In a twenty-seven strong set list, it's no surprise that The Jam favourites 'Start', 'That's Entertainment' and set closer 'Town Called Malice' receive the greatest reception. The night is peppered with songs throughout his prolific career. Weller seems to embrace this period more these days and so he should. It wasn't long before The Style Council's 'My Ever Changing Moods' delighted the large crowd and after a nod to 'Micky Talbot who is here tonight' he lunged forward into 'Headstart for Happiness'. Suitably dressed in a Chelsea Pensioners red shirt and black trousers Weller took to the stage with 'White Sky' from 2015's Saturns Pattern. A quick couple of pints in a Sloane Street bar brought us toe to toe with The Style Council co-founder Mick Talbot and the evening was shaping up nicely. We were older, not much the wizer and still excited and most of the crowd looked just like us. Today, it feels right that I'm reuniting with my younger brother, minus my mum, to celebrate, reminisce, and further discuss a man who after all this time is still at the top of his game in an ever-changing world of musical evolution.ДЄfter a glorious week the clouds were closing in and exiting Sloane Square the rain had already started to fall but nothing could dampen the spirits. I clearly had no idea and picked all I could afford which sat us high up at the back but such was my anticipation I could not have been happier if I was seated on stage. It feels like yesterday the woman at Wembley Arena box office asked the nieve 13-year-old where he wanted to be seated. I remember making the pivotal decision to buy three tickets before asking my parents if I could go.

I luckily managed to catch them on their last Beat Surrender tour in 1982. Suburban 100 reveals aspects of a famously private man.Paul Weller has had a pretty much constant presence in my life.

They also revel in the mystical beauty of the English country landscape and repeatedly revisit dreamlike childhood summers.For the first time Paul Weller shares his reflections on his lyrics, offering candid insights to his writing process and the inspiration behind some of pop music's best loved songs. His lyrics, rooted in English suburban culture, explore the hopes, dreams and crashing disappointments of ordinary people. The youthful frustrations of small-town life that fuelled Weller's early writing is palpable, as is the angry but poignant response to Thatcher's Britain. Suburban 100 - the first selection of Paul Weller's lyrics - draws on songs written for The Jam, The Style Council and solo releases that, together, tell stories of life and love, rage and romance. In a writing career that has now spanned three decades, his songs have been acclaimed, imitated and loved by many. REVISED, UPDATED AND WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PAUL ABBOTTThis edition of Suburban 100 includes new lyrics from the critically acclaimed albums, 22 Dreams and Wake Up the Nation, which has been nominated for the Mercury Music Award.Paul Weller first burst onto the national music scene with The Jam in 1977 and was quickly marked apart from his contemporaries as a brilliant lyricist.

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