"There will be a new Bad Seeds record next year. I’ve got to write one. I haven’t written anything yet, but that’s not how I go about things anyway. I have the starting date for the next record and that’s when I go into the office and start it. I’m not doing that until I’ve finished the Grinderman tour, which is amazing. The band is something else.”

After spending much of 2010 wreaking havoc with Grinderman, Nick Cave tells Spinner that he’ll use 2011 to deliver the Bad Seeds’ 15th studio album, and first since 2008’s Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!.