Music | Feature
Ian Crichton: It was the mating call of four art school underachievers committed to tape. Having toiled in various no-hope outfits throughout the 90s, Alex, Bob, Ni...
Gillian Watson: What were you doing five years ago? Revising for the next round of exams, breaking up with the last girlfriend but one, recovering from the mother of ...
Paul Mitchell: In the ten years before Franz’s burst to prominence, music was officially and deliberately shit (to use the scientific terminology). Having watc...
Gillian Watson, Ally Brown, Chris Buckle, Darren Carle & Johnny Langlands: THE PHANTOM BAND (T Break Stage, Friday) What’s in a name? Plenty, if The Phantom Band are anything to go by. The hauntingly original Glasweg...
Gillian Watson: Alex Kapranos, charismatic frontman of local art-rock heroes Franz Ferdinand, is excited. The Glaswegian quartet’s return to the Main Stage at T...
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Gordon Bruce: More of a pilgrimage than a music festival, thousands of Brits descend on Benicassim each year, an ex-smugglers cove sat beside Valencia. Some fly to ...
Records | Album Review
Chris Buckle: Franz Ferdinand’s third album Tonight was a muted success, despite the pre-release talk of afrobeat rhythms and experimental electronica largely...
Music | Live Review
Allan Valente: Franz Ferdinand mercifully emerge at 9pm, cutting short a headache-inducing DJ who is crazy on drum 'n’ bass. They're clad in dapper threads thi...
Records | Feature | Round Up
Nick Mitchell: Another month, another New York band taunt us with a musical peek into their impossibly glamorous lives. This time it’s The Virgins, with Rich G...
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Natasha Radmehr: Following the news that Kings of Leon, The Killers and Blur will headline this year's T in the Park, the latest raft of acts set to grace the stage we...
Jamie Scott: In a compilation of 'Various Artists', what forgiveness was once afforded to lesser album tracks is now completely eradicated in these mp3 dominated d...
Ally Brown: Despite their own denials, Franz Ferdinand make much more sense as a pop group than a rock band. With pop, they don't have to 'progress their sound' o...
Music | Single Review
Gillian Watson: After a seeming eternity out of the spotlight following the artistic sideways move that was You Could Have It So Much Better, the pressure is on Franz...
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Nick Mitchell: Here's a bona fide coup: the Picture House, still but a few months old, has secured one of only two UK dates in January by Scotland’s finest ind...
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Sarah Nisbet: Franz Ferdinand front man, Alex Kapranos has recently announced that the band will headline the NME Shockwaves Awards Shows Tour 2009. The Scottish a...
