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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
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<i>Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action</i> To Be Released August 27th</span></b></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Georgia","serif";color:#1A1A1A;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Franz Ferdinand recently announced the release of their new album
<b><i>Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action</i> (Domino) </b>on <b>August 27<sup>th</sup></b><i>.
</i> Following a string of truly triumphant performances in California in April, the much loved Scottish four-piece will be returning to the U.S. this fall for multiple live dates throughout the country. In addition to this year’s
<b>Austin City Limits Festival</b>, the band will be making stops at <b>Chicago’s Vic Theatre on October 10<sup>th</sup></b>,
<b>Boston’s Orpheum Theatre </b>on <b>October 20<sup>th</sup></b> and at the <b>Hammerstein Ballroom
</b>on<b> October 22<sup>nd</sup> </b>in<b> New York City</b> and more! Tickets go on sale in most markets on
<b>Friday at 10AM EST</b>. Fans who purchase tickets for any of the North American headlining shows will receive a digital copy of the album on release day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Georgia","serif";color:#1A1A1A;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">The band has also released a new behind the scenes video titled<b> “A Weekend In Glasgow”
</b>featuring footage of the band in-studio recording the album track <b>“Bullet</b>”, as well as rehearsals, and clips from an intimate show at Mono, a café / record shop at the center of Glasgow’s music scene.
<a href="http://po.st/Bullet">PRESS HERE</a> to watch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Georgia","serif";color:#1A1A1A;mso-fareast-language:JA">This exuberant, unencumbered record is the first from the Glasgow band since 2009’s
<i>Tonight</i>. In their time away, they’ve rediscovered the imagination, vitality and fun found on their classic, era-encapsulating<i>
</i>debut <i>Franz Ferdinand</i>, an album that unequivocally conquered the planet with relentless charm and exquisite bravado. The ten<b>
</b>songs that make up <b><i>Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action</i></b> take what propelled Franz Ferdinand from the incestuous Glasgow Art School world to, well, the entire world - painterly lyrical detail, heavyweight hooks, precise aesthetic vision
and that uncanny ability to marry arch artistic sensibility with pop punch – and push it even further.
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Georgia","serif";color:#1A1A1A;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><a href="http://www.dominorecordco.com/rightthoughtsrightwordsrightaction">PRESS HERE</a> to view the album trailer.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Pre-order
</span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1A1A1A;mso-fareast-language:JA">Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
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12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""><a href="http://www.dominorecordco.com/buyrtrwra"><span lang="EN-GB">HERE</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
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EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1A1A1A;
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Franz Ferdinand </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Georgia","serif";color:#1A1A1A;mso-fareast-language:JA">are
<b>Alex Kapranos</b>, <b>Nick McCarthy</b>, <b>Bob Hardy</b> and <b>Paul Thomson</b>.
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">FALL TOUR DATES</span></u></b><u><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 4 - Houston, TX - House of Blues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 5 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 4-6 - Austin, TX - <b>Austin City Limits</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 8 - Lawrence, KS - The Granada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 9 - Minneapolis, MN - Skyway Theater<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 10 - Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 11-13 - Austin, TX - <b>Austin City Limits</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 15 - Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 16 - Columbus, OH - The LC Pavilion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 17 - North Bethesda, MD - Music Center at Strathmore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 19 - Upper Darby, PA - Tower Theatre <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 20 - Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 22 - New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 23 - Montreal, QC - Metropolis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">OCT 24 - Toronto, ON - Kool Haus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://www.franzferdinand.com/">www.franzferdinand.com</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/Franz_Ferdinand">https://twitter.com/Franz_Ferdinand</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/officialfranzferdinand">https://www.facebook.com/officialfranzferdinand</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For more information, contact: Chloe Walsh or Carina Contreras at Press Here Publicity – 323-556-9752 or 212-246-2640 /
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:chloe@pressherepublicity.com"><b>chloe@pressherepublicity.com</b></a> //
<b><a href="mailto:carina@pressherepublicity.com">carina@pressherepublicity.com</a></b>
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