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...
All three concerts appear to be sold out - please come to Wellerton (Wellington) Paul !!
ReplyDeleteWellington Town Hall - one concert, three times the crowd of the PowerStation. Easy.
why didn't you get tickets for Auckland Anonymous? bit of a gamble waiting for him to come to you!
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dates are wrong, should be October 29, 30, 31
ReplyDeleteoh yes!! Missed out on the presale for 1st show - phoned up and was told of a 2nd show - got me a handful of tickets! Now theres a 3rd show!
ReplyDeletePaul Weller, you give me faith!
Not seen the man in years since I moved here.
Good bloody job. So happy!
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ps - who's opening the show? Any word?
Russ, tried to get tickets for Auckland - missed out on the two shows - by the time I heard there was a third show I'd missed out on that too.
ReplyDeleteNo gamble waiting for him to come to Welly, just missed out on available tickets and hoped he might include welly in the tour. Oh Well
Steve.
Steve I do feel sorry for you! just to rub salt in the wound I am going 30th and 31st!
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Have always said that I'd give my left nostril for Paul Weller to play New Zealand, but he IS, and therefore I can keep my nostril. Can't wait...
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