Episode 2 The Quay Sessions

Welcome to the best of The Quay Sessions.

I'm Edith Bowman, and I'm right by the River Clyde in Glasgow,

which is where we film our weekly BBC Radio Scotland show.

Coming up tonight, performances from...

..Idlewild...

..Frazey Ford...

..Turin Brakes...

..Lanterns On The Lake...

..Ibeyi...

..Jesse Malin...

First up, a young man who came and performed for us at the end

of last year, complete with twinkly lights across the Clyde.

This is the joyous sound of Newton Faulkner.

# You

# Have gotta slow down

# I'm hitting the ground

# And I know it isn't right

# To scratch and fight another day

# You are all that I want

# But you're not what I need

# And I know it's probably time

# To find another melody

# Come on, come on I got to get away

# Save all the trouble for another day

# Get me a ticket and an alibi

# There's nothing holding me down so teach me how to fly

# Come on, come on I got to get away

# Save all the trouble for another day

# Get me a ticket and an alibi

# There's nothing holding me down so teach me how to fly

# Here we go

# Up, up and away

# Here we go

# Up, up and away

# Here we go

# Up, up and away

# Away, away, away, away-ee-oo

# You, get out of my way

# Get out of my face

# And I know it isn't right

# To hold so tight to yesterday

# I go wherever I want

# Wherever I please

# And I know it's probably time

# To find another melody

# Come on, come on I got to get away

# Save all the trouble for another day

# G-get me a t-ticket and an alibi

# There's nothing holding me down so teach me how to fly

# Come on, come on I got to get away

# Save all the trouble for another day

# G-get me a t-ticket and an alibi

# There's nothing holding me down so teach me how to fly

# Here we go

# Up, up and away

# Here we go

# Up, up and away

# Here we go

# Up, up and away

# Away, away, away, away-ee-ee

# Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee

# Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee

# Ee-ee-ee-ee-ee

# Come on, come on I got to get away

# Save all the trouble for another day

# G-get me a t-ticket and an alibi

# Nothing holding me down so teach me how to fly

# Come on, come on I got to get away

# Save all the trouble for another day

# G-get me a t-ticket and an alibi

# There's nothing holding me down so teach me how to fly

# Here we go

# Up, up and away

# Here we go

# Up, up and away

# Here we go

# Up, up and away

# Away, away, away, away-ee. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Oh, thank you very much indeed.

# Hey!

# Hey!

# Brah-brah brah

# Go, go, go, go

# Come to your river

# I will come to your river

# I will come to your river

# Wash my soul again

# Go, go, go, go

# Come to your river

# Wash my soul

# I will come to your river

# Wash my soul

# I will come to your river

# Wash my soul again

# Carry away my dead leaves

# Let me baptize my soul with the help of your waters

# Sink my pains and complaints

# Let the river take them, river drown them

# My ego and my pain

# Let me baptize my soul with the help of your waters

# Those old mes, so ashamed

# Let the river take them, river drown them

# Go, go, go, go

# Come to your river

# I will come to your river

# I will come to your river

# Go, go, go, go

# Come to your river

# Wash my soul

# I will come to your river

# I will come to your river

# Wash my soul again

# Carry away my dead leaves

# Let me baptize my soul with the help of your waters

# Sink my pains and complaints

# Let the river take them, river drown them

# My ego and my pain

# Let me baptize my soul with the help of your waters

# Those old mes, so ashamed

# Let the river take them, river drown them

# Go, go, go, go

THEY SING IN YORUBA

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

-Thank you very much!

-Thank you.

So, we're going to play a song off our new record.

It was a kind of recentish single.

It's called Faultlines.

This is for that person that went, "Yeees!"

AUDIENCE MEMBER SHOUTS OUT

For the two people that went, "Yeees!"

# Full-blooded, words like knives

# But it's not the same since the old girl died

# You know, I used to see

# The city's white glow from up here

# Oh, my, look at all that rain

# Money's tighter now and they keep us tame

# But you know you're done

# When the TV's watching you

# It's not what it seems like

# Where we are

# But I'm loyal to the cause

# If you are

# Fractured lives like fault lines

# Unto the breach, my friends, if you will

# But it's rude to stare

# At the ceiling while I beg you

# Sweet sleep don't call my name

# I've got miles to go

# And wars to wage

# When this thing is done

# I'll crawl back into your womb

# It's not what it seems like

# Where we are

# But I'm loyal to the cause

# If you are

# If you are

# If you a-a-a-a-a-re

# If you are

# If you a-a-a-a-a-re

# If you are

# If you a-a-a-a-a-re

# If you are. #

Thank you.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

The incredible Lanterns On The Lake.

I really hope they go on to bigger and better things

over the next couple of years. Spine-tingling stuff.

Now, for the first time we upped and moved from this stage

and headed over to Glasgow city centre to be part of

the Celtic Connections Festival.

It was a wonderful month of live music from all over the world.

Here's just a small selection of some of our favourites,

starting off with the brilliant Turin Brakes,

who covered a Scottish classic.

