"Banquet" is a song from British

England

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 band Bloc Party

Bloc Party

Bloc Party are a British Indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke , Russell Lissack , Gordon Moakes , and Matt Tong...

's debut album Silent Alarm. Originally released on a double A-side single (along with "Staying Fat

Banquet/Staying Fat

"Banquet"/"Staying Fat" is a double A-side single by Bloc Party. A follow up to "She's Hearing Voices", it was released in May 2004 on Moshi Moshi Records, following the band's support slot for several dates with ex-Blur guitarist Graham Coxon...

" in May 2004 by Moshi Moshi Records

Moshi moshi records

Moshi Moshi Records is a small London-based record label that has released music by bands such as The Rakes, Bloc Party, Hot Chip, Late of the Pier, Hot Club De Paris, Kate Nash, Junkboy, Architecture in Helsinki, Tilly and the Wall, Slow Club, Yeti, and Au Revoir Simone...

, it was re-released as a regular single in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 by Wichita Recordings

Wichita Recordings

Wichita Recordings is an independent record label located in London, founded in 2000 by Mark Bowen and Dick Green. Its most notable signees are Bloc Party, The Cribs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Her Space Holiday, Los Campesinos! and Peter Bjorn and John...

 on 25 April 2005. It was their first single to chart on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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 Modern Rock Tracks

Modern Rock Tracks

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 where it came in at number 34, and is often credited as their breakthrough single in North America

North America

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. The song is written in B-flat minor, an unconventional key signature

Key signature

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 for songs of such a genre. It was also featured in the song "Bloc Party" on the Fort Minor Mixtape: We Major. It was #31 in NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

s top 100 tracks of the decade, and was number 54 in Triple J's

Triple J

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 Hottest 100 of all time. It peaked at #13 on the UK singles chart

UK Singles Chart

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. In 2011, NME placed it at number 20 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".

Music videos

There were two videos

Music video

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 for "Banquet". A non-released version contains a recurring theme of hands with the hands pushing around band members Russell Lissack

Russell Lissack

Russell Dean Lissack is an English musician best known as the lead guitarist of London based indie rock band, Bloc Party. Lissack is also in the electronica band Pin Me Down; a duo of himself and Milena Mepris...

 and Gordon Moakes

Gordon Moakes

Gordon Peter Moakes is an English multi-instrumentalist and backing vocalist for English indie rock band Bloc Party.-Bloc Party:...

 while other hands cover up drummer

Drummer

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 Matt Tong's head and cast a shadow over frontman Kele Okereke

Kele Okereke

Kelechukwu "Kele" Rowland Okereke is a British musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the indie rock band Bloc Party.-Early life:...

. The hands eventually try to stab

Stabbing

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 all of Bloc Party, set fire to the set and destroy the instruments

Musical instrument

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 and amps

Amplifier

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. Meanwhile, the released version shows the group performing in front of many different people. It is shown in full color and in black and white. The music video has gained over 6 million views on YouTube.

Remixes

The song has been remixed 10 times. Its remix by Phones (Paul Epworth)

Paul Epworth

Paul Epworth is an award-winning British music producer, musician, and songwriter. His production credits include Adele, Cee Lo Green, Florence and the Machine, Plan B, Friendly Fires, Bloc Party, Primal Scream, The Rapture, Jack Peñate, Kate Nash and Maxïmo Park.-Lomax:From 2002-2004 Paul provided...

 was released as a promotional single for their remix album Silent Alarm Remixed

Silent Alarm Remixed

Silent Alarm Remixed is the remix album to Silent Alarm, the debut album by British indie rock band Bloc Party. It was released on 29 August 2005 in the British Isles on Wichita Recordings, the band's primary label, and on 13 September 2005 in the United States through Vice Records to coincide with...

 and their EP Bloc Party EP. The songs remix by The Streets

The Streets

The Streets were a British rap/garage project from Birmingham, United Kingdom, led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner and has included a myriad of other contributors most notably drummer Johnny Drum Machine, vocalist Kevin Mark Trail and the Italian-American beatmaker Leroy.The...

 had a music video made and was released as one of the b-sides for their single "Two More Years

Two More Years (song)

"Two More Years" is a single by Bloc Party. It charted at number 7 in the UK Singles Chart making it the second of the bands top 10 hits.- Track listing :All lyrics by Kele Okereke...

