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Exclusive: Paul Weller On Writing With Noel Gallagher
Ahead of his acoustic gig at the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust last night (April 10) Modfather Paul Weller spoke exclusively to Xfm about collaborations and potentially revisiting former glories.
With his ninth studio album, '22 Dreams', soon to be released, Weller's forthcoming collection is characterised by a variety of musical flavours as it touches rock, funk, soul, free jazz as much as it is by its guest stars.
Making the roll call of honour are Weller mainstay and Ocean Colour Scene guitarist Steve Craddock plus the likes of Noel Gallagher, Gem Archer, Little Barrie and Graham Coxon.
Speaking of working and writing with Noel Gallagher, Weller explained how the pair's double A-side 'Have You Made Up Your Mind'/'Echoes Round The Sun' came about:
"We were talking about writing a song together for years and years - which we never got round to doing - but I think it helped because Noel came down with a pretty definite idea of what the backing track should sound like. It was something that he'd had around for a while so there's just me adding something on top of it." [Listen To Full Answer]
Weller was also effusive about the surviving members of The Zombies who recently reformed to revisit their 1968 psychedelic masterpiece 'Odessey & Oracle': "A fucking classic. To hear it in its entirety was fucking brilliant."
Was Weller ever tempted to play one of his albums live from start to finish?
"There's a few that I'd like to do," he mused. "If I had a sympathetic musical director I'd think about it...'Stanley Road' would be a good one to do. And I think it'd be difficult to do now but [The Jam's] 'Sound Effects' would be another."
Playing for the charity once again, Weller was equally passionate about the Teenage Cancer Trust:
"It's just a nice thing. There's always really nice people here and you know the money goes where it's supposed to go." [Listen To Full Answer]
The Teenage Cancer Trust concerts at the Royal Albert Hall continue until Sunday (April 13) and will feature performances from The Fratellis (11), Muse (12) and The Who (13).
(LISTEN TO THE WHOLE INTERVIEW)
Tagged as Paul Weller, Albums, Collaboration, In The Studio, Live
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Noel Gallagher writes? I always imagined he just writes the name of each major and each minor chord on separate tickets of paper, throws them up in the air and writes the next album from the mess on the floor. Either that or he just listens to Definitely Maybe, shrugs and says "yeah, that'll do".
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