The Style Council - Royal Albert Hall - 04-07-89
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Audience recording of the final Style Council gig at the Royal Albert Hall on the 4th of July 1989. The setlist for the gig is as follows...
1. Can You Still Love Me?
2. Move (Dance All Night)
3. Promised Land
4. Sure Is Sure
5. Everybody's On The Run (Vocals - Brian Powell)
6. Tender Love
7. It's A Very Deep Sea
8. I Can't Deny Myself (Vocals - Camelle Hinds)
9. Fine (Vocals - Omar)
10. Little Boy In A Castle
11. Mick's Blessings
12. A Woman's Song
13. Now You're Gone - (Vocals - Dr Robert)
14. Mick's Company
15. Cost Of Loving
16. Waiting On A Connection
17. Depth Charge
18. Like A Gun
19. Changing Of The Guard
20. You'll Find Love
21. That Spiritual Feeling
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Legend of this gig be damned! Some there may not have liked it but I hear a happy and enthusiastic crowd on this recording. Sounds like good time to me and Paul's voice is unbelievable. Definitely one of the more unique and challenging gigs by any band. I hope if he gets back to my area for a show ( Detroit) that he comes with a creative curveball like this.🇺🇸🇬🇧
This was my recording!!! Glad it made its way here!!!
+stylecouncilor1 Well thank you for recording the show..remember reading a lot about it, and very glad to have found it a few years ago...
Did you know the music would be like this when you decided to tape it? Either way I'm glad you did-- I haven't really been into Weller since the end of TSC. I guess this recording is pretty famous, but I'd never known about it until tonight.
me and a friend who was a massive Weller fan drove up to this with no tickets on the off chance we could buy from the touts but there was no chance. We hung around after the show started and to our surprise, pretty soon after, people were coming back out and a couple gave us their ticket stubs and we were in....couldn't believe our luck. The night just got better as we waited at the stage door after (for at least 2 hours) and chatted with PW for 20 odd minutes before MT dragged him away...I think he would have chatted longer otherwise.....a great night.
Cheers for uploading and nice to see some pics.
I refuse to believe the reports of lots of people tearing up that gorgeous concert programme. Even if the majority of the audience wasn’t cool enough to dig house music there is little chance they would have ripped up that large beautiful booklet.
I love how creative Weller was with the dance and house music. I would have given my right arm to be at this gig ( I wasn't born till 1990). People should credit Weller for his diversity
To all the people who attended this last gig and were devastated. You don't even know how lucky you were to see this gig! You were privy to an entire album's work that was shelved for years! I've been a massive fan of Weller since the 80s, and I would have died to see this show. I've followed him every single U.S. tour since 1991, and I know that when I see a performance of the current album, it may be the last chance I have to see him perform a song from that period of time (depending how popular the song is). There are tons of deep Weller album tracks I've only seen him perform once. For example, I saw him play The Style Council themed New York show, and he performed It's A Very Deep Sea, and I'll probably never see that again. The TSC House period is a such a unique part of Weller's career, never to be seen again, yet I still seem him perform Jam's Town Called Malice and That's Entertainment (practically) every show he plays! The people who saw this show were lucky, and didn't even know it or (apparently) don't care. Such Weller fans.
igotmobilephone - very interesting comment - I think the style council was a great piece of work by Paul Weller - I think i 'got' 50% of it and didn't 'follow' the rest closely to figure it out. Just loved to see and hear Paul taking chances and risks - so inspiring really especially with hindsight.
I was there loved it
I went with my mod mates we we appalled we threw plastic bottles at the stage we couldn’t believe what we were hearing. Now near 30 years later being more eclectic I feel the Modernism a new decade is a glorious piece of work and Polydor made a mistake not releasing the album. Weller thought his career was over after the gig but he came back storming in 91 at the Brixton Academy which I attended and have that gig on vhs and have bought every album since. A true musician in not afraid to try new out new ideas. I love the man.
