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Paul Weller’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!

Drawn from the Jam, the Style Council and his solo work, all of it powered by romance, storytelling and political vim, here is the best of a British songwriter unbounded by genre

30. The Style Council – It Just Came to Pieces in My Hands (1983)

On the B-side of A Solid Bond in Your Heart lurks Weller’s mea culpa take on the sudden demise of the Jam, the arrogance of youth and the perils of becoming the Voice of a Generation. “I was a shit-stained statue / Schoolchildren would stand in awe … I thought I was lord of this crappy jungle.”

29. Paul Weller – Into Tomorrow (1992)

After the demise of the Style Council, it took Weller’s dad-cum-manager to talk him into performing again. On his debut solo single, a kind of musical note-to-self, there’s something really thrilling about the way you can hear Weller willing himself along, “into the stars and always up … praying that it has not passed”.

28. The Style Council – Life at a Top People’s Health Farm (1988)

The relative commercial failure of Confessions of a Pop Group certainly wasn’t down to the quality of the music it contained – it may be the Style Council’s best album. And Life at a Top People’s Heath Farm should have been a bigger hit: soul horns, electronic funk, a ferociously bitter lyric.

27. Paul Weller – Uh Huh Oh Yeh! (Always There to Fool You!) (1992)

In which Weller revisits his home town of Woking in search of inspiration and becomes surprisingly emotional at the sight of the old place – “dear reminders of who I am, the very roots on which I stand”. A fascinating mediation on place and ageing and the ties that bind, plus its sax-driven groove absolutely bangs.

26. Paul Weller – From the Floorboards Up (2005)

Prior to the radical reinvention of 2008’s 22 Dreams, Weller’s 00s albums were subject to diminishing artistic returns – not bad, but nothing spectacular. And yet, he could still occasionally pull out something that made you sit up and take notice. From the Floorboards Up, from 2005’s As Is Now, is a short, sharp, exhilarating – and Jam-like – jolt.

25. The Jam – Funeral Pyre (1981)

Pigeonholed as traditionalists, the Jam don’t get enough credit for being experimental. Funeral Pyre has almost no tune, just sprawling guitar noise, a relentless fusillade of drums and a furious, still-relevant lyric. “As I was standing by the edge / I could see the faces of those who led / Pissing theirselves laughing.” A single, incredibly.

24. Paul Weller – The Cranes Are Back (2017)

For an artist who spent the first part of his career fetishising youth – from “I wanna tell you about the young ideas” to Saturday’s Kids – Weller has worn age exceptionally well. Case in point: the voice of hard-won experience that sings gruff, careworn southern soul ballad The Cranes Are Back, shaking his head at the death of Alan Kurdi as he goes.

23. Paul Weller – Starlite (2011)

The standout from Sonik Kicks, Starlite is a delight in its album version – a breezy, lovely melody floating over scratchy funk guitar, clattering drum machines and a dose of dubby echo. If you want something smoother, the Drop Out Orchestra remix is laid-back, disco-string-laden, sax-solo-heavy nirvana.

22. Paul Weller – You Do Something to Me (1995)

Yes, it’s the dictionary definition of dadrock, complete with footy, kids and Beatles T-shirt in the video. Yes, it’s a Weller song that could be played on Mellow Magic – a once-unthinkable notion. But You Do Something to Me is also a supreme bit of songwriting, a genuinely affecting lyric set to a melody so well-turned, it feels like it always existed.

21. The Jam – Carnation (1982)

The biggest singles band of their era – four of them went to No 1 – the Jam were also extremely adept at hiding incredible songs away on their albums. Case in point, Carnation’s gently psychedelic Beatles-soul hybrid, topped off with an extraordinary self-baiting lyric.

20. Paul Weller – Peacock Suit (1996)

A high-water mark of Britpop-era classicist Weller, Peacock Suit is essentially one of those swaggering check-me-out 60s mod anthems – I’m the Face; Whatcha Gonna Do About It? – rewritten for troubled middle age. The schmutter is still as sharp as ever, the man inside is “sour as shit … I have no solutions”.

