Franc Moody release debut album ‘Dream In Colour’, Shepherds Bush Empire + tour continues

‘Dream In Colour’ is the incredible debut album from unique London band Franc Moody. The record arrives alongside a video for new single ‘Skin On Skin’, which twists the charged romance of the track on its head and coincides with the band’s upcoming headline tour. This includes a massive date at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire on March 5th, with Franc Moody having previously sold-out the likes of Village Underground, Heaven, and toured alongside acts like Chic, Friendly Fires and Parcels. 

‘Skin on Skin’ is a suitable knock-out entry to Franc Moody’s debut album, ‘Dream In Colour’ – a joyous, euphoric and effortlessly accomplished offering from one of the capital’s true DIY success stories. As a band who came up via the tight-knit warehouse rave scene of London, Franc Moody’s performances are all about community and chaos. These hypnotic and free-form shows – members have been known to suddenly swap instruments or play keytar solos while sat on each other’s shoulders – have helped them build a cult following. This is where the band feel most at home and it informs one of the many themes running through their forthcoming debut album, ‘Dream in Colour’: the experience of letting loose together.

Director Jak Payne says of the ‘Skin On Skin’ video that “the band really wanted to do something unexpected, which I always think is a good starting point. I guess the track might suggest something poppy or romantic for the visual so we wanted to go in the opposite direction and make something kind of violent for it. I think it works because lines like “toe to toe” or “skin on skin” start to be interpreted differently when you watch it and that creates a bit of confusion and hopefully makes it interesting.”Mixing influences of house, nu-disco, rave culture and the band’s guerrilla ethos into escapist, euphoric pop, ‘Dream In Colour’ is the culmination of a brother-like friendship between Franc Moody’s chief collaborators, Ned and Jon. While Jon was born into a family of classical musicians and grew up on oboes, cellos and violins, Ned was musically educated by the stereo in his parents’ car, blasting old soul, 50s/60s New Orleans music, and the rock n roll sounds of Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Eddie Cochran. The guys first met when part of a group of musicians who took over an abandoned warehouse in Tottenham: first throwing raucous parties, then cutting their teeth as a live outfit, and gradually articulating a more socially-conscious lyrical concern through Franc Moody’s irrepressible floor-fillers.

‘Dream in Colour’, then, isn’t just about togetherness. It will also explore the way in which modern life constantly oscillates between online and offline realities; from the world we navigate inside our phones to the one we explore each day with our physiological senses. What separates our emotional experience of things like friendship, love and community online versus those we experience IRL? “Sometimes,” explains Ned, “that experience of switching between those two worlds can feel like changing from black & white to colour. We wanted to explore that phenomenon on this record.” As debut albums go, ‘Dream in Colour’ also perfectly encapsulates the  phenomenon that is Franc Moody themselves. 

Feb 26^th  || Dublin || Button Factory
Feb 28^th || Glasgow || Stereo
Feb 29^th || Manchester || YES *
March 2^nd  || Bristol || Fleece
March 3^rd|| Brighton || Concorde 2
March 4^th  || Nottingham || Bodega
March 5^th || London || O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
March 7^th || Leeds || Belgrave Music Hall
March 11^th || Amsterdam || Paradiso Noord *
March 12^th || Cologne || Club Volta
March 13^th || Berlin || Saalchen
March 14^th || Hamburg || Bahnhof Pauli
March 16^th || Copenhagen || Vega Small Hall
March 20^th || Paris || La Maroquinerie
March 21^st || Gent || Democrazy

LISTEN to ‘Dream In Colour’: https://francmoody.lnk.to/dic-albumTw

WATCH the video to ‘Skin On Skin’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eVhctZQzGM