{"id":30685,"date":"2024-10-23T18:02:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/pete-townshend-on-the-future-of-the-who-we-will-definitely-do-something-next-year\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:02:27","slug":"pete-townshend-on-the-future-of-the-who-we-will-definitely-do-something-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/pete-townshend-on-the-future-of-the-who-we-will-definitely-do-something-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Townshend on the future of The Who: &#8216;We will definitely do something next year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-23\/Getty_TheWHo_102324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jo Hale\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Well, here\u2019s some good news for fans of <strong>The Who<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While <strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong> and <strong>Roger Daltrey<\/strong> have been trading comments over the past year about the future of the band, Townshend has now given fans hope for a possible tour in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI met with Roger for lunch a couple of weeks ago. We\u2019re in good form. We love each other,\u201d he tells <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/culture\/music\/pete-townshend-the-who-keyboards-b1189594.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Standard<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">. \u201cWe\u2019re both getting a bit creaky, but we will definitely do something next year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Townshend suggests that a new album&#8217;s unlikely but not out of the question,\u00a0sharing, \u201cThe album side of it &#8230; Roger\u2019s not keen. But I would love to do another album and I may try to bully him on that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And if they do go back to touring, it seems Pete\u2019s ready to\u00a0get back to basics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe last big tours that we\u2019ve done have been with a full orchestra, which was glorious,&#8221; he says, &#8220;but we\u2019re now eager to make a noise and make a mess and make mistakes.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Meanwhile, Townshend had some thoughts on another big tour that\u2019s happening next year, the <strong>Oasis<\/strong> reunion tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWell, I\u2019m disappointed,\u201d he told the paper, but when asked if it was because he couldn\u2019t get a ticket, Pete replied, \u201cNo, because I really like their solo albums.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jo Hale\/Redferns Well, here\u2019s some good news for fans of The Who. While Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey have been trading comments over the past year about the future of the band, Townshend has now given fans hope for a possible tour in the near future. \u201cI met with Roger<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/pete-townshend-on-the-future-of-the-who-we-will-definitely-do-something-next-year\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}