Silent Alarm

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The band's first gig following the release of A Weekend in the City was on 5 February 2007, in Reading, [42] and was broadcast live on BBC 6 Music. [43] On 20 May 2007, Bloc Party headlined on the In New Music We Trust stage at the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend in Preston. [44] They also performed at the UK leg of Live Earth on 7 July 2007 at Wembley Stadium. [45] Furthermore, the band played sets at T in the Park and Oxegen 07 that same weekend, [46] [47] as well as Glastonbury and the Reading and Leeds Festivals later in 2007. [48] [49] Bloc Party announced a tour of Australia and New Zealand in August 2007, which would include a special appearance at the Splendour in the Grass Festival on 5 August. [42] On 17 September 2007, they recorded a set for the PBS show Austin City Limits [50] a day after playing at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. [42] On 27 October, the band performed a set at London's The Roundhouse with the Exmoor Singers, a London-based choir, as part of the BBC Electric Proms. The set included songs from both Silent Alarm and A Weekend in the City along with the first British live performance of "Flux". [51] Intimacy (2008–2009) a b c Abebe, Nitsuh (14 February 2005). "Bloc Party: Silent Alarm". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 3 February 2009 . Retrieved 6 February 2009. Bloc Party's Kele Okereke working on solo album". NME. 4 November 2009. Archived from the original on 28 May 2010 . Retrieved 18 July 2011.

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Recorded with Paul Epworth far away from their birthing pool in London’s New Cross (they originally came to NME’s attention on Angular Records’ legendary unsigned band compilation ‘ The New Cross’) in “polite, civilised and pretty” Copenhagen last year, ‘Silent Alarm’is no‘Franz Ferdinand’. In fact, listen to it with the words ‘popular’ and ‘arty’ in mind and its spirit is closer to the Manic Street Preachers’ ‘The Holy Bible’. Reilly, Dan (12 June 2013). "Bloc Party going on indefinite hiatus". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 13 June 2013. Byrne, Niall (28 September 2011). "Kele Okereke to leave Bloc Party? Update: No". State.ie. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011 . Retrieved 26 March 2012. Pitchfork staff (28 September 2009). "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 200–151". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 2 October 2015 . Retrieved 1 October 2009.Bloc Party make live return, debut new songs". DIY. 21 August 2015. Archived from the original on 22 August 2015 . Retrieved 21 August 2015.

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