Dave Grohl teams up with The Prodigy

THE PRODIGY have revealed how they got Dave Grohl to play on their new album.

The band said the Foo Fighters frontman emailed them a hard drive of his drumming hoping it would inspire their songwriting.

Grohl, who drummed for Nirvana, appears on The Prodigy's new album Invaders Must Die on a track called Running With The Wolves.

Speaking on Radio 1 as they stood in for Zane Lowe, singer Keith Flint said: "We didn't do it to be us and Dave our rock buddy collaboration, but just as a friend of ours who does wicked drums that did a track with us."

Keyboard player Liam Howlett added: "We've known Dave for quite a few years. We haven't just phoned him up and said, 'Dave can you get on the record?'

"He just emailed to say he's finished his touring, he really loves drumming and wants to get back into it.

"He sent me some drums on a hard-drive with hope that it might inspire me to write a song - sure enough when I got the hard-drive it was really inspirational.
"Within the first ten seconds of it being on I was like 'Yeah this is a song' - the track was born Run With The Wolves."

And he added that it while it was exciting getting Grohl in the studio with them, he was the only guest appearance on the album, which is due for release on March 2.

He said: "He's a cool guy but this album is purely about the band, so basically apart from Dave that is the only collaboration on the record."