A couple of months ago, Blog Party posted this video of a beautiful stripped down performance of 'Kreuzberg' at a Belgian music festival. Sofie, the pianist and vocalist in the video, has sent BP.net this audio rip to add to the BLAG PARTY covers project...
BLAG PARTY was launched in November 2006 to collect together Bloc Party covers as performed by the BP.net readers. Listen to the previous 13 featured covers here! The project is still open for submissions, so please send your own recordings ('Intimacy' tracks anyone?) here. Bavarian folk interpretations of 'Ares' more than welcome...
Bloc Party will be headlining the Other Stage at this year's Glastonbury Festival,and to warm up for their appearance they'll also be playing at the Garage in London on Thursday 25th June! The venue doesn't officially open until Friday 26th, so they're playing the pre-opening party for Trekstock in association with The Teenage Cancer Trust.
Trekstock raises money for 13-24 year olds by giving back to charity through music and fashion. They are continuing to support Teenage Cancer Trust this year with gigs and exclusives, and Bloc Party have asked Trekstock to host their epic Glastonbury warm-up show. For more info visit www.trekstock.com.
Tickets are being sold for £30 each from Ticket Web (though none are available at present). All proceeds go to Trekstock / Teenage Cancer Trust.
'Intimacy Remixed' is out today on limited edition CD (5000) and triple vinyl (1000), plus the usual download from here (UK) and here (US). Check out the tracklisting...the iTunes version comes with bonus remixes by Sky Larkin and Foals!
The band have also released a video for the Villians remix of 'Ares', made entirely of mobile phone clips sent in by fans (and Gordy!) from the two recent London Olympia gigs. Feast your eyes below...
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