CD OF THE WEEK:Live at the Royal Albert Hall/Find the Torch, Burn the Plans Island****

By now, with 30 years of sideline viewing in the bag, we know Paul Weller’s onstage schtick: gruff, gum-chewing, passionate, and unfeasibly thin for a rock star of this age, he’s a take-no-prisoners performer, and a man very much into ignoring pleas for a swift, anodyne run through of his best-known songs.

Any onstage document, therefore, is bound to focus solely on the songs – with a Weller show, it’s all about the music (which veers from bland to bracing). So those expecting body-popping visuals, cheery chat and a vacant look in their eyes had best wait until Britney comes to town again.

Of course, from workingmen’s clubs in Woking as a mop-top teenager to the Royal Albert Hall as a 50-something rock icon is an achievement, and there’s something appealing about Weller’s uncompromising career arc. It’s fair to say that Weller has been one of the most stubborn rock stars of the past 30 years, refusing to bow to peer pressure – or any other pressure, for that matter – in his pursuit of creative independence.

This handsomely presented DVD release (the perfect Christmas present, surely, for any mature music lover) comes tagged with a very pleasant surprise: Find the Torch, Burn the Plans, Julian Temple's 50-minute documentary.

Much as there is to like in the music disc (which includes a show from a small BBC studio, featuring guest slots from Stereophonics' singer Kelly Jones and Richard Hawley), it is Temple's movie that warrants closer attention. The director behind such excellent music documentaries as Sex Pistols, Joe Strummerand Dr Feelgoodis a dab hand at getting to grips with his subject, and the focus here is as sharp as the crease in Weller's trousers as he strolls through Soho and Covent Garden in search of style tips, a decent haircut and the perfect cappuccino. See paulweller.com

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