Kele Okereke has performed his Bloc Party protest song ‘Kettling’ in response to unrest following the murder of George Floyd.The Bloc Party frontman, whose most recent solo record was last year’s ‘2042’, shared a video of himself playing the song from his home.
The word ‘Kettling’ refers to the police tactic in which officers form large cordons to contain a crowd within a limited area.A post shared by Kele (@kele) on Jun 3, 2020 at 3:14am PDTSome of the lyrics to the song from Bloc Party’s 2012 album, ‘Four’, read: “Po-po don’t fuck around / As their cameras take pictures of us“, and: “Because they can’t stop this / We can feel it in our bones“.Okereke’s performance comes amid a time of global unrest sparked by the killing of George Floyd,.
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