Once the members came together, they settled on the name Franz Ferdinand for their band. The name was originally inspired by a racehorse called Archduke Ferdinand. After seeing the horse win the Northumberland Plate in 2001, the band began to discuss Archduke Franz Ferdinand and thought it would be a…
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The follow-up to Come Clean was an internet-only compilation titled Open Day at the Hate Fest which was released in 2001. Also in the same year, Curve issued Gift , their fourth studio album. Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine also played guitar on the songs “Want More Need Less”…
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The band’s members played in various bands during the 1990s, including The Karelia , Yummy Fur , 10p Invaders, and Embryo. Alex Kapranos and Paul Thomson met at a party and began a close friendship and played together in Yummy Fur, and subsequently teamed up to write songs. Around the…
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During a party in 2001, the band recorded a live Christmas album, A Very Arcade Xmas , which they are rumoured to have hand-distributed to their friends as a Christmas gift.
Win Butler and Josh Deu founded Arcade Fire in Montreal around 2001, having first met at Phillips Exeter Academy as high school students.
The band’s 2001 Elevation Tour started in March, visiting North America and Europe across three legs. For the tour, U2 performed on a scaled-down stage, returning to arenas after nearly a decade of stadium productions. Mirroring the album’s themes of “emotional contact, connection, and communication”, the tour’s set was designed…
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2001 also saw little activity as Buck-Tick, with only two concerts held. They returned to Korea for the Soyo Rock Festival on July 29, where they were drenched with rain during their set, and held their first Day in Question concert at the Nippon Budokan on December 29. Instead, Sakurai…
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From 1998 to 2000 Albarn recorded Gorillaz’ self-titled debut album at his newly opened Studio 13 in London as well as at Geejam Studios in Jamaica. The sessions resulted in the first Gorillaz release, the EP Tomorrow Comes Today , released on 27 November 2000. This EP consisted mostly of…
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Following their musical pursuits in the 1990s, U2 sought to simplify their sound; the Edge said that with Pop , the group had “taken the deconstruction of the rock ‘n’ roll band format to its absolute ‘nth degree”. For their tenth album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind , the…
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In 2000, the band began recording their seventh album, Evil Heat , released in 2002. Though the political content was not as strong as the previous album, there was a song originally slated for the album entitled “Bomb the Pentagon”, which was reworked into the song “Rise” after the 11…
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