Two members of the world-famous band Franz Ferdinand made a special appearance at UofG’s Gilmorehill Theatre earlier this month. Bob Hardy (bass) and Paul Thomson (drums) performed with the Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues, a project devised by David Archibald and Carl Lavery from the School of Culture and Creative Arts.

The show is an attempt to “perform thinking” in front of a live audience, and mixes Brechtian techniques with a glam rock aesthetic. The aim is not to teach but to provoke debate, whilst sporting spandex trousers and feather boas.

The theatre was at capacity on the night for a new performance of Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues: 3 – Commune, which responds to La Commune (Paris 1871), Peter Watkins’s six-hour film about the Paris Commune. The screening and performance were programmed as part of the Experimental Media course on the Filmmaking and Media Arts MSc, which David Archibald teaches on.

Bob and Paul were glammed up for the night and joined David and Carl on stage with a host of other staff members from Theatre and Film and Television Studies. The event also included two Masters students, Chiara Pasarini and Caitlyn Foster, performing as part of an on-set camera crew. This was Experimental Media in action.

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Bob Hardy and Paul Thomson from Franz Ferdinand, onstage for the Glasgow Glam Rock Dialogues, 3 March 2017. Photo credit: Jim Rusk.

First published: 13 March 2017

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