Franz Ferdinand joined by Johnny Marr for Bigmouth Strikes Again (January 18, 2025)

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Their full setlist here.
FWD.
 
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Mainly due to the fact that "Take Me Out" made me want to commit a murder, I've never really given much time to Franz Ferdinand. Anything worth investigating?
 
Anonymous said:
Johnny's looking well. Hopefully this doesn't trigger Morrissey into having another online meltdown.
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He really, really would be pretty unwell if he did that.
 
Amy said:
Mainly due to the fact that "Take Me Out" made me want to commit a murder, I've never really given much time to Franz Ferdinand. Anything worth investigating?
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No, your initial take is correct
 
Redacted said:
No, your initial take is correct
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There were so many bands exploding in the early 00s with a "Smiths influence" that I sought them out, listened a bit and thought - right, why do I need this when I could be listening to the real thing? Razorlight is another one I remember. Pan-ic in Ameri-ca.... :lbf:
 
Amy said:
There were so many bands exploding in the early 00s with a "Smiths influence" that I sought them out, listened a bit and thought - right, why do I need this when I could be listening to the real thing? Razorlight is another one I remember. Pan-ic in Ameri-ca.... :lbf:
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Exactly!
 
luiz felipe scolari said:
If Morrissey, Marr and Joyce (plus a bassist TBA) reunited as the Smiths, what size venues would they play? Could they sell out ten nights at Wembley stadium, a la Oasis?
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Noooo!! That would be awful. Many may disagree but personally I don't think the Smiths music is suited for stadiums. Leave all that to Coldplay, Swift etc
 
luiz felipe scolari said:
If Morrissey, Marr and Joyce (plus a bassist TBA) reunited as the Smiths, what size venues would they play? Could they sell out ten nights at Wembley stadium, a la Oasis?
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Er no, they never played any massive gigs back in the day wheras Oasis did. They could maybe do an arena tour with 2 dates in the smaller cities along with 3 in London/Manchester.
 
Badgers! said:
Johnny Marr is turning into David Grohl. His willingness to go on stage with anyone and everyone is embarrassing. And also very boring.
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I made a comment on a forum recently saying that it would be more surprising to hear of someone who hadn't appeared on stage with Dave Grohl.
Paul Heaton (or someone claiming to be Paul Heaton) jumped in and said "I haven't!"
 
Surface said:
Er no, they never played any massive gigs back in the day wheras Oasis did. They could maybe do an arena tour with 2 dates in the smaller cities along with 3 in London/Manchester.
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Oasis never did anything like the number of stadium shows back in the day that they're doing today. Probably played to a quarter (max) of the crowd that are going this summer.
All legendary/iconic bands from the 80's/90's are playing much bigger shows in the 2020's.
My hunch is that The Smiths would probably now have a Blur sized audience in the UK at least i.e. they could probably sell a good chunk of Wembley Stadium on two consecutive nights if the only UK dates.
 
Surface said:
Er no, they never played any massive gigs back in the day wheras Oasis did. They could maybe do an arena tour with 2 dates in the smaller cities along with 3 in London/Manchester.
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When they played here, they played an amphitheatre with a 13,ooo capacity which has now been expanded to 20,000. Morrissey played it alone as well when it was 13,o00. I could see them doing that.
 
Mike Rourke said:
Oasis never did anything like the number of stadium shows back in the day that they're doing today. Probably played to a quarter (max) of the crowd that are going this summer.
All legendary/iconic bands from the 80's/90's are playing much bigger shows in the 2020's.
My hunch is that The Smiths would probably now have a Blur sized audience in the UK at least i.e. they could probably sell a good chunk of Wembley Stadium on two consecutive nights if the only UK dates.
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No they didn't but they did play around 10 back including 3 nights at The Etihad also 4 nights at the National Bowl, 3 nights at Heaton Park and 2 nights at Knebworth. The Smiths biggest UK gig was Brixton I think.
 
Redacted said:
When they played here, they played an amphitheatre with a 13,ooo capacity which has now been expanded to 20,000. Morrissey played it alone as well when it was 13,o00. I could see them doing that.
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Yes I was talking about the Uk Redacted as the original post mentioned Wembley Stadium.
 
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Interview:
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NME – 22 May 2004

“Morrissey interview by Franz Ferdinand. Topics: the excitement of becoming famous, selling out the Manchester M.E.N. in 90 minutes, the new album, America, Nancy Sinatra, etc.”
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I recall them being well recieved as the support at the birthday gig.
Regards,
FWD.
 

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