Kraftwerk, Foals and Bloc Party have been named as the headline acts for the 2013 Latitude Festival in Suffolk.
After five consecutive years of touring, Bloc Party decided it was time for a break, yet Okereke couldn't sit still.
Biffy Clyro also picked up the best festival rock act ahead of Bloc Party, Elbow, The Raconteurs and Bullet For My Valentine.
There's no mistaking Kele Okereke's Boxer for a Bloc Party album.
They join the likes of Jake Bugg, The Script, Bloc Party, Paloma Faith, The Maccabees, Emeli Sande, Ben Howard, Ellie Goulding, and Blondie.
Last year Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, Editors, Reverend And The Makers, Mark Ronson, Chemical Brothers and Sir Paul McCartney were among the acts who performed.
To an extent, Okereke was able to pursue his interest in electronic music with Bloc Party, but as a solo artist, he and XXXchange have crafted a fearless dance record.
Frenchkiss Records, a New York City label that has released albums by such indie acts as Bloc Party and Passion Pit, signed a deal with the Orchard in 2004 amid major uncertainty in the music industry.
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Other artists in the top five in previous years include Florence and the Machine and La Roux (Sound of 2009), Duffy and the Ting Tings (Sound of 2008), Klaxons (Sound of 2007), Bloc Party (Sound of 2005), Franz Ferdinand (Sound of 2004) and Dizzee Rascal (Sound of 2003).
Other artists in the top five in previous years include Hurts (Sound of 2010), Florence and the Machine (Sound of 2009), Duffy (Sound of 2008), Klaxons (Sound of 2007), Plan B (Sound of 2006), Bloc Party (Sound of 2005), Franz Ferdinand (Sound of 2004) and Dizzee Rascal (Sound of 2003).
Mr. Netanyahu's two-party bloc was forecast to have plunged to 31 seats from its current 42.
He would start in 2009 and 2010 with House Republicans, the most conservative bloc in the Party.
Ukraine's Vice Prime Minister Hrihoriy Nemyria, a member of Ms Tymoshenko's bloc, denied the party was trying to form a coalition with Mr Yanukovych's party.
The liberal multi-party Egyptian Bloc was rivalling al-Nur for second place.
So what happens on June 8 when the world wakes up to a Lebanon that sees Hezbollah aligned with Aoun as the majority and Hariri's March 14 bloc as the opposition party?
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Members of his party control the largest bloc in the Shiite alliance in parliament.
Another bloc containing the al-Nur party was predicted to take some 20% of the vote.
The coalition includes Mr Netanyahu's Likud-Beitnu bloc, the centrist Yesh Atid party and the right-wing Jewish Home party.
Yanukovich's Party of the Regions and its allies are expected to retain a majority in the election, but they are closely trailed, according to some opinion polls, by a bloc that includes Tymoshenko's party.
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It is the main party in the United Iraqi Alliance bloc that dominates the country's security forces.
The communists are well-organized and are in a position to possibly edge out the Social Democratic Party as the third-largest bloc in the lower house of parliament.
Given that American Jews have been the Democratic Party's most secure voting bloc since 1932, recent polls showing that the majority of American Jews oppose Obama's treatment of Israel are a political earthquake.
Mr. Sharansky, the former Soviet dissident, created a new political party, which won a large bloc of Knesset seats by arguing that only through free-market reform can Israel improve the situation of new immigrants and attract large numbers of additional immigrants.
The Central Electoral Commission refused to register the LDPR for the parliamentary elections because two of the party's top three candidates violated election procedures, so Mr Zhirinovsky hastily put together a new bloc, called "Zhirinovsky's bloc", formed out of the Russian Union of Free Youth, and the Party of Russian Spiritual Revival, led by his sister.
The United Iraqi Alliance on Sunday night discussed the draft, which was presented by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, whose Dawa Party is also a member of the ruling bloc.
Adnan al-Dulaimi, a lawmaker whose party is part of the biggest Sunni Arab bloc in parliament, said his backers are for an agreement in principle, but they have "major reservations" about the current agreement.
The latter is the leading party in the government's United Iraqi Alliance bloc.
The protesters accuse Mr Saakashvili, whose party lost last year's general election to a bloc led by Bidzina Ivanishvili, of flouting human rights and stifling dissent.
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