CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Welcome to this pageant of music and amazing song.
We begin with a fantastic artist.
Yes, it's Paul Weller!
MUSIC: Jumble Queen
# I count the hours that are in-between
# I check the news for conspiracy
# All that I'm worth is wrapped in cellophane
# I might be gone, but I'll be back again
# Take what you want
# Take all that you want from me
# Take what you want
# Take all that you want from me
# I was a diamond, now I'm made of stone
# Forever heading to the lights of home
# If I can do it, I can do it clean
# I sing my song to the Jumble Queen
# Take what you want
# Take all that you want from me
# Take what you want
# Take all that you want from me
# Just like a bullet, now I'm flying free
# I see the future looking back at me
# And while you're crying over what has been
# I'll sing the song to the Jumble Queen
# Take what you want
# Take all that you want from me
# Take what you want
# Take all that you want from me. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Fantastic! Got me going!
Paul Weller, with Jumble Queen, from his 17th album, 66.
Who are our other guests?
From south London, we welcome Rachel Chinouriri!
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From Glasgow, the extraordinary and amazing, legendary Mr Mark Knopfler!
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Brand-new, dazzling, from London by way of Ipswich, it's Bob Vylan!
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An exquisite and lovely folk artist from Birmingham, Katherine Priddy!
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But now, from South Shields, we're delighted to welcome Nadine Shah!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
MUSIC: Greatest Dancer
# Light up your house
# For the greatest dancer
# Happy for now
# Watching shiny dancers
# Held in a trance
# Come and join hands with her
# You take your chance
# Competition winner
# Light up your house
# For the greatest dancer
# Huh!
# Say your prayer
# You're a better man than I
# I'm out of luck
# Say you'll stay
# For a little while
# And I'll
# Lift my skirt up
# Light up your house
# For the greatest dancer
# Happy for now
# Watching shiny dancers
# Held in a trance
# Come and join hands with her
# You take your chance
# Competition winner
# Light up your house
# For the greatest dancer
# Huh!
# What are you eating?
# Where are you sleeping?
# What are you eating?
# Where are you sleeping?
# Terrifying
# She is shimmying over
# I'm scared to look
# So sublime
# She is towering over
# My eyes wide shut... #
GASPING BREATHS
# Light up your house
# For the greatest dancer
# Happy for now
# Watching shiny dancers
# Held in a trance
# Come and join hands with her
# You take your chance
# Competition winner
# Light up your house
# For the greatest dancer! #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you, Nadine Shah!
Now, in a moment, I'm going to chat to one of the great,
important figures in popular music, the legendary Mark Knopfler.
But first, let's take a look at his last appearance on this show,
which was, unbelievably, in 1996.
MUSIC: Walk Of Life
# Come Johnny singing oldies, goldies
# Be-Bop-A-Lula, baby, What'd I Say
# Come Johnny singing I Got A Woman
# Down in the tunnel, trying to make it pay
# He got the action, he got the motion
# Yeah, the boy can play
# Dedication, he got devotion
# Turning all the night-time into the day
# Song about the sweet-loving woman
# He do the song about the six-blade knife, yeah
# He do the walk
# Do the walk of life
# Yeah, the walk of life
# Walk on!
# Come Johnny, gonna tell you a story now
# Hand me down my walking shoes
# Come Johnny, got the power and the glory
# Backbeat, the talking blues
# He got the action, he got the motion
# Yeah, the boy can play
# Dedication, he got devotion
# Turning all the night-time into the day
# About the sweet-loving woman
# He do the song about the six-blade knife
# Yeah, he do the walk
# Do the walk of life
# Yeah, the walk of life
# Yeah, Johnny got the oldies, goldies
# Be-Bop-A-Lula, baby, What'd I Say
# Here come Johnny singing Bony Maronie
# Down in the tunnel, trying to make it pay
# He got the action, he got the motion
# Yeah, the boy can play
# Dedication, he got devotion
# Turning all the night-time into the day
# After all the violence and double-talk
# Just a song in all the trouble and the strife
# You do the walk
# Do the walk of life
# Whoa, yeah, do the walk of life. #
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And now we welcome the great Mark Knopfler.
Mark, it's great to have you here. I'm so pleased to have you here.
Now, it was... So, you know, it was, let's face it,
some 28 years ago when you were last on.
