Aerosmith are to return to action with two shows in Hawaii next month, and one in Abu Dhabi during November.

The dates in Hawaii on October 18 and 20 are to make amends for pulling out of a gig in Maui in 2007. The Boston band were hit with a lawsuit by angry residents of the Pacific islands after they axed a sold-out show to play a larger concert in Chicago, Illinois.

The Abu Dhabi date will be as part of the entertainment during Formula One weekend.

Talking to the Boston Herald, guitarist Joe Perry believesAerosmith are gearing up for their new album.

“If (band members Joey Kramer, Brad Whitford and Tom Hamilton) were in the room with me I’d say they’d agree that we’ll be working on a studio record in late spring and planning a tour in the fall.”

Perry also put recent comments, to Associated Press, about his frustrations with Steven Tyler into context:

“Sometimes certain things come out. I always try to be as honest as I can and that’s it. I stand by everything I said. In the context of a longer interview it probably would have seemed less harsh, but it is still the truth. I’m still getting over the fact that tour was cancelled (due to Tyler’s injury after falling off stage). It was the best one we’d put together in such a long time.

“Relationships go through changes, songwriting partnerships go through changes. When we started using outside songwriters it definitely helped with our success in the 80s and 90s. I don’t know, maybe it got too comfortable to rely on that.

“I don’t think anybody really cares who writes the songs as long as they sound like Aerosmith songs and, at least to me, there have been times when we drifted away from (sounding like Aerosmith). I don’t mind using outside songwriters but I’d still like to see an Aerosmith where the core of the music comes from the guys in the band.”

Perry feels the band have “three more albums in us, and maybe five or seven years of touring”.

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