:00:33. > :00:46.Welcome to this strange world. And welcome to The National!
:00:47. > :01:04.# Will you say you love me, Jo? # How am I supposed to know?
:01:05. > :01:43.# If I stay here trouble will find me
:01:44. > :01:53.# If I stay here trouble will find me
:01:54. > :02:38.# But they say love is a virtue don't they?
:02:39. > :02:47.# But they say love is a virtue don't they?
:02:48. > :02:56.# But they say love is a virtue don't they?
:02:57. > :03:06.# But they say love is a virtue don't they?
:03:07. > :04:29.Thanks to The National with Sea of Love We welcome back to the room
:04:30. > :04:35.Lissie! Beautifully reformed, Graeme Parker and The Rumour! From London,
:04:36. > :04:42.they're brand-new and sensational, London Grammar! Yes, we have the
:04:43. > :04:51.legendary amazing Sir Terry Pratchett and the amazing Maddy.
:04:52. > :04:58.From west Africa, Ballake Sissoko! Now, from Fairfield, Connecticut, a
:04:59. > :05:13.man who can boogie the guitar, it's John Mayer.
:05:14. > :05:17.# River's strong you can't swim inside it
:05:18. > :05:23.# We could string some lights up the hill beside it
:05:24. > :05:32.# You could drive with your headlights out
:05:33. > :05:41.# Cos a little bit of summer's what the whole year's all about
:05:42. > :06:40.# Cos a little bit of summer makes a lot of history
:06:41. > :07:24.# I got a rock from the river in my medicine bag
:07:25. > :08:59.The amazing voice and guitar of John Mayer from Paradise Valley. What a
:09:00. > :09:03.great voice and guitar and room full of people! Our next artist first
:09:04. > :09:05.came on the show in 2010 with her first song. It was fantastic. She's
:09:06. > :09:13.back with another. # With my blue jeans on
:09:14. > :09:19.and you stuck in my head # I take it all back
:09:20. > :09:25.I don't mean what I said # Dead roses on the bedside table
:09:26. > :09:28.and a movie on # I've been here for days
:09:29. > :09:38.so what's a couple days more? # I've been sleepwalking
:09:39. > :09:45.dreams talking # Telling myself that soon
:09:46. > :09:57.I will be feeling all right # Till I get blue in the face
:09:58. > :10:03.while you're waking the dead # Life is so incomplete
:10:04. > :10:20.everywhere I look # And every set of eyes I meet
:10:21. > :10:32.read me like a book # They can tell I've been
:10:33. > :10:40.sleepwalking dreams talking # Telling myself that soon
:10:41. > :10:48.I will be feeling all right # Have you been cheap thrillin'
:10:49. > :10:54.and freewheeling # Taking your worries
:10:55. > :10:58.and giving them up to the night? # I've been sleepwalking
:10:59. > :11:35.dreams talking # Telling myself that soon
:11:36. > :11:42.I will be feeling all right # Have you been cheap thrillin'
:11:43. > :11:49.and freewheeling # Taking your worries
:11:50. > :11:54.and giving them up to the night? # I've been sleepwalking
:11:55. > :12:04.dreams talking # Telling myself that soon
:12:05. > :12:27.I will be feeling all right. # What a treat to have Lissie back in
:12:28. > :12:33.this room. Sleepwalking from her album. Speaking of good albums, here
:12:34. > :12:37.is paradise Valley, the next artists. We heard one song from them
:12:38. > :12:40.and, I have to say, I was particularly struck with his amazing
:12:41. > :12:44.guitar playing. It was that guitar playing that really got me going.
:12:45. > :12:50.He's John Mayer. Great to have you here, John. Great record. Now,
:12:51. > :12:57.you've just sold out Wembley Arena and the 02 and, you are even bigger
:12:58. > :13:01.in America, 20 million records, it's gone megafor you. What is different
:13:02. > :13:05.about it here in England for you? The boring answers like time zones
:13:06. > :13:09.and stuff like that, other than that it's the same, you know. People tend
:13:10. > :13:19.to react to the same music no matter where you go. On this record, you've
:13:20. > :13:24.included a cover of JJ Kales who sadly died earlier this year. Yes.
