Paul Weller Salutes Robert Kirby

Paul Weller was the surprise guest at a memorial concert for string arranger Robert Kirby on October 3.

Kirby, who worked with artists including Nick Drake, Weller and Elvis Costello, died last year aged 61.

Weller performed ‘With Time And Temperance’ from his album ‘Heliocentric’ – which featured Kirby‘s arranging – at the event, held at London‘s Cecil Sharp House.

“With Time And Temperance” – Paul Weller

Speaking about Kirby, Weller said he was “a great man”, adding: “[We] made great music together and fell off many barstools together!”

With strings conducted by Harvey Brough, the memorial also saw performances from Vashti Bunyan, Teddy Thompson, Ben & Jason and Steve Ashley.

Source :- www.uncut.co.uk

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With regard to other Paul Weller news congratulations are due to him as it has been reported that he has married his girlfriend Hannah Andrews during a low-key ceremony in Capri, Italy, last week.

From Modculture.com

Paul Weller’s next release is called Find The Torch, Burn The Plans, it’s a ‘CD/DVD Deluxe Album’ and its out on November 29th on Island Records

What is it? Well, according to the label, it’s a ‘lavishly packaged and highly covetable DVD and CD package’ mixing a 26-track live set culled from Weller’s Royal Albert Hall shows, an all-new film and a music disc of his Radio 2 gig earlier this year.

The DVD movie part, directed by Julien Temple, is actually titled Find The torch, Burn The Plans and is described as ‘a remarkable 50 minute portrait of one of the world’s greatest musicians at the peak of his powers’. Make of that what you will.

The whole thing is packaged in a hard back book style, with exclusive images, a new interview and a ‘collectable set of 5 cardboard prints’ housed in a slip case attached to the back cover.

The full price is £31.99, although Play.com seems to be doing discounted pre-orders to £17.99 right now. More details from its website.

Tracklistings:

DVD
Live at the Royal Albert Hall

1. Andromeda
2. From the Floorboards Up
3. 7&3 Is The Strikers Name
4. Into Tomorrow
5. Aim High
6. Moonshine
7. Up The Dosage
8. Strange Town
9. Wake up the Nation
10. Shout To The Top!
11. Trees
12. You Do Something To Me
13. One Bright Star
14. Wild Wood
15. The Eton Rifles with guest Kelly Jones
16. That’s Entertainment with guest Kelly Jones
17. Fast Cars/Slow Traffic
18. Come On
19. Why Walk When You Can Run
20. All On A Misty Morning
21. Light Nights
22. Butterfly Collector
23. Find The Torch, Burn The Plans
24. Art School
25. Scrape Away
26. Pieces Of A Dream

“Find The Torch, Burn The Plans” A Film by Julien Temple
  7& 3 Is The Strikers Name promo video directed by Lawrence Watson

CD
Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Andromeda
From The Floorboards Up
7&3 Is The Strikers Name
Into Tomorrow
Aim High
Moonshine
Up The Dosage
Trees
Wild Wood
The Eton Rifles (with Kelly Jones)
That’s Entertainment (with Kelly Jones)
Fast Car/Slow Traffic

In Concert at the BBC Theatre
Start!
Sea Spray
Strange Town
Broken Stones
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) (with Lauren Pritchard)
No Tears To Cry (with Richard Hawley)