The First Time With... Series 26 - 3. Alex Kapranos

THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 26 - 3. ALEX KAPRANOS (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 10th July 2022

Alex Kapranos joins Matt Everitt to share some of the influential First Times of his life and musical career with Franz Ferdinand, and how the band formed out of the 90s Glasgow music scene. Also, we'll hear about his first gig - memorable for the wrong reasons - and his Greek roots.

Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out [Now]
Yannis Markopoulos - Who Pays The Ferryman [BBC]
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes [EMI]
Paul McCartney & Wings - Live And Let Die [Virgin/EMI]
Adam And The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier [Columbia]
Madness - Embarrassment [Virgin]
The Kinks - Shangri-La [Sanctuary]
Huey Lewis And The News - Back In Time [Capitol]
Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To [Domino]
Franz Ferdinand - Darts Of Pleasure [Domino]
Dory Previn - The Lady With The Braid
The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make? [Rhino]

Classic Scottish Albums: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand

CLASSIC SCOTTISH ALBUMS: FRANZ FERDINAND - FRANZ FERDINAND (320kbs-m4a/70mb/30mins)

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 21st March 2017

To complement the 6 Music Festival, taking place this year in Glasgow, we repeat highlights of a series in which musician Davie Scott reveals the stories behind classic Scottish albums.

In this episode, first broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in 2011, Davie discovers the story behind Franz Ferdinand's 2004 self-titled debut. With a certain suaveness, optimism and confidence, the band bagged the Mercury Music Prize, three top-10 singles and 3.6 million album sales worldwide. They made a bigger impact on America than Robbie Williams and Oasis combined, and did it with a lot less bluster. Their influences include Talking Heads, Chic, Pulp and Joy Division, and these combined to reach a far wider audience than your average indie band.

Take Me Out topped several 'Best of 2004' lists, and seemed never to be off the Queen Vic's jukebox in Eastenders. The NME described their music as 'intoxicating', while others compared their worldwide appeal to that of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Duran Duran.