Franz Ferdinand (band)
| Franz Ferdinand | |
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 Franz Ferdinand in the Wiener Stadthalle (2005) |
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| General information | |
| origin | Glasgow , Scotland |
| Genre (s) | Britpop , indie rock , post punk , new wave |
| founding | 2001 |
| Website | www.franzferdinand.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Alex Kapranos | |
| Dino Bardot (since 2017) | |
| Paul Thomson | |
| Robert Hardy | |
| Julian Corrie (since 2017) | |
| former members | |
| Nicholas McCarthy (until 2016) | |
Franz Ferdinand is a British indie rock band from Glasgow . Stylistically, the group is partly attributed to Britpop , with their music clearly showing influences from the post-punk of the late 1970s and the New Wave of the early 1980s.
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As the only member of the band, Robert Hardy attended the Glasgow School of Art .
The band had their first appearances in the chateau , an empty warehouse, which they themselves turned into an illegal meeting place for Glasgow indie bands and art students.
With their second single Take Me Out on the independent label Domino Records , the band immediately made it to number three in the UK sales charts in mid-January 2004 . Her debut album, Franz Ferdinand , also made it to third place on the charts in Great Britain. In the film 9 Songs by British director Michael Winterbottom , Franz Ferdinand and Jacqueline play one of the nine songs in the film. Their achievements were rewarded with two BRIT Awards in 2005 , including Best British Band. So far they have appeared on the cover of the German music magazines SPEX (February 2004), Visions (March 2004, February 2005 and October 2005), Rolling Stone (December 2004) and Musikexpress (October 2005, February 2009 and September 2013).
The German influence in the band comes from the guitarist Nick McCarthy , who attended high school in Bad Aibling in Upper Bavaria and studied piano and double bass in Munich . During his time in Munich he played with the folk punk band Kamerakino and for almost five years with the Krautrock musician collective Embryo . For a while, the song Tell Her Tonight was offered for download on the official website in a German version , and the end sequence of the song Darts of Pleasure is in German; these last sentences “My name is super fantastic! I drink champagne with salmon fish! ”Are to be understood as a kind of allusion because of the shape. In addition, there is a song called Aufachse , which is named after the television series of the same name .
On September 30, 2005, the group released their second album You Could Have It So Much Better . The album marks a slight stylistic change to more serious themes and chords, which are clearly rockier and equipped with less artificial sounds. The influence of the Beatles on singer Kapranos can also be heard here and there. A live DVD was released on November 25, 2005, on which two concerts, various live songs and karaoke versions of their hits can be found.
The third studio album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand , was released on January 23, 2009. The first single is called Ulysses . This album is very different from its predecessors: the sound is raw, less rocky and synthesizers and drum machines are used.
As part of an advertising campaign for the French fashion label Dior , actress Marion Cotillard recorded the song The Eyes of Mars , which was written by Franz Ferdinand, in 2010 . In early 2010 the band also contributed the song The Lobster Quadrille to the CD Almost Alice, which was composed and inspired by Tim Burton's remake of Alice in Wonderland .
In August 2013, the fourth studio album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action was released .
In 2015, the band began working with Sparks under the name FFS and released a studio album of the same name in the same year. In July 2016, Nick McCarthy announced that he was leaving the band.
On February 9, 2018, the fifth studio album Always Ascending was released .
Band name
The band was about to make their fifth appearance, but was still nameless. In a discussion about archdukes, initiated by the racehorse “The Archduke”, the band also came to speak of the Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand , whose assassination sparked the First World War . “Bob and Nick's Band” also want to change the world with their music, and since they liked the sound of the name, they called themselves “Franz Ferdinand” from then on. The name of the band is pronounced German.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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 DE
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 AT
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 CH
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 UK
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 US
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| 2004 | Franz Ferdinand |
DE16  (35 weeks)DE |
AT26 (13 weeks) AT |
CH35 (16 weeks) CH |
UK3  × 4
(82 weeks)UK |
US32 (56 weeks)US |
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| 2005 | You Could Have It So Much Better |
DE2 (24 weeks)DE |
AT5 (18 weeks) AT |
CH4th (14 weeks)CH |
UK1 (25 weeks)UK |
US8th (16 weeks)US |
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| 2009 | Tonight: Franz Ferdinand |
DE2 (17 weeks) DE |
AT5 (7 weeks) AT |
CH3 (19 weeks) CH |
UK2 (14 weeks)UK |
- | |
| 2013 | Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action |
