Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand)
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Alex Kapranos (born Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley, March 20, 1972 in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire), is a British musician of Greek descent. He is the lead singer and guitarist of the Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand.
Early life
Kapranos is the son of a Greek father who had been adopted by a British family named "Huntley". He had lived in Greece until he was two, when his mother decided the heat was unbearable. The family moved to the north-east of England. Such switch in climate caused Alex to become asthmatic.
As a child, Alex found himself to be useless at football. Alex was never a physical child, his grandma described him as “A weedy child who disliked sports”. However, Alex developed a strong interest in music. His grandma recalls, “He was always into his music and always fancied playing the guitar and had piano lessons when he was a child. His dad was always quite musical as well”
Alex worked in every detestable job that he could find, despite liking the delivery boy job for Mother India’s café. He got a free meal, which left him with a chilli habit.
The big problem with these dead end jobs was not so much the poor pay as how it curtailed his involvement in Glasgow’s thriving underground music scene. He began working as a promoter for the downmarket 13th Note Club. Alex ran two club nights per week: The Kazoo Club and the 99p Club. The latter was named such because, Alex would charge a pound per person as an entrance fee. He recalls “The idea was the bands would come down for a bit of beer and people wouldn’t have to pay and we’d give ‘em amps and stuff to play with… It was a good scene”.
Music Before Franz Ferdinand
Alex was now a talented musician, teaching himself how to play the Guitar and the Bass, joined in with many bands at the 13th Note. He played with groups such as the 10p Invaders and the Amphetameanies. He appeared on Glasgow group Quin
He formed his first band in 1996 as the lead singer, going under the name Alex Huntley. The band were named The Blisters but renamed themselves as The Karelia, they released their only album, Divorce at High Noon in 1997.
Other members of the group included Franz Ferdinand tour manager Glen Thomson, the project collapsed as their label Roadrunner Records. Alex then joined the ‘’Yummy Fur’’, named after the Canadian comic strip, in 1998.
The Yummy Fur were already a well established Glaswegian cult band before Alex had joined, he once again used the adopted name of Huntley. The band were described as ‘pop-punk groovy din’ by Twee Kitten.com and compared to The Fall by the NME[2]. He is also known to have contributed to Urusei Yatsura and Lungleg recordings.
Franz Ferdinand
Sometime around the end of 2001, Bob Hardy was sitting in Alex's kitchen in Glasgow. Alex had just been given a bass by his friend Mick, on the condition that he did 'something useful' with it. So he asked Bob if he'd like to learn how to play it. "Do you want to learn to play the bass then, Bob?", to which he replied, "No, I'm an artist, not a musician." Alex responded, saying, "It's the same thing", which eventually led to them play music together.
This led to the band Franz Ferdinand being formed.
The band comprises Kapranos, Nick McCarthy (guitar, keyboard, backup vocals), Paul Thomson (drums, backup vocals, sometimes guitar) and Bob Hardy (bass). Eight singles, two albums and an EP have charted in the United Kingdom to date, and their eponymous debut album won the 2004 Mercury Music Prize, two BRIT Awards, an Breakthrough Video MTV Award and an Ivor Novello Award
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alex Kapranos (born Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley, March 20, 1972 in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire), is a British musician of Greek descent. He is the lead singer and guitarist of the Glasgow band Franz Ferdinand.
Early life
Kapranos is the son of a Greek father who had been adopted by a British family named "Huntley". He had lived in Greece until he was two, when his mother decided the heat was unbearable. The family moved to the north-east of England. Such switch in climate caused Alex to become asthmatic.
As a child, Alex found himself to be useless at football. Alex was never a physical child, his grandma described him as “A weedy child who disliked sports”. However, Alex developed a strong interest in music. His grandma recalls, “He was always into his music and always fancied playing the guitar and had piano lessons when he was a child. His dad was always quite musical as well”
Alex worked in every detestable job that he could find, despite liking the delivery boy job for Mother India’s café. He got a free meal, which left him with a chilli habit.
The big problem with these dead end jobs was not so much the poor pay as how it curtailed his involvement in Glasgow’s thriving underground music scene. He began working as a promoter for the downmarket 13th Note Club. Alex ran two club nights per week: The Kazoo Club and the 99p Club. The latter was named such because, Alex would charge a pound per person as an entrance fee. He recalls “The idea was the bands would come down for a bit of beer and people wouldn’t have to pay and we’d give ‘em amps and stuff to play with… It was a good scene”.
Music Before Franz Ferdinand
Alex was now a talented musician, teaching himself how to play the Guitar and the Bass, joined in with many bands at the 13th Note. He played with groups such as the 10p Invaders and the Amphetameanies. He appeared on Glasgow group Quin
He formed his first band in 1996 as the lead singer, going under the name Alex Huntley. The band were named The Blisters but renamed themselves as The Karelia, they released their only album, Divorce at High Noon in 1997.
Other members of the group included Franz Ferdinand tour manager Glen Thomson, the project collapsed as their label Roadrunner Records. Alex then joined the ‘’Yummy Fur’’, named after the Canadian comic strip, in 1998.
The Yummy Fur were already a well established Glaswegian cult band before Alex had joined, he once again used the adopted name of Huntley. The band were described as ‘pop-punk groovy din’ by Twee Kitten.com and compared to The Fall by the NME[2]. He is also known to have contributed to Urusei Yatsura and Lungleg recordings.
Franz Ferdinand
Sometime around the end of 2001, Bob Hardy was sitting in Alex's kitchen in Glasgow. Alex had just been given a bass by his friend Mick, on the condition that he did 'something useful' with it. So he asked Bob if he'd like to learn how to play it. "Do you want to learn to play the bass then, Bob?", to which he replied, "No, I'm an artist, not a musician." Alex responded, saying, "It's the same thing", which eventually led to them play music together.
This led to the band Franz Ferdinand being formed.
The band comprises Kapranos, Nick McCarthy (guitar, keyboard, backup vocals), Paul Thomson (drums, backup vocals, sometimes guitar) and Bob Hardy (bass). Eight singles, two albums and an EP have charted in the United Kingdom to date, and their eponymous debut album won the 2004 Mercury Music Prize, two BRIT Awards, an Breakthrough Video MTV Award and an Ivor Novello Award
Writing
In September 2005, Kapranos began Soundbites[1], a weekly food column for G2 in the Guardian newspaper, which detailed his culinary adventures as Franz Ferdinand traversed the globe on their world tour. Sound Bites, a book of the column and unreleased material illustrated by Andy Knowles was released in 2006.
Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand was read by Alex Kapranos on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week 4-8 December 2006, described as "his account about what he ate while touring the world."
In September 2005, Kapranos began Soundbites[1], a weekly food column for G2 in the Guardian newspaper, which detailed his culinary adventures as Franz Ferdinand traversed the globe on their world tour. Sound Bites, a book of the column and unreleased material illustrated by Andy Knowles was released in 2006.
Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand was read by Alex Kapranos on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week 4-8 December 2006, described as "his account about what he ate while touring the world."
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