The Struts’ Luke Spiller reveals how Billie Eilish beat him and Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins to record Bond theme

DANIEL CRAIG’s last James Bond movie No Time To Die could person had a precise antithetic taxable tune.

Billie Eilish's title opus went connected to triumph an Oscar, but The Struts frontman Luke Spiller rev­ealed helium wrote and recorded a 007 taxable with late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.

In an exclusive chat, Bristolian Luke, 36, said: “I’ve ever been ob­sessed with a batch of the Bond songs. I had a ace astatine it, but got beaten by Billie.

“It’s a fantastic song. I called Taylor and we chopped the drums successful his location studio.”

But Luke, who is presently connected circuit with The Struts, is assured he’ll get different shot.

He added: “Hopefully the radical making the next Bond film tin perceive to my grounds and admit the imaginable I person to make an unthinkable Bond song.

“I’ve got different up my sleeve.

“I’m waiting for the telephone due to the fact that I cognize it’s going to happen.”

Luke is unapologetic of his emotion for the stone 'n' rotation manner and has a treasure trove of tales erstwhile it comes to rubbing shoulders with euphony legends.

He performed with Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor astatine Wembley Stadium successful a star-studded amusement honouring the beingness of his person Hawkins, who was recovered dormant successful his edifice country successful Colombia portion connected circuit with the Foo Fighters successful 2022.

Not lone did helium locomotion to the signifier with his philharmonic idols to execute their anthem We Will Rock You, helium besides got to enactment the nighttime distant with stone royalty including Sir Paul McCartney.

He said of the bittersweet gig: "That's similar footage that I person watched arsenic a kid increasing up and studying the greats similar Freddie [Mercury], for instance, which, I was past each of a abrupt similar doing myself, which I thought was conscionable similar incredible. And that was a infinitesimal that volition past with maine everlastingly and ever."

He continued: "The aft enactment was conscionable the craziest sh*t you've ever seen. I was sat connected a sofa with the 2 guys from Rush, and past Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age. Then determination was Paul McCartney."

As it happened, Macca took a liking to Luke's vape (though was disappointed it didn't incorporate weed) and regularly returned to toke from it done the night.

"I had similar this small vape successful my hand," explained Luke. "It was conscionable similar this anserine happening I bought from America. And Paul looks astatine maine and helium was like, 'what's that?' And I was like, 'oh, it's just, it's conscionable a vape'.

"And helium asked maine if it had weed successful it. And I was like, 'no, it's conscionable tobacco'.

"And past helium hits it. And helium was like, 'oh, it's rather tasty'. So past helium benignant of swans disconnected and goes into the country and he's conscionable being Paul McCartney, sipping his drink.

"I'm conscionable benignant of similar doing my happening arsenic well, similar going astir everyone and saying hi, and helium kept coming backmost to bargain my vape. And past helium ended up spilling his martini connected my marque caller suit.

"And he's determination trying to cleanable it up like, 'oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry'. And whatnot. And I inactive person the vape due to the fact that it died that night. That's however overmuch it got used."

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Next twelvemonth is shaping up to beryllium a bumper 12 months of caller euphony for Luke, some arsenic a solo creator and with The Struts.

The band, whose latest medium Pretty Vicious was lone released past year, volition enactment retired caller euphony earlier the extremity of the twelvemonth caller from a purple spot successful the workplace that saw 7 songs laid down successful a substance of days.

And Luke his relishing showing a antithetic broadside to his songwriting endowment erstwhile his piano-driven solo grounds yet drops.

He said: "I've finished, mixed and mastered my archetypal solo record, which I'm truly looking guardant to radical proceeding due to the fact that it's thing which is precise antithetic from The Struts. It's each soft based emotion songs, loads of large strings. I recorded similar a 20 portion drawstring conception with it.

"It's precise Bondy. It's really, really, truly implicit the top. It's great."

Over the people of the The Struts' 4 medium vocation they've had small enactment from radio stations successful the UK, but person been embraced connected the different broadside of the Atlantic.

Things person dilatory been increasing backmost location though and they are headlining London's iconic Roundhouse venue tomorrow.

In a tongue-in-cheek excavation astatine presumption tastemakers, Luke joked of his upcoming records: "Maybe they get the latest [Struts] CD oregon whatever, and they're like, 'no, no, no, no, we can't play that one'. But they're like, 'wait, Spiller? What's this? Oh, a caller artist. Oh, he's from Bristol. Okay. I've ne'er heard of this guy.

"Oh, wow. This is truly good. Oh, cool. Let's get him on. He's the caller eyes of the week, ladies and gentlemen [laughs]."

It's precocious clip the set gets that well-earned interruption arsenic nobody's flying the emblem for fun, flamboyant, rollicking stone 'n' rotation much astatine the moment.