Post subject: [2010-01-25] The Hot Rats "Turn Ons" Supergrass side project covers album (G&D UK)
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Post subject: [2010-01-25] The Hot Rats "Turn Ons" Supergrass side project covers album (G&D UK)
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Gaz and Danny from Supergrass have formed a side project band called The Hot Rats, and plan a covers album of some of their favourite songs. A few demos have been uploaded to the Rats' MySpace page:
Supergrass members form band with Radiohead producer
Jun 16, 2009
Supergrass' Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey have joined forces with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich for a new side-project.
The trio are working on a covers album and record under the moniker The Hot Rats. They are working on songs by The Kinks, Gang Of Four, Syd Barrett, Roxy Music and the Sex Pistols.
The band are set to make appearances at a clutch of festivals this summer including Glastonbury next Friday (June 26), Truck Festival on July 26, the Reading And Leeds Festivals (which takes place on August 28-30) and at Bestival on September 12.
This is the second time the Supergrass pair have formed a side-project. They took on the roles of Duke Diamond and Randy Hoo Ha (Combes and Goffey respectively) in their previous guise The Diamond Hoo Ha Men when bassist Mick Quinn suffered a broken back after a fall in 2007.
The Hot Rats plan to release their debut album in the autumn.
Supergrass covers project 'inspired by Michael Jackson'
Jun 18, 2009
Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich has revealed how Supergrass's new side-project was inspired by Michael Jackson.
Singer Gaz Coombes and drummer Danny Goffey's new band Hot Rats was born out of a cover of 'Billie Jean' the pair performed live under their previous moniker The Diamond Hoo Ha Men, according to Godrich.
The producer told NME.COM: "We went into the studio to record it because I've got a studio in Covent Garden (central London). They came in and did it and decided it wasn't that good and thought of other songs we really liked.
"So we bashed out a bunch of covers which was great. It was really high-energy psychedelia."
The record, which is due out in the autumn, includes covers by Sex Pistols, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, Elvis Costello, The Doors, Pink Floyd and Beastie Boys.
"We tried to find songs that were not recorded badly but were recorded in a way which you could finish them or do them in a way which was slightly better," explained Godrich.
"It's your sort of classic favourite mixtape, what you think maybe people haven’t heard, which is done really tastefully."
Note: the "Billie Jean" cover mentioned above was also performed by The Diamond Hoo Ha Men in a radio session for XFM, and that recording can be found on Supergrass' out of print "Bad Blood" CD single:
Product Description Enhanced CD pressing of the second single pulled from the Britpop outfits' 2008 album Diamond Hoo Ha. 'Bad Blood' is a welcome addition to the band's already impressive cannon of classic songs. Thirteen years into their career and with five albums already under their belts, Gaz, Danny, Mick and Rob are sounding fresher than ever. Features three versions of 'Bad Blood' (Main Version, Diamond Hoo Ha Men Version and Enhanced Video) plus 'Beat It' (XFM Session). Parlophone.
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