Nick McCarthy

Nick McCarthy with Franz Ferdinand 2008

Nicholas Augustine McCarthy (born December 13, 1974 in Blackpool , England ) is a guitarist, backing singer, keyboard player and songwriter. He was active in the band Franz Ferdinand until 2016 .

Life

Nick McCarthy grew up in Vagen, Bavaria . The artist Anna McCarthy is his younger sister. As a teenager he stole a car with friends and since then has been nicknamed "McCarThief" ( English car thief = car thief ). He graduated from high school in Bad Aibling and studied double bass at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich with Paulo Cardoso .

Before his breakthrough, McCarthy played with Franz Ferdinand in the bands Razzmatazz, Embryo , Kamerakino and the Djaosch Macholi Orchestra.

In 2001 he moved to Glasgow where he met singer Alex Kapranos at a party . McCarthy arranged to meet Kapranos to play the drums in his band, which he did not master sufficiently. Therefore he was used as a guitarist. With the bassist Robert Hardy the band was then complete.

He has been married to the Austrian Manuela Gernedel since July 2, 2005. Among other things, his wife also worked on his side project Box Codax.

In July 2016, Nick McCarthy announced his departure from the band Franz Ferdinand.

Together with Seb-I Kellig (dub producer for LaBrassBanda, among others ) and the Berlin artist Hank Schmidt in the Beek, he forms the band “Das Lunsentrio”, which in 2017 released their album Stand Up .

Discography (selection)

Djaosch Macholi Orchestra, 2001
Camera cinema: Paradiso , 2002
Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand , 2004
Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better , 2005
Box Codax: Only An Orchard Away , 2006
Franz Ferdinand: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand , 2009
Box Codax: Hellabuster , 2011
The Lunsentrio: Aufstehn , 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Andi Hörmann: The rebel as an antihero. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur. June 26, 2012, accessed August 24, 2020 .
^ My Favorite Records with Nick McCarthy (ex-Franz Ferdinand, Das Lunsentrio) . ( taz.de [accessed on February 22, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	McCarthy, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	McCarthy, Nicholas Augustine (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British musician and songwriter, former member of the band Franz Ferdinand
DATE OF BIRTH	December 13, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Blackpool , England

[1] Andi Hörmann: The rebel as an antihero. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur. June 26, 2012, accessed August 24, 2020 .

[2] My Favorite Records with Nick McCarthy (ex-Franz Ferdinand, Das Lunsentrio) . ( taz.de [accessed on February 22, 2018]).


Studio albums	Franz Ferdinand (2004) \| You Could Have It So Much Better (2005) \| Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (2009) \| Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action (2013) \| Always Ascending (2018)