Some UK Gigs Have Been Announced!

PAUL WELLER ANNOUNCES 12-DATE UK TOUR

The greatest singer-songwriter of his generation, Paul Weller, has announced a UK tour for the spring which precedes his eagerly-awaited new studio album, his first since 2005's 'As Is Now'.

The past 15 years has seen Paul establish a highly acclaimed solo career post his The Jam and Style Council success, with albums like 'Wild Wood', ‘Stanley Road', 'Heliocentric' and 'Illumination'. Respected by his peers, cited as an inspiration in influencing the music-making of numerous breaking bands and attracting a legion of fans, Paul remains at the top of his career over 3 decades since his first single release.

Expect Paul to debut tracks from his forthcoming album "22 Dreams" as well as classic Weller past and present.

"22 Dreams" will be released in June.

Tickets for Paul Weller's UK tour go on sale Saturday 16^th February.

May 2008

Mon 5^th Halifax Victoria Theatre

Tue 6^th Stoke Victoria Hall

Thu 8^th Blackpool Empress Ballroom

Fri 9^th Middlesbrough Town Hall

Sun 11^th Doncaster Dome

Mon 12^th Derby Assembly Rooms

Wed 14^th Motherwell Concert Hall

Thu 15^th Dundee Caird Hall

Sat 17^th Bournemouth Opera House

Sun 18^th Bristol Colston Hall

Mon 19^th Leicester De Montfort Hall

Wed 21^st London Hammersmith Apollo

TICKETS: £30.00 (£35.00 London) maximum 6 tickets per household

24 Hr Tour Hotline: 0870 735 5000

ONLINE: www.bookingsdirect.com

For more information: www.paulweller.com

Comments

Steve White On The Passing of John Weller...

It wasn't unexpected to get the news that John Weller had passed away , it was a beautiful sunny morning in fact , but the news still stung even though the anticipation existed .

I finished work today , a day peppered by texts and calls , I missed the call that mattered but made ammends and spoke to the one person I needed to speak to , I raised a glass at dinner and reminisced with my beautiful partner of days of travel and nights of glory that followed , and after a little to much wine the drowsiness lifted and the harsh reality that someone very special had passed hit me , I wanted to say that , with my emotions bubbling very much to the surface , I wanted to remember those decades and shows and nights that we all spent together , indestructible , laughing and making the music of our dreams , wide eyed vagabonds not quite believing .

I remember the day on arriving back from Sydney, John telling me it was all over and he had enough of "this lark" , that was 24 odd years …

John Weller Obituary From The Independent...

For thirty years, John Weller managed the career of his son Paul, through the salad days and success of The Jam in the Seventies and early Eighties, the ups and downs of The Style Council and Paul’s re-emergence as a solo artist in the Nineties. Theirs was a unique father-son relationship in the music industry, built on John’s unwavering belief in Paul’s talent and shared values like hard work and pragmatism.

John could be blunt, and once refused to have lunch in a record company’s executive dining room, remarking to the managing director: “I didn’t come here to eat, I came to do business.” But his bark was worse than his bite.

John’s success was all the more remarkable since he started in his forties after years working in factories, on building sites and driving a taxi. When The Jam signed to Polydor in February 1977, for a £6,000 advance and a six per cent royalty rate, John admitted he didn’t have a bank account and asked for cash instead of a cheque. A&R man Chris Parry duly we…

Paul Weller's Son, Natt Gives A Candid Taxi Interview

Where else to meet the musician son of the agelessly groovy Modfather but at London’s trendy Met Bar? And there’s more than a hint of moody Mod style about the Japanese parka that Paul Weller’s eldest child Natt has slung over his Vivienne Westwood top.

Yet there all similarity ends, for singer-guitarist Natt has inherited the exotic beauty of his mother – former Wham! and Style Council backing singer Dee C Lee – rather than the famously angular features of his father.

‘Everybody always goes, “Luckily he took after his mum…”’ laughs Natt, whose mother is from France and St Lucia and whose great-great grandma was Japanese. Hence Natt’s fascination for Japan, where he moved in 2006 for a year to learn the language.

To pay for his studies, he modelled and deejayed, ‘I felt like an outsized monster,’ confides Natt, 21, a 6ft 1in beanpole. He returned a fan of Japan’s popular culture – from manga cartoons to punk-goth music – and with a different spelling to his name, which now features two ‘…

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