I was staying at a house in Bishop Arts for about three weeks or something, so yeah, I really enjoyed it. We did this album with Sparks named FFS and we mixed that in Dallas with John Congleton. "I spent a bit of time there a few years ago. "Oh, you're in Dallas! Ah, nice, I love Dallas - looking forward to getting back, actually," he says. they have this lighthouse there, which was built by Romans and it still works, isn't that incredible?"Īfter telling Kapranos about our state's doomed electric grid and joking that Texas should take notes from the Spanish, he offers some positive memories of North Texas. "We were playing in A Coruña, which is in the most northwesterly part of Spain, and this blew my mind. "I was just in Spain the other day," Kapranos says. When we spoke, the band was just coming off a European tour leg. We spoke over the phone with Kapranos about Franz Ferdinand's album and why Dallas is such a rad city. tour since 2018, and their first night brings them to the House of Blues in Dallas, on Thursday, Aug. The group is about to return for their first proper U.S. Their 2004 incendiary track "Take Me Out" launched the band to such fame that the name "Franz Ferdinand" became synonymous with danceable rock rather than the band's namesake, the long-gone Austrian archduke. The current lineup has the brilliant Audrey Tait picking up the sticks where Thomson left off, and Julian Corrie (of Miaoux Miaoux) on second guitar/keys. The original lineup comprised vocalist/guitarist Alex Kapranos, Nick McCarthy on guitar/keys, bassist Bob Hardy and Paul Thomson on drums. The 20 tracks include two new ones, "Billy Goodbye" and "Curious." The group just dropped a new album, Hits To The Head, a collection of 21 years' worth of bangers. Scottish band Franz Ferdinand has been kicking out tunes since 2001, and they still have more to give.
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