Franz Ferdinand

[Kissable]

Say it! You fckin love Franz Ferdinand!

New album! Its sooooooo awesome, good job Franzos!

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj278/Kissable93/l_eea9ad76311f2a18d9e3d4ab0459750d.gif

Hot singer: Alexander Kapranos
Hot drummer: Paul Thomson
Hot bassist: Robert Hardy
Hot guitarist: Nicholas McCarthy

[mandilambi]

I love them. :) Been waiting for the new album for what feels like forever!

I hope to see them tour. They came near me years ago, but no one would go with me so I ended up not getting to attend. :/

[Isa]

Hiya!! Im here!!!
I love them! And Im really waiting to have their new album on my hands! Too bad that they dont let the spanish tv to show their new songs on the Rock in Rio concert last summer, Im sure they are as great as the old ones!

[Laurel]

I think most people on this forum have seen me mention this lot once.... or twice... or maybe three times.... I've been a fan since they started.... have seen them live loads of times (last time for 200 people in a pub in London.... I love saying that... it was a fanclub thing... Please Mika do something like this.... pwetty please) and they're absolutely lovely guys as well..... I love Ulysses..... I've heard alot of their new songs during live shows in 2007/2008 and also can't wait for the new album.... judging by what I've heard it should be amazing.... it's been a bloody long time since 2005 :eek:

:wub2:

[Queenie]

I thought this forum had a thread! Shame on me!!!
Fans since the very very beginning, when i met them thanks to the ancient Official Suede Forum on 2003, i think. I remember getting obsessed with Darts Of Pleasure and the teeth vid (the 1st one they made) and the history went on and on and on...I went to 3 gigs, i met them when they played here once....

I can´t change that they´re one of my favourite "modern" bands, probably the most favorite in that group, but the long wait made my fangurlism got sleepy :naughty:

Ulysses is an amazing song. I can´t wait to watch the vid, buying the singles, and the amazing album is coming out very soon!
Album cover
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4126/tonightfranzferdinandun5.png
Different from the 2 previous ones, but i like it..They remain faithful to their style: black, white & orange :bleh:

Hahaha, Laurel! I knew you & i would be here :bleh:

[Laurel]

I thought this forum had a thread! Shame on me!!!
Fans since the very very beginning, when i met them thanks to the ancient Official Suede Forum on 2003, i think. I remember getting obsessed with Darts Of Pleasure and the teeth vid (the 1st one they made) and the history went on and on and on...I went to 3 gigs, i met them when they played here once....

I can´t change that they´re one of my favourite "modern" bands, probably the most favorite in that group, but the long wait made my fangurlism got sleepy :naughty:

Ulysses is an amazing song. I can´t wait to watch the vid, buying the singles, and the amazing album is coming out very soon!
Album cover
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/4126/tonightfranzferdinandun5.png
Different from the 2 previous ones, but i like it..They remain faithful to their style: black, white & orange :bleh:

Hahaha, Laurel! I knew you & i would be here :bleh:

:fisch:

Don't know what makes you say that...... :wink2:

Even Blur are supposed to be reforming with Graham.... or so my Mum told me she heard something on the radio... :eek:

[Isa]

:fisch:

Don't know what makes you say that...... :wink2:

Even Blur are supposed to be reforming with Graham.... or so my Mum told me she heard something on the radio... :eek:

I read that about Blur, maybe two weeks ago on Mtv? I know I read it, but Im not sure where. And not sure too if thats good or bad news, Blur were a very good band, but Im not sure about what are they gonna do now......

[Laurel]

I read that about Blur, maybe two weeks ago on Mtv? I know I read it, but Im not sure where. And not sure too if thats good or bad news, Blur were a very good band, but Im not sure about what are they gonna do now......

I'm not sure either... but I followed that band for 16 years... so It would be nice just to see them play live again as a four piece..... I missed that in 2003.... the shows were good .... but not the same without Graham..... Think Tank is a good album.... but not what I'd call a Blur Album..... :thumbdown:

Nostalgia sometimes isn't a good thing :roftl:

[Isa]

I'm not sure either... but I followed that band for 16 years... so It would be nice just to see them play live again as a four piece..... I missed that in 2003.... the shows were good .... but not the same without Graham..... Think Tank is a good album.... but not what I'd call a Blur Album..... :thumbdown:

Nostalgia sometimes isn't a good thing :roftl:

I have never see them live, but I think it will be great to have then touring again, playing their old songs, all together. And if I get the chance to see them........... better.
Yeah, Blur without Graham wasnt Blur at all..........

[Queenie]

:fisch:

Don't know what makes you say that...... :wink2:

Even Blur are supposed to be reforming with Graham.... or so my Mum told me she heard something on the radio... :eek:

Hahaha! I know! You and I on a FF thread? No way! :naughty:

Yeah, i read that. Damon said it, but who knows...Let´s wait and see!

[Kissable]

Thanks Queenie and Laurel for not letting this thread die. I thought there were going to be more Franz (too lazy to type Ferdinand) fans

Aaaaanyway, i love Ulysses.
I can't wait to see them live, i have this feeling that my first concert ever is going to be a Franz one

[Mici]

Say it! You love Franz Ferdinand!

New album! I'm excited. The artwork is awesome, have you seen it?

I LOVE them! Been a fan from the first i heard "Take Me Out".

I haven't seen the artwork for the new album but will check thier myspace soon, i can't wait to listen to the new songs. :thumb_yello:

[Queenie]

Thanks Queenie and Laurel for not letting this thread die. I thought there were going to be more Franz (too lazy to type Ferdinand) fans

Aaaaanyway, i love Ulysses.
I can't wait to see them live, i have this feeling that my first concert ever is going to be a Franz one

That would be great! FF are even better live :punk:

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=jbsOPl0WMFg

I can´t help but still being obsessed with the "Michael" look. It fits the guys and myself very well :blush-anim-cl:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=gu41oOcfD7Q

This was my signature in a FF forum
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Queenie_/Queenie3.jpg?t=1228313909

And Alex´s best pic
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/9608/ff077nc9.gif

See? I´m obsessed XD

[Kissable]

That would be great! FF are even better live :punk:

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=jbsOPl0WMFg

I can´t help but still being obsessed with the "Michael" look. It fits the guys and myself very well :blush-anim-cl:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=gu41oOcfD7Q

This was my signature in a FF forum
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Queenie_/Queenie3.jpg?t=1228313909

And Alex´s best pic
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/9608/ff077nc9.gif

See? I´m obsessed XD

I wish i was there... in T in the Park. Great perfomance

Ohh yeah, they look soooo good in that video, i was obsessed with that song and video

Wow! That's one of the bestest pictures of Alex i've seen! can i take that picture? I already have Photoshop and this pic would look awesome on a signature

That's a good thing, you are obsessed with a great band... not like some crappy bands

[Queenie]

I wish i was there... in T in the Park. Great perfomance

Ohh yeah, they look soooo good in that video, i was obsessed with that song and video

Wow! That's one of the bestest pictures of Alex i've seen! can i take that picture? I already have Photoshop and this pic would look awesome on a signature

That's a good thing, you are obsessed with a great band... not like some crappy bands

Take it! It´s not mine. It was from a great FF page, The New Scottish Gentry, full of gig pictures. It´s not there anymore :tears:

[Laurel]

I miss the New Scottish Gentry..... Shame it had to be shut down..... :thumbdown:

I miss FF.org more though......

