Bloc Party bassist Gordon Moakes has announced via the band's official website that he will not be joining the rest of the band for their upcoming US tour, as his wife is due to give birth to their first child very soon. For the dates he will be replaced by Daniel Lindegren (who also performs as Tommy Sparks).
He wrote: "Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to join the boys during the next month or so of touring. The reason for this is that my wife is expecting our first baby in a few weeks and after some long hard thinking we all decided, band included, that it was a bit silly for me to be flying round the world at such a critical time in the pregnancy. No one wants me to wind up in the wrong continent should there be any complications or should the little one decide to put in an early appearance. So while the other chaps are jetting around the Pacific Rim I will be buying the groceries, attending ante-natal classes and generally preparing myself for the cloud of unknown that is becoming a Dad".