Franz Ferdinand have shared a second brand new track, ‘Curious’, from their forthcoming greatest hits album, ‘Hits To The Head’.After teasing their return back in early November, the Scottish indie veterans released ‘Billy Goodbye’, their first new track in three years – a raucous glam stomper that the band worked on with Stuart Price (Dua Lipa, Madonna, Pet Shop Boys).The only other new track on ‘Hits To The Head’ is ‘Curious’, which frontman Alex Kapranos called “quite a different-sounding song” when speaking to NME in a recent interview.“Sonically, it’s more at the silky dance floor end of what the band is about,” he explained. “That one’s about imagining yourself in a situation at the beginning of a romantic relationship, being part of the magical moments and suddenly being overwhelmed by the sense of what’s to come and wondering how you will be when repetition, routine and the everyday is what your relationship becomes.“Are you still going to love me when the magic has faded?”The track comes alongside a video that sees the band put on their dancing shoes.
Locals in 'worst postcodes to live in Scotland' hit back at scathing reviews of hometowns
06.01.2022 - 21:35 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Angry residents of towns and villages listed on a website as the 'worst areas' to live in Scotland have hit back defending their homes.
We posted some of the areas listed on the popular review website ILiveHere, where people can go to cut loose about their local area and boy, were the reviewers not holding back.
Scathing posts pointed out towns like East Kilbride and Cockenzie and Port Seton, and villages such as Tongue and Ballingry in Fife, as being terrible to live in – even the capital in Edinburgh came under attack for "selling its soul".
But locals weren't taking the posts lying down, as many of them took to the internet to defend their hometowns.
Villagers in Ballingry, which was singled out for being "immune to any form of improvement" spoke out on a local Facebook page.
Lea McLelland, who is the Councillor for Lochgelly, Cardenden and Benarty, first moved to Ballingry when she was 21, where her mum and her family are from, she said: "I can say without fear of contradiction 'I will never leave Ballingry as I love our community spirit and our desire to help & support each other whenever needed'.
"As one of the Elected members I am proud of Benarty and its people for the way we pull together in every situation whether it be a personal matter, community problem, Beast from the East or a Global Pandemic we have to deal with….we do it together."
Other residents were also quick to defend this picturesque village, one person described it as the "best place on the planet" adding: "Nowt wrong with Ballingry. One of the few places in Scotland you can go out walking your dog late at night and not a soul bothers you."
Another villager wrote: "Lived in Ballingry all my life and the Community is the Best you will ever find we all
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