27/01/2012 The Review Show

The review show is back for 2012, in the line up tonight. George

Clooney's Oscar-nominated performance in The Descendants.

Don't ever do that to me again. new exhibition from one of

Britain's greatest living artists, David Hockney. Legendary songwriter,

Leonard Cohen's first album in eight years.

CIA agent, Claire Danes, searching for the truth about marine, Damian

Lewis, in Homeland on Channel 4. Sergeant Brody is due home tomorrow

morning, that gives us just under 22 hours. In our cultured crew,

David Morrissey has starred in everything from TV's State of Play,

to Macbeth at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre. Music critic, Paul Morley,

who cut his teeth on MNE, and whose critical factors get Sharpe, and

Natalie Haynes, whose most recent book is An Ancient Guide To Modern

Live. And Maureen Lipman, one of Britain's best known and respected

actresses. Welcome to the first Review show of the year. After a

short break of the festive period we are back with a bang to give you

the cream of culture over the next few months. We will have new talent,

Jake Bud will be live in the studio. We have David, Natalie, Paul and

Maureen to give their views. We want to hear from you too.

Get in touch. First up tonight, a new film from

one of Hollywood's most successful, not to mention photogenic actors.

The Descendants has won a trio of Golden Globes, one for the movie,

the director and Clooney took Best Actor. It was nominated for five

Oscar, including one for Clooney who plays the distant father of two

girls. George Clooney plays Matt King, who

lives in the seeming paradise of Hawaii. He is the distant father of

two precocious daughters, whose mother is in a coma after a water

skiing accident. He discovers his wife has hidden secrets, which

comKates things. Mom is cheating on you. That is what we have thought

about. When I was home at Christmas I caught her with a guy. It made me

sick. I went back to school thinking that was it, that I was

done with her, I was going to call and tell you everything. Then the

accident happened, and... I was waiting until she woke up, I guess.

You didn't even suspect, right? This is director Alexander Payne's

first film for seven years, following the critically acclaimed

About Schmidt with Jack Nicholson Who is he? In common with those

earlier films, The Descendants also has a focus on men navigating

through an apparently skewed world, where the pathos of personal crisis

is approached with a self-dep Kateing sense of humour. This is

Sid. What's up bro. Is this a notable departure from what we

expect from Clooney. How does he inhabit the male character of an

Alexander Payne movie? Natalie, Alexander Payne decided he

wasn't right for Sideways to be the vain actor, did he choose the right

guy? If anybody picked the wrong guy it was George Clooney, Sideways

was a great script, Giamatti talks about a wine, and how the grape is

difficult to grow and precious and he really means him, sub-sex, sub-

text. In it, it is when someone writes anything they are told show

don't tell, this is what happens when you disregard that advice.

People walk into the scenes and go, I'm angry and sorry, it is

complicated and confusing, somebody else goes in and says I'm clever

and I talk about chess club. Is there anything to dramatise about

Payne, everybody tells what you they are thinking, it is on-the-

nose dialogue all the time. Boring? I think Clooney is brilliant in it.

He goes from dramatic to comedic in the blink of an eye. The film

traedz a fine line tonally, my disappointment is the way they

treat the wife, she's a bad wife and mother, and a fool because

she's married to George Clooney and has an fair with a bloke who is an

idiot. The film really does tell you that this family are better off

without her. That is strange and disappointment for me. I enjoyed

the film more than you did. That is a real shame. You want him to have

a little bit more about him than that. It means he has no journey,

we start with everyone going he's a distant father. He's a nice dad

from the start it's loving, caring and present. We're never given to

believe's not better off without her. The wife, we have no backstory

from her point of view. Clooney, the physical tee, I have never seen

him change so extraordinarily as he did. He has done everything, he's

been in espresso ads anden up in the air and the Ides of March,

never a cluts? He shouldn't have done it, he's wonderful, I agree

with you both. He pulls it off, it's a performance. The funny run

with the flip-flops and the Hawaiian shirts. Can somebody

explain to me, one Golden Globe, three, one Oscar nomination, five?

