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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Bloc Party perform 'One Month Off' on David Letterman, 23.03.09

Get ready to take a look at this...are you ready?

Labels: One Month Off, Television, Videos

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Friday, January 30, 2009

On The Radio, uh oh

Bloc Party made an appearance in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge today, performing the current single, 'One Month Off' and their cover of Girls Aloud's 'Call The Shots', previewed in Manchester last night! Click here to listen to the interview and performances.

Last time Bloc were in the Live Lounge in April 2007, they played Nelly Furtado's 'Say It Right', though they never got around to playing it live. Last night's showcase of 'Call The Shots' was actually the first time the band have played a full cover live (not including their brief teases of Prince's 'I Would Die 4 U' and A-ha's 'The Sun Always Shines On T.V.' before 'Flux' at recent gigs)...and the band hint this cover may become a regular fixture at their upcoming live shows.

[Download] Bloc Party - Call The Shots (Girls Aloud cover, live in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge)

The boys have been pretty busy in radio-land...they've also recorded a session for KCRW's legendary 'Morning Becomes Eclectic' show. Click here to listen/watch, or view the entire session below. (Setlist: Trojan Horse / Halo / Signs / Mercury / Interview / Letter To My Son / Ion Square / Better Than Heaven)

Labels: Audio, One Month Off, Radio_sessions

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

'One Month Off' out Monday!

The third single to be taken from Bloc Party's third album, 'Intimacy', will be released next Monday (January 26th). 'One Month Off' will be available via the medium of download, and also on 7" vinyl (with the 'Findo Gask Cruel And Unusual 7inch Mix' as the solitary b-side).

If you haven't seen it yet, check out the stop motion-tastic video here, and listen to the 'Metal On Metal Remake' of the track here!

Labels: One Month Off, Singles

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Watch the 'One Month Off' video!

Watch below the brand new, and decidedly creepy, video for 'One Month Off', released on January 26th. As with the promos for 'Flux' and 'Mercury', there's no sign of Bloc Party in the video, just lots of nursery rhyme characters being blown into smithereens...

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey
Then came a grenade which exploded beside her and turned the poor girl to sorbet

Edit: The video was directed by D.A.D.D.Y. (Design, Animation, Design, Design, Yay) and based on Ray Harryhausen's 1940s/50s stop-motion fairy tale animations:

"We acquired a number of the [Harryhausen] fairy tale stories and re-edited them to the track, so we had a strange narrative set in this animated fairytale world. A place inhabited by all the classic characters from Little Miss Muffet to Red Riding Hood. Taking the re-edited vintage animations, we then reanimated over these beautiful old stop-motion films, adding some 'reality,' so they lost that innocent feeling and meaning they once had. We have no idea what Mr. Harryhausen will think if he sees them, but some of the new cartoon violence makes parts of the video darkly funny, which he might like."

[Download] Bloc Party - 'One Month Off' video

Ray Harryhausen's Little Red Riding Hood (1949)...this time, she doesn't get vapourised by a tank

Labels: One Month Off, Singles

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Friday, November 21, 2008

Next single...'One Month Off'

Bloc Party have confirmed their next single will be 'One Month Off', probably the most radio-friendly track on 'Intimacy' (it's got a key change!). It'll be released on January 26th 2009 to coincide with their upcoming UK tour. Check back soon for the tracklisting!

Labels: One Month Off, Singles

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