ALSO WORKING

…ROGER WATERS (right) is continuing work on his first solo album since 1992 with Nigel Godrich. He’s said that 25 per cent of the setlist on his impending tour will be new material… out in spring, DAN AUERBACH’s new solo LP has been recorded at his Easy Eye Sound Studio in Nashville: Duane Eddy guests, as does Johnny Cash’s bassist Dave Roe. Mark Knopfler also contributes guitar to the song Shine On Me. Auerbach’s Black Keys partner Patrick Carney, meanwhile, has co-produced Call Your Name on Double Roses, the new album by Karen Elson, out in April… MAC DE MARCO’s new record This Old Dog arrives in May. Featuring songs A Wolf Who Wears Sheep’s Clothes, My Old Man and Sister, word is the playful Mac has grown up, but not too much… live dates permitting, FOO FIGHTERS will spend 2017 recording their ninth LP… Perth psych-rockers POND’s new album The Weather arrives in May. Produced by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, it’s described by vocalist/ guitarist Nick Allbrook as, “a concept album… focusing on all the weird contradictory things that make up a lot of colonial cities around the world… at the end of all this confusion in our weird little white antipodean world, there’s the beach, purity and nature that brings us all together”… INTERPOL are recording a sixth album, due in 2018 …and there was excitement when four members of Britpop contenders ELASTICA (left, guitarist Donna Matthews) were seen, minus front-woman-turned-artist Justine Frischmann, at Abbey Road studios. They were remastering their two albums for re-release…