Also in the audience was Glaswegian Roddy McKenna ( A + R Music executive Zomba Records ), who later signed the band to Zomba Records.

* BMX Bandits ( band ), a Glaswegian guitar pop band

Urusei Yatsura were a Glaswegian alternative rock, indie rock band.

" In 1991 Glaswegian band Teenage Fanclub covered " Like a Virgin " on their second album, The King.

Touring as drum tech with Glaswegian band Franz Ferdinand, Knowles met Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger of the New York band The Fiery Furnaces and was invited to join the group.

They also recorded a BBC Radio One Peel Session ( 1997 ), a BBC Radio One Session in Scotland ( 1999 ), and a BBC Radio Scotland Live Session ( 2003 ), and released " Torch Number One " as one half of a split single with Glaswegian hardcore group Churn on Too Many Fireworks Records in 2003.

" Delta Dawn " is a song written by former child rockabilly star Larry Collins and songwriter Alex Harvey ( who more often goes by the name Alexander Harvey today, and is not to be confused with the late Glaswegian rocker Alex Harvey ), best known as a 1972 top ten C & W hit for Tanya Tucker and a number-one hit for Helen Reddy in 1973.

Opposition first came in the form of a now defunct Glaswegian side called Thistle FC and Queen's won 2 – 0 on 1 August 1868.

A period of Glaswegian criminal history called the Ice Cream Wars existed in the 1980s between rival gangs fighting for territory.

Although by no means autobiographical, the story of a Glaswegian girl called Joanna, resembles in many ways her own life and represents her search for independence.

Wark played a character called Arthur Hayes, but his only line had to be dubbed due to his broad Glaswegian accent.

* Taggart, an internationally famous Glaswegian detective television programme, which is translated into many languages including German and Japanese is set and filmed in Maryhill.

Like the 19th century Glaswegian boxes, the London police boxes contained a light at the top of each box, which would flash as a signal to police officers indicating that they should contact the station ; the lights were, by this time, electrically powered.

" Parliamo Glasgow " was a spoof programme in which Baxter played a language coach and various scenarios using Glaswegian dialogue were played out for laughs.

On one occasion, however, the strip ( which showed the Bacons going on holiday ) ended with all-out war between the Bacons and the McBashers ( the Glaswegian equivalent of the Bacons, who refer to them as " soft Geordie bastards ").

Newspapers include The Glaswegian a free paper covering the greater Glasgow area, The Extra which is another local free paper covering Glasgow South and Eastwood and based in Pollokshields.

Coulter and Martin also wrote " Shine It On ", which finished third in the 1978 heat of A Song for Europe, performed by the Glaswegian performer " Christian ".

In October 2006, members of the band helped put together a CD collection of new songs for children titled Colours Are Brighter, with the involvement of major bands such as Franz Ferdinand and The Flaming Lips .< ref >

From time to time, other musicians, such as Oto Rimele ( from Lačni Franz band ), Nikola Sekulović, bass player from the Demolition Group, Matej Mršnik and Roman Dečman, amongst other, have joined Laibach.

* Earthling ( band ) wrote in the song, " Nefisa " ( from album Radar ), the lyrics: " PVC costumes, letters to Castro, Show me what you're reading, freaky girl with the afro, Franz ( sic ) Fannon, yeah yeah I get it, All that curiosity with something to offset it ".

The village is currently home to both Batman writer Alan Grant and a member of the Scottish band Franz Ferdinand.

* Bob Hardy ( born 1980 ), bassist for popular Scottish post-punk revival band, Franz Ferdinand.

The idea that the title was chosen to hint at the Transcendental Études written by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt-which were considered some of the most technical musical pieces of their time-has been denied by the band.

The band consisted of two ministers, Christopher Eipper ( 1813 – 1894 ) and Carl Wilhelm Schmidt, and lay missionaries Haussmann, Johann Gottried Wagner, Niquet, Hartenstein, Zillman, Franz, Rode, Doege and Schneider.

It comes from one of the Kwakwaka ' wakw tribes, the Kwagu ' ł, at Fort Rupert, with whom Franz Boas did most of his anthropological work and whose Indian Act band government is the Kwakiutl First Nation.

He was one of the band of professors who in 1870 supported Döllinger in his resistance to the Vatican decrees, and was excommunicated along with Döllinger, Johann Nepomuk Huber, Johann Friedrich, Franz Heinrich Reusch, Joseph Hubert Reinkens and others, for refusing to accept them.

Piefke arranged Franz Liszt's symphonic poem-Tasso for military band and may also have similarly arranged some of Liszt's marches.

