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
anyone fans heard music perfect pop rock roll
We're all big Roxy fans and always have been, ... They were rock 'n' roll avant garde and sounded like nothing anyone had ever heard before, but also perfect pop music as well.
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.
approach checked great radical until
until we read about them in all our reviews. Then when we checked them out we thought, 'What a great band. What a radical approach to playing.'
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.
hero villain persons
I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
band produce load
There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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.
fashion people musical
People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
song play firsts
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
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.
song fall mind
It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.