". Its two remixes by Boys Noize

Boys Noize

Boys Noize is the stage name of Alexander Ridha, a German electronic music producer and DJ. It is similar to the name of Ridha's label, Boysnoize Records, which he established in 2005...

 were released as a 10" single.

This is a list of all remixes of the song:

• "Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)"
• "Banquet (The Streets
  The Streets
  The Streets were a British rap/garage project from Birmingham, United Kingdom, led by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner and has included a myriad of other contributors most notably drummer Johnny Drum Machine, vocalist Kevin Mark Trail and the Italian-American beatmaker Leroy.The...
  
   Mix)"
• "Banquet (Another Version By The Glimmers)"
• "Banquet (Boys Noize Vox Mix)"
• "Banquet (Boys Noize Dub)"
• "Bloc Party" (Remix of Banquet by Mike Shinoda
  Mike Shinoda
  Michael "Mike" Kenji Shinoda is an American musician, record producer, and artist. He is best known as the rapper, principal songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Linkin Park, along with his co-frontman and lead singer Chester Bennington, and as a solo rapper in...
  
  , Apathy & Tak of S.O.B.)
• "Banquet (Cornelius Remix)"
• "Banquet (Black Moustache Remix)"
• "Banquet (Fake ID's Feast Mix)"
• "Banquet (Junior Sanchez JR Mix)"

Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)

"Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)" was a promotional single by Bloc Party

Bloc Party

Bloc Party are a British Indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke , Russell Lissack , Gordon Moakes , and Matt Tong...

 from their first EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 "Bloc Party EP", and their remix album "Silent Alarm Remixed

Silent Alarm Remixed

Silent Alarm Remixed is the remix album to Silent Alarm, the debut album by British indie rock band Bloc Party. It was released on 29 August 2005 in the British Isles on Wichita Recordings, the band's primary label, and on 13 September 2005 in the United States through Vice Records to coincide with...

". It was originally released as a one sided white label vinyl to promote the "Bloc Party EP", which was limited to 250 copies, but was re-released to promote "Silent Alarm Remixed

Silent Alarm Remixed

Silent Alarm Remixed is the remix album to Silent Alarm, the debut album by British indie rock band Bloc Party. It was released on 29 August 2005 in the British Isles on Wichita Recordings, the band's primary label, and on 13 September 2005 in the United States through Vice Records to coincide with...

" with the original version of "Banquet" on side B. This version is still available on the Wichita Recordings website.

Track listing

Original 12" vinyl

1. "Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)" - 5:25

Re-release 12" vinyl

1. "Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)" - 5:25
2. "Banquet" - 3:21

Digital Download

1. "Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)" - 5:25

CD: Wichita / WEBB078SCD (UK)

1. "Banquet"
2. "Compliments" (Peel
   John Peel
   John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
   
    Session)
3. "Banquet" (Another Version by The Glimmers)

CD: Wichita / VVR5032983 (European Release)

1. "Banquet"
2. "Banquet" (Another Version by The Glimmers)
3. "Banquet" (EP
   Extended play
   An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
   
    Version)
4. "Banquet" (Phones
   Paul Epworth
   Paul Epworth is an award-winning British music producer, musician, and songwriter. His production credits include Adele, Cee Lo Green, Florence and the Machine, Plan B, Friendly Fires, Bloc Party, Primal Scream, The Rapture, Jack Peñate, Kate Nash and Maxïmo Park.-Lomax:From 2002-2004 Paul provided...
   
    Disco
   Disco
   Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
   
    Edit)
5. "Banquet" (Cornelius
   Cornelius (musician)
   Cornelius is a Japanese recording artist and producer.-Career:Oyamada's first claim to fame was as a member of the pop duo Flipper's Guitar, one of the key groups of the Tokyo Shibuya-kei scene...
   
   Remix)
6. "Banquet" (video)

DVD: Wichita / WEBB078DVD (UK)

1. "Banquet"
2. "So Here We Are" (Peel Session)
3. "Banquet" (Video)
4. "Little Thoughts" (Video)