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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.
Alex Kapranos
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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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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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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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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It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.
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