But there are some people, maybe you are one, certainly you know one they get their heart broken once and it's all they ever want to talk about again. "In other words, those things make you who you are. In Franz Nicolay's haunted and redemptive new album Luck & Courage (out October 12, on CD/Digital from Team Science Records and vinyl from Sabot Productions in the US and Decor Records in the UK/EU), he expands the idea and writes the history of the rise and fall of one such country, one inhabited by the titular characters Felix & Adelita - in. Join Facebook to connect with Franz Nicolay and others you may know. "Luckily Franz Nicolay is no stranger to bars, puppets and friends - like Emily Hope Price and The Puppet Kitchen who pulled together to re-imagine his story of drunken heart break."Īnd the meaning of the song itself? We'll let Franz explain that one: "There is a school of thought, which I subscribe to, which says that it is the terrible things that happen to you which shape your personality as a grown-ass person," he admits. View the profiles of people named Franz Nicolay. He studied music at New York University and writing at Columbia University (where he was awarded a Felipe P. I recorded the opening through a tin can in Siberia and let Brad do the rest."ĭirector Brad Kemp was also pretty pleased with the collaboration: "When a troubadour asks you to make a video for him while he's playing stages in Mongolia, you get a lot of creative freedom whether he likes it or not," he said. "This video combines some of my favorite things: the B-Side bar in New York, director Brad Kemp of Anti-Social Music, and an adorable, heartbroken robot. "I've wanted to do a puppet-based video ever since I saw what Puppet Kitchen did on the Puppet Playlist shows, in which puppeteers animate classic pop songs," Franz said recently. Discover Franz Nicolay's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. About 100 pages into Franz Nicolays debut novel, Someone Should Pay for Your Pain, that thought hit me like a baseball bat. Punk rock troubadour Franz Nicolay releases his new album 'Do The Struggle' today through Xtra Mile Recordings and to celebrate we've got the exclusive first play of the video for 'Did Your Broken Heart Make You Who You Are'. Franz Nicolay was born on 27 August, 1977 in Center Sandwich, Sandwich, New Hampshire, United States. If you’re Franz Nicolay, solo artist and former keyboardist of The Hold Steady, you skip all of those obvious choices and head straight for one of Watchmen ’s true underdogs: Hollis Mason, retired. Watch Franz’s new video for ‘Did Your Broken Heart Make You Who You Are’ as the singer tours the UK in support of new album ‘Do The Struggle’.