I used to use these as my siggy on Franz boards .....

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c145/The_Outsider_1974/Franz%20Ferdinand/Moving-AlexHips.gif http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c145/The_Outsider_1974/Franz%20Ferdinand/9EVaxGZBXokWOPuB.gif http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c145/The_Outsider_1974/Franz%20Ferdinand/alexsnl39pi2hz.gif

As you can see.... I quite like Alex..... :punk:

[Laurel]

Just wanted to post these... cos' I never have before.... Please Ignore me.... they talked me into these photos I really don't like myself in photos ..... hence why I'm not in many of the MFC Party ones lol....

But they're lovely guys

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c145/The_Outsider_1974/Franz%20Ferdinand/Glasgow/CNV00001.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c145/The_Outsider_1974/Franz%20Ferdinand/Dundee/CNV00020.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c145/The_Outsider_1974/Franz%20Ferdinand/Dundee/CNV00022-1.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c145/The_Outsider_1974/Franz%20Ferdinand/Dundee/CNV00021.jpg

I still haven't met Paul....... :tears:

[Queenie]

I miss the New Scottish Gentry..... Shame it had to be shut down.....

I miss FF.org more though......

I used to use these as my siggy on Franz boards .....

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c145/The_Outsider_1974/Franz%20Ferdinand/Moving-AlexHips.gif http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c145/The_Outsider_1974/Franz%20Ferdinand/9EVaxGZBXokWOPuB.gif http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c145/The_Outsider_1974/Franz%20Ferdinand/alexsnl39pi2hz.gif

As you can see.... I quite like Alex.....
Good old times...*sighs*
I miss those classic FF websites

Awwwwwwwwwww to the .gifs! :wub2:

EDIT: I looove the SNL performance, btw :p

I don´t blame you liking Alex :bleh:

Just wanted to post these... cos' I never have before.... Please Ignore me.... they talked me into these photos I really don't like myself in photos ..... hence why I'm not in many of the MFC Party ones lol....

But they're lovely guys


I still haven't met Paul.......
I´m so jealous!! :shocked:

I only met them once, they were in a hurry (their flight was delayed and they arrived late to the venue) and we didn´t take any pics but they were so so nice.
I adore Bob. He´s the cutest thing (as Alex says, an angel XDDD)
Paul seems like a cool guy, very funny. And his wife is the most beautiful woman
I have flirty vibes from Alex. He seems like a guy who likes to fool around
And Nick...i think he´s so talkative xD

[Kissable]

You two are lucky!! I hope i can meet them soon but probably i'll piss myself

[Laurel]

Good old times...*sighs*
I miss those classic FF websites

Awwwwwwwwwww to the .gifs! :wub2:
I don´t blame you liking Alex :bleh:


I´m so jealous!! :shocked:

I only met them once, they were in a hurry (their flight was delayed and they arrived late to the venue) and we didn´t take any pics but they were so so nice.
I adore Bob. He´s the cutest thing (as Alex says, an angel XDDD)
Paul seems like a cool guy, very funny. And his wife is the most beautiful woman
I have flirty vibes from Alex. He seems like a guy who likes to fool around
And Nick...i think he´s so talkative xD

Paul's wife is lovely.... Esther.... Not sure how you spell her name.... can't be bothered to look it up.... lol
They have two kids now I think.... god I haven't been on a FF board in so long... but I think I read they've had another one.... :thumb_yello:

When I went to see them in Dundee.... I met them before the gig as well... and said that I'd come all the way to see them from Clacton... had overnighted it from London .... was knackered lol.... Bob gave me his plectrum and his setlist during the gig..... He's such a sweetie.... Alex signed the setlist after the show.... and wrote thanking me for coming all the way :wub2:

Nick never shuts up.... I remember having a ten minute mock argument with him about me wanting to just take a picture of him and him insisting I was in it.... as you tell from the picture... he won..... :naughty:

[Laurel]

You two are lucky!! I hope i can meet them soon but probably i'll piss myself

Oh no you won't....... I thought that too when I started following due to some experiences with another band that never went too well.... but they are so nice..... You have no option but to talk to them.... cos' they don't actually shut up...... :naughty:

Really .... am seriously shy... and if they can put me at my ease... they can put anyone..... :thumb_yello:

[Queenie]

Paul's wife is lovely.... Esther.... Not sure how you spell her name.... can't be bothered to look it up.... lol
They have two kids now I think.... god I haven't been on a FF board in so long... but I think I read they've had another one....

When I went to see them in Dundee.... I met them before the gig as well... and said that I'd come all the way to see them from Clacton... had overnighted it from London .... was knackered lol.... Bob gave me his plectrum and his setlist during the gig..... He's such a sweetie.... Alex signed the setlist after the show.... and wrote thanking me for coming all the way :wub2:

Nick never shuts up.... I remember having a ten minute mock argument with him about me wanting to just take a picture of him and him insisting I was in it.... as you tell from the picture... he won.....
2? :shocked:
I´m more lost than you! :roftl:

Awww, bob is a sweetheart, but you deserved that and more after the long travel!

Hahaha, Nick. It´s obvious i tried to be subtle and failed :lmao: He can´t keep his mouth shut :fisch:
What about Manuela? :fisch:

You two are lucky!! I hope i can meet them soon but probably i'll piss myself
Don´t piss yourself. I don´t know by now, but in 2004 they were very down to earth and very cool guys to talk with. They´ll make you feel comfortable and i´m sure you´ll have your chance :punk:

[Laurel]

2? :shocked:
I´m more lost than you! :roftl:

Awww, bob is a sweetheart, but you deserved that and more after the long travel!

Hahaha, Nick. It´s obvious i tried to be subtle and failed :lmao: He can´t keep his mouth shut :fisch:
What about Manuela? :fisch:

Kissable, don´t piss yourself. I don´t know by now, but in 2004 they were very down to earth and very cool guys to talk with. They´ll make you feel comfortable and i´m sure you´ll have your chance :punk:

I saw them in June last year... and they still are really down to earth.... so down to earth that Nick tripped over the curb cos' he was waving at us... and then looked so embarrassed cos' we all laughed at him.... but his face was a picture.... Alex is the same too..... he was off down the road on his bike ... but still stopped to talk to us for about 20 mins and signed and took photo's and everything.... I don't think they'll change... I hope not.... I've never met Manuela..... Do know what she looks like though... have seen pics..... :thumb_yello:

[Kissable]

Oh no you won't....... I thought that too when I started following due to some experiences with another band that never went too well.... but they are so nice..... You have no option but to talk to them.... cos' they don't actually shut up...... :naughty:

Really .... am seriously shy... and if they can put me at my ease... they can put anyone..... :thumb_yello:


Don´t piss yourself. I don´t know by now, but in 2004 they were very down to earth and very cool guys to talk with. They´ll make you feel comfortable and i´m sure you´ll have your chance :punk:

Ok, i'm really shy but thanks for that, i've never met a band... uhm... just once but they were so mean with everybody xD

Btw, Laurel, i love your pics with the band.. *-*

[Mici]

That would be great! FF are even better live :punk:

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=jbsOPl0WMFg

I can´t help but still being obsessed with the "Michael" look. It fits the guys and myself very well :blush-anim-cl:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=gu41oOcfD7Q

This was my signature in a FF forum
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Queenie_/Queenie3.jpg?t=1228313909

And Alex´s best pic
http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/9608/ff077nc9.gif

See? I´m obsessed XD

I love the song Michael and its video is the best! :thumb_yello:
Great photo of Alex too. :wub2:

[Queenie]

I can´t hide my EXCITEMENT!!

