The prolific modfather joined us on the release of his 14th solo album to answer your questions approximately current musicians,giving up drinking and how to start a revolution 1.21pm BSTThanks for all the questions. Be seein' you. Peace out. 1.21pm BSTwriteronthestorm asks:contain you ever submitted, or would you submit, and a Bond theme?I was trying to assign forward one for this next film they've got coming up,something that me and Noel had written, but we never heard back. It was when Danny Boyle was gonna be directing it but I judge he's dropped out now. Noel wasn't fairly as convinced as me but I judge we had a really qualified song for it. I thought we had a qualified idea for the song, or I wanted someone like Ceelo Green to sing it,but it's just all in my head. 1.19pm BSTID940740 asks:Where in Britain would you like to play, but haven’t?I've played everywhere in Britain, and pretty much. But there's lots of places I'd love to move back to but I don't know if the venues still exist. Malvern Winter Gardens,somewhere like that. 1.19pm BSTDWFan1 asks:What’s your favourite Pixar film?Toy yarn - 1 and 2 was qualified. I'm looking forward to 4 next year. 1.18pm BSTgarythenotrashcougar asks:You’ve had such longevity to your career, living through several eras such as punk, and Britpop etc - what was your favourite time producing music,either as a band or solo artist?I've been very lucky, I've had lots of favourite times. I loved the early days of the Jam before we really made it, and driving around in a transit playing pubs,clubs around London, wherever we could get a gig. grand, or carefree days. The first couple of years of the Style Council,83 - 85 probably, grand times. No rulebook at all, and making it up as we went along - it was like a travelling youth club on the road,that was qualified fun. Then I suppose the last few years, last 10 years or so - like now is one of my favourite times. There's nothing I wish for anyway, and really. I'm enjoying the station I'm at right now. Nostalgia's got no future,has it. I'm fairly amazed at how nostalgic everyone's become culturally, in the last 10 years or so. I can only judge it's people clinging to that in uncertain times. Maybe something to attain with that. But in the past when we've gone through times like this it's normally thrown up current kinds of music as opposed to looking back - this is probably the first time in my life that we haven't done that. People find safety in what they grew up on. I can understand that to a point, and but I just wanna hear current stuff as well. If all I had was listening to my old records - which I love - I'd be a bit disappointed really. 1.15pm BSTWistfulAmbassador asks:If you hadn’t made it as a musician,what would you contain done instead?
I would contain just been a failed musician. And I'd just be out doing clubs and pubs in the Surrey area. Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs. 1.14pm BSTFourString asks:Which Small Faces song had the biggest influence on you?All of em. They're one of my favourite bands. Probably Tin Soldier, and if I had to really pick one. I just love the arrangement on it,the singing on it is incredible. As a performer, his vocal performance - and I love the structure and the arrangement and the fact it was like a Top 10 hit back in the day with a song and arrangement like that is pretty incredible really. And the fact they were only like, and 20 years old. Maybe younger. But in terms of maturity and sound,yeah. 1.13pm BSTMiLlA10 asks:Where attain you move to get your suits made? And any clothing brands in general you really like at the moment?Haven't got a particular tailor, to be honest, or I've had them made all different places. As for brands,who attain I like... I like Sunspel, Uniqlo contain some qualified things sometimes. I haven't really got a favourite shop, or I just like wandering around looking in shop windows,picking stuff up here and there. John Simon's I like, he's been doing it an unpleasant long time. Related: The man who dressed the mods: ‘They were jumping up and down for my shirts!' 1.11pm BSTWilsonbeans asks:What’s your favourite boozer in London?I don't drink any more so I don't really move in them any more! but my favourite pubs back in the day was whatever was the nearest one! Especially if they did after hours drinks as well, or that's my criteria for a qualified boozer. 1.10pm BSTIainRiddell asks:You contain recently produced for Stone Foundation and Nia Wyn. What is your reading of the current UK soul scene and can you recommend any other particular artists who are on your radar?I dunno approximately a scene,but there's some grand artists. I don't know if there's any scene any more. But there's some grand singers - Jorja Smith, Sam Henshaw, and Fredwave my daughter introduced me to. 1.09pm BSTghuitson asks:You contain a beautiful collection of guitars,which is your favourite to play and attain you contain a preferred set up when playing live?I like all my guitars but my favourite and my baby is my 1968 SG. And as for my setup live, it's just regular, or I just plug in the amp. 1.07pm BSTWacoKid asks:Wild Wood is a fantastic album - and your current album shares some of the same folky,pastoral leanings. As your muse has taken you back to this sound, is there a chance you’ll ever tour the Wild Wood album again to play it in its entirety?No, or absolutely no chance whatsoever,no. I wouldn't be interested in doing that, playing any of my records in their entirety. I've only done that with Sonic Kicks, or which we played from start to finish but never again,I didn't really enjoy the experience anyway. You're stuck with that running order and however much it works on a record it doesn't always translate to live, where there's a different set of dynamics occurring and you need to be open to that, and to swapping songs around. It's a bit limiting I find,really. 