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Tickets for Franz Ferdinand's 2014 tour go on sale today, at 9am. Full details below.
The 'Do You Wanna' band will hit the road early next year following the success of their 2013 comeback album, Right Thoughts, Right Words Right Action, which scored the band a Top Ten hit when it was released in August, 2013.
Tickets are on sale today from 9am. Dates are below. For more information, visit Gigwise Gig Tickets.
Roundhouse, London, Fri 14th Mar 2014
Brighton Dome, Mon 17th
O2 Academy Bristol, Tue 18th
Southampton Guildhall, Wed 19th
O2 Academy Birmingham, Fri 21st
Manchester Academy, Sat 22nd
Olympia Theatre Dublin Sun 23rd
Barrowlands Glasgow, Tue 25th
O2 Academy Leeds, Wed 26th
O2 Academy Newcastle, Thu 27th
Watch the video for the band's 'Love Illumination' single below:
Fans are lucky that thew band are touring at all, after frontman Alex Kapranos recently admitted he came close to ending the band during their hiatus from music.
“[The] fun went out when I felt I was working to someone else’s schedule or deadline,” the frontman said in an interview with The Observer.
“I’m not naturally the kind of person who works well under those conditions. In fact, my whole adult life before that point, if I’d been in a job where I felt I was under pressure, I would usually just jack in the job. And suddenly I couldn’t do that any more. But maybe... Maybe, thats what we did after the third record.”
Asked whether or not the band actually split up, Kapranos explains: “I met up with Bob [Hardy, bassist] in Orkney about two years ago. I wanted to split the band up, because in my head it felt like one of those jobs... the ones I had to jack in. I didn’t like the routine and the obligations. And whether those obligations lay with my contemporaries, my peers, my record label, the fans, the audience - or maybe myself... I felt... It was time to, erm, stop that.”
Below: Franz Ferdinand, Snoop Dogg and more at Bestival 2013
