Episode 1 Later... with Jools Holland

Good afternoon, welcome to the brand-new series, I'm ready to go,

I'm ready for Kings of Leon! # All the way from Waco to WeHo

with the rabbit on a chain # Drove a little slick car to tend

bar with the static on her brain # She's a little burner, burner,

gonna throw you to the flame # Little ticking time bomb,

time bomb, gonna blow us all away # Oh, oh, oh, oh,

take the time to waste a moment # Whoa, oh, oh, oh

never ask to be forgiven # Texy was her boyfriend, with no

kin, always running from the law # Every other weekend, the week ends

with his back in her claw # He's a live wire, wired,

shooting sparks in the night # He's a gun for hire, hired,

with a bead in his sights # Oh, oh, oh, oh,

take the time to waste a moment # Whoa, oh, oh, oh,

facing where the lines are broken # Oh, oh, oh, oh,

name your price to all this living # Whoa, oh, oh, oh,

never ask to be forgiven # Oh, oh, oh, oh,

take the time to waste a moment # Whoa, oh, oh, oh,

facing where the lines are broken # Whoa, oh, oh, oh,

name your price to all this living # Whoa, oh, oh, oh,

never ask to be forgiven #. Kings of Leon, Waste A Moment! A

room filled with extraordinary talent, people in the background and

people watching, from Newcastle we have Sting! From Detroit, we will

enjoy Jack White! From Nashville, a marvellous new talent in the forms

of Kandace Springs! From Los Angeles, Banks! But now, from

Antibes, France, we welcome M83! # You, you, you, meet me, me,

me at this station, station # Can't, can't, can't, get used,

used, used to patience, patience # Wish time, this time could just be

a bit shortened, shortened # Be-be-be-tween u-u-us

six million seasons # Gotta run, gotta run,

gotta run and make it or die # I'm done, I'm done,

I'm done without you # I'm coming, I'm coming,

I'm coming for you # F-F-Feels like we-we-we'll

be frozen, frozen # N-N-Need you to-to tell me,

je t'aime, je t'aime # Full speed cause we gotta

look to discover, cover # G-G-Get me j-j-just

a little closer # Gotta run, gotta run,

gotta run and make it or die # I'm done, I'm done,

I'm done without you # I'm coming, I'm coming,

I'm coming for you # I'm gonna come,

just meet me there # I'm coming, I'm coming,

I'm coming for you # I'm coming, I'm coming,

I'm coming for you #. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you, M83 with Mai Lan. A song from that album Junk. We have legend

in the room, I'm delighted to say, from his marvellous new album, 57th

9th, we welcome Sting! # White page, an empty field

of snow, my room is 25 below # This cold man chasing ghosts,

a road lies underneath a buried boat # Dogs search the under forest,

we scour the empty streets # The fact remains until we find

you, our lives are incomplete # Do I hear laughters

through a veil of snow and ice? # Where could you be on such

a lonely winter's night? # That's why I'm searching

night and day # This heart's a lonely hunter,

these hands are frozen fists # I can't stop thinking about you,

I don't care if you exist # Do I hear laughter from behind

this veil of midnight? # What are you hiding

in the frozen heart of winter? # I know you're close,

your scent still warm # And then your trail turns

cold, cold, cold # That's why I'm searching

night and day # This heart's a lonely hunter,

these hands are frozen fists # I can't stop thinking about you,

I don't care if you exist # Do I hear laughter

in the silence of the snow? # I know you're hiding in this

frozen heart of winter # I know you're close,

your scent still warm # Then the trail turns

cold, cold, cold # That's why I'm searching

night and day # This heart's a lonely hunter,

these hands are frozen fists # I can't stop thinking about you,

I don't care if you exist Thank you, Sting! William Beale --

we will be discussing interesting things later. Now somebody we have

been trying to get on the show for a long time. Now she is there. With

Gemini Feed, we welcome Banks. # And to think you would

get me to the altar. # Like I'd follow you around

like a dog that needs water. # But admit it, that

you wanted me smaller. # If you would've let me grow,

you could've kept my love. # There's nothing

on my body left to see. # I tried to say "I love you,"

