OPENING THEME MUSIC PLAYS
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
JOOLS HOLLAND: Welcome to this amazing room -
Alexandra Palace, on a hill on top of London.
A room full of amazing and incredible guests this evening.
Let's begin with Gabriels.
BAND BEGINS TO PLAY
# Don't want your love and war no more
# I want a sacrifice
# I've shown and proved and I paid my dues
# Won't let you get me twice
# Mama ain't raised no fool, I know you
# You'd kill a mockingbird right
# My daddy taught me a thing or two
# You betta heed my advice
# Give me something
# Show me this thing was meant to be
# Whatever it means, it means something to me
# Don't want your love and war no more
# I need more than your time
# You pick a fight damn near every night
# Even your mama said it wasn't cool
# I'd walk on broken glass
# Damn near sold my ass
# Gave you the shirt off my back
# Gone through the fire
# God dammit, I'm tired
# Why can't you just give me
# Give me Something Something
# Show me this thing was meant to be
# Whatever it means It means something to me
# Give me something I can't live without
# Give me something To soothe all of my doubts
# Give me something To make it feel true
# Give me something I wanna see the other side of you
# Give me give me give me something
# Make the good outweigh the bad
# Give me give me give me something
# Turn the page, ain't looking back
# Give me give me give me something
# Saying sorry is a start
# Give me, give me, give me something
# But you can't un-break a heart
# Give me something
# Show me this thing was meant to be, to be, to be, to be
# Whatever it means It means something to me
# It means something to me!
# Give me something Give me one reason, yeah
# Tell me I shouldn't leave
# Whatever it means It means something to me
# Whatever it means, it means something to me
# It means something to me It means something to me
# It means something to me It means something to me. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
JOOLS: Thank you. Gabriels! How wonderful!
How wonderful to be in this room with all these amazing artists!
Who are they?
From Oxford, we have Elmiene.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
From Mali, it's wonderful to have Fatoumata Diawara
and Damon Albarn.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
From Glasgow, I'm chatting to Sharleen Spiteri.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
From Dublin, Grian Chatten.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
..with a superb band.
But now, from Austin, Texas and Aberdare in Wales,
we welcome Far From Saints.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
BAND BEGINS TO PLAY
# Death and reborn
# What was is now gone
# The version of you, I knew
# Had grown butterfly wings and flown
# I don't doubt you
# With your heart on the line
# Just leave it up to the universe
# I know we'll get there in time
# But I've lost that feeling now
# But I'll find my way somehow
# I'm barely breathing, been trampled into dust
# I'll find my way back
# When I dream I keep screaming Hallelujah
# I just needed to know that I could find my way back there
# Poppies and weeds
# And I'm back at the start
# A beautiful place, amazed I wasted this light in my heart
# I try to stay strong
# Like quarry and stone
# I'll walk through a wall for you
# I'm here while you search for your soul
# But I've lost that feeling now
# But I'll find my way somehow
# I'm barely breathing, been trampled into dust
# I'm sorry I can't help it
# When I dream I keep screaming Hallelujah
# I just needed to know that I could find my way back there
# When I see you walking the line
# I lay my ego down
# Surrendering all my designs
# A white flag on the battleground
# I'm barely breathing, been trampled into dust
# I'm sorry I can't help it
# I believe I'm leaving the real things I could trust
# And I know I shouldn't let it get to me
# When I dream I keep screaming Hallelujah
# But I'll find my way back there
# Now I see so clearly the one thing I have lost
# I just needed to know that I could find my way back #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
JOOLS: Far From Saints.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
It's nice to have dear Kelly Jones back,
and his new collaborators.
And now, let's welcome at the piano,
for a piano-side chat,
we welcome Sharleen Spiteri!
Very nice to have you back.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
It's wonderful to have you back in the room,
you've been a regular guest on the show over the years,
and also, congratulations, because you've just released
a sort of a best of, greatest hits
with some new things on it, as well. Yeah.
Celebrating Texas' last 34 years... I know.
..of marvellous output and creativity.
And a lot of that has been captured on these...
I was going to say within these walls, but it's not, actually,
but on this show. On this show, definitely.
Any things that you look back on fondly?
I mean, the thing about doing the show, it's amazing
cos you meet so many other musicians
and great things have happened through the years,
you know, it's been...
It feels like yesterday we did our first Jools Holland,
and here I am all these years later
sitting here talking about The Very Best Of
so it's kind of strange, but all memorable, as well.
