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
want band pivotal
Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
fashion media musical
Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
writing criticism different
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
blessing sick boredom
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
men attractive company
Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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.
couple block lying
It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
venom wacky
Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
ambition band good-things
Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
band beans toasts
Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
impact trying matter
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
mad ifs
If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
teenager fans feels
If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
writing authority critics
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.