New Paul Weller DVD/CD Combo To Be Released November 29!

From Modculture.com

Paul Weller's next release is called Find The Torch, Burn The Plans, it's a 'CD/DVD Deluxe Album' and its out on November 29th on Island Records

What is it? Well, according to the label, it's a 'lavishly packaged and highly covetable DVD and CD package' mixing a 26-track live set culled from Weller's Royal Albert Hall shows, an all-new film and a music disc of his Radio 2 gig earlier this year.

The DVD movie part, directed by Julien Temple, is actually titled Find The torch, Burn The Plans and is described as 'a remarkable 50 minute portrait of one of the world's greatest musicians at the peak of his powers'. Make of that what you will.

The whole thing is packaged in a hard back book style, with exclusive images, a new interview and a 'collectable set of 5 cardboard prints' housed in a slip case attached to the back cover.

The full price is £31.99, although Play.com seems to be doing discounted pre-orders to £17.99 right now. More details from its website.

Tracklistings:

DVD
Live at the Royal Albert Hall

1. Andromeda
2. From the Floorboards Up
3. 7&3 Is The Strikers Name
4. Into Tomorrow
5. Aim High
6. Moonshine
7. Up The Dosage
8. Strange Town
9. Wake up the Nation
10. Shout To The Top!
11. Trees
12. You Do Something To Me
13. One Bright Star
14. Wild Wood
15. The Eton Rifles with guest Kelly Jones
16. That's Entertainment with guest Kelly Jones
17. Fast Cars/Slow Traffic
18. Come On
19. Why Walk When You Can Run
20. All On A Misty Morning
21. Light Nights
22. Butterfly Collector
23. Find The Torch, Burn The Plans
24. Art School
25. Scrape Away
26. Pieces Of A Dream

"Find The Torch, Burn The Plans" A Film by Julien Temple
  7& 3 Is The Strikers Name promo video directed by Lawrence Watson

CD
Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Andromeda
From The Floorboards Up
7&3 Is The Strikers Name
Into Tomorrow
Aim High
Moonshine
Up The Dosage
Trees
Wild Wood
The Eton Rifles (with Kelly Jones)
That's Entertainment (with Kelly Jones)
Fast Car/Slow Traffic

In Concert at the BBC Theatre
Start!
Sea Spray
Strange Town
Broken Stones
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) (with Lauren Pritchard)
No Tears To Cry (with Richard Hawley)

Pre-Order HERE w/ltd. edition A4 Print!

Paul Weller And Corrine Bailey Ray Perform Andromeda!

Paul Weller At The Apollo Theater Now Confirmed!

From PaulWeller.com

We're pleased to announce that, due to public demand, Paul will now play another New York show, at the world-famous Apollo Theatre in Harlem on November 6th.

Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, September 24th. But there's a special fan-only pre-sale running from Wednesday, September 22nd at 10amEST to Thursday, September 23rd 10pmEST.

When the time comes you'll need to click here and use the password: NOTEARS.

New NYC Date Added At Ticketmaster - THE APOLLO THEATER!

A new date has been added at the Ticketmaster site for an additional concert in New York City on Saturday, November 6. This is the only place we see that information at the moment. The tickets are not listed as being on sale yet.

Ticketmaster Link!

Paul Weller In Utrecht - Vids!

Courtesy Of tondekruyff!

Cheers!!!

The sound is a bit blown out on these three. 

This one courtesy of Roos Tomsen!

Cheers!!!

"Have You Made Up Your Mind"

Paul Weller In Utrecht - Set List & Pics!

Paul Weller - September 16, 2010
The Tivoli, Utrecht


Set List Courtesy Of Gerrit!

Aim High

Up The Dosage

7 & 3 Is The Strikers Name

Moonshine

Out Of The Sinking

Into Tomorrow

All I Wanna Do (Is Be With You)

Sea Spray

Have You Made Up Your Mind

Andromeda

Shout To The Top!

Trees

Invisible

Empty Ring

Let It Be Me

Pieces Of A Dream

No Tears To Cry

Fast Car/Slow Traffic

Art School

Scrape Away

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Black River

Pretty Green

STaRt!

