first gig following the release of A Weekend in the City

The band’s first gig following the release of A Weekend in the City was on 5 February 2007, in Reading , and was broadcast live on BBC 6 Music . On 20 May 2007, Bloc Party headlined on the In New Music We Trust stage at the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend in Preston . They also performed at the UK leg of Live Earth on 7 July 2007 at Wembley Stadium . Furthermore, the band played sets at T in the Park and Oxegen 07 that same weekend, as well as Glastonbury and the Reading and Leeds Festivals later in 2007. Bloc Party announced a tour of Australia and New Zealand in August 2007, which would include a special appearance at the Splendour in the Grass Festival on 5 August. On 17 September 2007, they recorded a set for the PBS show Austin City Limits a day after playing at the Austin City Limits Music Festival . On 27 October, the band performed a set at London’s The Roundhouse with the Exmoor Singers , a London-based choir, as part of the BBC Electric Proms . The set included songs from both Silent Alarm and A Weekend in the City along with the first British live performance of “Flux”.