Let's have a look at some of those magical moments from the show,
starting with Black Eyed Boy.
# Your black-eyed soul
# You should know
# That there's nowhere else to go... #
# Here comes the summer son
# He burns my skin... #
# Yeah, you can say what you want
# But it won't change my mind
# I feel the same about you... #
# You know I've got to get away
# Run, leave you behind... #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Some great moments there from the shows over the years.
Now, your first single, I Don't Want A Lover,
was Top 10 in 1989.
When that happened, did things change dramatically?
Did your lifestyle change at that point?
The lifestyle never really changed.
I mean, we were basically in a Transit van
travelling to every university all over the UK
and then off to Europe, we went.
You know, I didn't know if it would last a month, a year.
I certainly did not think it would last this length of time, so, yeah,
a bit of a shock. And on this new record,
you've got lots of the greatest hits and some new things, as well.
Yeah, there's two new tracks.
And you've recorded something with Spooner Oldham,
the legendary sort of Stax writer.
Yeah, we went down to Muscle Shoals,
to the infamous, famed studios
and we recorded with Spooner
and we did the Dan Penn-Spooner record
which is Keep On Talking,
which is a Northern Soul classic,
and we recorded that with a full band,
so that was a lot of fun.
You know, getting Spooner on the piano - his feel is phenomenal.
And he's just a wonderful man.
Speaking of feel,
am I right in thinking you played the drums on one track?
Yeah, I just played the drums on the new single, which was...
You know, I played a little bit of drums before
but nothing special and, yeah,
I had to learn to play drums in eight days to make the video.
Cos I was wondering if you had been a closet drummer
and suddenly been allowed out? No, I was never...
Literally, my drumming was, like...
You know, like anybody in a band,
you sort of sit behind the kit and you mess around,
but I'd never played on a record, I'd never done anything like that,
so when we did the video it was like I actually learned to play...
..to read drum music.
My drummer, Cat Myers, gave me lessons
and she said you'll find it easier,
rather than just trying to remember it,
you will remember it, but learn to read it first,
so I did that for the single.
Percussion instrument, like the piano, the drums... Yeah.
So, there you go. And next week
you're going to be playing the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury...
Yeah. ..for the first time since, I think, '99 or something.
Yeah, '99 was the last time we played it.
Are you looking forward to that?
Yeah, I'm really excited.
I mean, again, it's one of those things
that you play in the middle of your career
and then suddenly, you go and play again now.
It feels really good,
it's been 20 years since we've been on there, and it's like...
What do you take to Glastonbury with you?
Erm... My pride.
CHUCKLES
And will it fall off the stage or stay on do you think?
No, I've got to keep that.
I always keep the pride intact.
Yeah, you know, you just go,
you do it and you hope for the best. It's great, Glastonbury,
because I love all the different, strange...
I love the Healing Field where there's people...
It's amazing. ..sitting under a gigantic pyramid
and so their hair becomes more curly
or you sort of sit with a great wicker sort of figure...
I mean, that's the amazing thing about Glastonbury,
you go to Glastonbury and you find yourself getting lost.
I mean, literally.
It's amazing because you come across so many different kinds of music,
music that, a lot of the time, you didn't even imagine existed
and you hear something and you're like, "Wow, that's mind-blowing!"
And then you can go and see, you know, old bands, new bands,
find something that you thought you'd heard bits of
and then suddenly you get really into.
So, you know, I love it. I love it.
The great thing about Glastonbury is that it's not got stuck into that,
"Oh, it's a lads' festival" or "It's a women's festival",
or it's a this festival or that festival,
it is literally a festival where you can see anything,
and, I mean, for me, that's what a festival is supposed to be.
Yeah. I'm glad that they've kept that. No, it's great,
it's one of the greatest festivals on earth, so...
We look forward to seeing you there,
because the BBC are going to be covering some of that.
Apparently you are. So, there we are. It's great to have you.
thank you very much. Sharleen Spiteri! Thanks, Jools.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thanks for coming, nice to see you. And you.
So, now, the lead singer of Fontaines DC has a new solo work,
Chaos For The Fly.
