A Weekend in the City
Studio album by Bloc Party
Released	5 February 2007
Recorded	Grouse Lodge Studios, Westmeath, Ireland
Genre	Indie rock
Length	51:50
Label	Wichita Recordings (licensed to Vice Records in the U.S.)
Producer(s)	Jacknife Lee
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Aversion link Blender link CokeMachineGlow (41%) link Drowned In Sound (9/10) link Modern Music (8.2/10) link Music Box link NME (8/10) link Pitchfork Media (7.5/10) link Q Rockfeedback link Rocklouder link Herald Sun Spin link Stylus (C+) 5 February 2007 The Sunday Times TheMagazine link Twisted Ear link
Bloc Party chronology
Two More Years EP (2005) A Weekend in the City (2007)
Alternate cover
Special CD+DVD edition

A Weekend in the City is the second studio album by Bloc Party, which was released on February 5, 2007. The album was produced by Jacknife Lee. The album cover is A Modern Project by Rut Blees Luxemburg. 'The City' in question in the album title is London. Image File history File links A_Weekend_in_the_City. ... A studio album is a collection of previously unreleased, studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... Bloc Party is an English indie rock band. ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... County Westmeath (Irish: An Iarmhí) is a county situated in the Irish Midlands, in the western part of the province of Leinster. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Wichita Recordings is an independent record label located in London, England. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Garret Jacknife Lee is a Grammy Award winning music producer and remixer. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... Denatonium, usually available as denatonium benzoate (or under trade names such as Bitrex or Aversion) and as denatonium saccharide, is the most bitter compound known to date. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... Blender is an American magazine that bills itself as the ultimate guide to music and more. ... Image File history File links 3. ... The Drowned in Sound logo Drowned in Sound or DiS is a UK based music webzine dedicated to new music. ... Image File history File links 3_stars. ... Not to be confused with the Canadian music magazine Music Express The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a populist music magazine in the United Kingdom which has been published weekly since March 1952. ... A typical example of Pitchforks main page, as of 12-12-06 Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork and occasionally shortened to P4K, pitchy, or pfork,[1] is a United States-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. ... Q is a music and entertainment magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. ... Image File history File links 3_stars. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... Rocklouder is an British online music magazine. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... The Herald Sun is a newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that is published by The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... Image File history File links 3. ... Spin is a music magazine that reports on all the music that rocks. Founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. ... Image File history File links 3_stars. ... This article is about the online music and film magazine. ... The Sunday Times is the name of several Sunday newspapers. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... Image File history File links 3. ... Bloc Party is an English indie rock band. ... Two More Years was British band Bloc Partys third EP, released October 26, 2005 in Japan, along with Silent Alarm Remixed. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... A studio album is a collection of previously unreleased, studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... Bloc Party is an English indie rock band. ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Garret Jacknife Lee is a Grammy Award winning music producer and remixer. ... Rut Blees Luxemburg is a German photographer who gained her last formal education at Westminster University. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

This album deals much more with normal day working life than was addressed on Silent Alarm, drawing themes from the 7 July 2005 London bombings, immigration, drug abuse, Black British lifestyle, and criticism of youth subculture and casual sex. The album has been met with largely positive reviews by web-critics and fans alike. ^{[1] [2] [3]} Silent Alarm is the debut album by British rock band Bloc Party, first released on February 14, 2005, and charted at #3 in the Official UK Charts. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... Drug abuse has a wide range of definitions related to taking a psychoactive drug or performance enhancing drug for a non-therapeutic or non-medical effect. ... Black British is term which has had different meanings and uses as a racial and political label. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

The first UK single, "The Prayer", was released on 29 January 2007. The first single in the U.S. is "I Still Remember". The album itself entered the UK chart at number 2, outselling Fall Out Boy's new album, Infinity on High. In the U.S., the album debuted at number 12 on the Billboard 200, with 47,726 copies sold (according to Nielsen SoundScan).^[4] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... I Still Remember is a song by Bloc Party from their second studio album A Weekend in the City. ... Fall Out Boy (commonly abbreviated as FOB) is an American band from Wilmette, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) that formed in 2001. ... Wal-Mart pre-order cover Infinity on High is Fall Out Boys fourth studio album. ... The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. ... Nielsen SoundScan is an information system created by Nielsen Media Research that tracks sales data for singles, albums, and music video products for Billboard and other music industry companies. ...

