­Scissor Sisters on making 2004’s Take Your Mama: ‘We were realising the possibility that we could make the kind of music we love’

In 2000, Jake Shears was ­performing in clubs like The Slipper Room on the Lower East Side in New York City. He and Babydaddy (aka Scott Hoffman) were then in a band known as Dead Lesbian and the Fibrillating Scissor Sisters.