I´m gonna see the guys on April!! WOHOOOO!!! :punk: :woot_jump: :groupwave:
There was a presale today and i already bought it!
Can´t wait, can´t waiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

http://creative.myspace.com/es/myspacemusiclive/cartel.jpg

[Laurel]

I can´t hide my EXCITEMENT!!

I´m gonna see the guys on April!! WOHOOOO!!! :punk: :woot_jump: :groupwave:
There was a presale today and i already bought it!
Can´t wait, can´t waiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

http://creative.myspace.com/es/myspacemusiclive/cartel.jpg

:lmfao:

Hammersmith for me today..... Mines on the 9th March :punk:

And I'm hoping to get a Blur Ticket tomorrow or Friday for Hyde Park

:wub2:

[Queenie]

I´m waiting for more Blur dates in the future.
Hyde Park is gonna be huge!!

Hammersmith sounds more intimate than mine (about 15000 people xD)

[Laurel]

I´m waiting for more Blur dates in the future.
Hyde Park is gonna be huge!!

Hammersmith sounds more intimate than mine (about 15000 people xD)

I've seen Blur loads of times though... and some really intimate.... I mean I was in a crowd of 30 people once for an MTV Show..... :roftl: You can't get more intimate than that.... Hyde Park will be the biggest show they've ever done since they started.... That's the one I want to be at...... :wub2:

I'm not such a huge fan anymore.... so the others don't bother me.... :bleh:

[Queenie]

Sounds interesting. I was in a quite intimate Blur gig as well. 100 people. Maybe you remember the story of Damon quitting a gig because someone stole his bracelets :roftl:

[Laurel]

Sounds interesting. I was in a quite intimate Blur gig as well. 100 people. Maybe you remember the story of Damon quitting a gig because someone stole his bracelets :roftl:

:lmfao:

Yep.... Have seen that on YT...... "Give me back my bracelets in the next two minutes.... or I ain't ever gonna do anything in Spain ever..... again I want them on the stage .... NOW....."

:naughty:

[Queenie]

I was there, first row. It was quite surrealistic :naughty:
He eventually came back a few months later and apologized :bleh:

[Laurel]

I HAVE A BLUR TICKET..... :woot_jump:

Sorry I know this isn't a Blur Thread.... but I can't be bothered to start one.... lol

[Queenie]

Congrats!! :wink2:

[Kissable]

I can´t hide my EXCITEMENT!!

I´m gonna see the guys on April!! WOHOOOO!!! :punk: :woot_jump: :groupwave:
There was a presale today and i already bought it!
Can´t wait, can´t waiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

bump

I'm jealous but at the same time i'm happy for you, have fun!

New Ulysses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqJRnopvVIU) video

I love ittt

[Laurel]

bump

I'm jealous but at the same time i'm happy for you, have fun!

New Ulysses (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqJRnopvVIU) video

I love ittt

Ooooh thank you for posting that.... I'd not seen it yet.... :wub2:

Not long till there album is out now.... January 26th :woot_jump: I've ordered the limited edition version with the 7" records and the DVD.... :wub2:

It's cost me £50.00 but it's my Christmas Present so :thumb_yello:

[Queenie]

The new vid is amazing! :woot_jump: :woot_jump

Did you download "No You Girls" song from myspace for free? I can´t find it...:blink:

[Laurel]

The new vid is amazing! :woot_jump: :woot_jump

Did you download "No You Girls" song from myspace for free? I can´t find it...:blink:

You probably found the link by now....


http://www.myspace.com/toyotamusic

but if not :wink2:

[Kissable]

Thanks for the link, Laurel!

I don't think i'll have enough money to buy the new album this january 26th so... i guess i can ease my pain with these songs

[Queenie]

Thanks for the link, Laurel! Greta kindly sent me the direct link
http://9qkqhq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1ppTPrAW_E_FzTL-TiiZZSKSd17yo5cEVhrDZKP1e4ftk7OorVuEgGxgiXDpLcqyjH K_bcpVols9I/03%20-%20No%20You%20Girls%20Never%20Know.mp3

I pre-ordered both singles & double cd. I can´t waiiiiiiiiiit!

And don´t worry Kissable, the album is on the net already :bleh:

[Laurel]

Thanks for the link, Laurel! Greta kindly sent me the direct link
http://9qkqhq.bay.livefilestore.com/y1ppTPrAW_E_FzTL-TiiZZSKSd17yo5cEVhrDZKP1e4ftk7OorVuEgGxgiXDpLcqyjH K_bcpVols9I/03%20-%20No%20You%20Girls%20Never%20Know.mp3

I pre-ordered both singles & double cd. I can´t waiiiiiiiiiit!

And don´t worry Kissable, the album is on the net already :bleh:

I know it's online... but I'm not looking for it ..... lol .... I wanna wait for the 26th.... am gonna wait for the 26th... I am :punk:

[Kissable]

I pre-ordered both singles & double cd. I can´t waiiiiiiiiiit!

And don´t worry Kissable, the album is on the net already :bleh:

Niceee! Be patient, enjoy them and so your concert xP

Already? I'm gonna listen to it the 26th or 27th for the first time so i won't feel guilty or something (I'm so innocent)

[Mici]

I love thier new single, and the video is great too. Can't wait to hear the whole album.

[FantasticVoyage]

I preordered the album a LONG time ago and can't wait.
I too love Ulysses and the video is brilliant. Love this craaaazy stuf. :)

[Kissable]

Go to http://www.myspace.com/franzferdinand NOW!

There's the full album! Yupeee, i'm going to listen to it after i take a shower, wohooo!

[Laurel]

Go to http://www.myspace.com/franzferdinand NOW!

There's the full album! Yupeee, i'm going to listen to it after i take a shower, wohooo!

Nooooooooooooooo..... I'm not gonna ..... I'm not..... I'm waiting til' Monday cos' I've not heard any of it yet.... :angel_not:

:wub2: :wub2:

[Kissable]

Nooooooooooooooo..... I'm not gonna ..... I'm not..... I'm waiting til' Monday cos' I've not heard any of it yet.... :angel_not:

:wub2: :wub2:

Good for you, you are strong! I'm gonna take some time in buy it, so i'm listening to it right now...

Friday, January 23th, 11:31

I'm listening to "Turn it On"

I'm gonna have an orgasm xD

EDIT: I've just finished it. I have to buy this album soon or i'll remain imperfect

[Queenie]

Amazing :wub2: :wub2:

[Laurel]

:boing: :boing: :boing:

Domino sent me the album early...... :woot_jump: I have it already .... have listened to the first 3 songs..... I am so happy.... :wub2:

I'm gonna watch the DVD later..... :yay: :boing:

[xxmika-maddo-joxx]

my friend is always on about him but to be honest ive never heard of him!
please fill me in on him :roftl:

[Niki27]

You can listen to the album for free on myspace on the 26th:

http://uk.myspace.com/franzferdinand

[vanessa]

I'm going to see them in July !
I'm so excited :woot_jump::woot_jump:

[Kissable]

my friend is always on about him but to be honest ive never heard of him!
please fill me in on him :roftl:

Him? It's not a him, it's a them, they are a band

Alex Kapranos + Paul Thomson + Bob Hardy + Nick McCarthy = Franz Ferdinand = One of the greatest bands in this world

I'm going to see them in July !
I'm so excited :woot_jump::woot_jump:

:) *jealous*

Congrats!

