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The Zutons‘ Dave McCabe has recounted how Amy Winehouse telling him to “fuck off” led to her iconic cover of their song ‘Valerie’.In NME‘s latest series of Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?!, in which we quiz musicians on their own career to see how much they can remember, the Zutons frontman opened up about how the cover came to be.“I met Amy three times in my life,” he recalled. “Once at the Mercury Prize, once in the Camden boozer The Hawley Arms, and once when I was hanging around with this Brummie lad called Boo, who was a tit.“He spent all night comparing me to her, saying: ‘If you’re a 1, she’s a 10’. I thought: ‘OK, I get it, she’s good’.

The Zutons‘ frontman Dave McCabe has praised Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson‘s iconic cover of their song ‘Valerie’, saying it was “a gift from god”.The band have recently made a comeback with their new single ‘Creeping On The Dancefloor’, which was released last month as their first new music for 16 years.In a new interview on Radio X, McCabe discussed how the ‘Valerie’ cover kept them in the public consciousness while they were inactive as a band, even if it took people a while to realise that it was originally their song.“The way I see it, it was like a gift from god and I was there to receive it,” he said.“The band was there to receive it… and some people are like, ‘Were you pissed off when she took your song?’ And I was like, ‘Well not really, because she just immortalised the whole thing.’ Do you know what I mean? Because it was a big song anyway, but that just took it to this whole new level.”McCabe did admit that he felt uneasy about the song at times, especially when people asked how much money he’d made from it. However, nowadays he has no such hard feelings towards the song and believes it has become bigger than the band itself.“I think it’s in the Top 10 of karaoke songs,” he said.

The Zutons have released their funky new single ‘Creeping On The Dancefloor’.‘Creeping On The Dancefloor’ is the Liverpool band’s first new music in 16 years, and was recorded all the way back during the pandemic. The single is taken from their upcoming album ‘The Big Decider’, produced by the legendary Nile Rodgers and Ian Broudie.

The Zutons are back with their first album in 16 years, as well as an upcoming run of UK tour dates.Titled ‘The Big Decider’, the new album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios with songwriter and producer Nile Rodgers, alongside the band’s original producer Ian Broudie. It is set for release on April 26.Completed by Dave McCabe (guitar, lead vocals), Abi Harding (saxophone, vocals) and Sean Payne (drums, vocals), the forthcoming album follows on from the three LPs the multi-platinum selling band released between 2004 and 2008, and is one “born under the weight of family tragedies”.According to a press release, the album was “wrestled into shape under the kind of steam that only decades-long friendships – with all their messy fall-outs, make-ups, breakdowns and ultimately love – can muster”, and became symbolic of the love of creating music rising above all else.The members were also brought together after McCabe’s stay in rehab, which sparked a turning point for the artist and a closer bond being formed between the members.“Dave has been through an awful lot in the last few years, and these things have obviously really impacted him.

The Zutons have announced that they are working on their first new album for fourteen years at Abbey Road Studios with Nile Rodgers producing.A year after their third album, ‘You Can Do Anything’, was released in 2008, the band quietly split. They have occasionally reunited in various forms for one-off shows since 2016, although fans’ hopes that they might get fully up and running again have always looked unlikely to be fulfilled.Never say never though, eh? Original members Dave McCabe, Boyan Chowdhury, Sean Payne and Abi Harding are now in the studio.

The Zutons are recording their first album in 13 years at Abbey Road Studios, with Nile Rodgers on production.The new studio sessions come after the Liverpool band reunited for a tour celebrating the 15th anniversary of their 2004 debut album ‘Who Killed…… The Zutons?’ in 2019.Speaking to NME, frontman Dave McCabe said after their last album – 2008’s ‘You Can Do Anything’ – the band had all fallen out. “We all hated each other, but we never quite split up,” he said.

@Stolen_City singer Dave McCabe is some man for one man!

RTÉ Radio 1, he revealed that he had invited Irish band Stolen City onto the couch.The leas singer of the band, Dave McCabe, melted hearts when he spoke to Ryan on the radio about his battle with cancer.Dave, who works as a special needs assistant, spoke on Monday’s Ryan Tubridy Show after he was diagnosed with leukaemia in March this year.The 24-year-old revealed that he needed to remain positive with the diagnosis and said that he felt 2020 was going to be Stolen City’s year despite everything going on.He admitted that he was seeing the bright side of things despite his cancer diagnosis and dealing with how COVID-19 has affected the music industry.  A post shared by Stolen City (@stolen_city) on Jan 29, 2020 at 4:59am PSTFollowing his