DE4 (5 weeks) DE |
AT7 (4 weeks) AT |
CH3 (6 weeks) CH |
UK6 (4 weeks) UK |
- | |
| 2015 | FFS |
DE22 (2 weeks) DE |
AT36 (1 week) AT |
CH19 (3 weeks) CH |
UK17 (5 weeks) UK |
- |
with the Sparks
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| 2018 | Always ascending |
DE13 (2 weeks) DE |
AT16 (2 weeks) AT |
CH5 (5 weeks) CH |
UK6 (2 weeks) UK |
- | |
More albums
- 2003: Live 2003
- 2009: Blood (Dub versions of some tracks by Tonight: Franz Ferdinand)
- 2009: Live Tonight (Birmingham O2 Academy, 8th March 2009)
- 2009: Live Tonight (Glasgow Barrowland, 5th March 2009)
- 2009: Live Tonight (London HMV Hammersmith Apollo, 9th March 2009)
- 2009: Live Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Glasgow Barrowland, 4th March 2009)
- 2014: Live 2014 (07.03.2014 Forest National, Brussels)
- 2014: Live 2014 (03/14/2014 Roundhouse, London)
Video albums
- 2004: Matinée (DVD single)
- 2005: Franz Ferdinand (US:platinum Platinum )
- 2006: Walk Away (DVD single)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
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DE
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AT
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CH
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UK
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US
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| 2003 |
Darts of Pleasure Franz Ferdinand |
- | - | - |
UK44 (3 weeks) UK |
- | |
| 2004 | Take Me Out Franz Ferdinand |
- | - | - |
UK3 (9 weeks)UK |
US66 (19 weeks)US |
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| (The Dark of the) Matinée Franz Ferdinand |
DE88 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK8 (7 weeks) UK |
- | ||
| Michael Franz Ferdinand |
- | - | - |
UK17 (4 weeks) UK |
- | ||
| 2005 | Do You Want To You Could Have It So Much Better |
DE70 (5 weeks) DE |
- |
CH75 (7 weeks) CH |
UK4 (22 weeks) UK |
US76 (4 weeks)US |
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| Walk Away You Could Have It So Much Better |
DE96 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK13 (8 weeks) UK |
- | ||
| 2006 | The Fallen / L. Wells You Could Have It So Much Better |
- | - | - |
UK14 (3 weeks) UK |
- | |
| Eleanor, Put Your Boots On You Could Have It So Much Better |
- | - | - |
UK30 (3 weeks) UK |
- | ||
| 2009 | Ulysses Tonight: Franz Ferdinand |
DE41 (6 weeks) DE |
AT45 (4 weeks) AT |
CH44 (3 weeks) CH |
UK20 (4 weeks) UK |
- | |
| No You Girls Tonight: Franz Ferdinand |
DE80 (2 weeks) DE |
- |
CH83 (2 weeks) CH |
UK22 (10 weeks) UK |
- | ||
More singles
- 2004: This Fire
- 2006: Swallow Smile (was only issued in limited numbers to members of the Franz Ferdinand Fan Club ("ff: FC") in the form of a 7-inch vinyl single)
- 2009: Can't Stop Feeling
- 2009: Live Alone
- 2013: Right Action
- 2013: Love Illumination
- 2013: Evil Eye
- 2014: Bullet
- 2014: Fresh Strawberries
- 2014: Stand on the Horizon
- 2015: Johnny Delusional (together with Sparks as FFS)
- 2015: Call Girl (together with Sparks as FFS)
- 2015: Police Encounters (together with Sparks as FFS)
- 2017: Always Ascending
- 2018: Feel the Love Go
- 2018: Lazy Boy
literature
- Nicholas Artsrunik: Franz Ferdinand . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf , 2006. ISBN 978-3-89602-712-2 .
- Helen Chase: Franz Ferdinand from A to Z , Hamburg: Rockbuch 2009, ISBN 978-3-927638-44-0 .
Prizes and awards
| year | price | category |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Mercury Prize | Mercury Prize |
| Ivor Novello Award | Ivor Novello Award | |
| NME Awards | Philip Hall Radar Award | |
| MTV Awards | Breakthrough Video ( Take Me Out ) | |
| Q Awards | Best Video ( Take Me Out ) | |
| 2005 | BRIT Awards | Best group |
| BRIT Awards | Best British rock act | |
| NME Awards | Best piece of music ( Take Me Out ) | |
| NME Awards | Best Album ( Franz Ferdinand ) | |
| Meteor Music Awards | Best international group | |
| Meteor Music Awards | Best international album ( Franz Ferdinand ) | |
| 2006 | NME Awards | Best live band |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lady Rouge: The Eyes of Mars. imdb.com, accessed January 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Florian Tomaszewski: Soundtrack: "Almost Alice". In: Intro . Intro GmbH & Co. KG, January 13, 2010, accessed on May 21, 2019 .
- ^ Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. In: dominorecordco.us. Domino Records , accessed March 3, 2018 .
- ^ Corban Goble: Franz Ferdinand and Sparks Form Supergroup FFS. In: pitchfork.com. Pitchfork Media , March 9, 2015, accessed March 3, 2018 .
- ^ Molly Beauchemin: Franz Ferdinand and Sparks Announce Self-Titled Album as FFS. In: pitchfork.com. Pitchfork Media , April 1, 2015, accessed March 3, 2018 .
- ^ Jazz Monroe: Franz Ferdinand Part Ways With Guitarist Nick McCarthy. In: pitchfork.com. Pitchfork Media , July 8, 2016, accessed March 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Braudie Blais-Billie: Franz Ferdinand Announce New Album Always Ascending, Share New Song: Listen. In: pitchfork.com. Pitchfork Media , October 25, 2017, accessed on March 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Franz Ferdinand interview in Hong Kong Part 1 on YouTube , accessed on May 21, 2019 (video removed).
- ^ Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand. In: Dasding . May 9, 2006, archived from the original on August 27, 2017 ; accessed on May 21, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ a b c Music Sales Awards: DE UK
- ↑ Chart sources for FFS (Franz Ferdinand & Sparks): DE AT CH UK US
