Bloc Party UK tour

South London art-punkers Bloc Party have announced details of a UK tour for the New Year.

The dates will take place around the release of the band's second album, A Weekend In The City.

The shows, which include three nights at the London Astoria, are at:

Southampton Guildhall (January 27)
Norwich UEA (28)
London Astoria (Jan 31, Feb 1, Feb 2)
Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall (3)
Reading Hexagon (5)
Cardiff University (6)
Bristol Carling Academy (7)
Exeter University Great Hall (9)
Birmingham Carling Academy (10)
Nottingham Rock City (11)
Cambridge Corn Exchange (13)
Manchester Academy (14)
Dublin Ambassador (16)
Glasgow Barrowlands (17)
Aberdeen Music Hall (18)
Edinburgh Corn Exchange (20)
Newcastle Carling Academy (21)
Sheffield Octagon (22)

Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday, October 27.

A Weekend in The City is inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls "the living noise of a metropolis." On Weekend, the band captures every detail from ebullient to the mundane – of daily life in a modern city, and the quiet desolation that suffuses everything from commuting to casual sex, from going out on a Friday night to the long ride home in the early hours of the morning. These are songs desperate to understand the meaning that pulses under the moments of our everyday: there are bursting with tension, paranoia, sadness, love and an intense need for reason as to how city life has become so displacing.

The track listing for A Weekend in the City is…

1. Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
2. Hunting For Witches
3. Waiting For the 7.18
4. The Prayer
5. Uniform
6. On
7. Where Is Home?
8. Kreuzberg
9. I Still Remember
10. Sunday
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