This Week's Singles Reviewed - 2/05/11
Blue - 'I Can' Ah, Eurovision. That annual atrocity of laser-white teeth and tactical voting that so revels in strapping music to a seatless chair, drilling out its eyeballs with cheesy Balearic pop choruses, burning off its fingernails with...
Album review: Franz Ferdinand - 'Blood'
If you were merely whelmed by FF’s anaemic third, then this album of dub versions could be the infusion you’re looking for. Dan Carey was the ideal choice for remixing duties, having worked with old-school dub heroes Mad Professor and Lee...
Live Review: Franz Ferdinand
On the surface, Madrid seems much like any other modern metropolis. it's all too easy to get lost in the throng of life that transverses its wode boulevards, high-end eateries and designer boutique. But as NME approaches the Palacio De Deportes...
Franz Ferdinand
Still louche, still dancing, but this time they’re showing off some new moves Album number one: “music to make girls dance”. Album number two: “music for girls to cry to”. Album number three, in your own (abridged) words Mr Kapranos?...
Franz Ferdinand
Raised eyebrows? Check. Elegantly stamped foot? Check. Arch grins all round? Big check. But this time the wry smirks are because Franz have done what Franz do best and written a hook so big you could dangle France off it, but taken latent ’80s...
Franz Ferdinand
Our latest little glimpse of the lesser-spotted Franz Ferdinand is in a suitable place – a sweaty, packed nightclub. After all, frontman Alex Kapranos did recently state that just-completed new album ‘Tonight: Franz Ferdinand’ was “music...
Franz Ferdinand
Weird year for Glasgow’s prodigals so far: a handful of club shows, Latitude’s politely received set… that’s it. What’s brewing? The answer: a Stooges beat, some laser-synth stun-guns borrowed from Mars Attacks!, some bhangra tabla. All...
Franz Ferdinand
It’s a lot warmer in here than at the Ice Arena where we played last time,” says Alex Kapranos, wiping sweat from his fringe. “In every sense of the word.” Everybody crammed inside the tiny little Adelphi tonight can testify to the...
Franz Ferdinand
Franz put on some oversized French new-wave glasses, smoke an elegant cigarillo, and pull out the synthesizer for a very serious bit of film soundtracking. Not sure about the film in question, but it’s probably about a young boy’s sexual...
Franz Ferdinand: Alexandra Palace, London: Wed...
Franz Ferdinand playing four nights at Ally Pally is the end-of-year party to end all end-of-year parties. In the year that British music ate the world, chewed it for a bit, spat it out, danced on it until it felt a bit woozy and had to sit down...
