![]() When I met Laurence I knew he felt the same way. When you're in a band you risk everything to do something you love. Now we're still working with each other 15 years later. When I first met Laurence I made an instant connection. "We didn't know about that until after we signed with Domino," Kapranos says. One of its intriguing revelations is that Franz Ferdinand became such hot property they were the subject of an intense bidding war, which Laurence Bell of Domino Records won after remortgaging his house. In Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011, Lizzy Goodman documents the explosion of guitar bands in the early noughties on both sides of the Atlantic. Admittedly, it took me 18 years to reach that point, but I’m never, ever going to moan about it. I was lucky enough to be able to find out what my thing is. I first started writing songs when I was 14. Also, I love being onstage and performing. The food was just a device to talk about who I was with, and where we were.” Opportunityįranz Ferdinand are very happy on the road. “Oh my God, I absolutely love it,” Kapronos gushes. I was more interested in writing about where in the world I was rather than the food to be honest. “It was just before good phone cameras and people being able to take decent pictures of what they were having for dinner, which revolutionised food blogging. ![]() “It was a totally different environment,” says Kapranos. Indeed, he even moonlighted as a food columnist for the Guardian in the mid-noughties and wrote a book entitled Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand years before the relatively recent explosion in food blogging and contemporary foodie culture. Let’s just say I’m very excited about it.” Guinness, fish n’ chips and oysters on the side at the same time. “It is also a great excuse to go to McDonagh’s because they do quite possibly the best fish n’ chips I’ve had in my life. If I hadn’t been in Galway that day Julian might never have joined the band, so it’s really nice to be starting the tour there. Emma Pollack and loads of others who were in the film were there, so I told the guys I was looking for a new member for the band. "I was over at the Galway Film Festival with Stuart from Mogwai and Niall McCann, the director of a movie we did about Glasgow musicians called Lost in France. ![]() Kapranos is particularly looking forward to playing Galway as the city was also instrumental for the new line up of the band. We started it in the Roisín Dubh in Galway, and ended it playing to 18,000 people in an arena in Madrid using exactly the same gear.” Last year they released a collaboration with Sparks, titled FFS.“When I think about it now, the progression of that tour was crazy. There are still 25 days left in the project, so we’re likely to see many other notable names get political before the November 8 general election.įranz Ferdinand’s last album was 2013’s Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. ![]() In the days since, Bhi Bhiman and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James have also released songs critical of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. This is the fifth song to be released in the 30 Days, 30 Songs series, which kicked off with songs by Death Cab for Cutie and Aimee Mann. You can stream the song in its entirety below, accompanied by a Shepard Fairey graphic depicting Trump’s mouth. Their new track is called “Demagogue,” and features lyrics such as “ He’s fatally famous…he plays with my fears” and “ Those pussy grabbing fingers won’t let go of me now,” so yeah, it’s pretty explicitly anti-Trump. Franz Ferdinand are the latest band to release new music via the 30 Days, 30 Songs project. ![]()
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