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"Paul Weller has revealed that the current trend for band nostalgia drives him &amp;quot;potty&amp;quot;. The singer insisted that he would never want to reform The Jam and believes that all of the groups reuniting &amp;quot;isn&amp;#039;t helping&amp;quot; new music.   When asked why he thinks bands such as The Stones Roses are reforming, Weller told Shortlist: &amp;quot;Money talks, doesn&amp;#039;t it? Simple as that. &amp;quot;Hopefully I&amp;#039;ll never be that skint. I mean, I don&amp;#039;t know the Roses that well, apart from Mani who&amp;#039;s a good mate.  &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;ll be a financial consideration, obviously, but I know from [Mani&amp;#039;s] point of view that he&amp;#039;s been mad to do it for years. He&amp;#039;s actually really wanted to get back with his mates and he loved that band.&amp;quot; Weller continued: &amp;quot;We live in that age, though, don&amp;#039;t we? It&amp;#039;s either bands reforming, bands playing their classic album or tribute bands.&amp;quot; Responding to whether he would play a classic album gig, he said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m going to go out and play a classic album next year, but it&amp;#039;ll be my f**king new one. Not one from 20 years ago.&amp;quot; Speaking about the nostalgia craze, Weller explained: &amp;quot;It drives me potty. It&amp;#039;s a strange time. In some ways it makes me want to go away for a while and come back when people have got a bit of sense back. &amp;quot;I also think it doesn&amp;#039;t help new bands. Don&amp;#039;t get me wrong - there aren&amp;#039;t a lot of great new bands, and there&amp;#039;s a lot of s**t about. &amp;quot;But it hurts new bands because nobody&amp;#039;s looking out for anything new. It&amp;#039;s just tried-and-tested old music, and it&amp;#039;s weird to me. I think it&amp;#039;s a phase.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Paul Weller is a closet &amp;#039;X Factor&amp;#039; fan, says Noel Gallagher Watch the music video for The Jam&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Going Underground&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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