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30 Years On: The Jam's Sound Affects Revisited Val Siebert , November 8th, 2010 09:59 From The Quietus The Jam released Sound Affects three decades ago. Val Siebert assesses how it has weathered the intervening years. Paul Weller was barely 22 when he started recording Sound Affects, his fifth album in just over 3 years. He was reading histories of Camelot alongside the romanticism of Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Blake, obsessing over The Beatles’ Revolver, and delving further into his disillusionment with the political and social climate that had prevailed in England at the end of the 1970s. During the same time, Weller apparently had a ‘thing’ for electricity pylons. So, in short, the writer’s perceived influences on The Jam’s 1980 album included Arthur and Guinevere, the Mask of Anarchy, the Fabs, and wire transmission towers. Although all that sounds like a crock, Sound Affects is well and truly saturated with this murky mixture, as well as with the additional abs...

Paul w/NYC Radio DJ, Matt Pinfield Paul Weller Is Stellar At Two NYC Gigs By John Curley From Goldmine Paul Weller hit New York City this past weekend for two shows as part of his very brief U.S. tour. (The only other stop was in Los Angeles last week.) The Modfather’s Manhattan shows took place at Harlem’s legendary soul venue the Apollo Theater on Saturday, November 6th and the Best Buy Theater in Times Square on Sunday, November 7th. Judging from the accents that I heard at both shows, it appeared that many fans flew over from the UK for the NYC shows. Weller is on tour in support of his latest studio album, which is titled Wake Up The Nation. The album was nominated for the UK’s prestigious Mercury Prize earlier this year. Weller is a big soul music aficionado, and he spoke at the Apollo gig about how many of his musical heroes had performed on the stage there. Soul music was the preferred music of the Mods, and Weller has long subscribed to the Mod way of life in both his m...

Chad Batka for The New York Times Singer Marked By A Sense Of History By JON PARELES From The New York Times Even as a teenager leading a punk-rock band Paul Weller looked back. His 1970s band, the Jam, was openly fond of Mod-era British Invasion songwriting from a decade earlier. Since then Mr. Weller has maintained a long, steady career in Britain, where he’s fondly known as the Modfather. His concert on Sunday night at the Best Buy Theater was sold out; many audience members had British accents. Mr. Weller’s music has broadened since the 1970s. He followed his revivalist instincts toward soul and disco with his 1980s band, the Style Council, and into a solo career since the 1990s that has had him delving into garage-rock, psychedelia, American-style roots-rock and wherever else his tastes led him. Those tastes veered away from what American radio wanted, perhaps because he was an Englishman trying styles already available from American musicians. But Mr. Weller’s 10 solo alb...

Photographer Stefan Duerr has designed art work and photographed a wide range of musicians such as Paul Weller,  Ocean Colour Scene , Steve Cradock , The Vals , Marner Brown and The Moons . His design of Steve Cradock's solo debut, The Kundalini Target is eligible for the Best Art Vinyl 2010 Award! Stefan is a very good friend of Paul Weller News and we would like to ask for our reader's support in helping Stefan win this award. In conjunction with industry experts, the award is also voted on by the public. So, please follow the instructions below and lend your support to Stefan and his craft. It will only take a few moments. Go to: http://www.artvinyl.com/en/nominate/best_artvinyl_2010.html Just enter Steve Cradock / The Kundalini Target in the first box,  and then vote for two other albums you like. All three records on your list must be different, and you can only vote once. Voting closes at midnight 12th December. Stefan Duerr Photography Stefan and Paul W...

Image By Lisa Coffman! Cheers!!! photo c2010 Ann Lawlor Paul Weller Honors Soul Heroes at New York's Apollo Theater by: Kenneth Partridge From Spinner.com As a longtime member of Britain's mod subculture, Paul Weller is well-versed in the transcendent powers of American soul music. Saturday night, the legendary English rocker made a pilgrimage to that genre's most sacred temple, the Apollo Theater, where he kicked off a two-night New York City run. "So many of our heroes have played here," Weller said of the Harlem landmark. "We just hope we do it justice." Backed by five young musicians with matching mod haircuts -- cropped on top with tufts of hair coming down over the ears -- Weller's performance covered his career from the '70s to the present. While the singer and guitarist focused on latter-day solo tunes, he also burned through three by the Jam, his beloved punk-era answer to The Who, and one, 'Shout to the Top,' by The S...

Set List From The Wiltern Courtesy Of Aaron! Cheers! 01. Aim High 02. Up The Dosage 03. Pretty Green 04. Floorboards Up 05. 22 Dreams 06. All I Wanna Do 07. That Dangerous Age  08. Into Tomorrow 09. Have You Made Up Your Mind 10. Shout To The Top 11. No Tears To Cry 12. Broken Stones 13. Trees 14. How Sweet It Is 15. You Do Something To Me 16. Pieces Of A Dream 17. Start 18. Fast Cars Slow Traffic 19. Echoes Round The Sun 20. Wild Wood 21. Wake Up The Nation 22. Andromeda 23. Art School (feat. Andy Crofts) 24. Come On, Lets Go 25. The Changingman 26. Porcelain Gods 27. Moonshine 28. That's Entertainment Review From The OC Register Paul Weller Eclectic As Ever At The Wiltern By GEORGE A. PAUL Paul Weller is definitely a rare breed among musicians who started their careers in the ’70s. Few of his contemporaries from British punk rock’s first wave (apart from ex-Clash man Mick Jones) still have the restless energy and creative drive necessary to make an adventurous studio albu...

Paul did quite a few interviews in New Zealand.  Check THIS LINK for the full video interview via The New Zealand Herald. This one comes via Off The Record Paul Weller Interview Podcast