[Queenie]

The "him" thing confused me so much :blink:

[Kissable]

The "him" thing confused me so much :blink:

I think she thought that Franz Ferdinand was a solo artist... not a band and her friend always talks about them but she has never heard of them

That's the way i see it

[dcdeb]

Franz Ferdinand has just done "Ulysses" on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
-- an unexpected treat for me. I had no idea...

Anyhow... maybe look on youtube or NBC.com tomorrow if you want
to see it. :thumb_yello:

[greta]

OMGz I can't wait to buy also the HEROES - for the Warchildren- record...they covered Blondie's Call Me! :jumpin4joy!:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23630096-details/Killers+and+Coldplay+to+star+at+War+Child's+15th+b irthday+show/article.do (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23630096-details/Killers+and+Coldplay+to+star+at+War+Child%27s+15th +birthday+show/article.do)

+pix!
krappysorry with my mobile
...wanna see Kapranos&Co in Dolce&Gabbana? :italiansunglasses:
http://img19.picoodle.com/img/img19/3/1/30/f_30012009292m_e744cf6.jpg

http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/3/1/30/f_30012009293m_82a9c45.jpg

http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/3/1/30/f_30012009294m_6d3ac40.jpg

http://img37.picoodle.com/img/img37/3/1/30/f_30012009295m_9499003.jpg

http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/3/1/30/f_30012009296m_76a9963.jpg

http://img34.picoodle.com/img/img34/3/1/30/f_30012009300m_7b61d8c.jpg

SKULL OF ROCK mwahaha...they have a 5th band member, a plastick skeleton! XD

Alex: cooking was absolutely the best training to go touring with a rockband :D

^{I adored his Kitchen Confidential book}^

[Queenie]

Thanks deb for the info. I´ll try to find it on youtube.
And thanks for the scans, greta!

[greta]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/27/arts/franzspan.jpg

By MELENA RYZIK

It was around 3 in the afternoon when Alex Kapranos’s hangover began to wear off. Mr. Kapranos, the lead singer of the Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand, and his bandmate Nick McCarthy, who plays guitar and keyboards, had spent the previous evening in a refined version of debauchery. They went to a concert — by the British group the Last Shadow Puppets — followed by a late-night feast at the Spotted Pig, the West Village gastropub. Mr. McCarthy capped it off with some dancing at a downtown club, staying out until 5 a.m.

Now both were sitting at Momofuku Noodle Bar in the East Village, recovering.

“I’m feeling very, very tender,” Mr. Kapranos, 36, said.

“Do you have any tea?” Mr. McCarthy, 34, asked the waitress.

“No hot beverages,” she replied. They ordered water.

The odyssey of a night out, from drug-fueled anticipation to dance-floor frenzy to post-hook-up comedown, is also the subject of the band’s third album, “Tonight: Franz Ferdinand,” released on Tuesday on Domino/Epic Records. On it, the group — which includes Bob Hardy on bass and Paul Thomson on drums — aimed away from the wry, propulsive post-punk that defined its first two records and made its global 2004 hit, “Take Me Out,” an unlikely stadium anthem; even the Yankees used it.

Since then the members have found that their aesthetic — from their high-hat beat to their mod wardrobe — has gone mainstream, especially in Britain, Mr. Kapranos said. “You feel like, right, that’s become so much a part of musical vocabulary of the contemporary band, it’s now a cliché, and you have to leave it,” he said.

So no more “angular guitars,” Mr. McCarthy said, a description that has stuck to the band as surely as their slim-cut suits. (Or their angular haircuts.)

But though the band added more keyboards, bass (“It’s nice to be the lead onstage occasionally, so that I can show off a bit,” Mr. Hardy wrote in an e-mail message), unusual instrumentation, echoes of dub and even an acousticy ballad, “Tonight” will sound familiar to Franz fans, with Mr. Kapranos again singing disco songs about girls and hedonistic behavior.

He has a reputation as a foodie: he met Mr. Hardy when they worked at a Glasgow restaurant, and eventually wrote a food column for The Guardian in Britain. (A collection was released in the United States as a well-received book, “Sound Bites: Eating on Tour With Franz Ferdinand,” in 2006.)

Over an elaborate lunch — kimchi and other pickled vegetables, East and West Coast oysters, pork and ****ake mushroom buns, noodle soups and hamachi with beet purée — he and Mr. McCarthy discussed their attempts to sidestep the clichés of postpunk stardom while still making a record people could dance, and debauch themselves, to.

“It’s a mixed blessing when a band gets that much attention early on,” said Jason Bentley, the music director of KCRW, the influential radio station in Santa Monica, Calif., and the host of “Morning Becomes Eclectic.” In 2004 that program, with Nic Harcourt as the host, first featured Franz Ferdinand in the United States. Less than a year later the band was opening the Grammys with “Take Me Out.”

“For a while there, you thought, ‘Are these guys going to go down as a one-hit wonder?’ ” Mr. Bentley said.

Not that they mind having their music back arena-size sporting events. “I always thought it was funny,” Mr. Kapranos said, “because we are the least sporty people in the world.”

Still, “Tonight” is an attempt to regroup as the small Glasgow band the members started, rather than the stylish name brand one they seemed poised to become after their self-titled debut, which had a narrowly defined look and a taut signature sound and sold more than a million copies in the United States.

Released a year later, their second album, “You Could Have It So Much Better,” did just half as well, and didn’t have a hit radio song. Having spent nearly every day together for several years, the band took a break after the tour.

During that time Mr. McCarthy, who recently moved to London from Glasgow with his wife, traveled and studied piano. Mr. Kapranos, who splits his time between Glasgow and Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with his girlfriend, the singer Eleanor Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces, produced an album by the British act the Cribs in Vancouver. Mr. Hardy hung out with friends in New York, and Mr. Thomson, who is also married, started a family.

(“Without being mean, I’d say Paul was probably the most puerile member of the band, and now he’s by far the most mature and responsible,” Mr. Kapranos said. “It’s quite shocking.”) When the band members reconvened in Glasgow in 2007, they would occasionally play shows in basement clubs for 150 people to test out the new songs.

“Glasgow’s not a media center,” Mr. Kapranos said. “When you’re there, when you’re hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.”

The members spent a year and a half recording the new album in an enormous former town hall in Govan, an industrial area of Glasgow. They treated the 19th-century space — rented for about £400 ($560) a month, “half the daily rate of a London recording studio,” Mr. Kapranos said — like a musical playhouse, amplifying hand claps in the dome and using the theater for reverb.

“We were quite into this idea of cutting between takes, in the same way you’d cut between locations in a film,” Mr. Kapranos said. “So we’d record a song in the cellar, which has a harsh, hard rock ’n’ roll kind of sound, and then for the middle eight we would cut to the large hall.”

For the vocals, “we would line all the microphone stands up on the end of the stage, and we’d have all the lights out in the middle of the night, and we’d be singing into complete pitch blackness,” he said. But it was only when they compiled the tracks that the nighttime theme emerged. “I don’t know whether it came from our personal lives,” he said, “or the fact that we sealed off all the windows in this building.”

