The "Château" - early years
Inside late 2001, singer and guitar player Alex Kapranos and bassist Robert Hardy began playing together within Glasgow. When meeting Nicholas McCarthy they started to rehearse together at McCarthy's home. McCarthy was classically trained on the piano and double bass but initially played drums. A trio so met higher using Paul Thomson who had played drums by using Yummy Fur, leading him to swap instruments with McCarthy.

A band began swimming at an abandoned storage warehouse in the Gorbals which they known as "the Château". Franz Ferdinand besides held rave-like "happenings" combining music and art; Hardy was researching painting at a Glasgow School of Art at the instance. After a local constabulary shut a cases down, a band encountered an abandoned Victorian courthouse and played there.

Inside the 2004 locate by using VH1, Alex Kapranos described the healthy it were shopping for. "On songs like 'Come on Home,' we wanted to sound like Donna Summer and Link Wray mixed together, but it doesn't sound like that at all! We thought we could sound like Prince, too, but what we were really trying to do was take on the attitudes of different bands and combine them in our own way."

A band got recorded an EP worth of poop which it designed to release themselves. Even so, a band's reputation was spreading apace, & Domino offered them the contract to release an EP known as Darts of Pleasure in the latter a portion of 2003. A band developed its reputation farther by supporting Hot Hot Heat and Interpol as well as winning the "Phillip Hall Radar Award" at a NME Awards of 2004 (announced around late 2003). Epic Records signed a band to the contract inside 2004 for the America, although the band's primary label for the rest of the globe is however Domino.

Critical and chart success
Franz Ferdinand use been quoted when saying it wanted to produce "music that girls can dance to." This was combined sustaining their art school background around their self-titled debut freed in early 2004. It debuted at total Ternion in the UK album charts around February 2004 & at total Twelve in the Australian album stock and index charts in April 2004. Spell a album got lone reached a bottom reaches of a Billboard 200 album stock and index charts in the The states when of early 2004, it reached the top Pentad of the indie rock and Heatseeker stock and index charts for debut charts. When a few Northward Our contries tours & heavily rotation of the "Take Me Out" streaming videos in MTV, a album at length reached There are no. 32 on the Billboard 200 afterwards around 2004 & has been qualified atomic number 78 in the America purchasable exceeding 1,000,000. When of October 2004, there use at times been 5 singles freed from either a album that is to say:

"Darts of Pleasure" placed on the UK Singles Chart;

"Take Me Out" reached the #3 on the UK stock and index charts, #66 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #3 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. It besides manufactured the top Decade of a Irish & American stock & index charts and the top Xl around a composite European chart too when existence voted first in the Australian Triple J Hottest 100 for 2004.

"The Dark of the Matinée" or "Matinée" reached #8 in the UK singles Stock & index stock and index charts & the top Thirty on the World Modern Rock Charts (a composite chart of U.s.a., German, UK, Swedish, Finnish, American and Australian modern rock charts); and

"Michael" reached the #17 on the UK singles stock and index charts.

"This Fire" was released inside Northward Usa within November 2004. It reached #17 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.

A song "Michael" was the number 1 within the trend among fresh elastic to write songs by using lyrics reflecting a other fluid gender. "Michael" occurs as frenzied dance/rock song according to the personal joke among the b& all about the friend of theirs world health organization had drunk and was terpsichore unabashedly at a club.

A Franz Ferdinand album received the usually heavy caring response from either critics. A New Musical Express said that a band was the latest in the line of art school rock group featuring The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Roxy Music, the Sex Pistols, Wire and Blur. It rated a album when Nina from carolina away from X & said: "This album is the latest and most intoxicating example of the wonderful pushing its way up between the ugly slabs of Pop Idol, nu metal and Britons aping American bands. What these blossoming bands have in common is the absolute conviction that rock ‘n’ roll is more than a career option."

A BBC's review of the album said: "At only 38 minutes long Franz Ferdinand may not be a particularly long album, but it is a masterpiece of funky, punky, suave cool from the first track to the last." A All Music Guide rated the album when 4 away from 5 stars & said "Franz Ferdinand ends up being rewarding in different ways than the band's previous work was, but it's apparent that they're still one of the more exciting groups to come out of the garage-rock / post-punk revival."

In September 7, 2004 the album was awarded the 2004 Mercury Music Prize. Take Me Out gained foremost place in the Australian Triple J Hottest 100 for 2004, winning more than twice a votes of the 2nd-place entry.

Inside 2005, "Take Me Out" was in an ad campaign for the PlayStation Portable game system. It besides became associated by having a YTMND fad involving a PSP ejecting its disc automatically. "Take Me Out" was likewise involved on the child-oriented album Kidz Bop 8. Inside 2004, "Take Me Out" was in the EA Sports video game NHL 2005, while "This Fire" was inside Burnout 3: Takedown, made by EA Games and Criterion Games. Besides "Michael" was featured on the soundtrack of Gran Turismo 4, made by Polyphony Digital, finally, "Tell Her Tonight" was located on the track of FIFA 2005

You Could Have It So Much Better
A band spent very much of 2005 in the studio in Scotland working in their watch higher album, You Could Have It So Much Better, which was released in 3 October 2005. Throughout a recording run, a b& experienced designed to leave a album self-titled prefer their debut, and early reports suggested a official title would exist as Your family Stand It Such Better...By having Franz Ferdinand. A foremost survive performance of their recently music come when a band headlined at a V Festival in August 2005.

Virtually all reviews come fantabulous, declaring Franz Ferdinand's offering up to, whenever does'nt better than, their original, self-titled album. [http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/051005/33/1yda1.html] It entered a UK Album Stock and index charts at First.

Name
the title for the band was originally inspired by a racehorse called The Archduke Ferdinand. When seeing a horse redo in television a band began to discuss a Archduke Franz Ferdinand & thought it would be a good band title because of its healthy and a implications of his demise. It discussed it within the super early locate by having Scottish magazine, Is This Music? [http://www.franzferdinand.org/press/f_isthismusic_000603.htm]:

“Mainly i personally upright liked a way it sounded,� says Bob. “We liked a alliteration.� “He wwhen an incredible figure as well,� continues Alex. “His life, or even at least the ending of it, was a catalyst for the complete transformation of the globe – he was a pivot for history. However I personally don’t obviously across-intellectualise a title tool. Essentially the title should skillful healthy good – such as music.� Paul has the like grander notion. “I such as a idea that, whenever you turn into popular, perchance a words Franz Ferdinand will make humans believe of the band instead of the historical figure.� Ironically, [http://www.google.com Google] turns higher 2,490,000 final result for the string "Franz Ferdinand" band but only 71,600 for "Archduke Franz Ferdinand"

TV Appearances
Recently, a band appeared in an MTV program called Firm Rock Survive, in which it performed Fivesome songs, "The Dark of the Matinée", "Do You Want To", "Take Me Out", "The Fallen", and "This Fire". It likewise appeared on the 2004 Brit awards performing Take Me Out

Members
When of 2005, Franz Ferdinand is composed of: Robert Hardy (bass guitar) Alexander Kapranos (vocals, guitar) Nicholas McCarthy (guitar, keyboard, backing vocals) Paul Thomson (drums, backing vocals) Nicholas Knowles (drums)

Discography
Studio Albums