Paramore have joined forces with Bloc Party frontperson Kele Okereke to perform a cover of Blue Light by Bloc Party.
The performance took place at Paramore's show at the 02 Arena in London, with Paramore's Hayley Williams providing a glowing endorsement of Bloc Party before dueting with Kele on the Silent Alarm track.
"Bloc Party were a huge influence on Paramore since we were little kids picking up guitars and writing songs for the first time," she told the audience. "And we've grown up with this band the same way that a lot of you have grown up with us, and probably have grown up with Bloc Party as well. So, it only feels right to sing a song together that I used to cry to all the time in my car, and maybe we can all cry together."
Watch fan shot footage of the performance below.
The duet between Kele and Williams took place on the second of two-shows at the famous arena with Bloc Party chosen by Williams to be the main support on both nights. The show is part of the ongoing world tour in support of Paramore's new album This Is Why.
This Is Why debuted at #1 on both their overall and vinyl charts. This Is Why is Paramore's third album to hit #1 in Australia, following 2009'S Brand New Eyes and 2013'S Paramore. Previous album, 2017s After Laughter peaked at #3. This Is Why also debuted at #1 in the UK.
Paramore recently shared a video for the standout track Running Out Of Time. The video sees Hayley Williams transported from a music studio into an alternate reality, via a portal in her guitar case.
This strange dimension is filled with enormous mushrooms and flowers, animal-shaped bushes, and Williams' bandmates, Taylor York and Zac Farro whose arms are now comically long. The reunited band are then subject to all manner of odd occurrences before finding their way to a running track between dimensions.
In a recent video feature for Genius, Williams explains that the song is essentially a self-burn, inspired by her own lack of organisation and poor time management and Dolly Parton's noted distate for tardiness.
The Genius video follows on from a recent interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe during which Williams revealed that a visit to hyper-organised fellow superstar Taylor Swift's house both amazed and inspired her.
“I was like, ‘Oh my God, my life is so not together, I can barely remember to send someone a card or flowers.’There are still Christmas gifts at my house that I have not sent to my friends just sitting there in the back of my closet. Two of the people I was supposed to give a gift to, I was like, ‘Sorry, I forgot to put [the gifts] in my suitcase so you still don’t get a gift.’ I wish that I was the person that felt like I had all my s— together and I was like, ‘Oh, I had some extra time, so I’m just popping by with some flowers.’ That kind of a thing, that is my idealized self.”
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