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"I probably lost a certain amount of audience along the way in this past ten or so years."

Paul Weller says it's a "total privilege" to return to the Sydney Opera House in February 2024.

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"A late career peak of grandeur that seems almost effortless."

"We’re all-conquering, ageing mods and, you know, it’s fucking hard to find the time sometimes."

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"It seems fucking insurmountable at the foot of the mountain, but once you’re halfway up it you go, ‘Alright, I remember this’"

"This is very much a modern record drawing on a galaxy of musical influences"

His heavy association with the Brit-pop movement and songwriting that is embedded in the English culture has left him with an album that balances extensiveness, focus and inspiration.

How can so many cross-pollinations of genres and sub-genres deliver such a coherent longplayer? Must be all those mod cons working still.