Concert Review: Bloc Party Live in Manila and Setlist


Bluest Light: Bloc Party Live in Manila

Never seen myself so pumped up with the entire crowd going nuts while watching Bloc Party play in front of us!

Kele Okereke did a great job on getting the crowd get involve into their upbeat tunes and ‘getting the party started’ (just like what he said).

Besides Kele’s very kind British accent, I was amused by Matt Tong’s pounding on the drums and all his 16 beats murdering my ears with gusto! He did brought the house down with his body building pose antics,  his big white towel and his incredible Hulk attire! LOL!

Russell Lissack’s mastery of guitar delays was superb and Gordon Moakes being a multi instrumentalist with his bass hooks and glockenspiel playing!

Here is the concert set list for Bloc Party live in Manila:

1) So He Begins to Lie 
2) Mercury 
3) Hunting for Witches 
4) Positive Tension 
5) Team A 
6) Waiting for the 7.18 
7) Song for Clay (Disappear Here) 
8) Banquet 
9) Coliseum 
10) Day Four 
11) The Prayer 
12) One More Chance 
13) Octopus 

Encore: 
14) So Here We Are 
15) Ares 
16) This Modern Love 
17) Flux 

Encore 2: 
18) Sunday 
19) Truth 
20) Helicopter

The concert was well attended with a very long line infront of World Trade Center. It started at exactly 8PM with the unbelievable homegrown band Up Dharma Down. I believe they played around 4-5 songs with the highlight of their new album carrier single “Turn It Well. “  It was fun to see Armi Millare dancing and also lovely to hear some haunting vocal effects on top of her already majestic singing. Nice use of technology!

And after a 30 minute break, it’s the main event! Bloc Party started their set by 9:05PM and finished around 10:30PM. A good deal for a 20 song concert considering alt punk songs are relatively short even if they had 2 encores.

The audience went pandemonium when they played their first single and most popular song ‘Banquet ‘. Everyone sang and jumped with excitement!

One of the highlights of the show:  when Kele did a cover of ‘We Found Love’ by Rihanna on the intro of their song ‘Flux.’ I know they are doing this already since last year but it is could have been good if Kele wore the Nirvana smiley face inspired Rihanna Shirt.

I think this is the first time I saw a concert with two encores. Maybe this is their way to have the crowd to be more Bloc Party blood thirsty. Quite a bummer that they don’t play “Pioneers” on this tour and dropped “Like Eating Glass” on their Manila set list but was really happy that they played “This Modern Love.”

 Thank you Bloc Party for signing my CD collection and my new photo wall addition.



Cheers to Warner Music Philippines for bringing Bloc Party in Manila.

I took some pictures of the concert using my jurassic Canon camera.. I was fascinated with the light display and had them in my shots. Enjoy! If you want some high quality band shots, you need to make your fingers work, keyboard warrior. :D
































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