Music & Travel

One of the most unlikely and yet successful collaborations of this year: FFS, Franz Ferdinand and Sparks. I'm not going to lie: this is one of the bands I was really excited to see at Cruïlla this year. My expectations were not disappointed. I have already written about Franz Ferdinand and how thrilled I have been to see them grow so positively. This joint show at Cruïlla was no exception. The collaboration does perfectly work and it is a real pleasure to see the musicians obviously having fun on stage and sharing their energy and good mood with an audience. They were programmed at Rock en Seine too this year and after Cruïlla, I was already convinced I would want to repeat!

A couple of months ago, at the beginning of April, Franz Ferdinand had the great idea of including a date in Barcelona on their tour.  Not that I would not have seen them otherwise though: I saw them last summer at Rock en Seine and that was the exact reason why I decided to buy my ticket for their gig in Barcelona. Of course, I didn't know at that time that they would also play at Solidays (yes, at the end of this month). So in the end, I would have seen them three times in a year... Few bands could say the same! I have been following Franz Ferdinand since their debut album -with more or less attention, it's true. Maybe their second album didn't fascinate me that much, for example. I quite enjoyed the last one but the real surprise for me came from the fact that it had been a while I hadn't seen them live. And that show at Rock en Seine was such a complete in-your-face reminder of how good they are on stage! Not only good... Just so much better now than they have ...