Bloc Party singer/guitarist Kele performed a solo show at Chop Suey on Friday evening. I say solo – he’s got a whole band with him! Kele has released a new album under his first name, called the Boxer. It came out in June and it’s great to see him recording and doing live shows even though Bloc Party is on hiatus. James Bailey caught some beautiful snaps of the show, and I have tons of them on here because I love Kele:
Kele
The Crocodile had the Welsh singer Marina Lambrini Diamandis play their stage the other night. Actually she goes by Marina and the Diamonds – a name that includes herself and her band. She’s appropriately included jewels in the titles of 3 of her 4 releases, including the LP the Family Jewels. Photographer Alex Crick got some photographic gems of her:
Marina and the Diamonds
Does It Offend You, Yeah? have so many awesome songs. I don’t know which one is my favorite, though I lean strongly towards “Let’s Make Out“. The British band played Chop Suey on Thursday with Kele and photographer James Bailey was at the show and took some wonderful shots of them:
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Young the Giant opened for Marina and the Diamonds last Monday. If you missed them you’re in luck – the Californian band will be back in Seattle on September 29th with the Futureheads. I can’t wait to see them, but first we’ve got some foxy pix from last week’s show by Alex Crick:
Young the Giant
Punk rockers from New Jersey, the Gaslight Anthem played Showbox SoDo earlier this week with the Menzingers. The Gaslight Anthem’s latest, American Slang has been a huge hit for them. Here are some of Brittney Bush Bollay’s beautiful pix from the evening:
the Gaslight Anthem
the Menzingers
see more of Brittney’s photos here