PUNK turns 40 this year and in celebration of four decades of this exciting, and at times controversial music scene, Iggy Pop, Adam Ant, The Damned, Buzzcocks, The Godfathers and The Sex Pissed Dolls have been added to an incredible Isle of Wight line up for 2016.

Post Pop Depression is Iggy's recently released 17th studio album.

Produced by Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, the album was recorded in secrecy and features contributions from Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders.

Iggy spoke to Hamish McBain about the release....

Q: "How did the album come about? How did you first encounter Josh?"

A: "I met Josh, I think it was in London at the Kerrang Awards in 2001.

"They asked Josh and I took to form a daisy chain with Marilyn Manson for their cover.

"So, it was a very quick get to know you thing, like "Hello, may I grip your love handles?"

"It was like he seemed like a nice, even intelligent person.

"I bumped into him again years later a couple times on the road and noticed how good he was and that was that for some time until I took some time off to re-evaluate in 2014.

"I realised I needed to pull up my trousers and make a very good record in English, so I needed help for that.

"I focussed on him and I sent him a text basically saying I thought maybe we could write and record something.

"That was it. Nothing more than that – tried to keep it undefined, this is a creative person – these people are delicate!

"We went from there basically and, within about 6 months, January of last year rolled around and there we were in the studio – that's how it went.

"His big concern was to keep it a secret, keep it out of rock 'n' roll and both of us were very concerned to keep it completely independent which meant pay for it ourselves.

"So it's kinda like you know some people save up and they buy a pony."

Q: "And the album title Post-Pop Depression, who did that come from? Did that come from you or from Josh?

A: "Dean - that was Dean. It was his commentary on his sadness at ending the sessions.

"I was just on the phone with him yesterday and he was like, "Well I heard maybe we could do some more gigs?"

"So, you know, they want more! I'm kinda like in the, "You know, can't you kids go play with somebody else?"

"But no, not at all - I'm happy about it, so we're talking about doing some sort of some extra work after the nominative tour is done.

"And Dean came up with the title – Josh recognised it as a title, threw it at me and I really loved it.

"I thought it was fresh and there are two other common "PPDs" – one is post-partum depression and there's something called post-performance depression, which had been making the rounds for the last year or so.

"So it's the idea that performers get burned out doing this stuff all the time. 

"Which is absolutely true, but then I'm sure so do bricklayers, you know, and everybody else.

"Balloon manufacturers!

"Everybody talks about that, how balloon manufacturers experience an incredible fatigue!"

Q: "You were keeping the album a secret, was there anyone in your close circle of friends that you wanted to play some songs to?

"Or was it kind of a band thing to say we're not telling anyone about this at all?"

A: "Well, once you get home from the desert you're gonna play everything to your wife aren't you?

"At least my wife, she likes music and she's interested. So she heard it all once I got home.

"But whilst I was there, one of the beautiful things about working with me is that I don't know how to send any emails, I don't know how to send an mp3 and I have only just learnt to text because I had to text Josh to reach out to him – he doesn't use voicemail.

"He has a rock star voicemail which is just a voice that tells you: "I'm sorry, there has been no mailbox set up for this account."

"So my ways of sneaking and leaking are zero.

"The reason I haven't learnt how to do those things is 'cause if you were Iggy Pop, you wouldn't let yourself do those things either.

"I can read one but I scare myself so I try to keep a lid on them."

Iggy Pop plays Isle of Wight Festival on Saturday.