After Friday’s surprise gig in a pub by Liam Gallagher, Franz Ferdinand are the next act to make a shock appearance, turning up at the Bowlie 2 festival at Minehead’s Butlins, a 10 year celebration of the original Bowlie festival back in 1999. They were only announced to play the same day.
Alex Kapranos, the band’s singer, and guitarist Nick McCarthy, were already on stage at the festival prior the band’s set, with the pair joining Edwyn Collins and his backing band ‘Teenage Fanclub’ for a performance of ‘A Girl Like You’ and ‘Do It Again’.
The band played a 13-track set list, including a cover of Sonic’s 1964 hit ‘The Witch’, and the band’s own tracks ‘Michael’, ‘Ulysses’, and ‘The Dark of the Matinee’, giving fans hope that the band will appear more often in the live scene.
The band, who won the 2006 NME award for ‘Best Live Band’, are currently writing their fourth studio album, which the band themselves described as ‘different’ – but that is about the extent that Kapranos will go to in talking about the band’s new album, saying "Before the last record I talked far too much about it as we had the ideas and I made a vow that I wasn't going to say anything about what we are actually doing until we've done it."
The release date for the new album is unknown, but they began work on it in February this year.
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