The result is a dance record in the DFA mold, Mr. Bentley said, referring to the Brooklyn label that’s home to the band LCD Soundsystem. “There’s a bit of a sexy swagger to it,” he said, “not quite as angular and edgy, I suppose.”

The lead track and first single, “Ulysses,” named for James Joyce but inspired by the Greek myth (“My dad used to tell me all those stories when I was young,” said Mr. Kapranos, who is part Greek), has already begun climbing the Billboard modern rock chart. That has proved the one-hit-wonder concern “wrong enough,” Mr. Bentley said. Though “Ulysses” was a hit on KROQ in Los Angeles, he added, “it’s a perfect record for us.”

Straddling the mainstream and the more aesthetically refined seems a good fit for Franz Ferdinand. During the meal, Mr. McCarthy said he liked the kimchi the best. And it turns out that Mr. Kapranos is less a foodie in the name-dropping sense — he didn’t mind admitting that he’d never heard of the four-star restaurant Per Se — than a fan of the eccentric, like Diner in Williamsburg, where the menu is written on each table’s paper tablecloth.

Though Mr. Kapranos had a hard time meeting his deadlines, he is considering picking up nonmusical writing again. On tour, “it is very easy to slip into that total vegetative state and not do anything but drink beer and play PlayStation,” he said. Isn’t that part of the contemporary rock star life?

“It’s so boring,” Mr. Kapranos said — the wrong kind of hedonism. He spooned up some dessert, concord grape soft-serve ice cream.

“I’m feeling a lot better now,” he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/arts/music/27fran.html


:band:
for spreadin the best rock around only :punk:

[Kissable]

Wow, thanks for the scans and the article, greta, very very appreciated

[dcdeb]

http://www.nbc.com/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/video/episodes/?vid=979061#vid=979061

That's the whole episode of the show -- you need to select
chapter 6, click on Alex Kapranos' face :)

:thumb_yello:

[Kissable]

It sucks, can't see it, it's not available for my country :tears:

I hope it's on YT

[Kissable]

OH GIRLS, OH GIRLS! I'M SO EXCITED!!

I've just read that FF might be coming back to Mexico this summer! AHHH!!!!!!! Here's an interview but it's in spanish

http://www.exonline.com.mx/diario/noticia/funcion/musica/franz_ferdinand_sacan_su_lado_oscuro/491520

"Nick McCarthy, who played "Human Space Volt" with Zoé in November of the 2007 to celebrate 10 years of the mexican band, said that Franz Ferdinand will come back to Mexico, and that they will play in the Coachella festival, to be held between April 17th and 19th in Indio, California.

We want to go to Mexico, we are going to play in summer, but i don't know exactly wich month. People treats us so well there and Zoé are our friends, they showed us the city, they are good guys, i hope we can do something together...", he said."

I hope they can come to Guadalajara too!!

Sorry for the bad translation, english is not my mother tongue so =P

[Isa]

OH GIRLS, OH GIRLS! I'M SO EXCITED!!

I've just read that FF might be coming back to Mexico this summer! AHHH!!!!!!! Here's an interview but it's in spanish

http://www.exonline.com.mx/diario/noticia/funcion/musica/franz_ferdinand_sacan_su_lado_oscuro/491520

"Nick McCarthy, who played "Human Space Volt" with Zoé in November of the 2007 to celebrate 10 years of the mexican band, said that Franz Ferdinand will come back to Mexico, and that they will play in the Coachella festival, to be held between April 17th and 19th in Indio, California.

We want to go to Mexico, we are going to play in summer, but i don't know exactly wich month. People treats us so well there and Zoé are our friends, they showed us the city, they are good guys, i hope we can do something together...", he said."

I hope they can come to Guadalajara too!!

Sorry for the bad translation, english is not my mother tongue so =P

I will keep my fingers cross for you Suzan. I really want you to see them live!:punk:

[Kissable]

Thanks, Isa (:

Where the hell are all the FF fans???? Oh well... whatever

[Laurel]

Sorry :boing: I'm here .... I'm going to see them next month .... really hope you get to see them .... they're amazing live ..... you'll love it :huglove:

[Kissable]

Thank goodness!

I'm happy for you, i hope you can meet them... again.

... and thanks again, i hope i get the chance to see them

[Isa]

Thanks, Isa (:

Where the hell are all the FF fans???? Oh well... whatever

You're welcome!

I dunno......... Maybe getting ready to see them alive?:punk:

Thats great Laurel. Have so much fun!! Hope you can met them again!

[mandilambi]

I saw that they are coming to Kansas City in April. Yay!! :)

[Kissable]

I saw that they are coming to Kansas City in April. Yay!! :)

Are you going to see them???? Let's hope you do

[mandilambi]

Hopefully. It will depend if I have someone to go with me. The last time they were here no one would attend their show with me, so I missed it!

[Kissable]

Hope you find someone! It's the first time that you are going to see them live? (if you go, of course)

[Laurel]

Can't you go on your own ... or is it not possible .... I always go on my own :boing:

[Kissable]

Oh yeah, i'll go even if i have to go my myself.... alone. I wouldn't miss such an awesome concert!

[iadoremika]

Today I got their new CD "Tonight". It's quite good. :thumb_yello:

[Kissable]

bumpity bump!

I got it this past friday, it's friggin' awesome. This last record is making me love even more Franz Ferdinand

No You Girls is... maybe my favourite, but Send Him Away is pretty close, also Can't Stop Feeling, Twilight Omens and Lucid Dreams

But i think i prefer the live version of What She Came For oO'

[iadoremika]

I heard "No You Girls" on an iPod touch commerical. :wink2:

[zoots14]

I've just "discovered" Franz Ferdinand... love them!! I'm looking them up and realizing I've heard a lot of their stuff before, but never really put a name to the music. I think this is going to be on heavy rotation on my ipod for a while.

[kath]

Great Gig in Glasgow last night:thumb_yello: Crowd were a bit wild............lots of crowd surfing and flying beer:naughty:
Excellent performance though:mf_lustslow: Have a great night on Monday Laurel...I am sure you will be boinging lots after it:naughty: Anyone else that is going to one of the gigs, you have a great night too.:thumb_yello:

[Laurel]

Great Gig in Glasgow last night:thumb_yello: Crowd were a bit wild............lots of crowd surfing and flying beer:naughty:
Excellent performance though:mf_lustslow: Have a great night on Monday Laurel...I am sure you will be boinging lots after it:naughty: Anyone else that is going to one of the gigs, you have a great night too.:thumb_yello

I was listening to their album all last night .... getting myself in the mood :wub2:

Am really looking forward to seeing them again .... long time since June :thumb_yello:

Glad you enjoyed them :wink2:

[kath]

I was listening to their album all last night .... getting myself in the mood :wub2:

Am really looking forward to seeing them again .... long time since June :thumb_yello:

Glad you enjoyed them :wink2:

Thanks Laurel.:wub2: You will have a ball I am sure. I am totally obsessed with Ulysses and just had it on repeat all the way home last night and all the way into work today:naughty:

[vanessa]

How long was the gig Kath ?
I will see them in July in a festival !I hope I will have fun :naughty:

[kath]

How long was the gig Kath ?
I will see them in July in a festival !I hope I will have fun :naughty:

Hi Vanessa, they were on for 1 hr 17 mins:naughty: I only know so precisely as Vicky had a train to catch so we were watching the clock:naughty:

I am sure you will enjoy them:thumb_yello:

[Kissable]

Hi Vanessa, they were on for 1 hr 17 mins:naughty: I only know so precisely as Vicky had a train to catch so we were watching the clock:naughty:

I am sure you will enjoy them:thumb_yello:

1 hr 17 mins exactly? :lol3:

How was the setlist? It was good?

