If you’re a regular attendee or viewer of the festival season, chances are you’ve seen Franz Ferdinand a thousand times.
It seems like they’ve played every festival ever year since their formation back in 2002; their music is played over everything from montages on Match Of The Day 2 to that iPod advert; You know you’ve drunkenly danced to one of their songs playing at a club with your mates and more than likely played one of their songs on Guitar Hero or Rock Band (can’t remember which one it’s on…).
So tonight at the O2 Academy in Brixton the four-piece entertain an incredibly (middle aged) energetic crowd all playing air guitar to that song you can play on that video game and get a incredible 5 star score on. After an incredibly long wait that consisted of the bands roadie’s tuning the guitars AT LEAST five times (no one has touched it since the last time you tuned the thing… it’s not gonna’ go out of tune that fast buddy), the guys grace the Brixton stage.
During the near 20 song set, the Glasgow boys fire through most of the songs you can’t help but tap your feet to when you hear them on Edith Bowman’s Radio 1 show including that damn catchy number ‘No You Girls’ from the iPod add and opening with ‘Do You Want To’. After the opening number, the ‘Franz Ferdinand’ back drop falls to reveal a incredibly large LCD screen which projects various short films that you could see included in the next James Bond movie and the band’s music videos to accompany the number of hits this band just seem to churn out time-after-time. 2004’s ‘This Fire’ really get’s the crowd arm-in-arm and creating a competition which seems to be seeing who can jump higher than the person next to them. Out of the whole set which the band sailed through with incredible ease and a sense of wise-professionalism, it’s the inclusion of ‘Michael’ that really sticks out like the soar thumb. You can definitely tell it’s an old song as it sounds nothing like anything the band has done since – but It’s a breath of fresh air showing the band don’t just make sing-along advert friendly pop.
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