Franz Ferdinand have just emailed me to say that their drummer has left the band

[iamcoop]

His food column for The Guardian was one of the most needlessly florid and self indulgent things I've ever read.

I never quite figured out if it was deliberately so and he was taking the piss but I think it was genuine.

[Terence Bowl]

He... Err... I'm pretty sure he didn't used to talk like that.

It seems he's done the mandatory course that all Scottish TV presenters and radio DJ's get sent on.
I'm assuming it contains modules like 'Getting your jock accent BBC ready' and 'How to come across as friendly but insincere'.

[kngen]

I'd like to say I have an opinion on his personality (I've been told he served me drinks on many, many occasions while working at the 13th Note, is one of my bandmate's friends as they'd been in a band together previously, and even did our sound a couple of times, apparently), but I cannot recall him in the slightest. Some might say this was more to do with the volume of alcohol I'd consumed on these occasions rather than the singer of one of Glasgow's most notable bands of the past few years being a total charisma void, but I politely disagree.

[The Mollusk]

The man is vermin and must be destroyed

[badaids]

Just as long as the drummer hasn't left from Hard-Fi.

[Indomitable Spirit]

What the fuck, it's like a POV video where you're a woman he's trying to chat up in a bar

"So, how old do you think I am? No seriously! 50?!?! Well...yeah, it's just that people normally... oh forget it."

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

He always reminded me of Peter Richardson playing the part of an unctuous smoothie (can't quite recall from where, though - maybe several things. He did it very well.) That clip has done nothing to dispel this feeling.

Wonderful phrase

[PaulTMA]

Another vote for I think he comes across as nice in that video