"I've got a Gibson 12-string, which I've had for some time, and a J-45 I've also had for a while they're the main ones. "At times I've looked around and thought, I could do with Whitey kicking in about now. "Well, sitting in front of God-knows how many thousand people with just a guitar is a challenge in itself - you're shitting yourself! And it's the same every night, to be honest. What's been the most challenging aspect of the tour? Sometimes you can forget that with all the other malarkey." It's just the songs on a very simple level of communication. "Even though they're fair-sized gigs, there's this kind of intimate thing. It's also been a good way of getting back to my audience. You can see what's strong, what people like. It makes me reappraise my own stuff, in a good way. "It's been all sorts of things, but it's been a personal triumph for me. Now it's got really big, and not just in this country - we've been back to Germany twice this year which is bloody unheard of! The States, Japan. "And it sort of spiralled from that because, originally, I was talking about little clubs, like 300-400 capacity. I wanted to do something difficult, just to have that challenge of whether I could hold an audience, me on my own: me and my songs. "I thought of the idea at the end of 2000.
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What better way to demonstrate than hit the road with just a head full of lyrics and a handful of guitars? Not another direction shift of Jam-to-Style Council or Council-to-solo career magnitude, but something which draws together the common denominator in all his work and lays it bare for all to see: the humble song.
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Now the man from Woking has embarked on a new challenge. Weller, Modfather, Dadrocker, Britpopper, British Neil Young - whatever tag you give him - is currently on renaissance two, somehow managing to widen both creative horizons and commercial reward with each shift. Old Frenchie coined the term in the 1500s with his music, art and literature, but even the French only managed one. Entries close 31 January 2013.Then again, renaissance is something he's good at. These marches and the direct action that supported them were organised by the NUWM- what did the letters 'NUWM" stand for?Įmail your answer with your full name, address and preferred T-shirt size to No purchase necessary to enter. In the 1930s the Communist Party led a mass movement against unemployment spearheaded by the Hunger Marches. To enter simply answer this question: Eton Rifles was inspired by Eton schoolboys abusing an early 1980s Right to Work March. We have five of the T-shirts to be won in the January competition, with one lucky winner also getting a copy of School Wars, The Rebirth of History, A New Kind Of Bleak and In Defense of The Terror. "Which part of it didn't he get?" Paul Weller responded, "It wasn't intended as a f-ing jolly drinking song for the cadet corps." Weller has since not been awarded a knighthood in the New Years Honors List. Tore down the House of Commons in your brand new shoes Thought you were clever when you lit the fuse The song Eton Rifles was cited by David Cameron as one of his favorites, the lines of which include:
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