Johnny Marr’s next project is ‘theatrical but not a play, musical but not a gig’

Johnny Marr has told Virgin Radio‘s Edith Bowman his next venture is with Maxine Peake.

With eyes constantly darting around for something new to grab his attention, this project is going to be ‘theatrical but not a play’, and ‘musical but not a gig’, so you’d probably need to be inside his head to know what to expect.

“At the moment I’m writing with Maxine Peake, the actor – we’re going to do a thing next year,” he said. “Everybody says she’s incredible. I had this idea for a different kind of show. I got to do all of these things and then I ended up getting my own band and thought, you can’t really diversify from there.”

“So I wanted to do a different kind of show that was theatrical but not a play, and musical but not a gig, and the only person I wanted to do it with was Maxine, so we’ve started working on it.”