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Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke opens up about gay parenting and his new solo album ‘Fatherhood’
This article was first published in Attitude issue 288, October 2017.
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Words by Adam Duxbury
Back in 2005 Bloc Party released Silent Alarm, a multi-award winning, certified platinum debut album.
Critics loved them, their listeners loved them, but it would have been easy to write them off as just another British indie band in a sea of Razorlights, Kasabians and Arctic Monkeys.
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Except that the band’s frontman was the then 23-year-old Kele Okereke. And he was black.
In a musical genre dominated by white men, Kele was a refreshingly different kind of indie icon. But then he came out as gay and went from unusual to unique.
A black, gay role model in indie music; it was a label that, at the time, he didn’t love. And you don’t need to look far to find several “difficult” interviews in which he tried to explain that he was more