It's as a catchy as syphilis, but, like syphilis, I could probably live without it. It might just be the circles that I hang out in, and of course it's perfectly probable that there are vast swathes of people out there for whom Tonight: Franz Ferdinand is the only thing worth living for, but Franz seem to exist somewhere inbetween, liked by everyone, loved by no-one.This pre-amble is important - because Tonight: Franz Ferdinand will do nothing to change any of this. On the other hand, are there people out there who love Franz Ferdinand? As solid and consistent as their output has been, it's hard for me to imagine Franz being anyone's favourite band, or the creators of anyone's favourite album. They also seem to carry a weight of intellectualism - the literary references, avant-garde Russian art influences on both their album covers and in their music - without ever seeming pretentious - always sticking to their original remit of making music "that teenage girls will want to dance to". ![]() 'Dark of the Matinee', 'Take Me Out', 'This Fire', 'Michael', 'Do You Wanna?', 'The Fallen', it feels rare for a pop band, in recent times, to have released such consistently memorable and enjoyable singles. Whatever you think of the rest of their music, they do a fucking great single. ![]() Franz, from what I can tell, seem to have avoided this, and with good reason. Together they riled up the crowd with solos, occasional middle fingers and handfuls of leftover guitar picks.Are there people out there who hate Franz Ferdinand? Most bands with their kind of success, and indeed their kind of music, tend to have their lovers and their haters in roughly equal measure. The show was short, clocking in at just over an hour, but there was no loss of energy from Corgan and the band, including guitarist Jeff Schroerer, who has been with the Smashing Pumpkins since 2006, and backing vocalist Sierra Swan. I can’t say anything like that has ever happened again.” “So when I wrote the the song I was looking for something, and I stumbled across the poem and I just sang it. “I had written it as a poem, and all the lyrics are actually as I wrote the poem,” Corgan told Booker and Stryker. And everyday, it’s amazing to watch thousands of people just gather around the ring and just enjoy it.”Īt the iHeartRadio Theater show, the Smashing Pumpkins played new releases and a bevy of greatest hits including “1979,” “Cherub Rock” and “Ava Adore.” They even did a spoken-word rendition of the Talking Head’s “Once In a Life Time.”ĭuring the set, the Pumpkins were joined by Booker and Stryker of Alt 98.7 to discuss the new album and Corgan’s podcast, “Thirty-Three.” Corgan revealed on stage that the new album has around 100 easter eggs for fans to parse out, adding that the podcast felt necessary to help fans and non-fans better understand the nuances behind each of its 33 songs.Ĭorgan also dove into the timeline behind the fan favorite “1979,” revealing that he actually wrote the song about the year 1984 during the year 1994. He said of fusing his two passions, “We just did a show in Mexico with 30,000 people and then 10 shows in Australia. So we had to really build up the credibility of the company, and now we feel very confident that we can take that in front of a mainstream crowd,” Corgan added. “When I bought the company six years ago, people automatically assumed I’d incorporate into music because it’s the easy thing to do. In 2017, Corgan bought and revived the National Wrestling Alliance, which, before the rise of the WWE, was the premier brand in professional wrestling. ![]() By now, he had traded the calf-length black robe he wore on stage for a Franz Kafka t-shirt, and had but a smidge of the white paint that covered his entire face and head remaining. “My love for wrestling goes back to when I was a kid,” Corgan told Variety after the show.
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