Paul Weller - ＂Come On⧸Let's Go＂

SEP 26 2005 · 12:00

Paul Weller - ＂Come On⧸Let's Go＂ (2005) Director: Andy Hylton Era: Post-Britpop British Rock Revival (2005) - Paul Weller's 'As Is Now' era; a hard-edged return to electric rock informed by Mod heritage, arriving during the mid-2000s UK indie rock resurgence and coinciding with Weller's 2006 Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. High curatorial value as a precisely dated (2005), director-confirmed artefact documenting Paul Weller's mid-career electric rock resurgence. The video fuses Mod subcultural iconography with documentary-inflected rapid montage, making it a rich primary source for the intersection of British heritage subculture, legacy artist identity, and mid-2000s promo production aesthetics. Its vivid tableau of scooterboys, Northern Soul dancers, and coastal working-class locales renders it a time-capsule document of how Weller and Hylton consciously constructed cultural authenticity through visual quotation. Context: Released in 2005 as the second single from 'As Is Now', Weller's eighth solo album and a critically acclaimed return to electric rock, 'Come On/Let's Go' arrived at a moment of significant Weller rehabilitation in British culture. The album reached No. 4 in the UK charts and was followed by Weller receiving the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award at the 2006 Brit Awards. The video's visual language, scooters, Northern Soul, amusement arcades, cobbled streets, anchors the track explicitly in Mod and working-class British heritage, reinforcing Weller's longstanding identity as the 'Modfather' while connecting mid-2000s indie rock energy back to its 1960s and late-1970s British roots. The single charted at No. 15 in the UK, sustaining the album's commercial momentum. Director notes: Confirmed as director of 'Come On/Let's Go' (2005) by both IMDB and IMVDb. Hylton's own portfolio site documents the video's distinctive visual world, citing 'fishing trawlers, scooterboys, vintage hairdressing salons, Northern Soul dancers, amusement arcades, cobbled streets, vintage delivery vans' as production elements, a curated tableau of Mod-adjacent British working-class iconography that maps directly onto Weller's lyrical themes of liberation and communal energy. The rapid montage style (avg shot length 1.58s, 121 cuts across ~3 mins) is consistent with Hylton's kinetic documentary-influenced approach observed across his wider promo catalogue.