Episode 7 Later... with Jools Holland

Welcome to this strange world. And welcome to The National!

# Will you say you love me, Jo? # How am I supposed to know?

# If I stay here trouble will find me

# If I stay here trouble will find me

# But they say love is a virtue don't they?

# But they say love is a virtue don't they?

# But they say love is a virtue don't they?

# But they say love is a virtue don't they?

Thanks to The National with Sea of Love We welcome back to the room

Lissie! Beautifully reformed, Graeme Parker and The Rumour! From London,

they're brand-new and sensational, London Grammar! Yes, we have the

legendary amazing Sir Terry Pratchett and the amazing Maddy.

From west Africa, Ballake Sissoko! Now, from Fairfield, Connecticut, a

man who can boogie the guitar, it's John Mayer.

# River's strong you can't swim inside it

# We could string some lights up the hill beside it

# You could drive with your headlights out

# Cos a little bit of summer's what the whole year's all about

# Cos a little bit of summer makes a lot of history

# I got a rock from the river in my medicine bag

The amazing voice and guitar of John Mayer from Paradise Valley. What a

great voice and guitar and room full of people! Our next artist first

came on the show in 2010 with her first song. It was fantastic. She's

back with another. # With my blue jeans on

and you stuck in my head # I take it all back

I don't mean what I said # Dead roses on the bedside table

and a movie on # I've been here for days

so what's a couple days more? # I've been sleepwalking

dreams talking # Telling myself that soon

I will be feeling all right # Till I get blue in the face

while you're waking the dead # Life is so incomplete

everywhere I look # And every set of eyes I meet

read me like a book # They can tell I've been

sleepwalking dreams talking # Telling myself that soon

I will be feeling all right # Have you been cheap thrillin'

and freewheeling # Taking your worries

and giving them up to the night? # I've been sleepwalking

dreams talking # Telling myself that soon

I will be feeling all right # Have you been cheap thrillin'

and freewheeling # Taking your worries

and giving them up to the night? # I've been sleepwalking

dreams talking # Telling myself that soon

I will be feeling all right. # What a treat to have Lissie back in

this room. Sleepwalking from her album. Speaking of good albums, here

is paradise Valley, the next artists. We heard one song from them

and, I have to say, I was particularly struck with his amazing

guitar playing. It was that guitar playing that really got me going.

He's John Mayer. Great to have you here, John. Great record. Now,

you've just sold out Wembley Arena and the 02 and, you are even bigger

in America, 20 million records, it's gone megafor you. What is different

about it here in England for you? The boring answers like time zones

and stuff like that, other than that it's the same, you know. People tend

to react to the same music no matter where you go. On this record, you've

included a cover of JJ Kales who sadly died earlier this year. Yes.

What was it you liked about him? There was an unpretentiousness to it

musically. It's probably the coolest music around. You think of real cool

and put that on, it's not trying to be epic. I think for as much music

as I was listening to in the last ten years, everybody going for the

larger sound, it's sunglasses half on half off the nose, that playing

really struck me when I heard it. Everyone's heard the big cuts but it

was a record called Naturally that I listened to and everything on it has

a relaxed coolness that maybe I'll never be, but I can try to be on

some songs. I think you have managed it pretty well. We have a clip of

him here. Let's have a look # Ain't nobody ever told you #

# I ain't got no halo... # Fantastic. I wanna live in that

world. You wanna be from that world. I think you are from that world. But

whatever that music is, you want to go to that place. The attitude and

everything is great isn't it? It's cool. I didn't realise. I knew you

were a great guitarist, but suddenly seeing you, you've got the boogie

muscle. Thanks, man. You had the line of Hopkins? Yes. Give me that.

Oh, yeah. Yes!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Great. What are the other blues

people that you like? You can trace it from T-bone Walker all the way to

Stevie Reevon which is Guys Like Me and BB King. Give us a bit of BB?

Goodness. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Oh, yes What a lovely bit of guitaring. Looking forward to

hearing some more in a moment. Sewly acoustic coming up? Yes. The

wonderful Mr John Mayer! Yes. We'll hear from him later Now I'm thrill

and excited because, a band have reformed which is great and they are

here reformed and they're here more importantly! Graham Parker and The

Rumour! # And there's nothing

to hold on to # She knows how hard her heart grows

under the nuclear shadows # She can't escape the feeling

repeating in her head # When after all the urges some

kind of truth emerges # Seeing a million miles

between their joke and smiles # As the tears dropped sideways

down her face, face # I woke up talking in the tongue

of a different race, race # And as the flight touches down

my watch says 8.02 # I dreamed headlong collisions

in jet lag panavisions # I shouted sayonara

It didn't mean goodbye # But lovers turn to posers

Show up in film exposures Graham Parker and The Rumour More

from them later A brand-new group, highly acclaimed, with their debut

LP from London, # And I'm so damn caught

in the middle # And I'm so down caught

in the middle # Excuse me for a while

turn a blind eye # With a stare

caught right in the middle # Oh, when I lift you up you feel

like a hundred times yourself # I wish everybody knew what's so

great about you # And I said I wouldn't get

sucked in # I was thinking that you'd call

somebody closer to you # Oh, when I lift you up you feel

like a hundred times yourself # I wish everybody knew

what's so great about you. # And I said I wouldn't

get sucked in # It takes a lot of pain

to pick me up # It takes a lot of pain

to pick me up London Grammar. Now, just the

APPLAUSE. Before that, we enjoyed London Grammar. Now, just the

guitar, the wonderful John Mayer. # Catch a boat to England, baby

Maybe to Spain # Go bring me whisky, baby

Go bring me gin # Well you know

you'll find me crying # Wherever I have gone

the blues run the game # I'll wake up older

and just stop all my trying John Mayer! Blues Run The Game. One

of Britain's greatest awe thours and folk musicians joins me now. How do

they connect? Let's find out as we meet Sir Terry Pratchett and Maddy

Prior. Great to meet you both. Thrilled to have you in this room

with us. First thing I suppose, there is a brand-new record out. How

did that come about? It was a mutual appreciation society. I've been a

spanner since my... I can't remember when! But how did that come about?

