Bloc
Party – The beginning and short album history
The Reading Festival from 1999 was the moment when
Bloc Party was formed. Its founding members being Kele Okereke and
Russell Lissack; the band wasn’t called Bloc Party from the on-set, they
only settled on this name in 2003 after going through many other names.
Gordon Moakes joined the band through a magazine advert while Matt Tong
got in through an audition.
The band manage to break onto the music scene after
giving Steve Lamacq – BBC Radio 1 DJ – and Alex Kapranos, a famous
singer, their demo tape which included a song called “She’s hearing
voices”.
“Silent Alarm” was the next milestone. This was their
debut album and it was already on the shelves in February 2005. This
album was well received by critics and it also won the “Indie Album of
the Year” Award at the 2006 PLUG Awards. That same year their album got
platinum certification in the UK.
Thanks to the success from the first album, the band managed to get
another one just two years later; it was called “A Weekend in the City”
and it got to top 2 on the UK Albums Chart and a very solid number
twelve in the Billboard 200. In August of 2008 the band released its
third album to date called Intimacy which reached at its highest number
eight on the UK Albums Chart and entered the Billboard 200 at number
eighteen.
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