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
drum experiment floor half hand kit legs playing setting tom ways weird
Outsiders. He had this weird contraption of a drum kit where he was playing half with a tambourine in one hand and the floor tom between his legs -- just to experiment with different ways of setting up.
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.
according changes pop radio song starts
I suppose, ... but that's why they get it wrong. That's why they wouldn't play Take Me Out on the radio at first, because according to pop theory, it isn't a hit. It starts with one song and changes into another. In theory, it's all wrong. The same with Do You Want To.
band sound together
We didn't get our band together because we wanted to sound like any other bands,
play notes chords
Why play a chord when you can play one note?
ideas feelings singles
Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
character play buying
There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
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.
girl school lockers
The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
band produce load
There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
song fall mind
It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
embrace
You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.