19. The Jam – Tales From the Riverbank (1981)

Pastoral psychedelia of a sort, albeit shot through Weller’s grimy early 80s lens – “life and death are carried in this stream”, he sings – and there’s a dark undercurrent to the music. Tales From the Riverbank is the perfect example of the Jam’s willingness to release superb, A-side quality songs as B-sides.

18. The Style Council – Headstart for Happiness (1983)

It says something about Weller’s determination to prove the Style Council were Not the Jam that the rap-influenced funk of Money-Go-Round was the single and Headstart For Happiness – 2min 47sec of pure, 60s-soul-infused joy – was relegated to the 12” B-side. The best version is on Café Bleu – Weller was still performing it live in the 00s, testament to its charm.

17. The Style Council – You’re the Best Thing (1984)

The great Weller love song – at least until You Do Something to Me came along to compete – You’re the Best Thing is timelessly beautiful songwriting. In a different era, Al Green could have covered it; instead, it was subjected to a spectacularly drippy reading by dimly remembered 90s boyband 911.

16. The Jam – Down in the Tube Station at Midnight (1978)

One thing that made the Jam so compelling was the sound of Weller growing up in public. The jump from A Bomb in Wardour Street’s shock-horror ramalama to Down in the Tube Station at Midnight – a tightly written short story with a horrifying twist, the music leaping from tensely evocative to cathartic release – is vast.

15. Paul Weller – Push It Along (2008)

Whatever provoked Weller’s artistic volte-face on 22 Dreams, it led to a flood of brilliant songwriting. You could fill half this chart with selections from that album alone – Sea Spray! Where’er Ye Go! – but let’s go with the Push It Along: ramshackle, occasionally atonal, mad key changes and a massive hook.

14. The Jam – English Rose (1978)

English Rose wasn’t listed on the cover of All Mod Cons, suggesting Weller felt self-conscious releasing something so nakedly romantic – “no bonds can ever tempt me from she”, he sings, over fingerpicked acoustic guitar – in the climate engendered by punk. He shouldn’t have been: English Rose is musically gorgeous, lyrically heartfelt, a vast leap forward.

13. The Style Council – Long Hot Summer (1983)

The summer of 1983 was indeed scorching, and the singles chart was weirdly filled with songs that seemed to soundtrack the weather. Hazily brilliant and audibly influenced by cutting-edge R&B, Long Hot Summer fitted perfectly. Extra marks for the homoerotic video, apparently designed to outrage the more lumpen aspects of Weller’s fanbase.

12. Paul Weller – Wake Up the Nation (2010)

The sound of a man completely re-energised, aged 51, a clangorous punky racket bearing Weller’s most stirring call-to-arms in decades. His vocal verges on Rotten-esque sneer, everything sounds like it’s on the verge of collapse, there’s room for some codger-ish moaning about “the Facebook”, and it’s all over and done in barely two minutes. Fabulous.

11. Paul Weller – Sunflower (1993)

More than any song, Sunflower set Weller’s course in the 90s, its sound a twitchy cocktail of Low Spark of High Heeled Boys-era Traffic and soul. It was a blueprint he eventually wore out, but it sounds aggressive and fresh here: a fantastic riff, a subtle but effective lift into the chorus.

10. Paul Weller – Rockets (2020)

Weller’s latterday exploratory purple patch continues apace . Rockets, from 2020’s On Sunset , is a song that he patently wouldn’t have written 20 years ago – you can hear the influence of David Bowie, for one thing. It’s incredibly powerful, the arrangement swelling as the lyrical focus shifts. “All the wealth is hidden … well, have it all, it’s worthless.”

9. The Jam – The Eton Rifles (1979)

The Eton Rifles is an old-fashioned protest song, inspired by a single incident, when unemployed marchers clashed with jeering pupils from the titular school. But the sheer force of its anger – and the brilliance of its melody – meant it long slipped its original moorings. No matter. The story that provoked it may be forgotten, but the song’s fury still burns bright.

8. The Style Council – Walls Come Tumbling Down! (1985)

Boasting one of Weller’s most attention-grabbing opening lines – “You don’t have to take this crap” – Walls Come Tumbling Down! had him railing against political apathy to a northern soul backbeat. The chorus is so terrific, it snuck a lyric as uncompromising as “the class war is real and not mythologised” into the Top 10.

