Skullcandy Presents The Straight Series Featuring Bloc Party w/ guest Corbu

Skullcandy presents The The Georgia Straight Series featuring Bloc Party with guest Corbu Friday, September 16 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver 19+ / General Admission Doors 8:00PM / Show 9:30PM Facebook Presale: Thurs, June 9 from 10AM - 10PM Password: CROWD On Sale: Fri, June 10 at 10AM Get Tickets: http://bit.ly/1WCapkK Tickets (incl. GST) $35.00 + s/c - Bloc Party Online - Website: http://bloc.party/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blocpartyofficial/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlocParty YouTube/VEVO: https://www.youtube.com/user/BlocPartyVEVO Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisblocparty/ HYMNS is a rebirth for Bloc Party. After 16 years as a band, countless world tours and awards and four studio albums, Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack are taking it back to where it all began. As the title suggests, the fifth Bloc Party record is about faith and devotion, but it is not, Kele insists, a religious epiphany. “I grew up in a religious house so I’m fully aware of the imagery, but I’m not Christian. It’s not something I subscribe to.” Instead, the concept came to him after seeing the author Hanif Kureishi, whom Kele has admired since he was at school, talk at the Southbank Centre in London. The author of My Beautiful Laundrette and Intimacy was discussing evangelical art and how unfashionable it has become. “And that point stuck with me because it seemed like for me music had originated in a religious place. The first music I ever heard was hymns at school. I started to think, if I was going to make music that had a spiritual dimension, that was sacred to me and to the things that I held important, how would I do it?” says Kele. The result is a record that sounds like a band growing and changing, pushing new sounds via new approaches, and resulting in more free, less constricted Bloc Party. “When we started this band, we were all about being loud and spiky, and all the sounds had to confront,” Kele explains. “With the way I sang, the way the drums had to fill every moment, was very confrontational. After making Four, which was very abrasive, I wanted to make something more sensual, that took you in and hugged you, rather than hit you around the face. It was nice to let the atmospheres take over, to pull everything back, as opposed to it being a fight, or a dueling match.” Exes is the most minimal track on HYMNS. It is simply, says Kele, an apology, “to the people I’ve hurt along the way. It’s for all the people I’ve not been so good to as a friend or as lover. As a musician I know I can be quite selfish - I can put my way above everything else. And sometimes that can make you lose sight of what is important around you.” And despite some turmoil, both Kele and Russell are happy Bloc Party has kept going. “I realised that I want to do this,” says Kele. “I want to travel the world and I want to enjoy it all. In my mind, I wanted to prove something.” In HYMNS, they have done just that. Bloc Party are Kele Okereke (vocals, guitar), Russell Lissack (guitar), Justin Harris (bass) and Louise Bartle (drums). Stay up to date with Live Nation! https://www.facebook.com/livenationbritishcolumbia https://twitter.com/livenationwest https://instagram.com/livenationbc www.livenation.com Follow The Commodore Ballroom https://www.facebook.com/commodoreballroom https://twitter.com/commodorevcr https://instagram.com/commodoreballroom/ www.commodoreballroom.com