ALSO WORKING

…NOEL GALLAGHER (right) has been in Abbey Road with David Holmes working on the follow up to 2017’s Who Built The Moon. He’s described the results as “’70s disco” …TONY IOMMI is heading back in the studio for what might be an instrumental album …Richie Hawtin will release a new PLASTIKMAN set next year …to celebrate four decades since their ’79 debut, the STRAY CATS will record a new LP in Nashville. “Seems like the exact right thing, right time, right place, and right band for the gig,” observed drummer Slim Jim Phantom … THE HOUSE OF LOVE will follow the thirtieth anniversary performances of their debut LP with further activity next year. Says guitarist Terry Bickers, “There’s a whole album’s worth of material ready to go which has been rehearsed.” Frontman Guy Chadwick adds, “It’s got to be really good… hopefully it will be out next year, but we’re The House Of Love, you can never say” …out in February, the next LP by BETH JEANS HOUGHTON’s project Du Blonde is called Lung Bread For Daddy… speaking to the London Evening Standard in October, ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus has mused their reformation could result in “A new album? Possibly. Or four songs or something like that” …last month THOM YORKE (left) told Spanish newspaper El Mundo that he’s making a new solo record with regular producer Nigel Godrich. “It is very electronic, but different from what I have done so far,” Yorke told Pablo Gil, “We have improvised many sounds and effects…”