"The only thing that tires me out is if we don't write new songs," says Nick McCarthy (guitar, keyboards). You get a nicer bus for a start." Bob Hardy (bass) agrees: "American tours are like a holiday! Your bunk is bigger, you've got a DVD-player and there are longer periods between shows, longer drives, you're having a lie-in, so there's less work to do." Still there are undoubtedly some frustrations. The American tours are actually really laid-back. When we first came to America, we'd fly over, go straight to the pub then wake up hungover and jetlagged, wondering why we were feeling so shit. They only signed their record deal on 15 June 2003.įairly certain of the answer, I ask them if they are exhausted. Their first gig - in a flat in the centre of Glasgow, where they were the musical accompaniment to an exhibition held by some Glasgow School of Art friends - was on. So much so that it's easy to forget just how "new" Franz Ferdinand are. It's been a long, busy week in a long, busy, mad, ultra-successful year for the band. I feel disorientated Lord knows how Franz Ferdinand feel. Then another three weeks of shows up and down, back and forth, across the US and Canada, before returning to the UK for more gigs. It's handy because after tonight's show they have another overnight journey ahead of them, to Atlanta. The band have booked day-rooms at the hotel, which they can use for all of three hours to wash or take a swim. We are somewhere in Raleigh-Durham, a strung-out, semi-rural conurbation of small towns, universities, colleges and research facilities. Several hours of gong-giving and carousing ended in the wee hours, shortly before they boarded a flight to New York.Īnd now, finally, at 11am on Saturday, here we are in the car park of a could-be-anywhere Holiday Inn by a freeway, near a mall, by some woods. Later that same day, after a quick dash from one posh London hotel to another, their self-titled debut picked up the prestigious Mercury Music Prize for album of the year. On the previous Tuesday, on a September morning exactly one year to the day after they released their first-ever single "Darts Of Pleasure", Franz Ferdinand were named band of the year by GQ magazine. With their three studio albums, the band sold over three million albums worldwide in 2009.It's the weekend after the week before. They have been nominated for several BRIT Awards in the UK, and have won an NME Award. The band has been nominated for several Grammy Awards. "Ulysses" was released as the lead single, although "No You Girls" proved to be popular, being their second longest-charting single in the UK, after "Do You Want To". After the release of You Could Have It So Much Better, the band took some time recording their third album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, which was released internationally on 26 January 2009, and made the top ten in the United Kingdom and the United States. The album produced the hit single "Do You Want To", amongst many other singles. The album topped the UK Album Charts, and made the top ten in the Billboard 200 in the US. The band's second album, You Could Have It So Much Better, was a platinum-selling album in the United Kingdom and gold-selling in the United States. They were part of the mid-2000s post-punk revival along with Arctic Monkeys and Kaiser Chiefs. From the album, three top-ten singles were released: "Take Me Out", "The Dark of the Matinée", and "This Fire". NME named Franz Ferdinand as their Album of the Year. The band went on to win the 2004 Mercury Music Prize, and two BRIT Awards in 2005 for Best British Group and Best British Rock Act. 3 in the UK Charts, followed by their debut album, Franz Ferdinand, which debuted on the UK album chart at No. The band first experienced chart success when their second single, "Take Me Out", reached No. The band is composed of Alex Kapranos, Bob Hardy, Nick McCarthy, and Paul Thomson. Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish indie rock band formed in 2002, and based in Glasgow.
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