Noel
Gallagher has claimed that Paul Weller used the most of his spare time during
lockdown to record a new album.
The
guitarist, who is close friends with the Modfather, says he completed the
follow up to 2020’s ‘On Sunset‘ while staying at home during the ongoing
coronavirus pandemic.
He told Matt
Morgan’s podcast: “I’ve seen him and I’ve spoken to him a couple of times.
“I’ve seen
him, we didn’t talk about coronavirus, we’re not neurotic, I never mentioned it
and he never mentioned apart from to say it’s shit.
“I know he’s
recorded another album since lockdown started, he had one that came out in
lockdown and about two weeks later he’d finished another one. He’s a got a
great studio.”
While any
further details on Weller’s 16th album are yet to emerge, he was previously
forced to push back his latest UK tour to the end of 2021.
The singer
was set to hit the road in March for an intimate UK tour, but it will now take
place in November & December 2021.
Despite the
cancellations, a string of pre-planned dates next summer will still take place
– including three nights at London’s O2 Academy Brixton and Kentish Town Forum.
In July 2020,
Weller become only the third artist to top the UK album chart in five
consecutive decades, alongside Paul McCartney and John Lennon.
The former
The Jam frontman shot to the top of the chart with his latest LP ‘On Sunset’.
In a
four-star review of the album, NME wrote: “It might not be quite the
experimental opus you feel Weller’s still holding back, but that feels a
churlish complaint when the songs are this well-written.
“There’s a lightness of touch and a tenderness at ‘On Sunset”s heart that makes a song like ‘Old Father Tyme’, the record’s soulful and brass-lathered centrepiece, on which the 62-year-old stops to take stock of a life spent pushing things forwards, just that little bit more bittersweet.”
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