The Modfather has returned. Paul Weller, whose influential career spans decades — from mod-punk luminaries The Jam to ’80s pop group The Style Council to a prolific solo career —announced his first tour since 2017 earlier this year. And included in the run is a visit that lands tonight (September 8) to Citizens House of Blues in Boston.
Weller is touring behind his new solo album, titled 66 — no relation to the Boston bus line we’ve all relied upon at one point or another — which was released back in May, on the day before his 66th birthday. “I don’t think, ‘What did I do on the last album?’, or, ‘What did I do 20, 30, 40 years ago.’ I’m not interested in that,” Weller says about it. “It’s only what I’m doing now.”
Part of his now is standout single “Soul Wandering,” written with Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie. 66 marks the 17th solo album from the British icon’s career, and boasts contributions from Noel Gallagher, Madness’s Suggs McPherson, Richard Hawley, The Blow Monkeys’s Dr Robert, Le SuperHomard’s Christophe Vaillant, and Erland Cooper, with string arrangements by Hannah Peel.
It should all sound fantastic this evening on Lansdowne.
PAUL WELLER + GEORGE HOUSTON :: Sunday, September 8 at Citizens House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St. in Boston, MA :: 7 p.m., all ages, $35 to $49.50 :: Event info :: Advance tickets
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