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A massive tour with Them Crooked Vultures this year now behind him, bassist John Paul Jones says the rest of the band have 'gone back to their day jobs', but the promised second album is in the pipeline.

Fans can expect a follow up from the supergroup, or 'super-duper group' as the Led Zeppelin legend describes them.

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme will be getting together with Jones soon and according to the bassist the new material won't take them long: "Some stuff we've worked on, but we're gonna write pretty quickly and just put it down... we may be a year or so.

"It will mainly be excess material from the first album, material we started and never finished because we had to go and play the stuff we already recorded!"

"I might gate crash one of their gigs"

John Paul Jones eyes up Foo Fighters 2011 dates

The band spent much of this year on the road as part of a world tour, which the bassist admits has been a 'whirlwind', he also says it was much like being on the road in the old days: "Better hotels", he laughed, "But great music, so that part was always the same, a really good band... I try and pick 'em".

Bandmate Dave Grohl has announced two Foo Fighters gigs set for July 2011, Jones told 6 Music he's be happy to make a guest appearance: "I might gate crash one of their gigs I think... if he asks!"

John Paul Jones also revealed he will be playing bass at the Royal Opera House in February 2011, for the Anna Nicole opera.

The piece will be based on the life of the former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith who died in 2007. It is written by Jerry Springer The Opera co-creator Richard Thomas... watch this space for more details.