Bloc Party instore and gigs! Secret Machines tour with Interpol! Like Bloc Party!

by Gareth Dobson [Edit this content] ▾ 15 comments 17:59 October 11th, 2004

Bloc Party have announced details of a clever in-store performance and signing at Manchester's Piccadilly Records Store on Oldham Street, Friday 29th October.

The session ties in with the release of their fourth (already?) single, 'Helicopter' on October 25th, the second on their new(ish) home Wichita Records.

The foursome's Manchester gig three days later has been sold out for a number of months already.

The band's tour kicked off in Brighton yesterday, and when cornered for a quote, singer Kele informed us:

"It feels good being back on home soil - it's been a bonkers few months, what with the US tour, my heart operation and all those pregnancy scares, but we're back and better than ever".

We can only hope that Kele's heart holds out for the rest of the year, and that those aforementioned babyscam shams are indeed merely libellous chat.

Go see Bloc Party before they are locked up/ buried in the ground.

In other related news, Secret Machines have been announced as guests of Interpol on the New Yorker's tour of the UK. Which also features Bloc Party. It's like a jigsaw d'actualities, isn't it?

Bloc Party headline tour:

October

11 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
12 London Lock 17
13 Bristol Fleece And firkin
15 Liverpool Barfly
16 Wrexham Central Station
17 Cardiff Iforbach
18 Leeds Cockpit
20 Birmingham Academy 2
21 Hull Welly Club
22 Newcastle Northumbria Uni
23 Middlesbrough Empire
25 Aberdeen Lemon Tree
26 Edinburgh Venue
27 Glasgow King Tuts
28 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
30 Sheffield Leadmill
31 Manchester Night And Day

Interpol UK dates

November (with Bloc Party)

20 London Forum

December (with Secret Machines)

15 Bristol Academy
16 Birmingham Academy
17 Glasgow Academy
18 Manchester Academy
19 Nottingham Rock City

Bloc Party do French dates on their own from the 6th to the 10th November before hooking up with Interpol on the 19th November for dates on the continent that last till the 7th December. Then Bloc Party head back to the UK for the:

Bloc Party Xmas Cheer Tour

December

13 Manchester Academy 3
14 London Heaven

...which isn't actually a tour, and we made the name of the tour up, but hey, it's gigs isn't it?

See Bloc Party video for Helicopters here

BLOC PARTY OVERLOAD!!!!