One of the highlights of The Great Escape this year in Brighton was a last minute addition to the line-up in the shape of Mr Paul Weller.
While not exactly sharing the "new and emerging band"-type status of much of the bill, he was headlining the second year of Amazon's Secret Show, which (as well as being filmed) was open to 500 wristband winners / Weller megafans and a handful of journalists.
He managed to squeeze in most of his new album Saturn's Pattern, while serving up a few classics - Peacock Suit, Changingman and From the Floorboards Up. Sadly not enough nostalgia to keep all the fans happy. One gig goer repeatedly shouted, "play something from Wild Wood" - and they weren't the only one to come armed with requests and leave a bit miffed that the Modfather hadn't obliged with a greatest hits set.
Not his style, he told me when I caught up with him to chat about his new album.
"I can understand people want to hear certain tunes or old tunes. But I've been doing it long enough, most people must know that I'm not out there doing the greatest hits show. I've never done that," he said.
"Me personally, I like hearing all the new stuff. Because that's where my heart is."
Read what he had to say about the making of Saturn's Pattern, the Glastonbury mud and why he's embracing clean living and kale.
Check out the title track Saturn's Pattern below.
While not exactly sharing the "new and emerging band"-type status of much of the bill, he was headlining the second year of Amazon's Secret Show, which (as well as being filmed) was open to 500 wristband winners / Weller megafans and a handful of journalists.
He managed to squeeze in most of his new album Saturn's Pattern, while serving up a few classics - Peacock Suit, Changingman and From the Floorboards Up. Sadly not enough nostalgia to keep all the fans happy. One gig goer repeatedly shouted, "play something from Wild Wood" - and they weren't the only one to come armed with requests and leave a bit miffed that the Modfather hadn't obliged with a greatest hits set.
Not his style, he told me when I caught up with him to chat about his new album.
"I can understand people want to hear certain tunes or old tunes. But I've been doing it long enough, most people must know that I'm not out there doing the greatest hits show. I've never done that," he said.
"Me personally, I like hearing all the new stuff. Because that's where my heart is."
Read what he had to say about the making of Saturn's Pattern, the Glastonbury mud and why he's embracing clean living and kale.
Check out the title track Saturn's Pattern below.