I made my way down to the floor and spent a while miming that I was looking for someone situated deeper in the crowd. This was a lie, of course, but it got the job done! I made myself reasonably comfortable and waited. Franz Ferdinand took the stage and launched into "This Boy", one of my favourites of theirs and a good dancing song. The crowd was awesome. Clearly people had not just come for Death Cab; there was a lot of singing along and everyone seemed... well, about as excited as I was. Franz played "L. Wells", which is a new song that I'd really wanted to hear live, and it was amaaaazing. They messed around with the beats of songs a lot, a few things sounded almost more R&B than the recordings (sounds weird, I know, but trust me). They've also started doing little noodley bits, changing chords and putting in solos or vamping for just a little longer, and it was a really refreshing change from the last time I saw them. The style was still really tight, but they all looked incredibly comfortable onstage, like they were really having fun, and I think the sound reflected that. Andrew Knowles is a new addition: he's been their drum tech, stand-in drummer, and keyboard player for a while, but he's also doing more drumming (two-drummer stuff as well as standing in when Paul's playing guitar), and was included in the intros, so I guess he really has been promoted to full member. Long story short? The set rocked.