A full orchestra with the likes of In the City, Going Underground, Start, Eton Rifles and/or a few other Jam/Style Council/solo stompers would surely have been a mismatch made in some kind of experimental, avant garde hell. Such a collaboration could work only with a particular “type” of song. An Orchestrated Songbook - Paul Weller with Jules Buckley & the BBC Symphony Orchestra Paul Weller Format: Audio CD 901 ratings Amazons Choice for 'paul weller cd' -7 £523 Was: £5.64 FREE Returns See all 3 formats and editions Streaming Unlimited MP3 £10.29 Listen with our Free App Audio CD £5.23 1 Used from £11. The key here isn’t necessarily the lack of interaction in the room – excitable or not – but the focus and execution of the works in hand. ![]() Due to Covid-19 restrictions it was, of course, a sparsely attended, socially distanced show, filmed/recorded for online and television broadcast (both of which took place in June). More than six months ago, Weller, long-term mucker Steve Cradock and the BBC Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Jules Buckley) gathered in London’s Barbican centre. Paul Weller An Orchestrated Songbook album with Jules Buckley & The BBC Symphony Orchestra 18 June 2021 Newsdesk Share with: On May 15th 2021 Paul Weller performed an exceptional concert. One answer is to do it the way Paul Weller has here. The question remains, however: how does an artist do justice to selections from their back catalogue without the exercise turning into the proverbial dog’s dinner? The mega-names often get it dreadfully, embarrassingly wrong: they shoot for the stars by duetting with equally famous singers and delivering overproduced versions of their best- known songs. ![]() What on earth can they do to not only make sense of their sizeable back catalogues but to repackage them, creatively speaking, in a way that doesn’t pander to the lowest common denominator? Credible heritage artists are in a quandary.
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