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[kirsten]

I'm not into Bloc Party anyway, but it definitely felt horrible after they'd come back on. Kele was quite smiley but it was annoying. I thought he was more rock n roll than that though!

[A.Pel]

Originally Posted by kirsten

Kele was quite smiley but it was annoying.

I think I saw him smile once!

ps Kirsten were you less than jake girl?

[Dave]

Apparently Liquid passed on their appearance, so the aftershow was at the Retro Rooms instead. Did anyone go? Exodus was heaving.

[daveofficer]

Originally Posted by Dave

Apparently Liquid passed on their appearance, so the aftershow was at the Retro Rooms instead. Did anyone go? Exodus was heaving.

i heard that they were going to give retro rooms a miss because the idiots put out flyers advertising the aftershow for block party. they certainly didn't look in the mood for a party anyway.

[u70jc]

I think Bloc Party were perfectly within their rights to go off stage after having a coin lobbed at them.

If I were them, I don't think I would have come back on stage at all. You've got to give them some credit for being professional and giving the audience another chance to behave.

I thought fields were ok, but they could have done with better sound. I couldn't hear any of the words and couldn't hear the accordion the girl was playing. She may as well not have bothered.

Overall, I thought the gig was good under the circumstances ie. the lead singer being freaked out and thrown off his game because of some coin-happy knob cheese. Whoever it was, I hope you are proud of yourself. You have no right to call yourself a music fan.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by daveofficer

i heard that they were going to give retro rooms a miss because the idiots put out flyers advertising the aftershow for block party. they certainly didn't look in the mood for a party anyway.

I was just on the Bloc Party site to see if there was any mention of last night on their forums, apparently they did go to Retro Rooms after all.

[Chris]

NME.com have reported the story, complete with a link to this thread and a quote from my post earlier:
NME.COM - News - Bloc Party gig halted after crowd incident

Bit strange. I reckon someone at NME.com reads the Drowned In Sound message boards as someone linked to this thread from there earlier on.

[Jan]

I'm still surprised that an Aberdonian threw money at them...

[Rob]

i thought they handled the coin thing really badly. fair enough stopping the song but walking off stage was dumb. the atmosphere of the gig was lost after that.

[Tronaliser]

I'm glad they came back on, if they didn't, it would have been a bit weak. Still better than Placebo, they threatened to 'walk' after someone threw a plastic cup of water onstage. Maybe he was worried his eyeliner would run....