but you didn't hear me. # Convinced me other people,

they don't care about me. # And to think you would

get me to the altar. # Like I'd follow you around

like a dog that needs water. # But admit it, that

you wanted me smaller. # If you would've let me grow,

you could've kept my love. # I still want you to kiss 'em

cause they're lonely. # That when I said "I miss you,"

you never believed me. # You and me together,

we were gemini feed. # And to think you would

get me to the altar. # Like I'd follow you around

like a dog that needs water. # But admit it, that

you wanted me smaller. # If you would've let me grow,

you could've kept my love. # And to think you would

get me to the altar. # Like I'd follow you around

like a dog that needs water. # But admit it, that

you wanted me smaller. # If you would've let me grow,

you could've kept my love. # And to think you would

get me to the altar. # Like I'd follow you around

like a dog that needs water. # But admit it, that

you wanted me smaller. # If you would've let me grow,

you could've kept my love #. Thank you, Banks, with Gemini Feed.

Marvellous to have you in this room. So nice, the way the lights come up

and they go down and stars come into this room and they go out. It's a

treat to be here. We welcome now to the table for some intimate chat the

wonderful Sting. CHEERING It is Sting! Now,

congratulations on your new record, 57th 9th. Where does the title

come from? It's an intersection I would cross every day on my way to

the studio, at Hells kitchen in New York. It's very busy and you have to

be careful when you cross. How are you travelling? I walk. How far is

it? 15 blocks. I lived on west 57th but I got confused because the

street were not called things like pudding Lane, it was all numbers, so

I couldn't remember what they were called. But you can't get lost. You

can, one, two... You can't remember where you are going. When you got to

the studio, why that junction? Did something happened there? No, I just

like the junction. Last time you came on, you said there was no point

trying to write something if you didn't have something to say, so

what has inspired you for this record? The first song is about that

conundrum. You face a blank page and it looks like a field of snow. You

have no idea what is underneath, a road, a pass, an animal you are

hunting, a story, a news, inspiration. It's about an obsessive

search for something ephemeral, a song. What comes first, the words of

the music? It depends. I like to do it both ways. I might write the

music and it gives me a clue about the story or a write a line and it

follows. What was inspiring you? What was underneath the snow that

you found? Things happening in the world, global warming, refugee

crisis, a lot of our colleagues dying quickly, so many of them.

Those kind of things inspired me to respond to them. It's a question I'd

like to ask. Are you a person who is likely to be well rehearsed or are

you spontaneous? We went into the studio, Dominic Miller and Vinny,

the three of us know each other so well that we would jam together,

showed a thing into the form of a song, and I'd take that home, a

story of that abstract narrative that music is. That's my job. The

last record was brilliant. You came on with Jimmy nail. It was a

systolic record. This is going back to the police macro style. -- it was

a symphonic record. This is going back to the Police style. I have

made these are terrible records. I like surprise. When I listen to

music, I want to be surprised. -- I have made these ephemeral records.

