The Style Council
24 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, January 2007
The former Jam man discusses his current band, plus playing material from his back catalogue; his low commercial profile in America; relearning and singing his old songs; being an adult; the Englishness of his music; his fondness for Britpop; never being a punk; turning down a CBE and his disdain for the Royal Family.
File format: mp3; file size: 15.8mb, interview length: 16' 27" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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The Style Council: The State of the Nation's dress by Paul Weller
Interview by Lesley White, The Face, April 1983
"I SUPPOSE PEOPLE find it difficult to penetrate me," offers the pale young man in the white mac, "they're not sure whether I'm really deep ...
Style Council, The Farm, The High V: Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Live Review by Penny Kiley, Melody Maker, 7 May 1983
NEW SOUNDS, NO STYLE ...
The Style Council: Cardiff, St. David’s Hall
Live Review by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 1984
FIRST OFF, SOME striking things. The man who used to specialise in doing soul songs really badly is now fond of doing funk standards reasonably ...
The Style Council: Two's Company
Interview by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 1 March 1984
But three's just that little bit cosier. Neil Tennant has a tête-à-tête-à-tête with The Style Council. ...
The Style Council: Cafe Bleu (Polydor)
Review by Hector Cook, New Musical Express, 17 March 1984
ME AND my ever-changing moods. One minute I hear 'Strength Of Your Nature' and think Paul Weller's cracked it, next I'm hearing some snippet of ...
The Style Council, the Questions, Billy Bragg: Dominion Theatre, London
Live Review by Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, 29 March 1984
OUTSIDE, COPIES of Socialist Youth are on sale and touts are trying to buy tickets because they can resell them for twenty quid to those ...
The Style Council: My Ever Changing Moods (Geffen)
Review by Jon Young, Creem, July 1984
GRANTED, THAT Paul Weller is a talented guy who can concoct swell rock songs and crank out a pretty fair guitar lick. But the truth ...
Wham! Style Council: Miners' Benefit, Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 15 September 1984
Pit-Head Ballet ...
Wham!, Style Council et al: Miners' Benefit Finale, Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 22 September 1984
SLAG! ...
The Style Council: Our Favourite Shop (Polydor)
Review by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 25 May 1985
Shopping spree ...
The Style Council: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 15 June 1985
Top Shop ...
Echo & The Bunnymen, Ian Dury et al: Glastonbury CND Festival, Pilton, Somerset
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 29 June 1985
"JESUS WEPT," from St Mark's Gospel is, I'm assured, the shortest verse in The Bible. That his Divinity did so over this event when 40,000 people decamped ...
Working Week/The Untouchables/Midnight Oil/The Style Council: Glastonbury CND Festival, Somerset
Live Review by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 3 July 1985
MUD: IT'S what you get if 40,000 people tramp around a small farm for 48 hours in almost constant rain. A lot of mud. By ...
The Style Council: Internationalists (Geffen)
Review by Rob Tannenbaum, Musician, September 1985
LEADING THE Jam, Paul Weller was usually eloquent about the ineloquence of youth. Now he's an adult, and he's learned all about monetarism (it's bad) ...
Report and Interview by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 12 February 1986
"It's no good just complaining in your beer about things — you've got to come out and say it..." So says Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp. ...
The Style Council: Home And Abroad (Polydor TSCLP3)
Review by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 3 May 1986
WISHING WELLER ...
Style Council: The Cost Of Loving (Polydor)
Review by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 7 February 1987
LISTEN TO the wordly-wise Cappuccino Kid: "...this affair of the heart, once it began, dispelled all the bitternenss I felt at the world, and gave ...
The Style Council: The Cost Of Loving (Polydor)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 7 February 1987
A REMARKABLE fellow, this Paul Weller. It's a strange journey he's made over the last decade, but stranger still is that he's managed to take ...
The Style Council: The Cost Of Loving
Review by Dave Rimmer, Q, March 1987
IT'S FOUR YEARS now since Paul Weller knocked The Jam on the head and launched his new group with "Merton" Mick Talbot. Ever since the ...
The Style Council: The Singular Adventures Of The Style Council: Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (Polydor)
Review by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 11 March 1989
THE COVER OF The Style Council's most blatantly angry single, 'Walls Come Tumbling Down', bears not a picture of rioting or the Prime Minister on ...
The Style Council: The Complete Adventures Of The Style Council
Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, November 1998
FIVE-CD overview of Paul Weller's "Cappuccino" years. ...
Paul Weller: Last Man Standing
Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, December 1998
"YOU SHOULD WRITE THAT LETTER," Paul Weller' is telling his press agents, Pippa Hall and Jane Wilkes of Monkey Business PR, referring to a particularly ...
Retrospective by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, October 2000
WELLER'S cappuccino-drinking years ...
see also Merton Parkas, The
see also Paul Weller
see also Dee C Lee
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