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
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.'
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.
creative eight hours means putting
A lot of being creative means going and doing it, putting in eight hours a day.
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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.
editing creative songwriting
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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.
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.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.