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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Band
Didn
Toast
Toasts
Beans

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Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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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