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Paul Weller

lines on the record: 61
first: 2007-12-16
most recent: 2007-12-16
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Probably out of loyalty, probably the small faces. On a musical level, probably Nick Drake. Probably loyalty says the small faces.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is by Roscoe Robinson and his sort of late 60s sole R&B track. I mean, I could have chosen a thousand of these sort of songs, but this one's good enough, I think, really, it's called, that's enough.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Pretty hands on, I would say pretty. I was pretty involved, I think. I love my children with my sort of saving grace, I think, really. It's time to sort of get really down or whatever. Just bored anyway, generally, but I think with kids there's just always some interesting, something new to find, you know.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I don't know. I don't know if I've mellowed or not, I don't know. I mean, I don't find my life is particularly mellow because with five children and especially young ones as well, it's pretty sort of manic, really. But great as well, you know, I wouldn't sort of change any of it.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“50 next year. On one hand, I don't sort of feel like I should pack in because I'm working on a new record now and I think it sounds every bit as good as any I've ever done before. then I sort of do look at the other generation beyond me and sort of think, I don't know, it doesn't look quite right really. But then if you love it and you're still into it, what are you supposed to do? I don't know. I mean, what else would the Rolling Stones do but be Rolling Stones? I mean, you know. What would I do? Where else would I do in life? I just love music so much.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's why I'm laughing. I played something the other day, which he definitely didn't like. I can't repeat it on your show, unfortunately.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it is tricky. Do you know it means I'm doing it myself now, which isn't, that's not so difficult, I don't think, because it's all kind of up and running, really. But I just miss him as an entity I've been on, especially when I'm on the roads and just as a person. Sitting in a hotel bar together and just having a laugh and just, you know, because apart from being my manager and my father, he's also my friend as well. So it's quite a unique situation, really.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's only been the last sort of three or four years he's had to pack it in, he had to retire just for age and health, yeah.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's probably all that thing of sort of getting to a certain age as well. You know, it's kind of, I don't know if it's a midlife crisis, but I was into my 30s by that time. I just enjoyed it, all to be honest with you. Do you know what I mean? It's kind of like, well, I didn't do it first time. I said, I'm going to do it now.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, definitely true I think probably when my little style was in its ascendancy back in the early 90s, I've really noticed it then. So all of a sudden everything I said was funny or interesting, which of course is impossible to be. Been very indulgent around that time, anyway, so it's probably kind of all went hand in hand in a way.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wasn't because I've always got to have bed, you know. I've had a small baby son as well, so you have to get out of bed. So that's, you know, I'm a very practical person as well. For me, it was getting back to just sort of playing electric guitar again with a drum kit and a bass player and getting out and just doing it from the roots. And that's really what it's about, you know.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To be quite ashamed, by the time we did wild woods, which was like the second solo album, I kind of knew there were some songs on that I thought were really special. It just felt natural again. It felt natural to write again, you know. And it felt very odd before that. It felt like almost like picking a guitar was just really weird and alien to me. But it just took a while to get back into it really.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was saying something very practical, and that was like get back on the road and earn some money. So he always see it from a very practical standpoint. Need people like that around again, you know.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't really sort of do any writing for probably like a year or two years or something like that. And it took me a long time to get back into it really. And I think I only really sort of found myself again just through playing life to going back out on tour. And it was almost like just sort of building up from scratch again, really.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was kind of sort of leading up to that anyway. I mean, it wasn't just about that record. I mean, they didn't like the record, they didn't want to release it, but it was also about money as usual anyway. But there was probably a bit of a wake-up call for me anyway, I think, really, which I needed really to get back to reality again.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, that came a little bit later. I mean, I was 30 when I had my first child, my son, Nat. Having kids always match your grapes, doesn't it has to, you know?”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is by a young Irish singer songwriter, his name, Declan O'Rourke, and it came out probably about two years ago. And it's a beautiful track called Galileo.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think for the first sort of two or three or four years of the Star Cats, we had just fun. It was like being in a sort of gigantic moving youth club. It was just fun all the time.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A lot of those This fight, yeah, it was kind of real, it was all division, I think. Some people stuck with it and something liked it, and other people just didn't get it at all and hated it.