The legendary rocker reckons the gigs will be a big “cultural moment” but he’s passed on tickets, preferring to watch Billie Eilish instead
He’s good pals with Noel Gallagher but Paul Weller decided to snub the Oasis gigs because he can’t stand big production shows. The Modfather reckons huge stadium shows are pretty pointless because you never get a decent enough seat – even if you’re rock royalty.
Paul admitted: “I’ve not been to see them, no. I am not a big fan of big gigs and I said to Noel a few weeks ago, a few months ago, or whatever ‘are you gonna do any warm ups?’ Which he wasn’t.
“So I would go and see anything like that in a smaller venue. I just don’t like big gigs, it doesn’t matter who it was really.”
Explaining his reasoning, Paul added: “Inevitably it doesn’t matter too much where you are sitting, unless you are in the front row, you end up watching the screens and it kind of spoils it for me because I wanna be able to see whoever is playing or singing, I wanna see them.”
However, the 67-year-old did watch Billie Eilish at London’s O2 Arena last month.
Speaking to Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 2, he said: “I took our daughter to see Billie Eilish the other week and she was great. She’s great, I like her, we were quite close to the stage.
“Whether that makes a difference, I don’t know, it had a roof on it that makes a difference but it was good.”
Perhaps Paul is bitter that Noel didn’t give him the heads-up about the reunion, as the legend admitted he found out “when everyone else did”.
And years of playing live shows has started to take its toll on Paul. He said: “It’s getting worse and worse, my wife keeps complaining that I speak quietly now which I can only fear is because I am getting more deaf, I thought I’d shout more.”
Paul’s latest album El Dorado is out now.
Jonas Brothers assumed Barry Gibb would deny their sample
The Jonas Brothers waited seven years to ask for Barry Gibb’s permission to sample Stayin’ Alive.
Speaking about their latest turn No Time To Talk, which samples the iconic chorus, Nick revealed: “The crazy thing with this song is that I started writing it like seven years ago and just assumed it would never get cleared up by the Bee Gees and Barry Gibb.
“But then finally at the top of this year I pulled it back out of the vault, and I was like ‘we need to finish this song’.”
He added that they “got word back within a couple of days that it was approved” after they finally got the courage to ask Barry.
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