Late Night Live with Paloma Faith and Guy Barker BBC Proms

I am in Maida Vale studios rehearsing for my first ever

late-night prom. With the Guy Barker Orchestra and my three backing

vocalists and the Urban Voices Collective. I have never been to the

Proms before. Have been harping on about doing it for a long time and

this is for public the single most expensive gig I have ever done. But

I think it is really worth it. She gives me pretty much free reign

because we have known each other for long enough now that we trust each

other. Because we are both naturally very passionate people, and love the

performance, it is easy for me to get swallowed in to a contemporary

pop world. And it is easy for him to get swallowed into a more rigid

approach to music. I think he was one of the people who sought the way

that we could bring those two worlds together. Sometimes I am known for

sitting on one of their laps while I am singing, or jumping on the piano.

Not many people who do his job would be open to that or enjoy it or see

it as something great. Eight bars, and then I'd start going, come on!

Paloma does not read music but she knows what she wants when she hears

it in her head. There have been occasions where she has said, the

violins need to do this, and then she sang what they were to play. The

violinists and other musicians are adding some much to my internal

world. When you write songs, you going to a personal place. Every

sound is physically represented, which adds so much weight to every

single nuance of each song. And when I'd hear it all, and what has been

added by those people, I feel majorly unworthy. I'll also think

that it is a real-life thing for me. If this is it, I can die happy. We

are here, backstage at the Royal Albert Docks for the Proms. I am in

with Guy Barker and we are about to go on. That was yesterday and this

is today. Go on,