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
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For years, I felt miserable about being an outsider, but then I suddenly embraced it, ... I saw the value of being an outsider. It was liberating. You didn't have to worry about trying to fit in or losing your insider status. It also encouraged you to challenge and provoke the status quo.
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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.
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Fare thee well, fare thee well / I am leaving, yes I'll leave it all to you
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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.
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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.
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When I first started in a band, I wasn't very good; I was thinking too much about being on stage rather than just being on stage. It's completely primal. Intuitive. Instinctive. You don't consider your moves, you just do them. There are very few things in life when you're just doing that thing and not thinking about anything else. Performing is one of them.
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I got recognized around the pool the other night. They were filming a party for the E! channel. It was really distressing because there were all these wanna-be celebrities. I was trying to get out of there before the Steven Seagal look-alike shook my hand, and I thought, 'Please, God, tell me I'm not of this world'.
arty people perception
Many people have this perception of us being this arty band,
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We find ourselves in a much better position than we did last year touring because then we had only a certain amount of songs to draw upon, ... When we played for an hour, we had to play almost everything we knew.
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We didn't get our band together because we wanted to sound like any other bands,
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We seem to be collecting a big pile of these songs that we really like but don't quite get together, but we were talking about doing them as singles in their own right.
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It's based on a number of different characters who are pretty enigmatic in their own right,
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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.'
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?