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
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.
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.'
hero villain persons
I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
want band pivotal
Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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.
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.
blessing sick boredom
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
men attractive company
Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
alternatives hierarchy type
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
couple block lying
It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
venom wacky
Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
ambition band good-things
Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
band beans toasts
Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!