7. The Jam – A Town Called Malice (1982)

A snappy, super-smart Motown pastiche that’s Ray Davies’ favourite Weller song, which makes sense: a eulogy for the passing of a Britain destroyed by the rise of Thatcher, the gaucheness of his early lyrics is gone, replaced by incisive lines, evocative images and wit (“I could go on for hours and I probably will”).

6. The Style Council – My Ever Changing Moods (1984)

Take your pick from the ballad on Café Bleu, or the 70s soul-inspired reading released as a single. Both are superb in their own ways, the ambivalence of the lyric and the strong melody (inspired, one US critic insists, by easy-listening band Classics IV’s 1968 hit Stormy) meaning it works perfectly as either wistful lament or celebratory anthem.

5. The Jam – The Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had To Swallow) (1982)

“I will never be embarrassed about love again,” sang Weller on 1980’s Monday, and he meant it. The opposite of English Rose’s muted, don’t-mind-me appearance, The Bitterest Pill’s saga of romantic woe opens with a pealing, wedding bell-like riff, and brings in dramatic strings, falsetto vocals and an epic chorus. What a fantastic single.

4. Paul Weller – Wild Wood (1993)

You could trace the roots of Weller’s folky bent back to the Jam’s English Rose and Liza Radley, but Wild Wood remains its finest flowering. The gorgeously understated music suggests getting it together in the country, but – as on Weller favourite Nick Drake’s Bryter Layter – the lyrical setting is distinctly urban. Killer Portishead remix too.

3. The Style Council – Shout to the Top! (1984)

The greatest Style Council single of the lot, an exquisite, orchestrated anthem of resistance and picking yourself up after failure; its video made its message’s links to the ongoing miners strike explicit. Shout to the Top! enjoyed an unexpected afterlife as a Balearic anthem on the early acid house scene.

2. The Jam – Going Underground (1980)

Weller at his most brilliantly contrary: horrified by Thatcherism, he writes a song claiming he doesn’t get what “the public want” and has no interest in the mainstream, then sets it to his most potent and irresistible melody yet, full of explosive twists and turns. It enters the charts at No 1.

1. The Jam – That’s Entertainment (1980)

It’s a very close-run thing – indeed there are Weller songs that didn’t make this list that people might easily claim as their favourite, with Strange Town, The Changingman and Speak Like a Child among them – but That’s Entertainment nudges in front. Apparently written in 10 minutes, while drunk, it’s a cynical depiction of the limitations of working-class life that also captures a universal sense of longing and restriction – is that all there is? – in a series of blunt, but memorable, images. “Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday”, “A hot summer’s day and sticky black Tarmac”, “Watching the telly and thinking about your holidays”. To put it in equally blunt terms: what a fucking great song.

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Although lockdown now seems to have become a vague memory from our shared folk mythos, the effects rumble on. For Paul Weller, the productive burst of 2020-21 - two chart-topping albums,  On Sunset  and  Fat Pop  - coincided with padlocked chains across doors and an inability to take his new songs to the arenas where their creator is most alive. As a result, his current tour of Britain has taken on the air of ‘An Event’. A voice in the queue outside this evening underlines that feeling: “It’s the first time I’ve been to this venue since I saw The Banshees and The Cure in 1979.”

Though nothing in the 115-minute set comes from Weller’s 1970s, the 29 songs aired do span 44 years and several artistic lifetimes, and there’s a muscular, take-no-prisoners briskness that says sitting at home twiddling their thumbs does not come naturally to this most road-friendly of bands. The speed with which the seven musicians walk to their positions at precisely 8.45pm suggests they have got their adrenaline flowing in the wings beforehand; what follows contains no flab, no excess, no time-wasting.

READ MORE:   Every Paul Weller album ranked!

Business as usual, then, but more so. Rip The Pages Up - a 2008 B-side - is a powerful opener, a  clarion call and introduction to the heavy soul vibe to come. Even slower numbers such as You Do Something To Me and My Ever Changing Moods have a Sawdust Caesar swagger about them - nobody messes with the tempo, but you wouldn’t want to get in their way in a darkened alley or midnight tube station - as if the restless Weller is already contemplating the next song by the time the opening chords have reached the audience.

