nicely played! i’m actually pretty stoked for the tour, being a fan of all three bands…but the venue choices are so damn big. at the very least, it’ll be interesting to see what panic does to top the summer tour they just finished.
That loud popping noise that many of you just heard was my head exploding upon reading that article and the above comment. It’s just sad that anybody going to see Bloc Party won’t be able to enjoy it after wading through a sea of 12 year old girls talking on their cell phones….sigh.
Scott, you sure do find innovative ways to post about your favorite band!. How’d you get the MTV News people to allow you to post a story like that? It’s not even April.
Pardon me while I go pour Jack Daniels in my eyes.
Man… that’s similar to when I saw Boy Least Likely To opening for James Blunt. I didn’t get out fast enough before Blunt started… Still. Not. Recovered.
godspeed you! black emperor = good band with ! in their name. to a lesser extent, !!!. please construe none of this as support for panic! at the disco.
i think the piece of news is pretty legit. this is yet another proof of the decline of the music industry. oh bloc party, what have you done? you know you can do much much much better than be merely an opening act for p!atd.
Oh whatever. This is great for Bloc Party, who’ll be able to play in front of a whole new (and larger) audience. Sure Panic is awful, but at least they’re bringing a band on tour that their fan base might not be familiar with. The only travesty is for the dorkish hipsters who won’t feel comfortable carrying BP on their ipods anymore now that 14 year old girls might potentially enjoy the same album.
“Great. Another great band that will be runined by a bunch of twelve year olds. Is nothing sacred????”
(Not supporting PATD or anything other than the rights of 12-year-olds…)
But Sadness, tell me what you were listening to at 12, please. I am one of the snobbiest motherfuckers alive, and I’ll gladly tell you I listened to total shit until I was at least 17.
God bless the children if they can have a musical “awakening” through Bloc Party at 12. I sure wish I had.
“Great. Another great band that will be runined by a bunch of twelve year olds. Is nothing sacred????”
Sadness, do you mean to argue that in some way the music that Bloc Party has created will change because a certain demographic now listens to it? A music’s audience has nothing to do with it’s quality. Stop being such a snob. If you really loved the music you should want as many people as possible to share that experience, however, it’s obvious that you care much more for being “the music person” and whatnot. Get a life.
this reminds me of when soundgarden opened up for skid row. I and my bandmates at the time were the only ones who left before ol’ sebastian got on stage. and yes, currently worshipping mew.
That makes no sense whatsoever. I might understand if it was the other way around, but…just…weird.
And anyway, what does a bunch of twelve-year-olds’ taste in music have to do with yours? Forgive them for not knowing or being interested in your fancy little indie bands yet. It’s not their fault that they’re often not exposed to music of substance nowadays…sheesh.
at least bands like that have paid their dues and if they become hugely successfuly soon, it would be well-deserved — unlike p!atd.
i’m all for bloc party’s intent to find a larger audience and appeal more to the masses, but really they should really know better than be an opening act for that band.
next up! interpol opens for dashboard confessional. i can see it now.
at least bands like that have paid their dues and if they become hugely successfuly soon, it would be well-deserved — unlike p!atd.
i’m all for bloc party’s intent to find a larger audience and appeal more to the masses, but really they should really know better than be an opening act for (gulp!) a one-year-old band like panic!
next up! interpol opens for dashboard confessional. i can see it now.
What saddens me is that the majority of P!ATD’s audience is going to dismiss Bloc Party as some crappy band that is opening for their favorite group. Oh, what shame.
Oh dear god…I cannot fathom what kind of cosmic mishaps had to take place for this to happen. They aren’t even similar. I could understand if it was Fall Out Boy or The Bravery or at least something VAGUELY similar in style. It’s like Bob Dylan opening for Mase.
I like how Placebo is opening up for She Wants Revenge. This would never happen in Europe. Or at least, I hope it wouldn’t. The only good that would come of this show is to be able to hear “Spite & Malice” live.