We welcome Grian Chatten.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
BAND BEGINS TO PLAY
# Kindness is a trick to turn you strange
# Until you're twisted and you're shining like a varicose vein
# Anger makes you weak and turns you sick
# And gets you in the six feet nice and quick
# No fair, they can follow me
# I can live alone I can live alone
# Happy, where I like to be
# I can live alone, alone, alone, alone
# I fought for the right to be
# I can live alone, I can live alone
# Fairies get their fingers and they spin your wheel
# And they make you look at sunshine that your skin will never feel
# Baby, do you miss the days before
# Hope knocked on your door?
# But you went and fell in love
# And into you, love fell
# And it made you feel unwell
# Oh, well
# There's a thing 'bout people I suppose is all right
# It's when they smile right at their pain
# Through all the day and night
# The fool dies at the altar in a smile
# Says, "I'm moving to America, you won't see me for a while"
# If I get the ferry over, will the fairies follow me?
# Will they throw me to the sea?
# We'll see
# No fair, they can follow me
# I can live alone, I can live alone
# Happy, where I like to be
# I can live alone, alone, alone, alone
# I fought for the right to be
# I can live alone, I can live alone
# When the devil takes your soul, he does not care
# If you're shot down like a dog or expired on the stairs
# The boat is drifting in, the weight is cast
# How can life go so slowly and death come so fast?
# Across the River Styx, I'll row along
# But I've got one more song
# More song
# More song. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you, Grian Chatten.
What an excellent band.
Next, a brand-new artist with an amazing voice who is
performing here for the first time ever on British television.
We welcome Elmiene.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# Mmmm
# Mm-mm
# Send me the prayer I'm missing
# Because I need the sign
# And even though I'm listening
# Oh
# It's gonna take a while
# Mmmm
# Want to set my soul on fire
# Get me out this hole, I'm tired
# Want to set my soul on fire
# Get me out this hole, I'm tired
# Want to set my soul on fire
# Get me out this hole, I'm tired
# Oh, babe
# Free me from this world I found so frail
# Get me out this hole, too tired to stand
# I'm, I'm, cos I think
# Oh, I've been on fire
# Blunt knives on my side
# That is our reality
# Holding my breath, I've been dying
# All my life
# That is our reality
# Mmmm, oh
# Yes
# Now every line I question
# Am I afraid to be
# Someone who learnt a lesson
# Lying amongst the evergreen
# Oh
# Want to set my soul on fire
# Get me out this hole, I'm tired
# Oh, babe
# Free me from this world I found so frail
# Get me out this hole, too tired to stand
# Set my, my soul
# Cos I've, oh I've been on fire
# Blunt knives on my side
# That is our reality
# Holding my breath, I've been dying
# All my life
# That is our reality
# Cos I've, I've tried
# I've lied
# I've loved
# I've lived
# I've died
# I will survive
# I've, I've tried
# I've lied
# I've loved
# I've lived
# I've died
# I will survive
# Oh, baby
# Marking my time, oh, oh
# Feeling my own skin crawl
# I, I
# Send me the prayer I'm missing
# Am I amongst the living?
# Am I supposed to be? #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
Elmiene.
A wonderful voice that man has.
OK.
OK, so we go over here.
And I'm going to just have a little barge in to this area here,
because Kelly Jones is here.
Kelly, it's marvellous, you're here with your new collaborators.
But tell me how you got together and what your new collaboration is,
for the uninitiated.
Well, the band's called Far From Saints. These are the Saints.
This is Patty, this is Dwight. We met, I was doing a solo tour,
and these guys are in a band called The Wind And The Wave.
They were opening up for me. We started writing some songs
and one thing led to another and we made a record.
A great record. Yep.
And also, I mean, but you're on different sides of the Atlantic.
How did that work? Did you go and record sort of in different places?
What did you do?
Well, we recorded at the very end of that tour in a studio in Bath,
which was just amazing. It was a wonderful experience.
And then we finished the tour.
Dwight and I actually left a few shows early
because it was the beginning of the pandemic.
Came home, and four years later here we are, finally.
The record's coming out. It took nine days to record,
four years to release. That's the way to do it.
Dwight, you're all about to go to Glastonbury and play there,
I believe. Have you played Glastonbury before? I have not.
That's a dream, though. It's going to be amazing.
How's he been selling it in to you?
He said it's, what, 25 years to the day since you...?
We headlined in 2003, so it's 20 years, yeah. 20 years to the day.
And nothing to worry about at all. No, it's going to be fine.
No pressure, no stress. We look forward to seeing you there.
Thank you very much for joining.
It's been great to have you here this evening. Far From Saints!
Patty, Kelly and Dwight.
Now we welcome back a woman who has just released her new album,
London Ko. Joined by her producer and collaborator Damon Albarn,
we welcome Fatoumata Diawara!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
SHE SINGS IN BAMBARA
# I don't know
# If I exist
# We don't care
# We got thoughts and love in our lives
# I'm calling
# London Ko
# London Ko. #
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
The wonderful sound of Fatoumata Diawara!
