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</center. Bloc Party consummate professionals that they are, simultaneously embarrassed themselves and enraged fans when they performed to a backing track at the Video Music Awards in Brazil... The reasons for their decision are ambiguous but needless to say, they have now cemented a place in the "backing track hall of fame" right next to Nirvana and Ashlee Simpson. Figure 1 shows that with a healthy dose of cynicism playing to a backing track can be as big a "fuck you" as any protest song, Figure 2. shows that if you're a talentless, vacuous performer you [...]