Paul Weller to release Syd Barrett inspired single next month


Paul Weller @ V Fest Toronto 08 (Photo: Live4ever Media)

Paul Weller (Photo: Live4ever Media)




Paul Weller will release the single ‘When Your Garden’s Overgrown‘ next month, the latest track to be lifted from his UK number one album ‘Sonik Kicks‘.

Out on May 21st, ‘When Your Garden’s Overgrown’ features former Oasis star Noel Gallagher on bass and, according to Weller, was inspired by the late, great Syd Barrett.

“I think this song’s about Syd Barrett” Weller has said recently. “It’s like, what would it have been like if he hadn’t got into music? If he’d gone off to the continent and just been an artist on the side-street in France. He probably would’ve been happier.”

“There’s some lines in there about the brush strokes of fame and I’m thinking of Syd at the time. He was an artist at heart, not a rock star.”

The single will be available as a digital EP, with an expanded version featuring new tracks ‘We Got a Lot‘ and ‘Lay Down Your Weary Burden‘.

‘When Your Garden’s Overgrown’ tracklist:

1. When Your Garden’s Overgrown
2. We Got A Lot
3. Lay Down Your Weary Burden


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