EP166 - Adrian Thrills - Music Journalist shares his experiences of The Jam and Paul Weller from 1976 to Solo…

On this episode of The Paul Weller Fan Podcast,
I am joined by music journalist Adrian Thrills.


Adrian became a fan of The Jam from 1976 - pre-Polydor record
deal - seeing them at the 100 Club, upstairs at Ronnie Scotts,
The Marquee, Red Cow in Hammersmith and at many more gigs...


Together with his friend, Shane McGowan, Adrian did one of the
very first interviews with the band for own 48
Thrills fanzine (One of the original punk fanzines that
launched in '76).


As a friend, and journalist, he became part of the inner-circle,
even joining the band on the road with gigs in Dunstable,
Crawley, Malvern, Falkirk and Barrow-in-Furnesss...


Adrian spent the 1980s at NME, where he continued to feature and
review The Jam, even conducting one of the final interviews with
Paul before the split at the end of 1982.


Look closely at the rear sleeve for live album Dig the
New Breed for a brilliant shout-out too!


"A brief six years , sweaty frantic Red Cow residency, 1st week
50 people, 2nd week 100, by the fourth week. A queue around the
block! SWITCH the marquee with Shane, Claudio and Adrian dancing
on stage to the confusion of the usual Marquee hippies!"


In more recent years, Adrian has been a music writer for The
Daily Mail and he's reviewed plenty of Paul Weller albums in his
time there.


He also created sleeve notes on The Very Best of The Jam, The Jam
Live at the BBC and the Hit Parade boxset in 2006.


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