The Jam
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The Jam: London Hammersmith Odeon
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 31 December 1977
FRAGMENTATION STRIKES DEEP... as punk "culture" is guided firmly into several easily categorizable (and therefore easier controlled)/marketable segments(divided we consume), it's clean teen night. ...
The Jam: Direction Reaction Creation
Review by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, May 1997
IF WE ACCEPT pop as the religion of youth in the last quarter of the 20th century, then there can be no more striking example ...
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Interview by Ira Robbins, Rock's Backpages audio, January 2007
The former Jam man discusses his current band, plus playing material from his back catalogue; his low commercial profile in America; relearning and singing his old songs; being an adult; the Englishness of his music; his fondness for Britpop; never being a punk; turning down a CBE and his disdain for the Royal Family.
File format: mp3; file size: 15.8mb, interview length: 16' 27" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, 1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion, 1977
"I want more bands like us. I want people to go out and start something, to see us and start something, or else I'm just ...
The Jam: In The City (Polydor 2382 447)
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, 1977
ANYONE WHO has paid any attention at all the last three years knows that I (and almost everyone else around this tiny office) rate the ...
Report and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 5 March 1977
PEOPLE TRY TO put us down just because we sound like The Who. ...
Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 2 April 1977
OBVIOUS BAND for the slag-off merchants this. ...
The Stranglers/The Jam/Cherry Vanilla: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 23 April 1977
THE JAM WERE scarcely halfway through their set at half past six when the geezer at the door of the Roundhouse told the 300-plus still ...
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 14 May 1977
I HEARD the Jam's single 'In The City' on the radio the other day. The bass came roaring up from the mix and through the ...
The Clash, The Jam, The Buzzcocks: The Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 21 May 1977
Rock ‘n’ roll can be one of the few honest things left in this world.Yes.An event, a gathering of the clans.Yes.But it was all down ...
Interview by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 28 May 1977
WOKING CLASS heroes with Union J-J Jack tenacity. The J-J-Jam. ...
The Jam: In The City (Polydor 2383 447)
Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, June 1977
THE JAM have come a long way since I first saw them supporting the Sex Pistols at Dunstable last October. Then they had an ill-fitting ...
The Jam: Boy Wonders Make The BIG STEP
Report and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 25 June 1977
PHEW. THAT was a close one! For a moment there I thought the Jam were going to blow it completely. ...
The Jam: The Nashville, London
Live Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 17 September 1977
THE NEW WAVE scene is arguably more interesting now than ever, as the big five or six bands are being forced to consolidate their first ...
The Jam: In the City (Polydor PD-J-6 110)
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 6 October 1977
WOULDN'T IT be funny if the most influential album of the Sixties turns out to be The Who Sings My Generation? If you don't think ...
The Jam: In the City (Polydor)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, November 1977
ANARCHY IN the U.K.? You ain't heard nothing yet — just wait till the Sex Pistols wake up to the realization that they pissed away ...
Profile and Interview by Howie Klein, New York Rocker, November 1977
LAST MONTH the Jam travelled to America for a short promotional tour, playing dates in established new wave centers, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and ...
The Jam: This Is The Modern World
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 5 November 1977
SO THIS is the modern world. I'm glad they told me. For an instant I'd thought I'd been transported back to 1965. Flashback on flashback ...
The Jam: THIS Is The Modern World
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 26 November 1977
The Jam: The Mayfair, Newcastle ...
Report and Interview by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 17 December 1977
DOWN IN WOKING at three o'clock in the afternoon the Modern World seems miles away. Outside it's icy cold, but in number 44, with the ...
The Jam: This Is The Modern World
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, April 1978
QUICKIE QUIZ – The Jam is a throwback band that most closely resembles one of the following: (a) 3 Dog Night (b) The Who (c) ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 28 October 1978
THIRD ALBUMS generally mean that it's shut-up-or-get-cut-up time: when an act's original momentum has drained away and they've got to cover the distance from a ...
Profile by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, December 1978
Try calling Paul Weller of the Jam a punk rocker, and finds out how icy a cold stare can be. The intense young man who ...
The Jam, Gang of Four: Music Machine, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 6 January 1979
DOZING AT the back of the lower layer of the multi-tiered Music Machine I couldn't help wondering what it is to be charming, chillingly nostalgic ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 20 January 1979
Hope I die before I get old? The Jam's Paul Weller knows he can't write teenage anthems any more. HARRY DOHERTY sympathises. ...
Review by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, February 1979
IT HAS TAKEN the Jam merely three albums to go from a young band with a lot of energy and a love for mod-era rock'n'roll ...
The Jam: Dies' Ist Der Modernische Welt
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 17 March 1979
AND IN THE beginning there was darkness. Then, it has been written, the Mood formed the Pistols, Clash, Damned, Stranglers, Vibrators and the Jam and ...
The Jam: Invasion of the Riff Snatchers
Report and Interview by Ian Birch, Melody Maker, 28 April 1979
Can a bunch of ordinary guys repeat the British Invasion? IAN BIRCH watches the Jam take on America. ...
Profile and Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, May 1979
Jam's Paul Weller knows where he's going ...
The Jam, The Records: City Hall, Newcastle
Live Review by Rick O'Shea, Pop Star Weekly, 17 May 1979
We want Jam! ...
The Jam: All Mod Cons (Polydor)
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 17 May 1979
FOR TWO albums, the Jam made leader Paul Weller's obsession with Pete Townshend and the early Who stand up as an acceptable substitute for personal ...
Report and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 19 May 1979
THE DISTANT echo of faraway voices playing faraway games — who'd have thought that a rock'n'roll music for fun and against privilege would have somehow ...
Live Review by John Pidgeon, Melody Maker, 19 May 1979
FASHION NOTES first. The band, of course, were in their sharp suits, looking less like matching mods, though, than a good old group in uniform. ...
Talking 'Bout My Generation: The Jam
Interview by David Hepworth, Smash Hits, 6 September 1979
IT'S AUGUST 1979 and this is The Modern World. The Who are back in action for the first time in years, their films are on ...
The Jam: The Revolution Will Start When Paul Weller Has Supped His Pint
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 3 November 1979
"I WOULDN'T say I'm a very articulate person, but I seem to be able to articulate when I write lyrics..." ...
The Jam: Setting Sons (Polydor)
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 10 November 1979
CHANGE. IT'S something Paul Weller wrote about on 'To Be Someone', that sour story on All Mod Cons about the kid who wanted to be famous and ...
The Jam: Setting Sons (Polydor POLD 5028)****
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 17 November 1979
THE WHO, why and where is of no concern here but someone once said of the Clash that they didn't want to become stars, they ...
The Jam, The Vapors: Apollo Theatre, Manchester
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 1 December 1979
FIRST NIGHT out on tour: welcome back to another edition of So Who Really Is The Best Group In The World? Down in Manchester Apollo ...
The Jam: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 15 December 1979
Slap your back ...
The Jam: Setting Sons (Polydor PD-1-6249)
Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 February 1980
JAM GETS ITS OWN FLAVOR ...
The Jam: Riding Waves And Setting Standards
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 6 March 1980
WHEN I met Paul Weller I saw red. His shirt, his trousers, his pullover, his shoes – and I daresay his St. Michael Y-fronts – ...
The Jam Is Packed Off To America
Profile and Interview by Simon Frith, Creem, April 1980
THEY STARTED talking about clothes even before I left. They were discussing shirt makers. "Jermyn Street," was the consensus. "They will make silk up for ...
The Jam: Civic Theater, Santa Monica
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 5 April 1980
HERE IN peanut butter land they call jam jelly and it's transparent, slick and insubstantial, easily assimilated sweetness. Maybe that's why The Jam are having ...
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, May 1980
HAS IT really been three years since the Jam made its first live appearance in America? Since three teenagers in matching suits and skinny ties ...
The Making of The Jam: The Men Behind The Scenes
Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 19 July 1980
THE JAM: it's a family affair. A family of blood and/or loyalty, stick-together adhesion and sense of common purpose you might expect to come ...
The Jam, Or, How To Not Break In America (Because You Don't Want To)
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Creem, March 1981
ON A DAMP, dank Sunday lunchtime the three pasty-faced, unhealthy-looking members of the Jam sit in an uncomfortably functional room in a nondescript London hotel ...
The Jam: Sound Affects (Polydor)
Review by Don Snowden, New York Rocker, March 1981
SOUND AFFECTS finds the Jam stretching out, once again successfully staying off the (seemingly) inherent limitations of a three-piece lineup. ...
