Ray Davies with the 88

Ray Davies new project See My Friends is a collection of collaborations with a formidable bunch of artists on tracks drawn from Davies’ 46 years as a songwriter.
Davies had no qualms about rebooting classic songs, with Bruce Springsteen on Better Things, Metallica on You Really Got Me, Mumford & Sons on Days/This Time Tomorrow, Paloma Faith on Lola, and ten other equally inspired partnerships. He was eager to open up himself and his songs to other people’s ideas and interpretations, and he was happy to go where the music took him, in every sense: Oslo via Denmark, Germany and Belgium to record with Metallica, New York to record with Jon Bon Jovi, New Jersey for Bruce Springsteen, Chicago for Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins and his own north London base for much of the rest. He recently toured his solo acoustic show with support and occasional back-up from The 88, a Kinks aficionados who auditioned' by sending him their recordings of a selection of his songs, and act as occasional back-up band.