Three songs - Soul Wandering, Jumble Queen and Nothing - from this year’s forthcoming  66  slot in seamlessly and act as a reminder of Weller’s unyielding approach to his career. A winter tour of the Far East and Australia to lubricate the joints; a spring tour of 2,000-capacity venues in advance of the album, a taster to hook us in; North American dates to maintain momentum; an autumn UK tour once the new tunes have bedded into our consciousness. There’s a heap of ageist guff spoken about veterans who appear to give little thought to quitting - Weller is 66 in May - but here it’s a two-way street, with much of the crowd comprising folk who have averaged one or more gigs a year by their hero since 1977 and have no intention of throwing in the towel just yet.

READ MORE: Inside the making of Paul Weller's Wild Wood: "The press were saying I was finished. I was like, We'll see about that…"

In the bar afterwards, these veterans of the trenches hold court: Paul’s singing better in 2024 than he has for a good few years. Yeah, guitarist and trusty lieutenant Steve Cradock is a genius, but it’s sax/flute maestro Jacko Peake who makes the shows special. The weathered yet soulful voice unveiled on White Horses and Old Father Tyme has given old material a new lease of life. There are at least 20 more songs worthy of an outing, but nothing that should be dropped. If Start! didn’t get played, though, nobody would bat an eyelid, but That’s Entertainment is sacrosanct; and Shout To The Top is a level above that, the sine qua non of a memorable night out.

If you are given to believing that Weller’s fans are Mods who have traded their Vespas for bus passes yet refuse to let go of a youth inspired by  All Mod Cons , your cynicism will take a battering by the energy and enthusiasm on show. The simple pleasure of seeing a crack band concentrating on executing the basics to perfection means it’s impossible not to admire too the fire that drives them in their leader’s sixth decade as a working musician. Sixty-six and  66  suggest 2024 is going to be a vintage year for this changing man.

Rip The Pages Up

Cosmic Fringes

Soul Wandering

All The Pictures On The Wall

Man Of Promise

The Pleasure

Stanley Road

Above The Clouds

Shout To The Top

Jumble Queen

You Do Something To Me

That’s Entertainment

Peacock Suite

Headstart for Happiness

Broken Stones

The Changingman

Porcelain Gods

My Ever Changing Moods

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Paul Weller is currently touring across 4 countries and has 41 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at King John's Castle in Limerick, after that they'll be at Trinity College in Dublin.

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Great evening in beautiful surroundings at Westonbirt arboretum. The sun came out just as the support band finished and the weather stayed dry. Weller put on a polished and professional performance, a little bit of audience interaction but mostly he was about delivering the tracks. There was a spattering of his well known songs as he started, but it was also good to hear some others. The band were excellent and as the evening drew on, the classics started to come out including, of course 'you do something to me' which was a special moment. They did a couple of encores and finished with 'Town called malice' at which point the crowd went crazy. A great way to finish. Overall a great performance and Weller's voice still sounds strong and vibrant.

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A Paul Weller concert can be a bit of a bit or miss affair depending upon what mood he is in and what songs he wants to sing. So it was lucky for us that he decided to cover his complete repertoire for his Opera House performance. The Jam, Style Council and his solo work were all covered in full and with a band so tight, they added to the experience. Weller remains the master of cool and throughout the night he delivered what the fans wanted, while promoting his new material with equal aplomb.

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Mr Weller seemed more relaxed than ive seen him before , even chatting with the audience.

Did a full 2 1/2 hour set full of classics from his own career and some awesome tracks off a kind revolution mixed with a couple of style council favourites and to make sure the ardent jam fans got a look in did about seven of there hits.

To which the crowd always responds.

Paul is a master of his art and can raise the audience at will.

All in all id say this was an Excellent paul weller set couldnt fault it at all 10/10 .

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Paul Weller Announces Rare North American Tour

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Paul Weller  today announces his first tour of North America since 2017. The dates begin with a September 6 show in Red Bank, NJ and end September 27 in downtown Los Angeles at the Orpheum Theatre. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, April 5 at 10 AM local time. The entire tour run can be found below.

Weller is touring in support of his upcoming album  66  which is due out on May 24, the day before his 66th birthday. The album is quite reflective and inward thinking.  66  is his 17th solo, and 28th album overall in a career that includes stints leading The Jam and The Style Council. The album was recorded primarily in his own Black Barn Studio.

