Bloc Occasion have shared their first ever collaborative single – take heed to ‘Maintain It Rolling’ that includes KennyHoopla beneath.
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The brand new observe follows the latest single ‘Excessive Life’ in previewing “thrilling” new music mentioned by Kele Okereke earlier this yr.
“I’ve been a fan of Kenny’s for some time now, so when he got here to London I jumped on the likelihood of getting within the studio collectively,” Okereke stated of ‘Maintain It Rolling’ in an announcement.
“We wrote a bunch of songs in a single afternoon and ‘Maintain It Rolling’ was a kind of concepts. I at all times felt fairly hooked up to that concept so I made a decision I wish to carry it to Bloc Occasion, so we turned it right into a track. It was all very natural.”
KennyHoopla added: “I’ve at all times been an enormous Bloc Occasion fan so this was a bucket listing collab for me. I hardly do any options, so if I do one, it’s at all times for household. I’m blissful to name Kele a good friend and it was wonderful to get to do a track collectively.”
Take heed to ‘Maintain It Rolling’ beneath.
Bloc Occasion are at present on a worldwide tour with pop-punk veterans Paramore. The sequence of dwell dates span throughout North America and the UK.
Throughout a present in London, Okereke joined Hayley Williams and the remainder of Paramore to carry out a canopy of Bloc Occasion‘s ‘Blue Gentle’.
The present, which occurred on the O2 Area on April 23, was Paramore’s final within the UK as a part of their 2023 UK and Eire tour. The present was additionally an extra date on the O2 Area after what was initially meant to be the tour’s final cease in Birmingham on April 22.
Final yr, within the lead as much as the discharge of Paramore’s ‘This Is Why’, Hayley Williams spoke about how Bloc Occasion had influenced the report.
“From day one, Bloc Occasion was the primary reference as a result of there was such an urgency to their sound that was totally different to the quick punk or the pop punk or the like, loud wall of sound emo bands that have been occurring within the early 2000s,” she defined.
“That they had their very own factor and it was so distinctive and so dynamic, and it actually caught with us. And I’m actually actually grateful for this band, I’m so grateful that they’re again, they’re enjoying reveals they’re placing out nice songs, and it simply makes me really feel much more excited to get again out into the world, and perhaps cross paths with the band that has been an enormous a part of our story from day one.”