[iadoremika]

Great Gig in Glasgow last night:thumb_yello: Crowd were a bit wild............lots of crowd surfing and flying beer:naughty:
Excellent performance though:mf_lustslow: Have a great night on Monday Laurel...I am sure you will be boinging lots after it:naughty: Anyone else that is going to one of the gigs, you have a great night too.:thumb_yello:
Wow, that sounds crazy. But awesome. So, that would be crazy awesome..? :naughty:

[Angele]

Great Gig in Glasgow last night:thumb_yello: Crowd were a bit wild............lots of crowd surfing and flying beer:naughty:
Excellent performance though:mf_lustslow: Have a great night on Monday Laurel...I am sure you will be boinging lots after it:naughty: Anyone else that is going to one of the gigs, you have a great night too.:thumb_yello:

thanks for the report, i'll go see them on Monday 16th March in Lille, and i'm impatient:naughty:

[Kissable]

Wow, everybody on the MFC is going to see them

Please post your report when you see them

[kath]

1 hr 17 mins exactly? :lol3:

How was the setlist? It was good?

Yes.............1 hr 17 exactly:naughty:

Not being a massively obsessive fan I can't answer in great depth about the setlist I am afraid. I have the new album and basically I would say that the set was a mixture of new and old material...sorry that I can't be much more specific...I am sure that Laurel will be able to give a VERY detailed report after tomorrow night:thumb_yello:

Wow, that sounds crazy. But awesome. So, that would be crazy awesome..? :naughty:

It would indeed.................and it was!

thanks for the report, i'll go see them on Monday 16th March in Lille, and i'm impatient:naughty:

WOW! Have a great time:thumb_yello:

[Laurel]

Yes.............1 hr 17 exactly:naughty:

Not being a massively obsessive fan I can't answer in great depth about the setlist I am afraid. I have the new album and basically I would say that the set was a mixture of new and old material...sorry that I can't be much more specific...I am sure that Laurel will be able to give a VERY detailed report after tomorrow night:thumb_yello:



It would indeed.................and it was!



WOW! Have a great time:thumb_yello:

I'm planning to film the whole thing lol ...... :wink2:

The first time I'll ever do that ..... am dead excited now ...... :wub2:

[kath]

I'm planning to film the whole thing lol ...... :wink2:

The first time I'll ever do that ..... am dead excited now ...... :wub2:

Excited but not boinging? I am expecting much boinging when you come back:naughty:

Have a brilliant time................I am sure you will:thumb_yello:

[Laurel]

Excited but not boinging? I am expecting much boinging when you come back:naughty:

Have a brilliant time................I am sure you will:thumb_yello:

Oh I want to boing ... but I'm being good :angel_not:

See ..... :thumb_yello:

[Kissable]

Yes.............1 hr 17 exactly:naughty:

Not being a massively obsessive fan I can't answer in great depth about the setlist I am afraid. I have the new album and basically I would say that the set was a mixture of new and old material...sorry that I can't be much more specific...I am sure that Laurel will be able to give a VERY detailed report after tomorrow night:thumb_yello:

I see, you liked the concert even you're not an obsessive fan, that's a good sign! *cross fingers* i hope they play Can't stop feeling

Thanks anyway ^^

I'm planning to film the whole thing lol ...... :wink2:

The first time I'll ever do that ..... am dead excited now ...... :wub2:

Have fun, Laurel!! I hope you enjoy the concert and give us a report... and if you're able to take pictures be sure to post them in here if you have time and of course the videos :lol3:

Have fun again!!!

[Kissable]

NEW VIDEO OF "NO YOU GIRLS (http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=53958295)"

[Angele]

..and still one sleep and ....
i 'll go to see them.......:punk:

[Niki27]

Just in case:
Live gig on the radio right now:

http://www.purefm.be/rtbf_2000/bin/view_something.cgi?id=0173435_sac

click "ecouter en live" in the orange banner

[Laurel]

Just in case:
Live gig on the radio right now:

http://www.purefm.be/rtbf_2000/bin/view_something.cgi?id=0173435_sac

click "ecouter en live" in the orange banner

I'm listening to their album again right now .... oh and I've not forgotten my review of their Hammersmith gig .... it's just I'm still on the old laptop ... so can't upload the vids I took .... should be on the new one tomorrow .... my brother is coming down to set up the internet on it for me .... :wub2:

So I shall post everything after that :boing:

[kath]

I'm listening to their album again right now .... oh and I've not forgotten my review of their Hammersmith gig .... it's just I'm still on the old laptop ... so can't upload the vids I took .... should be on the new one tomorrow .... my brother is coming down to set up the internet on it for me .... :wub2:

So I shall post everything after that :boing:

Looking forward to it Laurel...................even if you did miss my favourite line:wink2:

[vickylovesmika]

:punk:What was that Kath?
Yeah Laurel, come o!n!:punk:

:wink2::wub2:

[Laurel]

I was filming Bob .... :sneaky2: I have to remember their are 4 members of FF and not just Alex ... it is hard to remember sometimes lol :wink2:

[kath]

:punk:What was that Kath?
Yeah Laurel, come o!n!:punk:

:wink2::wub2:

The 'last night was wild' line:roftl:

Laurel recorded it but had her focus on the wrong person during that line:shocked::roftl:

[kath]

I was filming Bob .... :sneaky2: I have to remember their are 4 members of FF and not just Alex ... it is hard to remember sometimes lol :wink2:

There are????:naughty:

[vickylovesmika]

There are????:naughty:

We only remember one don't we !!:roftl:

[Laurel]

There are????:naughty:

Yes ... there are .... repeat after me Bob Hardy, Paul Thomson, Nick McCarthy and Alex Kapranos .... and there was also Andy Knowles .... who was unofficially their 5th member ... but he seems to have disappeared for this new tour .... which is a shame as he was very nice too ..... :wub2:

[kath]

We only remember one don't we !!:roftl:

Yes but we are old so can be forgiven..............well, I am anyway:naughty:

Yes ... there are .... repeat after me Bob Hardy, Paul Thomson, Nick McCarthy and Alex Kapranos .... and there was also Andy Knowles .... who was unofficially their 5th member ... but he seems to have disappeared for this new tour .... which is a shame as he was very nice too ..... :wub2:
Thank you Laurel.............. (forgotten already)

Oh I remember........there are four members...Alex, Alex, Alex and Alex.........right?:thumb_yello:

[Laurel]

Yes but we are old so can be forgiven..............well, I am anyway:naughty:


Thank you Laurel.............. (forgotten already)

Oh I remember........there are four members...Alex, Alex, Alex and Alex.........right?:thumb_yello:

Well .... when I do my filming it seems to be Alex, Alex, Alex and Alex .... :naughty:

:wink2:

[kath]

Well .... when I do my filming it seems to be Alex, Alex, Alex and Alex .... :naughty:

:wink2:

:naughty: Except for the bit that I specificaly wanted of course:roftl:

[Laurel]

:naughty: Except for the bit that I specificaly wanted of course:roftl:

I hereby promise ... that the next time I go to see Franz ... I will film Alex during that bit of the song ..... that is if moshing and shoving permits :thumb_yello:

[vickylovesmika]

Oh you girls will never know!!:naughty::roftl:

[Laurel]

Oh you girls will never know!!:naughty::roftl:

And the boys never care :wink2:

[kath]

I hereby promise ... that the next time I go to see Franz ... I will film Alex during that bit of the song ..... that is if moshing and shoving permits :thumb_yello:

Thank you my dear:naughty:

[Angele]

..then i have seen them on Monday 16th March in Lille, and it was the first time, but not the last, it was super fantastic.....
I was on the 3rd row, i have survive during 4 songs en then i moved back...the people are crazy...
They sing during 1h30 and for me it was 15 min...
I want to see them again...