66  includes contributions from Noel Gallagher,  Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Madness’ Suggs McPherson, Richard Hawley, The Blow Monkeys’ Dr Robert, Le SuperHomard’s Christophe Vaillant,  and  Erland Cooper , with string arrangements by  Hannah Peel . The first single from 66, “Soul Wandering,” was co-written with Gillespie.

September 2024

06        Red Bank NJ – Count Basie Center for the Arts

07        Brooklyn NY – Kings Theatre

08        Boston MA – House of Blues

10        Glenside PA – Keswick Theatre

11        Washington DC – Lincoln Theatre

13        Toronto ON – History

15        Chicago IL – Vic Theatre

16        Minneapolis MN – First Avenue

19        Seattle WA – The Moore

20        Vancouver BC – Vogue Theatre

22        San Francisco CA – The Fillmore

23        San Francisco CA – The Fillmore

25        El Cajon CA – The Magnolia

26        Anaheim CA – House of Blues

27        Los Angeles CA – Orpheum Theatre

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Paul Weller of The Jam announces 1st tour in 7 years. Get tickets now

On May 25, 2024, Paul Weller turns 66.

To celebrate, the former frontman for The Jam and The Style Council is releasing the appropriately-titled album “66” and hitting the road in support of the new record.

The tour, his first in North America since 2017, kicks off with concerts at Red Bank, NJ’s Hackensack Meridian Health Theater on Friday, Sept. 6 and Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 7.

And while we can’t confirm whether Weller’s collaborators for his upcoming record — including Noel Gallagher , Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie and Madness ‘ Suggs McPherson — will perform with him on tour, we do know the best way to find out is live.

If you can’t wait for the upcoming 14-concert trek, tickets can be secured for all shows as soon as today.

Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, April 12, fans who want to ensure they have tickets ahead of time can purchase on sites like Vivid Seats before tickets are officially on sale.

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They have a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and will be delivered before the event.

A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found here.

As noted earlier, this is Weller’s first U.S. tour in seven years.

However, he performs overseas quite regularly. To wit, he played a gig in Leicester, GB, a day before this story was published.

Here’s what he took to the stage — including a few cuts from The Jam and The Style Council — at the De Monfort Hall on April 9, 2024, courtesy of Set List FM .

01.) “That’s Entertainment” (The Jam song)

02.) “A Man of Great Promise” (The Style Council song)

03.) “Shout to the Top!” (The Style Council song)

04.) “Broken Stones”

05.) “Fat Pop”

06.) “You Do Something to Me”

07.) “Start!” (The Jam song)

08.) “Porcelain Gods”

09.) “Hung Up”

10.) “Peacock Suit”

11.) “The Changingman”

12.) “Wild Wood”

13.) “Mayfly”

14.) “Soul Wandering”

15.) “Jumble Queen”

16.) “All the Pictures on the Wall”

17.) “My Ever Changing Moods” (The Style Council song)

Ahead of the “66” album release, Weller has released a pair of singles this year.

First up, he dropped the three-minute “Soul Wandering” on Feb. 23. The track is a jaunty, folksy tune with inventive instrumentation simmering beneath the surface. Around one minute in, a backup singer joins Weller and the song kicks into high gear.

He followed that up with somehow simultaneously plaintive and uplifting “Rise Up Singing.”

If you want to hear both bops, you can find them here .

Many iconic artists that you may fancy if you’re a Weller fan are on the road this year.

Here are just five of our favorites you won’t want to miss live.

•  Roger Daltrey

•  Elvis Costello and Daryl Hall

• BEAT featuring Adrian Belew and Steve Vai

• Ryan Adams

•  Joe Jackson

Who else is on the road? Check out our list of the 50 biggest concert tours in 2024 here to find out.

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Before he sets out on the road this spring, Paul Weller announces a shedload more live shows.

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Paul Weller burst through with The Jam way back in 1977, but he's showing absolutely no signs of slowing down.

This year he releases his 17th solo studio album (and 28th career total) 66 and he's announced a second UK tour for 2024, before he's even set out on the first jaunt of the year.

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Adding up both tours adds to a whopping 38 live shows, with three massive dates in London.

