Franz Ferdinand attempt to put some dub in the music and end up with (re)mixed results

Four middle-aged men discover a dance element to their music... and it’s good!

Already set to play two Irish dates in the coming months, the Scottish rockers have now added a Belfast date to their upcoming tour.

Franz Ferdinand have just announced a full UK and Irish tour for 2009, including a date in Limerick in February and Dublin in March.

With that long awaited third album in the pipeline, and an imminent Electric Picnic slot, Franz Ferdinad's Alex Kapranos talks to us about utilizing the...

Which member of Franz Ferdinand is taking a break from band duties to play a DJ set in Dublin?

As the masses prepare to descend on Punchestown, we dispatch Hannah Hamilton to assess the festival fitness of one of this year's Oxegen buzz bands, Franz...

In which prominent musicians fondle their crystal balls and deliver their World Cup predictions.

Sorry not to get swept up in it all, but is the second Franz album really that good? To be honest, I’m not convinced and ‘Walk Away’ is not the kind of...

With strikingly disciplined ferocity, better melodies than the Manics, near-Teutonic efficiency and positively ballistic energy levels, it was hardly a...

Franz Ferdinand gear up for release of their tour DVD.

**View the corresponding photo gallery here** A flyover near the old Harland & Wolff shipyard was the starting...

There’s always added value with hotpress.com, and while this issue's cover story of Scotland’s biggest stars has plenty of visual treats, we’ve packed...

With their newly-released second album flying off the shelves this week, Franz Ferdinand fever will reach another peak on November 14, when their DVD becomes...

You Could Have It So Much Better is no radical body swerve, just the gratifying sound of a band gaining in confidence and prowess.

Tackling the compelling subject matter of, er, oral pleasure, Franz are back with a vengeance and a single of the same standard as ‘Take Me Out’, but...

Give praise then for those Franz Ferdinand boys. Because it is their presence, and theirs alone, that makes this particular shindig worth attending.

As 40,000 very satisfied punters will know, Franz Ferdinand were gigging in Belfast and Dublin this week - and Hot Press was with them every step of the way.

After winning over the crowd at Belfast's Botanic Gardens yesterday (23 August) and aiming to do the same at Lansdowne Road tonight, Scottish indie-popsters...

Having insisted that their new album would be colour coded rather than named, Franz Ferdinand have done a U-turn.

Here's a sneaky peek at the new Franz Ferdinand album artwork - the first Irish viewing no less. And what's it all about, you ask?

Franz Ferdinand are asking their army of Irish admirers to help them assemble their first DVD.

The Lansdowne Road line-up will also appear at Belfast’s Botanic Gardens

The Pixies, Franz Ferdinand, Chemical Brothers and Basement Jaxx have been announced today for the BudRising Summer Music Shows

2004 was a bad year in politics. Maybe that’s why the music just got better.

Top 30 albums & singles of 2004, as voted by our HP writers...

Hotpress' exploitation of vulnerable musicians has reached new levels with us quite literally taking the shirt off Franz Ferdinand's back.

If their rapid ascent has left Alex Kapranos & Co. gasping for air it doesn’t show as Franz Ferdinand launch into their Olympia set with a breakneck...

A kitschy-camp delight.