Alex Kapranos

Musician

1972-03-20

Alex Kapranos is a Scottish musician and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the band Franz Ferdinand. He has also performed in collaborative projects including FFS and BNQT. He was born on March 20, 1972.

Books by Alex Kapranos

Sound Bites
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Blessing
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Quotes by Alex Kapranos

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
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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.
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Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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.
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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
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