Broken Stones

Wild Wood

The Changingman

Porcelain Gods

Images Courtesy Of Paul aka the ace face

Paul Weller Talks With Clint Boon On XFM Radio!

So Paul Weller missed out on this year's Barclaycard Mercury Prize with his album 'Wake Up The Nation', but he's not bitter. Although here, he tells Clint Boon about what he thinks about The xx, what it's like to stay passionate about new music and a whole myriad of topics.

LISTEN HERE!

Paul Weller Talks With XFM After The Mercury Award Event!

Paul Weller has revealed that he “couldn't wait to get home” after he failed to win the Mercury Prize last week.

The former Jam star's recent album 'Wake Up The Nation' was the bookies' favourite to win heading into the ceremony in London last week, but eventually lost out to The xx.

In an interview with XFM, Weller revealed that he went home straight after the announcement was made so he could watch TV.

“I'd been there all day, being old and miserable, I couldn't wait to get home,” he said. “I thought, I've had enough of this. I wasn't doing my upset diva bit, I just wanted to go home and watch telly."

Weller also admitted that he found it “hard to get excited” about the down-tempo sound of The xx's self-titled winning album.

As previously reported on Gigwise, sales of 'xx' rocket last weekend's following the band's win.

“It's not really my sort of thing. I'm not putting them down, just because they beat me,” he added.
As previously reported on Gigwise, sales of 'xx' rocketed following the band's win. The album is currently number three on the UK album chart.

From Gigwise.com

Erland & The Carnival Set To Open For Paul Weller In New York!

INTRODUCING ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL

DEBUT NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE, THE “TROUBLE IN MIND” EP, OUT OCTOBER 19TH ON YEP ROC/FULL TIME HOBBY

ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL TO PLAY SELECT DATES IN NEW YORK THIS FALL

They’ve made themselves known in the UK with glowing reviews of their astonishing debut in Mojo, Uncut, NME, The Guardian and more, plus raves about their live show as well; now the five-piece known as Erland & The Carnival are ready to make their mark on the US. Guitarist, singer and former resident of remote Orkney, Scotland Erland Cooper, guitarist Simon Tong (The Verve, The Good, The Bad & The Queen) and drummer David Nock (The Orb, Paul McCartney’s The Fireman) will digitally release their US debut, the “Trouble In Mind” EP, October 19th on Yep Roc/Full Time Hobby. Together, they produce a sound described by Tong as, “Pentangle meets Ennio Morricone meets Love meets 13th Floor Elevators meets Joe Meek.” In other words: folk-tinged, psyched up, fuzzed-out brilliance. It’s a sound that has immediate appeal, despite the depth of its content.

In the grand folk tradition, The Carnival see literary and musical source material as something to be adapted, tinkered with, updated and blown apart. This new EP finds the band doing so with intelligence and grace. Take “Love Is A Killing Thing” for instance – it’s based on a traditional folk song collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, but updated with a new bridge and a chorus from a Seeger/MacColl song. “Trouble in Mind” was loosely started as a blues track collected by Alan Lomax, though the shape of the finished song is unrecognizable from its source. The band added their own melody and lyrics, and even borrowed words from Bruce Springsteen’s “My Fathers House”, and inspiration from the Daphne Du Maurier book/Alfred Hitchcock film, Rebecca.

Listen to/download Erland & The Carnival’s “Trouble In Mind” mp3 here

Not just lauded for their brilliance on record, Erland & The Carnival put on a striking live show, and they’ll be treating New Yorkers to a taste of this in November. Get a sneak peek here!

Erland &The Carnival Play New York:
Wed. Nov. 3 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge w/ Villagers
Fri. Nov. 5 – Brooklyn, NY @ Rock Shop
Sun. Nov. 7 – New York, NY @ Nokia Theatre w/ Paul Weller

Paul Weller Covers The Zombies' "Time Of The Season!"

Performed On The Simon Mayo Show - BBC Radio 2 - September 8, 2010

The Jam's Sound Affects (Deluxe Edition) Details Announced!

