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
writing authority critics
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
case trying
It's not a case of reinventing yourself, it's a case of trying to be adventurous,
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.
almost amount certain draw last ourselves played position songs touring year
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.
fare leave thee yes
Fare thee well, fare thee well / I am leaving, yes I'll leave it all to you
collecting pile quite seem singles songs talking
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.
last remember time
Do you remember the last time we were here? ... Nightmare... At least the weather's better.
filming party pool recognized shook steven trying
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,
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.