The Rolling Stones have finished their follow-up to 2023’s Hackney Diamonds and are also hoping to hit the road.

Guitarist Ronnie Wood has confirmed the new album, which saw them reunite with producer Andrew Watt, is ready to rock ‘n’ roll.

“Yes you will be getting a new album next year. It is done,” he told The Sun at the legendary band’s RS No9 shop in Carnaby Street, London.

He also let slip that he’s hopeful the Stones – including Mick Jagger, 82, and Keith Richards, 81 – will hit the road again.

“Yes, we are hoping to do some dates. Hopefully we will be back out there but I am still waiting to find out myself,” Wood teased.

Production whiz Watt said he jumped at the chance to work with the band again.

“I’ve said it before, but it’s like working for Batman,” he told Rolling Stone:

“When the tongue is up in the air, you just go… I can say we did some recording together, but that’s all I can say.”

Watt revealed the Stones had left over material from the Hackney Diamonds sessions.

“ It was a prolific time for the band. They had amassed, like, 18 years of material. There was so much to go through and choose from initially, and then there were new songs that just came because everyone was rolling and kind of flying.”

Richards’ son Marlon told Record Collector magazine the legendary rockers kept an intense recording schedule in London.

“They still maintain these ridiculous hours: after lunch until, like, two in the morning. I’d rather be somewhere else at that time of night! Unless you’re in it, it’s pretty boring.”

The Stones won Best Rock Album at this year’s Grammy Awards and Marlon said the recognition had spurred them back to work.

“They gave them a Grammy, so now they’re all hyped up on that: ‘Oh, yeah – we can do another one like that! We’ve got more like that if you want…’.”

He also confirmed speculation the band will be playing live in 2026.

“I think they’re planning a tour of Europe.”