Alex Kapranos Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
23rd September 2009
Quote: "I don't think using real-size girls is anything radical. Doesn't everyone have a bit of belly flab? I mean, I do." Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos on seeing curvy models on the runway.
26th February 2009
Quote: "We and most of our contemporaries would fail the auditions. I couldn't sing a Robbie Williams song. I love the self-belief of those people." Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos could never succeed in an American Idol-style reality TV show.
6th February 2009
Quote: "People ask us who does our choreography (and) I say, 'You think a choreographer would come up with s**t like that?'" Franz Ferdinand star Alex Kapranos on the band's dance moves.
6th February 2007
Quote: "When I came back from Vancouver, I brought a couple tubs of Canadian maple syrup and it got confiscated. Since December I've been obsessed with the idea of eating maple syrup." Franz Ferdinand singer and food writer Alex Kapranos is missing the taste of Canada while living and working in New York.
9th January 2007
Fact: Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos is producing the new album for British rockers stars The Cribs.
14th December 2006
Quote: "You find, with fallopian tubes, that once you've pulled 40 of them out of a bucket of boiling fowl, you stop noticing how disgusting it is." Franz Ferdinand star Alex Kapranos on his time as a line cook in a Glasgow, Scotland restaurant.
30th November 2006
Quote: "Dior make beautiful black jeans. I blagged a couple of pairs. I'd never buy them. I'd feel really guilty about spending that much money." Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos enjoys his complimentary jeans.
15th November 2006
Quote: "The taste of good alcohol is better and more of an extreme luxury than the taste of good meat. I would hate to miss out on wines and whiskeys!" Former chef and Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos would rather give up meat than alcohol.
15th November 2006
Fact: Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos lost his virginity on the floor of a restaurant where he worked as a chef.
25th March 2006
Quote: "I went to Anthony Bourdain's place in New York. I ordered the Rossini - the most decadent burger in NYC. I ordered this delicious opulence seasoned with cruelty." FRANZ FERDINAND star Alex Kapranos, who visited New York for his 34th birthday, takes burger-eating seriously.
7th February 2006
Quote: <p>"Once we were backstage at a festival and we saw a band - I won't say which - all huddled in a circle, doing a basketball-team group hug. We had a good laugh at them." FRANZ FERDINAND star Alex Kapranos pokes fun at bands who have pre-show rituals.</p>
28th January 2006
Quote: <p>"It's possible we could still be doing songs in 20 years, and it's possible we could split up tonight." Frontman Alex Kapranos from Franz Ferdinand explains the uncertainty of the band's future. </p>
15th December 2005
Quote: <p>"At least he's singing properly, it's not that whiney 'I've-just-come-off-heroin' sound, like Chris Martin. I hate that." Welsh pop singer Charlotte Church praises Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos. </p>
12th December 2005
Quote: <p>"Once we were doing a TV show in France and there were two dressing rooms - one for Franz Ferdinand and one for Franz Ferdinand's band." FRANZ FERDINAND frontman Alex Kapranos is aware some fans think his band's name, taken from the Archduke whose assassination prompted the start of World War I in 1914, refers to him and not the four-piece as a whole. </p>
11th October 2005
Quote: <p>"When I was a chef in a Greek restaurant I used to prepare thousands of calamari rings. As a result, there was the permanent stench of squid guts on my fingers." FRANZ FERDINAND star Alex Kapranos. </p>
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