Comfortable Mondays are engaged on a brand new album.
The ‘Step On’ band’s maracas-shaking dancer Bez has revealed that the group are set to launch their first new report in 18 years after being persuaded to get again into the studio by their supervisor – the previous Oasis supremo Alan McGee.
Bez instructed The Solar newspaper’s Weird column: “There’s speak of a brand new album to come back, which I am actually f****** trying ahead to.
“It may be visionary. It may be huge.
“It is an concept and Alan usually will get what he needs. With all my coronary heart and soul, I would like it greater than anybody.
“I wish to hear probably the most magic s*** you’ve got ever heard. And I am positive we are able to ship it.”
The Madchester band, fronted by Shaun Ryder, have not launched an album since 2007’s ‘Uncle Dysfunktional’ however Bez – whose actual identify is Mark Berry – believes that the group are lastly getting on with new music now that they’re of their 60s.
The 60-year-old star mentioned: “We truly know what we’re doing now. We had been f****** inexperienced once we began.
“We did not even know what ‘one, two, three, 4’, was. That is how naive we have at all times been. We’re nonetheless maturing and one of the best is but to come back.
“Shaun by no means stops being artistic, it is in his f****** blood. It at all times amazes me the s*** he comes out with. It is f****** genius.”
Bez and Shaun are additionally members of the supergroup Mantra of the Cosmos and credit score bandmate Zak Starkey – the son of Beatles drummer Sir Ringo Starr – for getting their artistic juices flowing once more.
He mentioned: “Zak is the driving pressure behind the creativity. It is ignited us all and acquired us all excited once more.
“What extra are you able to ask for than to be excited in regards to the s*** you do?”