Paul Weller Announces Winter Arena Tour!

From Paul Weller Official:

Following his five sell out dates at the Royal Albert Hall this May, Paul will be taking 'Wake Up The Nation' on the road with an arena tour this winter.

And as a thank you to all his loyal fans there will be an exclusive pre-sale for all the dates next Wednesday (March 24), click here on the day to make sure you'll be at your desired gig.

Tickets will then go on general sale on Friday March 26 via theticketfactory.com or the hotline on 0844 338 0000.

The full list:

November

Tue 23rd - Brighton Centre
Wed 24th - Brighton Centre
Fri 26th - Birmingham Arena
Sat 27th - Cardiff International Arena
Sun 28th - Bournemouth Int Centre
Tue 30th - Sheffield Arena

December

Wed 1st - Newcastle Arena
Fri 3rd - Manchester MEN Arena
Sat 4th - Glasgow SECC
Sun 5th - Aberdeen ECC
Tue 7th - Blackpool Empress Ballroom
Wed 8th - Liverpool ECHO Arena
Fri 10th - London Wembley Arena

PLUS: Paul will be playing 5 nights at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin!!

November
Tue 16th - Dublin, Olympia
Wed 17th - Dublin, Olympia
Thu 18th - Dublin, Olympia
Fri 19th - Dublin, Olympia
Sat 20th - Dublin, Olympia

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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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