![]() ![]() They continued with No You Girls and the newly released Curious - one of only two brand new tracks to be woven into Hits to the Head. An indication of where the future may be taking them.”įranz Ferdinand at the O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester (Image: © Vicky Pearson) A way to understand the progression of ideas with the perspective of the long term. Kapranos puts it like this: “For the artists, it was a retrospective. In fact, over the last two decades, Franz Ferdinand have sold over 10 million albums, received 1.2 billion streams to date, 14 platinum albums, won a Brit, Ivor Novello + Mercury Prize awards, Grammy nominations and sold six million tickets for their incendiary live show worldwide.Īnd a ‘best of’ tour doesn’t symbolise the end of Franz Ferdinand, either. Twenty years is a long time for a band to rack up a number of singles, albums, awards and what not. And from the moment that curtain dropped, Kapranos and the band did exactly what they set out to do - deliver hit after hit. The outfit describe themselves as ‘four gals from the underground realms of London, tripping out on Tequila and Cumbia vibes.’ They play mostly instrumental music with inspiration of the 70s and 80s, and proved that October isn’t too early to play a Christmas song to a Manchester audience.įranz Ferdinand made their way onto the stage playing the opening notes of The Dark of the Matinee behind a curtain screen and flashing lights which offered some stunning visual affects. Los Bitchos supporting Franz Ferdinand at the O2 Victoria Warehouse (Image: © Vicky Pearson) The median age was noticeably a little higher that some of the other gigs I’ve been to recently, without a single BeReal or Snapchat camera in sight. ![]() Supporting, The Great Leslie and Los Bitchos got the crowd of around 3,000 people warmed up and ready for the Take Me Out performers. “That’s the point of this record: the hits to the head, hits to the heart, hits to the feet as they hit the dancefloor.”Īnd so, on Wednesday night, I headed down to the Victoria Warehouse to hit the dancefloor myself. For them, it was what they wanted to listen to. They didn’t have every Bowie LP, they had Changes. My parents didn’t have a huge record collection. They were such a big part of my life growing up. In a statement, Alex Kapranos said: “I’ve always wanted to make a best of. READ MORE: Johnny Marr is going to help one Salford musician fulfil their dreams Hits to the Head came out in March this year, followed by the announcement of three special live shows for the Scottish rock band - the first of which would be held at Manchester’s Victoria Warehouse. Lucky for Franz Ferdinand fans - Franz Ferdifans? - their latest album is a ‘best of’ compilation which documents their best loved and most popular tracks of the last two decades. ![]() Noel Gallagher has joked about it before at High Flying Birds gigs, knowing the audience is really waiting for the Oasis tracks, saying: “Don’t worry, only a few more to get through, then it’s hit after hit.” A greatest hits collection spanning the act's career, Hits to the Head, arrived last month.Typically when an artist goes on tour, you’ll spend the first half an hour listening to newly released material that’s still very much growing on people, before getting into the good stuff. The Alex Kapranos-led Franz Ferdinand last released Always Ascending in 2018. A toilet fashioned after Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich will display at a Danish museum. Metallica frontman James Hetfield's 21-year-old son, Castor, recently released his first album with his band, Bastardane. Several new documentaries about the band are currently rolling out via The Coda Collection. Metallica, now together over 40 years, will tour America and Europe in 2022. The instructor retweeted one that said, "Archduke Metallica's famous last words to his wife Archduchess Red Hot Chili Pepper (who carried these with her forever) were: 'give it away, give it away, give it away now.'" The tweet got plenty of equally funny responses. She added, "Gentle reader, my students asked if there had perhaps been an Archduke Metallica." "Nobody knew his name, so as a hint, I offered that he shares his name with a band." "Today, when introducing WWI, a student raised her hand and brought up the death of a certain archduke," Cox said. His name was repurposed by the Scottish rockers Franz Ferdinand, makers of the 2004 hit "Take Me Out." But it appears that her class was more aware of the Bay Area heavy metal pioneers than the mid-2000s indie-rockers. Cox was actually referring to Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Austro-Hungarian monarch whose 1914 death helped lead to World War I. ![]()
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