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Covering yourself
Posted by Sven Garlic on 7 December 2008 - 6:00pm.
Just watched Paul Weller on i-player - BBC4 Sessions. I recommend it wholeheartedly. It's mainly a showcase for the excellent '22 Dreams' album wherein Weller moves on from the rather conservative britpop era evoking work of much of his solo years to something rather more interesting and imaginative, in my view. Anyway, the gig features a rather brilliant re-working of one of his best solo career songs, 'Wildwood'. This version breathes new life into an old, familiar song. There must be other examples of what amounts to an artist covering themselves in bold fashion to re-invigorate their back catalogue.
Here's the clip featuring rather wonderful fiddle work from Eliza Carthy:
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Weller & Adele
Did you see the session he recorded with Adele? Just noticed it on the digital red button thingy...
She looked a bit awestruck to be performing with him but to be honest it was very mediocre. They sang "You do something to me" without it occurring to them that it was pitched way too low for her voice. Then they did a half-baked version of Fleetwood Mac's "I Need Your Love So Bad". At no point was there any eye contact between them.
Credit to the Beeb for putting together sessions like this but they don't work without a bit of forethought and commitment from the artists concerned.
Hrrmph.
Play some old.......
Went to see Weller recently at Aberdeen Exhibition Centre. First time in my life I've ever left a gig early. Crap sound, mediocre songs, no life to the crowd who were shouting for Jam songs and Weller so far up his own arse he was only interested in playing new songs. He did however play Eton Rifles halfway through which was great but then decided on an instrumental interlude where I decided life was too short and took off and have no regrets.
Don't really get that
If I went to see him I'd expect songs off latest album. Maybe one or two Jam numbers. It's different if it's a band who haven't done a lot recently and all their best stuff was in the past - like the Stones, you would expect plenty of old then. But Weller's latest album's done well, had some hits on it, so what's the problem?
Eliza....
Carthy does a great version of Wild Wood on her first non-folk (quite folky) CD, which is probably how they first made contact, ahead of the whole Imagined Village 21st century folk shebang, which hasn't, already, aged all that well.
(Feck me, just listened to the clip, it is absolutely brilliant!! Fraser, Fraser, it's my 3rd track of the year!)
Imagined Village
Saw them doing a couple of songs on TV - seemed a bit of a shambles really, even though talented people involved. Maybe too much going on? Still it was just a few numbers to be fair.