Gazza wrote on Apr 14
th, 2009 at 8:12pm:
Ronnie is working on a solo album, with Bernard Fowler producing.
Charlie supposedly played with some jazz band in England at the weelkend, although thats not confirmed.
I guess you didn't see this on IORR Gazza:
Here is a review from the Times
Easter Monday at the Bull's Head was magical for anyone interested in boogie woogie piano, and a blast of sheer good fun for those who squeezed into this 120-capacity jazz haunt by the river. The show featured three of the greatest exponents of the keyboard- thumping art: Ben Waters, Axel Zwingenberger and Jools Holland, with a supporting cast including the Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, singer and guitarist Chris Jagger (younger brother of Mick), the bass player Geoff Gascoigne and saxophonists Willie Garnett and Derek Nash.
Waters, who kicked off the show, played with a relaxed bonhomie that rather disguised the rampant virtuosity of his performing style. With wrists of steel and a left hand that seemed to have a mind of its own, he charged around the keyboard in an effortless blur as he romped through a set that included an infectious Sticky Finger Boogie (written by Nash) and a delightful slow blues, That Lucky Old Sun, borrowed from Jerry Lee Lewis.
Zwingenberger, the German boogiemeister, took over at the grand piano for older, more ragtime-influenced themes, including Suitcase Blues and Madhattan Boogie, which he delivered with a broad inscrutable smile. Watts, imperturbable behind his modest Gretsch kit, and Gascoigne on upright bass, remained in place, the backbone of the band. To see Watts at such close hand was to witness the ramshackle simplicity of his playing style in all its glory. How he managed to conjure such tremendous swing with so limited a technique remains a mystery. But conjure it he did.
As the entire ensemble launched into a finale of Down the Road Apiece (when it was being sung by Holland) which suddenly became Let It Rock (when Jagger took over the vocals), the whole room seemed to have turned into a bouncy castle for grown-ups.
Their is also photographic proof, courtesy of Beast.