Susan Boyle and Franz Ferdinand‘s Alex Kapranos have teamed up for the new Irn Bru World Cup ad.
Following Belle and Sebastian’s new Scotland World Cup anthem ‘It Only Takes One Lion’, Susan Boyle and Alex Kapranos have starred in a new ad for the popular Scottish soft drink.
The video features Boyle singing the song ‘We’re Made in Scotland from Girders’ on top of Edinburgh’s Forth Bridge, going on to breakdance. Kapranos shreds on guitar with the picturesque Scottish mountains behind him. Scottish footballer John McGinn and comedian Paul Black also star in the video.
Speaking about the ad, Boyle said: “It’s really been a whirlwind. From recording studios to different shoots, all completely hush-hush, it’s been a hugely memorable few months to say the least. The anthem is such a fun track, it really shows what being a Scotland fan is all about and perfectly sums up this World Cup not just for the supporters but also the team.
“There’s definitely going to be a whole range of emotions over the next few weeks but more than any other group of fans in the world, the Girders spirit will get us through.” Watch the Irn Bru ad starring Susan Boyle and Alex Kapranos below:
We last spoke to Kapranos at Glastonbury in 2025, where Doctor Who icon Peter Capaldi and Master Peace joined the interview alongside the Franz Ferdinand frontman.
Kapranos opened up about his first Glastonbury experience, telling NME: “I was 18, I was in Aberdeen, and about a week before Glastonbury, my pal Nick gave us a shout and said, ‘Do you want to go to Glastonbury? There’s some tickets left in the record shop’. That’s crazy when you think about it now.
“I had a little Lada at the time,” he continued. “For those of you born after 1990, it was a car made in the Soviet Union, it was very unreliable. Mine had a broken alternator, which means the battery would run out every two hours, and we’d have to stop in a service station. It took us four days to get down here, but we had an amazing time. It totally blew my mind.
“I was thinking earlier about today, if the me then at 18 in 1990 could see the me now, on stage with this character and this character, playing to all those people, they’d probably think to themselves, ‘Fuck me! That microdot I got from that crusty was stronger than I thought!’”, he added.
Elsewhere, Franz Ferdinand have attacked the IDF for using ‘Take Me Out’ in propaganda video: “This makes us both nauseous and furious”.