It is on th knows dialogue? -- noise dialogue? It is Clooney-world,

it is going with the theme park.'S A smart guy? Clooney is fantastic,

without Clooney this film would be pretty much nothing. It is like a

pilot for a fairly average Hawaiian soap. We have the backstory as well,

he's actually lawyer and he is going to orchestrate a land deal

with his family, that story is going through. It never recovers

from the original narration that Clooney gives, it is writ nonway he

as a character does speak, you are being warned this is not a good

film, because Clooney is speaking something he wouldn't speak. It is

the tone of it, without him I think the film would fall apart. The film

is nothing without Clooney. He is an actor you feel really safe with,

you feel like he's going to look after you. There are other good

performances. His daughter is wonderful. This clip is Clooney

getting to know his daughters, he has come back home, clearly, he's

having to make awe new relationship with them. -- a new relationship

with them? Get out of my underwear, you freak. Back inside, put on a

swimsuit. Why? Now. Real good job you're doing. That is part of why I

brought you here, you have to help me with her, I don't know what to

do with her. Maybe if you spent more time with her, she wouldn't

act like a complete jazz. The older girl calibrates the relationship

with her father really well. They are all extremely all lented, they

all do a good job. They are acting their socks off. Everything about

the film is unoriginal. Chinatown did the land beauty better, and

American Beauty did the dysfuntional parents better. I wish

he hadn't set it up, the director is proud of it that Hawaii is not

necessarily a paradise, it is pedestrain, but's overproud of it.

He makes the point, and after a while you think you have made the

point, what is the next point. is so pedantic, there is three

curtains, you know he will open the first, the second and then the

third curtain, whether you want him to or not. What about Payne, you

were talking about we don't know the woman, she's obviously a bad

woman. In all his films he's only interested in the male characters?

It feels like his divorce didn't go very W all the way through it is

like Alexander Payne, I don't know what happened. Maybe that is why it

fails, at the centre is a woman in a coma, maybe we never know about

her. The film starts with her speeding across the ocean, and

she's smiling. Then George is surrounded by all the documents,

working out what to do with the millions and wearing Noel Edmund's

shirts, he's the man having all the problems. What is interesting is

his cousins, he has lots of cousins in the movie, they are dull. Beau

Bridges is in there a couple going for Oscars but it didn't work. It

starts to fail, even the cameos don't work. Clooney though! Clooney,

Clooney, Clooney. The Descendants is in cinemas now. With the recent

death of Lucian Freud, David Hockney has been elevated to

Britain's greatest artist, like Freud before him, he has been

awarded the order of merit, the highest award in the British system.