Scott, you ruined my day. When I originally saw that listing I thought, “What a weird choice to have Panic at the Disco opening for Bloc Party,” and now to know they are reversed makes me want to cry.
And as to the 12-year-olds — I don’t care what they like in private, but I don’t want to have to hang out at a show while they pretend to act grown-up and ignore whatever parent is standing next to them. It just detracts from the experience.
thats the! worst news! i heard in a! while.
bloc! party is so orignal! and! great.
panic! at the disco is so so effin! lame.
bloc party! agreed to those terms?
i am so p.oe.d.
that news just made me want to pour gasoline all over my body and light a match.
actually. i might just stick my hand in the oven since its up an running. let me take my mind off this horrid news even its just for a split second.
but its true, maybe it will be the day of musical enlightenment for those 12 year olds and the other musically challenged people out there.
seriously, when I was 12 I was listening to the radio, But at least it was relatively interesting in the 80s still. Madonna, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, the GoGos, Boy George, Rick James, Prince, U2… 12 year olds today don’t get much in the way of good music. It will suck that the indie kids won’t want to pay $40 to see them like I didn’t want to pay $40 to see Radiohead open for Alanis Morisette back in like 1994 or so after seeing them for $10 at my college. But, it’s probably an amazing opportunity for Bloc Party to reach a ton of fans who would normally not get to hear them for a while.
to be brutally honest…no 12 year old is gonna give a shit about bloc party when OMGP!ATD IS PLAYING IN THIRTY MINUUUUUUTESSSSS i can hear it now
“omg…did he just say ‘he doesn’t like chocolate’ what kind of lyrics are those…this band sucks”
don’t kid yourself into any kind of musical awakening of the children. If they’ve already latched onto the scene that includes panic! at the disco, hearing bloc party won’t change their course into liking music that has meaning and drive and is more concerned about the music and less concerned with what cirque du soleil troop to hire for their video or what shade of pale looks better on their face. people have to grow out of trends, not shocked out of them.
that said, when i was 12….i listened to green day, everclear, blues traveler, third eye blind, counting crows, the wallflowers and metallica, limp bizkit followed very soon afterward…it was just the mtv fare at the time, and i bought into it like anyother 12 year old without a cooler older brother in any other generation
i mean wtf is that…ok computer, homogenic, either/or and countless other albums i now own and love came out in 1997….and at the time i’m listening to BIG WILLIE STYLE AND MARCY PLAYGROUND??!?
and there was someone saying the same things im typing now about these kids back then, cept it was about me and more likely in a record store, not on a blog
“The only travesty is for the dorkish hipsters who won’t feel comfortable carrying BP on their ipods anymore now that 14 year old girls might potentially enjoy the same album.”
“i mean wtf is that…ok computer, homogenic, either/or and countless other albums i now own and love came out in 1997….and at the time i’m listening to BIG WILLIE STYLE AND MARCY PLAYGROUND??!?”
I’m not denying OK Computer and Homogenic but, DUDE!, Big Willie Style (are you kidding me?!!) was a MOTHERFCKING CLASSIC record along with the three you mentioned, and those bands you listened to when you were 12 (minus Metallica and Limp Bizkit) at least didn’t suck as much as PATD, neither did that Canadian they called Alanis.
It seems like a great idea that kids will be opened up to Bloc Party through this tour, but the truth is that if kids really cared about listening to good music with substance, they would find it themselves or make more effort. Plus if I remember correctly Bloc Party was pushed a lot on mtv, they were even a “you hear it first” band. I dunno, when I see frat boys at school listening to Bloc Party I’m pretty sure that a 15 year old who watches substantially more tv and is more concerned with being hip would’ve caught on by now. I think new music is shared between people. When i saw my little brother listening to shitty music I gradually showed him new stuff and he learned to form his own opinions of good music and to appreciate bands that worked harder. Honestly it really does piss me off that a band of the luckiest bastards with the least amount of talent gets a deal through another horrible band, would be so bold as to “throw a bone” to a group that musically kicks their ass. So hey let Bloc Party upstage them and maybe some of the older crowd that has the guts to brave the tweens can not look down on kids for once but try to hype up a good band to them and maybe influence them.
