According to Silverchair’s website, as of June 2009, the group had begun work on the follow-up to Young Modern ; they had spent three weeks recording in Australia with future sessions earmarked for later that year. No release date was set, but the band uploaded in-studio videos of them working…
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On 20 May 2009, May and Taylor performed “We Are the Champions” live on the season finale of American Idol with winner Kris Allen and runner-up Adam Lambert providing a vocal duet.
Queen and Paul Rodgers split up on 12 May 2009. Rodgers stated: “My arrangement with [Queen] was similar to my arrangement with Jimmy [Page] in The Firm in that it was never meant to be a permanent arrangement”. Rodgers did not rule out the possibility of working with Queen again.
On 6 May 2009, it was announced that Franz Ferdinand would be the third opening act for the Green Day ‘s 21st Century Breakdown World Tour .
An album of remixes of all tracks on Intimacy , Intimacy Remixed , was released in May 2009.
In 2006, the band’s first four records were remastered and compiled with previously unreleased bonus tracks. Several recordings made for the John Peel radio show from 1978 to 1986 were also compiled on the CD Voices on the Air: The Peel Sessions . AllMusic described the first session as “a…
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the DVD shipping March 31, 2009.
followed by a one-off reunion performance on 14 March 2009, as part of the Sound Relief festival.
On February 17, 2009, Brand New officially added touring guitarist Derrick Sherman to the band’s full lineup. Sherman had toured with the band since 2006 and contributed to The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me .
In February 2009, Glastonbury Festival announced Franz Ferdinand as the first major band playing at that year’s festival.