Fresh back from a short tour of the US and Japan, Paul Weller talks about the 30th anniversary of The Jam's sixth and final studio album, The Gift, and where he's at right now. Repost From The Huffington Post By: Jason Holmes Paul Weller bounds into his chair, an electronic cigarette gripped in his hand. We're in the BBC's Studio Three in Maida Vale. Visibly calm owing to post-tour exhaustion and a morning trip to the gym, Weller is here to be interviewed by John Wilson for BBC Radio 4's Mastertapes series. "Back in those days, bands put out an album a year, you toured with it for a year, then you went back in the studio and repeated the process. Looking back, I was glad I experienced that pressure. It helped me refine my craft and find myself as a writer. It kept me on my toes," says Weller, Gibson acoustic on knee. "It wasn't a treadmill, it was just what bands did back then. I never questioned it." Lest the passing decades dim...
You can find Paul's recent interview in the Telegraph HERE!
Travelled down on saturday from belfast to c u live at the marque in cork .Best experience of my life espically when i got up to the front of stage. Would of loved to have meet u as everyone does cant wait till u come to belfast in november. I will b dreaming about you till then all my love your top belfast mod babe nevada x x x Did c steve cradick and your friend at my hotel as they accidently arrived at wrong hotel just a pity i didnt take a photo and u werent with them ahhh i wish .
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