It’s just like whitney said, ” i believe the children are the future.”
Considering Panic! is all over mtv right now it makes sense that Bloc Party is opening for them. Bloc party was never that big here in the US at least.
Is Bloc Party really that different, though? It’s not like they’re Merzbow or anything. They are a solid band that’s not exactly reinventing the wheel. And they are on a major-label affiliate, for Pete’s sake. I think it’s a good opportunity for them, and I’d take it in a heartbeat.
on the exclamation point tip: Volcano, I’m Still Excited!!
…killer band.
If Bloc Party’s getting paid better than they would on their own tour, I guess I can’t blame them. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t go to the show as I’m certain the ticket cost will be more than I’m willing to pay.
I love Panic! At The Disco. I haven’t even heard of the Bloc Party until now. I guess the Bloc Party is not even all that famous here in the U.S. That’s proably why they are opening for Panic! I don’t care what anybody said, Panic! is one of the best band ever.
The common link between Bloc Party and P!ATD is that they both musically compose songs the way Duran Duran did in the 80’s. For more than 20 years Duran Duran have been the most creative, innovative, and unique bands that has ever existed. Numerous bands tried to emulate their sound and style and were absolutely atrocious, ultimately ending the new wave, space rock, progressive rock era and brought in the awful
hair metal and then grunge.
I had not bought any records for over a decade until Franz Ferdinand’s debut album. The majority of this new alt rock, space rock, emo, whatever you kids like to classify it as is hugely influenced by DD. I was 12 when DD toured in 1984, and that was the best concert experience I had until I saw the reunited DD in 2004. DD’s main criticism was that the screaming 12 year olds were so loud that it took away from their amazing sound. They wore make-up, wrote the catchiest songs that rocked hard, had the best visual and lighting effects, and created the best videos, ultimately creating much more than a collection of good songs. It is great for music that these talented kids are making it to the mainstream. I doubt that you’ll be disappointed by their concert.
I badly want to see Bloc Party live but I don’t like Panic at the Disco. I would have to drive three hours to get to the arena where they are playing in November. Does anyone know if Bloc will be playing long enough to make this worthwhile?
nicely played! i’m actually pretty stoked for the tour, being a fan of all three bands…but the venue choices are so damn big. at the very least, it’ll be interesting to see what panic does to top the summer tour they just finished.
Hehe, oh MTV News!
i second your OMG WTF?! luckily, indie-darling PATD is set to release their highly anticipated sophomore record in early 2007 |:
can anyone say upstage?
That loud popping noise that many of you just heard was my head exploding upon reading that article and the above comment. It’s just sad that anybody going to see Bloc Party won’t be able to enjoy it after wading through a sea of 12 year old girls talking on their cell phones….sigh.
bloc party could upstage a burning bag of shit live.
Scott, you sure do find innovative ways to post about your favorite band!. How’d you get the MTV News people to allow you to post a story like that? It’s not even April.
Pardon me while I go pour Jack Daniels in my eyes.
And this will change the demographic of a Bloc Party how, exactly?
Man… that’s similar to when I saw Boy Least Likely To opening for James Blunt. I didn’t get out fast enough before Blunt started… Still. Not. Recovered.
My thoughts exact. And: The Boy Least Likely To opened for James Blunt? Even those words makes me want to cry.
I hate Panic! at the Disco. Who puts a damn exclaimation point in their band name? Douches.
I think my soul just died a little bit. Sigh.
It’s like when Maximo Park opened for The Bravery.
“I hate Panic! at the Disco. Who puts a damn exclaimation point in their band name? Douches.”
The Go! Team, who I love. Just remember, at one point Hendrix opened for the Monkees.
