About a week ago Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke told NME that he feared he’d been fired from his own band after learning the rest of the group had gone into the studio without his knowledge.

Well it looks like Okereke‘s fears were justified as the group has just confirmed that they will be auditing new singers.

Speaking to NME, guitarist Russell Lisssack revealed that the band were going into the studio without Okereke, “It’s not really a secret because Kele’s been pretty busy doing solo stuff and it looks like he’s going to be doing that a bit longer. The other three of us wanted to meet up and make music. We were talking about just doing an instrumental thing, but now we might get a singer as well, to properly put some music out and play some shows.”

As for the band’s relationship with Okereke, Lissack said, “I haven’t spoken to Kele for a couple of months, I guess since the festivals when I was doing stuff with Ash. But there’s no bad vibes.”

Update: A new message on the Bloc Party’s official website reads “Bloc Party Is Still Bloc Party”, which could mean Kele is still the band’s frontman or that the band will continue to go on (even without him). Furthermore, a rep for the band has told Pitchfork that Kele is not being kicked out of Bloc Party. Although the rep makes no mention of him leaving on his own.

Kele Okereke – New Rules from Baeblemusic on Vimeo.

Block Party frontman Kele Okereke recently stopped by Baeblemusic’s The Guest Apartment for an interview.

While their the singer played a few tracks off his debut solo album, ‘The Boxer‘.

Above watch an acoustic performance of ‘Boxer‘ track “New Rules”.

Watch the entire acoustic performance and interview over at Baeblemusic.