‘Hit the Hague, hit the bong!’ Hear Gregg Alexander’s unique demo of Homicide on the Dancefloor | Sophie Ellis-Bextor

If it weren’t for a busted automobile, Homicide on the Dancefloor may by no means have existed, songwriter Gregg Alexander – previously of the New Radicals – instructed Dave Simpson at the moment, in a really uncommon interview detailing the creation of a music experiencing an enormous renaissance because of its spot within the movie Saltburn. Unable to go out for an evening in Detroit, he grabbed the acoustic guitar on the again seat and began singing “it’s homicide on the dancefloor, however you’d higher not kill the groove”.

That’s one of many lyrics that made it into Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s completed recording of the music, although many others from its demo – “I gained’t make us hit the hay!” – have been left on the slicing room ground. For the primary time ever, you possibly can hear a pattern of that demo proper right here, shared with a message from Alexander:

“I’m an artist at coronary heart, however moonlighting I produced the Strokes to Tina Turner. As Sophie has spoken in interviews of the New Rads’ 90s Homicide ‘tough cassette’ inspiring our new lyrics, in lieu of my dance-murder metaphors let’s ‘hit The Hague! Then hit the bong!” – in addition to Sophie additionally awesomely retweeting Homicide covers – my bandmate Danielle [Brisebois] and I believed why not share a snippet of that cassette ruff monitor we despatched Sophie containing New Radicals’ almost ‘misplaced hit’? A music which can have gone unheard, and the world by no means identified, have been it not for Sophie’s perception within the music and her pop brilliance! Take pleasure in – and everlasting thanks from New Radicals to Sophie Ellis-Bextor!”