Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos has revealed that The Cribs have recorded a number of songs with Johnny Marr. He told BBC 6music: "Ross [Jarman, drums] played me a few songs that they'd recorded with Johnny, about four or five songs and they sound amazing. He had them on his ipod and it was funny because the guitars were panned hard right and left and it's amazing - in one ear you've got this very distinctive Johnny Marr style, and in the left ear you've got this very distinctive Ryan Jarman style. It's cool, it really works".
Kapranos also said that producing the last Cribs album, 'Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever', had given him a taste for working on other people's recordings and that he hoped to be able to do more once his day job had becomes less time consuming. He said: "I'd love to do more producing. We built a studio in Glasgow as well which was where we recorded all of [the new Franz Ferdiand] record. I was talking to Sons And Daughters recently and I'd love to go in and record them. And Panico, the band from Chille, who are now in Paris, that we toured with recently - I'd love to record them. If there's a band that excites me and thinks it could work with me then I'd love to, it's just a case of time as for a while we're gonna be busy touring".