I Just Read About That…

[DID NOT ATTEND: June 4, 2025] Bloc Party / Blonde Redhead /Joan

I was originally excited about this tour because Metric was co-headlining and was going to play Fantasies in its entirety.  They cancelled pretty close to the last minute saying “Bloc Party’s team made some sudden production decisions that broke the agreement we made.”  I have no idea what that means and many people had nasty things to say about Metric online.  But I was glad I hadn’t gotten a ticket.

I never got into Bloc Party, although I feel like I should have.  It wasn’t that I didn’t like them, I just never had the time for them.  When I listened to this record I liked it, but didn’t love it.  So, no big dela to miss out on this one.

Blonde Redhead was a band that I really liked for a while and then forgot about.  I probably should have been more excited about this announcement, although I didn’t realize that they have been making music all this time (an album every few years).  I assumed they had broken up and were back together for this tour.  Turns out they played mostly songs from their latest album, which I didn’t know.  So no big deal.

Come on guys, you can’t call yourselves Joan.  Not because it’s a woman’s name, because it’s impossible to search for.  Even if antimusic calls you “Beloved alt-pop duo joan-Alan Benjamin Thomas and Steven Rutherford.”  But their music is surprisingly big for just the two of them, with a soft vocalist.

Beware, though, unbelievably, there’s another band called simply Joan.

The band playing this show has an album called superglue.