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't know and I didn't want to see one, to be honest, I just wanted to go somewhere different and try different things, things I wouldn't be able to do within the framework of the jam. So that first year after the jam split, 83 was just joy, it was just fun. It was just, you know, go away to Europe days or weeks or whatever. Just live anyway, just live a bit, you know.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I just wanted to move on as an individual, I wanted to move on. I mean, I could be seen as a selfish move because, you know, you've got other people kind of relying on you as well. But I just knew it was just the right thing for me personally to do. I just wanted to move on and just see what else.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, you'd be number one for 10 years now if you've solved that many records. It's incredible. But that was kind of pretty standard that time. Yeah, every single after a certain point anyway.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I suppose I am actually, yeah. I tried to be less so because, you know, it gets more and more difficult to be vain of the older you get because you get more lines and grey hairs and your body starts going and all the rest of it than I am. I am, it's true. And my dad is as well, so obviously get it from him, I guess”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We have somebody who says Let's just snaffer. If you have to have someone tell you what you should be wearing, I mean, you might probably do your five or six, but your mum does then. Should be decided as a grown up children. But I think I just love clothes, you know.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Again, just because I was obsessed with closes, as obsessed with clothes as I was with music, you know. I mean, as a kid, you know. There was two boutiques as I used to call them days in Woken, which I would just sort of go and just look in the window if I could spend hours just looking in the window. It's just like Aladdin's cave to me. And I suppose, and I'm still like it now, you know.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do love, I love this, I love this, as I say, track. I don't know. Is he allowed to call me tracks? Yeah, let's call it a track. Anyway, Mr Boost is Arabesque number one, and the version I've chosen is by Branford Masalis, who put an album out called Romances for Saxophone probably twenty years ago. All the choices on the record anyway kind of got me into classical music, not in any massive way, but certainly an introduction to it as well, because his first and foremost is a jazz player. Yeah, it really opened up a different world to me anyway.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, did you have? Well, I think I was just sort of catching up on a lot of things I didn't bother with at school, really. You know, just like reading a book or reading some poetry and just being opened up to different influences really and different ways of writing as well, you know.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I thought we'd gone somewhere different with it, yeah. I thought we'd taken the music to a different level. I think around that time I started to get more into lyrics, into writing lyrics, and a lot of them started out as kind of more like sort of poems or prose or whatever you want to call it, which I would then sort of edit and adapt into a song and fit some sort of rhythmic thing into it. I think the fact that that was successful had just kind of spurred me on to other things where I was kind of, you know, sometimes you need success to do that, you know.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, totally, yeah. Britain of that time, I mean, it was the start of Thatcherism. There were strikes, there was power cuts, there was all that stuff going on. Do you know what I mean? There was unemployment starting. There was all the race riots going on. So I think it was an angry time, I think. I can't remember ever going to a gig at that in that time without ever seeing a fight going off or, you know, there'd be a point in time where it would just kick off in the audience. People were naturally angry. It's our turn now.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was eighteen then. Where was it? It was sensational. I mean, you know, because again, I've been watching religiously watching top the pops from, you know, mid-60s onwards. So to actually be on it was like, wow, you know, to actually make a record, to have this physical piece of vinyl in your hands, but the music on it was just something else, you know. It's got everything we'd ever sort of thought about or dreamt about came true”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think if you're the songwriter in a band, I think you naturally are anyway. direction is decided by the writer really.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think so, yeah. It took a few years to do that, but no, I think I sort of six, 77. We've been playing for such a long time by that time. We've definitely got a sound together anyway.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I suppose we did, yeah. I suppose we did. We're on the way, really. I mean, I think even before getting the deal, we built up such a good following playing these pubs and You could sort of feel there was something building up anyway. One of the first times I thought we'd really made it was we did a four-week residency at the place called the Red Cow in Hammersmith. And each week there was more and more people until the last week there was Qs around the block. And you kind of thought, well, we've arrived.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We were glad to get it. We were skinned anyway. We needed the money. We needed to get any sort of, we would have took any dealworth, to be quite honest with you, because we needed the money. It was kind of going to continue.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, I think that was difficult sometimes because you were expected to rebel against your parents, and so you should do as well. But he's as bad as me or worse, actually, on the side anyway. I'm sure you won't mind me saying. You kind of expected to do it, but there was nothing too much to rebel against, really.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We've had other movies kind of been thrown in the deep end of all these sort of music business types, but it was just kind of with all the work tools this all these years, we're going to see it through, you know.