:13:25. > :13:30.What was it you liked about him? There was an unpretentiousness to it
:13:31. > :13:35.musically. It's probably the coolest music around. You think of real cool
:13:36. > :13:40.and put that on, it's not trying to be epic. I think for as much music
:13:41. > :13:47.as I was listening to in the last ten years, everybody going for the
:13:48. > :13:52.larger sound, it's sunglasses half on half off the nose, that playing
:13:53. > :13:56.really struck me when I heard it. Everyone's heard the big cuts but it
:13:57. > :14:00.was a record called Naturally that I listened to and everything on it has
:14:01. > :14:04.a relaxed coolness that maybe I'll never be, but I can try to be on
:14:05. > :14:15.some songs. I think you have managed it pretty well. We have a clip of
:14:16. > :14:48.him here. Let's have a look # Ain't nobody ever told you #
:14:49. > :14:58.# I ain't got no halo... # Fantastic. I wanna live in that
:14:59. > :15:01.world. You wanna be from that world. I think you are from that world. But
:15:02. > :15:04.whatever that music is, you want to go to that place. The attitude and
:15:05. > :15:11.everything is great isn't it? It's cool. I didn't realise. I knew you
:15:12. > :15:16.were a great guitarist, but suddenly seeing you, you've got the boogie
:15:17. > :15:22.muscle. Thanks, man. You had the line of Hopkins? Yes. Give me that.
:15:23. > :15:35.Oh, yeah. Yes!
:15:36. > :15:44.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Great. What are the other blues
:15:45. > :15:52.people that you like? You can trace it from T-bone Walker all the way to
:15:53. > :15:55.Stevie Reevon which is Guys Like Me and BB King. Give us a bit of BB?
:15:56. > :16:43.Goodness. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
:16:44. > :16:49.Oh, yes What a lovely bit of guitaring. Looking forward to
:16:50. > :16:54.hearing some more in a moment. Sewly acoustic coming up? Yes. The
:16:55. > :16:59.wonderful Mr John Mayer! Yes. We'll hear from him later Now I'm thrill
:17:00. > :17:04.and excited because, a band have reformed which is great and they are
:17:05. > :17:07.here reformed and they're here more importantly! Graham Parker and The
:17:08. > :17:24.Rumour! # And there's nothing
:17:25. > :17:38.to hold on to # She knows how hard her heart grows
:17:39. > :17:54.under the nuclear shadows # She can't escape the feeling
:17:55. > :18:00.repeating in her head # When after all the urges some
:18:01. > :18:05.kind of truth emerges # Seeing a million miles
:18:06. > :18:44.between their joke and smiles # As the tears dropped sideways
:18:45. > :18:54.down her face, face # I woke up talking in the tongue
:18:55. > :19:00.of a different race, race # And as the flight touches down
:19:01. > :19:05.my watch says 8.02 # I dreamed headlong collisions
:19:06. > :19:34.in jet lag panavisions # I shouted sayonara
:19:35. > :19:40.It didn't mean goodbye # But lovers turn to posers
:19:41. > :20:45.Show up in film exposures Graham Parker and The Rumour More
:20:46. > :20:47.from them later A brand-new group, highly acclaimed, with their debut
:20:48. > :21:00.LP from London, # And I'm so damn caught
:21:01. > :21:32.in the middle # And I'm so down caught
:21:33. > :21:51.in the middle # Excuse me for a while
:21:52. > :22:25.turn a blind eye # With a stare
:22:26. > :22:29.caught right in the middle # Oh, when I lift you up you feel
:22:30. > :24:32.like a hundred times yourself # I wish everybody knew what's so
:24:33. > :24:38.great about you # And I said I wouldn't get
:24:39. > :24:56.sucked in # I was thinking that you'd call
:24:57. > :25:18.somebody closer to you # Oh, when I lift you up you feel
:25:19. > :26:25.like a hundred times yourself # I wish everybody knew
:26:26. > :26:30.what's so great about you. # And I said I wouldn't
:26:31. > :26:42.get sucked in # It takes a lot of pain
:26:43. > :28:00.to pick me up # It takes a lot of pain
:28:01. > :28:10.to pick me up London Grammar. Now, just the
:28:11. > :28:54.APPLAUSE. Before that, we enjoyed London Grammar. Now, just the
:28:55. > :29:18.guitar, the wonderful John Mayer. # Catch a boat to England, baby
:29:19. > :29:21.Maybe to Spain # Go bring me whisky, baby
:29:22. > :29:37.Go bring me gin # Well you know
:29:38. > :30:23.you'll find me crying # Wherever I have gone
:30:24. > :30:37.the blues run the game # I'll wake up older
:30:38. > :31:44.and just stop all my trying John Mayer! Blues Run The Game. One
:31:45. > :31:48.of Britain's greatest awe thours and folk musicians joins me now. How do
:31:49. > :31:56.they connect? Let's find out as we meet Sir Terry Pratchett and Maddy
:31:57. > :32:00.Prior. Great to meet you both. Thrilled to have you in this room
:32:01. > :32:07.with us. First thing I suppose, there is a brand-new record out. How
:32:08. > :32:12.did that come about? It was a mutual appreciation society. I've been a
:32:13. > :32:18.spanner since my... I can't remember when! But how did that come about?
