On 26 January 2009, the band released their third studio album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand , which they had been recording in Glasgow since mid-2007. The band recorded the album in a disused building in Glasgow that had been a town hall in the past. Alex Kapranos has stated that “The…
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The album, Tonight was released 26 January 2009 and debuted at No. 2 in the UK Album Chart and No. 9 in the Billboard 200 chart in the United States.
On 24 January 2009, 25 years after its first release and the 50th anniversary of the official hit list in Norway, A-ha won the Spellemann Award for VG-lista Hit of All Time for ” Take On Me “.
The song ” Ulysses ” was chosen to be the first single and was released on 19 January 2009.
On 15 January 2009, the official Depeche Mode website announced that the band’s twelfth studio album would be called Sounds of the Universe .
Paramore, along with Paper Route and The Swellers , toured in support of Brand New Eyes in the fall of 2009.
In a 2009 interview from Cody Eide in Music Week , celebrating A-ha’s up-and-coming 25-year anniversary, the members revealed that the record-breaking concert and the lack of media attention they received were a devastating blow to the band. The festival, which should have been the band’s crowning achievement, was instead…
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The new line-up (consisting of Lydon, earlier members Bruce Smith and Lu Edmonds , plus multi-instrumentalist Scott Firth ) played to generally positive reviews in late 2009, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Metal Box . However, protested Lydon, “This tour is absolutely nothing to do with an anniversary of…
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and was performed by Franz Ferdinand on Comic Relief 2009 Top of The Pops special.
However, Sumner revealed in 2009 that he no longer wished to make music as New Order.