Pete Townshend Teases 2025 Plans

While The Who haven’t been active as a group over the past year, the band’s co-founder, Pete Townshend, says good news is on the horizon for fans.

In an interview with UK publication The London Standard, Townshend teased the potential of band activities in 2025. “I met with Roger for lunch a couple of weeks ago,” he revealed. “We’re in good form. We love each other. We’re both getting a bit creaky, but we will definitely do something next year.”

While such plans could sound like new music or a set of live shows, Townshend explained that they’re currently leaning towards the latter, a reversal of a previous comment from Roger Daltrey about the financial stress of live performance.

“The album side of it…Roger’s not keen,” Townshend shared. “But I would love to do another album and I may try to bully him on that. The last big tours that we’ve done have been with a full orchestra, which was glorious, but we’re now eager to make a noise and make a mess and make mistakes.” Earlier this year, Daltrey successfully executed a solo, “semi-acoustic” tour that hit 11 cities over the course of a month, which perhaps served as inspiration for more shows as a team.

Elsewhere in the interview, the guitarist shared his perspective on another high-profile reunion, saying he’s “disappointed” to hear that Oasis are back together for upcoming live shows. “I really like their solo albums,” he explained.