“So it’s been a bit of a cottage industry for all of us. I was 13 or 14 and I was a member of the David Essex fan club – which for £5 a year was pretty crap, to be honest. I started the fanclub because there was piles and piles of post coming through the letterbox. We had to be the first ones to get up and dance. Me and Mum were the sort of rent-a-crowd in those days. My mum used to look after their clothes and make sure they were smart and washed and ironed. “My brother started playing guitar at an early age, and my dad, who was a builder and worked taxis at night, got them a few gigs and stuff,” says Weller. We asked Nicky to tell us some of the stories behind the exhibition. And it’s taking place In The City of Brighton until the end of August. Nicky Weller at the new exhibition in Brighton We can even step into a re-creation of the cover photo of The Style Council’s brilliant second LP Our Favourite Shop and so much more. We can see Paul Weller’s school books and reports, the first ever photoshoot of The Jam (with handwritten comments by the singer), original handwritten lyrics, The Jam’s 1982 Subbuteo team, Weller’s iconic Whaam guitar, torn trousers given away as a fanclub prize in 1977, and a talent contest trophy the band won as teens in Woking. Now, Nicky is curating a new exhibition, This Is The Modern World, featuring music, clothes and incredible ephemera offering a new view on The Jam and The Style Council. It became the family business – with their father John managing the band while Nicky ran the fanclub. Then her brother Paul Weller became a teenage sensation, as singer and driving force of The Jam. Don't offer resistance, try to figure this music out and enjoy the emotional flow.Nicky Weller was a teenage pop fan. I would consider Brandtson a band that you don't listen to, you experience it. It's amazing how a band can make you absorb in their passionate and varying post-hardcore music. Their voices are dragging you along to dreamy dimensions of sadness and joy. You can try to resist, but it's a fact that you will succumb under the emotional pressure of the hypnotizing emo-pop-rock tunes and the magnificent harmonious interaction of the voices of Jared Jolley (drums, vocals) and Myk Porter (guitar, vocals). To me Brandtson is such a band and just grabs you emotionally without any problems. "There are some bands that play with your heart and soul like if you're a toy doll that can't offer resistance to anything. "Slow, deliberate and darkly passionate." - Punk Planet Brandtson can bash out a righteous wall of noise." - Magnet "A maelstrom of dense, tight emo with fire and real darkness. Brandtson are gonna be THE biggest." - Fracture "Angry, melodic and powerful although they occasionally do let up. Mighty and infectious.the business." - Kerrang "Damn near untouchable rock and roll blasted out from battered amps. "Blindspot" continues the favorable impression with a six-eight groove seemingly borrowed from Weezer's depressed twin brother. The album's first track 'Round 13' commands the listener's attention with an attack slightly reminiscent of early Social Distortion. Song titles like 'Nineveh' and 'Glutton For Tragedy' show that the band also possesses a poetic sensibility. "Letterbox features all the hallmarks of the emo sound: the approach is moody, the dynamics extreme, and the lyrics painfully honest. Unreleased song "Holly Park" on Emo Diaries 2. Somber yet spirited with introspective lyrics, Brandtson is thoughtful, inspirational and mature beyond their years.
Thick, driving, emotional guitars that are sometimes pretty, sometimes surging, sometimes chaotic. And they proudly wear their post-hardcore and dare we say pop influences like a badge of honor. Dark, melodic and hauntingly beautiful, Brandtson explodes with shredding intensity on Letterbox.
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