Artist.......: Franz Ferdinand
Album........: Concert PrivΘ Canal Plus
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2015-02-06
Str.date.....: 2013-11-00
Quality......: 217kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.franzferdinand.com/
track title time
1. Live 46:17
2. Interview 13:44
Runtime 60:01
Size 99.23
Release Notes:
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Glasgow's art-damaged rock quartet Franz Ferdinand -- named for the
Austro-Hungarian Archduke whose murder sparked World War I -- feature bassist
Bob Hardy, guitarist Nick McCarthy, drummer Paul Thomson, and singer/guitarist
Alex Kapranos. In late 2001, Kapranos and Hardy had begun working on music
together when they met McCarthy, a classically trained pianist and double bass
player who originally played drums for the group despite no prior experience as
a drummer. The trio had been rehearsing at McCarthy's house for a while when
they met and started playing with Thomson, a former drummer for the Yummy Fur
who felt like playing guitar instead. Eventually, McCarthy and Thomson switched
to guitar and drums, and the band switched practice spaces, stumbling upon an
abandoned warehouse that they named the Chateau.
The Chateau became Franz Ferdinand's headquarters, where they rehearsed and held
rave-like events incorporating music and art (Hardy graduated from the Glasgow
School of Art, and Thomson also posed as a life model there). The bandmembers
needed a new rehearsal space once their illicit art parties were discovered by
the police, and they found one in a Victorian courthouse and jail. By summer
2002, they'd recorded an EP's worth of material that they intended to release
themselves, but word of mouth about the band spread and Franz Ferdinand signed
to Domino in the summer of 2003. The group's EP Darts of Pleasure, which led
some to label Franz Ferdinand "the Scottish Interpol," was released that fall,
and the band spent the rest of the year supporting groups such as Hot Hot Heat
and Interpol. Franz Ferdinand's second single, Take Me Out, arrived in early
2004. The single propelled them to greater popularity in the U.K. and laid the
groundwork for the band's debut album. Franz Ferdinand was released in February
2004 in the U.K. and a month later stateside.
Franz Ferdinand's success followed them across the pond; "Take Me Out" became a
sizable modern rock hit, in part thanks to the song's cutting-edge video, which
earned the Breakthrough Video award at that year's MTV Music Video Awards. The
group's momentum continued with the release of the Michael single and Mercury
Prize win over such artists as the Streets, Basement Jaxx, and Keane. Franz
Ferdinand released their second album, You Could Have It So Much Better, in fall
2005. The bandmembers began writing songs for their third album that year, but
scrapped them for a fresh set of songs that they planned to make into a "dirty
pop" concept album. Franz Ferdinand tried out a few producers to help them go in
a more dance- and pop-influenced direction, including Erol Alkan and Xenomania,
the production team behind many of Girls Aloud's hits, before deciding on Dan
Carey, who had worked with Kylie Minogue, CSS, Hot Chip, and Lily Allen. The
song "Lucid Dreams" appeared on the soundtrack to Madden NFL 09 and was released
in fall 2008; early in 2009, the single Ulysses arrived a week before the
release of Franz Ferdinand's third album, Tonight. That summer, the band
released Blood, an album featuring dub-inspired remixes of Tonight's songs.
Franz Ferdinand began working on new material in 2010, gradually incorporating
new songs into their setlists while touring in 2012 and 2013. Right Thoughts,
Right Words, Right Action, which featured collaborations with Hot Chip's Joe
Goddard and Alexis Taylor, Peter Bj÷rn & John's Bj÷rn Yttling, Veronica Falls'
Roxanne Clifford, and DJ Todd Terje, arrived in August 2013 and delivered a
bold, streamlined sound reminiscent of the band's earliest work.
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