![]() ![]() “We’re not gonna say you’re too thickto listen to our music, or you’re too much of a teenybopper. “We’re non-elitist music,” says Alex Kapranos, the band’s rail-thinfrontman, outside the warehouse. And that’s what is so appealing about the band: They strikethe rare balance between cooler-than-you underground and a desire tomake Abercrombie teens scream.Īlso Read The Spin Top 40: The Most Vital Artists in Music, 1997 Making Time would be a scene on any weekend, but tonight has adifferent buzz because Scotland’s art-pop fops Franz Ferdinand areperforming in lieu of the usual Duran Duran and Dead Can Dance records.Despite the commotion that comes with having a Top 40 album and asummer pop anthem (“Take Me Out”), Franz are quite relaxed here (backhome in Glasgow, they’ve thrown numerous, similar parties in offbeatlocations). On this early, spring-like evening in mid-June, theclub is already packed with painfully stylish girls wearing cat’s-eyeglasses, as well as the usually dour recovering hardcore boys deckedout in ripped blazers and skinny ties. Located justpast a highway in the gentrifying Northern Liberties neighborhood, it’sa sprawling structure with five DJ booths, several bars, and anopen-air hot tub. Making Time, a semi-monthly party held at Shampoo, a(barely) converted warehouse, wants to change all of that. Philadelphia-in all of its busted, blue-collar glory-has been calledmany things in its two-century-plus history, but “cool” has never beenone of them. BUT WITH THEIR SURPRISE RADIO HIT “TAKE ME OUT,” FRANZ FERDINAND DARE TO CHARM THE BACKWARD-BASEBALL-CAP MASSES. ![]() YOU’D THINKTHEY’D BE ABOUT AS POPULAR IN THE AMERICAN-ROCK LOCKER ROOM AS THE CASTOF QUEER EYE. THEY’RE ARTY SCOTTISH HIPSTERS WHO REFER TO THEMSELVES AS A “WEE GANG”AND WRITE SONGS ABOUT HORNY BOYS CAVORITING IN DANCE CLUBS. ![]()
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