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Kinks' Avory: New Album Imminent
Longtime Kinks drummer Mick Avory has confirmed that the iconic UK rockers are set to release a new album in the near future, using archive tracks composed by Ray and Dave Davies.
"Things are always bubbling under or over with the Kinks -- I'm never quite sure if we're going to do them or not," Avory told Spinner. "We are certainly doing another album. We've got old tracks which need to be baked. You have to go through this process to transfer them to digital, it's a bit of a process and you only get one shot at it."
Avory then added, "We've certainly got eight tracks we could use there, so we're going to have to do some more to make the numbers up for an album."
Meanwhile, Avory offered his two cents on the working relationship between the Davies brothers, the only obstacle threatening a new Kinks album.
"In our case it's Ray and Dave that have got to work together, once they've slotted together, we can go ahead. All the while they are not wanting to do what the other wants to do, it goes nowhere."
The Kinks, whose founding members are all still alive, have not performed together since 1996.
Currently Avory is taking part in a five-day Masterclass in London, where he will be coaching aspiring rockers with other such pros as the Sex Pistols' Glen Matlock, Squeeze's Chris Difford and Ian McLagan of the Faces and Small Faces.
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