This is a surprise. It's very direct, it's very simple, it's rock

and roll. Simple is hardest, do you think was John Mogg it's very

difficult. The song you are going to be playing is called 50,000. What's

it about? A lot of icons passed away this year, David Bowie, Prince, and

my friend Alan Rickman. Prince Buster. So I was responding as a man

who has probably lived most of his life already, I'm 64, so thinking

about my moan -- my own mortality and what that feels like. We look

forward to hearing from you later. Thank you for joining us, Sting. Who

will be over here with everybody. But now in this corner, a man who is

there. It is Jack White. # One of us is happy

One of us is mean # I love you, honey

Why don't you love me? # Then I start to think

you're growing colder # I watch TV

You watch the ceiling # And when you turn over

I get a funny feeling # And pop the top

until my baby comes clean # Yeah, I should

grab my rock and rye # And pop the top

until my baby comes clean # You bust your lip

on wine spodie odie # So come and take a trip

if you want to know me # Then I start to think

you're growing colder # You drink water

and I drink gasoline # One of us is happy

The other one is mean # I love you, honey

Why don't you love me? # Wonderful to have them back in this

room, Kings of Leon! Before that, the wonderful Jack White! Now we

welcome for the first time on this show somebody who has been

championed by Prince, touring with Gregory Porter, we welcome Kandace

Springs! # I've been trying to look

inside your heart # But silence keeps on

pushing us apart # Your voice is like

a song I long to hear # All these days

will pass on into years # So if in doubt,

remember that you're free, yeah # And all I want

is for you to talk to me # And all I want

is for you to talk to me # Picked up the paper today one more

on the list of already fallen # Another one of my comrades is

taken down # We treat our anecdotes and

commentary # We sing some songs and sad

# The tabloids to this and tell # 50,000 voices rise every time we

sing # Every word he ever wrote reflected

back to him # We don't remember the studios we

played all the lights on 50,000 faces

# The serious drug you could never kick

# What you could never imagine you could replace

# You feel like kites on the wings of amphetamine

# Really what did any of it mean # It was a high philosophy of

reflection and defeat # 50,000 voices rising every time he

sings # Every word he ever wrote reflected

back to him # Still believe

# Rock stars only fade # Reflecting now on my own past

# The saddest present I'd made for myself

# I'm feeling a little better today # Although the bathroom mirror is

telling me something else # These lines of stress one

bloodshot eye # The unhealthy pallor of a troubled

ghost # Where did I put my spectacle case

# Half blind # 50,000 to ministers like you and

me # Rock stars will never die they

will only fade away #. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

The wonderful sound of Sting with 50,000. From 57th 9th. Before that

we very much enjoyed Kandace Springs!

And so pleased to have a legend at the table with a snap whose the sick

we enjoyed earlier, Jack White! -- with us now whose music we enjoyed.

All of these cut at the BBC, it is austerity can you get a glass of

water, actually half a glass at a plectrum. Thank you for coming. You

have this great record out and I like it because it is actually a

record, I am a record collector so I love their record. It is a

collection of your acoustic recordings. You have so many great

songs, was it hard to decide what to put on? I had about three hours to

start with and took off the cover songs and the live songs and

whittled it down to something that made sense. Their art studio track

that have been remastered or songs that studied at acoustic songs and

we turned them into larger 16 track things. I wanted to peel them back

and let people see how they started so it was a collection of those

things but all chronological as well. How was the process of looking

back and listening? It takes years for me to listen to a song that I've

written to be able to hear it clearly. When you first do it you

are very close to it and time has to go by before you can listen to it

again, for me. After a while you can see it for what it is and you are

far away enough. What about listening to a piece of music you

have loved for a long time? Does it get much better? Is it you changing

or the music? You are appreciating those little nuance is a little

more, I was watching Sting and all of the Stuart Copeland drum fills

that I loved, how much more I love them now, and John Bonham that I

love even more now. I always attacked the music from a drummer

first and read my way out to the piano and vocals and melody. You

start with the drum? Always, that's my favourite part, that's where it

come from. You have produced a lot of artists and collaborated with a

lot of artists, what is the key for that? To be as polite as possible!

You have just produced Beyonce, when you go in for the first day, being

as polite as possible, how does it go? I'm Beyonce, what are we doing?

I like to go into other people's worlds, I do a lot of things analog

into tape and not too much digital equipment when I write and produce

and record so if I'm working with somebody who is further away from my

normal world, I like to do what they normally do so I can learn something

from them. I was trying to learn as much as I could from how Beyonce

does things to see if we could find some common ground and build

something and we really did, it was really incredible that we were able

to do. I thought it was not going to work at first but it turned into

something I'm incredibly happy about. What did you learn from her?

She is very beautiful! Funnily enough, so are you! I can see how

you have picked up on it. I am asking a few of the artists on the

show, spontaneity or being well rehearsed? Spontaneity! Of course.