Here is my youtube account with a few vidéos ( not good quality, but it's so difficult to don't move...:blush-anim-cl::wink2:)

http://www.youtube.com/lilique17

[Queenie]

April 3, April 3, April 3!! IT´s GETTING CLOSEEEEEEEEEEER!

Thanks for the litle review and the vids, Angele!

[Niki27]

April 3, April 3, April 3!! IT´s GETTING CLOSEEEEEEEEEEER!

Thanks for the litle review and the vids, Angele!

You'd better call me :naughty:

[Isa]

April 3, April 3, April 3!! IT´s GETTING CLOSEEEEEEEEEEER!

Thanks for the litle review and the vids, Angele!

Dont remind me that, please.........:sneaky2:

[Queenie]

You'd better call me :naughty:
I´ll do, promise! I won´t call you in "Take Me Out", sorry. You know i lose my self-control :naughty:

Dont remind me that, please.........:sneaky2:
:huglove: :huglove: They will come back soon! They´re quite big in Spain :wink2:

[kath]

..then i have seen them on Monday 16th March in Lille, and it was the first time, but not the last, it was super fantastic.....
I was on the 3rd row, i have survive during 4 songs en then i moved back...the people are crazy...
They sing during 1h30 and for me it was 15 min...
I want to see them again...

Here is my youtube account with a few vidéos ( not good quality, but it's so difficult to don't move...:blush-anim-cl::wink2:)

http://www.youtube.com/lilique17

Glad you had a good time................even if the crowd were crazy:roftl:

April 3, April 3, April 3!! IT´s GETTING CLOSEEEEEEEEEEER!

Thanks for the litle review and the vids, Angele!

WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:mf_lustslow:

Have a great one:thumb_yello:

[Laurel]

Do you want some video's then ..... :wub2:

Here they are as promised :wink2:

Intro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXEC_etPRM

Matinee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EJzFjGNlBg

Wasn't expecting them to start with this ..... cheers for nearly killing me from the very start guys .... the crowd was all over the place from the beginning ... was so glad I wasn't in front of Alex ... which was where I was planning on going .... but as per normal there was a hold up with the guy scanning the tickets so by the time I got to the front - I had to settle for being in front of Bob .... :wink2:

No You Girls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci1-8JdsVtU

Love this song ... glad they're releasing it as the second single .... :boing:

Twilight Omens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9U0IsghuoI

Still fave song off of the album .... hope they don't release this as I normally go off songs once they're released lol ....

Take Me Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmTWyO7DV68

Mayhem as per normal ... how I managed to film this I have no idea ... probably don't see from the vid just how bad the moshing was during this .... still get tingles up my back from the start ... just cos' you know what's coming .... awesome live :wub2:

Bite Hard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oryg7eg9XKY

I thought I'd recorded the whole song .... I hadn't .... *sulk*

Ulysses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk5n7Iz4HhE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgWI4khNt3s

Buggered up the recording of this abit .... and sorry Kath for filming Bob during that line .... :roftl:

What She Came For

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI_bWWtnpTU

Really like this song ..... Is a firm Franz Fan's favourite too ....



Sorry for the quality of some of the vids .... but the crowd was pretty mental from the start so trying to film at all was hard .... I gave up during the encore so have hardly no vids from that .... was too busy trying to keep my place :naughty:

Hope you like them

[Laurel]

Oh and I got a setlist .....

Setlist on the night was

Matinee
No You Girls
Do You Want To?
Twilight Omens
Walk Away
Take Me Out
Turn It On (Why didn't I film it :( - It's one of my fave songs - maybe I was too busy jumping)
40FT
Bite Hard
The Fallen
Michael
Ulysses

What She Came For
Lucid Dreams (****ing awesome - Alex doing stomping tamborine dance during this - again I didn't film it .... mainly cos' by this point I could barely stand straight)
Outsiders
This Fire

Watching these vids back on YT .... has kind of bought the love back .... big time ... If you're going to see them soon .... enjoy them .... I know you will :huglove:

[Isa]

I´ll do, promise! I won´t call you in "Take Me Out", sorry. You know i lose my self-control :naughty


huglove: :huglove: They will come back soon! They´re quite big in Spain :wink2:

I know. hope I can go someday and see them alive.......

Do you want some video's then ..... :wub2

Here they are as promised :wink2

Intro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXEC_etPRM

Matinee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EJzFjGNlBg

Wasn't expecting them to start with this ..... cheers for nearly killing me from the very start guys .... the crowd was all over the place from the beginning ... was so glad I wasn't in front of Alex ... which was where I was planning on going .... but as per normal there was a hold up with the guy scanning the tickets so by the time I got to the front - I had to settle for being in front of Bob .... :wink2:

No You Girls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci1-8JdsVtU

Love this song ... glad they're releasing it as the second single .... :boing:

Twilight Omens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9U0IsghuoI

Still fave song off of the album .... hope they don't release this as I normally go off songs once they're released lol ....

Take Me Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmTWyO7DV68

Mayhem as per normal ... how I managed to film this I have no idea ... probably don't see from the vid just how bad the moshing was during this .... still get tingles up my back from the start ... just cos' you know what's coming .... awesome live :wub2:

Bite Hard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oryg7eg9XKY

I thought I'd recorded the whole song .... I hadn't .... *sulk*

Ulysses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk5n7Iz4HhE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgWI4khNt3s

Buggered up the recording of this abit .... and sorry Kath for filming Bob during that line .... :roftl:

What She Came For

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI_bWWtnpTU

Really like this song ..... Is a firm Franz Fan's favourite too ....



Sorry for the quality of some of the vids .... but the crowd was pretty mental from the start so trying to film at all was hard .... I gave up during the encore so have hardly no vids from that .... was too busy trying to keep my place :naughty:

Hope you like them

Wow! Great! Seems that you had a great time there!!

[vanessa]

Laurel your videos are so goood I watched them all the sound is amazing :wub2:
I can't wait to see them live :blush-anim-cl:

[Laurel]

Laurel your videos are so goood I watched them all the sound is amazing :wub2:
I can't wait to see them live :blush-anim-cl:

Awwww thanks .... :wub2: They are incredible live :boing: I love them to bits .... :thumb_yello:

[kath]

Thanks Laurel, I will watch them when I have the time:thumb_yello:

[femifrosk]

Love them!!

