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Post by Mrs Clarkeycakes on Sept 22, 2009 19:18:48 GMT
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Post by calypsosphere on Sept 22, 2009 23:43:12 GMT
oops! I posted it after you did. I didn't see this. thank you for posting it, Bex though!!
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Post by Rietveld on Sept 23, 2009 2:15:49 GMT
Paul interview for Warp Magazine We’re back… Tonight! by Paul Thomson, Franz Ferdinand’s Drummer. Finally, Tonight arrived, our new album. We wanted to take it easy and prepare it with the best quality. Plus, two of us had kids on these years. It’s something you can’t evade, wishing to pass more time with your family. I have two little kids and it’s always hard to start a tour, because of the time you have to be far of them. Nick (guitar) was in Los Angeles in an art spectacle; Bob (bass) sometimes works as a filmmaker. Before Ronnie was born, Esther, my wife, and I presented as Polyester. And, believe it or not, being in a band like Franz Ferdinand is pretty hard. We gave nearly 300 gigs in 18 months, we were in Japan, Latin America, USA… It’s hard to remember the places you’ve been to, overall if you didn’t have time to meet them. I try to remember people, and, in Mexico City, people were lovely. We hope to return before the year ends, because Latin America is something we always keep in mind. Yeah, we’re back.
And now… the interview. Around the world: Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand is the band that, no matter what they talk about and who they talk to, can’t stop charming. Not even the most annoying homophobic could stop moving at the sticky rhythm of “Michael”; in the past; the most poser hipster (of today) danced Take Me Out, in the future, probably him, but drunk, would dance Ulysses. The most hypocrite girl would feel the impulse of putting her boots on, and, like Eleanor, would like to head towards the hidden sun. The reason is simple: Franz Ferdinand caresses with delicate fingers those sensations, which given their power, can’t stop charming us.
Since the first moment in which the successful and irresistible dancing hit started flowing the ears of every single inhabitant in the world, various elements of the band were exalted and claimed by the press, the freshness of the lyric, the structural liberty of their compositions, the charm of their members, the dynamism in their presentations, the sensuality and the erotic charge they exerted in their gigs and in the studio, in the face to face interview and even in via telephone interviews. It ain’t really weird the fact of Franz Ferdinand’s music being so sexual. The immediate experimentation of primary sensations, like sex, is similar to what the band members perform in live presentations and in studio recordings: the pursue of instinct satisfaction, of the pleasure consummation, however, Franz Ferdinand goes further from that, they don’t stay in the quality of sexy boys talking about sex.
For the start, all the members have an artistic of humanistic education, which doesn’t properly implies they’ve all studied music. Alex Kapranos, the lead singer, half Greek half English, studied theology for a short time, Bob Hardy, the bassist, studied Art in Glasgow, Nick McCarthy studied classical piano and bass. Paul Thomson, the band’s drummer, talks with us about his education with his hard Scottish accent added with a nasal tone that reveals the obvious presence of winter flu. “I don’t have any kind of musical formation, but, what I had, was the luck of being in a band in which I achieved worldwide success. Although I believe I would’ve dedicated myself to music even if Franz Ferdinand didn’t exist, it is really good Franz Ferdinand exists”. And that luck showed on FF’s debut, the record pushed them to the comfortable label of “The NEXT Big Thing”. There was no one who didn’t say something good about them and the album, there was nobody who didn’t refer to their garage post punk sound. From the BBC to the NME, passing through The Guardian, they all said Franz Ferdinand was the year revelation and they weren’t wrong. After the album release in February 2004, everything is a long list of followed success: they won the Mercury Prize, the Brits, the NME and the album won a platinum disc. Paul Thomson:There are some places that remain particularly stuck in your head, in my case, Los Angeles represents something special for me. In this same moment, I’m in L.A before a show in Jay Leno’s program, with a terrible flu as you may hear [sneezes or laughs, it’s hard to know]. But in the end, this is a work like any other (more or less) and I am a person who looks after the best way of pulling it out” Maybe in a rash way, FF’S second album came out a year and eight months after the first, in October 2005. You Could Have It So Much Better, represented the maturity the band from Glasgow achieved in that time as they survived to hundred of gigs as they wrote and recorded. In YCHISMB the same erotic feel revealed again, but not only in the songs that said that night they would make somebody love them, but also with a message that whispered the premise that Franz Ferdinand rose a flag: fuck off with snobbism, the music is and should be universal for everyone.
