Franz Ferdinand & the Other Capaldi

The band really rolled out the hits, for their Friday other stage slot at Glastonbury, and pulled out a couple of special guests to help them along the way. In their first time at Worthy Farm in over fifteen years. Alex & co proved why they are still one of the best bands to come out of Scotland. 

A fourteen song setlist, that included five songs from their latest effort 'The Human Fear' alongside their other indie bangers. Not wanting to just play the hits, but also never forgetting the brilliant songs that got them here in the first place. 

Kicking off their set with 'The Dark of the Matinée’ one of the earliest singles from their still criminally underrated debut album, before launching into this year’s ‘Night Or Day’ a real indie banger. 

The crowd really got up for it though, with the classics ‘Do You Want To’, ‘Walk Away’ and ‘No You Girls’. Three absolute 00s classics, that still do more than stand up in 2025.

Later on, Franz Ferdinand poked fun at the never-ending rumours that come with Glastonbury. Kapranos said: “One of the things I love about Glastonbury is the rumours. You know, all the gossip that goes around.”

“Someone was telling me this morning that Pulp are going to play on some stage tomorrow. Maybe, I don’t know. Somebody was telling me that Haim are playing, that Lorde was playing this morning as well,” he continued.

“You may have heard a rumour that a fellow Glaswegian who goes by the name of Capaldi. Well, Glastonbury, it gives me great joy to say that these rumours are true. He is here with us tonight. The original Capaldi – Peter Capaldi!”

Capaldi, joined the band on stage to perform their biggest hit, with him and Kaparanos sharing vocal lines on 'Take Me Out', I think it wins the award for the most unlikely collaboration of the weekend, but it worked. The crowd absolutely loved it. It was a sea of people jumping, different colour smoke, and a whole lot of shocked faces.

Afterwards, Franz Ferdinand were joined by Master Peace for ‘Hooked’. A new version of the track has recently been released with Master Peace, and it made for an interesting listen, with the rap added. However, I can't deny that the chorus is absolutely massive. 

Band introductions came next, and then the band ended back where they started with a rapturous version of 2004's 'This Fire. It's one of the underrated sets of the weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I think you will to.