Bloc Party’s Kele is an author now. I’m sure he’s always written, but he’s doing a short story and the group will also be doing a bunch of festival and summer dates as well.

Bloc Party-Signs (Armand Van Helden Remix) [mp3]

KELE WRITES FOR PUNK FICTION

Kele has written his first ever short story for a book which is out this month titled “Punk Fiction’. The book features both musicians and writers who were asked to pen a story inspired by a punk song. Kele chose the song ‘Shoplifting’ by The Slits. He said “The Slits are probably my favorite punk group of all time, and there was a period when shoplifting was one of my favorite activities of all time… So picking ‘Shoplifting’ by The Slits to loosely base my first ever short story on was a bit of a no brainer.”

Punk Fiction is out this month and available from all good bookstores and Amazon. £1 from each copy sold goes to The Teenage Cancer Trust.

April
15 – Palladium, Los Angeles CA
17 – Alameda Poniente, Santa Fe MX
19 – SLO Vets Auditorium, San Luis Obispo CA
20 – Fox Theatre, Oakland CA
21 – Freeborn Hall, Davis CA
22 – Roseland Ballroom, Portland OR
24 – Showbox Theater, Seattle WA
25 – Showbox Theater, Seattle WA
26 – Commodore, Vancouver BC
27 – Commodore, Vancouver BC
29 – Shaw Conference Centre, Edmonton AB
30 – Big Four, Calgary AB

May
02 – Odeon, Saskatoon SK
03 – First Ave, Minneapolis MN (rescheduled)
16 – Studio Coast, Tokyo JP
17 – Liquid Room, Tokyo JP
19 – Diamond Hall, Nagoya JP
20 – Hatch, Osaka JP
22 – Logos, Fukuoka JP

June
01 – La Laiterie, Strasbourg FR
03 – Skive Festival, Denmark
04 – Stadtpark, Hamburg
06 – Rock Am Ring, Germany
07 – Rock Im Park, Germany

July
01 – Coca Cola Soundwave Festival, Athens GR
03 – Rock Werchter 2009, Belgium
04 – Main Square Festival, France
06 – Rock For People, Czech Republic
08 – Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux CH
11 – Oxegen Festival, Ireland
12 – T In The Park, Scotland
15 – Bands Apart, Italy
18 – Melt Festival, Germany

August
21 – Frequency Festival, Austria
29 – Leeds Festival, UK
30 – Reading Festival, UK

October
02 – Empress Ballroom, Blackpool
03 – Picture House, Edinburgh
04 – Iron Works, Inverness
06 – Music Hall, Aberdeen
07 – Alhambra, Dunfermline
08 – City Hall, Hull
10 – Academy, Sheffield
11 – Academy, Leeds
12 – Engine Shed, Lincoln
14 – Victoria Hall, Stoke
15 – Academy, Birmingham
16 – Centre, Newport
18 – Arena, Llandudno
19 – University, Liverpool
20 – Academy, Bristol
22 – Hall for Cornwall, Truro
23 – Pavilion, Plymouth
24 – Centre, Brighton
26 – Cliffs Pavilion, Southend
27 – Corn Exchange, Cambridge
28 – Rock City, Nottingham
30 – Rivermead, Reading
31 – BIC, Bouremouth