Also in 2003 Bloc Party personally mailed Steve Aoki a 7-inch of the track “She’s Hearing Voices” and signed to Dim Mak shortly thereafter.
The band got their break after Okereke went to a Franz Ferdinand concert in 2003, and gave a copy of “She’s Hearing Voices” to both lead singer Alex Kapranos and BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Lamacq .
In the latter part of 2003, the band released their debut single, ” Darts of Pleasure “.
Signing with Regal Recordings, the band released their first single ” Westside ” in February 2002, which was a hit, garnering airplay on BBC Radio 1 and paving the way for another single, ” You Got the Style ” which cracked the Top 40 in June.
At art school, Bird met members of The Rhinestone Horns, a brass ensemble , and recruited Isobel Knowles, Tara Shackell and Gus Franklin – all three originally from Victoria’s Western District – to complete Architecture in Helsinki’s eight-member line-up. In 2002, the group signed with independent record label, Trifekta ,…
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Math the Band was originally the solo project of sixteen-year-old Kevin Steinhauser created in 2002, “doing his own thing” after getting kicked out of other bands he was in during high school for reasons he attributed to him “not being any good” – most notably, Christian pop punk band The…
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Parlophone took notice and promptly signed the musicians, who entered the studio with producer Victor Van Vugt ( Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds , Beth Orton ) in late 2002 to record their first studio LP.
Kindercore Records folded in 2002, shortly after the release of Aldhils Arboretum , and Gonzales and Almstead left the band. Barnes took to writing and performing their 2004 album Satanic Panic in the Attic mostly by themselves. It was released by Polyvinyl Records . In 2005 The Sunlandic Twins was…
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Once the members came together, they settled on the name Franz Ferdinand for their band. The name was originally inspired by a racehorse called Archduke Ferdinand. After seeing the horse win the Northumberland Plate in 2001, the band began to discuss Archduke Franz Ferdinand and thought it would be a…
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The band’s members played in various bands during the 1990s, including The Karelia , Yummy Fur , 10p Invaders, and Embryo. Alex Kapranos and Paul Thomson met at a party and began a close friendship and played together in Yummy Fur, and subsequently teamed up to write songs. Around the…
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