Robert Byron Hardy (born 16 August 1980) is an English musician and the bassist in the band Franz Ferdinand.

Hardy is an artist with an interest in music while friend and bandmate Alex Kapranos is a musician interested in art; this is one of the primary reasons for how their friendship was established.

[citation needed] Through Hardy's friends from the Glasgow School of Art, Kapranos developed an interest in the work of the Dadaists and the Russian Constructivists.

He uses Ernie Ball strings – roundwounds, medium gauge.

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