[2007]
Album "A Weekend in the City"

"The words to 'Where is Home?' begin at the funeral of Christopher Alaneme, a black teenager stabbed to death in Kent in April 2006 in a racially motivated attack. Okereke has described him as a "cousin" due to their respective Nigerian mothers being good friends. The track ostracises right-wing newspapers for propounding a hysterical fear of black youths in hoodies, which often leads to opportunities being denied to the Black British community at large"
(en.wikipedia)

"It's to do with the idea of me, as a second generation black person, living in the UK, I don't really feel comfortable, I don't really feel the door of opportunity in this country is open to me. All these articles in the mainstream press - all these images you see of young black kids terrorizing people - are reinforcing the idea of us as The Other."
(Kele Okereke, leader dei Bloc Party)

Christopher... (continua)

[2007]
Album "A Weekend in the City"

Una canzone che Kele Okereke scrisse dopo gli attentati a Londra nel 2005.
Su come i media abbiano alimentato la sofferenza e la paura della gente e su come la paura sia un metodo di controllo delle masse.

Da un'intervista a Kele Okereke apparsa su Billboard:

"The 30 bus in Hackney, which is just around the corner from where I live, was blown up. [That song was] written when I was just observing the reactions of the mainstream press in [the United Kingdom] and I was just amazed at how easy it'd been to whip them up into a fury," he notes. "I guess the point about the song for me is post-September 11th, the media has really traded on fear and the use of fear in controlling people."

[2005]
Album "Silent Alarm"

Una canzone in cui gli autori Kele Okereke e Gordon Moakes esprimono tutto il loro pessimismo dopo la rielezione di Bush alla presidenza degli USA nel 2004:

"He's born a liar, he'll die a liar / Just like his Dad, just like his Dad (the same mistakes)"...

Dall'album di debutto della band, "Silent Alarm" del 2005.