{"id":40977,"date":"2025-07-15T13:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/15\/bloc-party-performs-on-npr-tiny-desk-with-music-from-silent-alarm\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T13:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:32:42","slug":"bloc-party-performs-on-npr-tiny-desk-with-music-from-silent-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/15\/bloc-party-performs-on-npr-tiny-desk-with-music-from-silent-alarm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloc Party Performs on NPR Tiny Desk With Music From &#8216;Silent Alarm&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The British band performed songs from their 2005 debut, <em>Silent Alarm, <\/em>and 2008&#8217;s <em>Intimacy <\/em>during their debut on the live performance series <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/bloc-partys-kele-okereke-on-purging-bad-vibes-hippie-ish-new-single-73117\/\">Bloc Party<\/a> appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/npr-tiny-desk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_npr-tiny-desk\" data-tag=\"npr-tiny-desk\">NPR Tiny Desk<\/a> for the first time with a career-spanning set that goes back to the very beginning. The U.K. rock band\u2019s Kele Okereke, Russell Lissack, Louise Bartle, and Harry Deacon kicked off the performance with \u201cBanquet,\u201d a selection from their 2005 debut album <em>Silent Alarm<\/em>, which celebrated its 20th anniversary earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cGood afternoon, everyone. We\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bloc-party\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bloc-party\" data-tag=\"bloc-party\">Bloc Party<\/a> from London, England,\u201d Okereke told the gathered crowd. \u201cWe\u2019re very excited to be here today with you for the infamous Tiny D sessions. Let\u2019s get into it.\u201d The band followed with \u201cSigns,\u201d a remnant of 2008\u2019s <em>Intimacy<\/em>. And just in time for Mercury Retrograde to begin later this week, Bloc Party lingered in that album era for a performance of \u201cMercury.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bloc Party: Tiny Desk Concert\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_p8T7JT8LK0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tTo close out the set, Bloc Party jumped ahead to one of their only recent releases, <em>The High Life <\/em>EP. The band selected \u201cBlue\u201d from the four-track project released in 2023. Since then, they\u2019ve only shared the one-off single \u201cFlirting Again\u201d and a nostalgic set of B-sides from their 2007 album <em>A Weekend in the City<\/em>. They plan to release an anniversary edition of <em>Silent Alarm <\/em>in September. The band\u2019s latest full-length LP, <em>Alpha Games<\/em>, arrived more than three years ago. Bloc Party are currently on the 20 Years of Bloc Party tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThank you very much. As I was saying earlier, it\u2019s a really big deal for us, being here,\u201d Okereke said. \u201cNPR has introduced me to so much great music. I\u2019ve done so many great interviews speaking with this system. People all over the world, not just in America, rely on what comes out of this building. So, let\u2019s keep it protected and cherished.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bloc-party-npr-tiny-desk-debut-1235385656\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British band performed songs from their 2005 debut, Silent Alarm, and 2008&#8217;s Intimacy during their debut on the live performance series Bloc Party&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}