:32:19. > :32:21.We are friends and we know each other and he mentioned that it would
:32:22. > :32:27.be really nice for us to look at these books so we did. We came up
:32:28. > :32:33.with the songs that we did and he likes them. Excellent. That's how it
:32:34. > :32:38.went. Once you heard it, was it what you expected? I was sitting there
:32:39. > :32:44.not being able to say anything. Really, it was wonderful. It was so
:32:45. > :32:48.good that I wish I'd done it even better. It wouldn't have been
:32:49. > :33:04.possible, I'm sure. And out of interest, the sleeve here, what is
:33:05. > :33:09.the person or creature on the front? The Wintersmith is the winter. He
:33:10. > :33:20.becomes alive, because there is a dance called the Morris, and the
:33:21. > :33:26.nice young lady actually dance s. She is out of kilter and has to deal
:33:27. > :33:31.with it. When you've got winter wanting to have you as his wife, you
:33:32. > :33:37.have to be really nippy. Yes. I bet. Yes. I'm going to discuss more in a
:33:38. > :33:47.moment, but we have a little clip, I'm delighted to say, of the Dark
:33:48. > :34:03.Morris , This is the land of mystery and
:34:04. > :34:14.myth # This is a world of a Wintersmith.
:34:15. > :34:20.# Dance Morris you will find summer turns to winter time
:34:21. > :34:29.# Deep in the winter forest # Never dance back... #
:34:30. > :34:33.APPLAUSE It's a wonderful album. Sounds
:34:34. > :34:38.great. Winter is coming. It's going to affect us all. There's not a
:34:39. > :34:42.single viewer, no man, woman or child can't not notice the leaves
:34:43. > :34:47.coming off the trees, winter is approaching. What does this mean to
:34:48. > :34:52.you? Is it a magical time? How does winter affect us? Never really. I
:34:53. > :35:00.like winter. I like winter, I really do. It clears things up. Yes. Yes.
:35:01. > :35:07.Do you do any special preparations for winter, do you? I do a tour.
:35:08. > :35:14.Yes. A winter tour, yes! Great Will you be doing to see them? At least
:35:15. > :35:21.twice I believe Yay! Fantastic to have you both here and I wish you
:35:22. > :35:30.very good luck with your winter tour and exploits. Thank you, Terry
:35:31. > :35:36.Pratchett and Maddy private. Now from one friend to another -- Maddy
:35:37. > :37:49.Prior. Give it up now in the best possible way for Ballake Sissoko!
:37:50. > :38:44.Ballake Sissoko. The beautiful sound of Maimoura Just what you would
:38:45. > :38:46.expect in this room. Now, reformed and I'm delighted to say on this
:38:47. > :40:07.programme, Graham Parker and Thai rumour.
:40:08. > :41:26.# You can't help it if it's coming down
:41:27. > :41:30.# Not a metaphor, just solid ground # Jump in the back
:41:31. > :41:35.# To feel your head # Just one drop
:41:36. > :41:41.# It's just one drop # That's what I said
:41:42. > :41:50.# Stop Crying About The Rain # Stop cie ing Stop Crying About The
:41:51. > :41:54.Rain # It's just water on your window
:41:55. > :42:09.pane # Stop cie ing abt Stop Crying About
:42:10. > :42:17.The Rain Stop, stop, stop, stop your crying
:42:18. > :42:34.# Stop, stop, stop, stop your crying # Stop Crying About The Rain... #
:42:35. > :43:12.APPLAUSE Of of
:43:13. > :44:02.# Take your hand and come and find me
:44:03. > :44:50.# Take your hand and come and find me
:44:51. > :45:13.# Take your hand and come and find me.
