No Rock And Roll Fun

THEY CALL ME PROFESSOR KAPRANOS: As Alex Kapranos prepares to give his Edinburgh lecture, he's been media-tarting it about: last night he was on Channel 4 News making wide eyes at discovering Gorbachev had given the lecture in the past - "it was hard enough following Brian Wilson at a festival" - and this morning he did an interview on Today [Real Audio] which, um, we haven't had a chance to listen to yet ourselves because we were in the shower.