David Edwards
It’s hard to believe there’s anymore space left in their diary, but Franz Ferdinand have found room for another run of US dates in support of this year’s Always Ascending album.
Adding to an already busy 2018 are summer dates which start in Raleigh, NC on July 29th and run through to closing gigs in Tennessee in mid-August.
‘Change for its own sake is rarely a good idea’, Live4ever said in our album review, ‘and the instances where this leads to good results can be counted on the fingers of even fewer hands’.
“Always Ascending is no buffer record, but the sound of a new band coming to terms with its past as opposed to being slaves to it, or merely tossing their own legacy away in a fit of pique. The results could leave it stranded between old fans and new, but if any outfit were built to relish the tensions caused by that it’s Franz Ferdinand.”
New tour dates:
July
29 – Raleigh, NC, The Ritz
30 – Asheville, NC, The Orange Peel
August
2 – Chicago, IL, Lollapalooza
3 – Indianapolis, IN, Vogue
5 – Montreal, QB, Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts
7 – Portland, ME, State Theatre
8 – New Haven, CT, College Street Music Hall
10 – Asbury Park, NJ, Stone Pony
11 – Richmond, VA, The National
13 – Knoxville, TN, The Mill & Mine
14 – Nashville, TN, Cannery Ballroom