Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett admits he was enjoying the band’s two year hiatus so much that he’s caused himself a problem with side project Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants.

“If I hadn’t been relaxing so much I’d have gotten our debut album (self-titled and just released) out a year ago, and given us a chance to tour,” he told British Classic Rock magazine.

“As it is, I’ve just done a run of dates locally (California), but we start recording the new Foos album in September and that will probably take us through the aurtumn. There might be time for me to do some more gigs around the end of year. But then we’ll probably be into Foo Fighters touring schedule that’ll stretch into 2012.”