It's from the NME. Now does this symbolize everything about Franz Ferdinand right here?
Bob: These are our friends. This is our friend Hannah. And Roxanne. And Manuela. And Celia, Jo, Madge. That's Alanah, that's us.

They're dancing. I'm wondering. Who is that guy?
Bob: She's married to the lead singer of the Yummy Frur.

No way!
Bob: Yes way.
Paul: Morrissey, he was there.
Alex: Morrissey, there's another Canadian connection.

But I love this picture because it shows you do like to get the girls dancing, and boy, they really are dancing there. But I love the indie rock nerd right at the front there with The Smiths shirt!
[laughter]
Bob: Aw, he really is a nice guy. I've spoken to him at parties and he's really nice.

That would be like me at the front with The Smiths shirt. Does that symbolize, let me cover this up, is that what it used to be like at the gigs before you started? [ Nardwuar covers all the people in the picture with his hand except the guy with the Smiths shirt]
Alex: It's what it still is.

Just like one guy at the front with a Smiths shirt. But now you've expanded it.
Alex: Yeah, yeah. We've invited all these characters in and they all dance now.

What's interesting is, you've actually interviewed Morrissey for the NME.
Alex: That's right, yeah.
BOB: In the N-M-E. . [laughs]

Because Morrissey saw that guy wearing a Smiths shirt in the NME?
Alex: Something like that, yeah. We interviewed him for the NME recently. He's cool. And his new record is really good as well.

Now lets just say something right off the bat. Morrissey and NME and interview, that doesn't usually go together now does it?
Alex: Thing was, he hadn't done an interview with them for 12 years and he fell out really badly with the NME. They really wanted to do a feature on him because they really realized the error of their ways and they realized what an important character he really was in the history of music. They wanted to feature him, but he wouldn't talk to any journalists, so he asked us to interview him instead.
Paul: He used as a medium, a conduit.

And did they end up asking all the questions? Did any of your questions end up getting in?
Paul: We ended up preparing 40 questions and ended up just having a conversation really. Somebody sat with a tape recorder and recorded that and is going to come up with an article.

Hopefully, it'll all come out. Actually, if you could show that picture one more time, Alex of Franz Ferdinand. Is this the Chateau? Is this the legendary Chateau?
Alex: This is the Chateau here. This is the last show we did in the Chateau. Hopefully we'll do some more. This is on the seventh floor of an old art deco warehouse. You can see all the crappy plumbing. We put all these lights in. We put the electricity in. All the windows were done in and we replaced them with friends of ours in Glasgow, with bits old perspects. [laughs]

How hard was it to create the Chateau? Because I understand there was mummified pigeons and pigeon shit. How hard is it to clean pigeon shit? And what advice would you give people to clean pigeon shit?
Alex: Buy a mask because the fumes, the dust can get into your lungs and give you horrific diseases and things. But you have no idea how hard pigeon shit is to clean off. It's impenetrable.

And the mummified pigeons? There was lots of dead things there?
Bob: Lots of dead things. We'd get professionals in because they're toxic.

Glenn is a professional.
Alex: Glenn is a professional. Actually, he's toxic as well. We've lost him. As usual as well.

And you guys are Franz...
Alex: Ferdinand.

And we are in Vancouver, British Columbia...
Nick: Yeah.

Canada! Now Franz Ferdinand, you have a song called "Cheating On..."
Alex: You.

Now is that true that it has a kind of early Beatles vibe to it, that you were kind of thinking of early The Beatles?
Alex: Yeah, definitely. As far as The Beatles go, for me personally, I prefer their early stuff where they play really direct, raw pop music. And, yeah, that's kinda what we wanted to do.