Released November 1, 2010:

Tellingly, when Weller came to record 2010’s Wake Up The Nation, it was Sound Affects that his collaborator and producer Simon Dine held up as a model. “He referenced it right at the start,” says Weller. “That was the sort of sound he imagined we should be going for: hard, metallic, quite stripped-down… jagged.”

Sound Affects was originally released in November 1980 at a time when The Jam was considered the biggest band in Britain. The album followed the band’s first number one single – Going Underground and features the group’s second UK number one single, Start! – a track built around almost exact copies of the bass-line and guitar solos from The Beatles’ Taxman (at the time Weller considered the album a cross between Off the Wall and Revolver!).

It includes many of the band’s classic songs - That’s Entertainment (written in a caravan in Selsey, after the pub), never released as a single in UK, the German import was a UK hit (subsequently covered by Morrissey), the political Man in the Corner Shop, Pretty Green (now inspiration for Liam Gallagher’s clothing range!), the pure-pop of Boy About Town and Dream Time.

It’s regarded by critics and fans (as well as Weller) as their most adventurous and experimental collection of material, drawing musical influences from the ‘post-punk’ groups of the late-70s - Wire, Gang Of Four and Joy Division as well as neo-psychedelic touches from The Beatles and The Zombies etc.

The distinctive cover art is a pastiche of the artwork used on various BBC sound effects records of the 1970s, incorporating ‘pop-art’ imagery.

• 30th anniversary 2-disc, ‘Deluxe’ edition of the classic Jam album.

• Digitally re-mastered – 22 bonus tracks, demos, b-sides and alternative versions.

• 24-page booklet with extensive new sleevenotes by Guardian writer John Harris, a brand new interview with Paul Weller, rare photos and period memorabilia.

• The bonus material includes 8 previously unreleased tracks – demos of Pretty Green and Start!, alternate versions of Set The House Ablaze and Monday and a cover of Kinks’ Waterloo Sunset, and two instrumental demos.

Early Track Listing via Amazon.co.uk

Disc: 1
1. Pretty Green - The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton, Rick Buckler
2. Monday - Bruce Foxton, Paul Weller, Rick Buckler, The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
3. But I'm Different Now - Bruce Foxton, Paul Weller, Rick Buckler, The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
4. Set The House Ablaze - The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton, Rick Buckler
5. Start! - The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton, Rick Buckler
6. That's Entertainment - The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton, Rick Buckler
7. Dream Time - Bruce Foxton, Paul Weller, Rick Buckler, The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
8. Man In The Corner Shop - Bruce Foxton, Paul Weller, Rick Buckler, The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
9. Music For The Last Couple - Bruce Foxton, Paul Weller, Rick Buckler, The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
10. Boy About Town - Bruce Foxton, Paul Weller, Rick Buckler, The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
11. Scrape Away - Bruce Foxton, Paul Weller, Rick Buckler, The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven

Disc: 2 - DEMOS, B-SIDES, ALTERNATE VERSIONS
1. Start! - The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
2. Liza Radley - The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
3. That's Entertainment - Peter Wilson, The Jam, Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton, Rick Buckler
4. Pretty Green - The Jam
5. Pop Art Poem - Peter Wilson, The Jam
6. Rain - Bruce Foxton, Paul Weller, Peter Wilson, Rick Buckler, The Jam
7. Boy About Town - The Jam
8. Dream Time - Bruce Foxton, Paul Weller, Rick Buckler, The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
9. Dead End Street - Bruce Foxton, Paul Weller, Peter Wilson, Rick Buckler, The Jam
10. But I'm Different Now - Peter Wilson, The Jam
11. Scrapeaway - The Jam
12. Start! - The Jam
13. Liza Radley - Peter Wilson, The Jam
14. And Your Bird Can Sing - Peter Wilson, The Jam
15. Monday - The Jam
16. Get Yourself Together - Peter Wilson, The Jam
17. Set The House Ablaze - The Jam
18. Boy About Town - Peter Wilson, The Jam, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven
19. No One In The World - Peter Wilson, The Jam
20. Instrumental - The Jam
21. Waterloo Sunset - The Jam

Paul Weller - Fast Car / Slow Traffic (Devlin Remix)

Available today via iTunes UK exclusive ep.

