Boy, you rock our world!!!

Franz Ferdinand flew back to Europe from US for a gig and I flew to Amsterdam to catch them. In the golden afternoon, they performed live for a dutch radio programme before the main gig. It'd been a long time since I last saw them in the southern part of England. This time, I snuck into the venue with my new lovely friends I just made (we were all on the list). To be honest with you, Amsterdam has loads of rad venues for rock bands, but it was my first visit to Paradiso. The stage located in a high position which reminded me of typical Amsterdam music venues. The selection of the support band was perfect! The frontman of Kissogram, Jonas Poppe seemed to be acting like Alex and that made me a bit laugh. But he was very cool indeed!!! Franz do have a good taste in choosing support bands even though their manager picks one for them. (Officially, The Rakes was one of those bands)

It took the main band quite a while to show up to a crazy crowd with luxurious lightening. Let me say something here, that's the moment that the most fans scream very loud and my brain cells get stimulated. They did good as always.
What other rock stars could dance more fashionably than Alex does? The answer would be "none". He has an unique sense of his own and is totally different to man-candy that teenagers from all over the world drool over. The people who only know him through media texts wouldn't say that he's the hottest singer on earth, but the girls who have actually seen him singing on the big stage. I bet his name, Alex Kapranos will for sure be added to the list of 2000s' most iconic rockstars!!

Five years after releasing the extraordinary debut album, the guys still seem to have an urge to let their audience dance with their racy beats, especially, the songs like "The Dark of the Matinee" "Take Me Out". Which makes me simply excited. They've gotta be effin proud!!!




Without my fave song, Twilight Omens, still amazing lineup!

Chatting with the lads and my girls in a bar after the show was triff!! They started to croon a song before the place got closing down and Paul eagerly explained to me the difference between Franz's nahnahnah and Kaiser Cheifs' and I told him that "Nah Nah Nah Nah" was Kaiser's logo... but now I got what he meant. He was right. Alex said to me that he doesn't live anywhere, and that's the same thing one of my musician friends said, Haha. The 60s' best easyrider, Peter Fonda once said in a very long interview video that musicians could be bohemians... which makes me realise that great rock'n'roll hasn't changed much since the 1960.

As you can see in the pic belog, my excitement isn't seemingly showing. The truth is I tend to keep things to myself, but I missed my flight back to the UK next day, that would probably explain how much I enjoyed that nite (till 3 am btw). Seriously, that was a blast!!!

Massive Thank you to Alex, Nick, Paul, Bobby, Sandra and Carol who made my nite.



The mellow spring breeze blew across my skin, softly, and slowly like the song, well that was easy...