Co-manager Tim Clark says the singer has written a "raft of songs" for the follow-up to 2006's Rudebox and will go into the studio in March or April.

"There may be a song with Guy [Chambers], he's done a lot of writing with his mates Soul Mekanik and there's a very interesting song with Mark Ronson," Clark notes. "He's now looking at producers. Nothing further has been said yet, but he's talking to a lot of interesting people."

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