![]() Then I realised that I needed to be brave enough to not give a damn. 'When we first started playing live I was afraid of losing my dignity. I need to be completely instinctive, totally primal. In both situations I need to be completely lost in the moment. If I stop to think how ridiculous I look, it would stop me in my tracks. If I go on stage and wonder how I look and what people are going to think of me, I'm going to have a terrible show. 'To do a good gig or perform well between the sheets you need to lose all self-consciousness. 'It's a lot like going to bed with a woman, to be honest,' he says. The crowd now at a crescendo, he chooses this moment to describe what it's like to perform live to thousands on nights like this. ![]() Somewhere above us, 2,000 Franz Ferdinand fans are growing increasingly restless and Kapranos needs to find his way back to the band's dressing room without delay.Īs the crowd noise intensifies, Kapranos takes yet another wrong turn and finds himself in the theatre's basement kitchen. Having chosen to take a pre-gig stroll around the backstage area of Southampton's Guildhall theatre, he finds himself hopelessly lost in the dense labyrinth of stairs and corridors. Showtime for Franz Ferdinand is merely minutes away and Alex Kapranos is trapped in a moment straight out of This Is Spinal Tap. They are (from left) Paul Thomson, Bob Hardy, Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy (above at Southampton City Art Gallery) Franz Ferdinand have sold more than six million records and won two Brit awards in just five years.
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