We are friends and we know each other and he mentioned that it would

be really nice for us to look at these books so we did. We came up

with the songs that we did and he likes them. Excellent. That's how it

went. Once you heard it, was it what you expected? I was sitting there

not being able to say anything. Really, it was wonderful. It was so

good that I wish I'd done it even better. It wouldn't have been

possible, I'm sure. And out of interest, the sleeve here, what is

the person or creature on the front? The Wintersmith is the winter. He

becomes alive, because there is a dance called the Morris, and the

nice young lady actually dance s. She is out of kilter and has to deal

with it. When you've got winter wanting to have you as his wife, you

have to be really nippy. Yes. I bet. Yes. I'm going to discuss more in a

moment, but we have a little clip, I'm delighted to say, of the Dark

Morris , This is the land of mystery and

myth # This is a world of a Wintersmith.

# Dance Morris you will find summer turns to winter time

# Deep in the winter forest # Never dance back... #

APPLAUSE It's a wonderful album. Sounds

great. Winter is coming. It's going to affect us all. There's not a

single viewer, no man, woman or child can't not notice the leaves

coming off the trees, winter is approaching. What does this mean to

you? Is it a magical time? How does winter affect us? Never really. I

like winter. I like winter, I really do. It clears things up. Yes. Yes.

Do you do any special preparations for winter, do you? I do a tour.

Yes. A winter tour, yes! Great Will you be doing to see them? At least

twice I believe Yay! Fantastic to have you both here and I wish you

very good luck with your winter tour and exploits. Thank you, Terry

Pratchett and Maddy private. Now from one friend to another -- Maddy

Prior. Give it up now in the best possible way for Ballake Sissoko!

Ballake Sissoko. The beautiful sound of Maimoura Just what you would

expect in this room. Now, reformed and I'm delighted to say on this

programme, Graham Parker and Thai rumour.

# You can't help it if it's coming down

# Not a metaphor, just solid ground # Jump in the back

# To feel your head # Just one drop

# It's just one drop # That's what I said

# Stop Crying About The Rain # Stop cie ing Stop Crying About The

Rain # It's just water on your window

pane # Stop cie ing abt Stop Crying About

The Rain Stop, stop, stop, stop your crying

# Stop, stop, stop, stop your crying # Stop Crying About The Rain... #

APPLAUSE Of of

# Take your hand and come and find me

# Take your hand and come and find me

# Take your hand and come and find me.

APPLAUSE Thank you London Grammar. We were

here over in this corner and delighted because Graham Parker and

The Rumour have reformed. You are here, Graham Parker! Thank you. Very

nice to see you. I remember doing a fantastic show with you in Boston in

1981 and the way you played was great. I'm so delighted you are back

together. What got you back together? Well, it was loose words,

you know, be careful with them, you know. I said a few things and it

sort of went around the band and they all said yes, so something I

didn't think too much about and then a few weeks later, we got invited to

be in a film, we got cast into a film. You'd been written into a

film? As a character, yes. As yourself? Yes, acting as myself. The

timing couldn't have been better. I don't think it would have made sense

in the '80s or the '90s and so we had to do it pretty soon while some

of the audience members were still actually breathing, you know. And

many of them are this evening. They are. Slightly quicker as soon as you

started to play. Oh, that's good. The effect is still there then. Yes.

Is it a great joy to be back together? Joy, the interplay is

unique, it's a unique band I think and the songs work really well.

Great to have you here. Thank you very much Graham Parker And now, I'm

so pleased she's back here with the second album, it's Lissie.

MUSIC: "Further Away (Romance Police)" by Lissie

# Creeping It's natural as breathing

# Need him but you're never gonna keep him

# You should get used to this feeling

# Take what they want, take it and run out the door

# With every step that you take Yeah, yeah

# Make him go, watch him go Oh oh, oh

# Take what they want, take it and run out the door

# With every step that you take Yeah, yeah

# Take what they want, take it and run out the door

# With every step that you take Yeah, yeah

# I don't have the sunny side to face this

# God loves everybody Don't remind me

# I took the medicine and I went missing

# But it would be a shame to waste this

# I took the medicine and I went missing

# All of my thoughts of you Bullets through rotten fruit

# Take the white ones They're my favourites

# If you're dead in the mind it'll brighten the place.

# Don't let them die on the vine It's a waste

# There's a science to walking through windows

# There's a science to walking through windows

# Take the white ones They're my favourites

# It's the side effects that save us.

# Grace put the flowers you find in a vase

# If you're dead in the mind it'll brighten the place

# Don't let them die on the vine It's a waste

# Grace put the flowers you find in a vase

# If you're dead in the mind it'll brighten the place

# Don't let them die on the vine It's a waste

APPLAUSE Thank you The National. Graceless.

Before that it was Lissie! And now, let's return to the man with the

sensational voice and the marvellous guitar, it's John Mayer.

# There ain't no change in the weather

MUSIC: "They Call Me The Breeze" by John Mayer

Thank you. The great John Mayer, Call Me The Breeze. Go to the

website to see some of J Kain and some of Lou Reid. We'll be back on

Tuesday with the Killers, Boy George and much, much more. I think we'll

finish now with a bit of this sort of thing.

Thank you to our guests. John Mayer! Ballake Sissoko! London Grammar! The

Rumour. Lissie and The National!