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...
Delighted for Bruce Foxton...Of the 3 I thnk he was most upset with them falling out.Fingers crossed it's a good album.Like that No Tears Left To Cry...Very Bowie and one of the best thing's he's done in ages :)
ReplyDeleteRoll on March 22nd.Tosh Flood, Dublin
Have heard the album.Got a copy last month! Best tracks(and what I think the running order should've been)are......
ReplyDeleteFind The Torch Burn The Plans.
7 & 3 Is The Strikers Name.
Fast Car Slow Traffic.
Grasp And Still Connect.(But I've edited out the verses)
Andromeda.(As good as anything he's ever written)
No Tears To Cry.
Aim High.(Best track on the album)
She Speaks.
Trees.(Edited out the 1st and 3rd bits - totally bonkers in a brilliant way, he's singing about when he was a woman!!!)
Pieces Of A Dream.
And that's it!!!
For those of you who haven't heard it...You're in for a real treat :)
Tosh Flood (again) Dublin.