A year-long event of cultural events, an eggs Biggs hopes with

landscapes from Hockney, soon to be more than 75. Does it do more than

drazle. When David Hockney grat waded from the School of Art, with

his shock of blonde hair and glasses, he burst on to the art

scene with a splash. Born two years before the outbreak of World War II,

it was not surprising that the openly gay and opinionated Hockney

was attracted across the pond to California. He went on to procues

some of his most iconic work, including a series of pool

paintings, Splash. I returned home to find inspiration

in the Yorkshire landscape, which has led to A Bigger Picture at the

Royal Academy. It is a bold series of landscapes, made on an almost

daily basis, by this seemingly tireless 74-year-old. Hockney has

only become a landscape painter since the late 1990, in 2002 he

began painting in water colours and devoted himself to landscape. He

was painting the east Yorkshire landscape, which he had known in

his teens. This was a new development for him. There is a

whole body of work here which hasn't been seen before. His age

appears to be no deterrent for productivity, nor does it seem to

have dulled his inquisitiveness for modern technology. Technology was

not at the front of his mind when he started work on the show. He was

totally absorbed by painting directly from nature. Like a 19th

century wood. He has a habit of contradicting himself and getting

excited by new things. He's always interested in any form of image

making. When the I pad was announced, he knew before it

arrived f it worked in the same way as the iPhone it would give him a

much bigger canvas. The room we're sitting in, 51 pictures are created

on the iPad, and a metre-and-a-half high each. Hockney joins tobgts

smaller canvasses to make larger images, and a dance piece,

choreographed by Wayne Sleep, adorns one wall. While citrus

landscapes beckon from the other side of the gallery. With ticket

sales outstripping the Van Gogh show, has Hockney's move from the

sun-kissed pools of California, to the wilds of Yorkshire, been a

welcome home coming. In the Royal Academy he has filled it, just as

well he was so prolific, he was painting a canvas a day at one

point. 150, were you overwhelmed? It moves you to tears, like Clooney,

David Hockney is worth more than a banker. It is just equisite. Suns

catch a glimpse of some of the colours it moves you to tears. It

is so glamorous, exciting, it is tremendous in way what he's doing

is moving forward at his age. The vigour of someone who is, at that

age, that he can do this kind of thing, that is about an adventure.

He's discovering his past, but doing it unsentimentally, there is

no nostalgia, regret or remorse about what he's been through,'s

excited about where he's been and how exciting it is now he does to

Yorkshire what Monet does to France. We are viewing art history and

history all at once. I have to say that any critic that is

condescending and superior to this exhibition, should hand in their

critic card and their Tesco points! He said he didn't think he could go

home to east Yorkshire because there wasn't enough light, he

rediscovered it when he started going back to see his mother. This

is ten years where he has rooted himself back in his land? We're not

used to this kind of coverage in east Yorkshire. I mean, he's done

for more the Yorkshire tourist board than anybody. In Bridlington?

That is where we didn't want to go for our holidays. He has brought LA

sunshine to Yorkshire. That is a very true thing. He went to escape

the grey of Bradford, and you look at the Bolton junction, which he

painted in 1956, it is just heaven. It is grey, and fabulous, the one

you would want on your wall. Goes to California, paints all the white

bums and all those men diving into pools, it is fabulous. He brought

the colour back with him, and made the whole of east Yorkshire

psycadelic. And rouse. Very beautiful -- And glamorous.

beautiful, he makes you stand in the picture and look at everything

and see it afresh. There have been mainly fantastic reviews, some

notable exceptions, "reflecting landscapes" we expect fromamures.

You are a painter as well, you appreciate it from another

perspective, you are a Sunday afternoon painter, would that be

fair? I have President Bush ones my iPad, it is completely addictive, I

can see how a really good painter would have the best time in the

world. He has always embraced technology, when he did the

examination of Vemeer, and the camera work he did, he's constantly

changing, although it is harking back to the past, and the way he

approaches some of the old masters as well, he's constantly moving

forward? Yes, and also, it is kind of impossible to walk out without

realising he can do all of it, he is the master of all of it. So

early on you see the photocollages, and you think they are impressive,

then you walk into the oil painting rooms, and people are wondering

around with smiles on their faces because the colour is so exuberant

and makes your heart sing. Then there are charcoal drawings, they

are so beautiful, I had a Thomas Crown moment when I thought I

wonder what I would have to do to nick one of these. Then the iPad,

one after another, after another, everything he has touched he can do.

Water colours, for goodness sake. We were referring to impressionism,

Contable, Turner, and the sermon on the month, explicitly he tries lots

of different styles? That was the least successful room for me. I

thought it was grey, it was practising with that, going, taking

the painting and using it in many different ways. But for me it was

just full of positiveity, the whole exhibition. It is like him finding

his way back home. You have the two paintings from 1956 and grey, then

the speeding car in LA, it is him finding his way back home. It is

full of positivity, the drawings, you see his craftsmanship when you

see the sketch books. One problem I had with the exhibition, I thought

a mistake they made was having the beautiful swech books, the whole

process, everything -- sketch books, the whole process, everything in

the back, I would have made it a more central part of the eggs Biggs.