I mean, that's quite a big gap, I have to say.
You have been busy, I appreciate that, but, erm...
But it's great to have you back here now.
First of all, congratulations on your tenth solo album. Thank you.
One Deep River... Mm-hm. ..is the title.
Is there a particular river that inspired it?
River Tyne. But, erm...
But I like the idea of a song being whatever you want it to be,
so as soon as I start to explain a song, I get deeper in trouble. Yes.
So I just like people to make the song what they want it to be.
And get joy out of it.
Well, we're going to see something in a moment, but, really,
I mean, one of the things is - you are one of the noted guitarists,
great guitarists, of the world, and... Steady.
..you were telling me earlier, which we'll get into in a moment,
you don't like thirds. I'll just explain for the people,
that's one, two, three.
PLAYS THREE NOTES
That's the third. But you don't like a third.
MARK SINGS THIRD NOTE
Not really. No. No thirds.
I like something a bit more bluesy. Yes.
You know, so it's somewhere between the minor and the major
is where I kind of live, you know? And sometimes I'll say to the band,
"No flippin' thirds."
Yeah, "Don't bring your thirds in here." Right.
"Don't bring your thirds in here, thinking, you know, you can
"just do what you want with them." We should have a look, I think,
at one of your new songs, Ahead Of The Game.
# And I can't tell you one thing new
# 'Bout playing for the door
# Some of my dreams back there, too
# With the sawdust on the floor
# We're worn out and weary, all of us
# But we know why we came
# Banged up and battered like this old bus
# Staying just ahead of the game
# Ahead of the game... #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
From One Deep River, Ahead Of The Game. That sounds great. Thank you.
Really great-sounding thing. Now, the one deep river, as you said,
was the Tyne. Nadine Shah is from the north-east. Yeah.
Do you think the north-east has a specific sound, would you say?
We've just been chatting, yeah, and chatting about young Sam Fender
as well, who's been in the studio. So, yeah,
it's great to see people coming up and youngsters coming up
and I love to see all that. And I try to keep up,
but there are so many. You know, there's like a stampede out there.
And sometimes I wonder, you know, how youngsters can get going,
but then I remind myself, well, it was always hard.
It was hard when you and I were in Deptford, remember? Yeah.
When you were with Squeeze. And it was hard then.
I mean, and if you want to sing and dance...
Now, with the guitar, when did you first meet your friend the guitar?
Oh! Well, I think the first guitar that I wanted
was an Elvis guitar which was made of white plastic.
And it was in a shop window, and I just said, "I want that."
And I didn't get it. And I think not getting it
was what started to set up this slight obsession.
Created a desire cos you couldn't have it. Right. Yeah.
And then, you know, later on, you know, you couldn't have...
Like these guys are playing these Fender Telecasters
and, you know, things like that.
I mean, I wanted to have those guitars so bad.
I can remember what the catalogue smelled like. Yeah. Exactly.
And it wasn't happening. It wasn't happening.
And then, so my dad bought me a...
In the end, he managed to get me
a 50-quid imitation Strat, and I loved it.
But you did... I mean, not that long ago, you sold
a lot of your own guitars.
Gave millions to charity out of it, as well, I have to say.
Did you become very attached to those guitars? Yeah.
I think a guitar can be your best friend, you know,
a great friend to you. It'll be a friend to you all your life.
So if you haven't started playing one, you know, I'd advise
it's a nice thing to do, just like it is to start playing on a piano.
Make friends with a piano. Make friends with a piano.
You've got lots of guitar players together. Joe Bonamassa,
Eric Clapton, Sam Fender, Sheryl Crow, Sting -
loads of different, great guitar players. And the guitar legends,
that was an incredible... So you had all the great guitar legends
for the Teenage Cancer Trust in America. That must have been
very difficult. Well, first of all, what's the collective noun
for a lot of guitar players?
Pluck?
An embarrassment? A pick? A fret?
A fret!
JOOLS CHUCKLES
A fret of guitar players. Yeah, well done, Jools.
How many guitar players were there altogether, do you think, on that?
I bet...there's so many you can't even remember. I don't know.
I bet there was at least 47. Yeah, that's a lot of guitar players!
Yeah. I mean, there's not even 40 guitar players in this room tonight
and we've got a room full of amazing bands. I know.
