Episode 7

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: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!