RECORD ON: PAUL WELLER - WILD WOOD
1 X 70' HD/4K
DIRECTED BY JOE CONNOR
A WHITE LIGHT FILM PRODUCTION
Record On is a major brand-new 3-part series exploring the context of the times around the making of a ground-breaking album by the world’s most prominent artists.
Each episode looks at the motivations of the artists to write and record the album they did at that particular moment in time and how that album came to reflect those times, becoming a cultural icon in itself.
The series takes its tone from the social, cultural and political focus of what was happening around the time each album was written and recorded and how this is reflected in the artists’ music and the performance.
PAUL WELLER - WILD WOOD examines Paul Weller’s human journey through changing times in the early 1990’s, the new direction in sound that he found and the resulting tour de force that is Wild Wood.
The film explores the track Wild Wood - a metaphor to life in the cities (and his move from city life to a more rural-England as he enters middle-age); Sunflower, a love song wrapped up inside a solid-rock composition and Moon on Your Pyjamas as a love-letter from a father to a son - Paul’s song to his then-young son.
Through new interviews, Paul Weller and the band talk in-general about the period of 1992/3 and what was happening inside the studio, as well as events outside-the-studio-window that influenced the writing and composing of the tracks for Wild Wood.
The film also interviews other contributors to provide social and historical context to the backdrop of the times in early 1990’s as well as other performers and contributors to the Wild Wood record.