Blondie have announced that they’ll be releasing their first album in eight years next year. Due sometime in 2011, the follow up to 2003’s The Curse of Blondie will be entitled Panic of Girls. It’s also going to be released in Australia only this November, however, to coincide with the band’s co-headlining tour with The Pretenders in November/December.
Drummer Clem Burke says “We tried to make the recording process as organic as possible,[We] tried to stay away from programming as much as we could, because [‘The Curse Of Blondie’] had a lot of programming on it. So in the spirit of Woodstock, we kept going in the studio and playing.” The album will be released internationally next year, with Burke very chuffed at the reaction the new material has been receiving from audiences.
“We’ve been getting a great reception with the new material,” he explained. “We’re doing about five or six of them in the show, which is kind of difficult for people, hearing new material for the first time at a show. But we’ve been doing really well with it.”
