Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has said Bloc Party may never make another record after 2008’s ‘Intimacy’.
Speaking on Australia’s Triple J radio station, Okereke said: “We don’t know what the future holds. It’s weird, we’re out of contract now so…we might take a year off, we might take three years off, we might never make a record again or we might head straight back in and do a record. We’ll see how we feel come the end of this touring cycle.”
The comments are not the first from the band to imply a sense of disillusionment with the music industry. Okereke has often expressed his disdain for many of the aspects of life in a band, such as interviews and press intrusion. “Why is it important to know what I had for breakfast,” he once said in an interview early in the group’s career. “Or who I went to bed with? Or what sneakers I am wearing? If it’s relevant to understanding my music, then so be it. But if it’s purely to satisfy the media’s obsession with celebrity, then no thanks. I don’t want to play that game.”
The band hit the road in October for a UK tour, dubbed ‘Bloctober’. The 23 date jaunt will see them visit cities including Liverpool, Nottingham and Leeds, while one confirmed new release is the non-album single ‘One More Chance’, out on 10th August.
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