Bloc Party

United Kingdom
1999

Website

Bloc Party are an English rock band, 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, percussion). 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".

For the last 14 days:

91 tracks
546 stations
53 countries

Radio stations which play Bloc Party online

Helicopter

Enroks Radio

Banquet

Radio RMF Fitness Rock

Bloc Party top songs

1	Banquet
2	Helicopter
3	I Still Remember
4	Flux
5	So Here We Are
6	This Modern Love
7	Like Eating Glass
8	Hunting For Witches
9	High Life
10	Coliseum
11	The Prayer
12	Two More Years
13	Ratchet
14	Octopus
15	Pioneers
16	Kreuzberg
17	Mercury
18	Truth
19	The Good News
20	If We Get Caught
21	Price of Gasoline
22	One Month Off
23	Positive Tension
24	Halo
25	Talons

Bloc Party quotes

I never understood the low art/high art distinction. I think there's real currency in pop culture. We read trashy magazines as much as the next person. So I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. That low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.