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
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.
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.
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.
song fall mind
It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
editing creative songwriting
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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.
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.
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,
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