Other popular bands, most largely unknown outside the country, include Negligence ( thrash metal ), Elvis Jackson ( ska punk ), Lačni Franz, Bohem, Puppetz ( Indie ), Tabu, Društvo Mrtvih Pesnikov ( pop-rock ), Naio Ssaion ( Gothic metal ), Terrafolk, Leaf Fat ( screamo ), Avven, Perpetuum Jazzile, Carpe Diem, Šank Rock, Big Foot Mama, Yogurt, Adam, Levitan, Dan D, Time to time, Flirrt, Zablujena generacija, Slon in Sadež, Katalena, Rock Partyzani, Shyam, Eroika, Hic et Nunc, Devil Doll ( experimental rock ), Chateau, Posodi mi jürja, Rok ' n ' band, Čuki, Juliette Justine, Zaklonišče Prepeva, Psycho-Path, Dekadent ( black metal ) and Buldožer ( progressive rock ).

1997: In 1997, Pat Smear announced that he was leaving Foo Fighters half way through their performance and presented his replacement, Franz Stahl, who had been a member of the band Scream with Dave Grohl.

Others: John Browne, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Antonio Vivaldi, Charles Villiers Stanford, Charles Gounod, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc, Giovanni Felice Sances, Alessandro Scarlatti ( 1724 ), Domenico Scarlatti ( 1715 ), Pedro de Escobar, František Tůma, Vladimir Martynov, Arvo Pärt, Josef Rheinberger, Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, Pasquale Cafaro, Zoltán Kodály, Trond Kverno ( 1991 ), Pawel Lukaszewski ( 1994 ), Frank Ferko ( 1999 ), Salvador Brotons ( 2000 ), Bruno Coulais ( 2005 ), the black metal band Anorexia Nervosa, the symphonic metal band Epica on the album The Classical Conspiracy, and Karl Jenkins.

* Bob Hardy-Bassist with Franz Ferdinand ( band )

Franz Ferdinand is a Scottish band formed in Glasgow in 2002.

The band first experienced chart success when their second single, " Take Me Out ", reached No. 3 in the UK Charts, followed by their debut album, Franz Ferdinand, which debuted on the UK album chart at No. 3.

After the release of You Could Have It So Much Better, the band took some time recording their third album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, which was released internationally on 26 January 2009, and made the top ten in the United Kingdom and the United States.

The band initially intended to leave the album self-titled like their debut, but they changed it to You Could Have It So Much Better ... With Franz Ferdinand before settling on the final title.

On 26 January 2009, the band released their third studio album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, which they had been recording in Glasgow since mid-2007.

In February 2009, Glastonbury Festival announced Franz Ferdinand as the first major band playing at that year's festival.

On 1 June 2009, the band released Blood, a compilation album that includes dub music versions of songs from Tonight: Franz Ferdinand.

It featured songs of " Tonight: Franz Ferdinand " played by Peaches, LCD Soundsystem, Stephin Merritt, ESG and Debbie Harry ( who recorded in duet with the band ).

Hot Chip, a band who are reported to be a favourite of Franz Ferdinand, also performed their own version of " No " on the same album.

The bride and groom ( Joseph and Jennifer Amie ) were friends of the band ; two tattoo artists who did Elliott's Ferdinand the Bull tattoo ( bride ) and his sun / Texas tattoo ( groom ).

After seeing the horse win the Northumberland Plate in 2001, the band began to discuss Archduke Franz Ferdinand and thought it would be a good band name because of the alliteration of the name and the implications of the Archduke's death ( his assassination was a significant factor in the lead-up to World War I ).

" Paul offered, " I like the idea that, if we become popular, maybe the words Franz Ferdinand will make people think of the band instead of the historical figure.

In addition to this, in 2004 the band played a number of " secret " gigs under the pseudonym " The Black Hands ", alluding to the secret society that was held responsible for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

Behr has dated several high-profile people including footballers Les Ferdinand, Ryan Giggs and also pop star Jason ' J ' Brown from boy band ' 5ive '.

Among them are the influential Dutch punk band The Ex, which published a series of 7 " vinyl albums, each with a variation on the Lilya Brik portrait theme, the cover of Mike + the Mechanics album Word of Mouth, and the cover of the Franz Ferdinand album You Could Have It So Much Better.

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The performance contained many humorous re-interpretations of the script, such as continually referring to Brad Wesley by Gazzara's actual name, as well as the substitution of the film's original soundtrack with music from ' 80s synth-pop band Bronski Beat, Pavement, The Alarm, The Smiths, Wilco, Nena, Let's Active, The Misfits, Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand and the ' 90s Canadian pop-punk band, Cub.

* Robert Hardy ( bassist ) ( born 1980 ), member of Glasgow-based band Franz Ferdinand