Damon Albarn, the marvellous group.
Thank you so much.
Now, so pleased that we managed to have Gabriels here on this show
and the man singing at the front of that group is here right now.
Let's have chats with the fabulous Jacob Lusk!
CHEERING
Lovely to see you on the show at last.
We've been longing to get you on the show.
It started I think in the lockdown.
We had a film of you which we put on the show. At last, you're here.
You're dashing around, you're going to be in Glastonbury later on.
Yeah. Things are going mad.
But am I right in thinking that when we were showing that film,
just I think two years ago, of you,
you still didn't get rid of your day job? Oh, yeah.
I was definitely still working my day job,
still working at the church, definitely still working.
Your show probably changed my life and all of our lives, to be honest.
So, you've lost your job because of me? Pretty much!
It's an amazing group and you come from all over the place. Yes.
How does that come together? So, I'm from Compton.
Which is in Los Angeles? It's in LA. And Ari's from LA.
And then we actually have someone from Sunderland in our group.
Sunderland in the north-east of England? Yes.
How did you match up with him?
Well, he's a film-maker and him and Ari eventually met in LA,
and then we were working on a film, and then he did a choir.
So my aunt asked me to take the church choir, and at the time
I thought I was hot stuff, so I was like,
"I ain't taking a church choir. Do you know who I am?!"
And then I humbled myself.
LAUGHS
And then, we did the audition and I didn't even
sing in the audition actually, the choir did and then eventually...
They kind of stalked me, they showed up at my church
and they set up a remote studio at the church
and were like, "Where's the boy?
"Cos he didn't come to the session."
And I just recorded the vocals and we became friends
and just recorded music for fun. That's great, but I love the idea
that's how you get in the group, stalk somebody
and then get in with them. Being from Sunderland,
you've probably picked up on some of the local expressions and phrases,
and you've been doing that while you've been
here in London, haven't you?
Have you got any examples that you could share with us?
I say, "Cheers," quite a bit,
so now I end every call with like, "All right, bye-bye, bye. Cheers."
"Cheers, mate." "Cheers, mate. Mate, you all right?" Yeah.
"Isn't it?" is good.
"How did you find it? How are you finding the show?"
Like, we don't say that.
Like, it's like, "What are you looking for?
"Are you looking for something? I don't understand."
How are you finding? What have you lost? Yeah. It's that kind of thing.
Rita Wilson, she came on the show and she said, I said,
she was performing with somebody, I said, "How did you hook up?"
She said, "You mustn't say that!" Is that a wrong thing to say?
Hook up does sound like you're hooking up like...
SLURPS
Urgh! Yeah.
So maybe not. But I get it.
Going back to your record, you opened with
Offering from your second part of your Angels and Queens albums,
which comes out next month. Why is it coming out in two halves?
HE SIGHS
It's probably me being self-conscious.
I feel like our music is a little heavy.
It's like if you get a really nice meal, right?
You don't get the soup, the salad, the steak, the dessert,
the apple pie and the coffee all in one sitting
cos then it's like, "Well, that's a lot of food."
Well, I'm looking forward to the second course.
When did you first discover that you had a voice?
When did you start to realise you had a voice?
I think I was like young and I was like always really, really loud,
so I always could sing. But like, everyone around me kind of sings,
everybody kind of sings in church,
so I think I didn't really realise it was really special until like
maybe, like high school,
I guess you guys call it secondary school maybe? Yeah.
And when it comes to really finding my voice,
I probably didn't find my real voice until I met these chaps,
to be honest. It's just, to be in an environment where you're loved
and they don't want anything from you and they want you to
be yourself and find the best version of yourself,
it allows you to sing from a different place. That's amazing.
You were saying earlier that, you know, your mum introduced you
to some music. What sort of music was that?
So it was all gospel.
There was a little bit of secular music, like a little Aretha,
a little Whitney slide in, a little Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra,
but it was mostly gospel. All gospel, all the time.
I didn't go to the movies, I wasn't allowed to wear shorts to
school, or maybe you guys don't call them shorts.
Yeah, you call them shorts. Exactly, yeah.
Yeah. But all gospel all the time, yeah. Great.
And what was one of those songs? Have you got...
Well, there was a song called Lord Don't Move That Mountain, that...
It's... It's kind of an older song but it's a great song.
