BBC 6 Music Web Site Currently Features Great Sold On Song Program From 2006 With Paul Weller

One of my favorite things about the Internet is that the Web pages of the British radio stations have a great deal of their programming available for on-demand listening. So if you miss a program when it goes out live, you can very likely hear it at a time more suitable for you via the station’s Web site.

On this note, the BBC 6 Music Web site is currently featuring a really great edition of their Sold on Song program from 2006 with The Modfather himself, Paul Weller. During the two-part program, which is hosted by Mark Lamarr, Weller is interviewed by Lamarr, takes questions from the audience, explains the origin of some of his songs, and even talks about the chord sequence of certain songs. Weller also played acoustic versions of several of his songs, incuding “Hung Up,” “Wild Wood,” “English Rose,” “Back In The Fire,” “Amongst Butterflies,” and “That’s Entertainment.”

It was really fantastic to have the opportunity to hear Weller in the setting of the Sold on Song program. And it’s a shame that American radio doesn’t have programs like Sold on Song anymore.

To hear trhe Paul Weller edition of Sold on Song from 2006, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/pia/. On the right side of the page, under where it says “LISTEN AGAIN TO THIS SHOW,” there are audio links that appear as follows:

Wednesday: 2130
Paul Weller – Sold on Song (part 1)
Mark Lamarr talks to Paul Weller who plays several acoustic numbers.

Thursday: 2130
Paul Weller – Sold on Song (part 2)
Mark Lamarr talks to Paul Weller who plays several acoustic numbers.

When you click the Wednesday-2130 or Thursday-2130 audio links on the BBC 6 Music Web page listed above, the BBCi Radio Player will open and play your selection. Both Part 1 and Part 2 of the Sold on Song program with Paul Weller are 30 minutes in length. Part 1 will be available for on-demand listening on the BBC 6 Music site until Wednesday afternoon, May 28th. Likewise, Part 2 will be available until Thursday afternoon, May 29th. (Programs on the BBC 6 Music site are generally available for listening for seven days after they are broadcast.)

 To watch a clip of Paul Weller playing The Jam’s “English Rose” on German TV, click below:

To watch a clip of Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher performing The Jam’s “That’s Entertainment” in 2001 on a special episode of the BBC music program Later with Jools Holland, click below: