Bloc Party

Bloc Party are an English indie rock band, currently composed of Kele Okereke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, sampler), Russell Lissack (lead guitar, keyboards), Justin Harris (bass guitar, keyboards, saxophones, backing vocals) and Louise Bartle (drums). Former members Matt Tong and Gordon Moakes left the band in 2013 and 2015 respectively. Their brand of music, whilst rooted in rock, retains elements of other genres such as electronica and house music. The band was formed at the 1999 Reading Festival by Okereke and Lissack. They went through a variety 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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Bloc Party (EP)

Bloc Party is an EP compilation of Bloc Party's first two UK-only singles: "She's Hearing Voices" and "Banquet/Staying Fat". Released on 24 May 2004, it was Bloc Party's first V2 Records EP. It was released later in Japan in August 2004, and then in the United States by Dim Mak Records in September of the same year.

Track listing

Personnel

  • Mark Aubrey – Producer
  • Bloc Party – Producer
  • Paul Epworth – Producer
  • Scott McCormick – Producer
  • Linsey Tulley – Illustrations

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    Bloc party (politics)

    A bloc party (German: Blockpartei) in politics may refer to a political party that is a constituent member of an electoral bloc. However, this term also has a more specific meaning, referring to non-ruling but legal political parties in an authoritarian or totalitarian regime (most notably Communist regimes) as auxiliary parties and members of a ruling coalition, differing such governments from a pure one-party state, although such parties are not considered opposition parties or alternative sources of power.

    Sometimes, bloc party is called a satellite party.

    Background

    The concept has its roots in the Popular front idea where Marxist and non-Marxist political parties and other organisations would belong in an umbrella organisation. Following the end of World War II, elections were held in areas already under Soviet influence who would become members of the Eastern Bloc, while giving voters choice, would be seen as a step towards a totalitarian, Communist-led regime. Bloc parties were able to retain their non-Marxist orientation, but in practice were always subordinate to the ruling Communist party, and all legal parties and civic organisations were required to be members of the official coalition. Elections were not competitive as the composition of legislatures was generally pre-determined. Parties only occasionally dissented from the line of the ruling party. Some parties were pre-existing, others had been newly formed, to appeal to specific sectors of society. However, during the fall of Communism, many hitherto subordinate bloc parties would begin to assert their independence and play a role in the democratisation process, while others would be unable to continue functioning either due to a loss of guaranteed yet artificial representation (granted to them by the ruling Communist Party), or due to the stigma of being associated with subservience to the Communists, and would either dissolve or fade into obscurity.

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    Podcasts:

    Bloc Party

    ALBUMS

    Four

    Released 2013

    iTunes Festival: London 2009

    Released 2009

    Intimacy Remixed

    Released 2009

    iTunes Live from London

    Released 2008

    Intimacy: Live at Tempelhof

    Released 2008

    Intimacy

    Released 2008

    Flux: The Remixes

    Released 2008

    Live at the Paradiso

    Released 2007

    A Weekend in the City

    Released 2007

    Christmas in the City

    Released 2007

    God Bless Bloc Party

    Released 2006

    Silent Alarm Remixed

    Released 2005

    Silent Alarm

    Released 2005

    2004-2005

    Released 2005

    Live at Reading

    Released 2005

    2006-04-23: Coachella 06: Indio, CA, USA

    The Weekend Isn't Over

    Always New Depths: The Complete Silent Alarm B-Sides & Remixes

    2006-03-16: Fabric, London, UK

    Live at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 2005

    2005-09-24: City Limits, Austin, TX, USA

    2005-06-24: Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, UK

    Live at SXSW

    2005-02-07: Maison de la Radio, Paris, France

    2005-02-07: Black Session #224: Paris, France

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    Sunday

    by: BLOC PARTY.

    Heavy night it was a heavy night
    Feels like we come back from the dead
    Heavy night it was a heavy night
    I cannot remember what I said to anyone
    If we get up now we can catch the afternoon
    Watch the under 15s playing football in the park
    Let's sit in St. Leonards in this alcoholic day we're doing the best with what we've got
    I love you in the morning ,
    When you're still hung-over
    I love you in the morning,
    When you're still strung out,
    I love you in the morning,
    I would cry all week and so do you
    We discern to let us sleep
    Let all the draughts creep in to reach for this life
    There might be white to smatter you in
    That have the right answers
    That we British forget
    About those north eastern gaps
    I love you in the morning ,
    When you're still hung-over
    I love you in the morning,
    When you're still strung out,
    I love you in the morning,
    With you I am cut from a pearl in your oyster
    Head on my chest a silent smile, a private kind of happiness
    You see giant proclamations are all very well




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