Albert Hammond Jr: ‘The Strokes have gone past the point of not doing stuff’


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The Strokes will continue to function in the future despite not performing live since the release of ‘Comedown Machine‘ earlier this year, according to guitarist Albert Hammond Jr.

The New York band fulfilled a promise with the release of ‘Comedown Machine’ in March having vowed to quickly return to the studio to put right the many delays and inter-band problems which afflicted its predecessor ‘Angles‘.

However, with a lack of touring since then, the on/off nature of the group during the past few years has continued, but Hammond Jr. has insisted, when in conversation with NME, that the group have ‘gone past the point of not doing stuff’.

“At some point we will do something and we will speak about it wholly and it will feel good,” he remarked. “It just feels too one-sided or weird or not fun when it’s not coming as a group effort, but everything’s great.”

“The Strokes are always open to…it’s always going to have something. I’m not saying that’s the word from the band, just that’s how I look at it, how it feels – like we’ve gone past the point of not doing stuff.”

Hammond Jr. was joined onstage in Dublin last week by his bandmate Nick Valensi for a cover of Bob Dylan‘s classic single ‘Positively 4th Street‘.


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