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Critic's choice: Franz Ferdinand
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23 August 2006
Forum, NW5
These are the closest quarters at which anyone will catch the Glasgow clothes horses for a while.
Warming up for their headlining slot at the Reading festival on Friday, the lucky 2,000 who snare tickets for this show will get a sneak preview of the kind of set that will please 60,000.
Last year's second album has not received the ravenous hype or managed the chart domination of the band's debut, but it has kept up their forward momentum and demonstrated a maturing of their songwriting, soothing recent single Eleanor Put Your Boots On being a case in point.
One thing that hasn't changed is that they still know enough about showmanship to put on quite a spectacle. Whether up close or specks in the distance, they're always worth watching.
(0870 534 4444). Tonight, 7pm
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