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Things I found out while having a quiet word with Daniel Tashian and Dylan Jones last night

July 3, 2013 David Hepworth 0

The key moment in Daniel’s career came when he discovered the major seventh chord. If you launch into a Louvin Brothers song at a Word […]

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Dress code at Lord’s

July 3, 2013 David Hepworth 0

People have been asking whether there’s any dress code for Duckworth Lewis at Lord’s. It goes without saying that we would welcome anyone who makes […]

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Daniel Tashian of the Silver Seas makes a video at the mall

June 27, 2013 David Hepworth 0

I can’t decide whether this has been expensively art-directed to look like a slice of American apple pie or whether Daniel just popped down the […]

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“Chat” added to Duckworth Lewis shows

June 27, 2013 David Hepworth 0

There’s going to be a chat element as well as music at the Duckworth Lewis shows at both Lord’s and the Nottingham Playhouse. Neil and […]

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Paul Weller – ‘gloriously chippy’ – as seen by friends, family, fans and collaborators
byMark Ellen, David Hepworth and Alex Gold

Dan Jennings’ podcast ‘Desperately Seeking Paul’ is so successful he’s used 250 of the interviews in a best-selling oral history. ‘Dancing Through The Fire’ has voices from right across the spectrum – family members, band members, writers, pluggers, label bosses, collaborators and famous fans. He talks to us here about …

 

… Weller’s real name and when he changed it by deed poll

 

… a theory about bands formed in towns not cities

 

… the handbrake turn from the Jam to the Style Council – one minute the intense young man cutting out his press clippings, the next espadrilles, singing in French and “nibbling Mick’s ear on the River Cam”

 

… Weller’s “very English” need to be heard and respected – but not loved

 

… the role of his manager father in the Jam’s success, the days when the family phone number was in the Fan Club ads

 

… how Noel Gallagher engineered a Bono/Weller photo op

 

… Paul’s glorious chippiness – Band Aid, the pop press, “offering a journalist out for a fight in Victoria Park”

 

… John and Paul Weller and echoes of Only Fools And Horses

 

… when the Jam played ice rinks and swimming pools

 

… the cab-driver gossip grapevine

 

… cutting 1.5 million words to 250,000 and the book’s biggest revelations and surprises.

 

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