"Kele" - solo project of Kele Okereke from Bloc Party

stephen112

KELE announces four-date Irish tour – May 2010

In advance of his forthcoming solo album, Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke today announces a series of Irish dates in May. With the band on hiatus, fans will get a special exclusive preview of Kele’s new material in a series of intimate dates

Full tour dates are:

Friday 14th May – Dolan’s Warehouse, Limerick
Saturday 15th May – Cyprus Avenue, Cork
Sunday 16th May – The Academy, Dublin
Monday 17th May – Spring & Airbrake, Belfast

Tickets go on sale Wednesday 31st March from Ticketmaster and local outlets – check venue websites for full details.


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glanman

stephen112 wrote: »

KELE announces four-date Irish tour – May 2010

In advance of his forthcoming solo album, Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke today announces a series of Irish dates in May. With the band on hiatus, fans will get a special exclusive preview of Kele’s new material in a series of intimate dates

Full tour dates are:

Friday 14th May – Dolan’s Warehouse, Limerick
Saturday 15th May – Cyprus Avenue, Cork
Sunday 16th May – The Academy, Dublin
Monday 17th May – Spring & Airbrake, Belfast

Tickets go on sale Wednesday 31st March from Ticketmaster and local outlets – check venue websites for full details.


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very interesting... any links to some tunes, cant seem to find any myspace etc for him...

skeleton_boy

Very excited about this. Will probably hit the Dolans show.

JohnnyChimpo

glanman wrote: »

very interesting... any links to some tunes, cant seem to find any myspace etc for him...

http://www.myspace.com/keleokerekedotnet

glanman

thanks but doesn't seem to be any music on it. Mercury is a bloc party song

stephen112

Some more details on the new album:



Kele
The Boxer
Album
June 21st
Wichita / Polydor

Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke is set to release his first solo album called The Boxer. Released through Wichita / Polydor on June 21st it sees the enigmatic frontman push the boundaries of pop and electronica to boldly step out as a genuinely thrilling artist in his own right.

With Bloc Party currently in hiatus, Kele had originally intended to walk away from music for a year. He began his sabbatical at the gym, learning to kick-box and settling into the flat he had just bought, something he refers to as ‘the first grown up thing I had ever done.’

He simply could not leave his creative impulses alone and booked some exploratory time in the EMI recording studios. ‘It was just me and an engineer. I plugged in synths that I had no idea what they would do. I began programming drum beats, which I had never done before. It was completely back to the drawing board. It was exciting and terrifying. In most cases I sat down, pulled a drum beat out of nowhere and arranged stuff around that. This was as exciting to me as the first time I picked up a guitar.’

He found being the sole decision maker around his musical direction surprisingly to his taste. ‘The key for the sound of the record was to take things as harsh and as physical as I could make it. The reason for going there was that these are the sounds that make me the happiest in the world.’ By the time he had written the freeform, cascading techno meltdown that constituted the second half of the song Rise, he had an emotional blueprint for what would become this, his first solo record, The Boxer.

Kele found his natural ally recording in New York with XXXchange, the Brooklyn-based bedroom production prodigy that crafted the sound of the last Spank Rock record. Melting the distinctions between dance music and cerebral pop, with influences ranging from Gary Numan and Adam Ant to Michael Jackson, they’ve made a wild and fearless album marked by both its ambition and its sense of the new.

First single to be taken from the album is Tenderoni and will be released on June 14th.

Kele is confirmed to appear at a number of major festivals this summer, including Reading / Leeds, the Manchester Warehouse Project Festival and Ibiza Rocks. More festival appearances and headline club shows to be announced.

Details of all live dates are available from Kele's website www.iamkele.com

THE BOXER: TRACKLISTING


WALK TALL
ON THE LAM
TENDERONI
THE OTHER SIDE
EVERYTHING YOU WANTED
NEW RULES
UNHOLY THOUGHTS
RISE
ALL THE THINGS I COULD NEVER SAY
YESTERDAY'S GONE

Tickets for all Irish shows at www.ticketmaster.ie

feargswalsh69

i dont know if the loss of the guitar gamble will pay off from listening to tenderoni.....its sure to attract a different fan base anyway

stephen112

New song up on the myspace now:

www.myspace.com/iamkele

Clemon

feargswalsh69 wrote: »

i dont know if the loss of the guitar gamble will pay off from listening to tenderoni.....its sure to attract a different fan base anyway

TOTALLY agree with feargs here. The diffrent fan base is a fact and the guitar gamble is quite apparant

Frisbee

He's scheduled to go at 7 in The Academy according to ticketmaster, was hoping to go but I'm in work till ten.

Seven seems very early for him to start no?

RebelRockChick

Frisbee wrote: »

He's scheduled to go at 7 in The Academy according to ticketmaster, was hoping to go but I'm in work till ten.

Seven seems very early for him to start no?

That does seem very early, something to do with it being on a Sunday possibly . Down as 8 for all the gigs listed on his myspace (even though it has doors 8.30 on the tickets for the Cork gig tomorrow night). Even if doors open at 7, he probably wouldn't be on til 8ish as he has a support act.


Two more new songs added to his myspace as well for anyone interested

Sabre0001

Great gig in Dolans! Music is cool and he is quite the front man...

ciarraioch1

Good review and photos of the gig here

Fair play to Kele for buying a shot of Jager for everyone in the audience!

I was worried about how well his sound would translate in a live setting, but he was great!
The bloc party medley and flux as the encore were nice additions; particularly for people who came just to see 'that guy from bloc party'.

RebelRockChick

ciarraioch1 wrote: »

Good review and photos of the gig here

Fair play to Kele for buying a shot of Jager for everyone in the audience!

I was worried about how well his sound would translate in a live setting, but he was great!
The bloc party medley and flux as the encore were nice additions; particularly for people who came just to see 'that guy from bloc party'.

Nice review! He bought everyone Jager?! Class! None of that in Cork.

Unreal gig! Same setlist as the link above except we didn't get Flux. For the encore he played Your Visits and All The Things. He's such a great performer, really got the crowd into it. Looking forward to hearing the album in full, but for now gotta wait for the ears to stop ringing

Whippersnapper

Has anyone given the album a spin yet? I have it but yet to listen to it.

Frisbee

I'm really liking it so far.

stephen112

He was great at Oxegen, started off to an empty tent (because Black Eyed Peas were on) but totally filled it up

Just Like Heaven

stephen112 wrote: »

He was great at Oxegen, started off to an empty tent (because Black Eyed Peas were on) but totally filled it up

He was awesome, pretty much the only reason i went to oxegen. Loved it and the album is just brilliant his band are so professional and he's a strong frontman. It was wonderful.