Master Peace joined Franz Ferdinand live on stage in Madrid earlier this week (February 17) to rap a verse over ‘Hooked’ – check out the moment below.
The band are currently in the middle of their European tour which is also being supported by Master Peace. The musician joined the band on stage for ‘Hooked’ to rap a verse on the recently released song. He also added to the song’s chorus.
Franz Ferdinand played tracks from across their career during the set at La Riviera in Madrid, Spain, with a focus on their new album ‘The Human Fear’, which was released last month. New song ‘Everydaydreamer’ was given its live debut while elsewhere, they gave song ‘The Fallen’ its debut on the current tour.
Check out the full setlist and footage of the moment Master Peace joined the band on stage below.
Thanks to @MasterPeaceLDN for joining us on stage in Madrid during Hooked, we loved performing with you. Who thinks we should release this version?
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— Franz Ferdinand (@Franz_Ferdinand) February 19, 2025
Franz Ferdinand played:
‘Night or Day’
‘The Dark of the Matinée’
‘Bar Lonely’
‘No You Girls’
‘Cats’
‘Walk Away’
‘Everydaydreamer’ (live debut)
‘Do You Want To’
‘Build It Up’
‘Black Eyelashes’
‘The Fallen’ (tour debut)
‘Love Illumination’
‘Take Me Out’
‘Ulysses’
‘Hooked’ (with Master Peace)
‘Outsiders’
Encore:
‘Audacious’
‘Darts of Pleasure’
‘The Birds’
‘This Fire’
The band have been no strangers recently to surprise live collaborations, with Smiths legend Johnny Marr joining the band on stage in Manchester last month.
The Scottish indie band were playing at the city’s Aviva Studios on January 18 for a show as part of Amazon Music’s City Sessions series, which was streamed live on Prime Video and Amazon Music’s Twitch channel.
‘Build It Up’ from the album was the first track that saw them joined by Smiths legend Marr, swiftly followed by ‘Do You Want To’ from their second album ‘You Could Have It So Much Better’.
The collaboration was rounded off by a version of the Smiths classic ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’, first released on their seminal 1986 album ‘The Queen Is Dead’.
In an interview with NME last September, frontman Alex Kapranos opened up about there being a “hunger” once more for bands like theirs to return. “Of course things go in and out of fashion, don’t they? At the moment there seems to be a hunger for good band that can play; that have a rawness and complexity to them,” he explained. “It’s the human energy that you only get from a set of people standing on stage and exchanging that between them.”
He added: “A very good example of that are English Teacher – who obviously just won the Mercury Prize. I saw them play a couple of months ago and I absolutely fucking loved them. Fontaines D.C. are another great band. Sprints had that when I saw them as well: they’re so much more than the sum of their parts. Something magical is happening when those people play together. No matter how sophisticated your pop production on Ableton is, you’re never going to quite capture that special thing that happens when people play together.
“A lot of great stuff has happened in pop over the last 10 or 15 years or so, but it’s getting a bit stale. People are feeling that. I feel there’s a genuine desire for the rawness and the depth you can only get from a band.”
‘The Human Fear’ marks the band’s first studio album since 2018’s acclaimed and dance-driven ‘Always Ascending’. In a four-star review of the new album, NME wrote: “In uncertain and scary times, where do you find confidence? On the spiked post-punk closer ‘The Birds’, Kapranos asks: “Is that what we want? To be with others who know, who understand who we are and what we’ve done?” This album is the answer to that question.”
“On the vivacious ‘Night Or Day’, he declares: “I’ll never get bored of you, or the thing you do”. It’s a love letter to the idea of this band. Still shamelessly livin’ it up, with an eyebrow cocked and high kicks galore, ‘The Human Fear’ is – as promised – Franz-y as fuck. You do you, hun; you do it so well.”
The band will tour the UK in March before heading out to North America. Find any remaining tickets for the UK show here, and US ones here. See the list of UK and US gigs below.
MARCH
05 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
06 – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
07 – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
24 – Showbox, Sodo – Seattle, WA
25 – Commodore – Vancouver, BC
28 – Warfield – San Francisco, CA
31 – Complex – The Grand – Salt Lake City, UT
APRIL
03 – Midland – Kansas City, MO
04 – The Fillmore – Minneapolis, MN
07 – Anthem – Washington, DC
08 – The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA
10 – Brooklyn Paramount – Brooklyn, NY
12 – Orpheum – Boston, MA
14 – M Telus – Montreal, QB
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