Episode 4 The Quay Sessions

Hello, I'm Roddy Hart.

Welcome to The Quay Sessions, the best gig in town,

every week on BBC Radio Scotland.

And here's just some of the highlights.

Coming up tonight, Eliza Carthy,

Sacred Paws, Alexis Taylor...

Ian Morrison, and Lewis and Leigh.

But now, a band who blew us away when they visited us

back in February, and who return to Glasgow next week

to play as part of the 6 Music Festival.

It's Manchester's Dutch Uncles.

# Open out like a big balloon

# Troublesome house Whatever you choose

# Freeze the ghost Be happy as fat

# Funny how the rainbow It come right back

# Before the walk in the Monday cold

# Get the lunchbox with your name on, glittering gold

# Make me glad I didn't know that

# Make me high, want to collide

# Make me glad I didn't know that

# Make me laugh for going without

# Don't want to look down

# Don't want to touch ground

# The jungle days on the VCR

# Are filling up gravity and spaceship parts

# Leave it all for potato lands

# When they're getting upset And you're getting upset about sand

# Make me glad I didn't know that

# Make me high, want to collide

# Make me glad I didn't know that

# Make me laugh for going without

# Don't want to look down

# Don't want to touch ground

# Don't want to touch ground

# You better watch out

# I don't want to look down

# Make me glad I didn't know that

# Make me high, want to collide

# Make me glad I didn't know that

# Make me laugh for going without

# Make me swoon like a big balloon

# Keep me light up at the root

# Make me glad I didn't know that

# Make me laugh for going without. #

# Strike a match inside a dark place

# See the light on the side of your face

# Through a snowstorm in the spring time

# I watch the light on the side of your face

# I've been thinking You've been dreaming

# Don't know where my heavy body's heading

# Which reminds me You remind me

# There's no way of No way of knowing

# Higher mountains Open spaces

# Run your fingers through the ages

# Strike a match inside a dark place

# Feel the light all over your face

APPLAUSE

Thank you very much.

Afrobeat and bare feet, what's not to love?

Sacred Paws, another band playing the 6 Music Festival.

But now we go from one festival to another, and back in January

we took The Quay Sessions on the road to the CCA in Glasgow

as part of Celtic Connections.

# Scanning the worlds above me

# They take me by surprise

# All your hills surround me

# Dark figures against the night

# This war I'm leaving Your call I'm feeling, homeward

# This world I'll leave it You know I mean it, homeward

# The day she called me lover Homeward

# The day she called me lover Homeward

# The battle of wills surrounds me

# Your black birds gather above

# Tomorrow must be this new day

# The one she dreamt about

# This war I'm leaving Your call I'm feeling, homeward

# This world I'll leave it You know I mean it, homeward

# The day she called me lover Homeward

# The day she called me lover Homeward

# Oh-oh, oh-oh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh

# Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

# Come on my lover, homeward

# Come on my lover, homeward

# Nothing to kill for, homeward

# All to live for, homeward. #

APPLAUSE

# Sometimes we quiet

# Because we want to listen

# Or I guess there's so much we want to say

# The heavens and hells in us drive us

# Drive us

# Insane

# I'll hug you like a mountain

# I'll hug you like a mountain

# I'll hug you close to me

# I'll hug the cage in you

# The cages in you

# I'll hug close to me

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# We are lonely sometimes

# She said, hugging her knees

# I love you, yes Yes, do you love me?

# Please

# I'll hug you like a mountain

# I'll hug you like a mountain

# I'll hug you close to me

# I'll hug the cage in you

# The cages in you I'll hug close to me

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# I keep looking for you amongst unfamiliar faces

