Arctic Monkey Alex Turner is set to record an album with close friend and The Rascal's member, Miles Kane. The pair have been 'buddies' since Kane's last band, The Little Flames, supported the Monkeys' jaunt around the country just before they hit the big time, with Turner frequently being seen in a 'The Littles Flames' t-shirt since then. Furthermore, Kane played guitar on the Monkeys' recently released second album, 'Favourite Worst Nightmare, and often joins them when they play the song '505' live.
The pair are set to travel to France in the next few weeks for recording sessions, with Kane telling NME.com that: "We're there for two weeks and we're going to try to get the majority of it done. James Ford is producing it and is going to play drums, he's a really boss drummer. Me and Al will do all the bass and guitar and vocals, and try to the get the bulk of it done in two weeks. We're going to record it quite live to tape I think. Then whenever we've got weekends off at the same time we'd like to get some strings on it and probably do all that back home. That's the plan anyway".
As yet, there is no name for the project and the official release is not expected until at least early 2008. Until then, Turner will be concentrating on writing the next Arctic Monkeys' record, with Kane recording The Rascals' debut EP, due out in October.