They made their live return to the UK on 30 September 2008 with a special gig in London as part of Q Awards: The Gigs .
The first single ” Never Miss a Beat ” was released on 27 August 2008.
On 4 August 2008, the band confirmed the name of their third album as Off with Their Heads .
” Mercury ” was released as the first single from Bloc Party’s third album in August 2008.
Again produced by Jacknife Lee and Paul Epworth, Intimacy was rush-released later that month, with the album available to download 3 days after an announcement in August 2008.
Later in the month the band played second on the bill at the Reading and Leeds Festivals before headlining the Hydro Connect Music Festival in Argyll , Scotland.
In 2008, the band released a live DVD/CD collection titled The Black Parade Is Dead! , which includes two concerts from October 2007, the final Black Parade concert in Mexico, and a small show at Maxwell’s in New Jersey. The DVD/CD was meant to be released on June 24 in…
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They released their eponymous debut album, Cage the Elephant , on June 23, 2008, in the United Kingdom
The band, with Superchunk , performed another two free concerts for Obama on May 1 in Greensboro, North Carolina , and on May 2 in Carrboro, North Carolina before the state’s May 6 primary.
In May 2008, the band released their first feature-length documentary film titled A Skin, a Night on DVD. The film, directed by filmmaker Vincent Moon, documents the lives of the band surrounding the recording of Boxer and just before a show at the London venue Koko . Along with the…
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