# I walk the streets, ride the bus

# And squeeze myself out of crowded places

# I'll hug you like a mountain

# I'll hug you like a mountain

# I'll hug you close to me

# And I'll hug the cage in you

# The cages in you I'll hug close to me

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# Ah-ah, ah-ah, ahhh

# Ah-ah, ah-ah, ahhh

# Ah-ah, ah-ah, ahhh

# Ah-ah, ah-ah, ahhh

# We wash away our lies with our tears

# And we're naked when we're crying

# We walk for the truth in everything we do

# And we love ourselves laughing, laughing

# Laughing

# Love ourselves laughing, laughing

# Laughing

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# La-la, la-la, la-la-la

# I'll hug you like a mountain

# I'll hug you like a mountain

# I'll hug you close to me

# I'll hug you like a mountain

# I'll hug you like a mountain

# I'll hug you close to me

# I'll hug you like a mountain

# I'll hug you like a mountain

# I'll hug you close to me. #

APPLAUSE

The undisputed first lady of the English folk scene, Eliza Carthy.

And check out the rest of her set on the iPlayer now.

But back we go to our home by the Clyde, for the beautiful harmonies

of the transatlantic duo Lewis and Leigh.

# I hold a mirror to the past

-TOGETHER:

-# I never saw you quite like that

# All the flaws I'll never find

# Stolen truth to hide behind

# Time has a tendency to fossilize my memories

# How, how can I

# Keep your ghost on my side?

# How, how can I

# Keep your ghost

# On my side?

# And I have an image in my mind

# And how I wish it wasn't black and white

# All your colours buried deep

# Hidden truths that cannot speak

# Time has a tendency to fossilize my memories

# How, how can I

# Keep your ghost on my side?

# How, how can I

# Keep your ghost...

# Was there sorrow below the skin?

# A different person you might have been?

# Was there a risk you never took?

# Wish you held that second look

# I'll never know

# I'll never know

# I'll never know

# I'll never know

# How, how can I

# Keep your ghost on my side?

# How, how can I

# Keep your ghost...

# How, how can I

# Keep

# Your ghost on my side? #

APPLAUSE

PIANO INTRO

# I thought this was ours

# I thought this was mine

# It's with neither one of us now

# It's long gone with time

# I thought you were easy to find

# You are now

# Hard to find

# When you're in comfort of prayers

# You're not here

# But all in my mind

# Don't defend me

# I know that you

# Cannot try

# Try to hold me

# As I do you

# Up to the sky

# She thought this was hers

# And it once was

# At least in name

# But yours is no longer

# And I was to be lost

# A crying shame

# I thought I was found

# I have broken

# Without sound

# I find you and you're so hard

# A beautiful

# Stone in the ground

# Don't defend me

# I know that you

# Cannot try

# Try to hold me

# As I do you

# Up to the sky

# Don't defend me

# I know that you

# Will not try

# Try to hold me

# As I do you

# Up to the sky. #

APPLAUSE

Thank you.

Stripped back and magical, Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip fame.

But to play us out,

let's get another track from everyone's favourite Uncles.

# I'm alone in the sharpness It's over

# To breathe in the right's all you wanted

# Stretch the abandoned lamps

# And colours

# Making a base, pretend

# I know you will hear

# In this world of night What can hide?

# To be square, in love's

# Hateless mind

# Is the pain of glee so unkind?

# If music can feel the raw

# Without you

# Just say I deserve the warmth

# I had to

# It makes me afraid to see

# The long kiss, but hey

# What I fail to breach

# Ain't alive

# Look how far they creep

# So alive

# It's the world of time

# I should mind

# In between this sleep

# I must try

# If anyone's there

# If anyone cares

# How d'you know you're scared

# If you don't know if you care?

# But hey

# In this world of night

# What can hide?

# To be square, in love's

# Hateless mind

# What I fail to breach

# Ain't alive

# It's not hard to leave

# Look behind

# In this burn of night

# I'm a streetlight

# Just come feel my heat light

# I'm a streetlight

# Step into my heat light

# I'm a streetlight

# Just come feel my heat light

# I'm that streetlight

# Just come feel my heat. #

-APPLAUSE

-Thank you.