The Germans have a word for it. Also, I must ask you, I believe your

record label launched your own space proof turntable into outer space. We

did do that. We don't really know why we did it but we did do it. Was

it OK with Nasa and all that? We had to get clearance with them and

things like that, it was a five-year project. And also third man records

has produced 3 million pieces of vinyl. We love vinyl! Your 3

millionth was propelled into outer space? It is too important! And

perhaps if there had been Martians out there, they could have heard it?

Exactly. You are assuming they have got thumbs. It is a lot of assuming.

Thank you for joining us, Jack White! APPLAUSE

Outer space, you have never been into outer space, have you? Even

Sting who has done almost everything, he hasn't been into

outer space. Have you ever been into outer space? No, absolutely not.

Maybe with drugs? No! In reality! Thank you for your help on that!

They have not been into outer space was the answer. The closest you can

get is by being with us on the show. I'm now pleased to welcome back the

wonderful Banks! # This is not about me

# All this business # Is it better?

# This is not about us # This is not about us

# I never played it cool # It was a big mistake

# This is not about to you # Trying to get up in my bag

# All this business # Is it better

# Don't ask me why the red this is not about us

# This is not about us # This is not about us

# This is not about # This is not about

# I never bought it # How I found out

# All the times I tried to prove to you

# This is not about us # This is not about us

# This is not about us. # If the wrinkle

that is in your brain? # If the wrinkle

that is in your brain Jack White! Sugar Never Tasted So

Good. From his angle, -- his album, Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016.

Before that, we enjoyed Banks. Now we return to the men who claim to

have been to outer space, but I have my doubts. It is of course Kings Of

Leon. # I can't get the alarm out

# You can't get me here alone # I'm just trying to do what's right

# All night, and a man is thought to fight

# I could never point you out # They still face in a faceless

crowd # Tell me what I have to say

# If you know what's right then you'll walk away

# And the walls come down # And the walls come down

# But no walls come down # And no walls come down

# One by one I've seen folk # Some just don't show up at all

# I'm just here to fight the fight # A man ain't a man unless he has

desire # And the walls come down

# When the walls come down # The walls come down

# You tore up my heart # You do it the way

# Weston goal with ease denies, took -- western girl with ease denies,

took a wrong turn and found surprise.

# No way # And no way

# When the walls come down # When the walls come down

# You to pour out my heart -- you for out my heart

# You do it away # The western girl with eastern eyes

who took a wrong turn and found surprised a way

# Now I've nothing and no way # And no way

# Yeah, no way # And no way

# A place where dreams are made like comic strips

# I see colours and planes, laser guns and champagne

# I feel strong and smart, ready for a new start

# Got it all - PAM! Got everything

# Got it all - PAM! Got all I need

# Got it all - PAM! Got everything

# Got it all - PAM! Got all I need

# All you can do is keep dreaming, dreaming

# It's up to you The meaning, the meaning

# All you can do is keep dreaming, dreaming

# It's up to you The meaning, the meaning

# Got it all - PAM! Got everything

# Got it all - PAM! Got all I need

# Got it all - PAM! Got everything

# Got it all - PAM! Got all I need

# Got it all - PAM! Got everything

# Got it all - PAM! Got all I need

# Got it all - PAM! Got everything

# Got it all - PAM! Got all I need

# Got it all - PAM! Got everything

# Got it all - PAM! Got all I need

# Got it all - PAM! Got everything

M83! Laser Gun from their LP, Junk. Before that, Kings Of Leon. And now

we finish with a superb and wonderful treat from 1978, a

wonderful song. We thank Sting. # You took me over,

let me find a way # I sold my house,

I sold my motor, too # I'd rob a bank,

maybe steal a plane # You took me over,

think I'll go insane # I had a thousand

girls or maybe more # I just don't know

what come over me # You took me over,

take a look at me now # I saw the doctor,

he said, give it time # When all it is

is just a love affair # You took me over,

baby, take me there Thank you, Sting! You can see much

more on our website. We will be back on Tuesday at 10pm with Madness on

Jamie T. Thank you to all our guests, Sting, Jack White, Kandace

Springs, M83, Banks and Kings Of Leon. It is ray Charles's birthday

this week so we will finish with this.