September Review Update

Date: Friday, August 28 to Monday, September 21

Shows:

Toronto, Ontario - Virgin Festival (Saturday, August 29) / Washington D.C. - Virgin Festival (Sunday, August 30) / Montreal, Quebec (Monday, August 31) / Winnipeg, Manitoba (Wednesday, September 2) / Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Thursday, September 3) / Edmonton, Alberta - Sonic Boom Festival (Saturday, September 5) / Vancouver, British Columbia (Sunday, September 6) / Seattle, Washington - Bumbershoot Festival (Monday, September 7)

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Reviews

Get ready to read!

(Marked with a * means recommended.)

Some of them have pretty photos too, so go be entertained.

Hollywood Palladium, California (August 27, 2009)

- Review #1 [Read More.]

- *Review #2 [Read More.]*

- Review #3 [Read More.]

- Review #4 [Read More.]

- Review #5 [Read More.]

- Review #6 [Read More.]

V-Fest Ontario (August 29, 2009)

- Review #1 [Read More.]

- Review #2 (shameless self-promotion) [Read More.]

- Review #3 [Read More.]

- Review #4 [Read More.]

FreeFest, Washington (August 30, 2009)

- Review #1 [Read More.]

Montreal (August 31, 2009)

- Review #1 [Read More.]

- Review #2 [Read More.]

Winnipeg (September 2, 2009)

- *Review #1 [Read More.]*

- Review #2 [Read More.]

- *Review #3 [Read More.]*

- Review #4 [Read More.]

Sonic Boom Festival, Edmonton (September 5, 2009)

- Review #1 [Read More.]

- Review #2 [Read More.]

Vancouver (September 6, 2009)

- *Review #1 [Read More.]*

- Review #2 [Read More.]

- Review #3 [Read More.]

- Review #4 [Read More.]

- Review #5 [Read More.]

- Review #6 [Read More.]

- *Review #7 [Read More.]*

Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle (September 7, 2009)

- Review #1 [Read More.]

- Review #2 [Read More.]

- Review #3 [Read More.]

- Review #4 [Read More.]

- Review #5 [Read More.]

- Review #6 [Read More.]

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Photos

- From Spain (April 2, 2009) [See More.]

- From Rome (July 14, 2009) [See More.]

- From St. Louis (August 11, 2009) [See More.]

- From Montreal (August 31, 2009) [See More.]

- From Bumbershoot (September 7, 2009) [See More.]

- Thanks to Ootsider on FFG for this one of Alex, Nick, and Parker. [See More.]

- So this photo is a little... err... well. Hi Alex. Yeah. Great. Keep up the good work (September 21, 2009) [See More.]

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Other

- I know this isn't interview-post day, but this old-ish interview with Paul needs to be posted(!!!). And for the record, Nick doesn't have anything to do with them. [Read More.]

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Check back tomorrow for the Video Update. Getting back on track one long post at a time...

Daily/Weekend Recap: Friday, July 31 / Saturday, August 1 & Sunday, August 2, 2009

Date: Friday, July 31 / Saturday, August 1 / Sunday, August 2

Energy In The Park (Munich) - Saturday, August 1

Roundup:

- Forgive me for missing the Friday recap. I went to go see La Roux. Surprisingly very good live, despite what the NME Franz/La Roux performance of ‘Call Me’ might suggest (sorry Franz).

- Considering this is three days condensed into one shining roundup... Really not that much happening. Sorry. When they open for Green Day, I’m expecting more. Americans love their internet media. Oh America. Land of the free. And land of the media. It's a land of a lot of things, apparently.

News:

- Parades de Coura write up, photos, and a video. I can’t get the video to work (so I don’t know what it’s of), but I wish you the best of luck with it. (Portugese Source) [Google Translate.]

Interviews:

- An interview with Franz FerdinaRd! Points for whoever comes up with what the extra R stands for, because it beats me. It's an interview with Alex & Paul. Most of it's dubbed over in another language, but parts of it are understandable for those of us that aren't linguistically gifted. [Part One] [Part Two]

Videos:

- None

Twitter Updates:

- Loitering in departures en route to munich via palma di mallorca. One more european show this summer then usa.

