums), with mutual musical tastes.
The group of four began playing live shows at the start of 2002 and recorded a demo under their unique name, Union. Drawing motivation from key 80s bands such as the Cure (particularly in Okereke's vocals) and Gang Of Four, the quartet began to draw rave notices for their endearingly ramshackle stage performances. They launched the three-track 7-inch vinyl single "She's Hearing Voices" on the Trash Aesthetics label in February 2004. "Banquet"/"Staying Fat" followed on the Moshi Moshi label in May. UK reviewers fell over themselves to admire the latter release, in particular, comparing the quartet's jittery pop punk sound to recent releases by media darlings Franz Ferdinand and the Rapture. The tracks from both singles were subsequently re-released on the Bloc Party EP, and shortly afterwards the quartet signed a recording contract with Wichita Records. The single "So Here We Are" broke into the UK Top 5 in January 2005, prior to the release of the quartet's much-hyped long-playing, Silent Alarm. Despite lacking a certain cohesion, the album was greeted with widespread acclaim and was a commercial success.
An album of remixes go after in August, featuring Ladytron, Four Tet and Mogwai, following which Bloc Party retreated to the studio to plan and record their second album. Released at the start of 2007, A Weekend In The City was called as a great improvement on the quartet's debut, eschewing that set's pop leanings to fashion a taut statement of post-punk intention.