Chrissie Hynde’s future exhibits will not embody Pretenders’ best-known songs.
“I by no means needed to go there within the first place, however [I] was attempting to maintain myself alive and pay the payments,” she says in a brand new Facebook post. “And sure, I do know that’s no purpose to be in a rock band. I used to be simply too scared to return to waitressing. However these biggest hits / ballads days at the moment are behind me. If anybody needs to come back and see me sooner or later, it’s going to be punk rock [and] no hits.”
Hynde has no present touring plans for 2022. Pretenders guitarist James Walbourne is performing along with his personal band, “so at the least one among us is staying in form,” Hynde mentioned earlier this year. “I am extra like a slowly deflating rubber doll. Sure, that variety.”
Hynde revealed, nevertheless, {that a} new Pretenders album could possibly be on the way in which quickly. She confirmed in Might that they’d completed recording, although no additional particulars have been introduced.
She in contrast the venture’s genesis along with her extra jazz-inflected second solo album from 2019. “It began out as extra of a Valve Bone Woe kind of factor, however morphed right into a rock factor,” Hynde mentioned. “I assume I simply can’t assist it. I do know I shouldn’t title drop, however within the phrases of Neil Younger: ‘She’ll be rocking until she drops …'”
The newest Pretenders album, 2020’s High 30 U.Okay. hit Hate For Sale, was the primary since 2002’s Unfastened Screw to function her co-founding bandmate Martin Chambers on drums.
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