![]() ![]() Their wedding took place six years later in Zákupy, a northern Bohemian town found in today's Czech Republic. The young Archduke married the daughter of a Bohemian noble family, Sophie Chotek, who he met at a Prague ball in 1894. Tickets are available on the Franz Ferdinand website.Born in 1863, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the nephew of the then Emperor, Kaiser Franz Joseph I. Of course, with the internet, I talk to them as much as I do as when I’m home.įranz Ferdinand performs in Dallas on Monday, May 7 at House of Blues Houston on Tuesday, May 8 at White Oak Music Hall and Austin on Wednesday, May 9 at Emo's. And, my friends from home that you don’t see for a while. It’s a big part of being home, so it’s something you don’t get a chance to do when you’re on the road. It’s nice, it feels fresh.ĬM: What do you miss about home when you’re in the middle of a long North American tour?īH: I miss my dog and making my own food and doing dishes. Julian had done a little touring, but not outside the U.K., so it’s exciting to go to new places like Texas because there’s modular synth shops in Austin and things like that. Getting on with touring as a five-piece and coming to new places as a five-piece, in a way it feels like you’re coming there for the first time and introducing the crowd to the new line-up. Personality-wise, having five members is fresh to us. ![]() On the new material, it's just having a broader palette and what you’re capable of on-stage, it adds a lot to the sonics of a show like this. When we were rehearsing for these shows, we were able to take old recordings and add keyboard lines and guitar lines back into the live show. In the past, we hadn’t given ourselves a lot of time, but this time we gave ourselves 12 months in the studio, messing around with synths and other sounds.ĬM: Does the new line-up add anything to the live show?īH: Often in the studio, there will be extra sounds or guitar parts that when we came round to doing a live show, we couldn’t play them. We thought we’d push that more this time. This time around, we were chatting about the direction we wanted to take and we’ve always seen ourselves as being a live band that plays dance music, those dynamics and sonics. Was that a conscious decision?īH: There’s always been synthesizers on Franz Ferdinand records, even back to our first single. And those who go see the band, they often request specific songs, and it’s nice to have those requests and put them into a setlist.ĬM: The new album is a bit of a departure - you were always a danceable band in the past, but it seems like you really embraced synths and electronic sounds on this album. One of the nice things about touring a lot is you have a way to throw in more obscure songs, so it keeps it fresh. We still play hits from the first record and the previous ones and eight or nine from the latest record. What does your setlist look like these days?īH: It’s a mixture of all five of the band’s records. In the U.K., news starts getting into gear around mid-day and here, it happens as soon as you wake up.ĬM: Y ou’re touring behind your fifth album. But I like being here and see it all happen at the time that it’s happening. CM: What’s it like to tour this country in such strange times politically?īH: The people we meet aren’t any different from when we were here under George W.
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