Set Report: Bloc Party

Sun 26th Jul, 2009 in Local News

Returning heroes Bloc Party capped off day one of Splendour In The Grass with a greatest hits set in the Supertop. Fresh from their rare Silent Alarm run-through at the Great Northern Hotel, the UK four-piece delivered highlights from all three of their albums – plus new standalone single One More Chance.

The band was in tight form throughout the set, dishing out their urgent indie-rock to an overflowing crowd. Frontman Kele Okereke quipped that Byron Bay had shown him “so many drunk, happy kids having a good time” – and the mood was certainly ecstatic. Pulsing white lights heightened the mood of anthems like Banquet and Flux, with Like Eating Glass the perfect send-off.

Bloc Party set-list (thanks to FL’s Canberra Editor extraordinaire Karen).

Ares
Hunting For Witches
Positive Tension
Signs
Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
Banquet
Two More Years
One More Chance
Mercury
This Modern Love
The Prayer
Flux
Helicopter
Encore: Like Eating Glass