9 August 2008 saw the debut of the video for the single “Kicking and Screaming” on MySpace.
The final show of the tour was on 7 August 2008 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The band performed the opening song, “Message in a Bottle”, with the brass band of the New York Metropolitan Police Corp. Later, they performed ” Sunshine of Your Love ” and…
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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 August played at the Electric Picnic festival.
Six shows which were cancelled during the USA/Canada leg of their world tour due to illnesses affecting Joe Elliott and Phil Collen were rescheduled and played in August of that year.
In August 2008, after a period of rehearsals, the five completed the band’s 40th Anniversary Tour.
While working on their second studio album, they released a collection of remixed SMD originals entitled Sample and Hold , which contains eleven tracks and was released in the UK on 28 July 2008.