Jam were always more than Paul Weller

Now the original Jam were always more than Paul Weller and backing
musicians – Bruce Foxton was and is a superb bass player and his
stygian sound hasn’t dimmed in the passing years, Rick Buckler is a
sticksman of real power and precision and these two were the fulcrum
around which Wellers songs were created. No Foxton & Buckler =
softer and less affecting songs = no Jam. Foxton was always a jumping
jack on stage and he still is, always on the move and, with his white
shoes and drainpipe trousers, a focal point for the audience and when
the band are chucking the hits out one after the other - 'Modern
World’, 'News Of The World’, 'Eton Rifles’, 'That’s Entertainment’,
'Going Underground’ – and the crowd is pogoing and doing the 'Weller
Walk’ – shoulders back, elbows bent and fists at waist level – it is
1978 all over again.

They finally encore with 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight’ with the whole crowd singing 'OooH Oooh Eeee’ with the band.

The
ghost of Paul Weller still manages to hang over From The Jam but they
managed to exorcise him for a good hour and a quarter last night and
The Jam were back and all was right in the world.