BLOC PARTY **CANCELLED**
THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED. TICKETS WILL BE REFUNDED THROUGH EITHER TICKETMASTER, OR IF YOU PURCHASED THEM THROUGH A FIRST AVENUE TICKET OUTLET, AT THE FIRST AVENUE BOX OFFICE.
BLOC PARTY
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 ... Read More...
by Heather Phares
