Ausverkauft | Franz Ferdinand

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Franz Ferdinand

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Scotland's rock legends Franz Ferdinand

Tour for the new album "The Human Fear"

End of February 2025 live in Munich, Berlin & Cologne

Over 15 million records sold worldwide, more than 1.3 billion streams, 14 platinum and nine gold awards: Franz Ferdinand are not only one of the UK's most successful bands of the last 20 years, they are also one of the last remaining bastions of the huge wave of new UK bands that swept the world with fresh rock sounds at the start of the new millennium. After celebrating their 20th birthday three years ago with the brilliant retrospective "Hits To The Head" , the band is now returning on January 10, 2025 with their sixth album "The Human Fear" . Directly afterwards, Franz Ferdinand will embark on a major European tour in February, which will include three German concerts in Munich, Berlin and Cologne between February 22 and 28.

Not only throughout Europe, but also in North America and even Asia, Franz Ferdinand have been regarded for years as an enormously stylistically confident guarantor of rock music that is as danceable as it is sophisticated. With each of their five albums to date, the band around singer, guitarist and mastermind Alex Kapranos has developed substantially without losing sight of their typical trademarks - edgy staccato guitars, driving beats, instantly catchy hook lines and a rarely magical energy between melancholic compositions and a euphoric, life-affirming attitude. Founded in 2002 as a quartet, the band has never simply copied these sound aesthetics, but rather adapted them and changed with each album, using ever-changing and complementary genres such as noise rock, disco or pop. Franz Ferdinand have thus achieved something that is rarely found in today's rock world: To be both substantial and compatible with the masses, while constantly evolving and still remaining unmistakable. On top of that, they are almost single-handedly responsible for the global renaissance of the post-punk of the late seventies and the new wave of the early eighties.

The potential of the four friends from Glasgow became apparent early on: their very first single "Darts of Pleasure" reached the top 50 in England in 2003, followed four months later by their second single "Take Me Out", which even made it to third place in the UK singles charts. By the time their self-titled debut album was released in March 2004, word of the band's quality had already spread throughout Europe: "Franz Ferdinand" climbed into the album top 40 throughout Europe and even in the USA and Australia, reaching 3rd place in England. At the end of the same year, the band was awarded the highly prestigious Mercury Prize as well as a BRIT and an Igor Novello Award.

Since then, the band has enjoyed constant success: each of their four further albums - "You Could Have It So Much Better" (2005), "Tonight: Franz Ferdinand" (2009), "Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions" (2013) and "Always Ascending" (2018) - reached at least No. 6 in the UK charts. Seven singles made it into the top 20 in the UK, including young rock classics such as "(The Dark of the) Matinée", "Do You Want To" and "Walk Away".

The band worked on their sixth album "The Human Fear" for six years , interrupted only by work on their first best-of compilation for the band's 20th anniversary three years ago. In terms of content, it is a conceptual work about the inspiring power that emanates from inner fears. "Fears make us feel alive," says Alex Kapranos . The album was recorded completely live by the band, all the songs were fully arranged before the recording started. It was therefore only a matter of capturing Franz Ferdinand 's unbridled joy of playing as unadulterated as possible in the studio. The result is that the band, which has grown into a quintet, sounds as fresh and powerful as on their debut album, which has since become an absolute classic.