Paul Weller News!

Hello all, sorry for the recent lack of updates, I've been really busy recently but am getting this place up and running again as per usual.

A new Unofficial Weller chat forum has been created in place of the recently-closed Official Forum. Click below to visit. Have a good week!

This Friday, 14th September, Weller's acoustic gig at The Paradiso, Amsterdam will be broadcasted live on Fabchannel.com, where fans can watch the show for free. Following this, the show will be available to watch on the website's archive, for anyone that can't catch it. For more information see www.fabchannel.com/paul_weller

Paul Weller and Kate Nash are among the guests lined up for the latest series of Channel 4’s Transmission. Other performers will include Stereophonics, The Magic Numbers and quirky film director Quentin Tarantino will also be a special guest. The show, hosted by Welsh heartthrob Steve Jones and Jordie lass Lauren Laverne, will once again tour the country and feature the T-Mobile Street gigs segment, which sees bands play one-off intimate gigs. Jones commented: “Friday nights are about to grow very big Transmission shaped balls. It’s series three and I promise they are going to be bigger and hairier than ever!” The series kicks off with newcomer Nash, punk legend Siouxsie Sioux, - who is releasing new album Mantaray on September 10 – and rockers The Enemy. All three will perform in the rather luxurious surroundings of an Edwardian Turkish Bath in Manchester. Other locations include London, Cardiff, Southampton and Glasgow. Transmission with T-Mobile starts on Channel 4 on September 21...

ROCK stars Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller and Ian Brown's efforts means East Lancashire Hospice is set to share in a £250,000 bonanza. The Park Lee Road hospice is one of a number of beneficiaries from an all-star gathering arranged by former Smiths bassist Andy Rourke. Other stars involved in the March 2007 Versus Cancer concert included The Charlatans and Peter Hook, Former Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School pupil Nova Rehman helped to pull together the star-packed event, which included partial reunions of both the Stone Roses and The Smiths. advertisement Nova's sister and father were both diagnosed with cancer within a short space of time, inspiring the Blackburn music impresario to master-mind the concert for the Great Northern Aid Trust. The former owner of Nelson-based Phantom Power production company, Nova now manages Rourke and has a host of music contacts. East Lancs Hospice will use its share from the concert's proceeds to buy a new hoist to move ...

Weller is to feature on 'Why' - the new single from Gabrielle. The song, which contains a sample from 'Wild Wood', features Weller on backing vocals and acoustic guitar. From FemaleFirst.co.uk: Gabrielle, one of the UK’s most successful female singer-songwriters, returns with her classy new single, ‘Why’ on September 24th through Universal Music Record Label. The single will be available to download from September 17th. The idea for ‘Why’ came when Gabrielle was working in the studio with The Boilerhouse Boys. The song is built around a sample from Paul Weller’s ‘Wild Wood’ and was one of the final songs Gabrielle wrote for her new album. After recording a demo, the track was re-recorded with Paul Weller playing guitar and singing backing vocals. ‘Why’ is taken from Gabrielle’s new album Always which will be released on October 1st. Always is Gabrielle’s fifth studio LP, and her first since 2004 (prolific she’s not:I’m renowned for not releasing albums very often, so I...

Paul Weller is to feature on the latest single of artist Candie Payne. The song 'Shopping' was originally a Jam B-Side and has been recorded by Candie with Weller on guitar and vocals. From Candies Myspace: You'll know by now that Candie's new single 'One More Chance' was produced by man of the moment Mark Ronson. It also features backing vocals from Candie's brother Sean and his fellow Zutons Abi Harding and Russell Pritchard. The 7" B-side, Shopping, was written by Paul Weller and features the great man himself on guitar and vocals, whilst the CD version features an inspired cover of the Bugsy Malone classic Ordinary Fool. The single's out on 3rd September on CD and 7", but from this Monday (13th August) you can download it from iTunes. 7" A. One More Chance B. Shopping CD 1. One More Chance 2. Ordinary Fool 3. One More Chance (Live In Elevator Studios) 4. One More Chance - Video You can also download the single at Recordstore.co.uk Mor...

Just a quick round up of releases on their way. Andy Lewis & Paul Weller - 'Are You Trying To Be Lonely' Single Released 10/09/07 Formats: CD, Vinyl, Limited Colour Vinyl Wild Wood - Deluxe Edition (2CD) Album Released 22/10/07 Format: 2CD Free Soul [Japan Only Career-Spanning Compliation] Album Released 26/09/07 Format: CD Dear Mr Fantasy [Various Artists] Released 17/09/07 Formats: CD, DVD Weller performs 3 songs Teenage Cancer Trust [Various Artists] Format: DVD Have a good week!

The acoustic gig/talk at London's ICA is rumoured to have been cancelled. Staff are phoning customers to say that this is due to 'organisation difficulties', with no plans to reschedule.

e-mail from paulweller.com: "Hi All Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy presents a one-off acoustic set at the Astoria on Sunday 30th September. Musicians and bands spanning the last 30 years will come together for this special performance. The first confirmed acts include The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess, Paul Weller, Candie Payne, a rare appearance from Dee C Lee and Ocean Colour Scene.Tickets are on sale from Friday 10 August and are priced at £35. They are on sale at the venue and here. All proceeds from the gig will go direct to Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, the largest music therapy charity in the UK, and will help them to provide over 30,000 music therapy sessions every year across the UK. The Astoria and the artists are giving their time to the charity free of charge and other costs are being met by the support of sponsors, including Gibson Guitars. Tim Burgess commented 'I’m really happy to be involved with a cause that believes that music is as powerful as I believe it to be...

A deluxe edition of Wild Wood is set to be released on the 22/10/07. from recordstore.co.uk: " This Deluxe edition of Paul Weller’s second solo album follows the overwhelming success of the 2005 Deluxe reissue of ‘Stanley Road'. The project has been personally overseen by Paul Weller and producer Brendan Lynch. Paul Weller re-established his place at music’s top table with this life-affirming, second solo album - he gained the nickname ‘Modfather’ reflecting his revered status within the UK ‘Britpop’ movement. There was a feeling of stretching out with more diverse influences – particularly the pastoral British folk/pop of Nick Drake, Traffic, Van Morrison and even Crosby, Stills & Nash. Packed with extras - including all the relevant b-sides, mixes no less than 21 demos, alternative versions, BBC session tracks and unreleased songs from the Wild Wood period. The 32-page booklet features extensive new sleevenotes by Lois Wilson, including brand new interviews with Weller a...

from ica.org.uk: " Paul Weller, one of British music's true originals, comes to the ICA to celebrate 30 years of making music and the publication of Suburban 100 , an annotated story of his life through the lyrics from 100 of his best-known songs with The Jam, The Style Council and as a solo artist. Weller will read from his lyrics, talk about their origins and sing some of his songs. £10 / £9 Concessions / £8 ICA Members" The first phase of tickets for this event went on sale on the 31/07 by calling the ICA's box office, but soon sold out the same day. The second phase went on sale yesterday (06/08) and were available to book either by phone or via the ICA's website. Again, these sold out. A number of tickets have been reserved for ICA members only and will go on sale on 20/08/06. Any tickets left over from this will be offered on public sale 01/09/07. The maximum capacity for this gig is 350. More information: http://www.ica.org.uk

So here we are. I got a bit tired of the Official Weller site's lack of news so I decided to create a blog dedicated for this purpose. I plan to update it regularly, so please bookmark the page and check back regularly!