I love how powerful his voice is in Sure is Sure
Thanks for uploading this. I love the house era from TSC
i went to this gig . was only 16 travelled from burton on trent with my brother great day met paul and dee outside the gig as they were just going in to soundcheck had photos with them both . paul just jump of the good old public red buses of london and Dee pulled up in here little 4x4 . top time
I know now why people hated this gig. Because people were stuck in their ways with the Jam and the punk rock. Why couldn't people move on with the times and embrace what it means to be a mod and be with modern times. Yet again saying this and this is 31 years ago. I still love it anyway. People hated change it seems
The Singular Adventures of The Style Council was released before this gig so I think almost everyone was expecting this concert to be a “greatest hits” gig. The reaction would have been far better if the took place after the release of the (unreleased) Modernism LP.
I remember a bloke shouting out “Weller you cunt,you’ve sold out” halfway through this gig and storming out not long after. Still sounds awful 30 years on.
Ahead of its time for many:-(
Thanks for uploading this. I'd rather this than the sound of Weller getting into bed with various members of Oasis, Heavy Stereo and The Stereophonics, as he did during the second half of the 90s.
If he had given all the audience a pill or two before the set, it would have been a different story!!
His first 3 solo albums are sublime , he daint get into bed with anyone , it’s a case of Noel, Damon etc all loving the Beatles, stones, Kinks, Small Faces, Pretty Things , T Rex, Bowie , which they all had in common and ended up being the influential music of the Brit-pop thing….
If it were advertised as house show instead of having the appearance of a hits show based on that program it surely should have resonated better
I was at this concert with my first girlfriend, i was 18. This was probably the only highlight with Dr Robert. Next month i bought 'Choices' best of the 'Blow Monkeys'...
I was ticket less outside and i couldn't even buy 2 tickets for 100 quid from a tout, 100 quid 32 years ago was a fortune. I walked over to Solid Bond Studios and watched as people were bringing food in for the after show party there. At least i saved my 100 quid
Love this but those shorts are a fucking disgrace. At least he wasn't wearing a baseball cap. 1989 was an appalling year for fashion.
where did all the artwork come from at beginning, all the momoribillia??....cheers
They're pages of the excellent "Review" programme for that nights show.
i did a 600 mile round trip to see this show and i can safely say it was the most horrific gig ive ever attended,i remember being in total shock as song after song came on,,all utterly shite (in my opinion) ,as they do now,his audiences want to hear his best work not crap,big jam fan,big council fan,big weller fan i am but what i saw still haunts me,mods and soulies in tears before the gig had reached half way,there were people around me tearing up their programmes devastated...i thought i was pissed off,,,anywayyyyy just thought id have a little listen to see if id been too harsh all those years ago,,,,nope,,still a complete mess
The recording is a bit rubbish I'm afraid. Not sure if we need to blame the device that made the recording, the acoustics of the Royal Albert Hall, or, just the straw that broke TSC's back. I heard the fans must have been disappointed that older TSC hits weren't performed, and ones they weren't quite ready for must have been a shock to them. But Paul always gets into a style of music, and does his best to not only create it, but with his own twist to it. To put it bluntly, I think the fans were unfair to The Style Council's last show. But, I suppose it was a domino effect. Get a few fans who aren't happy, and before you know it, the whole venue is miserable. It's not like it was the Sex Pistols disbanding in San Francisco at Winterland, but legend tells us, the writing was on the wall. Paul & Mick, & Dee must have seen it was enevitable. It didn't help that the record label refused to release their new album, but the fans hated it as well. You only get it from a rare Japanese import, or their box set.
Sadly, I can't listen to it & finish it. It just repeats lyrics over & over. Paul's worst lyrics as well. I'm sure to the press, TSC were trying too hard to switch to House music, but it is a rare dud in Paul's career. Perhaps that's what has to happen in any band or recording artists career here & there. You've either got to learn from your mistakes, or you're doomed to repeat them.
Weller's worst ever hour. A bloke in the audience can audibly be heard saying "what a load of rubbish" twice at the end of the recording. Well known fact that this was the END of the Style Council. I know Weller has always proven to be a headstrong musician who follows his influences with full conviction at the time, but to expect an audience who grew up listening to Style Council's brand of jazz funk, to then shift to house music... and also to stomach it at a LIVE show? Where he refused to play their biggest hits.. No Ever Changing Moods, no Long Hot Summer, no Lodgers... the list goes on. Glad I never paid £40 to go to this gig!
No wonder people were walking out, this is absolute shi*!!
I blame DC for this crap.
Worst Gig ever.... the only highlight was Omar and Dr. Robert.