Kele Okereke

Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke is to focus on his solo career while the band takes a break, after completing their successful UK tour. Okereke is planning a solo album and is working with Glasgow-based producer Hudson Mohawke. Mohawke told BBC Radio 1xtra: ‘It hasn’t been finalised yet, but I’m doing a bit of stuff for Kele from Bloc Party’s solo album. He’s doing a record with one of the guys from Spank Rock. The producer, who is signed to the famed Warp label, also revealed that he is set to work with Erykah Badu at some point in the future. * Bloc Party’s Kele ... Read Full Story

From this quote producer Hudson Mohawk gave the BBC, it’s hard to say if he’s working on Kele’s solo album with someone from Spank Rock or if they’re two separate projects, but whatever: this is happening . From this quote producer Hudson Mohawk gave the BBC, it's hard to say if he's working on Kele's solo album with someone from Spank Rock or if they're two separate projects, but whatever: this is happening . Read Full Story

Summer is time for all gossip, even in the musical world. Voices of the corridor, reported by ‘NME, said that in the backstage of Summercase Festival in Madrid has unleashed a kind of brawl between the singer of Bloc Party Kele Okereke has been attacked by John Lydon and his entourage. Reason triggering the brawl a racist response that Lydon and his entourage have made the question about a possible meeting of the Public Image Ltd., the other group Lydon’s historic post-Sex Pistol. In the brawl that seems to have entered into defending the singer of Bloc Party also Yannis Philippakis of Foals and ... Read Full Story

Punk legend John Lydon has furiously denied allegations he was involved in a racist attack on Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke. Okereke has alleged he was in a fracas with Sex Pistols singer Read Full Story

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Johnny-Rotten-Allegedly-Injures While I may not approve of one of Lydon's chronies giving Bloc Party's frontman Kele Okereke a hard time about "his black attitude", which taints the whole thing irreparably for me, I'm not sorry it happened because it's easily the best headline I've read all year. That and I hate Bloc Party. Almost as much as I loathe the Kaiser Chiefs. If they'd only gotten Chris Martin thrown in the mix... Read Full Story