9 WWE Questions With Bloc Party's Russell Lissack

4. Music

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Have you ever wanted to combine your work with wrestling and get involved with WWE musically? Could you ever see a Bloc Party song being used for a wrestler or an event?

"I've always thought it would be really cool to work with WWE or get together with somebody to write something for wrestling.

I think its cool with entrance music now how they really seem to write songs for characters more specifically, like they've really had the people in mind when working on their entrance.

After years of the music being pretty terrible and quite generic, you now get themes such as Bobby Roode's, which is amazing. There's been some brilliant themes for people over the past couple of years.

I remember having a specific hip hop song in mind for Samoa Joe when he first came in to NXT with that really rubbish music, but they quickly replaced it with something that worked just as well.

It doesn't seem to happen often, but there have been cases of existing music working well for people so if somebody thought one of our songs would work for them that would be great, I'd love that."

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