I Found ‘Em!

A few Bloc Party tracks from the Electric Proms…

This is simply a continuation of yesterday’s post and so I’m going to keep it short.

If you actually read what I wrote yesterday, you’ll remember that I said I was having trouble finding some of the BBC Electric Proms performances on Youtube. Well, as it soon turned out, To Die By Your Side had gone one better and already posted five MP3s from the fantastic Bloc Party concert for us to download. I just thought, in case you’ve not already been over there, that it might be wise to get downloading before they disappear.

Of course, I myself wasn’t completely happy with just having 5, mainly because my favourite track from the performance, Song For Clay (Disappear Here), was missing from the set. So, I set myself the task this morning of ripping all 13 tracks, making up my own ‘BBC Electric Proms’ album. The BBC website told me that there were 14 songs played – the 14th being Kreuzberg – but try as I might, I just couldn’t seem to find that last track. Anyway, apart from that, I’ve now got a complete set and can post below two additional picks from Bloc Party’s set for you to listen to.

First of all, there’s the epic performance of Song For Clay (Disappear Here), followed shortly by a live version of Flux, Bloc Party’s new single due out in November. Flux, as I’m sure you’re aware, is a very different style to Bloc Party’s first two albums and it should be interesting to find out whether their entire third album is going to be like this or whether its just an experiment. Whatever it is, if you’ve already got the much-circulated radio rip you will notice that the live version sounds very different to the original. See what you think.

Song for Clay (Live at the BBC Electric Proms) – Bloc Party (Feat. The Exmoor Singers)

Flux (Live at the BBC Electric Proms) – Bloc Party