The song’s video served to introduce new Franz drummer Audrey Tait, who permanently replaced founding drummer Paul Thomson in October of last year.
For its part, “Billy Goodbye” is a delightful kiss-off tune, extolling the number’s subject to “Don’t forget the best bits!” It would perhaps have been a proper dedication to our quarrelsome troublemaker earlier in the show. Those 20 songs included “Billy Goodbye” and “Curious,” two awesomely danceworthy *new* songs recorded with the assistance of one of the world’s greatest living pop producers, Stuart Price.Īt 9:30 Club, Franz played “Curious” and “Billy Goodbye” a few songs apart in the middle of the show, carrying forward the giddy energy that the band infused into their thoughtfully poppy songs of love, loss and romance. Earlier this year, the band released Hits to the Head via their career-long label Domino, compiling a total of 20 songs onto a retrspective package. 10, Franz Ferindand pulled into 9:30 Club for a sold-out show on the North American leg of their greatest hits tour.
But he’s also incredibly decisive, he’s a bandleader, and he’s smart as a whip. I share the story in part because it cements in my mind who is Alex Kapranos? He’s laidback, he’s a frontman, he’s an entertainer.
This is no place to fight.” With the assistance of the lights, 9:30 Club bouncers identified the troublemaker and escorted him out of the venue. One troublemaker several rows back from the stage apparently started throwing punches, and Franz frontman Alex Kapranos stopped the show dead to check out the perpetrator’s *wrong* thoughts and wrong action! The house lights came up slightly, and Alex scoffed at the guilty party. In a show otherwise as smooth as silk at 9:30 Club, Scots new wavers Franz Ferdinand’s recent concert saw a lone tumultuous moment during the fourth song of the set, “Evil Eye” (which hails from their 2013 album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action). Alex Kapranos fronts Franz Ferdinand at 9:30 Club on Aug.
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