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
principles income promoters
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
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.'
drum experiment floor half hand kit legs playing setting tom ways weird
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.
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.
anyone fans heard music perfect pop rock roll
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.
belong cross
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
consider few life performing rather stage thinking
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.
case trying
It's not a case of reinventing yourself, it's a case of trying to be adventurous,
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.
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.
fare leave thee yes
Fare thee well, fare thee well / I am leaving, yes I'll leave it all to you
based characters enigmatic number
It's based on a number of different characters who are pretty enigmatic in their own right,
creative eight hours means putting
A lot of being creative means going and doing it, putting in eight hours a day.
last remember time
Do you remember the last time we were here? ... Nightmare... At least the weather's better.