:45:14. > :45:36.APPLAUSE Thank you London Grammar. We were
:45:37. > :45:41.here over in this corner and delighted because Graham Parker and
:45:42. > :45:48.The Rumour have reformed. You are here, Graham Parker! Thank you. Very
:45:49. > :45:53.nice to see you. I remember doing a fantastic show with you in Boston in
:45:54. > :45:56.1981 and the way you played was great. I'm so delighted you are back
:45:57. > :46:00.together. What got you back together? Well, it was loose words,
:46:01. > :46:04.you know, be careful with them, you know. I said a few things and it
:46:05. > :46:09.sort of went around the band and they all said yes, so something I
:46:10. > :46:13.didn't think too much about and then a few weeks later, we got invited to
:46:14. > :46:19.be in a film, we got cast into a film. You'd been written into a
:46:20. > :46:25.film? As a character, yes. As yourself? Yes, acting as myself. The
:46:26. > :46:30.timing couldn't have been better. I don't think it would have made sense
:46:31. > :46:35.in the '80s or the '90s and so we had to do it pretty soon while some
:46:36. > :46:38.of the audience members were still actually breathing, you know. And
:46:39. > :46:43.many of them are this evening. They are. Slightly quicker as soon as you
:46:44. > :46:48.started to play. Oh, that's good. The effect is still there then. Yes.
:46:49. > :46:57.Is it a great joy to be back together? Joy, the interplay is
:46:58. > :47:02.unique, it's a unique band I think and the songs work really well.
:47:03. > :47:08.Great to have you here. Thank you very much Graham Parker And now, I'm
:47:09. > :47:21.so pleased she's back here with the second album, it's Lissie.
:47:22. > :47:27.MUSIC: "Further Away (Romance Police)" by Lissie
:47:28. > :47:31.# Creeping It's natural as breathing
:47:32. > :47:40.# Need him but you're never gonna keep him
:47:41. > :47:45.# You should get used to this feeling
:47:46. > :48:04.# Take what they want, take it and run out the door
:48:05. > :48:22.# With every step that you take Yeah, yeah
:48:23. > :48:49.# Make him go, watch him go Oh oh, oh
:48:50. > :49:00.# Take what they want, take it and run out the door
:49:01. > :49:26.# With every step that you take Yeah, yeah
:49:27. > :50:53.# Take what they want, take it and run out the door
:50:54. > :51:06.# With every step that you take Yeah, yeah
:51:07. > :51:55.# I don't have the sunny side to face this
:51:56. > :52:26.# God loves everybody Don't remind me
:52:27. > :52:29.# I took the medicine and I went missing
:52:30. > :52:46.# But it would be a shame to waste this
:52:47. > :53:20.# I took the medicine and I went missing
:53:21. > :53:31.# All of my thoughts of you Bullets through rotten fruit
:53:32. > :53:45.# Take the white ones They're my favourites
:53:46. > :54:00.# If you're dead in the mind it'll brighten the place.
:54:01. > :54:02.# Don't let them die on the vine It's a waste
:54:03. > :54:14.# There's a science to walking through windows
:54:15. > :54:18.# There's a science to walking through windows
:54:19. > :54:45.# Take the white ones They're my favourites
:54:46. > :54:46.# It's the side effects that save us.
:54:47. > :54:59.# Grace put the flowers you find in a vase
:55:00. > :55:00.# If you're dead in the mind it'll brighten the place
:55:01. > :55:02.# Don't let them die on the vine It's a waste
:55:03. > :55:14.# Grace put the flowers you find in a vase
:55:15. > :55:17.# If you're dead in the mind it'll brighten the place
:55:18. > :55:21.# Don't let them die on the vine It's a waste
:55:22. > :55:55.APPLAUSE Thank you The National. Graceless.
:55:56. > :55:59.Before that it was Lissie! And now, let's return to the man with the
:56:00. > :56:14.sensational voice and the marvellous guitar, it's John Mayer.
:56:15. > :57:02.# There ain't no change in the weather
:57:03. > :58:27.MUSIC: "They Call Me The Breeze" by John Mayer
:58:28. > :59:58.Thank you. The great John Mayer, Call Me The Breeze. Go to the
:59:59. > :00:03.website to see some of J Kain and some of Lou Reid. We'll be back on
:00:04. > :00:07.Tuesday with the Killers, Boy George and much, much more. I think we'll
:00:08. > :00:24.finish now with a bit of this sort of thing.
:00:25. > :00:45.Thank you to our guests. John Mayer! Ballake Sissoko! London Grammar! The
:00:46. > :00:52.Rumour. Lissie and The National!