[Kissable]

Do you want some video's then ..... :wub2:

Here they are as promised

Intro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXEC_etPRM

Matinee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EJzFjGNlBg

Wasn't expecting them to start with this ..... cheers for nearly killing me from the very start guys .... the crowd was all over the place from the beginning ... was so glad I wasn't in front of Alex ... which was where I was planning on going .... but as per normal there was a hold up with the guy scanning the tickets so by the time I got to the front - I had to settle for being in front of Bob .... :wink2:

No You Girls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci1-8JdsVtU

Love this song ... glad they're releasing it as the second single .... :boing:

Twilight Omens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9U0IsghuoI

Still fave song off of the album .... hope they don't release this as I normally go off songs once they're released lol ....

Take Me Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmTWyO7DV68

Mayhem as per normal ... how I managed to film this I have no idea ... probably don't see from the vid just how bad the moshing was during this .... still get tingles up my back from the start ... just cos' you know what's coming .... awesome live

Bite Hard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oryg7eg9XKY

I thought I'd recorded the whole song .... I hadn't .... *sulk*

Ulysses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk5n7Iz4HhE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgWI4khNt3s

Buggered up the recording of this abit .... and sorry Kath for filming Bob during that line .... :roftl:

What She Came For

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI_bWWtnpTU

Really like this song ..... Is a firm Franz Fan's favourite too ....



Sorry for the quality of some of the vids .... but the crowd was pretty mental from the start so trying to film at all was hard .... I gave up during the encore so have hardly no vids from that .... was too busy trying to keep my place :naughty:

Hope you like them

Wow, thankss Laurel!!!! Cant wait to see them (the videos.... and the band too)

EDIT: Those are great! Thx, Laurel!!! Too bad "Bite Hard" it's not complete!!! I wish i was there... good show, good show
Oh and I got a setlist .....

Setlist on the night was

Matinee
No You Girls
Do You Want To?
Twilight Omens
Walk Away
Take Me Out
Turn It On (Why didn't I film it :( - It's one of my fave songs - maybe I was too busy jumping)
40FT
Bite Hard
The Fallen
Michael
Ulysses

What She Came For
Lucid Dreams (****ing awesome - Alex doing stomping tamborine dance during this - again I didn't film it .... mainly cos' by this point I could barely stand straight)
Outsiders
This Fire

Watching these vids back on YT .... has kind of bought the love back .... big time ... If you're going to see them soon .... enjoy them .... I know you will :huglove:

WOW!!!! Great setlist!! Can't wait to see them live, they said that they'll come back to Mexico this year!!! AAAHHH!! Can't fckin wait!!!

Thanks again ^///^ im glad you had a great time!

Love them!!

Hey there!!!! Welcome back
...im glad you like Franz Ferdinand too!!! Show some FF love! lol

[Queenie]

Oh and I got a setlist .....

Setlist on the night was

Matinee
No You Girls
Do You Want To?
Twilight Omens
Walk Away
Take Me Out
Turn It On (Why didn't I film it :( - It's one of my fave songs - maybe I was too busy jumping)
40FT
Bite Hard
The Fallen
Michael
Ulysses

What She Came For
Lucid Dreams (****ing awesome - Alex doing stomping tamborine dance during this - again I didn't film it .... mainly cos' by this point I could barely stand straight)
Outsiders
This Fire

Watching these vids back on YT .... has kind of bought the love back .... big time ... If you're going to see them soon .... enjoy them .... I know you will :huglove:
I´m going to see them in 10 days, and YOU KNOW i´m gonna enjoy it! :wink2:
Thanks for the vids, the setlist..I´m so excited and i can´t hide it!:woot_jump::woot_jump:

BTW, being in front of Bob, the angel who fell from Heaven, is not that bad. I was there :wink2:

[Kissable]

I love the beginning when all of you were singing and Alex's expression

[Mici]

twas AMAZING! :boing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCKJNPtpfGU
sorry for the quality but I couldn't take footage and my company was slightly drunk :lol3:

oh embarassment...we can't sing! :floor:

My favorite Franz song probably. :thumb_yello:
My friend went to that gig yesterday she is a big fan.

[Mici]

No You Girls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci1-8JdsVtU

Love this song ... glad they're releasing it as the second single .... :boing:


Its such a great song, althought the video they have made to it is not the best one..:boxed:

[Kissable]

Its such a great song, althought the video they have made to it is not the best one..:boxed:

Agreed!!!!! I so agree with you... it's just... not them!

[greta]

edit of the edit: I can't remember the setlist in order, only that they opened with TheFallen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfa8cEAmChY
a song which lyrics I simply adore :meow:
My favorite Franz song probably. :thumb_yello:
My friend went to that gig yesterday she is a big fan.
oh snap! I wasn't sure to go till last minute, or I would've post here to ask if anyone made that gig ^^

yep sorry for the vid...I usually don't film...plus that place is quite bad for the sound&all :bleh: but anyhow it's been a blast! :punk:

edit: mwahah u were talking about the official vid...agh I hope it was just to convoy the attention, like every FF fan is worried & talk about it everywhere :lmfao:

[keti]

I loove them so much, I can't wait to buy their album!! And "No You Girls" is a BRILLIANT song :wub2: the video is totally okay to me too :thumb_yello:


Oh and...not to forget Alex... :naughty::mf_lustslow:

[Laurel]

Omg they covered Womanizer :roftl:

http://themusicslut.com/2009/04/the-world-of-b-sides-rarities-1125/

Am downloading this now :wub2:

I loved their version of Gwen Stefani's What You Waiting For .... so this should be awesome :boing:

[zoots14]

Omg they covered Womanizer :roftl:

http://themusicslut.com/2009/04/the-world-of-b-sides-rarities-1125/

That's great... a lot of people seem to be covering this song. Have you heard Mark Ronson's cover?

[MIKAmadRosie1996]

Omg they covered Womanizer :roftl:

http://themusicslut.com/2009/04/the-world-of-b-sides-rarities-1125/

i heart their cover!!1




their at glastonbury this year!!!!

and on jools holland 2nite

:shocked::wub2::wub2::blush-anim-cl:

[Kissable]

Omg they covered Womanizer :roftl:

http://themusicslut.com/2009/04/the-world-of-b-sides-rarities-1125/

O M G, that's crazy.

They are good covering songs so i'm sure this will be awesome

[MIKAmadRosie1996]

did anyone watch joolz holland last night? were FF good?

[MIKAmadRosie1996]

ohmygod!!!! did inot say i saw them live at the NME big gig awards? they were soooooooooooo good!!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aPJwbVQNgY&feature=channel

beleive it or not, that vid was filmed by the guy sa in front of us!!!!

:boing::boing:

[Mici]

Omg they covered Womanizer :roftl:

http://themusicslut.com/2009/04/the-world-of-b-sides-rarities-1125/

This version is even better the the original! :punk::thumb_yello:

[MIKAmadRosie1996]

This version is even better the the original! :punk::thumb_yello:


definately!!! britneys version was discusting!

[Kissable]

Am downloading this now :wub2:

I loved their version of Gwen Stefani's What You Waiting For .... so this should be awesome :boing:

I think i prefer their Gwen's cover than Britney's

[MIKAmadRosie1996]

I think i prefer their Gwen's cover than Britney's

same, especially as im a gwen fan too!

[Niki27]

I saw them tonight just arrived home !
The best thing is I caught a drum stick from Alex and we had loads of eye contacts :wub2:

LUCKY LUCKKKKKKKKKYYYYYYYYYYYY!!
You rule!
Post a pic! :)

[vanessa]

Pics from the fantastic show :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22286767@N06/

[Queenie]

Wohooo! Thanks Vanessa!