Artist.......: Franz Ferdinand
Album........: Walk Away
Label........: Domino
Genre........: Rock
Catnr........: RUG215DVD
source.......: DVD
rip.date.....: Dec-21-2005
str.date.....: Dec-05-2005
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.franzferdinand.co.uk
track title time
01. walk away (video edit) 03:51
02. this boy (live in edinburgh) 02:29
Runtime 06:20 min
Size 9,0 MB
Release Notes:
Glasgow's art-damaged rock quartet Franz Ferdinand
ù named for the Austro-Hungarian Archduke whose
murder sparked World War I ù features 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 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
itself. Franz Ferdinand's second single, Take Me
Out, arrived in early 2004. The single propelled
them to greater popularity in the UK and laid the
groundwork for the band's debut album. Franz
Ferdinand was released in February 2004 in the UK
and a month later Stateside. Franz Ferdinand's
success followed them across the pond; "Take Me
Out" became a sizeable 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 their 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 ... with Franz Ferdinand in
fall 2005.
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