# When I first saw you

# Something stirred within me

# Standing sultry in the rain

# If I could've held you

# I would've held you

# Rip it up and start again

# Oh, rip it up and start again

# I said, rip it up and start again

# I hope to God you're not as dumb as you make out

# I hope to God

# I hope to God

# And I hope to God I'm not as numb as you make out

# I hope to God

# I hope to God

# And when I next saw you

# My heart reached out for you

# But my arms stuck like glue to their sides

# If I could've held you

# I would've held you

# But I'd choke rather than swallow my pride

# Oh, rip it up and start again

# I said, rip it up and start again

# I hope to God you're not as dumb as you make out

# I hope to God

# I hope to God

# And I hope to God I'm not as numb as you make out

# I hope to God

# I hope to God

# And there were times I'd take my pen

# And feel obliged to start again

# I do profess

# There's things in life I can't quite express

# So, look at me, I'm playing dumb-dumb-dumb

# And this scene is very humdrum

# And my favourite song's called Boredom

# Rip it up and start again

# I said, rip it up and start again

# I said, rip it up and start again

# I said, rip it up and start again

# Oh, rip it up and start again

# I said, rip it up and start again

# I said

# Rip it up and start again

# I said, rip it up and start again. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

EDITH: The awesome Turin Brakes, everyone!

# You better get up for your mama

# You better grab the best of your life

# I know you're ready

# To get over

# Anyhow

# Well, all you have to do is wander

# Over fields of dark time

# Until you find yourself

# Feeling lonesome

# Until you are in your body and your mind

# Day on Earth by streets at night

# Oh, yeah

# Saw you passing

# By the street light

# Do you have, yeah

# A home for the morning

# And are you holding

# Holding on so tight

# You say that's what you have been given

# A whole lot of nothing for your time

# Well, hell, you've spent it

# Down in your bones

# Do you toss and turn and turn at night

# And are you holding

# Holding on so tight

# And do you toss and turn and turn at night

# And are you holding

# Holding on so tight. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

# This is a film about the future

# It is the future of your life

# Which you think is certain

# Nothing is certain

# Nothing is certain, nothing is certain

# I know what you think

# You think this film is about you

# Well, it's not about you

# Yeah, it's not about you

# I know what you think

# You think this film is about you

# This is a film about the future

# It is the future of your life

# But you think it's certain

# Nothing is certain

# Nothing is certain, nothing is certain

# I know what you think

# You think this film is about you

# And it's not about you

# Yeah, it's not about you

# I know what you think

# You think this film is about you. #

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Thank you, all. Have a great weekend.

And there is plenty more where that came from.

If you'd like to watch more of the brilliant

performances from our time at Celtic Connections Festival,

or indeed some more archive sets,

all you've got to do is head to:

And, don't forget, the Quay Sessions is broadcast every Thursday night

on BBC Radio Scotland at 9pm.

And, so, to close us tonight,

a pretty special performance from Jesse Malin.

He came all the way

from New York's Queens to our very own Quay stage,

and he left us in style, which is what

we'd like to do for you tonight.

So, enjoy and thank you very much for watching.

Thanks for listening to me, I'm Jesse Malin. This is my band.

This is called You Know It's Dark When Atheists Start To Pray.

# Joey was a man from the other side

# Came across the sea for a better life

# When he got close they made him change his name

# Push along a cart through the market place

# Keep it in your heart when you're getting spades

# But that was so many years ago

# I lived in many places, I've fallen out of graces

# I tried to feed the fire for so long

# Hey, man, where you going

# Up town the river's flowing

# The sun comes, I'll be on my way

# Let's go

# I played in churches and I played in bars

# A young kid with a sad guitar

# To get close I had to go far away

# Well, I became a drifter

# Sent postcards to my sister

# Can hear her smile even when I'm far away

# Hey, man, where you going

# Up town the river's flowing

# The sun comes, I'll be on my way

# Well, I drank with kings and I danced with whores

# On mountain tops and distant shores

# But you made me feel like someone I wished to be

# I tried to wear my father's clothes

# I planted seeds that didn't grow

# With a handful of thorns and I thought that I was free

# Well, I worked in a bank, drove a diesel van

# Even Sonny Wortzik had a plan

# Do your time and get out of society

# Oh, hey, man, where you going

# Up town the river's flowing

# The sun comes, I'll be on my way

# Now you're sitting in an office, never seen the world

# Gonna blame it on the government or a girl

# But there's somewhere else you know you'd rather be

# Well, you're scratching off the numbers in a liquor store

# Dreaming of picking up a .44

# Tell me more about your fantasy

# Oh, hey, man, where you going

# Up town the river's flowing

# The sun comes, I'll be on my way

# Boxes in the corner neatly stacked

# Parts of me, paper and wax

# For a headline day to ride in that Cadillac

# And when that's over and I've had my fill

# Gonna put my body up on Cypress Hill

# Near Houdini for the final disappearing act

# Oh, yeah

# Hey, man, where you going

# Up town the river's flowing

# The sun comes, I'll be on my way

# Hey, man, what you doing

# All along the road to ruin

# You know it's dark when atheists start to pray

# From the foxholes

# To the quarter

# Got your mojo workin'

# Or whatever you believe in

# All your voodoo

# And the river runs deep

# And the river runs wide. #

Everybody, on your feet!

We need you guys today.

BRASS ENDS

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING