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I'm hanging here at the MCA with Kele and Matt from
The Bloc Party. Guys, welcome back to Australia! Kele: It's.... just "Bloc Party"
Yes, that's true. I'm sorry... It's like Doves. You can't say "The Doves" Kele: That's okay. That's okay.
Hi! I'm Gordon from Bloc Party
and this is my colleague Matt Matt: Hello
and you're at Melt! festival with us! Kele: Hello, I'm Kele.
Matt: and I'm Matt
Kele: and we are
Matt: Bloc Party
and we are Kele: here Matt: in
Kele: Shorledge? Matt: Yes, that's right,
fashionable Shorledge.
My name's Kele. I am performing at
2010's Glastonbury festival.
Am I surprised it's fourty years old? No,
not really. It happens every year
and I guess it started in the Sixties then?
So it kind of makes sense that it's the fourtieth around now.
Four is
Four is one more than three isn't it?
And it's one less than five.
Listen Kele,
Happy anniversary! Ten years isn't it since you guys got together right here at Reading?
Is this correct?
Kele: Is it?
I'm hoping it will be the same at Glastonbury. I'm really hoping. Ouch!
The last record I bought...
I think the last record I bought, I can't remember what it's called, but it's like a compilation of Indonesian
psychedelic music.
Indonesia psychedelic music, yeah.
Kele: apocalyptic folk record.
Matt: mmmmm, sound nice. Kele: Sounds tasty...
Gordon: There's something quite honest about
the sound of a band set up in a room. Kele: It's the sound of us
in a room together just the four of us. Well, I guess it's lots of people in a room
really. Uuuhhhhh. Gordon: And it's just the sound of us in a room, so we have to
make it sound half-descent.
Kele: How do you make... How do you make your own diesel?
Matt: Well, I don't know if it turn out to be diesel but
a lot of people are buying...
people are recycling fat and oil from
restaurants
and fast food places Kele: That's nice...
Kele: That's nice. "Waste not, want not." Matt: Yeah.
uuuhhh that smells pretty grody.
I think, I think Silent Alarm was a very
naive sounding record. A very, kind of, *** music.
Matt: Kind of prudish; prudish sounding.
Kele: I was uummm
actually, I was cycling.
I was cycling back from a friend's house.
He basically kind of cut me up and
I flipped over the bonnet of his car.
It was pretty dicy actually. I was okay, but he was so freaked out
'cause I don't think he had proper insurance.
But, uh, we started chatting and stuff as we were waiting by
the road side. Then I found out he was a producer and he told me that he was
(incoherent) Spank Rock which I really like and I was like, "Wow!
uh... so wow, you're this Spank Rock producer." And it was no serious injury.
It was just a scrape on my leg
so I kind of saw it as a sign that
even though I was a bit hurt, I had got something great, you know, I had met some one great
and interesting.
No, it didn't happen, but cut that out 'cause that was a good story.
No, you know. I lied Yeah, I was lying. I was
lying.. Kind of. I think I might have made that up.
Is that right?
Kele: No that Isn't true either. No, I made that up, but it's funny. Inteviewer: Is that not true either? Do you make quite a lot up, do you find? Kele: Yeah,
because interviews tend to be boring.
I always make stuff up in interviews
uuuummm
but, you know, I was quite proud of that one because it was quite an absurd image that
seemed to travel around the world. Yeah, there was a period when I was just making stuff up. But I like it.
I'm going to be summer
which means there will be lots of shots of me in my shorts.
Matt: uuuummmmm..... yeah.
Kele: As a band,
as Bloc Party,
we definitely like short shorts.
(laughing) Alright, this is getting ridiculous!
Kele: What are you doing in your month? You're winter aren't you?
Matt: I'm winter, so I'll be wearing uhhhhh...
yeah, I've secured a deal of Burberry, so I'll be kind of like be wearing
lots of Burberry, walking around looking all moody.
You know, like, well, moody and sexy..... uuummm, yeah.
Yeah, it's gonna be good.
Gordon: If Russel were to ever start singing then this will be the one we'll have to put him in. Kele: If Russel were to ever start singing,
I'm going to, uh, quit music!
Gordon: The industry?
Kele: Well, this album is still dancing music,
but it's a different kind of dancing music. There's not really
any electronica. It's more kind of
primal, like people
chanting? Ummm, it's more, more physical, you know?
Like how they would dance in Medieval times... around
kind of hypnotic drums.
It's very rythmical. Very rythmical; very sensual.
Very *** too. Matt: Yeah....
So the old ten year anniversary isn't necessarity true. I did bring you a bottle of red wine. Kele: You lie!
You stole it from over there! At the time I wanted to
kill them
uh...
but I...
but it was the best thing for us as a band.
Matt: Uuuummm... It was horrible being parted.
Kele: It was sad, but we're back together now.
Matt: Back and stronger than ever.
the sound of us in a room....