After three long years without editing a record, Franz Ferdinand returns with Tonight. Is understandable that after the start of their career, it was necessary for every of them to take a rest. At the end, the fact of being a worldwide famous rockstar doesn’t turn them immune to the common vicissitudes: a cold, the nostalgia for the place you live at, the family.
The maturity is not only musical to Franz Ferdinand, it also applies to their members, two of them are married, some of them have kids and looks for their family’s wellbeing. Paul trusts in his heirs follow the way they want, without the need to get them into an idea of doing something for them to pick a career “I think they’re free to do whatever they want in the future. The best you can do for them is to give them the tools to pick whatever they want to do, of course it would be fine it to be something artistic, but people shouldn’t aim to follow the same steps as their parents”
Every band is a world, like a mind that works for a common good. In the case of Franz Ferdinand the situations that motivate them to write music isn’t particularly related to feelings or with everyday situations. They are only up to do music for the simple reason of giving happiness and joy to the people that listen to them, about this, Paul says “I think everyone should do what they can do the best. The “social aim music” could also be that danceable music, and not for that stops having a message. After all, absolutely everything that happens is influential to you and your music and not for that you’re exempt from your compositions to have influences from what happens in the world”
Ulysses contest: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand had a series of interesting idea for their fans preview, the made a contest for the remix of their first single Ulysses. The winner of this contest received the sum of 500 euros, with that, the band wanted to meet new producers and DJ’s. The waiting time was worth the product, Tonight is the best worked album of the band, in various ways, it keeps the classic style, but it is more mature and experimental. Paul, again “You don’t need to go that far to make an album have its own personality, if you think different people are behind it, there is it. It is more than just what they live, it is a whole thing fused in it, particularly, that mix of styles is reflected in two songs, Send Him Away and Ulysses”
Athough it is a brilliant album in many senses, it is the darkest in their whole career, like the title suggests, the cover and the recording techniques.
Tonight debuted in 9th in the American charts and 2nd in British, warranty that the name of Franz Ferdinand is a synonym of success. That’s why we celebrate Alex Kapranos when he says he wants to get high, alternating uh-uhs and lalalas and yeah yeah yeahs. And they showed once more they can grow and give us something… so much better.
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Post by Mrs Clarkeycakes on Sept 24, 2009 0:49:46 GMT
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Post by Rietveld on Sept 24, 2009 21:38:37 GMT
Mmmm depends on. Let's say we should post Nick, Paul, Bob and Alex press on their respective forum, this is only of band related things
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Post by Rietveld on Sept 25, 2009 2:18:23 GMT
Then it's fine, sweet
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bawb
Just a crosshair
Bob with orange vodka is dangerous. :)
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Post by bawb on Oct 1, 2009 11:01:57 GMT
righto. thanks for posting.
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Post by Mrs Clarkeycakes on Oct 1, 2009 19:34:46 GMT
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bawb
Just a crosshair
Bob with orange vodka is dangerous. :)
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Post by bawb on Oct 1, 2009 19:57:43 GMT
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Post by Pip Paine on Oct 1, 2009 20:03:26 GMT
I really hope you can buy it everywhere, unlike those UK tour recordings
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Post by Mrs Clarkeycakes on Oct 2, 2009 19:14:52 GMT
Great piece, thanks hun
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Post by Mrs Clarkeycakes on Oct 2, 2009 20:00:45 GMT
Oh the innuendo Just.... mngnghhhhhh Words of llove? Pure filth more like
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Post by Mrs Clarkeycakes on Oct 2, 2009 20:05:13 GMT
oh hell yes... quirked eyebrow, smooth tones - the lot
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Post by Mrs Clarkeycakes on Oct 2, 2009 20:13:24 GMT
Heee... that's why we're Kapranwhore's my love. Psychic when it comes to our Lexxo Hmmm and a nice smooth scotch for 'afters'
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