![]() Second, they didn’t promise to cover a Jacques Brel song only to turn around and say “only joking” (you don’t mess with Jacques Brel over here). First, Franz Ferdinand didn’t take 45 minutes to come on stage (a French crowd is an impatient one). The factors that helped Franz Ferdinand pull the rug from underneath the Strokes for this French audience were threefold. And that wasn’t just because the audience was French. Why is this? Although Franz Ferdinand once claimed their intent was simply to make girls dance, they have made both the girls and the grown men think it’s cool to move. Listen to the band’s eponymous Mercury-prize winning album just after you’ve seen them live and it sounds somehow hollower than it did before - emptier. Actually, if their last European tour is any gauge, you get something that’s not quite as good as what’s on the record - perhaps live on stage it’s too technically difficult to sound like you’re singing the lyrics through the phone. ![]() To be honest, when the Strokes play live it’s a case of “What You Hear on the Record Is What You Get on Stage” (wyhotriwygos - okay, so the acronym doesn’t work). It’s time to let the real stars take the stage.įranz Ferdinand might hail from the other side of the channel, but for at least a year they’ve spear-headed the campaign to cement Glasgow’s status as the new capital of pop rock (even ahead of the older Belle & Sebastian). Looking for (art) college, post-punk revival with that slightly camp presence on stage? Ladies and gentlemen, please allow the Strokes to leave quietly through the back door.
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