Roger Daltrey: 'Who hope to tour in 2011'

Roger Daltrey has confirmed that The Who plan to tour in 2011.

The band's frontman told Billboard that the group hope to deal with guitarist Pete Townshend's struggle with tinnitus while on the road.

Daltrey said: "There's a few things to get around... it's nothing that can't be sorted out - just different monitor systems, different on-stage volume, which is where the issue is.

"Pete being the addictive character he is, if he gets carried away he tends to turn his volume up to the old levels, and that's when it causes the trouble. That's one of the problems with rock 'n' roll, once the old adrenaline kicks in."

He suggested that the group could tour with "a new show", adding: "We've got ideas... We're looking on probably being out there, hopefully if all goes well, in the spring of next year.

"We definitely don't want to stop. We feel it's the role of the artist to go all the way through life 'til you can't do it anymore."

Of the possibility that the band could perform Quadrophenia as they did in London earlier this year, Daltrey said: "There are issues with it to make it work at our age. I'm 16 years older than when we last did it, and I always had a bit of a problem, as far as the crowd was concerned, with the way we were presenting that show, the way our position within the piece was explained.

"For the newcomers it was narratively a bit of a puzzle, what Pete and I were to this guy on the screen. It needs a revamp. It would be dated to put it out as it is now. We need to fix that area, but I know how to do it."