Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos has plenty of reasons to carry on.
Alex Kapranos has been consumed by fear of late. Nothing too terrible. “The fear of non-existence. The fear of a futile life. The fear of losing people you love. If you have periods of solitude and introspection, it’s easy to let them dominate your thoughts,” he says, looking more eager than anxious on a Zoom call from his adopted Parisian home.
“I thought, ‘Oh that’s cool’, and it’s also fascinating because fear is what makes us human as well. We all have these fears, but how we respond to those fears depends on our character, our personality. It’s how we find out who we are.”is his response to laying eyes on his firstborn. He prefers to identify his 16-month-old son by the codename “G”, to protect him from the tabloid lens that routinely attends his wife, French singer-songwriter Clara Luciani.
Somewhere in between, plans to study philosophy in Glasgow went awry when he was accepted for a second choice he’d made by alphabetical selection: A for Aberdeen Uni, D for divinity. “Suddenly I found myself in freezing cold Aberdeen with a lot of guys in their 50s training to be ministers,” he says. “Quite an experience for 17-year-old me.
“I spent most of my life in Scotland but I’d go over to Greece all the time. My grandparents lived in Piraeus, and they would go, ‘Well, you look awfully blond for a Greek boy, and you don’t speak Greek.’“I guess I have the condition common to all children of immigrants, which is that I know where I’m from, but I also know that I’m not from there. I mean, I still have a bit of an English accent, but if I go back to England they think I’ve got a Scottish accent.
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