Paul weller 2021 mod#
Paul weller 2021 series#

The silence between songs without applause, is excruciating to begin with: even an old-hand like Paul Weller has a few jitters when he introduces the wrong song. Ferocious scales on the strings, improv backing vocals, is this when he’s at his best? Quite possibly as the camera teases out a telling nod of satisfaction, as if to say ‘did my music really sound that good’. ‘Daylight turns to Moonlight’ as Weller finds his range over a sumptuous arrangement. ‘The Maestro’, as Paul Weller playfully refers to him, waves in an elaborate Trumpet before that strummy Jazz intro for Ever-changing moods.

Paul weller 2021 mod#

The second number, English Rose sees us reel back forty plus years and a few different Mod crops, to realise Buckley has done his homework here by choosing a delightful working of the early Jam song. In this majestic setting, we see an expansive orchestra, a trio of gospel-like backing vocalists and of course Weller’s constant companion and ‘legend’, Steve Craddock.Īndromeda is the opener with Buckley taking his rightful place front and centre stage. If Weller thought he had shouted to the top when selling out two nights at The Royal Festival Hall in 2018, this curation at The Barbican has trumped that.

No project too audacious for Buckley it seems? Almost, but even the Heritage Orchestra creator and recipient of multiple Grammy Awards confessed he found the prospect of reimagining Weller’s songbook across three incarnations ‘daunting’. It turns out Buckley and Weller first dabbled with this project after performing at a Quincy Jones concert, with Buckley confessing to using the opportunity to sew the seed. So it seems, he has chosen his soul-mate well in the multi-talented, award winning composer Jules Buckley. The Woking wonder’s insatiable appetite to create and evolve has seen him last week, release his sixteenth Solo album, Fat Pop Volume 1 and last year join Lennon and McCartney as the only three artists to have had a Number One UK album in five successive decades. Most seasoned musicians would know all too well that dubbing yourself the ‘Changing Man’ would be tantamount to giving the music press a loaded gun in waiting.

Paul weller 2021 series#

Paul Weller, Conductor Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra played a lavish live-stream performance as part of the Live at the Barbican series on Saturday night.