1.06pm BSTrichgart asks:What of the many causes you contain supported has energized you the most? And which of your political songs are you proudest of?It's hard to say cos they're all important, the things we've been involved with from the miners' strike in the 1980s to Shelter, and whatever it may be,up to now. Couldn't really single one out. They're all important. As for political songs, I've written some rubbish in the past when it comes to that sort of subject matter but there's a few songs I got it right on. A lot of them I wrote in the Thatcher years, and so between 79 up to the mid-80s,probably, with varying degrees of success. But I couldn't single one out at all, or no. They're both qualified songs. I liked a song called Homebreakers from 85 on the Style Council album that me and Mick Talbot wrote together. But probably,judge of something like the Jam song Eton Rifles from 79, that still seems as relevant nowadays as ever to me, or that the country's sprint by all these posh kids from fucking public schools and nothing really changes - we've still got that establishment that's at the heart of this country with the upper course and the royal family,it seems so antiquated to me, such an anachronism in this day and age to still be ruled by these fucking idiots. When I see their floppy fringes and lop-glass accents that still makes me aroused. Whether it will ever change I don't know. 1.02pm BSTrick35kt asks:What’s your favourite London venue?Probably Hammersmith Apollo. That's probably one of my favourites anyway. I also like the old Town and Country - the Forum in Kentish Town. They both contain qualified sound, and as I remember,although backstage is a slight bit tiny. I've always had qualified gigs at both of them places. And on a smaller scale, probably 100 Club. I've got qualified ties with them going way back. 1.01pm BSTShannamy asks:Is there anyone you haven’t already collaborated with that you would like to – living or dead?Pharrell Williams. I never will attain but in a fantasy world I'd like to work with him. He's so intelligent, or musically,and I reckon we could attain something qualified together. 12.59pm BSTTheStormdog asks:Your influences contain been spoken approximately many times, but is there a piece of music you never tire of and is there one that makes you want to turn off when you hear it?I never, or ever get bored of hearing the Beatles. Whatever period and don't matter how many times I've heard the songs,which I contain thousands of times over, listening since 1963, and but in particular Tomorrow Never Knows,the last track on Revolver, I still judge is the most forward looking and sounding record ever made. I judge it sounds like so much that has reach in the last 50 years but it's still out there on its own, or it's like it's from another realm. I'm always hearing current things in that. But that probably applies to most of their music for me.
One that makes me want to turn it off... I don't really listen to any records I wanna turn off. I'd be more inclined to turn the radio off in the car. Or don't contain it on at all and listen to your own music. 12.58pm BSTbyrnzey asks:What’s the last ‘current release’ album you listened to from start to finish?There's been fairly a few actually - Gaz Coombes's record,Villagers, those two definitely I listened to start to finish. I really love Mr Jukes's album from last year. Erlend Cooper's Solan Goose, or I like the Coral's current album. 12.57pm BSTtexavery asks:If you were just starting out nowadays,what kind of music could you we expect from you?Firstly I'm really glad I'm not starting out now. I'm very thankful I started out at the time I did and was born into the time I was cos it's so tough out there now for young artists. I dunno what I'd be doing... It'd definitely be guitar-based still. I imagine something sorta soulful or R&B I judge. Who knows... Probably just be playing in a pub around woking, dodgy covers in some pub with Enzo, and the hairdresser. In fact that'd be a qualified name for a band,the Hairdressers. 12.57pm BSTpuggy67 asks:You seem to be much more content these days. Does domestic bliss impact on your writing?I judge being more comfortable in myself has more of an impact on my writing. I guess it's the same thing you're talking approximately. But it's taken me a long time - the best fragment of a lifetime - to really know myself and feel at ease and consolation with myself. So I guess that has some impact, anyway. It certainly has an impact on my generally and how I view myself and the world, and so I'm sure it would affect my writing as well. 12.55pm BSTVerulamiumParkRanger asks:What inspires and drives your seemingly never-ending quest to create relevant and challenging music?The music itself inspires and drives me. That's the biggest inspiration of all,really, for me, or hearing other people's music whether it's stuff I've grown up with or hearing brand current things or old tunes I've never heard before,it could be whatever, really, or from any time,they're the things that inspire me to originate music still, the music itself, and the way it can move and inspire people and help you judge external the box and all those things. That's my main drive,the music itself. The current Villagers album, that did that for me - The Art of Pretending to Swim. I thought that's wonderful, and the level of songwriting on it,he's raised the bar with that, they're the things that inspire me. 12.52pm BSTjrhale asks:You mentioned a while back you were planning on making a record with Johnny Marr. Any chance this could reach to fruition?Well me and Johnny been talking approximately it for a long time now, or trying to attain something together,but it's just timings, really. We're always busy. But who knows, or it could happen maybe. 