Oh wait they didn’t have cell phones back then. Oh well, guess I’ll retire to the Dying Souls club as well.
Limassol, you are so right. That was a travesty. I also saw Ash open for The Bravery…horrible.
sad day for america
IT HAS BEGUUUUNNNNNNN!
godspeed you! black emperor = good band with ! in their name. to a lesser extent, !!!. please construe none of this as support for panic! at the disco.
wtf
I will not believe this till MySpaces and band websties tell me so.
i think the piece of news is pretty legit. this is yet another proof of the decline of the music industry. oh bloc party, what have you done? you know you can do much much much better than be merely an opening act for p!atd.
Oh whatever. This is great for Bloc Party, who’ll be able to play in front of a whole new (and larger) audience. Sure Panic is awful, but at least they’re bringing a band on tour that their fan base might not be familiar with. The only travesty is for the dorkish hipsters who won’t feel comfortable carrying BP on their ipods anymore now that 14 year old girls might potentially enjoy the same album.
Great. Another great band that will be runined by a bunch of twelve year olds. Is nothing sacred????
“Great. Another great band that will be runined by a bunch of twelve year olds. Is nothing sacred????”
(Not supporting PATD or anything other than the rights of 12-year-olds…)
But Sadness, tell me what you were listening to at 12, please. I am one of the snobbiest motherfuckers alive, and I’ll gladly tell you I listened to total shit until I was at least 17.
God bless the children if they can have a musical “awakening” through Bloc Party at 12. I sure wish I had.
“Great. Another great band that will be runined by a bunch of twelve year olds. Is nothing sacred????”
Sadness, do you mean to argue that in some way the music that Bloc Party has created will change because a certain demographic now listens to it? A music’s audience has nothing to do with it’s quality. Stop being such a snob. If you really loved the music you should want as many people as possible to share that experience, however, it’s obvious that you care much more for being “the music person” and whatnot. Get a life.
Panic At The Disco are so original and great. They even wear eye makeup!!!!!
Everyone start worshipping Mew now.
Sounds fine to me – can watch Bloc Party early and have the rest of the night to do something else.
I hope that riots break out when Bloc Party’s sets run a little long. Scratch that, I hope that there is Panic!
Question: How long before Jesus Christ opens for Fallout Boy?
I just think it’s really lame that it’s an arena tour.
I enjoy Bloc Party and have seen them twice, and would have liked to have seen them again. But an arena show opening for Panic! at the Disco?
No way. It’ll probably be $40+ anyway. And Ticketmastered.
WTF is right. these two bands don’t mix at all, and if they are going to play together, it should be Panic! opening for Bloc Party.
This is almost as bad as when Black Eyed Peas opened for the Rolling Stones a couple years ago.
this reminds me of when soundgarden opened up for skid row. I and my bandmates at the time were the only ones who left before ol’ sebastian got on stage. and yes, currently worshipping mew.
Even BIGGER news:
Opener announced for Of Montreal:
But, Block party, Panic??? I mean, who really cares, both bands suck.
That makes no sense whatsoever. I might understand if it was the other way around, but…just…weird.
And anyway, what does a bunch of twelve-year-olds’ taste in music have to do with yours? Forgive them for not knowing or being interested in your fancy little indie bands yet. It’s not their fault that they’re often not exposed to music of substance nowadays…sheesh.
but i do like mew!
at least bands like that have paid their dues and if they become hugely successfuly soon, it would be well-deserved — unlike p!atd.
i’m all for bloc party’s intent to find a larger audience and appeal more to the masses, but really they should really know better than be an opening act for that band.
next up! interpol opens for dashboard confessional. i can see it now.
but i do like mew!
at least bands like that have paid their dues and if they become hugely successfuly soon, it would be well-deserved — unlike p!atd.
i’m all for bloc party’s intent to find a larger audience and appeal more to the masses, but really they should really know better than be an opening act for (gulp!) a one-year-old band like panic!
next up! interpol opens for dashboard confessional. i can see it now.
obvs., God hates me and wants to see me suffer.