You have many great accolades - you know, endless sort of awards,
which is wonderful - but you've got something that I'm
very, very envious of, which is
that you have actually had a dinosaur named after you.
Yeah, it was just that they were digging
and they were playing the music when they were digging,
and when they played the music, they got lucky.
That's all that had happened. So they discovered a dinosaur when
they were playing your music. Yeah. And then they called it after...
And what is it called? Masikarius... Masiakasaurus knopfler?
There you go. That's its last name.
It's been great having you here. It's a wonderful record.
So thank you for coming and sharing it with us. Thanks, Jools.
Mark Knopfler! Thank you.
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Great to see you. Great to see you, Mark.
Thanks a lot. Thank you.
So, next, we have a duo who've just released their second album,
Humble As The Sun. We welcome Bob Vylan! They're both Bob.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
MUSIC: Hunger Games
# All right, all right!
# What will you win yourself tonight?
# Spin the wheel for the chance of a hot meal
# All right, all right!
# Spin the wheel for a deal You might win a hot meal
# Oi, what's all the talk about?
# Why are they still here? Walk 'em out
# Election comes and they all pour out
# Never see them round here where the poor's about
# Bunch of pussies shouting back and forth
# See how the claws come out Meow, ooh!
# And I'm here, three layers, sat in the coldest seat
# World outside is burning down
# My flat still won't hold the heat
# When was it great? Someone lied again
# Seems like the price of life's on the rise again
# Wait, someone lend me a fiver, then
# All right! What will you win yourself tonight?
# Spin the wheel for the chance of a hot meal
# All right, all right!
# Spin the wheel for a deal You might win a hot meal
# So I can fill my cup
# Cos their cup runneth over
# And my cup ain't got enough
# Listen, mate, it's rough
# And I'm made of tougher stuff
# So if I can't eat, I'm back on the street
# Poppy seed, no buttercup
# I trained myself with these chemical concoctions
# Kids aren't all right We need a way to feed our offspring
# My bredren's doing a stretch
# He weren't taking what they're offering
# But he was offering what they're taking
# Judge found out and he locked him All right!
# What will you win yourself tonight?
# Spin the wheel for the chance of a hot meal
# All right, all right!
# Spin the wheel for a deal You might win a hot meal
# For the love of payment
# The worst days of our lives will provide great entertainment
# We'll all tune in, watch ourselves chase it
# Go on, piggy Go on, little piggy, piggy
# For the love of payment
# The worst days of our lives will provide great entertainment
# But I won't tune in and watch us chase it
# We're made for more, I say we take it
# All right, all right!
# What will you win yourself tonight?
# Spin the wheel for the chance of a hot meal
# All right, all right!
# Spin the wheel for a deal You could win a hot meal
# You are more than your take-home pay
# Making barely enough to make it through the day
# I know, I know, I know
# You are more than your ability to earn
# You are more than your future successes
# You are here, you are now
# Surely your existence is testament
# To the successful lineage from which you arrived
# Here, now
# You are stronger than you think you are
# You are loved, you are not alone
# You are going through hell
# But keep going
# Be proud, be hopeful
# Be loud, be happy
# Be healthy, be kind to yourself
# Do not live every day as if it is your last
# Live every day as if it is your first
# Full of wonder and excitement
# As you wander along, excited
# Marvelling at the possibilities of all that stands before you
# Here
# Now. #
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Thank you, Bob Vylan! Bob and Bob.
Now, an artist who studied at the BRIT School.
And we have a lot of people... Hello, BRIT School!
CHEERING
They are here.
And she has just released her debut album,
entitled What A Devastating Turn Of Events.
