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
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.
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!
band sound together
We didn't get our band together because we wanted to sound like any other bands,
experiment people repeat
We're very much a rhythm-driven band. We still want to make people dance, but we didn't want to repeat the same beats. We did experiment with a lot of different rhythms.
finding good record rid time trick
We swap around instruments from time to time and try other variations. The real trick to making a good record is finding out the things that aren't good and getting rid of them.
belong cross
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
party ideas people
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
embrace
You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
impact trying matter
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
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.
principles income promoters
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
thinking band
I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
thinking world modesty
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
mcdonalds buns cows
I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.