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...
my ears are still ringing fom last nights gig at crawley k2!! how amazing this legend is ,with his wide varity of music styles and beats.as a big paul weller fan i was always gonna like a gig of his but was blown away by the performance and energy of paul .i like 22 dreams a whole lot more after hearing the live more rockier versions and when eton rifles and the other faves were played the crowd went mad.we did not want it to end and after an encore i said i wish they would of played malice then wey hey he must of heard!! in they came for the final track town called malice...i took my 16 yr old son who thought it was amazing too,just goes to show its not just the 30 somethings that love paul, theres a new generation of weller fans emerging and the lengend will live on forever......
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone have Crawley 2 (7th)
ReplyDeleteMixed the order around, no Shout but an electric Thats Entertainment.
Had trouble with the lights and video screen on Thursday, but was all ok Friday