Tickets for the new dates - where Paul will be supported by Liam Bailey - go on sale on Friday, March 8 at 10am, but there's also a pre-sale available if you pre-order his new record.

Paul's upcoming album 66 has a title and artwork from Pop Art legend Peter Blake, who previously created the sleeve of his 1995 solo classic Stanley Road , and is released on all usual formats on May 24, the day before Weller's 66th birthday.

It includes lyrical contributions from Suggs, Noel Gallagher and Bobby Gillespie and musical collaborations with Hannah Peel, Dr Robert, Richard Hawley, Steve Brooks, Max Beesley and Christophe Valliant.

"In the ever-evolving landscape of contemporary music, few artists possess the enduring influence and innovative spirit of Paul Weller," reads the blurb.

"Weller has always demonstrated an unwavering commitment to pushing artistic boundaries while staying true to his roots. 66 promises to be no exception, offering a captivating journey through his continuing musical evolution."

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The newly-announced Paul Weller 2024 tour dates are as follows:

• October 17 – Cheltenham, Centaur
• October 18 – Portsmouth, Guildhall
• October 19 – Brighton, Centre
• October 21 – Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall
• October 22 – Wolverhampton, Civic At The Halls
• October 24 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, O2 City Hall
• October 25 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, O2 City Hall
• October 27 – Dundee, Caird Hall
• October 28 – Glasgow, Barrowland
• October 29 – Glasgow, Barrowland
• October 31 – Hull, Connexin Live
• November 1 – Manchester ,O2 Apollo
• November 2 – Llandudno, Venue Cymru
• November 4 – Liverpool Olympia
• November 5 – Bradford St Georges Hall
• November 7 – Oxford New Theatre
• November 8 – London Eventim Apollo

Paul Weller's previously announced spring and summer tour dates are as follows:

• March 24 - London, Royal Albert Hall
• April 4 – Lighthouse, Poole
• April 5 – Beacon, Bristol
• April 6 – ICC Wales, Newport
• April 8 – Cliffs Pavilion, Southend
• April 9 – De Montfort Hall, Leicester
• April 11 – City Hall, Sheffield
• April 12 – Victoria Hall, Stoke
• April 13 – Globe Theatre, Stockton
• April 15 – Alhambra, Dunfermline
• April 16 – King George’s Hall, Blackburn
• April 17 – Barbican, York
• April 19 – Engine Shed, Lincoln
• April 20 – Waterside, Aylesbury
• April 21 – Corn Exchange, Cambridge
• July 3 – King John's Castle, Lumineach, Ireland
• July 4 – Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
• July 7 – Open Air Theatre, Scarborough
• July 13 – Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, Edinburgh
• July 21 – PennFest, Penn

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Paul Weller is set to play live dates as part of Forest Live 2023. The Jam’s former frontman will take to the stage at the UK’s Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire, Cannock Chase Forest in Staffordshire and Thetford Forest in Suffolk in June this year.

The dates add to the singer-songwriter’s 25 record-breaking 25 appearances for the concert series since his debut in 2004. Tickets for the shows go on sale this coming Friday, January 20, at 9am.

Talking about the dates, Weller said: “I am very happy to be playing the Forest Live gigs again as they are always such great shows with a great audience. See you there!”

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Elsewhere in Paul Weller news, Genesis Publications recently announced Magic: A Journal of Song by Paul Weller , which will be published as a hardback bookstore edition on February 21 and as a special signed, limited edition in Spring 2023.

Magic… is Weller’s definitive document of his songwriting career. Combining a selection of over 100 lyrics with a personal commentary that encompasses Weller’s entire musical life, the book takes us from The Jam’s punk sensibilities to the genre-defying Style Council , through to Weller’s remarkable 30-year solo career.

Weller says: “First and foremost, I try to satisfy something inside myself. And if other people get it and they share in it? That’s fantastic.”

Paul Weller plays the following Forest Live shows in 2023:

Thurs June 8: Westonbirt Arboretum, near Tetbury, Glos. Fri June 9: Cannock Chase Forest, near Rugeley, Staffs. Saturday June 17: Thetford Forest, near Brandon, Suffolk.

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Paul Weller / 66

New studio album.

