Franz Ferdinand (Band)

Franz Ferdinand is a British indie rock band from Glasgow. Stylistically, the group is partially attributed to the so-called Britpop, with their music has clear influences from the post-punk of the late 1970s and the New Wave of the early 1980s.

History

As the only member of the band Robert Hardy attended the Glasgow School of Art

Their first gigs the band had at the Chateau, a disused warehouse, which they designed themselves to an illegal meeting of Glaswegian indie bands and art students.

With her appeared on the independent label Domino Records second single, Take Me Out, the band managed mid-January 2004 immediately ranked three of the UK sales charts. Her debut album Franz Ferdinand made ​​it to the UK to third place in the charts.

In the movie 9 songs by British director Michael Winterbottom Franz Ferdinand play with Jacqueline one of the nine songs of the film.

Their achievements were rewarded with two 2005 BRIT Awards, including Best British band. So far they came on the cover of German music magazines SPEX (February 2004), Visions ( March 2004 and February 2005 and October 2005), Rolling Stone (December 2004) and Musik Express (October 2005, February 2009 and September 2013).

The German influence in the band goes out by guitarist Nick McCarthy, who attended high school in Upper Bavaria, Bad Aibling and studied in Munich, piano and double bass. He played in his time in Munich at the folk - punk band Kamerakino and nearly five years at the Krautrock musician collective embryo. The song Tell Her Tonight was offered for a time on the official website in a German version for download, as well as the end sequence of the song Darts of Pleasure is in German; these last sentences "My name is super fantastic! I drink champagne with salmon fish! " However, because of the shape to be understood as a kind of allusion. In addition, there is a song called On axis, which is named after the eponymous television series.

On 30 September 2005, the group released their second album You Could Have It So Much Better. The album features a slight stylistic change to more serious topics and chords that are equipped with clearly more rock and less artificial sounds. Chance also the influence of the Beatles on singer Kapranos is audible.

On November 25, 2005, a live DVD was released on the two concerts, various live songs and karaoke versions of their hits are found.

Franz Ferdinand: On 23 January 2009, the album Tonight released. The first single is titled Ulysses. This album is very different from its predecessors: The sound is raw, less rocky and synthesizers and drum machines are used.

As part of an advertising campaign for the French fashion label Dior, the actress Marion Cotillard in 2010 took on the song The Eyes of Mars, which was written by Franz Ferdinand. Furthermore, the band contributed the song early in 2010 The Lobster Quadrille for specially for Tim Burton's remake of Alice in Wonderland composed and it inspired CD Almost Alice, at.

In 2013 the band played at the new festival Rock'n'Heim.

In August 2013, the fourth studio album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action appeared.

Band name

The band was nearing her fifth appearance, but was still nameless. In a discussion of Archdukes, triggered by the racehorse " The Archduke " the band on the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand came to speak, whose assassination triggered the First World War. Also, " Bob and Nick's band" to change the world with their music, and because they liked the sound of the name, she called herself after that date " Franz Ferdinand ". The band's name is German spoken.

Discography

Albums

• 2004: Franz Ferdinand
• 2005: You Could Have It So Much Better
• 2009: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
• 2009: Blood ( dub versions of some tracks from Tonight: Franz Ferdinand )
• 2013: Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

Singles

• 2003: Darts of Pleasure
• 2004: Take Me Out
• 2004: The Dark of the Matinée
• 2004: Michael
• 2004: This Fire
• 2005: Do You Want To
• 2005: Walk Away
• 2006: Eleanor Put Your Boots On
• 2006: Swallow Smile ( was only in limited quantities to members of the Franz- Ferdinand- fan ( "ff: FC" ) issued in the form of a 7 -inch vinyl single )
• 2009: Ulysses
• 2009: No You Girls
• 2009: Ulysses Remixes
• 2009: No You Girls Remixes
• 2009: Can not Stop Feeling
• 2009: Live Alone
• 2013: Right Action
• 2013: Love Illumination
• 2013: Evil Eye
• 2014: Bullet

• 2004: Matinee ( DVD Single)
• 2005: Franz Ferdinand
• 2006: Walk Away ( DVD Single)