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...
wow its great!!
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not bothered so much with the record,(ok its a bit dull) its just that bloody awful haircut hes been sporting fot the last 3 years. And for someone known for his style i find it rather strange that hes been wearing that same old black tshirt for as long as crap 70 s barnet. still the greatest english songwriter since Lennon and Mc cartney split
Top tune with great beat and the always changing Weller sound. Can't wait to hear the whole Kicks album. This one and Around the Lake are something special, but quite different from the WUTN stuff. Tha Modfather rules!
ReplyDeleteI really set myself up not to like this - what with Weller going a bit wanky with Pretty Green, designing Mini's & Fred Perry's and all that old bollocks! But I Love this vid, Love the song - a serious subject but tongue-in-cheek too. Weller at his songwriting best - hope the new album has a few more corkers like this on it
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