i have a strange relationship with paul weller and his projects, i loved the jams first album but thought a lot of other releases were a bit mediocre, good but not good enough and then style concel wrote a few nice tunes and solo i loved about 60% of his output, heavy soul, wild wood, the new stuff. i've seen the jam, and paul weller a number of times but last night i somehow found myself at the opera house. the band were excellent, they played really well and the songs were good and some were excellent. the lesser known ones from that sunset album especially. what really surprised me was the audience, all ex pats, all older, not one young person in sight, yet everyone was on their feet. it was weird.

anyways, i enjoyed some of it. i wish i had seen simple minds a day before but seeing as they played two sets in the same night i felt i would not get 100% and when it comes from simple minds that's what you want. although this would have been excellent right...