By Paul Sinclair

Paul Weller will release a new studio album in May called, simply, 66 .

The 12 songs on 66 were worked up in Weller’s Black Barn studio over the course of three years with various guest musicians, including Dr Robert, Richard Hawley, Steve Brooks and Max Beesley

There are lyrical contributions from Suggs, Noel Gallagher and Bobby Gillespie (‘Ship Of Fools’, ‘Jumble Queen’ and ‘Soul Wondering’ respectively) and Weller shares production duties on a few tracks with Christophe Vaillant, White Label and Charles Rees. String arrangements are by Hannah Peel.

You can preview ‘Soul Wandering’, above, although apparently “the first proper single” will be ‘Rise Up Singing’ which will be made available on 5 April.

As well as vinyl and CD there’s a 2CD set packaged in deluxe hardcover book format, with four extra tracks on the second disc. As you’d expect there’s various coloured vinyl editions which all come with a 12-page booklet and foldout poster.

66 will be released on 24 May 2024, via Polydor.

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Paul Weller Announces 2024 North American Tour

In support of his upcoming album, 66

Paul Weller has announced his first North American tour since 2017. Taking place in September 2024, the trek will be in support of his upcoming album, 66 .

Sandwiched between Weller’s previously announced UK dates, the North American leg kicks off on September 6th in Red Bank, New Jersey. It will also stop in cities including Brooklyn, Toronto, and Chicago before wrapping up on September 27th in Los Angeles. See his full touring itinerary below.

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66 is out on May 24th — one day before Weller’s 66th birthday. It features contributions from Noel Gallagher, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, Madness’ Suggs McPherson, Richard Hawley, The Blow Monkeys’ Dr. Robert, and more. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Paul Weller 2024 Tour Dates: 04/09 – Leicester, UK @ De Montfort Hall 04/11 – Sheffield, UK @ City Hall 04/12 – Stoke-on-Trent, UK @ Victoria Hall 04/13 – Stockton-on-Tees, UK @ Stockton Globe 04/15 – Dunfermline, UK @ Alhambra Theatre 04/16 – Blackburn, UK @ King George’s Hall 04/17 – York, UK @ York Barbican 04/19 – Lincoln, UK @ The Engine Shed 04/20 – Aylesbury, UK @ Aylesbury Waterside Theatre 04/21 – Cambridge, UK @ Cambridge Corn Exchange 07/03 – Luimneach, IE @ King John’s Castle 07/04 – Dublin, IE @ Trinity College Dublin 07/07 – Scarborough, UK @ Scarborough Open Air Theatre 07/13 – Edinburgh, UK @ Edinburgh Castle Esplanade 07/21 – Penn, UK @ PennFest 09/06 – Red Bank, NJ @ Count Basie Center for the Arts 09/07 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre 09/08 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues 09/10 – Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre 09/11 – Washington, DC @ Lincoln Theatre 09/13 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY 09/15 – Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre 09/16 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue 09/19 – Seattle, WA @ The Moore 09/20 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre 09/22 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore 09/23 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore 09/25 – El Cajon, CA @ The Magnolia 09/26 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues 09/27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Orpheum Theatre 10/17 – Cheltenham, UK @ Cheltenham Centaur 10/18 – Portsmouth, UK @ Portsmouth Guildhall 10/19 – Brighton, UK @ The Brighton Centre 10/21 – Nottingham, UK @ Nottingham Royal Concert Hall 10/22 – Wolverhampton, UK @ Wolverhampton Halls 10/24 – Newcastle, UK @ Newcastle O2 City Hall 10/25 – Newcastle, UK @ Newcastle O2 City Hall 10/27 – Dundee, UK @ Dundee Caird Hall 10/28 – Glasgow, UK @ Glasgow Barrowland 10/29 – Glasgow, UK @ Glasgow Barrowland 10/31 – Kingston Upon Hull, UK @ Hull Connexin Live 11/01 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester O2 Apollo 11/02 – Llandudno, UK @ Llandudno Venue Cymru 11/04 – Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Olympia 11/05 – Bradford, UK @ Bradford St. George’s Hall 11/07 – Oxford, UK @ Oxford New Theatre 11/08 – London, UK @ London Eventim Apollo

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