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Fearne Cotton and 'legendary Oasis' booed by Bloc Party at iTunes Live gig

Plus Kele Okereke reveals his band will be taking a live break

Bloc Party instigated a chorus of boos for Oasis and TV presenter Fearne Cotton during their set at the iTunes Live festival in London's Roundhouse last night (July 21).

The London-based outfit, who have been criticised by the Manchester band in the past, took aim at Oasis, who are set to follow them at the same venue tonight (22).

Frontman Kele Okereke triggered the booing after joking about Fearne Cotton, who had been doing TV links earlier in the gig, but had been heckled herself for mentioning the Gallagher's band.

"What was it that Fearne Cotton said?" Okereke mockingly asked the crowd. "Are we 'looking forward to the legendary Oasis?'"

Rivalry aside, Bloc Party announced that the show, which saw the band play the likes of 'Halo', 'Banquet', 'Mercury' - which saw the singer diving into the crowd - and 'The Prayer', would be the band's last live outing in the UK capital for a while.

"We're probably not going to see you for a very long time so goodbye London," the singer told the audience as bassist Gordan Moakes dedicated the show to his one-year old daughter.

Bloc Party played:

'Halo'
'Hunting For Witches'
'Positive Tension'
'Biko'
'Waiting For The 7.18'
'Song For Clay (Disappear Here)'
'Banquet'
'Blue Light'
'Uniform'
'One More Chance'
'Mercury'
'This Modern Love'
'The Prayer'
'Helicopter'
'Ion Square'
'Ares'
'Like Eating Glass'
'Flux'


Stay tuned for more from iTunes Live tonight (July 21) as Oasis themselves take to the stage.
 

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nickjcray 

Jul 21, 2009

Love or Hate Oasis. Bloc Party will never come near em. Thats a fact!

camobaby 

Jul 21, 2009

Oasis had it back in the day.Not now. Pack up and die oasis.

yogavo 

Jul 22, 2009

when kele writes an album that has an impact like definitely maybe or morning glory then he can boo all he wants. until then let him go back to uni and finish his studies

irish rover 

Jul 22, 2009

Singer of Bloc Party seems more of a Idiot everytime ive seen them or read about him. and camobaby you are proving what a baby you actually are by such a pathetic immature response. Oasis are one of the greatest bands ever and possibly the greatest band for playing live. Unlike bloc party...

thick_as_thieves 

Jul 22, 2009

..cue thousands of skinny jean southern indie kids dissing oasis

skimpi 

Jul 22, 2009

yeahh but its best to be a respectable good band, than a big stadium filling ball of shite

Chappy84 

Jul 22, 2009

Bloc Party claimed last year at Leeds Fest they wouldn't be there for a while, 365 days is a while, but not half as long as they implied, in which case I'd take what Kele said with a pinch of salt, however he's right about Oasis.

sam4palace 

Jul 22, 2009

i was there. every band other than bloc party was getting booed when they said it.

AlexTHFC 

Jul 22, 2009

that's it Kele, keep talking about Oasis! Obsessed much?

Ian Wolstencroft 

Jul 22, 2009

Bloc Party, one of the most overated bands around. Its amazing how many people seem to like their tuneless nonsense!!!

king_leigh 

Jul 22, 2009

oasis still channel the spirit of rock n roll more than bloc parthy though to be fair!! saw bloc party at glasto and hats off 2 them they were spot on, but they need 2 know when 2 keep their mouth shut n know when theyre inferior!!

coxy182 

Jul 22, 2009

if it wasnt for silent alarm would anyone even go see bloc party? and stop playing Reading/Leeds please!

simmo26773 

Jul 22, 2009

when bloc party write a decent song they maybe then can slag a band!!!

emperor3d 

Jul 22, 2009

Nobody even likes Bloc Party outside of the UK. But when Oasis come to N. America they continue being bumped up to larger and larger venues. Kele Fail.

