Late Night Live with Paloma Faith and Guy Barker

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:00:12. > :00:19.I am in Maida Vale studios rehearsing for my first ever

:00:20. > :00:23.late-night prom. With the Guy Barker Orchestra and my three backing

:00:24. > :00:27.vocalists and the Urban Voices Collective. I have never been to the

:00:28. > :00:31.Proms before. Have been harping on about doing it for a long time and

:00:32. > :00:37.this is for public the single most expensive gig I have ever done. But

:00:38. > :00:40.I think it is really worth it. She gives me pretty much free reign

:00:41. > :00:45.because we have known each other for long enough now that we trust each

:00:46. > :00:50.other. Because we are both naturally very passionate people, and love the

:00:51. > :00:55.performance, it is easy for me to get swallowed in to a contemporary

:00:56. > :00:59.pop world. And it is easy for him to get swallowed into a more rigid

:01:00. > :01:04.approach to music. I think he was one of the people who sought the way

:01:05. > :01:08.that we could bring those two worlds together. Sometimes I am known for

:01:09. > :01:13.sitting on one of their laps while I am singing, or jumping on the piano.

:01:14. > :01:20.Not many people who do his job would be open to that or enjoy it or see

:01:21. > :01:25.it as something great. Eight bars, and then I'd start going, come on!

:01:26. > :01:30.Paloma does not read music but she knows what she wants when she hears

:01:31. > :01:35.it in her head. There have been occasions where she has said, the

:01:36. > :01:40.violins need to do this, and then she sang what they were to play. The

:01:41. > :01:43.violinists and other musicians are adding some much to my internal

:01:44. > :01:48.world. When you write songs, you going to a personal place. Every

:01:49. > :01:53.sound is physically represented, which adds so much weight to every

:01:54. > :01:58.single nuance of each song. And when I'd hear it all, and what has been

:01:59. > :02:09.added by those people, I feel majorly unworthy. I'll also think

:02:10. > :02:20.that it is a real-life thing for me. If this is it, I can die happy. We

:02:21. > :02:24.are here, backstage at the Royal Albert Docks for the Proms. I am in

:02:25. > :02:26.with Guy Barker and we are about to go on. That was yesterday and this

:02:27. > :02:28.is today. Go on,