![]() He has a studio in Stockholm which is incredible and we wanted to use it. “This time around we were doing a few songs with Björn Yttling from Peter Björn and John, and it was a similar deal really. “For our first album, our producer Tore Johansson had a studio in Malmö which was really great,” he says. Recording of their latest album saw the quartet decamp to familiar territory in Sweden. To be honest, the new songs in the set are the highlights for us because they’re the ones which are freshest and we’ve played the least amount of times, and personally, they’re the ones I most look forward to.” The first time is always a little bit odd, but we’ve played them a couple of dozen times now, so there aren’t nerves any more. It’s kind of weird, but whenever you’ve got a new song, it’s almost like it’s not real until you’ve played it at least once, and then every time after that it feels like a proper Franz Ferdinand song. It’s nice to have fresh material to inject into the set and they’ve been going down well, so we’re happy. We’ve enjoyed playing them and they fit into the set well. We’ve been playing the new songs since the beginning of August at festivals and we did a small US tour last month. “So we’ll be playing a wide selection from that, mixed in with material from the previous three albums. “ Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action came out in August,” he says. ![]() The Mercury Prize was a surreal moment but I was pretty drunk at the time, so I don’t remember thinking much about it.”Īlmost ten years after their breakthrough single ‘Take Me Out’, the Scottish indie-rockers will hit our shores with new material in tow. We’d just been playing parties for our friends that was our reason to start a band. The first big moment was having a record company wanting to sign us, which felt insane and went much further than our ambitions did at the time. We were expecting to maybe sell 500 records ourselves at gigs. “I was at art school when we started and joining a band was just like ticking a box for me, then we had some unexpected success. “I never think any more than two or three weeks into the future,” he says. FRANZ FERDINAND bassist Bob Hardy definitely isn’t a man with a plan.
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