It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Franz Ferdinand are playing Glasgow's Barrowlands tonight. Here, in an interview to mark the release of the latest LP, Alex Kapranos talked ...

The advance billing on Tonight: Franz Ferdinand was that Franz Ferdinand was pulling a hard left, dabbling in Afrobeat while teaming up with Turkish electro DJ Erol Alkan. That didn’t happen.

Despite being critical darlings of the 2000s post-punk scene, Alex Kapranos once found himself dreading an inevitable ...