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The bar in the green room is well stocked, but once again Franz Ferdinand fill up on coffee and take in some more reading. True to their word, a few gossip magazines get tossed around. Apparently, Jen's fuming mad at Angelina.
During soundcheck, the band adds a new intro to "Do You Want To" and then decides it's too long. After the levels are set and the thumbs-up given, Franz start loosening up backstage. Hardy has a margarita. Kapranos puts to use some tooth-blackener he finds in the makeup room and then smiles out the side of his mouth to everyone who crosses his path. The food trays, a fitting mixture of delicacies and junk food, get attacked.
Like books, food is a surprisingly important part of Franz Ferdinand. Kapranos and Hardy met as chefs, and Kapranos writes a food column for London's The Guardian.
"Every time we come on tour we always eat something interesting," the singer says. "You get to try things that maybe before you might've thought were a little bit gross, but after a while you kinda get curious and wanna try. Like, I know when we went to Japan we tried some really bizarre things.
"Jellyfish, that was an unusual one, wasn't it?" he asks Thomson. "Did you try that?"
"I feel like: I'm 29, and if there's something I haven't tasted yet, then there's a good reason for it," the drummer answers, prompting a laugh.
"Yeah, Jellyfish is not that great," Kapranos admits.
Kapranos likens writing the column to writing songs ("It's just taking in the atmosphere of what's 'round you"), and you could almost say he approaches food like he does music, getting more adventurous as time goes by.
"We didn't want it to sound like the first one, and we quite deliberately made sure," he says of You Could Have It So Much Better. "Often we'd be playing something and say, 'That sounds too much like what we've done already.' A lot of ideas got rejected because it did sound too similar. And songs like 'The Fallen' and 'Walk Away' and 'Eleanor Put Your Boots On,' they were the most exciting songs, 'cause we felt like we were taking what we could do already and then going somewhere else with it."
Songwriting comes rather naturally to Franz Ferdinand, who often write songs in 10 minutes and then spend weeks arranging and fine-tuning them. At KROQ, when a passing reference to U2's massive back catalog is made, Kapranos quickly quips, "We're building our massive back catalog just now," and there's some truth to that. A third album is already in the works.
"It's funny in a way," he says. "I feel like the new album, which has been out for four days or whatever, is kind of in the past now."
A few less topical conversations later ("I love the term 'Johnny bag,' it's so sexy," he says of the Scots' word for condoms), Kapranos is off for the dressing room, where the rest of Franz Ferdinand are calmly waiting to take Ferguson's stage. When the time comes, the performance is electrifying, including the scaled-down new intro to "Do You Want To." Afterward, just a few steps from the cameras, Kapranos tells whoever's listening, "I quite liked that."
Within minutes, Franz are changed and heading back to their van, stopping briefly to offer their farewells.
"See you next time," McCarthy says. "We're gonna do something really intellectual now."
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