“Come on, Tiny D!” Kele Okereke excitedly yelps a couple of minute into Bloc Get together‘s Tiny Desk live performance. The English rock group’s members have been stoked to pay us a go to throughout their current journey throughout the pond — and we have been fortunate to have them. They approached the Tiny Desk problem with ease and delivered a rigorously curated set with smiles and all.
This yr marks 20 years because the launch of Bloc Get together’s enduring debut album. To have fun, this Tiny Desk set begins with the tremendous catchy and energetic pop anthem “Banquet” from Silent Alarm. The band continues with a pair songs from 2008’s Intimacy: the shimmery, glockenspiel-forward “Indicators,” then “Mercury,” the place we give a sneak peek of Okereke’s vocal results rig beneath the Desk. Bloc Get together closes with “Blue,” a candy track on the slower aspect of the band’s catalog. It ends quietly, but powerfully, as Okereke sings, “I go to sleep in your sleeve / with these three phrases in my desires.”
SET LIST
- “Banquet”
- “Indicators”
- “Mercury”
- “Blue”
MUSICIANS
- Kele Okereke: vocals, guitar
- Russell Lissack: guitar
- Harry Deacon: bass, keys, glockenspiel, background vocals
- Louise Bartle: drums, background vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Maia Stern
- Director/Editor: Kara Body
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Kara Body, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant
- Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
- Manufacturing Assistant: Dora Levite
- Photographer: Alanté Serene
- Tiny Desk Crew: Lars Gotrich, Ashley Pointer
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
