Conference marvin::uk_music

    Ed,
    
    You'll doubtless be pleased to know that Weller no longer fronts the
    Style Council - he now has a new band called the Paul Weller Movement,
    although I have not heard them yet, so I can't pass comment.
    
    Bob

    He's still at the hairdressers
    
    Tim
    --- =8*)

    I'm a bit worried about Paulie, I am. Yet again, by calling his band
    the 'Movement' (as compared to 'Style Council'), he seems to be setting
    himself up as some fashion arbiter/spokesman for a generation type.
    Not, of course, that he wasn't either of these things in the heyday of
    the Jam (and I for one wouldn't want him to go back there), but doesn't
    he think a generation can make its own mind up about who its spokesman
    is???
    
    It sounds to me as if he is either trying to regain past glories, or is
    very out of touch.
    
    Bob

	You have every reason to be very worried about the once-great man.
	The Paul Weller Movement indeed. Things go from bad to worse.
	In the early 1980s, when numerous MM and NME hacks labelled Weller
	as the "spokesman of a generation", he was always quick to contradict
	them with claims that he was no more than a humble pop singer.
	
	The irony is that, at the time, he probably was the closest thing we
	had to a spokesman or mouthpiece who was admired and supported by
	a goodly slice of British yoof. Now that he's gone well off the rails,
	he appears to be trying to reclaim the title he previously denied.

	Maybe our Paulie forgot to grow up. But the man who penned so many
	fine songs and so many sharp lyrics can't have gone completely senile.
	Or can he?

	A despondent Ed

    Paul Weller's Movement is in concert next Saturday on Radio 1.
    
    TP

    Cheers, TP, I'll give it a listen and see if the old boy's come up with
    anything worth hearing.
    
    Open-minded-Bob

Re .06 and .07

I can't pick up Radio 1 over here in Beaujnouve land (maybe this is a good thing).
I would be grateful if one of you could keep an ear open on my behalf and
post your reactions, comments, or comiserations in this note.

Ta beaucoup,

Ed

    Bad news guys. Paul like so many others(Roger d. with his American
    express card) appears to have SOLD OUT. I spotted him in november in 
    the Victoria and Albert Museum ,they were having High Tea. D.C. and the
    kiddies were there. He looked the same except for the rave string of
    beads around his neck. 
    
  

    Well, Ed, I caught some of the PW Movement in concert on Saturday. We
    were promised a mix of "Jam hits, Style Council favourites and brand
    new material" (copyright R Skinner, c/o Radio 1). What we got was a
    kind of loose, tuff, slightly jazzed-up, slightly funked up mixture
    with Paulie's wah-wah guitar fairly well to the fore. I recognised one
    or two Style Council numbers, but I didn't listen to it all, so I
    missed what I imagine could well have been a medley of Jam hits at the
    end (HEAVY IRONY).
    
    Truth to tell, I was more impressed than unimpressed - not brilliant,
    but better than I thought it would be, kind of like the stronger end of
    the Style Council sound, i.e. without all that limp souly garbage they
    used to do.
    
    I'll give the boy six and a bit out of ten.
    
    Bob

I didn't think much of his recent concert at the T & C  Club. He mostly played
new stuff which was ok if you like Jazz/Funk music. He's gone along way
downhill since the best days of the Jam and Style Council as far as I can see.
He did play a couple of Style Council songs and also 'Precious' by
The Jam, but that was it. 

Rich

    New single out by Mr Weler on 26th February, limited edition 7" and CD
    single, track listing :-
    
    Out of the Sinking (new version featuring Carleen Anderson)
    I shall be released (Bob Dylan cover)
    Broken Stones  ( Both recorded for dutch radio session, oct '95
    Porcelain Gods (
    
    
    Released on 26th feb, available for one week only,
    
    Paul Weller is also on a later special on 23/2 at 11.50 on beeb 2
    
    Euan

Is Mr Weller forming a ZZ Top tribute band??

Stuart

    No, he just wants to be the new Eric Cr*pton!
    
    
    			Stretch.