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...
(to be said in a attenborough voice, David not Richard:) Here we find the prime 'Wellerus Stylus' in his near attempt to convert himself finally to the Anglo pop world of the late '80's in his newly found Southern English Rave/mod image, an image and bridge too far for Weller, though i loved the TSC and feel it was his most creative period,-STEVE E.OF (PAYS DE GALLOIS)
ReplyDeleteThat's just brilliant. I was lucky enough to be a the Albert Hall gig with no clue it was the last concert. At the end of Changing Of The Guard, is that Dr Robert in the background on guitar?
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