March Of The Mods!! Paul Weller & Small Faces Tribute Bands! On Tour

March of the Mods in Worthing
Published Date: 14 July 2009
Shoreham Herald

THE music of Paul Weller and Steve Marriot is being combined on stage for the first time at Worthing's Assembly Hall.
March of the Mods celebrates the original 60s Mods and the 70s Revival with two bands who pay homage to the Small Faces and Paul Weller's The Jam.

Wellalive perform songs from Paul Weller's days with The Jam and The Style Council through to his solo material for which he was honoured with a 2009 BRIT award for Best Male Solo Artist.

The Small Fakers have been making a name for themselves as the primary tribute to the Small Faces.

Recent highlights have included performing at the Isle of Wight Festival, the Carnaby Street Small Faces plaque unveiling, the conventions and playing at the birthday party for the band's bass player Ronnie Lane.

Playing classic Mod anthems such as Small Faces' Itchycoo Park, Lazy Sunday and Tin Soldier, as well as Paul Weller's evocative hits In the City, Beat Surrender and You're the Best Thing, March of the Mods will bring the excitement of Carnaby Street to Worthing.

March of the Mods is on Sunday, July 26, at 7.30 pm at the Assembly Hall, Stoke Abbott Road, Worthing.

Tickets: £13.50, £15.

Future tour Dates:
18/07/09 DNE Music Centre, Wakefield.
26/07/09 Worthing Assembly Halls, Worthing.

01/09/09 Wyvern Theatre, Swindon.
12/09/09 Princess Theatre, Hunstanton.

09/10/09 The Broadway Theatre, Lewisham.
23/10/09 Camberly Theatre, Camberly.

Wellalive

The Small Fakers

March Of The MODS!

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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 …

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