New album: Intimacy
After performing at Splendour in the Grass a year ago, Bloc Party returned to Australia in November to play shows in most of the capital cities. Playing the first of two Sydney shows at the Hordern Pavilion, the London indie rock band dazzled the crowd with an hour and a half set of hits from their three albums ‘Intimacy’, ‘Silent Alarm’ and ‘A Weekend in the City’, including two encores.
To kick off the night, Australian support band Van She did well to engage and amuse the vivacious Bloc Party crowd-in-waiting playing their popular tracks including Strangers, Sex City, Cat & the Eye and Kelly for the closing.
After the Van She set, the lights went out, the crowd started screaming and Bloc Party entered. From the first track, Halo, the crowd went crazy. Right from the get go was a perfectly selected sequence of songs that pumped up the crowd at every turn, especially at the halfway point during obvious favourites such as Positive Tension, Banquet and Mercury. In an attempt to slow down the tempo, frontman Kele pulls out their first ever single, a soft and beautiful tune So Here We Are, before finishing up the set with the popular hit song from the first album, The Prayer.
With the crowd still reeling with excitement from a very clever song arrangement the band was quick to return to the stage for the first of two encores playing Sunday, Like Eating Glass, Flux and Helicopter before running off and coming back to end what could easily be dubbed ‘the perfect sonic evening’ with Ares and Modern Love.
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