Bloc Party’s career has literally just been going downhill for years, and now it looks like they’ve hit rock bottom. As you all know, the bands lead singer Kele has been busy doing his solo work. It seemed like it was just to get all that electronic inspiration out of him, but now it seems like it’s something he wants to do…more permanently. (hear his new single here – i’m not a fan)
A week ago Kele noted that he thought he was out of the band when he happened to catch Russell Lissack, Gordon Moakes, and Matt Tong entering a NYC rehearsal space without him. That was all last week.
Now, Lissack has told NME that the band wants to get back together but realizes Kele is busy doing solo stuff. They considered doing an instrumental thing, but they’re also considering getting a singer to make new music and return to doing live shows.
It’s not really a secret because Kele’s been pretty busy doing solo stuff and it looks like he’s going to be doing that a bit longer. The other three of us wanted to meet up and make music. We were talking about just doing an instrumental thing, but now we might get a singer as well, to properly put some music out and play some shows.
Kele responded today on his blog with a post, titled “God Bless Bloc Party”:
hmm, i dont know what to make of this. a big part of me is laughing HARD at all of this but another part of me is all like WTF? im quite curious as to what a bloc party audition would be like? i wonder if they would let me sit on the panel so i could be a judge tyra banks style?
To top off all the different reports, Bloc Party’s website now says:
BLOC PARTY IS STILL BLOC PARTY
along with this image:
Remember when it was a good time to be a Bloc Party fan? I do. I was a junior in high school. I’m about to graduate college in a few months. That makes me very sad. Time to go play Silent Alarm.
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