What saddens me is that the majority of P!ATD’s audience is going to dismiss Bloc Party as some crappy band that is opening for their favorite group. Oh, what shame.
Oh dear god…I cannot fathom what kind of cosmic mishaps had to take place for this to happen. They aren’t even similar. I could understand if it was Fall Out Boy or The Bravery or at least something VAGUELY similar in style. It’s like Bob Dylan opening for Mase.
I like how Placebo is opening up for She Wants Revenge. This would never happen in Europe. Or at least, I hope it wouldn’t. The only good that would come of this show is to be able to hear “Spite & Malice” live.
Scott, you ruined my day. When I originally saw that listing I thought, “What a weird choice to have Panic at the Disco opening for Bloc Party,” and now to know they are reversed makes me want to cry.
And as to the 12-year-olds — I don’t care what they like in private, but I don’t want to have to hang out at a show while they pretend to act grown-up and ignore whatever parent is standing next to them. It just detracts from the experience.
thats the! worst news! i heard in a! while.
bloc! party is so orignal! and! great.
panic! at the disco is so so effin! lame.
bloc party! agreed to those terms?
i am so p.oe.d.
insert: random excilmation marks(!)
that news just made me want to pour gasoline all over my body and light a match.
actually. i might just stick my hand in the oven since its up an running. let me take my mind off this horrid news even its just for a split second.
but its true, maybe it will be the day of musical enlightenment for those 12 year olds and the other musically challenged people out there.
seriously, when I was 12 I was listening to the radio, But at least it was relatively interesting in the 80s still. Madonna, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, the GoGos, Boy George, Rick James, Prince, U2… 12 year olds today don’t get much in the way of good music. It will suck that the indie kids won’t want to pay $40 to see them like I didn’t want to pay $40 to see Radiohead open for Alanis Morisette back in like 1994 or so after seeing them for $10 at my college. But, it’s probably an amazing opportunity for Bloc Party to reach a ton of fans who would normally not get to hear them for a while.
i could write a paragraph, but i’ll just say yowza.
to be brutally honest…no 12 year old is gonna give a shit about bloc party when OMGP!ATD IS PLAYING IN THIRTY MINUUUUUUTESSSSS i can hear it now
“omg…did he just say ‘he doesn’t like chocolate’ what kind of lyrics are those…this band sucks”
don’t kid yourself into any kind of musical awakening of the children. If they’ve already latched onto the scene that includes panic! at the disco, hearing bloc party won’t change their course into liking music that has meaning and drive and is more concerned about the music and less concerned with what cirque du soleil troop to hire for their video or what shade of pale looks better on their face. people have to grow out of trends, not shocked out of them.
that said, when i was 12….i listened to green day, everclear, blues traveler, third eye blind, counting crows, the wallflowers and metallica, limp bizkit followed very soon afterward…it was just the mtv fare at the time, and i bought into it like anyother 12 year old without a cooler older brother in any other generation
i mean wtf is that…ok computer, homogenic, either/or and countless other albums i now own and love came out in 1997….and at the time i’m listening to BIG WILLIE STYLE AND MARCY PLAYGROUND??!?
and there was someone saying the same things im typing now about these kids back then, cept it was about me and more likely in a record store, not on a blog
look how far we’ve all come kids
“The only travesty is for the dorkish hipsters who won’t feel comfortable carrying BP on their ipods anymore now that 14 year old girls might potentially enjoy the same album.”
Best quote on here. Just wonderful.
omg wtf is right. Im so pissed I could kill a kitten.
zOMG
maybe ill just got for bloc party.
“i mean wtf is that…ok computer, homogenic, either/or and countless other albums i now own and love came out in 1997….and at the time i’m listening to BIG WILLIE STYLE AND MARCY PLAYGROUND??!?”
