Watch Franz Ferdinand play ‘Bar Lonely’ on TV for the primary time | Jive Update

Watch Franz Ferdinand play ‘Bar Lonely’ on TV for the primary time


Franz Ferdinand have given new tune ‘Bar Lonely’ its tv debut on CBS Saturday Periods – take a look at the footage beneath.

The Scottish indie band are making ready to launch their sixth studio album ‘The Human Concern’ subsequent week (January 10) by way of Domino, and have up to now shared the singles ‘Night time Or Day’ and ‘Audacious’. You possibly can pre-order/pre-save the album right here.

Forward of its launch, the group have appeared on CBS Saturday Periods, the place they performed each singles, in addition to ‘Bar Lonely’, stay in studio. The latter was getting its first public efficiency, other than its look within the band’s setlists in late 2024. Watch the three songs right here:

Produced by Mark Ralph (who beforehand labored with the Scottish Mercury Prize-winners on 2013’s ‘Proper Ideas, Proper Phrases, Proper Motion’), ‘The Human Concern’ marks the band’s first studio album since 2018’s acclaimed and dance-driven ‘At all times Ascending’.

A press launch guarantees that the 11 tracks on the album will “all allude to some deep-set human fears and the way overcoming and accepting these fears drives and defines our lives.”

Chatting with NME in regards to the LP, frontman Alex Kapranos shared: “I don’t suppose there’s a single tune that you just’ll hear on the album and received’t suppose, ‘Oh, is that Franz Ferdinand?’ On the similar time, there will probably be considering, ‘Oh, did they actually try this?’ That’s to not say I begin rapping or something like that.”

He additionally defined what he believes ‘The Human Concern’ represents: “All of us have fears in our lives, and people fears are type of a clue to understanding who we’re – how we reply to them, how we overcome them (if we overcome them, as a result of typically we don’t). The best moments in your life often contain overcoming some type of worry. Typically it’s a paralysing worry, however when it’s overcome, my god, it’s the best buzz on the earth!

“Say you’re asking your companion out for the primary time; that’s terrifying. Or shifting to a brand new city and never realizing anyone. On the album, I’m speaking about totally different fears that I’ve seen in different folks: worry of social isolation, worry of leaving an establishment, worry of leaving or staying in a relationship. It wasn’t like a medical evaluation when writing the songs, I solely realised that after.”

The band are also about to kick off a brief run of in-store exhibits on January 9, which can then be adopted by a UK and European headlining tour. Take a look at a full record of dates right here and go to right here for tickets.



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