After two hugely successful years of Crue Fest, Motley Crue plans to take a year off to work on their next album.

"We have about a month left (of this year's Crue Fest 2) and then we're going to be taking quite a bit of time off," Crue bassist Nikki Sixx said in an interview. "I feel like we're ending being out for quite a long time, touring and 'Saints of Los Angeles' and the Carnival of Sins (tour) and 'Red, White & Crue'...really going away on a big high to start working on writing a new record and looking forward to the next Crue Fest, which'll probably be in 2011."

Sixx did hint at the possibility of the festival taking place without the Crue.

"There have been offers from other bands that were interested in going out and doing Crue Fest if we didn't do it," Sixx says. "It's growing into something. It's more of a community than just about Motley Crue, which in the end is a really good feeling. There might be a day we don't do it, a year we're working on something else and somebody comes in and says 'We want to do it.' We've heard there's interest. It might be a bit young and premature to do that now, but it's nice to hear it."

The current rendition of Crue Fest features two stages and closes with the Crue performing their 1989 album, "Dr. Feelgood" in its entirety. The festival runs through Sept. 5th in Darien Lake, NY. Click Here to see the remaining dates.



-- Edited by newsbot on Tuesday 11th of August 2009 09:38:46 AM