Alex Kapranos

The band which spawned Scottish chart-toppers FRANZ FERDINAND is making a comeback after 11 years.Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos and Paul Thompson started out as members...  

THE cult band which spawned chart-toppers Franz Ferdinand is making a comeback after 11 years. Alex Kapranos and Paul Thomson started out as members of The Yummy Fur before the group split in 1999. The band are reuniting for a tour to promote the ...  

Gear4music.comCribs guitarist chose Gibson ES-335 due to Franz FerdinandGear4music.comCribs guitarist Ryan Jarman has revealed that Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos is the reason he chooses to play a Gibson ES-335 guitar. ...  

Today, Charlie Weis is doing his best, albeit unconscious, imitation of Alex Kapranos. Alex Kapranos is the lead singer of the band Franz Ferdinand, whose big hit is "Take Me Out." Weis has been singing this song for the past two years, possibly since the very beginning of his tenure. Think about it. Notre Dame fans are well known for many things, few of them positive. But ALL fans are known for one thing that they have in abundance...  

FRANZ FERDINAND frontman ALEX KAPRANOS is disappointed he didn't die "glamorously" at a young age - because he always wanted to emulate his idol SID VICIOUS.The Take Me...  

The band which spawned Scottish chart-toppers Franz Ferdinand is making a comeback after 11 years. Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos and Paul Thompson started out as members of The Yummy Fur, before the group split in 1999. More than a decade on ...  

Ah, the follies of youth - apparently Alex Kapranos was so desperate to emulate Sid Vicious, he was hoping he was going to die an early death:"I wanted to be like Buddy Holly or Sid Vicious or Rupert Brooke and have achieved everything I was going to do and done it all by the time I was 21 and then die glamorously. Unfortunately, it didn't happen like that."... so, instead, I did the next best thing and stabbed someone to death and spent time...  

Alex Kapranos' under-appreciated production, using silence brilliantly between riffs for full whack, helps elevate this above similarly scraggy efforts from the band's peers into a jean-ripping triumph of what you can do with just three blokes, a ...  

Annie lightens the mood on tracks like the swirling Brian Higgins-produced "Loco" (featuring cameos by Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy) and "The Breakfast Song," on which she repeatedly asks over snare taps and heavy synth, "What do ...