PAUL Weller's love affair with North Yorkshire blooms anew as the Modfather announces his fourth visit to Dalby Forest on June 28 next summer.

Weller went wild in the Dalby woods with Forest Live shows for the Forestry Commission in 2004, 2009 and 2014 and will maintain his record of appearing there every five years.

He also has played York Barbican in August in support of his True Meanings album; April the year before, when promoting that May's release of his A Kind Revolution album, and in 2015 too.

Tickets for June 28 go on sale at £48.50, plus £5.35 booking fee, from 9am on Friday on 03000 680400 or at forestryengland.uk/music as Weller becomes the first artist to confirm concerts for seven Forestry Commission sites in 2019.

True Meanings is Weller's 14th solo album and the 26th studio set of his 42-year career with The Jam, The Style Council and on his own in a year when he turned 60 in May.

Recorded in just over three weeks at Weller's Black Barn Studio, True Meanings is a dreamy, peaceful, pastoral set of songs characterised by lush orchestration, for which Weller and his band were joined by myriad guests.

Rod Argent, of The Zombies, contributed Hammond organ to The Soul Searchers and piano and Mellotron to White Horses; folk legends Martin Carthy and Danny Thompson added picked guitar and double bass respectively to Come Along and Little Barrie played lead guitar on Old Castles. Lucy Rose sang back-up on Books; Movin On’ was the result of a “scratchy demo”on Weller’s phone sent to Tom Doyle, of the White Label project; even Noel Gallagher made a sneaky appearance.

Most surprisingly of all, lyrics for four of the 14 songs were written to Weller’s melodies by others: Connor O’Brien, from Villagers, penned The Soul Searchers, while Erland Cooper, from Erland & The Carnival penned Bowie, Wishing Well and White Horses.

Commenting on his Forest Live summer ahead, Woking-born Weller says: "The Forest shows are always great gigs for us and it’s been a while since I last did them, so I’m really looking forward to them next year."

The Forestry Commission holds Forest Live outdoor shows each summer, drawing 1.75 million people over the past 18 years, with proceeds from ticket sales helping to look after the forests' sustainably, for people to enjoy and wildlife to thrive.

Charles Hutchinson