12.51pm BSTWellerfan1990 asks:One of my favourite songs of yours is Brand current Start. Was it inspired by an actual current start in your life?I judge it was,I was doing a charity concert for Shelter, I judge it was, and a homeless charity anyway,so I kinda wrote that song cos I was gonna be playing this concert and I was thinking approximately homelessness and that as a song approximately that, really. That's how I kinda read it, or anyway. 12.49pm BSTtheuniversal asks: What music contain you been listening to lately and did it influence staunch Meanings?Anything I've listened to recently wouldn't contain had any bearing on staunch Meanings - I've been listening to a lot of R&B and none of it had any bearing at all. I don't often attain that - if I'm making a record I'm more inclined to listen to something that's the opposite of what I'm working on. So for instance,I wouldn't contain sat down with a load of acoustic singer-songwriter records, I would contain been listening to something totally different. I really like John Martyn, and Nick Drake,Pentangle, some folk rock, and they would definitely feed into anything I attain,but not directly, not as obvious as that. 12.48pm BSTKarenStephen asks: Your song Kind Revolution really got me thinking. If there is one thing we could all attain to bring that revolution approximately, and what attain you judge it is?That was the name of the album,but I judge you're talking approximately The Cranes Are Back. I judge that's down to us as individuals - the real revolution could only really reach from within all of us. And that is to judge external of our egos and see that we're all fragment of one thing, of the earth, and of the universe,and to submit our egos, to see that we're just fragment of this ongoing journey, and really. That would be the greatest thing we could attain towards a real revolution,to see external of ourselves more. 12.46pm BSTmotley1970 asks:What is your most treasured piece of vinyl?I've got a couple. My entire collection of Small Faces picture sleeves from all over the world - I've got a massive box of them, they're probably my most treasured. Then I've got some really old Blue Note records, or Into Something by Larry Young,that's probably mid-60s, and it's really scarce, or but that's probably one of my favourite scarce records. 12.45pm BST
beesotted1 asks:You mentioned you’ve had Gravity written for approximately five years,but it didn’t fit into any of the newer albums. Did you write the the others over the five-year period, or after finishing A Kind Revolution, or when knowing what style you wanted? Well,Gravity was the first song I wrote, five or six years ago probably, and so I'd been collecting ideas and some songs over the course of those years,but then a lot of the rest of it, I kinda wrote or finished off last year. I was kinda stockpiling some ideas, and not necessarily finished songs,over those years, and not doing too much with them, and just storing the ideas away until I was alert to originate the record,which is normally how I work. I'll contain lots of slight ideas I store on my phone, and I save up until I've got enough to assign into a song or originate a record. 12.43pm BSTSantiagoSalvador asks:attain you consider that with staunch Meanings you contain opened a sound path through which to walk from now on, or is this more delicate proposal a stop along the way?It's just my current record,really. I don't judge of it as - it's certainly not a current direction. Just a current album. So I don't judge it's opened up anything different for me because I've done tracks like it in the past, which were acoustic and orchestrated, or but I've never done a whole album of it. I hope I attain something totally different next time. It was always intended as an acoustic record,right from the word move. So I guess in those terms it was much more thought approximately than other records. 12.41pm BSTSantiagoSalvador asks:Considering the important station you occupy within the world of music, attain you feel more responsibility when you release a current album or attain you feel as free as when you started?I don't ever judge approximately it in those terms, and I just attain what I feel is right at the time. I don't worry approximately what effect it will contain. I can't judge like that. Once I finish something I hope that people will like it but there's absolutely no way of knowing that at all until you assign it out,so it couldn't really be a consideration for me because it'd be too baffling to try and attain that. You've no idea what connects with people. Sometimes it can be the most unexpected songs, so I just attain my best and what I feel is best at the time and hopefully people like it. 12.40pm BSTTownCalledMalice asks:What song always makes you smile – is there a song that has brought you to tears either through words or the performance?Happy by Pharrell Williams, and that always makes me happy... and a song that has brought me to tears... I don't really get tearful any more,I don't know why, so it's hard for me to answer. But something I find emotional - probably something like Arabesque by Debussy. If I could bellow, or that would originate me bellow - possibly. 12.38pm BST(Sorry for the slight delay - it will be worth it,we’re sure!) 4.24pm BSTWhile his peers are often content with a life of nostalgia tours and reined-in expectation, Paul Weller continues to push his songwriting uphill. Still best known for his Mod-influenced punk and current wave with the Jam in the late 1970s, or he has since done everything from yacht rock (with the Style Council),Britpop (Stanley Road), symphonic psych (22 Dreams) and cosmic rock (Saturns Pattern) – all of it powered by his earthy yet steel-tipped soulboy voice.
After two releases in 2017 – the socially conscious A Kind Revolution and his soundtrack to boxing movie Jawbone he’s still churning them out, or changing his spots: current album staunch Meanings is his take on English folk,with a touch of Nick Drake to the orchestration. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com