A lot of people would move along -- exhibition, a lot of people would

move along and not see them. They are equisite, the charcoal trees

were amazing, he can do anything. I liked they were a secret at the end

of it, a lot of artists won't tell you what he's doing -- they are

doing, he loves to tell you. could have been retrospective and

nostalgic, but it is possibly the best work he has done. I heard

wonderful comments, like post- middle-class people, like on a

Smiths gig on campus, talking how Maureen will be talking in the

future, saying they have seen enough trees. But he's talking

about his memory, imagination and mood, and discovering something for

the first time, he's 75. Standing still in the same place, look --

licking different days, different months, the winter scene in the

tunnel. That stillness, then with the cameras going along the side of

the verges. You never look at foilage like that. He couldn't do

everything already, now film. did say when he was in California,

you don't get the seasons like you do. When he comes back you get all

the seasons and he celebrates them all. That is what is wonderful,

having the camera work as you are going down the road in winter and

spring, it is the same vision. bravery at his age talking about

time passing, knowing what it means. That is the extraordinary thing,

these time pass, he will pass, and this will carry on, this is truth.

He not go gently. Somebody else not going gently we will talk about in

a moment. The exhibition continues until April.

He has been called God Is Not Great gloom gloom, but Leonard Cohen is

one of the -- The Godfather of Gloom, Leonard Cohen has a new

album. Cohen's songs explore his greatest concern, religion, war,

relationships, and of course, women. # You know

# She will trust you # For you've touched

# Her perfect body Held in great esteem in the music

business, he has been covered by an array of artists. In 2010 his work

was introduced to a new generation, curtesy of the unlikely figure of

Simon Cowell, as X Factor winner's Alexandra Burk, he's version of

Hallelujah topped the Christmas charts.

-- Burke's version of Hallelujah topped the Christmas charts. He had

to endure a punishing world tour to exorcise financial problems.

You're famous # Blue raincoat

# Was torn at the shoulder With the release of the laconicly

titled Old Ideas he returns to known themes, sexuality, love, loss

and death. # I've got no future # I know my days are few

Now in his late 70s, it is perhaps no surprise that Cohen is facing up

to the inevitable, with songs like I Know My Days Are Few. Earlier

this month Cohen described his songwriting process as scraping the

bottom of the barrel, and referred to some of his ideas as 2,000 years

When you listen to this? The whole of my youth passes in front of my

eyes and every cigarette I ever smoked. God, he has given up

cigarettes. He still sounds like he has been swallowing swords for a

lifetime. I absolutely adore this record. I have been playing it

around the flat, anybody who has been there has been saying what is

that? Because it does sound sapochral, when you quietly listen

to the music and lyrics, every track becomes wonderful. In these

lyrics is so much work. What he was talking to us, we had an audience

with him in London, he was talking about discarding so much, 90% f it

wasn't for his partner, retrieving stuff and working it again, things

would be lost. He edits hugely. has taken a long time for it to get

to the stage, then he sounds as if he's making it up as he goes along,

that is the beauty of it. He has made a few records, like you

Maureen, I have been listening to Leonard Cohen, I suddenly realised,

for 40 years. The idea in your head of how Cohen sounds it does it, for

a long time it hasn't done that. There is a vulgarity and kitschness

about Leonard Cohen and the music represents that, this pulls back

and allows it to be the kind of sound you want Cohen to be a tone

over. He was asked at a press conference

if his voice would change, he said he had given up smoking and hoped

it would go higher, but it had gone lower. What I loved the record and

hearing it for the first time with you, it was just so funny, it is

like a weird thing, it is like hymns if hymns had jokes in it. It

sounds incredibly quasi-religious, for a man who says he doesn't

believe in anything any more, a man who was born Jewish, then a

Buddhist and now nothing. They are the most brilliant lyrics. I "I

know you hate me, but could you hate me less". It is a real

spiritual album, I loved his honesty, you were say saying about

David Hockney, looking at him's a man of an age looking at it. There

is a bravery and honesty of him looking at it and saying this is me.

