Paul Weller News!

Paul Weller has been announced to play next summer's "Kew the music" concert series at Kew Gardens in Surrey, UK. Paul is scheduled to play Thursday 11th, July 2013, standard tickets £39.50, reserved enclosure £47.50. You can register for priority booking to purchase tickets on 3rd December HERE!

Paul Weller has a feature in the year end (January) issue of Uncut Magazine!   Details HERE...

From Paul Weller Official: Next summer Weller will hitting the road in the UK for three special outdoor shows. The gigs will see Paul play in some of the country's most beautiful settings - Thetford Forest, Delapre Park and Westonbirt Arboretum. Tickets for the shows will cost £39 and go on sale from 9am on Friday 23rd November. The dates are: Fri 12 July – Thetford Forest, Nr Brandon, Suffolk Tickets: www.forestry.gov.uk/music or 03000 680400 More Info: www.forestry.gov.uk/music Fri 19 July – Delapre Park, Northampton Tickets: www.seetickets.com & www.ticketmaster.co.uk or 01604 624 811 More Info: www.aliveatdelapre.co.uk Sat 20 July – Westonbirt Arboretum, Nr Tetbury, Glos Tickets: www.forestry.gov.uk/music or 03000 680400 More Info: www.forestry.gov.uk/music

John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature exclusive live performances. Programme 3, A-side. "The Gift" - 30 years after the band's split, Paul Weller talks about 'The Gift' - the last album for The Jam. The band's only No 1 album, it marked a musical departure from the classic Jam sound to a more soul-influenced style, and it ushered in Weller's ideas for the Style Council. It was an album that didn't just focus on the state of society, it also had a lot to say about where music was going in the 1980s - and it included the classic No 1 'Town Called Malice' as well as 'Ru...

Our good friend, and Australian Bureau Chief, Kenny Smith sent us this link today of Paul's performance in Sydney back in 2010 that is streaming on a site called, Mosh Cam. It looks to be a slightly edited version featuring 17 of the tracks performed that night.  "What a lovely little civilized Sunday night concert this is, isn't it? And I mean that!" PW Watch Paul Weller and other great gigs on Moshcam . Australian fans waited more than two decades for Paul Weller's long-overdue sold-out 2008 tour, and when he returned with his Wake Up The Nation tour two years later, none of that anticipation had dissipated. Few musicians have flown the mod flag with the same consistency and style as Weller, and thankfully he delivered the same degree of punk rock passion he had in the 70s to the Modfather devotees that packed out the Metro. Now that's entertainment. Full Video HERE

From Paul Weller Official: 'Dragonfly EP' - Out December 17th Weller will bring to a close a momentous year by releasing the 'Dragonfly EP' on December 17th. Available on a limited edition run of 3000 vinyl copies, the EP will feature specially commissioned artwork by one of Britain's greatest ever artists - Sir Peter Blake. This is first time the pair have collaborated since Stanley Road in 1995. The EP features the title track, taken from Paul's critically acclaimed album 'Sonik Kicks', plus a series of b-sides and bonus tracks from the 'Sonik Kicks' recording sessions that have never been released on vinyl before in the UK.  The full tracklisting is: A1. Dragonfly A2. Lay Down Your Weary Burden A3. Portal To The Past B1. Devotion B2. We Got A Lot B3. The Piper The 'Dragonfly EP' is available to pre-order from the Weller store right now, they are sure to sell out fast so make sure you r...

Wonderfully cool Paul Weller Self Portrait drawing to benefit STEPS Club for Young People, a full time Youth Centre in Weymouth, Dorset, is up for auction! Get your bids in for a great cause and a wholly unique collectors item. BID HERE!

Interviewed ahead of his appearance on Channel 4's new series 'Abbey Road Studios: in Session with Volkswagen Beetle', Weller talks candidly about Abbey Road, music, life and reinvention.

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...