Episode 1 Later... with Jools Holland

APPLAUSE Everywhere you look it is a

celebration. Spring has come. We start with Laura Mvula!

# Round the mountain all God's children run

# Round the mountain all God's children run

# Round the mountain all God's children run

# Round the mountain all God's children run

# Round the mountain all God's children?run

# Round the mountain all God's children?run

APPLAUSE The exquisite Laura Mvula with

Overcome. And we have Paul Simon... We have the Lake District

-- Lake Street Dive. And now, from the Wirral, we have The Coral.

# She's got my name, she's got my number

# And she moves in and out of time #.

APPLAUSE The Coral with Miss Fortune. Their

new album is distant in between. -- is Distance Inbetween. Now, all the

way from America, Lake Street Dive. # You got me wishing

that I never said # This is what I get

for being civilized # Took my salutations

and threw 'em away # I know there's something

wrong with the limits # We got turned around,

but we could spin it # Remember when you

used to like me baby? # This is what I get

for being civilized # You took my salutations

and threw them away # I know there's something

wrong with the limits # We got turned around,

but we could spin it # I know there's something

wrong with the limits # We got turned around,

but we could spin it # I know there's something

wrong with the limits # We got turned around,

but we could spin it APPLAUSE

Lake Street Dive. I am now joined by an incredible legend. A privilege to

have in the studio this evening. The wonderful Mr Paul Simon. It is great

to see you. It is great to have you here in the studio live. A lovely

record, Stranger to Stranger, a great record. We will be playing

something from it in a moment. You are busy, on a world tour, a

sold-out tour, the new record, and you are back in England. When did

you first come over here? 1964. Just when the Beatles were happening.

What sort of things... Is it a better or worse place now do you

think? LAUGHTER

Well, I think the whole world was better in 1964.

CHUCKLES Anyway, I was 23, or 22, you know,

so everywhere was better. Everywhere was good. Did you write songs when

you were here? Yeah, I wrote quite a few songs that became, you know,

well known, well, Homeward Bound, that was pretty well known. I Am A

Rock, I wrote that here. I wrote a song with... Do you remember a group

called, what was The Seekers it? -- what was it, The Seekers? Were they

Australian? I think so, but I know them. I was playing clubs, looking

for enough money to pay rent. I wrote a song called Red Rubber Ball,

which became a huge hit. But I never play it. You were writing. You will

be playing Wristband in a moment, which is a great new song. You will

be playing The Sound Of Silence,, do like the new version of it? -- do

you like. I do, actually. I saw them play on US television about eight

days ago. It was an interesting performance. They had strings, they

had timpani, big orchestration... I was surprised... It was a pretty

moving performance. Different from the way I do it. We will hear its

next Friday. And we will hear Wristband from your new album

Stranger to Stranger in a moment. Looking forward to that. I have been

instructed to move along because we all live. Move along, Jools. I

shall. Thank you. APPLAUSE

We will be hearing more from Paul in a moment. Now, we welcome Jason

Isbell. APPLAUSE

# Who are you if not the one I met

# One July night before the town went wet

# Where are you if you're not on your own?

# Where's the Jesus that you swore you'd find

# Are you living the life that chose you

# Do you live with a man who knows you

# Lost three fingers to a faulty tool

# Settled out of court, I'm no one's fool

# There's plenty left to make a getaway

# I've spent enough nights in the bluegrass state

# We could go somewhere where people stay up late

# Are you living the life that chose you

# Do you live with a man who knows you

# Here I am inviting you to throw your life away

# Victim of nostalgia, maybe Tanqueray

# Just tonight I realized that I am still in your backseat

# Nothing I've had since has meant a thing to me

# Are you living the life that chose you

# Are you taking a grown up dose

# Do you live with a man who knows you

APPLAUSE Jason Isbell. The Life You Chose.

Now, a man with his fifth solo album, we welcome Kano.