Please welcome Rachel Chinouriri!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
MUSIC: Never Need Me
# A call in the dead of night
# It's strange but it's such a delight
# To hear your voice again
# It's been a long time since I last saw you
# You never swim, you drown in your drink
# Revealing the secrets you think
# You need me cos you're scared
# What the hell am I supposed to do?
# If you can't change I doubt that I can help you
# I've made plans and, sorry, they're without you
# In my head, you can do what you like
# Oh, no, I couldn't care what you do with your life
# I hope you just take it easy
# I hope that you never need me
# And maybe I'll regret not sticking around
# But how can I swim if you're pulling me down?
# Just promise you'll take it easy
# I hope that you never need me
# You say I'm the love of your life
# But now just isn't the time
# You're doing it again
# This is why your cycle never ends
# You're addicted to the trouble you choose
# I'm surprised you're even confused
# I know you'll never learn
# What the hell am I supposed to do?
# If you can't change, I doubt that I can help you
# I've made plans and, sorry, they're without you
# In my head, you can do what you like
# Oh, no, I couldn't care what you do with your life
# I hope you just take it easy
# I hope that you never need me
# And maybe I'll regret not sticking around
# But how can I swim if you're pulling me down?
# Just promise you'll take it easy
# I hope that you never need me
# I'll love you if you let me I'll love you if you let me
# Come on!
# Without you in my head, you can do what you like
# Oh, no, I couldn't care what you do with your life
# I hope you just take it easy
# I hope that you never need me
# And maybe I'll regret not sticking around
# But how can I swim if you're pulling me down?
# Just promise you'll take it easy
# I hope that you never need me
# Ah!
# Ah-ah
# Just promise you'll take it easy
# I hope that you never need me
# Ah!
# Ah-ah
# Just promise you'll take it easy
# I hope that you never need me. #
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Rachel Chinouriri!
Next, let's go and talk to this person that we heard performing
beautifully earlier, and we're going to hear more from her later.
But now let's have chats with Nadine Shah!
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Welcome to the show!
It sounded great, Nadine. And your latest album, Filthy Underneath,
tackles a lot of difficult subjects and it's a very personal work.
Was it a challenging thing to make? It's an odd one - when I'm writing,
I don't necessarily think of the audience when I'm writing.
But then there's that moment of realisation when I've released it
and you're like, "Oh! That wasn't intended!"
But I think, yeah, it's important to kind of not always worry
about the response initially.
But it was a wee bit difficult when releasing it, though, yeah.
But, I mean, was the process of writing it difficult?
Hmm, I find it cathartic... Oh, really? ..to write. Yeah, yeah.
A lot of it was written when I went away for a while,
to a place to just kind of take a bit of time out.
And it was kind of diary entries, a lot of it,
and it was like a journalling kind of a process.
So, actually, yeah, that was a nice process, doing it, actually.
It was good for me, I think. And you're writing a book, as well. Mm.
Is that an enjoyable process?
Is that a more difficult process than doing music, do you think?
Oh, it's the worst! Really? Why? I'm so lazy. Like, I like writing songs.
I hope my publisher's not watching, cos he'll be like,
"I hope... Ticktock." But, apparently, every publisher
is angry with every writer because we're all delayed.
Erm...I just need a little bit of a kick
to kind of encourage me to do it. But, again, it's a new format
that I've not worked in before. But I like telling stories. Yeah.
I read somewhere that you like singing jazz.
But what was the first music that kind of got you going?
Jazz music. What sort of thing?
Well, like the standards - Cole Porter Songbook...
I moved to London when I was 16, 17, and I was a jazz singer.
I moved to be a jazz singer. I don't think my mum and dad
would have let me move down if it was any other genre.
They thought that was quite
sophisticated and all right.
JOOLS LAUGHS
And, yeah, I thought about it the other day, and at the time,
I didn't realise how incredible this kind of journey I went on was,
you know, what I was able to do. I was singing at
the PizzaExpress Jazz Club on Dean Street - Nadine Street!
Yes, nice. Thank you. And I just learnt from the greats there.
You know, my manager owned the club, and he said,
"You just sit at the bar every night
"and you watch everything." And I did!
You know, I didn't really have a lot of friends when I moved down
and I got to watch Georgie Fame, Mose Allison, Stacey Kent.
And it was the best education I could have ever had. Yeah.
Great people to see as well, all of them, aren't they? Yeah!
It was like being in the movies. You know, London kind of lived up to it.
Yeah, yeah. And it was pretty incredible. I loved it.
Yeah, so, you're from the north-east. And like I was saying
earlier with Mark Knopfler, has it got a specific
sound or a specific attitude to the music there, do you think?
An attitude, possibly. And I think, erm...
You know what's interesting,
it was such a joy to meet Mark this evening.
Like, you know, as a Geordie, it's just...it's a big deal. Yes.
