NO DOUBT STILL WAITING ON GWEN, DRUMMER POLISHES GOLF GAME

While Gwen Stefani continues to supplant herself at the forefront of the music industry with her two immensely successful solo albums ‘Love, Angel, Music, Baby’ and ‘The Sweet Escape’, No Doubt continue to wait in limbo with plans of recording their first album of new material since 2001’s ‘Rock Steady.’ So while Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal and Adrian Young await Gwen’s rigorous world tour to end, each member has some free time to spend away from the studio while the band is writing new material. Drummer Adrian Young for instance has been playing a lot of golf and working on his game enough to compete in a few mini tours in California.

We caught up with Adrian recently to discuss the competitiveness of golf.

“I’d say it’s all about you on the golf course. It’s not like a team sport and it’s not like a band. It’s you and if you F-up it’s on you. So, it’s way more competitive when you’re in a match than it is playing a gig.”

Adrian has been getting proficient enough with his golf game that he even admitted he’s entered a few mini events in California.

“I’m not good enough to play professional golf but I have entered a couple of mini tour events here in California. I participated in those because I like to compete and i’m constantly working on my game.”

Gwen Stefani’s tour in support of her latest release ‘The Sweet Escape’ will extend until October 17th in Vienna, Austria. Although No Doubt have begun preproduction and the intial song writing steps they aren’t expected to get back into the studio until the end of 2007. Hopefully if all goes well it No Doubt would then look to finally have a completed album of new material released by the end of 2008.