I’m not denying OK Computer and Homogenic but, DUDE!, Big Willie Style (are you kidding me?!!) was a MOTHERFCKING CLASSIC record along with the three you mentioned, and those bands you listened to when you were 12 (minus Metallica and Limp Bizkit) at least didn’t suck as much as PATD, neither did that Canadian they called Alanis.
yeah!this is gonna be great, i want all of bloc party fans to come over the show and then come home before panic! at the disco play….
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
We were all once 12 years old.
It seems like a great idea that kids will be opened up to Bloc Party through this tour, but the truth is that if kids really cared about listening to good music with substance, they would find it themselves or make more effort. Plus if I remember correctly Bloc Party was pushed a lot on mtv, they were even a “you hear it first” band. I dunno, when I see frat boys at school listening to Bloc Party I’m pretty sure that a 15 year old who watches substantially more tv and is more concerned with being hip would’ve caught on by now. I think new music is shared between people. When i saw my little brother listening to shitty music I gradually showed him new stuff and he learned to form his own opinions of good music and to appreciate bands that worked harder. Honestly it really does piss me off that a band of the luckiest bastards with the least amount of talent gets a deal through another horrible band, would be so bold as to “throw a bone” to a group that musically kicks their ass. So hey let Bloc Party upstage them and maybe some of the older crowd that has the guts to brave the tweens can not look down on kids for once but try to hype up a good band to them and maybe influence them.
It’s just like whitney said, ” i believe the children are the future.”
Considering Panic! is all over mtv right now it makes sense that Bloc Party is opening for them. Bloc party was never that big here in the US at least.
“I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.”
Hahahaha…
But have you seen my records? Joy Division, Lower 48, (hipster looks over shoulder and whips ‘Banquet EP’ out the window) the Association, Sun Ra…
david. That was very funny…
Is Bloc Party really that different, though? It’s not like they’re Merzbow or anything. They are a solid band that’s not exactly reinventing the wheel. And they are on a major-label affiliate, for Pete’s sake. I think it’s a good opportunity for them, and I’d take it in a heartbeat.
alternately, it could introduce a bunch of jaded, pompous, vice-brainwashed snobs to the concept of a fun pop band. doubtful, but maybe.
That’s about all you can say… OMG, WTF?
i guess “two more years” wasn’t really prophetic enough.
on the exclamation point tip: Volcano, I’m Still Excited!!
…killer band.
If Bloc Party’s getting paid better than they would on their own tour, I guess I can’t blame them. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t go to the show as I’m certain the ticket cost will be more than I’m willing to pay.
I love Panic! At The Disco. I haven’t even heard of the Bloc Party until now. I guess the Bloc Party is not even all that famous here in the U.S. That’s proably why they are opening for Panic! I don’t care what anybody said, Panic! is one of the best band ever.
Tyesha’s comment was a joke, right? Please tell me that was a joke.
The common link between Bloc Party and P!ATD is that they both musically compose songs the way Duran Duran did in the 80’s. For more than 20 years Duran Duran have been the most creative, innovative, and unique bands that has ever existed. Numerous bands tried to emulate their sound and style and were absolutely atrocious, ultimately ending the new wave, space rock, progressive rock era and brought in the awful
hair metal and then grunge.
I had not bought any records for over a decade until Franz Ferdinand’s debut album. The majority of this new alt rock, space rock, emo, whatever you kids like to classify it as is hugely influenced by DD. I was 12 when DD toured in 1984, and that was the best concert experience I had until I saw the reunited DD in 2004. DD’s main criticism was that the screaming 12 year olds were so loud that it took away from their amazing sound. They wore make-up, wrote the catchiest songs that rocked hard, had the best visual and lighting effects, and created the best videos, ultimately creating much more than a collection of good songs. It is great for music that these talented kids are making it to the mainstream. I doubt that you’ll be disappointed by their concert.
I badly want to see Bloc Party live but I don’t like Panic at the Disco. I would have to drive three hours to get to the arena where they are playing in November. Does anyone know if Bloc will be playing long enough to make this worthwhile?