Long Hot Summers: The Story of the Style Council (2020 TV Movie)

Mick Talbot: Self

Quotes 

• Paul Weller : It was just a bit of fun, you know. And it was aping Colin MacIness' style in "Absolute Beginners," really. And the book was a huge influence, as well, on me and The Style Council, forming The Style Council.

  Mick Talbot : I always thought that it had elements of those early Stones albums, as well, like getting some strength and dialogue from a really good novel and using it as a kind of language that was pertinent to just to one band.

  Paul Weller : And I just had a kind of another rebirth of mod when I read that book, really. And I thought that was the kind of sort of blueprint, really, for modernism, I thought, really. You know, kind of embracing all these different cultures and not being xenophobic and suspicious of anything foreign.

• Mick Talbot : It was a strange thing to get used to, though. Because, you kind of just feel like you're warming up and then your off. And then its just someone else is on. But, its nice like, you sort of feel like this is like it was at Sunday night at the Paladium or something. You know, being in the old school variety bill, you know. Its not dead - or, we didn't think it was. We might have helped kill it, but.

• Mick Talbot : We shied away from calling ourselves jazz musicians. I think, we felt that we were competently playing what we wanted to play and jazz was an influence. But, its another one of these things, I feel, genres of music and cults of fashion, and once you start putting a label on it, you start, you know, you have to fit in with the rules. So, it was an important influence; but, I don't know if we were a part of the 80s jazz scene.

• Mick Talbot : There were points trying to be made. There was humor trying to be made. We tried - and people found it trying.

• Mick Talbot : I think the Orange album is, not because it's orange - I'm not going to be colorists - but it is a big turning point. And I think the Orange album turned a lot of people off.

• Mick Talbot : I'm just struck by what a lot of music we turned around, really, and generally, I'm pretty proud of all of it.

• Mick Talbot : We weren't particularly playing big hits and I think our Greatest Hits has just been released by Polydor - which we didn't have any power over. But, that's almost a bit like the death nail, I think, when they knocking them out.