― Turangalila (Salvador), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 12 January 2007 09:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― dh (djh), Friday, 12 January 2007 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link
FITE - John Lydon v Kele Okereke
― Upt0eleven, Monday, 21 July 2008 11:27 (fifteen years ago) link
YSI?
Oh, it's not a collaboration. Nevermind.
― StanM, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:00 (fifteen years ago) link
He should have known bad luck was coming, what with his Mercury being in retrograde.
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link
BREAKING NEWS: John Lydon is an unapproachable cunt.
― HI DERE, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
while Ricky Wilson of Kaiser Chiefs and Yannis Philippakis of Foals attempted to fend off the attacker
Tragic and deplorable and all that, but this bit makes me lol.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Yannis? This Yannis?
http://www.ng-magazine.com/_images/thumbs/foalsy2_266x400.jpg
R.I.P. Yannis.
― StanM, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Funny how DiS misses out several key words from the account, which mysteriously appear in the equivalent NME piece, including "his entourage" (who made the alleged remarks) and "three of Lydon's associates" with whom the fight actually appears to have been fought.
As opposed to Lydon saying or doing any of these things himself, you understand.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 July 2008 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Granted, but Lydon probably had the power to put a stop to things before they turned physical - which is pretty deplorable in and of itself. Not to be captain save a Bloc Party, but this is pretty disgusting no matter what level of involvement Mr. Lydon had.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
and as I said on the other thread, Kele's quote seems to implicate J.Lydon directly.
Of course, him being a major star and all that (not sarc), he's going to get approached by people all the time. Especially in a public area like this.
― Mark G, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean, god, wanting to ask him about a PIL reformation? Even though JLydon answered that question in a recent interview.
― Mark G, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
"the band the Pistols could've been"
― CharlieNo4, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
From DiS comments box
The 'black attitude' comment is also a brush to tar him with.
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 21 July 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Then Lydon should sue his arse off (xxp).
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 July 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow, I was really excitable in 2004. In fairness, 2004/05 were the good Bloc Party years, as I can't imagine ever being this excited about them again.
Yes, I'm reviving threads I started to ridicule myself.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
early singles, silent alarm and "two more years" are unmitigated classics
― wow heaven is cool (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah silent alarm is unfuckwithable imo
― been HOOS, where yyyou steene!? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
REAL TALK
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2009 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Intimacy was fantastic as well, just not on SA's level.
― Josh L, Saturday, 7 March 2009 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone else going to their chicago show the 28?
― the chicano incarnation of benito juarez (primalfixations), Saturday, 7 March 2009 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Bloc Party guitarist bitten by lion
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 1 October 2010 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nme.com/news/bloc-party/59460?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Lol. With the exception of AC/DC, has rebooting a band with a different singer ever worked?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 11:28 (twelve years ago) link
Black Sabbath.
― good luck in your pyramid (Neil S), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 11:35 (twelve years ago) link
Genesis
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 11:36 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't read the story btw, NME pages seem to take about 20 mins to load some days.
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
Also they still haven't corrected the spelling of 'will' in the headline. Fucking idiots.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 11:38 (twelve years ago) link
In any case, it would seem they aren't going to be called "Bloc Party"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has admitted he is unsure of his future in the band after the rest of the group went into the recording studio without telling him.The singer has told NME he recently spotted guitarist Russell Lissack, bassist Gordon Moakes and drummer Matt Tong outside a rehearsal studio in New York and he wasn't even invited to take part in the sessions."I was actually having lunch about three weeks ago, just here on 8th Avenue and I saw somebody walk past and I recognised the haircut," he said. "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."He added: "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."
The singer has told NME he recently spotted guitarist Russell Lissack, bassist Gordon Moakes and drummer Matt Tong outside a rehearsal studio in New York and he wasn't even invited to take part in the sessions.
"I was actually having lunch about three weeks ago, just here on 8th Avenue and I saw somebody walk past and I recognised the haircut," he said. "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."
He added: "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."
This is weird. Just talk to the band, you big goose.
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
manager Simon White on twitter now saying it's all bollocks.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
Man Bloc Party fell hard and fast, but I still love the debut album and a couple scattered songs from the next two albums. I can't see this being a good idea at all.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
this is weird...
my only hope is that they go back to being more of a rock band? all the electronic & dance stuff they tried to do -- and i think a lot of it was kele's lead, tho i'm speculating -- was sort of noble at the time but it never really fit for them. kele didn't know how to write interesting or good songs of that nature.
that said the band is so much about him at the forefront that having a new vocalist really wouldn't even be the same band
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
also weird that they went behind his back to record/to nme to announce they're looking for a new singer but he also didn't even bother to call them?? fucking people
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
"i still remember" has aged really well for me, sorta wish that they'd gone the route of kings of leon & tried to sell out with stadium pop-rock stuff than try and become a rock band that is cool for dance fans to like
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
J0rdan pretty much otm on all counts
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
y'all
UPDATE: Bloc Party's camp have told us that, despite reports, Kele is not being kicked out of Bloc Party. A post on the band's website claims that "Bloc Party is still Bloc Party," with a cartoon of the band drawn up as characters from "The Simpsons" and a promise to "see you soon."
http://pitchfork.com/news/44139-bloc-party-kicks-out-kele-okereke/
― markers, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
cool, i hope they go back to writing rock songs
― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
I do have to admit that one thing I miss from the "old days" was having to wait until a new promo cycle came around to find out if all of the wild break-up rumors flying around were true or not. Not as much fun when they get debunked within hours.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
They tried to follow a Radiohead route and tried way too hard I think, electronic influences, useless state-of-the nation lyrical clangers. Neither they nor their producers were talented enough to pull it off. If ever a band needed an editor.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://blog.yellowbirdproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/the-editors.jpg
"You rang?"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
No, no I didn't. Please get off my porch you lot.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
They tried to follow a Radiohead route and tried way too hard I think, electronic influences, useless state-of-the nation lyrical clangers.
^^ why I lost interest in the first album. Their weaknesses were their strengths too: all that racket made political and musical sense in 2005 (lots of good memories dancing to "Banquet" and quoting "Price of Gas" in another record review) but when they became better record makers they eliminated that beguiling vagueness.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
*why I lost interest AFTER the first album.
I'd also say: "They tried way too hard to think."
otm
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
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New Order?
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
Seems to have worked reasonably well for Alice in Chains so far.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link