ALSO WORKING

…in an interview in October with newspaper La Stampa,

PETER GABRIEL (right) confirmed a new album was “closer than you think” and that he was working on 17 new songs …CATE LE BON’s Pompeii (You will be forever connected to everything) lands in February 2022. “The world is on fire but the bins must go out on a Tuesday night,”

she comments. “I put a groove behind it for something to hold onto” …the current Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible-led line-up of THE DAMNED – not the 1976 version with Rat Scabies and Brian James, who play reunion gigs next February – are recording a new album, out next year. As Captain diplomatically told MOJO, the original formation making new music has “not been spoken

about” …the reformed BOO RADLEYS – minus main songwriter Martin Carr – release Keep On With Falling next March …

John Frusciante and the RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS are close to completing their first new LP together since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium. “It’s so thrilling to see that group of people back together,” producer Rick Rubin told the Talk Is Jericho podcast …

THE ZUTONS are cutting their first LP since 2008 at Abbey Road with Nile Rodgers (left) …INTERPOL are preparing a new record with producers Flood and Alan Moulder … Atlanta, Georgia rapper YOUNG THUG has sought inspiration by working at his Snake Pit studios in the company of tarantulas, snakes, bulldogs and a Bengal cat. The rapper tells Complex magazine, “they’re all named Tootie…”