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Had a lot of front and he would never get embarrassed about asking Pittle for whether it's money or equipment or borrowless borrow your van mate for a weekend or going into a place and asking for a gig. And you need those sort of people when you're starting off. You need to have people who've got the balls to do that, you know. came from believing in us and believing in me and his son and to him sort of has in all this equipment and gigs whatever it may be what happened to the time we actually got a deal in 77 with Polydor and I remember at the time he was saying well I don't know if I should take this on any further because I'm kind of maybe at my depth here but I mean all of a sudden to give the other two in the band their jury as well we also learned some rather old gunno on together or not at all so”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you could see we could take much further. He must have spent a good sort of five years playing Workingmen's Clubs and Social Clubs around Surrey. Whenever he'd get the solution, he was always one of the listen, you know, we've got to keep at it because we can get a deal. This thing could happen.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know if he did at all. He probably just made like get them off, get those kids off. But it did matter, it was the first time for us, and it was kind of like, well, you know, we could do this, actually. And I think also after we did a gig at school in the lunchtime, in the music room, the whole audience, if you can call it that, was just all girls, and we just thought, wow, this is definitely a good job. Kind of define a moment for us, really. We felt kind of different. We thought we were separated from the rest of the pack in there within a kind of youthful, arrogant sort of way.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was 14 actually the first time I played. I can remember, yeah, very distinctly because it was me and another fellow called Steve Brooks who was kind of me and him who sort of started to jam off really. But the Working Man's Club was literally around the corner from where we lived. I mean, Dad just sort of hustled a little half hour slot or whatever on a Wednesday night where we were just playing to probably five old geezers all just drinking and...”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's Charles Mingus, and just called Better Get It in Your Soul. I'm a big jazz fan, but I specially like Charles Mingus' stuff. I just think it's really funky as well. It's pretty soulful funky. And he's also great composer as well. It's not just about soloists.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, they did say as realistic, possibly. I mean, my dad more so, and we obviously saw something in me that. I don't know. I always liken it to him. He was a boxer as well. And I always liken it to boxing trainers where they might see two kids fighting, but they'll see one of them has got something that the other one hasn't. And they just need to draw it out of them a bit more. I always think maybe it's a bit of that in his eye as well”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They didn't expect anything at all because the sort of background I come from, which is totally unacademic. Their jobs weren't going anywhere, so they were quite happy for me to try and get into music and do that”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What I imagined to be my real life. But I think it was a way of escaping that. We're escaping just doing the mundane and just going out, and I'll leave the score and doing a mundane job. I just sort of escaping all that and getting away and seeing the world and meeting different people and all those things”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't like being told what to do, I suppose. That's the bottom line, really. I didn't like having to wake up every morning and go to the same place and come home and all that stuff, the whole regularity of it. And I suppose music sort of represented a way of escaping that a little bit.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, totally, yeah. I can remember from the age of 10 onwards, I sort of had feelings I wanted to be in a band or make music. So they bought me guitar for my 12th birthday, and then I had some lessons for a little bit. I just learned some really basic. Stuff on the guitar, and then I just played along to records, and that's how I learned really.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The next one's September in the rain by Dinah Washington. I suppose it makes you think of your mum and dad at that time, that period of time, I suppose. It's been a sort of really small kid and hearing that sort of music. It was still in the age of romance, really, and innocence, I think, and just beautiful arrangements, the strings were great and the melodies and all that stuff. But there was a sense of innocence in the music.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No idea because I know I'm not going to forget the words, I forget the cause. None of those things matter anyway, but I have no idea. I suppose it's just that thing of standing up in public and just sort of bearing the soul a bit really. Exposing yourself for that way.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dealt with them, I suppose, up to point, but it's kind of even to this day, not as extreme as that, but I mean, I still get really, really nervous before I go on, always, every single gig I've ever done, even last week to 20 years ago. And that never gets any better. And before a gig, at least an hour or so before a gig, I just wish I was anywhere else but in this building. And then as soon as I get on stage after sort of a song or maybe two songs, it's just like the best place in the world. I never ever want to leave it. And it's just such a weird thing, really.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really shy, painfully shy. I still am really. But to the point, you know, Wood's only sort of talk if I've spoken to, and even then really reluctantly, a bit like this interview really. But I can always remember saying to my mum, I'm going to go and play a gig next week. I'm going to play with a mate of mine who's playing this club around the corner from us. And she couldn't believe that I would actually stand up on the stage and do that.”
2007-12-16 · Desert Island Discs · Paul Weller · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source