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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Watch the 'Everything You Wanted' video!

The video for Kele's second solo single, 'Everything You Wanted', is now available to watch here, courtesy of The Guardian. It's very emotionally charged, and sees him having a Sinéad O'Connor moment on the streets of New York City...

Edit: Watch the vid below via YouTube:

Labels: Kele, Singles, Solo_projects

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Monday, July 12, 2010

The Creators Project: Kele

Labels: Kele, Solo_projects, The Boxer, Videos

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Kele's 'The Boxer'...out now!

Click here for the tracklisting.

Labels: Kele, Solo_projects, The Boxer

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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Kele...is everywhere

The Kele movement is gathering steam...click here to watch three brilliant live videos of 'Tenderoni', 'Everything You Wanted' and 'On The Lam', recorded for a Steve Lamacq session a couple days ago.

He is also featured on the front cover of this week's NME...watch here a video interview he recorded for the magazine!

Edit: The three videos are now on YouTube...watch 'Everything You Wanted' below, and click here to watch the other two tracks!

Kele and his band performing 'Everything You Wanted' at the BBC

Labels: Interviews, Kele, Radio_sessions, The Boxer, Videos

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Monday, May 17, 2010

'Tenderoni' video: live in Dublin

Labels: Kele, Solo_projects, Tenderoni, Videos

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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Kele: Dolan's Warehouse, Limerick, Ireland, 14.05.10

Kele played his first gig without the other Bloc Party boys last night in Limerick, performing mostly tracks from his forthcoming album, 'The Boxer', as well as a few Bloc Party oldies. Read NME's report below, followed by a video of 'Walk Tall'!

"Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke played his first ever solo show in Ireland last night (May 14). Mixing new songs from his forthcoming debut 'The Boxer' with a handful of remixed tracks from Bloc Party's back catalogue, the show in Limerick marked the unveiling of his new, dance-orientated musical direction.

Prior to his arrival on stage, everyone in the crowd at Dolan's Warehouse was encouraged to pick up a free shot of Jagermeister in order to share a toast with Kele, who announced. "It’s a special occasion, so I thought I’d buy everyone a drink!" when he arrived shortly after 10.30pm.

With many of the crowd unsure what to expect from the show, during proto-dubstep opener 'Walk Tall' the audience remained relatively still until Kele followed it up with 'On The Lam'. After a handful of new tracks - including 'The Other Side', which was momentarily interrupted after Kele feared a crowd member had stolen his maracas – he indulged his fans with a medley of remixed Bloc Party songs, culminating in a rapturously received 'One More Chance'.

The biggest cheer of the evening was reserved for Kele's debut solo single 'Tenderoni' though, which saw the singer mount a high speaker stack before nearly losing his footing. Only once during the show did the singer perform on guitar, for new song 'Unholy Thoughts', before he played new song 'Rise' and returned for the encore which culminated in Bloc Party's hit single 'Flux', which he referred to as "a song by a band I used to be in""

[Setlist]

Walk Tall / On The Lam / Meet Me In The Middle / The Other Side / Everything You Wanted / Blue Light / The Prayer / One More Chance / Tenderoni / Unholy Thoughts / Rise / All The Things I Could Never Say / Flux

'Walk Tall' in Limerick: Screaming fans, cornrows and grimey beats

Labels: Gig_reviews, Kele, Setlists, Solo_projects

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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Two new Kele tracks...

Kele has uploaded two new tracks which will feature on his new album, 'The Boxer'. Listen to them below!

Rise by keleokereke

Walk Tall by keleokereke

Labels: Kele, Solo_projects, The Boxer

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Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Kele: tour dates and video

Kele has just announced a lengthy solo tour, including dates in Europe, USA and Canada. Click here for the full list.

And here's the brand spanking new video for his first solo single, 'Tenderoni'...

What are your first impressions of Kele's solo project? Excited about 'The Boxer', or looking forward more to hearing what Young Legionnaire come up with?

Labels: Kele, Solo_projects, Tenderoni, The Boxer

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Saturday, May 01, 2010

Listen to 'Tenderoni'!

Kele's debut solo single, 'Tenderoni', got it's first play on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show last night. It's now available to stream over on his MySpace. The single will be released on June 14th, so expect to be hearing this track soundtracking the coming festival season...

Labels: Kele, Solo_projects, The Boxer

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

'The Boxer'...track-by-track preview #2

There's also a track-by-track preview of 'The Boxer' in this week's NME. Click the thumbnail below to read it...

Flat cap Kele

Labels: Kele, Solo_projects, The Boxer

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

'The Boxer'...track-by-track preview

The Fly have posted up a track-by-track preview of Kele's upcoming solo album, 'The Boxer'. Read it here! No sign yet of any preview clips, but appetites are well and truly whetted...

Labels: Kele, Solo_projects, The Boxer

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Thursday, April 08, 2010

Kele confirms 'The Boxer'!

It's been in the pipeline for a while, but Kele this week announced concrete details of his first solo album: 'The Boxer'. Produced mainly in New York with Spank Rock producer, XXXChange, the album will be released on June 21st in the UK and June 22nd in the US. Read the tracklisting below...

Someone's been working out...

01 Walk Tall

02 On the Lam

03 Tenderoni

04 The Other Side

05 Everything You Wanted

06 New Rules

07 Unholy Thoughts

08 Rise

09 All the Things I Could Never Say

10 Yesterday's Gone

'Tenderoni', assumedly not a cover of the Chromeo song, will be the first single released from the album, on June 14th.

No sneak previews of 'The Boxer' have so far been made available, but recent interviews, plus the accompanying press photo of Kele cradling an Akai MPC, suggest that he's been venturing further into electro-pop territory. Here's what Kele said to the NME: "I've been into clubbing for years. I've said from the beginning I'm into dance, it gets me excited and I think this record is going to go some way to prove that to people, hopefully."

With the first solo dates to come next month (see this post), expect to hear the first tasters from the album very soon. In the meantime, Kele has wired himself up to various cyber spots (website, blog, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook) to keep us all informed of his comings and goings.

Labels: Kele, Solo_projects, The Boxer

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Monday, March 29, 2010

Kele lines up solo dates...

In addition to the Ibiza and Manchester dates announced last week, Kele has confirmed some more solo dates for later this year, including a spot on the NME / BBC Radio 1 Stage at this year's Reading / Leeds festivals! Check out the details below...he'll be performing as 'Kele' (no Okereke). In the meantime, keep up to date with his cultural musings (unfortunately no word on the solo project) here. And I thought I was the only one to remember 'Life Without Buildings'...what a band!

14.05.10 Dolan’s Warehouse, Limerick, Ireland

15.05.10 Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Ireland

16.05.10 The Academy, Dublin, Ireland

17.05.10 Spring & Airbrake, Belfast, N. Ireland

20.05.10 Electronic Beats Festival @ E-Werk, Cologne, Germany

21.05.10 Prinzenbar Halle, Hamburg, Germany

22.05.10 Weekend, Berlin, Germany

12.06.10 Parklife Festival, Manchester

28.08.10 Reading Festival (NME / BBC Radio 1 Stage)

29.08.10 Reading Festival (NME / BBC Radio 1 Stage)

31.08.10 Ibiza Rocks (w/ Delphic)

Labels: Kele, Solo_projects

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