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
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.
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!
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.