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Paul Weller plays live with Everything But The Girl at the ICA, London, England, UK, Europe. This is Weller's first stage appearance since the demise of The Jam, and Everything But The Girl's first London show.Full article:
Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl) : I think our first live gig was a little club in Hull called Desolation Row, which a mate of ours had set up one night a week, and I know we played live there very early on but I don’t remember anything about it.
But the one that sticks in my mind was the second gig, which was at the ICA with Paul Weller. We’d been communicating with Paul backwards and forwards because we’d done a cover of English Rose. It was before the Style Council. He’d only just split up The Jam in December of 82 and he was keeping his head down for a few weeks, nobody really knew what he was going to do, and then, how did it come about … we got asked to do … you know the ICA Rock Weeks, well we got asked to do one night and somehow Paul got in touch with us saying ‘I wanna come and do a few songs with you.’ And we were like, ‘What? Are you serious?’ So we came down to London and he had that big Solid Bond studio complex at the time and we went in there to do some rehearsing with him, and we were working on some jazz standards and stuff, and we mucked around for a day, but we really didn’t believe he was going to do it.
Then we didn’t hear anything from him for a couple of weeks and we were sure he wasn’t going to turn up, but when we went for the soundcheck he just appeared. It was like, ‘Fuckin’ hell, he’s serious. He’s really going to do this.’
So we went out and did a few songs, then I say, ‘This is a really old song.’ And Paul comes on and we do English Rose, then he sings Girl From Ipanema with me, then we did Fever. I have a bootleg tape that I bought off a guy in Camden market. It’s really funny. Me and Paul are giggling a bit and you could tell we were just mucking about with it. We did about seven songs in all, then we went off and got an encore and came back and did Fever again. There’s a bit at the end of the tape where the guy next to the guy who’s taping it says, ‘Who was that again?’ ‘Everything But The Girl’ ‘Wha-a-a-t?’ Then the tape clicks off. It’s one of my favourite little mementos.
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But the one that sticks in my mind was the second gig, which was at the ICA with Paul Weller. We’d been communicating with Paul backwards and forwards because we’d done a cover of English Rose. It was before the Style Council. He’d only just split up The Jam in December of 82 and he was keeping his head down for a few weeks, nobody really knew what he was going to do, and then, how did it come about … we got asked to do … you know the ICA Rock Weeks, well we got asked to do one night and somehow Paul got in touch with us saying ‘I wanna come and do a few songs with you.’ And we were like, ‘What? Are you serious?’ So we came down to London and he had that big Solid Bond studio complex at the time and we went in there to do some rehearsing with him, and we were working on some jazz standards and stuff, and we mucked around for a day, but we really didn’t believe he was going to do it.
Then we didn’t hear anything from him for a couple of weeks and we were sure he wasn’t going to turn up, but when we went for the soundcheck he just appeared. It was like, ‘Fuckin’ hell, he’s serious. He’s really going to do this.’
So we went out and did a few songs, then I say, ‘This is a really old song.’ And Paul comes on and we do English Rose, then he sings Girl From Ipanema with me, then we did Fever. I have a bootleg tape that I bought off a guy in Camden market. It’s really funny. Me and Paul are giggling a bit and you could tell we were just mucking about with it. We did about seven songs in all, then we went off and got an encore and came back and did Fever again. There’s a bit at the end of the tape where the guy next to the guy who’s taping it says, ‘Who was that again?’ ‘Everything But The Girl’ ‘Wha-a-a-t?’ Then the tape clicks off. It’s one of my favourite little mementos.
(Source : not known)