Paul Weller At The Mercury Prize Event!

Unfortunately, Paul did not win the Prize. It was awarded to the band The xx.

Paul Weller's Acoustic Session For The SUN!

Paul performed Andromeda and All I Wanna Do (Is Be With You.)

Follow this link for the original session video and photos!

A Few Pics Of Paul Weller At The Isle Of Wight Festival!

Images Courtesy Of Carolyn Holgate!

Cheers!!

A Review Of Paul Weller's Gig At The Belsonic Festival!

Paul Weller
Belsonic Festival, Custom House Square, Belfast
Added: 3 Sep 2010 // Gig date: 27 Aug 2010
reviewer: Francis Higney
From MusicNews.com

The vanguard of the punk rock movement took time out of their busy schedules to visit Belfast during its darkest times of the 1970s. Bands like the Damned, Clash, Siouxise and the Banshees and Penetration brought a glamour fired in the London furnaces of the Lyceum, Roxy and the Rainbow to the Ulster Hall and the Pound to sate a musically and culturally starved youth. The flag bearers that were the Sex Pistols had all but imploded by the time punk had gripped the province and so were not missed. The Jam were. They became the biggest band to emerge from the new wave and their natty dress sense and sixties influences saw them embraced by the revitalised mod movement.

Belfast still has a long running love affair with punk and even today has a thriving mod scene which should have ensured a sell-outt gig for former Jam frontman Paul Weller at this open air Belfast gig – part of the Belsonic festival that had already seen Kasabian and Florence and the Machine play in the heart of the city. But on a dank drizzle-threatened evening the gig was at best three quarters full. Sited near the quayside, the Custom House Square is a natural amphitheatre bordered on three sides by what were formally yuppie apartments but are now millstones for the once monied. Britain's king of soul also came by royal appointment if the huge neon Royal Mail sign that hung in the still night air like a halo was anything to go by. But there was a disjoint between the ruler and his subjects as his latest edicts contained on 'Wake up the Nation' patently failed to do just that. It was not until the evening was electrified by Changing Man that the crowd seemed to shake out of their slumber. It was a shame that the night continued to progress in a similar matter with the most rapturous reception given to the old Jam and Style Council songs that were dusted off including Pretty Green, Start and Shout to the Top. For his latest album contains some of the most adventurous and experimental songs gathered together on one album for some time.

But this audience could not see the wonder in the Trees, possibly the weirdest thing Weller's ever penned and which left this time-trapped audience dumbfounded. Similarly One Bright Star and 7 & 3 Is the Striker's Name came and went almost unnoticed.

Some of the crowd perked up, however, with the arrival onstage of R&B stalwart Wilko Johnston. The former Feelgoods guitarist was coincidentally playing at a nearby venue as part of the Belfast Blues Festival and was co-opted onstage for a couple of numbers. But the majority of the crowd were here to hear the hits. Once these were delivered they headed off happy into the thickening Irish mist.

Paul Weller Confirmed To Play The Leffingeleuren Festival In Belgium!

From Paul Weller.com

Weller's triumphant festival season is set to continue this month with a performance at the Leffingeleuren festival in Belgium.

Paul will play the 6,000 capacity event near the coastal city of Oostende on Friday 17th September.

Tickets cost €33 for the day or €73 for the weekend excluding camping and can be bought right here.

Paul Weller To Appear On Simon Mayo's BBC2 Programme!

Paul Weller is scheduled to appear on Simon Mayo's show on BBC Radio 2, Wednesday Sept 8 [5pm - 7pm ], performing one of his own songs and a personal favourite from [the great British songbook] just after 6pm.

Also on BBC 2 on tuesday 7 sept 10.00- 10.30 and 11.20- 12.25 The MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE. Each nominee performs a track, so Weller should be on with a track from WUTN