Originally written by [redacted] · 20 March 2005
English comedienne/author Jenny Eclair has told of how she upset “the one with the modern fringe” from Bloc Party. DiS’ incredible powers of deduction will assume she means guitarist Russell Lissack.
Speaking on London talk radio station LBC, on which she’s a presenter, she said “we were at Radio 4 and he had his feet up on a chair. I shouted at him to get them off because I wanted to sit down, and things got a bit heated.”
Indicating that she hadn’t known at the time he was in a hip, new, future-of-music pop combo (or words to that effect), she added “he probably wasn’t expecting a 45-year-old woman to be shouting at him. It was very embarrassing.”
Bloc Party release new single ‘Banquet’ on April 18th. Their March/April tour is sold out but dates have been added to the tour in October. The full list:
2nd Edinburgh Usher Hall 4th Glasgow Carling Academy 6th Newcastle Northumbria University 8th Cambridge Corn Exchange 9th Norwich UEA 10th Portsmouth Guildhall 12th Sheffield Octagon 13th Birmingham Academy 14th Birmingham Academy 16th Nottingham Royal Concert Hall 17th Liverpool Royal Court Theatre 18th Leeds University 20th Manchester Carling Apollo 21st Manchester Carling Apollo 22nd Leicester De Montfort Hall 24th Cardiff University 25th Bristol Carling Academy 28th London Carling Brixton Academy 29th London Carling Brixton Academy
Debut album ’Silent Alarm’, which has yet to be released in America, has already shifted over 300,000 copies in Europe and Japan.