Trashy Chick 

Jul 22, 2009

What is Okereke always going on about other bands and always taking the mick out of them he should just get on with his own business and stop moaning!Is it because Bloc Party are so dull? If he doesn't like Oasis that's fine but why does he have to be so sneery he seems to think he is more intellegant than everyone else and Bloc Party and their fans should just look down on everyone else. He really gets on my nerves.Oasis are legendary - Noel Gallagher has more talent in his little finger than he'll ever have! Bloc Party are taking a live break - I hope it's a long one!

underclasshero 

Jul 22, 2009

Bloc Party will never come near Oasis because Bloc Party can't don't want to attract every dad in Britain. Well dads and hooligans, that makes up 99% of Oasis' fan base i'd say.

ba14badboy 

Jul 22, 2009

have you listened to dig out your soul? bloc party only wishes they could make half as good of a album as that, an that is maybe the fourth best oasis album. oasis, live forever!

hness 

Jul 22, 2009

I dont understand the rivalry anyway....what's the beef? Oasis have made a pretty decent record in "dig out yr soul" and "intimacy" was piss poor. Im not an Oasis fan to be honest but Kele needs to sort his band out. They are capable of great things but he is leading them down a very sad path at the moment.

gazhat 

Jul 22, 2009

....the day that this bunch of overated talentless tuneless wankers can hold a candle to even the weakest early Oasis demos tracks is a day we'll never see in the history of time and exsistance...."We're probably not going to see you for a very long time so goodbye London,".....unless its forever Boloc Party then its not long enough you bunch of fucking numptys...

mattwroe180 

Jul 22, 2009

sort of getting sick of this guy, calling neil young a grandad at glasto and instigating boo's for oasis....you want to compare your back catalogue to theirs mate!

allyftd 

Jul 22, 2009

How this kone of a band can justify comments like that is beyond me. When you have written one song which people are likely to remember 10 years down the line then you are worth 1/100th of what Oasis are, which is the undoubted best british band of the last 2 decades!

dreamingidler 

Jul 22, 2009

oasis are premier league and bloc party are sunday league, simple as really...........

roverdom 

Jul 22, 2009

Bloc party making negative comments about oasis?oh dear..

oasissisao 

Jul 22, 2009

Bloc Party are shit, Oasis are the best band in the world. End of story.

LINK2K9 

Jul 22, 2009

Bloc Party are already a pimple on the ass of British music, what's there left for them?

Plumbsj 

Jul 22, 2009

Blur were better

lipgloss 

Jul 22, 2009

Bless him, having a go at Oasis in a room full of Bloc Party fans... will he be there again tonight to have a go in front of the Oasis crowd?!

97mde 

Jul 22, 2009

Ok, so Oasis have been crap since 1997, but Bloc Party have been crap since they formed. Hard to choose between this level of crapness, but Bloc Party are worse.

skimpi 

Jul 23, 2009

errr lipgloss he may not have been there to have a go infront of oasis fans, but looks like that silly twat liam was!

DannyBhoy19 

Jul 23, 2009

Fuck Me every1 calm down Im a Fan of both. Ive heard thet set tonight on XFM Kele actually says only joking. He very foolish nonetheless Bloc Party are nowhere and probably never will be near Oasis and Neil Young.

shoe*gal 

Jul 23, 2009

I think all Kele is guilty of is a bit of foot in mouth. Having met him I can honestly say he's a lovely bloke who is not at all arrogant. He may come across as being a bit up himself at times but I sometimes wonder if articles are written to make him look like that when he doesn't actually mean things the way they are reported. Who knows. All I know is that he was lovely in person and gave up his time to do me a huge favour which I was very grateful for. I may be biased here but I'd rather watch Bloc Party live than see Liam Gallacher prance off the stage in a huff. And I used to be a huge Oasis fan back in the early days.

kingtutt 

Jul 23, 2009

bloc party are a bunch of middle class poseurs playing at being rock stars.They will soon disappear back into obscurity when father gets them a 'proper' job.

Setha 

Jul 24, 2009

i was at the itunes, and it started with all the crowd boo'ing fearne cotten when they kept doing the same tv links, over and over again, so everything they announced the band in this case oasis , who werent even there we booed the hell out of them , eventually they gave up and let bloc party on. Hence why kele said that because he was taking the piss out fo the presenters not oasis, really.But it was hell of a gig !

tree635asda 

Jul 30, 2009

Im not really a fan of Oasis, theyve never really appealed to me, but this does not however cloud my idea of just how much theyve dominated british guitar music over the last two decades. Bloc Party started life with one of my favourite debut albums ever produced but since then seem to have slipped into an over indulgent kele okereke influenced wilderness. Culminating in the production of two other albums struggling to meet the heights of what most people would call ordinary. So until the time that you can influence the lives of even a tenth of those that Oasis have, Kele Okereke the ground you are stood on is wobblier, concievably, than your last two studio albums.

underclasshero 

Aug 3, 2009

At least Bloc Party actually progress and experiment with each new record and don't just stick to the same formula like the Gallagher brothers have done for the past 20 odd years, which is what they've done. Oasis are a very good band, incredibly overrated though.

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