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
adventure writing thinking
You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we're very lucky that we're quite close. To us, it's almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It's really really exciting.
thinking world modesty
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
thinking band
I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
girl thinking yellow
Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
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.
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?