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Bloc Party perform on the first day of Lollapalooza 2008 in Chicago, Friday August 1. Wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt, frontman Kele Okereke told the crowd, “We’re from a cold wet island” - a reference to the punishing heat that characterised the Grant Park bash.
Pic: Guy Eppel

Lollapalooza 2008

Bloc Party perform on the first day of Lollapalooza 2008 in Chicago, Friday August 1. Wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt, frontman Kele Okereke told the crowd, “We’re from a cold wet island” - a reference to the punishing heat that characterised the Grant Park bash. Pic: Guy Eppel

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