Event Listing - Music

Wed Jul 30

Live Nation Presents

Bloc Party with Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Location	Date and Time
The Fillmore 1805 Geary Blvd. San Francisco, CA 94115 map cross street: Fillmore district: Japantown/Fillmore	Wed Jul 30 (Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm)

Description

Bloc Party are an English indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke on vocals and rhythm guitar, Russell Lissack on lead guitar, Gordon Moakes on bass guitar and Matt Tong on drums. Their brand of indie rock has been compared to bands such as The Cure, Blur, The Smashing Pumpkins, Pixies and Joy Division.

The band formed at the 1999 Reading Festival by Okereke and Lissack. They went through a variety of names before settling on Bloc Party in 2003. Moakes joined the band after answering an advert in NME magazine, while Tong was picked via an audition. Bloc Party got their break by giving BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq and Franz Ferdinand's lead singer Alex Kapranos a copy of their demo, "She's Hearing Voices", which was later released as a single.

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloc_Party