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" Updated: Bloc Party have since denied that Kele Okereke has left the band. Read Digital Spy&amp;#039;s full report here. Bloc Party have confirmed plans to record a new album without singer Kele Okereke. The band insisted that there are no &amp;quot;bad vibes&amp;quot; between themselves and Okereke, but they plan to hold auditions for a new frontman.   The news follows Okereke&amp;#039;s admission that he had spotted his fellow Bloc Party members outside a rehearsal studio in New York without him last month. Guitarist Russell Lissack told NME: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not really a secret because Kele&amp;#039;s been pretty busy doing solo stuff and it looks like he&amp;#039;s going to be doing that a bit longer.  &amp;quot;The other three of us wanted to meet up and make music. We were talking about just doing an instrumental thing, but now we might get a singer as well, to properly put some music out and play some shows.&amp;quot; Lissack reiterated that there was no bad blood between the group and Okereke, but confirmed the singer&amp;#039;s previous claims that they haven&amp;#039;t spoken for a few months. He concluded: &amp;quot;I haven&amp;#039;t spoken to Kele for a couple of months, I guess since the festivals when I was doing stuff with Ash. But there&amp;#039;s no bad vibes.&amp;quot; Meanwhile, Okereke recently debuted his new solo single &amp;#039;What Did I Do&amp;#039;, which features Lucy Taylor and will be released on November 7. Watch the music video for Kele Okereke&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;What Did I Do&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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