“That song ‘Sunny’ by Bobby Hebb, I absolutely love that song. “There’s very few songs about friendships,” Alex says. To which end the album is introduced with a modernist, glam new song called “Billy Goodbye”, about the bittersweet end of a friendship. Bereft of bloodlust, he’s charming company, all anecdote and countercultural fervour, and his band is a byword for intelligent and articulate guitar pop, as well as meteoric success. Sitting in a clinically chic bedroom in a Hackney hotel, somehow maintaining his air of urbane geniality while scoffing down a late breakfast of tea and toast (“Is this peanut?” he asks, sniffing a pot of brown puree, wary of an allergy that saw medics at UCL hospital “save my life” in 2019), it seems inconceivable that this bequiffed indie sophisticate, 20 years into a career in erudite art rock, ever had an ounce of psychopath in him. For the first couple of months or so it was the most amazing job I’d ever had, I was getting paid money to chase folk with a chainsaw.” “I’d start it up and chase terrified Glaswegians out of the arches. “I had to dress up in an orange American prisoner outfit with a muzzle on my face, holding a chainsaw with the chain taken off it,” the Franz singer says, recalling his strangest pre-fame job as an interactive actor in a “static ghost train” in Glasgow called Terror Under the Arches. Retrieved 8 December 2018.There were times, in the dark and desperate days before Franz Ferdinand, when Alex Kapranos went full Leatherface. ^ "Official Independent Singles Chart Top 50".^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100".: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) ^ Darts of Pleasure (UK 7-inch single sleeve).Adrian Breakspear – assistant engineering.Paul Thomson – drums, percussion, backing vocals.Nick McCarthy – rhythm and lead guitar, backing vocals.Bob Hardy – bass guitar, backing vocals.Alex Kapranos – lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, prudction. ![]()
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