- Does man have a divining rod in his brain that leads him to the bathroom when dining in unfamiliar restaurants?

- Munich. This time last week we were in japan. This time next week, texas. Whit a kerry oan!

Photos:

- Musilac Festival Photos (July 12). [See More.]

- A few from Paleo (July 22). [See More.]

- One of Alex from Paredes de Coura (July 30). [See More.]

Tour Dates:

- Just announced, Franz will be playing in Lisbon (Portugal) at Camp Pequeno on December 2nd. Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Monday, August 3) (source).

Andrew Knowles Update:

- Oh hey, Andy Fucking Knowles! (I miss Andy. Here he is performing with Killa Kella in Bangkok... There are a lot of words in that sentence that I never though I would have to put together.) [Watch It.]

Other:

- I know I said I wasn’t going to post Franz Ferdinand’s individual members’ own tweets, but I thought this one from Alex needed repeating:
“Bob just had an allergic reaction to a pretzel. He’s ok but he never wants to see another one ever again.”

... Oh no! ... Bob’s clearly hacked into Alex’s twitter account in an attempt to get us to believe this. Or not. But either way, pretzel quest ’09 continues.

Picture Of The Week:

So, people seemed generally happy with the idea of picture of the week (well, judging by the ... four or so responses I got). Every Sunday I’ll throw up a photo - it might be recent, it might be old, who knows. We’ll see (I’m clearly the most decisive person in the world).

This week, I’m starting with an old one. It’s actual my desktop background, and people always ask me if it’s a picture of a golf course when I’ve got windows up blocking the screen. Yes. I enjoy golf that much.

Click here for big!

This Week:

- Saturday, August 8 - Houston, Texas (Green Day Support)

- Sunday, August 9 - San Antonio, Texas (Green Day Support)

Daily Recap: Friday, July 24, 2009

Date: Friday, July 24

no show today

Roundup

- Bliss. Mingled with confusion. Mixed with: "HOLYCRAPLOLOLOL".

- Not much... But you know what the greatest invention of the decade now is? Twitter. And Paul. Paul wins for tweeting what we all know Bob is writing in his diary thinking.

News

- Benicassim Review [Read More.]

Interviews

- None

Videos

- New Kyte video from Nimes of No You Girls. This is the 11th time Bob has uploaded NYG. If we can say one thing... he's consistent (he's also consistent in avoiding us like the plague).

Twitter Updates

I think I combusted. I actually think I fell asleep, somehow internally combusted, and am now just imaging all of this. Anyway. Enough about me and my internal heat problems...

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"He's too shy to say so but Tokyo please, Bob NEEDS more pretzels."

omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgx100

This should be international 'kyte, I love you' day. /disbelief. If you're on kyte, you probably know why this is amazing. If you're not - you should a) be on kyte and b) you're going to be lost. We're sorry Bob. But really, we aren't.

Sumi deserves a lot of the credit. So yay for Sumi.

This is Bob. Receiving his first (but hopefully not last) Japanese pretzels.

(credit to Sumi for the photo)

And in other, less pretzel-orientated tweets...

- Listening to Optiganally Yours. A record created entirely with Optigan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optigan)

Photos

- Photos from Paleo Festival [See More.]

- Photos from Main Square Festival [See More.]

- Couplandesque from lj did a lovely drawing of Franz Ferdinand, as they appeared at the NME Awards. Let us bask in it. [See More.]

- Alex & Nick performing an acoustic set (thanks to scotchqueen on ffg for these). [One] [Two]

- Photos from Sumi and her Tokyo quest to BRING BOB PRETZELS. [See More.]

Other

- Honestly, how many Japanese fans brought Bob pretzels? I'd really like to know... And, do I really need to say anything more than:

BRING BOB PETZELS/PRETZEL QUEST '09