HALL OF FAME FOCUS: BLONDIE (cont.)
Are there any discussions regarding a new album?
Harry: Yes. But at the moment, we don't have a label deal.
Burke: We're definitely talking about a follow-up to "The Curse of Blondie." Being inducted into the Hall of Fame was a great shot in the arm for us.
Stein: The next record we do has to be a raw rock record. That's the trend now. It's come around full cycle -- again.
What about the rumors surrounding the announcement of a big U.S. tour?
Harry: We're planning a post-induction tour of the U.S.
Burke: [It is] tentatively scheduled for May and June. We're looking at 40 cities.
Stein: We're overdue for shows in the States. The band is the best it's ever been. It's funny, because I wonder what the fuck we sounded like back in the old days. It was probably pretty wretched. I know it was pretty rude compared to where it's at now. Everybody's musicianship is in a different place.
So many acts that debuted when Blondie did are no longer around. How has Blondie survived?
Harry: It's been very serendipitous. We're able to ride the waves. One of the reasons we were able to get back on our feet this last time was because we really found an interesting and interested management company [Tenth Street Entertainment]. That was instrumental.
Burke: Popular culture has aged, and we've aged along with it. It has to do with the generation we're from. People still have an interest in art and music, and it carries through at more of a mass level than before. We're all interested in many different aspects of the media. This enables us to keep going. Now, Blondie is a home base for all of us. I wish we would've seen it that way before.
Also, maybe our extended break helped us to continue. We got back together for monetary and artistic reasons. But it wasn't like someone handed us a big pile of money and said, "You can have this." We wanted to get back together. We asked ourselves how we would go about being a band again. We were never interested in being purely a nostalgia act. Yes, we play our hits, but we needed to make the "No Exit" album before touring. It put the focus on being a band.
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