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ABC/Jeff NeiraIn recent months, Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry has been busy promoting her memoir Face It, which was published in October, while the band hasn’t played a concert since last summer. However, the singer tells ABC Audio that a new studio album is “in the wind.”
Harry says she’s starting to get lyrics together for songs for the project, which she expects Blondie to start focusing on soon.
“I’ve been…scribbling continually,” Debbie explains. “Every time I have an idea, I have my little…notebook of snippets and ideas, and…I sort of sit on that, hold it until somebody hands me track, some music.”
Harry also reports that she recently asked founding Blondie guitarist — and her main collaborator in the band — Chris Stein if he’d come up any material for the next album, but he told her he hadn’t “really gotten down to it yet, but [he was] thinking about it.”
She adds that she and Stein “were talking about the kind of demos he’s planning to make,” as well as “possibly working again with John Congleton,” who produced the band’s latest studio album, 2017’s Pollinator.
Meanwhile, Harry tells ABC Audio that Blondie keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen, who co-wrote two songs on Pollinator, “sent me a track that I really, really love.”
In addition, Debbie says it’s been suggested to her that she record a solo album of songs that relate specifically to her Face It memoir.
“I think [that would be] a nice collection,” Harry says. “I’ve certainly a lot of material to draw from.”
Blondie hasn’t announced any 2020 tour dates yet, but Debbie has plans to head to Germany in March to continue promoting Face It with a series of in-conversation events that also will feature Stein. Visit Blondie.net for more details.
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