Queens Of The Stone Age: ‘Our record will be done by the end of the year’
Queens Of The Stone Age will finish their sixth studio album later this year, frontman Josh Homme has said. Speaking on BBC Radio 1, Homme said the band were heading straight back to the studio after they headline The Other Stage at this year’s Glastonbury festival.
Homme said: “We’re going to take our one last break that we would get for a month, come back and do Glastonbury, then immediately jump in the studio. Our record will be done by the end of the year. We have enough songs.”
Asked about the new direction of the album, Homme said it was unlikely to involve a radical new sound, as the band don’t “feel they have anything to prove.” He said: “We’re at a weird moment where we really don’t feel like we have anything to prove. We just want to play to the people that are into us and we want to play right at them.”
The band are booked to do a US tour in July and early August, with Homme indicating that these would be the first live dates where the band didn’t play the whole of their debut album in full, as they have been doing for the last few months.
He said: “I’m not going to lie: I’m sick of doing the first record. We’ve never played the same set list before.”
Muse to return with ‘softer’ new album next year
Muse will return with a potentially “softer” album next year, the band have revealed.
Drummer Dominic Howard and bassist Chris Wolstenholme spoke about the plan to NME at this afternoon’s (May 19) Ivor Novello Awards ceremony in London, where they won the International Achievement award.
After revealing that they were planning to put out the follow-up to 2009’s ‘The Resistance’ in 2012 Howard said that the album could mark a shift in style for the band. “Matt [Bellamy, frontman] showed me a few chords recently,” he said. “Who knows, it might be softer rock, but then it’s up to me and Chris to make it heavy again. A heavy rock lullaby! But I’m sure it will move forward in some way.”
Wolstenholme explained that the band had been jamming on the road ahead of sessions later this year. He added: “We’ve got Reading Festival [plus the Leeds Festival, with them set to headline both] in August and maybe a few weeks off after that. So September, October time we’ll get into the studio and start writing and working on the songs.”
Howard concluded: “It takes as long as it takes really, because you have to love it before you can just chuck it out there and into the real world. But definitely next year.”
Muse have suggested that they will play their 2001 album ‘Origin Of Symmetry’ in full at the Reading And Leeds Festivals.
