Artist.......: Bloc Party
Album........: Live au Printemps de Bourges
Label........: V2 Records
Genre........: Alt. Rock
Catnr........:
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2009-10-17
Str.date.....: 2007-04-21
Quality......: 177kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.blocparty.com/
track title time
1. Live Au Printemps De Bourges
Song for Clay
Positive Tension
Hunting for Witches
Waiting for the 7.18
Banquet
I Still Remember
This Modern Love
Uniform
The Prayer
So Here We Are
Like Eating Glass
Helicopter
She's Hearing Voices
The Pioneers
Runtime 61:12
Size 81.30
Release Notes:
Performed : April 21, 2007 (Bourges / France)
Recorded : October 17, 2009
Equally inspired by Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Gang of
Four, and the Cure, East London art punkers Bloc Party mix
angular sonics with pop structures. Consisting of
singer/guitarist Kele Okereke, guitarist Russell Lissack,
bassist/singer Gordon Moakes, and drummer Matt Tong, the
band was formerly known as Angel Range and Union before
settling on Bloc Party. Okereke and Lissack met each other
through mutual friends at the Reading Festival, and
discovered that they had musical tastes as well as friends
in common. Tong and Moakes soon joined their
collaboration, and under the name Union, the quartet
issued a demo in early 2003; later that year, they
switched their name to Bloc Party.
The group's demo and concerts began to attract attention
from both the press and their peers; Okereke sent a copy
of the demo to Franz Ferdinand, who invited them to play
at the Domino tenth anniversary bash in fall 2003. Early
the following year, the band released one of the demo's
tracks, "She's Hearing Voices," as a single on Trash
Aesthetics. A few months later, Banquet/Staying Fat
arrived on Moshi Moshi. That spring, Bloc Party signed to
Wichita to release their full-length album in the U.K.,
and to Dim Mak for U.S. distribution. The band spent
summer 2004 recording and touring. Late that summer, Bloc
Party, which collected the band's first two singles,
arrived in the States. Their debut album, Silent Alarm,
appeared early in 2005 and was released by Vice Records in
the States to widespread acclaim. Later that year, Silent
Alarm Remixed capitalized on the band's burgeoning
popularity, as did the 2006 EP Helicopter. A Weekend in
the City, Bloc Party's second proper album, followed in
2007. A Weekend in the City leaked onto the Internet
months before the album's street date, which inspired Bloc
Party to issue their third album, Intimacy, online in late
summer 2008; the album was released on compact disc that
fall.