Official promotional music video for the single "The Dark of the Matinée", performed by Franz Ferdinand and released on their eponymous debut album. Band members appear as bored classmates of a boarding school whose fun is to perform the ...See more ...
Franz Ferdinand 2025 - 2026 Tour Dates for their current Tour! Includes Franz Ferdinand's current concert schedule and past tour dates for your convenience!
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The Human Fearmarks a new chapter for Franz Ferdinand. It’s the first album to feature drummerAudrey Taitand guitaristDino Bardot, who joined the band following the departures of founding membersPaul ThomsonandNick McCarthy. SongwriterJulian Corrie(akaMiaoux Miaoux) has also become a key part of...
Endgames,Finley Quaye,Fire Engines,Foil,Franz Ferdinand SATURDAY’S SCOTTISH SINGLE (Part 46-50) Back on 8 October 2011, I started a series called ‘Saturday’s Scottish Single’. The aim was to feature one 45 or CD single by a Scottish singer or band with the proviso that the 45 or ...
For this interview we talk toFranz Ferdinand. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the release of the band’s self-titled debut album, a record that was met with near universal critical acclaim and was also a commercial success in both the U.K. and the U.S., among other countries....
Franz Ferdinand will play some small club shows in its hometown of Glasgow, as well as one in New York, in the coming weeks. Although no dates or venues have been confirmed, the shows mark the band’s first of 2007. “We’ll be trying out some new songs and inviting some other ...
Franz Ferdinand's driver, Franz Urban, drove on extremely fast and other members of theBlack Handgroup on the route,Cvijetko Popovic,Gavrilo Princip,Danilo IlicandTrifko Grabez, decided that it was useless to try and kill the archduke when the car was going at this speed. ...
It’s hard to think of another event in the troubled 20th century that had quite the shattering impact of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The archduke was heir to the throne of the tottering Austro-Hungarian empire; his killers—a motl...
Alex Kapranos, Franz Ferdinand's frontman, looks thoughtful. Huddled around a small table in a Primrose Hill pub, the remaining three members of the year's most promising new band - Bob Hardy, Nick McCarthy and Paul Thomson - look over at him expectantly. "My mum and dad have gone ...