![]() ![]() (There are also too many Mick Talbot instrumentals, but that's another story.) For most listeners, including some serious Weller fans, the Style Council is best appreciated as a singles band, but for the dedicated, The Complete Adventures reveals that the Style Council, no matter how maddening they could be, were a group that continually reinvented themselves, occasionally making some remarkable music along the way. No matter how interesting some of Weller's ideas were, they didn't always work, and he wrote way too many pompous, directionless songs to have The Complete Adventures rank with Direction Reaction Creation. That doesn't mean the music is always compelling. The Style Councillors are a tribute band for the English pop-rock and blue-eyed soul band The Style Council, led by Paul Weller. To mark the occasion, we asked Mick Talbot to look back even further: to the 10 records that changed his life. The Style Council established their collaborative approach from the off, with Weller and Talbot enlisting Orange Juice drummer Zeke Manyika and vocalist Tracie Young to perform with them on. Instead of an aberration, the Style Council seems like a natural extension of the Jam's final record, The Gift, and every one of their subsequent records makes more sense than before. Compiled with the help of Weller himself, it also features the likes of Speak Like A Child, You’re The Best Thing, Ever Changing Moods and Shout To The Top. The sequencing is a blessed occurrence, since it's easy to trace their development over the years. As it turns out, A Decade of Modernism wasn't that far afield from what the Style Council was exploring from their inception, as the chronological running order of the set makes clear. Performance Time: 8:00pm Age Suitability & Warning: Over 18 Accessibility: Find out more > Tickets: You should receive your ticket confirmation within 24 hours of booking. reinvention via The Style Council, and formidable career as a solo artist. The Style Council No longer touring 37 past concerts Join Songkick to track your favorite artists and never miss them live. Fortunately, Polydor took a chance and assembled The Complete Adventures, a lavish box set containing all of the group's singles and albums, minus the live Home & Abroad but including the notorious unreleased 1989 record A Decade of Modernism, which the label allegedly rejected because it found Weller turning toward house music. Given the blockbuster success of the Jam's exhaustive box set Direction Reaction Creation, perhaps it was inevitable that Polydor would give the Style Council a similar treatment, but the 1998 release of the five-disc box set The Complete Adventures of the Style Council was still a bit of surprise - there never was much interest in their catalog following their 1990 disbandment.
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