![]() ![]() It was really great, really fun, similar to being in a band, there was a lot of prep, and then a very intense period of service. #FRANZ FERDINAND TAKE ME OUT MTV EUROPE FULL#He would blast AC/DC and Motorhead full volume during service. We had this head chef, Martin Teplitzsky, this Australian, he was pretty rock’n’roll. “It was in Glasgow, a restaurant called Groucho Saint Judes. But it was a fun place to work, Alex and I together in the kitchen.” Our conversation is just talking about music. But we’ve never really stopped talking about music. “That was a fun time, but when we first started chatting about music when we were working together in the kitchen, there wasn’t a band. Do you think of those times as the best of all? Because, let’s face it, you won’t be short of highlights down the years. That’s something so many bands have in common. “Yeah … and I’ve never had the ambition to be a singer!”Īlex said recently, ‘It was just me and Bob in the kitchen, where I was a chef and he was a dishwasher, talking about what we’d do if we had a band. And I guess in Slade it was easy to hide behind Noddy Holder and Dave Hill if need be. I tend to think of someone like Jim Lea, obviously an artisan at what he did and a brilliant musician, but someone who chose bass because he wasn’t so bothered about being the guy out front. So yeah, that was kind of the beginning of my bass playing career.” ![]() Mick said, ‘Okay, make sure it’s for someone useful with it. He had a bass lying around the house that he was getting rid of, and Alex said, ‘I’ll take it off your hands’. Mick (Cooke), who played trumpet in the Belles was in a band with Alex (Kapranos). Is that right that your first bass guitar came from Belle & Sebastian? I had friends that came to Glasgow the year before, I came to visit them, the energy was great and you just felt … you’d see people from bands that I’d been a fan of since I was 15 in the pub! I felt, ‘This is amazing!’. ![]() “And it seemed very manageable, because of the size of the city. When I was a teenager in Bradford, I was an obsessive music fan and as a huge fan of Glasgow bands like Belle and Sebastian, Mogwai, Arab Strap, The Delgados … that whole Chemikal Underground scene. “And the music scene was a big draw as well. We always came to Scotland on holiday when I was a kid. I was either going to London or Glasgow, I guess, but I didn’t really fancy London. I moved here ostensibly to study at the art school, because the painting department was really good, and I wanted to paint. But first off – remind us, Bob – what initially drove this lad from Bradford, West Yorkshire, to Glasgow? Having signed to Domino in May 2003, releasing debut single, ‘Darts of Pleasure’ shortly after, it was second single, ‘Take Me Out’ that truly launched them, their eponymous 2004 debut album going on to sell nearly four million copies worldwide.Īrtistically always forging forward, following albums You Could Have It So Much Better (2005), Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (2009), Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action (2013) and Always Ascending (2018) offered new takes on the template, working with pioneering producers such as Dan Carey, Joe Goddard and Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, Todd Terje, and Philippe Zdar.Īnd now there’s Hits to the Head, a 20-track greatest hits collection, released today (Friday, March 11th) on that same label they signed up to 19 years ago. However, as becomes very clear from chatting with co-founding bass player Bob Hardy, it seems there was never some kind of arrogant self-belief that it might all lead to such fame, back in the day. With more than 10 million albums sold, 1.2 billion streams, 14 platinum albums, Brit, Ivor Novello and Mercury Prize award wins, Grammy nominations and six million tickets sold for live shows worldwide, it’s fair to say it’s been a busy two decades for Glasgow indie favourites Franz Ferdinand. Head Waiters: Franz Ferdinard pull some shapes, ahead of their 2022 tour. ![]()
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