Legendary rock 'n' roller Keith Richards has revealed that The Rolling Stones are to cut some original material for the first time since 2005’s A Bigger Bang.

Their last album Blue & Lonesome, which came out last December, comprised purely of classic blues covers.

Now, guitarist Keef, has revealed in a video interview for his own website, that the band will be back in the recording studio together "very, very shortly."

He said:

[We're] Cutting some new stuff and considering where to take it next. Blue & Lonesome caught us a little bit by surprise in that we figured it was something we had to do, but we didn’t expect the response that it got."

The 73-year-old added that while there are no plans at present to do a "volume two" of the blues covers record, that it "wouldn't' take a twist of the arm to do some more of that."

"It's such fun to record and there's plenty more where that came from.

"But I just think that actually the Stones will use it as a boost of their energy and feelings of viability in this day and age and see what we can come up with next.