The one thing about it that is interesting, hi to take my Leonard

Cohen in very small bites, hi listened to a track, I would resent

the next one starting, slightly, I had to hold on to this one. They

are so wonderful, there is a slight sense you have to take one every

day. You can't believe some of the lyrics are so good. I think what is

really fascinating is that consciousness he has of his own

image that he plays around with. Eventhough he has given all these

labels depression, and the romantic Mel collie thing, he plays around

with it so wonderful he makes it more palatable. I love the backing

singers. The production is brilliant. It is so Cohen, when it

goes wrong it goes really wrong, but when it goes well. Needs the

women to support him. He's acknowledging his voice is a bit

peculiar, they are the weird equivalent of Bond girls, they are

always there with him. Let's hear a little more. Here is a clip.

# Going home without my sorrow # Going home some time tomorrow

# Going home to where it's better than before

# Going home without my burden # Going home behind the curtain

# Going home without the costume # That I wore

And the other thing as well, that he did all the art work for the

album as well. There are moments when it is incredibly moving, and

moments when you go, are you doing sixth form art, Leonard Cohen, I

don't understand why you put that in there. In a way there is

something very open and it is an intriguingly vulnerable thing to do,

for somebody when everybody asks him questions, we asked Jarvis

Cocker try to find out how he wrote his lyrics and he should it down.

He enters his old age period, he's 77 now, you think in a way it is a

response to Dylan entering his old age period, that was in the late 19

90s, he was only in his 50s. It is interesting, we are moving age on.

I remember when I used to listen to Leonard Cohen back then, he was in

his early 30s, I thought he was really, really old. It is only,

when I was listening to him, I didn't realise that he was in his

late 30s. His voice sex ordinary now. His diction is fantastic.

had to do the tour because of financial problems. It has been

good for him, it has reinvigorated him, he has the phrasing of Fran

circumstance he has the lyrics of the Old Testament. He used to be

detatched now he's engaged, he knows he's there because he has

seen it with the audience. Ideas is released on Monday.

Homeland the new American TV drama has landed a Golden Globe for Danes.

She plays a highly-strung CIA agent, who has her dougts about the return

home of a marine played by Damian Lewis, he has been declared dead

after the war in Iraq. But found locked behind a door in an Al-Qaeda

hideout. It starts on Channel 4 next month and contains strong

language. From the sail lem witch-hunts and

McCarthyism, and through to the latest national occupation,

Islamophobia, in America, the real and imagined threat has become part

of the psyche. It was adapted from an Israeli series by the award-

winning producers of 24. Lewis is familiar to American audiences from

acclaimed series like Band of Brothers and Life. Lewis plays

Sergeant Nicholas Brody, he has spent eight years in Afghan

captivity. Left for dead by the American military, he returns home

as a national hero. During the sweep, one of the deltas found

something else. A padlocked door to an interior room, I wanted you to

see for yourselves. Get down, get him on his feet. I'm an American.

Officer Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes suspected that Brody

has turned Mancurian Candidate, radicalised by Al-Qaeda, she

believes he's a sleeper, a threat to national security. Sergeant

Brody is returning home tomorrow morning, it gives us 24 hours.

do what? Authorise a search warrant, tap his phones, follow him wherever

he goes. The spying on Brody's family becomes obsessive,

exacerbated by Mathison's fragile state, and her part in a 9/11

oversight. The series won two Golden Globes this year, and also

tipped for BAFTA success this side of the pond. But will a counter

terrorism thret thriller strike a chord with British audiences.

As you know the first 72 hours after a soldier's capture are

critical, what he knows could be used by the enemy during that

period with great tragedy. Sergeant Brody was kept alive for eight more

years, I want to ask him if he knows why. As a thriller, what it

feeds on is fear still stalks America, you know that when you go

to JFK and you are not welcome n a funny way, sometimes? At its heart

is paranoia. It is the enemy within, it is all about that. It is great

to see two British actors in this as well, David Hailwood, and Damian

Lewis giving great performances. I have only seen two, and it is a

set-up, it is intriguing, a man lost in action, his family and wife

moving on. He has to adjust to that. It has been eight years. He has to

adjust that, and America need him to be a hero, the CIA agent played

by Claire Danes is convinced that he has been turned by Al-Qaeda. The

pace is good, it is quite glossy in that. I think it is really well

done. I keep watching. My worry with it is slightly how it portrays

its enemy. There is a slight sense that anyone with a Middle East

complexion is the enemy, I was worried about that slightly. I will

definitely keep watching. I didn't think it was a demonisation at all.

