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Paul Weller and the Thursday Theme

Jo chats to the modfather Paul Weller about his new album Fat Pop (Volume 1), which is released on May 14th.

Plus Jo has the Thursday Theme - songs relating to David Tennant.

Jo chats to the modfather Paul Weller about his new album Fat Pop (Volume 1), which is released on May 14th.

May 14th sees Paul releases his 16th solo album since his self-titled debut in 1992, which comes in just under twelve months following June 2020’s chart-topping On Sunset.

During spring last year, after his tour dates were postponed, Paul needed something else to focus on. With many ideas for new songs stored on his phone, he started to record them on his own with just vocals, piano and guitar which he’d send to his core band members (drummer Ben Gordelier, Steve Cradock on guitar and bassist Andy Crofts) to add their parts. Despite it being strange not being together, it kept the wheels rolling and sanity prevailing. The band reconvened at Weller’s Black Barn studio in Surrey when restrictions were lifted to finish the work with the shape of the album becoming clear to all.

Fat Pop (Volume 1) is so called because Paul added the β€œVolume 1” to keep options open for a second volume in the future. The album sees a number of guests contributing including Lia Metcalfe, the young Liverpudlian singer with The Mysterines who combines her tremendous vocal as well as a song writing credit to True. Andy Fairweather Low adds his distinctive vocals to superfly strutting Testify and Paul’s daughter Leah co-wrote and features on the classic 3 minute pop kitchen sink drama Shades Of Blue. Hannah Peel is back in the fray adding her classic string scores to Cobweb Connections and Still Glides The Stream.

Plus Jo has the Thursday Theme - songs relating to David Tennant, to mark the actor’s 50th birthday. Send all your tracks related to Doctor Who, Hamlet and Harry Potter’s Barty Crouch, Jr to jo.whiley@bbc.co.uk

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Thu 15 Apr 2021 19:30
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Music Played

  • Mick Jagger & Dave Grohl

    Eazy Sleazy

    • Eazy Sleazy.
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories

    Stay (I Missed You)

    • Woman (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv/Sony Tv.

  • Years & Years

    Starstruck

    • Starstruck.
    • Polydor.
    • 2.

  • Lucy Dacus

    Hot & Heavy

    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Video.
    • Matador Records.

  • Longpigs

    On And On

  • Jungle

    Keep Moving

    • Keep Moving.
    • Caiola Records/AWAL.
    • 1.

  • Lemon Jelly

    Space Walk

    • XL.

  • Paul Weller

    Shades Of Blue

    • Cosmic Fringes.
    • Polydor.

  • Jane Weaver

    Stages Of Phases

    • Flock.
    • Fire Records.
    • 3.

  • Declan O’Rourke

    In Painters' Light

    • Arrivals.
    • 1.

  • Beautify Junkyards

    Cosmorama

    • Cosmorama.
    • 7.

  • Underworld

    Born Slippy

    • Huge Hits 1996 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Music TV.

  • Fun Boy Three

    The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)

    • Chrysalis.

  • The KLF

    Doctorin' The Tardis

    • Tophits '88 Volume 2.
    • 3.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    It's A Sin

    • Pet Shop Boys - Discography.
    • EMI.

  • B.A. Robertson

    To Be Or Not To Be

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll: 1980 (Va).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 4.

  • Nancy Sinatra

    These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

    • The Greatest Hits Of Nancy Sinatra.
    • Boulevard.

  • The La’s

    There She Goes

    • Love - 38 All Time Love Classics.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Proclaimers

    Sunshine on Leith

    • The Best Of The Proclaimers.
    • Chrysalis.

Broadcast

  • Thu 15 Apr 2021 19:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2