A decade on from when they formed the Supergrass side-project to cover tracks by the likes of The Kinks, David Bowie and the Sex Pistols, Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey have returned to The Hotrats for a new take on Kelis’ Milkshake.
It’ll be part of an anniversary reissue for Turn Ons, the sole album the pair released as The Hotrats; a 3CD/DVD box-set is out on June 19th and includes a live album recorded in Tokyo.
“The Hotrats was all about freedom to experiment, about exploring our own surreal psychedelic tendencies in a studio while celebrating the music that shaped our worlds growing up,” Gaz Coombes recalls. “And just to have some fun with great music in the mould of classics like Bowie’s Pin Ups or Lennon & Nilsson’s Pussy Cats. They felt like proper records to me, and that’s what we wanted to feel with Turn Ons, something super creative and exciting.”
“We went down to see Nigel at his Brixton studio to chat about the Turn Ons release and to listen back to the old multi-track recordings for any outtakes,” Danny Goffey adds. “Sitting around and joking, reliving the memories those tracks brought back, we realised how much we missed that dynamic. We were all having such a good time that we decided to jump on the instruments laying around and record something there and then. That’s how Milkshake came about… Another adventure in the Hotrats world!”