Album history

"Song for Clay (Disappear Here)" was originally titled "Merge on the Freeway" (and is inspired by the novel Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis),^[5] "The Prayer" was originally "A Prayer to the Lord", "On" was originally "Wet", "Where Is Home?" was originally "Death of a Century", "Machine" and "Perfect Teens", and "I Still Remember" was originally "It Started in an Afternoon". Less Than Zero is the first novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1985. ... Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author. ...

A low-quality rip of the album was leaked in its entirety in November 2006, three months before the official release.^[6] Faculty from V2 Records have been trying to delete the leaked files from P2P and torrent networks while keeping the leak unknown to the public.^{[citation needed]} A high-quality rip of the album became available through various torrent networks on 11 January 2007. An Internet leak occurs when a partys confidential intellectual property is released to the public on the Internet. ... V2 Records is a record label which was started in 1996 by Richard Branson, four years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI. Over the years V2 acquired Junior Boys Own, Gee Street Records and Big Cat Records. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. ... BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

When the album was previewed (seemingly in its entirety) on MySpace, the song "Where Is Home?" was omitted, suggesting it may not appear on the album upon its release. However, the song was indeed included on the CD release. MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ...

Special editions

On 23 January 2007 the album became available for pre-order on the U.S. iTunes, with two bonus tracks added, one of them "pre-order only" (see below). There are several different editions of the CD that are only available in certain countries or at certain retailers, containing one or two other bonus tracks. On these editions, the bonus tracks are separated from the others by a silent three minute pregap. January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... The iTunes Store is an online business run by Apple Inc. ... The pregap on a Red Book audio CD is the portion of the audio track that precedes index 01 for a given track in the table of contents (TOC). ...

A special two-disc limited edition version of the CD was released alongside a bonus DVD disc containing The Making of A Weekend in the City and the music videos for "The Prayer" and "I Still Remember".

Two songs that have been played live prior to the album's release but did not make it onto the album are "England" (formerly "Blue Moon") and "We Were Lovers" (formerly "Into the Blue" and "Cells Shaped Like Stars"). Both serve as B-sides to "The Prayer" as well as bonus tracks to the Japanese edition of the album. In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Track listing

CD: Wichita / WEBB120CD (UK)

1. "Song for Clay (Disappear Here)" – 4:49
2. "Hunting for Witches" – 3:31
3. "Waiting for the 7.18" – 4:17
4. "The Prayer" – 3:45
5. "Uniform" – 5:32
6. "On" – 4:46
7. "Where Is Home?" – 4:54
8. "Kreuzberg" – 5:27
9. "I Still Remember" – 4:36
10. "Sunday" – 4:59
11. "SRXT" – 4:51

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DVD: Wichita / WEBB120CDL (UK)

CD as above plus the following on DVD:

1. "Studio Footage"
2. "Interviews"
3. "The Prayer" (video)
4. "I Still Remember" (video)

Bonus tracks

• "We Were Lovers" (Japanese edition) – 4:12
  • Also a B-side to "The Prayer"
• "England" (Japanese edition) – 4:15
  • Also a B-side to "The Prayer"
• "Cain Said to Abel" (iTunes US) – 3:24
  • Also a B-side to "I Still Remember"
• "Atonement" (iTunes US pre-order) – 3:46
  • Also a B-side to "I Still Remember"
• "Version 2.0" (Best Buy version) – 3:19
  • Also a B-side to "The Prayer"
• "Emma Kate's Accident" (Best Buy version) – 5:38
• "Secrets" (Canadian version & Target version) – 4:06
  • Also a B-side to "Hunting for Witches"
• "The Once and Future King" (Canadian version & Target version) – 3:20
• "Rhododendron" (eMusic US) – 4:49
  • Also a B-side to "Hunting for Witches"
• "Selfish Son" (Napster and Rhapsody) – 4:59
  • Also a B-side to "I Still Remember"

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Trivia

• Liam Gallagher said, in an interview for The Guardian, that he regretted his negative comments about the band when he heard this album. And that the final track, SRXT, made him "cry into a cushion for 15 minutes."^{[citation needed]}
• The songs "Kreuzberg" and "I Still Remember", were featured in an episode of The O.C. aired on February 15, 2007.^[7] "Kreuzberg" was also featured in the second episode of Drive, which aired on April 15, 2007.
• The song SRXT takes its name from the drug Seroxat (with all of the vowels removed), controversial for the suggestion it causes suicide. This relates to the theme of the song which is that of suicide. The track was originally called Seroxat, but was later changed to SRXT in order to avoid legal issues.
• SRXT was also used in an episode of "Grey's Anatomy"

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