The Living End will head to the studio in January to start work on a follow-up to ‘White Noise’ and have been secretly road-testing their new songs.
“We’ve done a couple of gigs where we got up and played all new songs and for those gigs we picked the heavier, simpler sort of tune,” Chris Cheney tells Undercover.
The songs were from a batch of tunes The Living End have been demoing. “We’ve only done 4 or 5 demos at this stage and we normally do 6 or 7 batches spread out over various months. Its sounding good,” he says. “I think we are going to record in January so we still have a little bit of time up our sleeve. We have a lot of tunes that we are really happy with so it is just “what record do we want to make”.”
He says he cannot put a sound on the new record just yet but there won’t be any left-turns. “We always write such a diverse range of songs and then we go “do we want to make the avant-guard pop classical record and do we want to write another record,” he says. At the end of the day I think it is going to be a guitar record, a rock and roll record. There is no clear indication yet about what it is going to be but at the end of the day that is what we do best live. We don’t want to mess with that”.
Watch the interview with Chris Cheney at the Australian International Music Show here:
