The Bloc Party tour is 'In Assiciation with Nokia'

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I was just wondering if anyone has anything to say about this fact.

― pisces (pisces), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Southall followed by Jagger, presumably.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Ah but instead of making adverts for Coke like Jack White, Kele says the word "POLITICS" occasionally.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Lord.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, if the spons is to help keep ticket prices down, more power to them! (Nokia basically giving every gig-goer £3 toward the ticket price! OK so it all goes straight back to ticketmaster, but hey!)

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

apparently you have to pay money for the records, and the band get a cut of it. not only that, but all of the people working at the venue -- they get paid. it's a crazy world out there.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Best Buy just sent me an e-mail offering me the chance to buy tickets for the reunited Police tour shows in NY and Boston, before they're on sale to the public.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

You not public then?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm special. I have a Best Buy Rewards card, just like about 2 zillion others. I get more spam this way.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

The Exeter gig sounded as if the soundsystem was a large mobile phone, I guess.

― Sick Mouthy (sickmouthy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

The Cambridge gig was sold out some time last year by the sounds of it. Not that I'd have remotely wanted to go.

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I was just wondering if anyone has anything to say about this fact.

it's the 21st century?

enrique amusingly OTM.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

(nb: i'm aware there's at least one ILM thread where i rail against music by my bands i like being used in adverts. but then i grew up.)

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

the bloc party aren't exactly fugazi, what is surprising about this?

― akm (akmonday), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

2007 will be remembered as the year of the sophomore slump.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Surely 2AD was the year of the sophomore slump?

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I stand corrected.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

assOciation.

― pisces (pisces), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 06:38 (seventeen years ago) link

has there ever been a year without a sophomore slump?

2003: the strokes
2005: the franz

im sure u can fill in teh blanks on either side.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link

2004 The Polyphonic Spree?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 10:28 (seventeen years ago) link

the 2nd albums were probably better in strokes and franz cases tho

― resumo impetus (blueski), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

neither had the impact of their debuts though which seems to be how it works with "indie" acts now. have one song that resonates beyond core consituensy (take me out, last nite) and see how far you can ride that.

― acrobat (acrobat), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:29 (seventeen years ago) link

2006: Scissor Sisters

― DavidM (DavidM), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i liked the lead singles off 'room on fire' and er 'the second album by franz ferdinand' more than those two, it's just that they failed to break large, and it is a similar syndrome at work. it's not overhyping that's the problem exactly, but maybe the array of non-music media outlets doing it.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

it feels like you get a leader in the times these days just for having your own myspace page blah blah blah

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

though to be honest bloc party never had a break out hit of l"ast nite", "take me out" proportions. tbh i think the kaiser chiefs could possibly have a second album as big or bigger than their first. not that i endorse that. totally disagree about the scissor sisters a slump maybe "artistically" but for ubiquity only "crazy" came close to "i don't feel like dancing" last year. razorlight have already had a second album biger than their first, i think "second album slump" only comes into play really when people have musical rather than comercial expectations of an act.

― acrobat (acrobat), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

2007: not the shins

― Tyrone Slothrop (Tyrone Slothrop), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Why would it be? It's the Shins' third album.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

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