Having headlined festivals including Reading & Leeds, Rock En Seine, Primavera and All Points East, Franz Ferdinand will be announcing details of major live shows in the near future.Īlongside the announcement of Hits To The Head, the band have also announced a run of UK and European dates next spring. Second single, "Take Me Out" exploded onto the international stage, putting the band firmly on the global map and was a precursor to their eponymous debut album which went on to sell nearly four million copies worldwide.Īrtistically always forging forward, their following albums, You Could Have It So Much Better (2005), Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (2009), Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action(2013) and Always Ascending(2018) all offered a new take on the Franz template and saw them work with some of the most pioneering producers around including Dan Carey, Joe Goddard and Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, Todd Terje and Philippe Zdar. My introduction.įranz Ferdinand signed to Domino in May 2003 and released their first single, "Darts Of Pleasure" shortly after. I am so grateful that they had Changes or Rolled Gold. I think of my parents’ record collection as a kid. I have friends who believe you’re somehow not a “real” fan if you own a best of rather than a discography. We also added two new songs, recorded last year: Billy Goodbye and Curious, both co-produced at the last stage with Stuart Price. That means obvious singles, but also songs you know have a special meaning for both band and audience like Outsiders. "It's the same as writing a set-list for a festival: you want to play the songs you know people want to hear. Talking about the process of picking tracks for the album, lead singer Alex Kapranos said: Armed with an astute sense of what constitutes the ‘classic pop song’ (famously proclaiming that they write music ‘to make girls dance to’) the music of Franz Ferdinand continues to resonate globally and over the course of nearly two decades they’ve become, commercially and critically, one of the biggest UK bands in the world, selling over 10 million albums, 1.2 billion streams to date, 14 platinum albums, winning Brit, Ivor Novello + Mercury Prize awards, Grammy nominations and selling 6 million tickets for their incendiary live show worldwide.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |