Paul Weller and Suggs team up on new single “Ooh Do U Fink U R”

Paul Weller has teamed up with Suggs from Madness for a new collaborative one known as “Ooh Do U Fink U R” – hear beneath.

The stomping ’60s R&B-motivated variety delves into Suggs and Weller’s upbringing in Britain’s ’70s extensive faculty process in London and Woking respectively, in accordance to a push launch.

“Me and Suggs have been chatting about performing some thing alongside one another for the last handful of many years so to see it ultimately occur is remarkable! I adore the tune and operating with him,” Weller discussed.

“He’s really a male of many talents. We preferred to do a thing particular and I really imagine this keep track of is.”

Suggs included: “I assume academics are the ideal folks in the globe, I love them with all my heart. But you know all all those terrific teachers you read through about who dragged their pupils up, and encouraged them and created them into the greatest probable version of by themselves they could be? Perfectly, sad to say, I didn’t have a single of these!

“‘Ooh Do U Fink U R’ was a phrase I listened to a lot more typically than I wished and sums up my school decades – constantly currently being told to know my put and hold in my box, getting specified no encouragement but nonetheless hardly ever supplying in, and never offering up.”

He ongoing: “Chatting to Paul reminded me of these encounters. We both uncovered enthusiasm and a intent in songs, and that pulled us via.”

“Ooh Do U Fink UR” comes with an animated montage-design official video clip by longtime Madness collaborator DNO – tune in above.

A constrained version numbered 7″ vinyl edition of the joint solitary will get there on June 17 – you can pre-purchase it here.

Weller and Suggs have regarded each individual on-and-off for the very last four decades but began speaking routinely about music and their other shared passions throughout the early times of lockdown in 2020.

Later, “Ooh Do U Fink U R” emerged just after the pair started exchanging 50 %-finished music, demos and lyric suggestions. The observe was subsequently recorded at Weller’s Black Barn Studio in Surrey.

Weller appeared on Suggs’ BBC Radio Four radio collection Appreciate Letters To London in 2019.

Before this yr, Paul Weller opened for Madness at their clearly show at London’s Royal Albert Hall in assist of the Teenage Most cancers Have confidence in.