It’d be weird putting the record out and not touring it. And so we’ve done the record, and now’s the time to tour it. So we thought, yeah, we should do it now. And then Laurence (Bell) was going listen you can only really fit 20 songs on a double LP. I would speak to Domino about it for years. I think it’s a fun thing to do for a band. “We talked about doing like a record like this for a long time. Alex tells me that it felt like the right time to look back. Second single, “Take Me Out” exploded onto the international stage, putting the band firmly on the global map and was a precursor to their eponymous debut album, which went on to sell nearly four million copies worldwide.

Haven’t won a single fucking one.”įranz Ferdinand signed to Domino in May 2003 and released their first single, “Darts Of Pleasure” shortly after. And I don’t think we ever will again.”Īrmed with an astute sense of what constitutes the “classic pop song” (famously proclaiming that they write music “to make girls dance to”) the music of Franz Ferdinand continues to resonate globally, and over the course of nearly two decades, they’ve become, commercially and critically, one of the biggest UK bands in the world, selling over 10 million albums, winning Brit, Ivor Novello + Mercury Prize awards, Grammy nominations and selling 6 million tickets for their incendiary live show worldwide. I don’t think we’ve ever played anything like this before. We did this Hits To The Head record, which is like 20 of the hits of the last 20 years or so. It’s a good atmosphere, you know, it’s a really good atmosphere. “So yeah, I’m, I’m definitely savouring being able to play these songs to audiences. “You know, I think there were times during the darkest moments of the pandemic when we all wondered if we’d ever get to do it again,” he admits. “Let’s just call it Metropolis,” he says over Zoom from The Fillmore in Philadelphia.

After a couple of years of uncertainty, the Scottish five-piece is bringing their “Hits To The Head” tour to Montreal on August 16th, playing at MTelus with support from Vundabar. Alex Kapranos is relieved to be back out on the road with his band Franz Ferdinand right now.

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