Tour: May 2007

Mod-rockers The Jam are to reform and tour but without frontman Paul Weller. Bassist Bruce Foxton and drummer Rick Buckler have not toured together in 25 years but will play a 20-date tour beginning in Oxford.

The Jam sold over 14 million albums worldwide before their split in 1982. The new tour will feature a mix of old hits and new material.

Paul Weller, who has had a successful solo career, has been invited to join the tour but has not commented. As it stands he won't be making an appearance. Foxton said: "This tour is deliberately intimate and something of a warm-up to our own material to launch later. The plan is for us to get close to the fans, have some fun and then follow with a larger tour in the autumn."

The tour will take in venues across the UK such as Aberdeen, Nottingham, Liverpool and Guildford, before ending in Portsmouth. Their album is planned for release in the autumn.