# I'm from where Reggie Kray got rich as...

# East London, who am I to mess tradition up?

# Jellied eels, pie and mash, two pints of that pride on tap

# Polo top, pair of stans, flat cap and a Burberry mac

# Some ASBO kids on the crack here

# Super tenants on a park bench, brown packet

# Yeah, that's the hood, yeah, that's the hood

# I'm just a 2Pac brother in a town full of Suges

# Tryna be straight in this town full of crooks

# Know when you've never seen a man buy a Bentley with a book

# We take to water like a duck, headed to the green

# But getting caught up in the rough

# Story of my life, and I'm just giving you the crux

# The wheels keep on turning, we keep on earning

# Back when Lethal Bizzle was Lethal B

# This is how we used to dun the dance in East

# We used to spit 16s til they called police

# Probably somewhere in a party or the dark she'll be

# Where you could be a villain or a victim

# Where you make money, make it out, avoid pen

# That's the idiot's guide to the manor, my friend

# Uh, it's been a long time coming, like Sam said

# A change gonna come for the masses

# Bars back, give that dark stuff a damn rest

# Rap for the have-nots and the have-less

# This my Rocky stairway flow

# Something those Apollos wouldn't know

# Brother and a mother, where's Daddy?

# Face bothered, two three piece, Lucky Thompson

# Fight against the odds to the top like Jack Johnson

# You can keep the more money if you keep the problems

# I can keep it real, can you keep it 100?

# Stripped and underground, king of his highness

# Now what will come first, getting rich or the dying?

# The wheels keep on turning, we keep on earning

# Back when Lethal Bizzle was Lethal B

# This is how we used to dun the dance in East

# We used to spit 16s til they called police

# Probably somewhere in a party or the dark she'll be

# Where you could be a villain or a victim

# Where you make money, make it out, avoid pen

# That's the idiot's guide to the manor, my friend

# It's not a hip hop party without a butt twerk

# It's not a real rap song without a cuss word

# It's not a house party without a shuffle

# It's not a garage rave without champagne

# This was how we used to get the party gassed

# Then you covered your face and dossed out the back

# I'll tell you, back when Lethal Bizzle was Lethal B

# This is how we used to dun the dance in East

# We used to spit 16s til they called police

# Probably somewhere in a party or a dark she'll be

# Where you could be a villain or a victim

# Where you make money, make it out, avoid pen

# That's the idiot's guide to the manor, my friend

# Back when Lethal Bizzle was Lethal B

# This is how we used to dun the dance in East

# We used to spit 16s til they called police

# Probably somewhere in a party or the dark she'll be

# Where you could be a villain or a victim

# Where you make money, make it out, avoid pen

# That's the idiot's guide to the manor, my friend #.

# I stepped outside the backstage door to breathe some nicotine

# And maybe check my mailbox, see if I can read the screen

# Then I heard a click, the stage door lock

# I'm gonna have to walk around the block

# Wristband, my man, you've got to have a wristband

# If you don't have a wristband, my man, you don't get through the door

# Wristband, my man, you've got to have a wristband

# And if you don't have a wristband, my man,

I don't know why my heart beats like a fist

# When I meet some dude with an attitude saying

# "hey, you can't do that, or this" #

# And the man was large, a well-dressed six-foot-eight

# And he's acting like Saint Peter standing guard at the pearly...

# Wristband, my man, you've got to have a wristband

# If you don't have a wristband, you don't get through the door

# My axe is on the bandstand, my band is on the floor" #

# The riots started slowly with the homeless and the lowly

# Then they spread into the heartland towns

# Kids that can't afford the cool brand

# For you'll never get a wristband and if you don't have a wristband

# Then you can't get through the door

The great Paul Simon. We've only got ten seconds, I would like to thank

my guests. Laura Mvula! # Nobody ever told

her she was beauty # One day, she realized

she was already free # The colour in her

eyes was fire rising # She found the light

inside, a new horizon # She battled every

kind of tribulation # She reveled in adventure

and imagination # She never listened

to no hater, liar # Breaking boundaries

and chasing fire # Where you come from

or where you're going # Where you come from

or where you're going