Bloc Party discuss tour with Panic! at the Disco, new album

MTV recently caught up with Bloc Party to discuss their upcoming release A Weekend in the City and the band's short-lived touring experience with Panic! at the Disco.

Bloc Party only lasted three days on tour with Panic! at the Disco, having to drop off after drummer Matt Tong suffered from a collapsed lung. Kele Okereke (vocals) noted it was "definitely an experience" and confessed he'd never heard any of Panic!'s music.

Tong, however, had a different view of the tour:

I couldn't make an accurate summation [about Panic] based on the three-minute conversation I had with the lead singer [Brendon Urie]. But to me,there should always be an inherent difference between playing music and expressing yourself without considering business factors, and the music becoming a means to an end and not being to entertain people or attain some sense of creative self-worth. You know, to be a rung in the ladder ... of a business empire.

The article also mentioned that the majority of A Weekend in the City deals with issues such as "youth being co-opted by corporations, the loss of identity in the modern world, the loneliness of life in a megapolis"

You can read the full article here.