Bloc Party

[swilsh]

This will be my first time at glastonbury so please feel free to call me names if this suggestion may seem ridiculous, but perhaps Bloc Party could fill the special guest slot. Russel has finished his stint with Ash, Kele has a few remaining dates left for his solo stuff in the summer but is free over glastonbury , This is an suggestion without much substance but it would seem like a nice fit. Word on the street is they are going to start playing together again, and by street i mean my imagination

thoughts?

opinions?

fears?

[deanieo]

Don't think so. Be awhile yet. Be gd if happened. Would not get ya hopes up

[olliet101]

Maybe they're the special guests at Reading/Leeds. Bit of a long shot but they do have a history with the festival.

[bluejeans10]

I think everyone got a bit sick of seeing them at Reading, they played 3 years in a row on main stage.

I reckon it's still a bit soon. I think they'll have the intention of going away and concentrating on a crazy new record to take them in a different direction. Are they good enough to headline the other stage in 2013 with a new album?

I always see them as a warm up to a headliner, but never an actual headliner - unless in a tent...

[Bisque]

Russel has finished his stint with Ash

[LondonTom]

Its possible if they got back together and start working on stuff, but maybe they need a rest after there other projects.

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

Their 'hiatus' was a load of crap though, i knew theyd be back in no time when they announced it. Just a reasonable break after touring and recording if anything

[4AssedMonkey]

Didn't Kele say in more than one interview that he was sick of Indie, had issues with some of his bandmates and was of the opinion that the split was likely to be permanent? I know he's a bellend but for them to reform and tour this year would make him a huge hypocrite.

[robith]

I think we're far more likely to see a Kele solo set.

Also has anyone else found his journey from denying he was gay to coincidentally bringing out an electro record and suddenly becoming a wannabe gay icon a little, well, tasteless?

[shiveringsky]

Didn't Kele say in more than one interview that he was sick of Indie, had issues with some of his bandmates and was of the opinion that the split was likely to be permanent? I know he's a bellend but for them to reform and tour this year would make him a huge hypocrite.

Edited March 25, 2011 by shiveringsky

[windy_miller]

Can't see it myself. Next year maybe

[robith]

"Who knows how we'll feel about anything in a year's time. I'm not very good at restarting things in my personal life - like if I break up with someone, I tend to close the door.

"So I was always worried about this, about how I'd feel about reintegrating. They (bandmates) all have lives, so we need to address it in a year's time. We'll see."

Is this the interview you're thinking of? He does cast doubt on it, but he also said he'd see in a year. Well here we are a year later and they're getting together to see what happens. I don't think that's a promise that they will definitely stay together. God knows what they'll discover once they're back in the studio together. People mouth off all the time and minds change. Perspective on a situation often calms down after some space. It seems a bit harsh to call it hypocracy though.

It wasn't all that swift. He came out around the second album. Then recorded a third album and then released a solo record...

I'm not the Kele defence league or anything, but some of these concepts are alien to me... He's just living his life. Personally I find electro Kele bland and ridiculous, but I don't see how he's acting in bad taste by doing what he wants to do. I mean there's no rule book.

[4AssedMonkey]

@ Shiveringsky:

Not sure that's the same interview. I read one in NME that was along the lines you quote, but read one elsehwere that was far more scathing about indie generally and his former bandmates. TBH in both he came across as a real big head, something I dislike intensely.

[Saul Goodman]

They have re-united.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/06/bloc-party-new-album

[chewbacca]

They have re-united.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/06/bloc-party-new-album

[shiveringsky]

I'm probably just being subconsciously bigoted. So I'll sign off I've got loads of gay friends to complete the picture

[Alcatraz]

I fell out of love with Bloc Party the moment Kele decided to cover up some of the best instrument players out their with electronically produced sounds. Haven't produced a good tune since

I did like his solo work though

Edited April 7, 2011 by Alcatraz

[Boosh]

I was falling out of love with Bloc Party in a live capacity after seeing their performances at Leeds, despite me adoring them on record.

But then I saw them headline the other stage. And my god. It ranks as one of the best festival performances I have ever been lucky enough to be a part of. Screaming along with the third chorus to Two More Years as the lights flashed was just incredible. Like, I could feel the tendons in my neck straining to match the occasion.

They might "reform" and be rubbish, but no amount of slander can ever take away that moment for me. Long may they make music.

[Mardy]

Bit harsh on the Kele fella here, he's a bit of a bellend in interviews, but you know, 99% of frontmen are.

It sort of goes with the territory, I reckon. They're generally vain, pretty inarticulate, shallow and egocentric. If they weren't, they wouldn't be able to cope with being up there in front of however many thousand people bellowing 'Baby Baby' or other such inanities.

So, you know, I'd cut him some slack there.

[Porcelina]

I never thought I'd say it, but popular music needs a band like Bloc Party to come out and produce a hit or two again.

I've seen them four times, three at consecutive years at Leeds and once on the Bloctober tour; my god, they absolutely stunned me as to how good they were in a small venue.

I don't even know where all the hate for them came from. Even when WITC was released, they were a band people rarely spoke ill of.

[shiveringsky]

Bit harsh on the Kele fella here, he's a bit of a bellend in interviews, but you know, 99% of frontmen are.

It sort of goes with the territory, I reckon. They're generally vain, pretty inarticulate, shallow and egocentric. If they weren't, they wouldn't be able to cope with being up there in front of however many thousand people bellowing 'Baby Baby' or other such inanities.

So, you know, I'd cut him some slack there.

[Bobs]

I can't see why it wouldn't hurt to play.

I guess it's a bit of a coup, in the ay that glastonbury would be the first time back together live since the Hiatus, and then they can really kick on, i know Kele is playing V festival so would he take time out for a glastonbury show? I don't know, but i think it'd be pretty sweet if they played.

[budvar]

I really enjoyed them headling the Other Stage in 2009 and would be keen to see them back; that said I always get a feeling that they (and especially Kele) don't really enjoy Glasto. I even remember comments about in 2009 about the crowd from the time before (Pyramid 2007?) not being that good...

[mike46]

2009 on the other stage was one of the best shows I've seen, by far the best bloc party one, I read they were getting together in September so that rules out any festival dates this year but I can see them being tied up in an exclusive reading and Leeds contract next year (handy as there's no glasto)

[JID]

Met kele in Ibiza airport last year and he couldn't have been more of a gent, took time to have a crack about his gig there the night before and seemed genuinely humble when told him we went over for it. He said it was nice people still care about a bloc reunion and wished us a safe journey! No complaints from me, I think he just gets a bit bored with lazy journalists asking the same questions