Album Preview: Paul Weller Recruits Noel Gallagher, Thunderstorms to Share His “22 Dreams” “You get to this stage in life where you say ‘I’ve done everything that I can do,’” says Paul Weller. As he passes the half-century mark, Weller easily could have returned to his old stomping grounds, whether it was the mod-punk of his first band the Jam or the pop leanings of the Style Council. But rather than reliving past glory, Weller spent the last year recording 22 Dreams, the most expansive and experimental album of his career. “I was conscious when I walked into the studio that I wanted to do something different. I didn’t want to make As Is Now Part 2,” Weller tells Rock Daily. “There was this mentality where it was like, ‘Let’s try anything that comes into your mind.’” Weller sequestered himself in his country studio, recruited some famous Britpop friends like Oasis‘ Noel Gallagher and Blur’s Graham Coxon and spent hours improvising with his band. The result was 22 Dreams, a genre-leapin...
This Friday, 14th September, Weller's acoustic gig at The Paradiso, Amsterdam will be broadcasted live on Fabchannel.com, where fans can watch the show for free.
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With a backlink to this blog of course!
We could exchange our links too!
Regards,
Teorias
Hi, the show is now available in the Fabchannel archive. You can even embed the entire video with the its html code. You can get this by clicking on the share button on Fabchannel.com
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Keep up the great work!
best,
Joost
Never enough weller blogs! :) This one is great! :) http://musiccornershop.blogspot.com/
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