Paul Weller News!

From Modculture.com Paul Weller's next release is called Find The Torch, Burn The Plans, it's a 'CD/DVD Deluxe Album' and its out on November 29th on Island Records What is it? Well, according to the label, it's a 'lavishly packaged and highly covetable DVD and CD package' mixing a 26-track live set culled from Weller's Royal Albert Hall shows, an all-new film and a music disc of his Radio 2 gig earlier this year. The DVD movie part, directed by Julien Temple, is actually titled Find The torch, Burn The Plans and is described as 'a remarkable 50 minute portrait of one of the world's greatest musicians at the peak of his powers'. Make of that what you will. The whole thing is packaged in a hard back book style, with exclusive images, a new interview and a 'collectable set of 5 cardboard prints' housed in a slip case attached to the back cover. The full price is £31.99, although Play.com seems to be doing discounted pre-order...

From PaulWeller.com We're pleased to announce that, due to public demand, Paul will now play another New York show, at the world-famous Apollo Theatre in Harlem on November 6th. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, September 24th. But there's a special fan-only pre-sale running from Wednesday, September 22nd at 10amEST to Thursday, September 23rd 10pmEST. When the time comes you'll need to click here and use the password: NOTEARS .

A new date has been added at the Ticketmaster site for an additional concert in New York City on Saturday, November 6. This is the only place we see that information at the moment. The tickets are not listed as being on sale yet. Ticketmaster Link!

Courtesy Of tondekruyff! Cheers!!! The sound is a bit blown out on these three.   This one courtesy of Roos Tomsen! Cheers!!! "Have You Made Up Your Mind"

Paul Weller - September 16, 2010 The Tivoli, Utrecht Set List Courtesy Of Gerrit! Aim High Up The Dosage 7 & 3 Is The Strikers Name Moonshine Out Of The Sinking Into Tomorrow All I Wanna Do (Is Be With You) Sea Spray Have You Made Up Your Mind Andromeda Shout To The Top! Trees Invisible Empty Ring Let It Be Me Pieces Of A Dream No Tears To Cry Fast Car/Slow Traffic Art School Scrape Away --- Black River Pretty Green STaRt! Broken Stones Wild Wood The Changingman Porcelain Gods Images Courtesy Of Paul aka the ace face

So Paul Weller missed out on this year's Barclaycard Mercury Prize with his album 'Wake Up The Nation', but he's not bitter. Although here, he tells Clint Boon about what he thinks about The xx, what it's like to stay passionate about new music and a whole myriad of topics. LISTEN HERE!

Paul Weller has revealed that he “couldn't wait to get home” after he failed to win the Mercury Prize last week. The former Jam star's recent album 'Wake Up The Nation' was the bookies' favourite to win heading into the ceremony in London last week, but eventually lost out to The xx. In an interview with XFM, Weller revealed that he went home straight after the announcement was made so he could watch TV. “I'd been there all day, being old and miserable, I couldn't wait to get home,” he said. “I thought, I've had enough of this. I wasn't doing my upset diva bit, I just wanted to go home and watch telly." Weller also admitted that he found it “hard to get excited” about the down-tempo sound of The xx's self-titled winning album. As previously reported on Gigwise, sales of 'xx' rocket last weekend's following the band's win. “It's not really my sort of thing. I'm not putting them down, just because they beat ...

INTRODUCING ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL DEBUT NORTH AMERICAN RELEASE, THE “TROUBLE IN MIND” EP, OUT OCTOBER 19TH ON YEP ROC/FULL TIME HOBBY ERLAND & THE CARNIVAL TO PLAY SELECT DATES IN NEW YORK THIS FALL They’ve made themselves known in the UK with glowing reviews of their astonishing debut in Mojo, Uncut, NME, The Guardian and more, plus raves about their live show as well; now the five-piece known as Erland & The Carnival are ready to make their mark on the US. Guitarist, singer and former resident of remote Orkney, Scotland Erland Cooper, guitarist Simon Tong (The Verve, The Good, The Bad & The Queen) and drummer David Nock (The Orb, Paul McCartney’s The Fireman) will digitally release their US debut, the “Trouble In Mind” EP, October 19th on Yep Roc/Full Time Hobby. Together, they produce a sound described by Tong as, “Pentangle meets Ennio Morricone meets Love meets 13th Floor Elevators meets Joe Meek.” In other words: folk-tinged, psyched up, fuzzed-out brillian...

Performed On The Simon Mayo Show - BBC Radio 2 - September 8, 2010

Released November 1, 2010: Tellingly, when Weller came to record 2010’s Wake Up The Nation, it was Sound Affects that his collaborator and producer Simon Dine held up as a model. “He referenced it right at the start,” says Weller. “That was the sort of sound he imagined we should be going for: hard, metallic, quite stripped-down… jagged.” Sound Affects was originally released in November 1980 at a time when The Jam was considered the biggest band in Britain. The album followed the band’s first number one single – Going Underground and features the group’s second UK number one single, Start! – a track built around almost exact copies of the bass-line and guitar solos from The Beatles’ Taxman (at the time Weller considered the album a cross between Off the Wall and Revolver!). It includes many of the band’s classic songs - That’s Entertainment (written in a caravan in Selsey, after the pub), never released as a single in UK, the German import was a UK hit (subsequently covered by...

Available today via iTunes UK exclusive ep.

Unfortunately, Paul did not win the Prize. It was awarded to the band The xx .

Paul performed Andromeda and All I Wanna Do (Is Be With You.) Follow this link for the original session video and photos!

Images Courtesy Of Carolyn Holgate! Cheers!!

Paul Weller Belsonic Festival, Custom House Square, Belfast Added: 3 Sep 2010 // Gig date: 27 Aug 2010 reviewer: Francis Higney From MusicNews.com The vanguard of the punk rock movement took time out of their busy schedules to visit Belfast during its darkest times of the 1970s. Bands like the Damned, Clash, Siouxise and the Banshees and Penetration brought a glamour fired in the London furnaces of the Lyceum, Roxy and the Rainbow to the Ulster Hall and the Pound to sate a musically and culturally starved youth. The flag bearers that were the Sex Pistols had all but imploded by the time punk had gripped the province and so were not missed. The Jam were. They became the biggest band to emerge from the new wave and their natty dress sense and sixties influences saw them embraced by the revitalised mod movement. Belfast still has a long running love affair with punk and even today has a thriving mod scene which should have ensured a sell-outt gig for former Jam frontman Paul Welle...

From Paul Weller.com Weller's triumphant festival season is set to continue this month with a performance at the Leffingeleuren festival in Belgium. Paul will play the 6,000 capacity event near the coastal city of Oostende on Friday 17th September. Tickets cost €33 for the day or €73 for the weekend excluding camping and can be bought right here.

Paul Weller is scheduled to appear on Simon Mayo's show on BBC Radio 2 , Wednesday Sept 8 [5pm - 7pm ], performing one of his own songs and a personal favourite from [the great British songbook] just after 6pm. Also on BBC 2 on tuesday 7 sept 10.00- 10.30 and 11.20- 12.25 The MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE. Each nominee performs a track, so Weller should be on with a track from WUTN