Alex Kapranos
Alex Kapranos
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley, commonly known as Alex Kapranos, is a British musician, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the Glasgow-based rock band Franz Ferdinand...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth20 March 1972
identity want matter
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
dance blood people
I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
girl thinking yellow
Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
band beans toasts
Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
ambition band good-things
Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
enthusiasm band pubs
A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
venom wacky
Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
attitude trying want
You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!
adventure writing thinking
You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we're very lucky that we're quite close. To us, it's almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It's really really exciting.
football stars war
The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'
blessing sick boredom
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
writing criticism different
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
fashion media musical
Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
want band pivotal
Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.