Matt Tong. Drums / Gordon Moakes. Bass / Kele Okereke. Vocal & Guitar / Russel Lissack. Guitar
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Matt Tong. Drums / Gordon Moakes. Bass / Kele Okereke. Vocal & Guitar / Russel Lissack. Guitar |
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French.
Bloc party est
un groupe britannique de Pop/rock.
Le groupe se fait connaître fin 2004 par deux EPs successifs ( Bloc Party EP et Little Thoughts EP ) et qui font fureur dans les boîtes britanniques et européennes grâce à un punk rock d'un nouveau genre. Le groupe sort son premier album Silent Alarm en février 2005, qui est aussitôt acclamé par la critique.
La façon dont Kele Okereke chante fait penser à Robert Smith de The Cure. Le groupe appartient à la mouvance musicale nostalgique de la New Wave britannique des années 80 qui émerge en ce milieu des années 2000 avec des groupes comme Franz Ferdinand, Maxïmo Park, ou The Bravery. En juillet 2005 le groupe enregistre pour le projet caritatif "Help : A day in the life" une chanson inédite, The Present. D'autres chansons inédites sont enregistrés par le groupe : Tulips, American kids, Storm & Stress, This is not a competition et Always New Depths.
Version des Eurockéennes de Belfort : En une poignée de
singles sortis tout au long de l'année 2005
(
She's hearing voices,
Banquet,
Little thoughts
et
Helicopter
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English. Bloc Party is an autonomous unit of un-extraordinary kids reared on pop culture between the years of 1976 and the present day. Like many such kids, between them they eventually concluded that their own attempts to imitate what had informed them could be construed as a worthy variation on the many forms that preceded.
They do everything that's required to conform to the currently received ideas of what a band is: ostensibly to play instruments at the same time, but also have a title for the work created. Kele picked up a guitar when his hands enabled him to do so and his brain gave him the inclination. Russell had already done as much beforehand when they met in 1998. In the fine print of music papers and in telephone conversations they enabled meetings with Gordon and Matt who also had ideas of some relevance to bring to the collective effort. In this sense a band was created. Henceforth should follow a list of auteurs and musicians that figured in the formative minds of the four as they went about their work. But to do as much seems churlish in an already self-referential world.
Suffice to say there would be no band without the efforts of guitar bands formed in British and American towns in the 70s, 80s and 90s, aswell as visionary writers and artists of various kinds whose work has informed the world and culture itself as it stands. The precise names are as good as any you can come up with, in fact probably much, much better.
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