Roger Waters has revealed plans to release a new solo studio album next year.

The ex-Pink Floyd man's third and last solo album was 1992's Amused to Death, though he has since worked on movie soundtracks and 2005 opera Ça Ira.

He teased a fourth album then-called Heartland way back in 2012 but earlier this year said he had moved on to a "radio play" about a boy and his grandfather in Northern Ireland, with the subject of the killing of children in war.

Waters said at the time that he had been recording with producer Nigel Godrich but he didn't know when any spinoff album would be released.

However, he has now told Digital Spy that he is targeting a 2016 release date followed by a full arena tour.

"I'm in the middle of making it now," Waters said of the concept album, answering "yes" when asked if it would be coming out next year.

"It addresses this basic question. Why are we killing the children? That's what it's about.

"There's two characters in it - a grandfather and a grandchild and they together try to find answers to this question, by wandering around."

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Waters added: "It's got I suppose half-a-dozen really new songs on it, and half-a-dozen songs that are older.

"Some of the songs go back 15 years but because they're my songs, they're my songs. You can't mistake them for somebody else's songs I would say."

Of plans to take the album on the road, Waters said: "I hope to develop it into an arena show as well... I'm toying with the idea of trying to make this thing into an arena show.

"Particularly now that you can't own a record - people just steal it the minute it's out. They steal it and that's the end of it.

"To talk about that ugly thing money, the only way to make a few quid would be to go out on the road and get bums on seat, because they can't steal that!"

Asked if writing a personal album like The Wall and performing it live was a cathartic process, Waters said: "I think the act of songwriting is cathartic in itself.

"Any activity like songwriting, singing, dancing... anything where you expose your fallibility or - what all of us have in spades - the ability to fail horribly at anything - if you do it you learn something.

"You learn something from failure. You also learn from success obviously. But if you try and write songs or do anything creative you can't do it without taking the risk of failing. It's part and parcel of it."

Asked why he has continually returned to The Wall rather than some of his other projects, Waters said: "It's a double album... it provides a vehicle where you can do a whole rock 'n' roll show from beginning to end and it lasts for two hours or whatever.

"And it's more open to interpretation and change, maybe than the other things, which are more specific.

"Certainly what attracted me to going back on the road and doing another production of it was that I could focus on the broader aspects of its political or philosophical message, rather than the rather narrow narrative of the whining popstar getting f**ked up."

Remembrance and war are central themes of The Wall and we asked Waters how he felt about the criticism faced by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's 'insufficient depth of bow' at the Cenotaph.

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"I haven't read the newspapers today. By and large I don't read newspapers - I'm not interested in them," he claimed

"I think we need to disavow nationalism as much as possible, as often as possible, before it becomes the death of the rest of us.

"Nationalism should be thrown on the rubbish dump of history and internationalism is what we should all be looking at now."

Roger Waters: The Wall is released on DVD, Blu-Ray and Digital Download from November 16.

Roger Waters: The Wall soundtrack is available on CD, Vinyl LP and Digital Download from November 20.

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