#" This Fffire " ( video ) ( Alex Kapranos / Nick McCarthy )

The music video takes place in a rather madcap art gallery " transmission party "; the band's instruments appear out of nowhere, and Alex Kapranos dances in an Elvis-esquely suggestive manner around his microphone stand.

Kapranos met co-guitarist Nick McCarthy, who had returned to Scotland after studying jazz bass in Germany, in 2001.

Slampt also released the debut single by The Yummy Fur, a band who later featured Paul Thomson and Alex Huntley a. k. a. Alex Kapranos.

Two future members of internationally successful Glasgow indie band Franz Ferdinand played in The Yummy Fur-drummer Paul Thomson who joined the band in 1997, and multi-instrumentalist Alex Kapranos ( who was going by his birth name of Alex Kapranos Huntley at the time ), who joined in 1998.

Kapranos stated that the band promised themselves they would also focus on not over-publicizing their progress as he felt that's something he regretted about their previous album.

Kapranos announced that on 22 April 2008 he would begin collaborating with an unknown Canadian artist, as well as implying that the band was working with Xenomania on the new album, as Alex is a fan of their work with Girls Aloud.

The subsequent album, Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever saw the band finally take steps to progress forth from their ' lo-fi ' roots, being recorded in Vancouver, BC, Canada with Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand as producer.

The cover art was designed by Kapranos.

Alex Kapranos has stated that " The last record was ... like a teenager having sex.

Kapranos noted that it was refreshing working with her as she had a lot of fun going and retrying the song time and time again.

This was based in Glasgow, and run at one point by the future Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos.

The singer, Alex Kapranos, stated in an interview to the UK magazine Boyz that the song was written about two friends of his — " It was one night when me and the band were out with friends from Glasgow, and we went to this warehouse dance party thing called Disco X.

Alex Kapranos ( Huntley ) was a part-time lecturer in IT for a couple of years until June 2003, when Franz Ferdinand, the Glasgow indie rock band, of which he was lead singer / guitarist, signed a recording contract with Domino Records.

The song was written as somewhat of a joke after Alex Kapranos came home from a party one night where people were yelling the most ridiculous and profane things to each other.

Alex Kapranos and Paul Thomson met at a party and began a close friendship and played together in Yummy Fur, and subsequently teamed up to write songs.

Around the same time, Kapranos taught his friend, Bob Hardy, how to play bass after being given a bass guitar by Mick Cooke of Belle & Sebastian.

Later that year, Kapranos and McCarthy collaborated on the song " Do It Again " with Edwyn Collins on his album Losing Sleep.

Alex Kapranos explained the many and varied influences behind the 1930s-style promo for second single " Take Me Out ": " It's kind of two dimensional in a three dimensional style if that makes any sense.

Almondsbury is the birthplace of Alex Kapranos, the lead singer of Franz Ferdinand.

Some collaborators from the first album returned, and new collaborators included RZA, Cat Power, Casual, Alex Kapranos, Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Jack Johnson, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Mike Patton, El-P, Pharrell, John Oates, Chino Moreno, Lord Finesse, Black Sheep, and comedy actor Tim Meadows.

Lead vocals performed by Alex Kapranos, except where noted.

Alex Kapranos explained to Q magazine that " the song is about seduction and the " Darts Of Pleasure " that hit you are actually words.

* Lead vocals performed by Alex Kapranos except where noted.

Lead vocals performed by Alex Kapranos.

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