Db Sees Ff And Tvotr In Nyc

I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TV On The Radio…

As reported in the Daily Star earlier in the week and in today’s Observer in the UK, DB attended the Franz Ferdinand show at New York’s Madison Square Garden Theatre last Monday (October 18th).

TV On The Radio, who were one of the openers for FF, enjoyed a backstage visit from DB as evidenced in the picture above from lastnightsparty.com, where you can view a much larger version of the same shot and another picture of DB with the band and Karen O.

Here’s a bit from today’s Observer piece written by Andy Pemberton who met up with FF on the road in the US…

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It was halfway through Franz Ferdinand’s show last Monday at New York’s Madison Square Garden theatre, that the band noticed a familiar-looking figure in the wings, tapping an expensively shod foot to the glam stomp of the Scottish quartet’s latest single ‘Do You Want To’. Earlier the Glasgow-based quartet had seen him poring over their setlist, expressing delight at some of the songs they intended to play that night.

‘I spoke to him and I asked him if he’d ever been to Harlem,’ recalls Franz Ferdinand’s amiable guitarist Nick McCarthy three days later. ‘He said the first time was, “When I was Ziggy.” I thought, bloody hell, you really are that guy, aren’t you?’

David Bowie, who’s turned up to watch the band the last two times they’ve played in his adopted hometown of New York, is a committed Franz Ferdinand fan.

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Well, as NME said after DB’s visit to a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show, “…you’re no-one in America these days unless you’ve had David Bowie turn up at one of your shows…” Quite.

Thanx to BowieNetter loisroma for the pointer to the pictures.