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My face does pop up on the Newcastle show on the 'All Mod Cons' Deluxe Edition, which is cool. I never got to see the Jam soundchecks, I'd just started working so never got the time to go down. It's funny but there's loads of old faces from the jam days squeezed into there fred perry's (me included)would be nice to see him with a ricky again though.ДЇunny, I'm not a big fan of Wellers solo stuff but a couple of weeks ago I found out about the City Hall in Nov & thought I'd finally check him out. It was never really a dig at him, bless his cotton socks.Hello - you must be the same age as me because i couldn't get into the mayfair either! I did see them at the city hall every time they played there i got into most of the soundchecks too.i couldn't believe my luck with the ice rink gigs as whitley bay is my home town went too a quite a few gigs around the country as well.I remember that tele well.Are you going to see weller at the city hall in nov ?

Why the dig at Elton (вЂњI put paid to the Rocket manвЂќ) in вЂThe WeaverвЂ™?

Not that I can take any credit for it -there was just something in the air. From being an anachronism, suddenly it felt like everyone was coming around to my way of thinking. For the first time it felt like I didnвЂ™t have this weight of expectation on me to write sionge in a certain style, which was always there with The Jam and The Style Council. вЂњIвЂ™d started really getting into Traffic. Straight away I knew I was onto something.вЂќ I remember going into Black Barn studios and recording demos of ten or twelve tracks. вЂњWhen I finished recording my first solo album I still had quite a few songs left over, they were just flowing out of me. UNCUT: How did you formulate your ideas for Wild Wood? Weller would even have acquired a new nickname.

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Within a year of itвЂ™s release in Spetember вЂ™93 grunge would be over, Britpop would be in full swing, and fears of rockвЂ™s demise dismissed as a bad dream. Above all, however, itвЂ™s WellerвЂ™s unshakeable self-belief which marks Wild Wood out as a landmark in British rock. вЂњCountryвЂќ steals redemption from despair in under there minutes вЂњFoot Of The MountainвЂќ still kicks-in like a Camberwell carrot on a hot afternoon. More than a decade on, Wild Wood (accompanied here by a second CD of typically focused demos) still smells as fresh as newly cut pine. If the shaggy fuzz-rock of вЂњHas My Fire Really Gone Out?вЂќ and вЂњThe WeaverвЂќ were reminders of his contrary spirit -not least the latter, where he barks вЂњI put paid to the Rocket Man!вЂќ, the nostalgic mood hit a nerve with both lapsed Jam fans and young upstarts Blur and Oasis. With the jazz-funk noodlings cut to a minimum (вЂњInstrumental OneвЂќ), Weller delivered a set of pithy pop songs stripped of all unneccessary clutter, ably assisted by newly recruited sidemen, Ocean Colour SceneвЂ™s Steve Cradock and Damon Minchella. But Weller had several aces up his sleeve. Buoyed by the critical reaction to his solo debut, he repaired to the Manor studioвЂ™s in Oxfordshire in April вЂ™93 with plans to summon up the bucolic spirit of Traffic, John Martyn and Neil Young. Paul Weller, however, had other ideas for popвЂ™s future. The NME even dedicated an entire issue to what music might sound like in 2003 вЂ“a nightmarish vision where people in Tibetan headwear enjoyed virtual sex to Banco De Gaia. With grunge motoring in from the West and techno building a whole new autobahn for the pop nation to travel down, the demand for sharply dressed young men with guitars was at an all time low. In 1993 British rock was at a particularly unattractive crossroads. вЂњKnowing, just where youвЂ™re going?вЂќ ItвЂ™s not always that easy.