More than 200 Franz Ferdinand fans are petitioning for the return of frontman Alex Kapranos's fringe. Crikey, that was a lot of 'f's.
Anyway, a petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/fringe/petition.html reads "If you aware of the Scottish rock band Franz Ferdinand, you may also be aware of their lead singer's late fringe. The fringe of Alexander Kapranos symbolised a great many things to his fans - freedom, truth, beauty, justice - and he also had to push it attractively out of his eyes in order to see. We liked that. However, it has come to our attention that the much beloved fringe of Mr Kapranos has been cruelly taken from his forehead, to be replaced with a haircut that enables him to see. We find this upsetting, shocking, infuriating and a variety of other words that end in "ing". We have decided that it is necessary to start up this petition, asking for Mr Kapranos to kindly grow his fringe back, so that freedom, truth, beauty, justice and hair-flipping are restored to mankind."
On the official Franz Ferdinand website Kapranos said: "Bloody Hell. There's an online petition for me to grow my fringe back. Er... it's getting there."