English comedienne/author Jenny Eclair has told of how she upset “the one with the modern fringe” from Bloc Party. DiS’ incredible powers of deduction will assume she means guitarist Russell Lissack.

Speaking on London talk radio station LBC, on which she’s a presenter, she said “we were at Radio 4 and he had his feet up on a chair. I shouted at him to get them off because I wanted to sit down, and things got a bit heated.”

Indicating that she hadn’t known at the time he was in a hip, new, future-of-music pop combo (or words to that effect), she added “he probably wasn’t expecting a 45-year-old woman to be shouting at him. It was very embarrassing.”

Bloc Party release new single ‘Banquet’ on April 18th. Their March/April tour is sold out but dates have been added to the tour in October. The full list:

2nd Edinburgh Usher Hall
4th Glasgow Carling Academy
6th Newcastle Northumbria University
8th Cambridge Corn Exchange
9th Norwich UEA
10th Portsmouth Guildhall
12th Sheffield Octagon
13th Birmingham Academy
14th Birmingham Academy
16th Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
17th Liverpool Royal Court Theatre
18th Leeds University
20th Manchester Carling Apollo
21st Manchester Carling Apollo
22nd Leicester De Montfort Hall
24th Cardiff University
25th Bristol Carling Academy
28th London Carling Brixton Academy
29th London Carling Brixton Academy

Debut album ’Silent Alarm’, which has yet to be released in America, has already shifted over 300,000 copies in Europe and Japan.