For some bands, the mantelpiece is groaning under the weight of their haul of metalwork. But Franz Ferdinand bass player Bob Hardy is putting his Ivor Novello to good use, according to his bandmates.
The band collected an Ivor in 2004 when their single Take Me Out was judged best contemporary song. And in this month’s Cash For Questions in Q magazine, drummer Paul Thomson revealed that his colleague had put the statuette to a functional use: “I stayed at Bob’s the other night and the doorstop in his kitchen is an Ivor Novello Award.”
As for his own awards, Thomson avoids letting them clutter his home. “I give them to my mum,” he admitted. “I got a taxi from her house the other morning and the driver said ‘I see you’ve got a lot of Franz Ferdinand memorabilia in your house there’. It’s in plain for everyone who walks past to see. It might as well say ‘burgle me’.”
You can read the interview in the latest edition of Q.
2:32 PM | 02/03/2009
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