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
attitude trying want
You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!
want band pivotal
Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
impact world want
I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.
identity want matter
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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.