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...
Nice to see Paul doing sessions for a good ole' Tory paper...very 'working class' old chap!
ReplyDeleteWhy the fuck is Paul Weller doing anything for The Sun? Total letdown.
ReplyDeleteThe Sun???? Jesus!....still could have been worse I suppose, The Mail for example!
ReplyDeleteIt all falls in line with the fan-milking, money making philosophy… £60 for a ‘Fred Perry’ here, £80 for a stripy ‘Ben Sherman’ there, ..countless reissues and deluxe versions of this that and the other, remixing the ‘A’ side to make the ‘B’ side to fuel the CD/Vinyl package of tracks already issued under some other guise. A very sad decline indeed..
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