Pete Townshend has added weight to the possibility of The Who releasing a new album next year in time for their 50th anniversary.
Townshend and his fellow surviving bandmate Roger Daltrey have spent a fair chunk of the last 18 months performing live, but are expected to scale back their touring significantly by the end of next year.
Before then there’s likely to be more shows from the pair, with Townshend telling Billboard he’s ‘not crazy about going on the road’, but will ‘take some pleasure from it’ as and when they go out on the road again.
And on a new album, what would be their first since 2006, the guitarist added: “I’m trying to look through my 20,000 hours of complete and utter disorganised music. I’ll be pulling some songs out of ‘Floss’ to give to Roger to see if we’ve got enough to make an album. It might be a big waste of time, but I’m hoping there will be an album.”
Daltrey probably won’t need much convincing, having told NME at the start of this year that he is, ‘Always ready and raring to go’.