Could we give that a go? Let's try it. Would we like that?
CHEERING
A little gospel for you? OK.
# Now Lord
# You don't have to move the mountain
# But give me the strength to climb
# And Lord
# Don't you take away my stumbling blocks
# But lead me all around
# And you ain't got to move that mountain
# But give me some strength to climb
# And Lord
# Don't you take away my stumbling blocks
# But lead me all around
# I don't bother nobody
# I try to treat everybody the same
# But every time I turn my back
# They scandalise my name
# And oh, my
# You ain't got to move the mountain
# But give me some strength to climb
# And, ooh...
# Don't you take away my stumbling blocks
# But lead me all around
# Oh, Lord
# You ain't got to move no mountain for me
# But give me some strength to climb...
HE SCATS
# Don't you, don't you take away my stumbling blocks
# But lead me all around
# Some folks try to slay me
# These things they will try to do
# But don't touch them, Lord But within their heart
# Make them give their lives to you
# Yeah! Jesus
# You ain't got to move no mountain No
# But give me some strength to climb
# And Lord
# Don't you take away my stumbling blocks
# But lead me all around
# Oh, lead me, lead me, lead me all around
# Oh, lead me, lead me
# All around
# Lead me all...
# Hey-ey-ey-ey...
# Around
# Yee-yeah! Yeah-eh-eh-eh!
# Yeah...
# Yeah. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# I know I've been gone a while and I really miss you
# There's nothing else I want more in the world
# But I have to do this and I thought you knew this
# I guess it isn't what you signed up for
BOTH: # You don't have the right to make me feel
# Like I'm the only one that's changed
# But I would rather you not hold back
# Say whatever you were gonna say
# Ooh, did it all work out?
# Did I change your mind?
# If it's love then why are we explosive all the time?
# Did it all work out?
# Did I change your mind?
# If it's love then why are we exploding all the time?
# You're right it's been some time since you've been on my mind
# And yeah you know I miss you round me, too
# You talk of rights and wrongs When all you do is sing your songs
# You're blind to see what's right in front of you
BOTH: # You don't have the right to make me feel
# Like I'm the only one that's changed
# But I would rather you not hold back
# Say whatever you were gonna say
# Ooh, did it all work out?
# Did I change your mind?
# If it's love then why are we explosive all the time?
# Did it all work out?
# Did I change your mind?
# If it's love then why are we exploding all the time?
# I'm not tryin' to steal your thunder
# I'm not tryin' to hold you under
# I don't wanna stop you in your tracks and cut you down
# If this is gonna last forever
# If we're gonna walk together
# You know we gotta find a way to turn this back around...
# Turn this back around...
# Oh...
# My head is spinning as I walk this wire
# I've got a feeling But it might mean nothing at all
# My heart is tinder for your lawn bonfire
# I've got a feeling But it might mean nothing at all
# My head is spinning as I walk this wire
# I've got a feeling But it might mean nothing at all
# My heart is tinder for your lawn bonfire
# I've got a feeling But it might mean nothing at all
# Nothing at all Nothing at all. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Far From Saints. Thank you so much. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
And thank you to all my wonderful guests here this evening.
Next weekend, it is Glastonbury and after that,
I shall be back with a special from Noah Gallagher's
High Flying Birds.
In the meantime, let's finish where we began with Gabriels!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# Let me tell you a story
# Of a girl up in glory
# She had the world in her hand
# Even Hades was a fan
# You can fake it for a little while
# When you're lying to yourself
# You pretend and you try to hide
# From them cards that you've been dealt
# I might be down right now but I
# Make do with what I got
# Ain't turn no water into wine
# But I make do with what I got
# I make a little a lot
# In the valley of the kings
# All the glitter Extravagant things
# It was all that it seemed
# In this nightmare of a dream
# She took flight in her prime
# I hope she had a good time
# I might be down right now but I
# Make do with what I got
# Ain't turn no water into wine
# But I make do with what I got
# I make a little a lot You might be down right now but
# Get up
# It ain't no use in crying, girl Get up
# Regret ain't won no war Get up
# Been down for way too long Just get up
# You might be down right now but Get up
# It ain't no use in crying, girl Get up
# Regret ain't won no war Get up
# Been down for way too long Just get up
# I might be down right now but I
# Make do with what I got
# Ain't turn no water into wine
# But I make do with what I got
# I might be down right now but I
# Make do with what I got
# Ain't turn no water into wine
# But I make do with what I got Do with what I got
# I make a little a lot. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE