Jam to reform without Weller

Mod-rockers The Jam are to reform and tour but without frontman Paul Weller.
Bassist Bruce Foxton and drummer Rick Buckler have not toured together in 25 years but will play a 20-date tour from 2 May, beginning in Oxford.

The Jam sold over 14 million albums worldwide before their 1982 split. The new tour will feature a mix of old hits and new material.

Paul Weller, who has had a successful solo career, has been invited to join the tour but has not commented.

Foxton said: "This tour is deliberately intimate and something of a warm-up to our own material to launch later.

"The plan is for us to get close to the fans, have some fun and then follow with a larger tour in the autumn."

Buckler added: "Paul Weller has a fantastic solo career and is one of the UK's most talented songwriters.

"Paul is always welcome to join us for the reunion, but until then, we've got a tour and a new album to do!"

The tour will take in venues across the UK such as Aberdeen, Nottingham, Liverpool and Guildford, before ending in Portsmouth on 27 May.

The album is planned for release in the autumn.

this is not big news this is just another cynical cash in by people whos got no relevance apart from the circuit along with Joe Brown, Dabid Cassidy and Showaddywadyywadyy

No way you can have the Jam without Weller :rolleyes:

Good luck to them.... The Jam were 3 guys..... and Weller treated the other 2, who were lifelong friends, like dirt when the band split.

 

Mr Weller has gone on to have a seriously bland and underwhelming career since.... it's obvious he gave Bruce and Rick too little credit for his making....

No, incredibly stupid idea.. It would be like reforming The Smiths without Morrissey, Happy Mondays without Shaun Ryder or The Stone Roses without John Squire....

No, incredibly stupid idea.. It would be like reforming The Smiths without Morrissey,

 

didnt they actually kinda reform without Morrisey for some charity gig, but without all the cashin bull$h!t of were called 'from the jam' or 'hello we're riders on the storm - the doors of the 21stC'

 

Happy Mondays without Shaun Ryder

 

or maybe without bez :lol: ????

 

 

 

No, incredibly stupid idea.. It would be like reforming The Smiths without Morrissey, Happy Mondays without Shaun Ryder or The Stone Roses without John Squire....

 

 

Exactly a bit like Queen reforming without Freddie,....................hey wait a minute they did :unsure:

No - stupid idea you cant have the band without Weller

 

Paul Weller made the band, without Paul the band won't be the same.

Fukkin ridiculous :rolleyes:

oh.

 

NO