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Dave Grohl has announced that Foo Fighters plan to go back into the studio. He was speaking to the BBC at the Independent Spirit Awards in LA this weekend.

The guitarist and drummer is also busy writing with super group Them Crooked Vultures. The band, whose other members include Led Zeppelin's John Paul-Jones and Josh Homme from Queens of The Stone Age, are also preparing a new album and later this month Them Crooked Vultures will be one of the acts on the line-up for Roger Daltrey's Teenage Cancer Trust gigs at the Royal Albert Hall.

With so much in his diary, it's good to know that Grohl will still be able to make time for his day job: "Foo Fighters have just started writing and we're going to start recording in September so life is full of music," said Grohl.

This will be Foo Fighters 7th studio album and the first since they released Echoes, Silence and Grace in 2007.

"Foo Fighters have just started writing and we're going to start recording in September."

Dave Grohl

Grohl was at the Independent Spirit Awards to introduce Anvil to the stage before they were presented with the Best Documentary gong.

The classic rock group from Canada were the subject of a movie of the same name last year, which was directed by Sacha Gervasi.

It detailed their struggle to make a living in the music industry and Dave Grohl said it certainly struck a chord with him: "I cried like 15 times," he confessed.

"I was touched by that movie so profoundly as a musician. I grew up in suburban Virginia, I'm a high school drop-out, I worked in a furniture warehouse, I played in a punk rock band. There were never any career aspirations."

Grohl said the parallels between Anvil's story and his own experience playing with Nirvana in the early days didn't end there: "The music I played wasn't commercially viable I just did it because I loved doing it.

"I'd work all week and at the weekends I'd get to play and if I went on tour I'd quit my job and then I'd get home and beg for my job back. And you know what, I got really lucky."

He went on to recommend that all musicians watch the film: "I was weeping not because it's sad or depressing but because it's so inspiring.

"There is nothing that’s going to stop these guys from playing together. They've got so much passion and dedication and as people, you couldn’t meet nicer people. All musicians should see this movie, whether you like their music or not."