I worried about that, how the series was going to handle that.

think they were terribly aware of being very careful about not doing

that, actually it's a brilliant actor for the role, because he's so

opaque, you can read anything into that face, and he's not American

body language. With the girls and stuff like that, there was a weird

scene where they were grooming the girls for his hare recommend.

was a seen -- Harem. There was Australian expected scene, he's

doing something in the garage, and you're thinking what is he up to,

he's fixing the electric garage door. It is no secret, he wants to

pray. He puts a bit of carpet down that he has bought. Of course he's

suffering from post-traumatic stress. The scene, I thought the

juxtaposition of her in ecstacy with her lover, and the phone call

comes, her husband is alive, the remorse. It is about remorse.

it did incredibly well was mix the domestic with the whole kind of CIA

intrigue and the Claire Danes character coming in with this equal

paranoia. But mixing those two in a very, very slick way? I think it

does it extremely well. Before we go any further, with can he

register the fact that Moren Baccarin is not old enough to be

the mother of a teenager, please Hollywood stop thinking that once a

woman turns 29 that she could have a 17-year-old. That is demented.

That is what I think is at the heart of this show, the idea of

what we want from our heros. It seems it is about the paranoia, is

he, isn't he, is he good, is he bad, is she mad, is she sane, but

actually, those two binary things don't get you through a full series.

At the heart of it is the idea of what a hero is. He has to be

constructed from having been a military hero to being a domestic

hero. Can he be the hero with his wife. When he comes home he beats

up a reporter in his garden and harassing him with questions. The

question is are you still the hero when you behave like a soldier with

post-traumatic stress disorder, which you are, or be the grinning

hero. I will take a strangely British view of this. I grew up

watching Damian Lewis, you know what I mean, he was always in a

Frost or a Lewis, he was always this still centre. This is

fascinating, it was like his A -- apprentice period for being in this.

He's in this, British television can't do this. It is because we

don't understand that red heads are hot. The Danish can do it. That has

made a difference. Great producers as well, that understand, the

producers of 24 that understand that. It is writing as well, it

unfolds like a novel. It was a fine night series, it stopped. This is

designed to go on and on and on. It is obvious why America want the

talent to come to there. It is interesting why the talent wants to

go that way, that is the other thing. There are some clunky

moments in this, there is a sense where we know she's a jazz fiend,

because she has pictures of miles Davies on her wall, her ureekia

moment is in a jazz club, you think that is a bit weird, she gets the

thing with the hand. If you watch Diagnosis Murder you would see that

happen all the time. It reminds me of The Treatment, it is inherited

from Israel, this was an Israeli production. There is a weird

America I don't recognise, sometimes you see things, they are

traces, you wonder if they have come from the Israeli one. He's a

prose dueser the guy from Israel. - He's a producer the guy from

Israel. We are talking about the British actors going to America,

perhaps because there is an investment in teams of writers that

carry on? What they want is fame and fortune, which is no bad thing.

The spoils that have afforded you in a successful American television

is very different. Hugh Laurie, jazz album. Here it is three or

four episodes, in Denmark, and in America, because of 24 and the West

Wing, it is 20, 30, you are allowed to linger over it like over a novel.

You are saying here it is a kind of case you can have Downton Abbey, or

whatever, running for 30 episodes. You can have it. But you can't have

a long anything else? They do it with Shameless, they are the

exceptions, really, it is about investment, money, and how we watch

television. I have only watch two, you have the sense, here is Claire

Danes, Damian Lewis, they are not mean, they are the intimate

relationship, you know that is going down, that is going to happen.

Homeland starts on Channel 4 next month. BBC introducing is the place

where unsigned and under the radar musicians get the chance to feature

on BBC radio, television and on- line, and perform on the festival

circuit, we will hear from Jake Bug at the end of the show. We sent

Paul to find out more. In the olden days, if you were single in a band

and you definitely thought they were the next big thing. You would

send your demos on a cassette to a radio station or record company.

Now things are slightly more sophisticated, you can upload your

songs on to the BBC Introducing website, and the culmination of

someone sorting through the demos is the BBC Introducing masterclass

at Abbey Road studios, where potential next big things have

turned up to hear music insiders answer questions about how they

broke into it. I have been asked the questions about the big break,

you have to remove the ideas out of your brain, that you will be picked

out by the Simon Cowell-type person and made into a superstar.

cannoted to do something people could gel with and understand me as

a person. I made a mix tape, almost like an album, that made me stand

up, that is how I got my first in, radio play and few gigs. For myself,

I got some whereby just playing an awful lot of shows. It is such a

personal thing, when it is done well, music should be about bearing

your soul. You don't want someone to see your soul until you have

tarted it up and put make-up on. it possible for the next big thing,

the future of rock'n'roll to come through something like this

educational system that is almost alternative, Indie X Factor, is it

like, what we need, more sue sick, to add to the glut of music. Or is

it, this is just what we need. The genuine chance for a visionary to

use BBC Introducing to crack through a system, that in the past

was complicated and bureaucratic. Unhelpful, complicated and

bureaucratic, that is your A & R man? Systems in the way. I'm asking

myself my own question now, do I have to give an answer. It is a

hugely optimistic idea isn't it? is. It is something that, in a

funny sort of way, being the age I am, which is close to Leonard Cohen,

demanding 30 years ago. You are coming to a productive period?

wonder if as talented and ambitious and enthusiastic as people want to

be a popstar. If you have the vision and char ris ma you need,

would you come through the route or a completely unexpected way. I

don't know if you are going to get is people doing the familiar

because systems are set up that way. This is another way of getting more

of the same thing. Interesting for music and acting you could send in

a tape? Yes, of course, everybody thinks they can be famous very

quickly yet if you are at a drama school, you are not allowed to work

until you get suspended, if you do a job like this. There is

absolutely no sense, really. Everybody wants to be famous.

may just be the case there isn't enough revenue for all these people

to survive. That is what bothers me. There is terrifying statistics

about the number of people going to public school in the charts. They

are the only people who can afford to. This way all you have to do is

send in a demo and put it on-line. And have a day job because you

can't sell records. I don't think that will be the case for our next

guess, for all you inspiring musicians check out the website.

Many thanks it my guests, Natalie, David, Maureen and Paul. Next week

I will talk to Daniel Radcliffe about his role in A The Woman In

Black. Back to BBC Introducing, we will be showcaseing artists over

the coming weeks, we start with 17- year-old singer-songwriter Jake Bug,

he recently signed to Mercury Records. So he's on his way.

# Stop and speed bump city # Where the only thing that is

pretty # Is the thought of getting out

# There's a tower block # Overhead

# All you got your benefits # You're barely scraping by

# In this troubled town # Troubled -- troubles are found

# If this trouble town # Fools are found

# Kick a ball to make trouble # Smoked until our eyes bleed

# Sparkle pop the seed # Hear the sirens down the street

# The kids get light on their feet # Or they will be in the back seat

# For you are sitting on the pavement

# Boy you missed your payment # They're gonna find you soon

# If there's a beating in the rain # If there's a little bit of pain

# Man # You're the one it happens to

# Oh # When I talk any night

# I only hear the laughter loud # It has an ugly echo

# Somewhere there's a secret to take me far away

# I know # Till them I am hollow

# In these troubled town # Troubles are found

# In this troubled town # Fools are found

# For you are sitting on the pavement

# Boy you missed your payment # They're going to find you soon

# If there's a beating in the street

# If there's a feeling I've been beat