During the band’s 25 February 2025 show in Osaka , they played ” State of the Nation ” live for the first time since 1987.
To celebrate their 25th anniversary, Gorillaz released a video on 29 January 2025 titled Nostalgiaz , featuring clips from their music videos set to “Pirate’s Progress” from Plastic Beach .
On 18 January 2025, Franz Ferdinand performed at Aviva Studios in Manchester for the Amazon Music City Sessions, and had guitarist Johnny Marr for 3 songs, the band’s own “Build It Up” and ” Do You Want To ” and a song from Marr’s old group The Smiths , “…
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In 2025, Forbes included her in its 30 Under 30 list, and Nordoff and Robbins honoured her with the Silver Clef Award for Contemporary Music. Later that year, she released “You Can’t Run from Yourself” as the opening theme for the second season of the anime Kaiju No. 8 .…
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In 2025, following the release of the single “Bruiser” in May, a new album, Delete Everything , was announced, with a release date in October. The announcement also revealed some slight changes to the lineup, with March departing and Townshend replaced by the band’s touring drummer Cliff Hewitt. This new…
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In January 2025, USS announced a reunion show at Toronto’s Concert Hall for June of that year, which sold out immediately; the band subsequently announced additional shows.
In 2025, the band signed an open letter in support of the hip-hop trio Kneecap which opposed a “clear, concerted attempt to censor and ultimately deplatform” the group.
The band released the single “Love Insurrection” in July 2024 and simultaneously announced their twelfth studio album Come Ahead for release on 8 November 2024.
On 11 September 2024, Franz Ferdinand announced their sixth studio album, The Human Fear , to be released on 10 January 2025, and along revealed lead single “Audacious”.
U2:UV Achtung Baby Live was highly acclaimed by critics; Rolling Stone ‘ s Andy Greene called it “a quantum leap forward for concerts”, and Neil McCormick of The Telegraph said it would “change live entertainment forever”. The residency grossed US$244.5 million from 663,000 tickets sold, making it the fourth-highest-grossing concert…
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