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"Many themes from this album have come full circle"
Bloc Party leader Kele Okereke spoke about the impact of the tour to celebrate their debut album "Silent Alarm", as well as the opportunity to do the same for their second album "A Weekend In The City".
Their first album was released in February 2005. After changing their minds after qualifying the birthday tours as "cynical" and "cringey", the group gave special shows in the UK and Europe in October, in the honor of the disc. In front of other shows in the UK in 2019 after his new musical "Leave To Remain", Okereke has NME how he finds it's a "pleasurable experience" to breathe new life into the songs.
"I did not really calculate what it would take physically or emotionally," Okereke said. NME. "I did not really want to think about it. It was only when we started to repeat that I started to inhabit the songs and go back to where we were when we created the music.
He continued, "I've felt pretty straight forward over the years in looking forward, not backward. For the people around us, our team and our manager who have seen us play over the years, everyone agreed that the way we played music was the best of all time. It rebadured me personally: thirteen years after the publication of this music, we were still able to give it life. "
Okereke added, "I do not want to talk disparagingly about any of our two former members, but I feel that the way we play now is much more confident. I'm just excited to see now what we can do as a group in its own right. "
When asked if Bloc Party would celebrate one of their other albums by performing them in full, Mr. Okereke said that he "would not say no," calling for renewed political relevance for their second album.
"It's funny, I was talking to a reporter who had interviewed me at the release of" A Weekend in the City "." NME. "It was interesting to talk to him a few days ago because many of the themes in this album have been curled up and are very much in the public discourse right now. This record seems very considerate.
"I do not know, I'm definitely open to that."
However, the format these programs might take could be more about linking the dots between their back catalogs.
"A friend of mine was telling me something that the priest was doing or still doing," Okereke said. "Rather than just going back to discs, they broadcast programs from recordings they thought related to each other. I think this could be an interesting thing to do because I can already see links between some of the music we've created and some of the places we've visited. I think it's interesting: draw at least a parallel between the works you have done. "
Okereke also told NME that, although he had just finished another solo album, Bloc Party would soon meet for "just to turn the shit" for their next album.
"I think the wisest thing is to capture the energy of the group as it is," Okereke said. "I have all these other opportunities to create different types of music and I think that when we get together, it will really be to see what we do instinctively; do not think too much about the process and just enjoy it. "
"Right now, we always feel like we're a new band because of our two new members. It's a bit like we still have to make a record all together. I'm excited now to go back to the studio with everyone. "
The soundtrack of Kele Okereke's 'Leave To Remain' is now available. Read the NME review here.
"Leave To Remain" will be held at Lyric Hammersmith Theater until February 16, 2019, with tickets available here.
The dates for Block Party's Silent Alarm celebration tour are listed below.
June
28 – Bristol Sounds, the amphitheater of the swamps of Canon
29 – Brighton Center
July
5 – Manchester Castlefield Bowl
August
9 – Glasgow Kelvingrove Park Music Stand
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