Wish You Were Here, Weather Permitting
23. Oct, 2013 
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Franz Ferdinand
Hammerstein Ballroom
October 22nd
Ooh
It’s so good, it’s so good
It’s so good, it’s so good
It’s so good
Ooh
Thems are the opening lyrics to Donna Summer’s classic for all seasons ‘I Feel Love’. Â Just hearing them words makes one FEELS good. Â They also make you feel love. Â And when Franz Ferdinand medleyed Donna’s delight into their own ‘Can’t Stop Feeling’ (hear below), it felt more than good – it felt ecstatic, and the crowd felt love, and everyone sent that love right back to the band, who put on the best show I’ve seen this year (and the best since Pulp’s triumphant RCMH shows)
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
hear, here…
Did I somehow forget how blam-mazin’ these Glaswegians were, even after 3 live dips with em - Webster Hall 2004 / free 2006 Myspace(!!!) show at Hammerstein / Roseland 2009????
But I knew what I was getting myself into, after logging hours upon endless hours listening to their latest (which they gave away free to all concert ticket purchasers!!!)
Oh dear lord is this album so FCUKING FRANZTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! Â The fellas played SEVEN out of the album’s ten tracks, and to be perfectly honest, I wish they played all ten (how often would one ever ask for such a thing of a new album and a concert???). Â That’s how stellar this album is. Â It’s on par with their brilliant debut, and probably as time passes, I will regard it even higher than that one (!!!). Â I tells you, it’s the best album of the 10s (that’s not the Daft Punk Tron 2 soundtrack). Â Theses no jokes. Â These are truths
Set List – Bullet / No You Girls / The Dark of the Matinée / Do You Want To / Evil Eye / Walk Away / Stand on the Horizon / Can’t Stop Feeling > I Feel Love (Donna Summer Cover) / The Fallen / Brief Encounters / This Fire / Take Me Out / Michael / Ulysses / Love Illumination / Goodbye Lovers & Friends 

Encore – Right Action / Darts of Pleasure / Outsiders
