Bloc Party Play First Live Show In Three Years, Showcase New Tracks

Last night (19th June), Bloc Party played their first official show in over three years at Glasgow’s Garage last night and showcased a good handful of brand new tracks.

The band are gearing up to release their new album ‘Four’ this August, and debuted a bunch of songs from it, including ‘3 x 3’, which you can watch below.

Other new tracks included ‘So He Begins To Lie’ and ‘Team A’, which are all set to appear on their fourth album, due on the 20th August.



Their setlist went something like this:

3 x 3
So He Begins To Lie
Mercury
Hunting For Witches
Real Talk
Octopus
Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
Banquet
Day Four
Team A
One More Chance’
This Modern Love’
Helicopter’
Truth’
Ares
Like Eating Glass
Flux

And if you missed them this time around, Bloc Party announced another UK tour set for this autumn.

JUNE
19 Garage - Glasgow
20 The Ritz - Manchester
21 Koko – London
24 Ebisu Garden Hall – Tokyo, Japan
29 Peace and Love – Sweden

JULY
05 Super Bock Super Rock – Sesimbra, Portugal
06 Open’er Festival – Gdynia, Poland
08 Ruisrock Festival – Turku, Finland
12 BBK Live – Bilbao, Spain
13 Melt Festival – Ferropolis, Germany
20 Festival Les Vieilles Charrues, France
21 Paleo Fest, Switzerland
28 Splendour In The Grass, Australia
30 The Republik – Honolulu, HI USA

OCTOBER
12 Newcastle O2 Academy
13 Leeds O2 Academy
14 Glasgow O2 Academy
15 Birmingham O2 Academy
17 Southampton Guildhall
18 Bristol O2 Academy
19 Manchester, WHP
20 Cambridge, Corn Exchange