The Jam: Sound Affects (Polydor PD-1-6315)
Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 26 April 1981
SPARE SOUND FROM THE JAM ...
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 1 June 1981
Still Charging Hard On The Punk Rock Line ...
The Jam: The Gift (Polydor POLD 5055)
Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 6 March 1982
MAN'S GIFT... ...
Review by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 6 March 1982
ALTHOUGH THERE is every possibility that any of a hundred lesser known bands have the potential to one day produce as good an artefact as ...
The Jam: Fair Deal, Brixton, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 20 March 1982
"See me walking around – I'm the boy about town that you've heard of..." ...
Interview by Chris Salewicz, The Face, May 1982
AS PAUL WELLER says, in the mid-1960s the original spirit of Mod implanted itself into the soul of young Britain with a self-nurturing, almost religious ...
Letter From Britain: Jammed Up, Jelly Tight
Comment by Penny Valentine, Creem, June 1982
Struggle after struggleYear after yearThe atmosphere's a fine blend of ice.I'm almost stone cold deadIn a town called malice.— 'Town Called Malice', the Jam. ...
The Jam: Whine, Women and Song
Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 17 July 1982
One man and his misery — Paul Weller of The Jam by Mark Cooper ...
The Jam, The Gun Club: Palladium, New York NY
Live Review by Karen Schlosberg, Trouser Press, September 1982
UNDER A WIDE banner that said "Trans-Global Unity Express," the Jam played an intense 80-minute set to a half-empty Palladium. Songwriter/guitarist Paul Weller, with his ...
The Jam: Brighton Centre, Brighton
Live Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 2 October 1982
I WASN'T exactly willing to be converted but I was willing to be entertained. ...
The Smiths and The Jam: The Great English Rock Group
Comment by Iman Lababedi, Creem, March 1988
THE SMITHS broke up recently. No need for tears. The Smiths were a fine band, sure, but I doubt they made your life — and ...
Overview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 22 May 1993
From The Kinks to Carter, Bowie to Blur, the Small Faces to Suede, British pop groups have eulogised, mythologised, criticised, glamorised, immortalised, romanticised and agonised ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Q, July 1995
Summer, 1976. Punk, live punk, is about to explode in the capital. Tap rooms, Poly bars and sweaty clubs will host its unwashed greats. Johnny Black looks ...
Paul Weller: Last Man Standing
Interview by Paul Lester, Uncut, December 1998
"YOU SHOULD WRITE THAT LETTER," Paul Weller' is telling his press agents, Pippa Hall and Jane Wilkes of Monkey Business PR, referring to a particularly ...
Steve Cradock on Jam tribute album Fire and Skill
Interview by Kit Aiken, Uncut, October 1999
KA: What did The Jam mean to you? ...
Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher: Sex, Drugs, Rock'n'roll... and Babies
Interview by Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 31 October 1999
Both "spokesmen" for their respective generations, it's perhaps unsurprising that the men behind the Jam and Oasis became friends. Here, they talk frankly together for ...
Paul Weller: The MOJO Interview
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, September 2004
KEITH ALTHAM PR’d The Jam in the late '70s. In his book of post-retirement open letters to former clients, No More Mr Nice Guy, he ...
Paul Weller: "The Jam? They were a way of life."
Retrospective by John Harris, The Guardian, 3 February 2006
As Paul Weller prepares to receive a Lifetime Achievement Brit, John Harris salutes a giant. ...
The Jam: Sound Affects Deluxe Edition (Universal)
Review by David Quantick, Uncut, December 2010
1980: THE JAM are at their creative and commercial peak, after the career-saving All Mod Cons album and the brilliant 'Eton Rifles' and 'Going Underground' ...
Slaves to the rhythm: What the non-frontmen have to say
Book Review by James Medd, New Statesman, 18 June 2015
That's Entertainment: My Life in the Jam Rick Buckler Omnibus Press, 384pp, £14.95 Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams and Drugs with the Grateful Dead Bill ...
Memoir by Paul Wellings, Louder Than War, June 2021
10. Terry Farley, Superstar House DJ Terry was my Editor at Boys Own fanzine. He was a country bumpkin from Royal Berkshire but he had ...
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