REVIEW: 09 Sep 2008
Released on the web fully two months before it hits record stores, Bloc Party’s third album is as gleaming and hermetically sealed as one of Kubrick’s...
NEWS: 08 Jul 2008
Bloc Party have re-hired hotshot Irish producer Jacknife Lee for their third album, which may be rush-released before the end of the year.
NEWS: 27 Feb 2008
Bloc Party take to the decks on Easter Sunday at the Pod, Dublin
INTERVIEW: 10 Dec 2007
In a highly revealing interview, Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke talks about the inspiration behind one of the albums of the year, his current listening and...
NEWS: 16 Nov 2007
Speaking to Hot Press, Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke reveals details of the inspiration behind the band's new album...
NEWS: 31 Aug 2007
Hotpress.com can now confirm details of a Bloc Party show in the Phoenix Park Marquee.
REVIEW: 23 Jul 2007
Stamping their mark on what arguably should have been the lead track from A Weekend In The City are LA industrial duo Fury666 and Canadian duo Crystal...
REVIEW: 25 Jun 2007
‘Hunting For Witches’ is symptomatic of the problems that have surrounded Bloc Party across their second album. While the aims are admirable – expand...
NEWS: 19 Feb 2007
Bloc Party are the latest band to be officially confirmed for Oxegen.
REVIEW: 05 Feb 2007
Bloc Party's A Weekend In The City is both less oblique and more understated; initially the album proves harder work than its predecessor – at the...
INTERVIEW: 02 Feb 2007
Recorded in the bucolic splendour of County Westmeath, Bloc Party's second album is a labyrinthine concept album about urban living. Better to take a risk,...
INTERVIEW: 19 Jan 2007
Everything you need to know about Bloc Party’s brilliant new record.
NEWS: 02 Nov 2006
Bloc Party have confirmed a February visit to the Dublin Ambassador.
NEWS: 24 Oct 2006
Bloc Party have confirmed a visit to the Dublin Ambassador.
INTERVIEW: 05 Sep 2006
Ahead of their much anticipated Electric Picnic spot, Bloc Party talk about going mad in Westmeath and explain why it’s time for a post-punk concept record.
NEWS: 31 Aug 2006
Bloc Party are among the latest additions to the Hot Press chat room at the Electric Picnic.
NEWS: 09 May 2006
Bloc Party have started work on their new album in Westmeath’s Grouse Lodge studio.
REVIEW: 17 Nov 2005
As it happens, there is a good deal more substance to Kele Okereke and co than the average flash-in-the-pan indie outfit, and throughout 2005 their standing...
NEWS: 03 Nov 2005
There's two opportunities to get up close and personal with the supercool Bloc Party next week.
NEWS: 19 Oct 2005
It's true, it's true.
REVIEW: 22 Aug 2005
It’s far, far too easy to pass off remix albums as an over-adventurous attempt to flog the echoey repetition of one line of a very good song.
INTERVIEW: 11 Aug 2005
Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong explain how Bloc Party's remarkable year has been put into perspective by the London bombings
NEWS: 08 Jun 2005
The Olympia Theatre is the venue this November when Bloc Party play live in Dublin
REVIEW: 04 Apr 2005
I reckon that, come December, we’ll still have found few albums to match Silent Alarm, and ‘Banquet’ almost manages to sum up all its charms in the...
INTERVIEW: 11 Feb 2005
“A scene that results in Pete Doherty isn’t much to celebrate,” declare Bloc Party as they outline their plan to save UK rock from the heroin chic...
REVIEW: 08 Feb 2005
‘The band most likely to do a Franz Ferdinand in 2005!’ proclaims a UK music weekly. This single tells a different story. Bloc Party go one further than...
REVIEW: 27 Jan 2005
This is Bloc Party’s first show of the year and surely the last time for a while that they’ll be playing somewhere where the stage is so close to the...
REVIEW: 25 Jan 2005
More than another group of wannabes hoofing together the latest trendy noise, Bloc Party are a ridiculously sophisticated outfit and Silent Alarm is a most...
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