But an odd thing about being a female musician from the north-east
is that I haven't really got those heroes to look up to, which is odd.
You know, you can name many different cities around the UK and
you can name one of the great female
musicians, or many, many, many. Yeah.
And there's not so many from the north-east. Interesting.
And all of the artists I looked up to were male ones then, really,
because we really didn't have so many... No female role models,
really... No. So we need a hell of a lot more. Yeah.
More Geordie females. Mm. So, what's the second song
you're going to play for us tonight, in a moment?
It's called Topless Mother.
Great title! Yes. Erm, yeah, it was the first, it was the lead single
from the new album.
And, you know, it's a silly, immature song,
but it's a lot of fun to perform.
It's been fantastic having you here.
Thank you very much for joining us, Nadine Shah!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you very much!
Marvellous guest. Next, a wonderful folk artist
whose fans include Richard Thompson and Guy Garvey.
Here with a song from her second album, The Pendulum Swing,
we welcome Katherine Priddy!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
MUSIC: A Boat On The River
# This city's not home though it knows me well
# It's cradled me close for some time
# But when I'm alone and the traffic stops beating
# I can't get the thought from my mind
# Am I just lost? Could I be lonely?
# Is it just the rain we've had so much of lately?
# Or is it just that this city's been bringing me down?
# Oh, ooh
# All that I want is a boat on the river
# And someone to hold and time to deliver me
# Until I'm old, I'll go where the current takes me
# And all that I want is to live slow and easy
# One day at a time is enough speed to please me
# A dog by the door and someone to sing me to sleep
# Sing me to sleep
# Oh-oh, ooh
# The blue lights fly by with their siren song
# That calls to me all through the night
# The city won't sleep but I'm trying to keep hold of
# A dream that stays just out of sight
# To rise with the dawn and live by the seasons
# To accept that things change without asking for reasons
# To sleep like a baby To love and be loved in return
# Oh, ooh
# Ooh, ooh
# All that I want is a boat on the river
# And someone to hold and time to deliver me
# Until I'm old, I'll go where the current takes me
# And all that I want is a soft breeze to blow me
# The sky up above and the water below me
# To find a horizon and fade into nothing at all
# Oh, ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
# Oh, ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh-ooh-ooh
# It's all that I want, is to live slow and easy
# One day at a time
# Is enough speed to please me
# A dog by the door
# And someone to sing me to sleep. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you, Katherine Priddy!
Tonight, BBC Two are celebrating Gladys Knight's 80th birthday
with an evening dedicated to her and her music.
I was 16 years old when I first saw her, at the Lewisham Odeon,
supported by Ramsey Lewis - he opened for her.
And it was one of the best shows I've ever, ever seen.
I was a fan already, but then I became a complete devotee.
So in 2009, when she came on the show
and I sat next to her at the piano, I was completely overwhelmed
and didn't know what to do except play the piano and be quiet.
But it's one of the best moments, for me, ever.
And you can hear at one point a little crack in her voice,
which is her trademark. And for me, it's one of the highlights
of sitting next to somebody at the piano.
So, happy birthday, Gladys Knight! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# If I were your woman
# And you were my man
# You'd have no other woman
# You'd be meek as a lamb
# If you had the strength
# To walk out that door
# My love would overrule my sense
# And I'd call you back for more
# If I were your woman Woo!
# If I were your woman
# And you were my man
# Mm, yeah
# She tears you down, darling
# Says you're nothing at all
# But I'll pick you up, darling
# When she lets you fall
# You're like a diamond shining
# But she treats you like glass
# Yet you beg her to leave you
# But me you don't ask
# If I were your woman
# If I...were your woman
# If I were your woman
# Here's what I'd do
# I'd never, never, never
# Stop loving you Woo!
# If I were your woman Hey, Jools!
# Your sweet, loving woman
# If I were your woman
# If I were your woman! #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# Yeah! Woo! #
AUDIENCE: # Happy birthday to you! #
Happy birthday, dear Gladys Knight.
Now let's welcome back Nadine Shah! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
MUSIC: Topless Mother
# I wanna see
# What's yours is mine
# What you don't hang out on your washing line
# I wanna be
# Inside your mind
# Your topless mother is hidden in mine
# I wanna get
# Inside your house
# I wanna have a proper nose about
# When you were born
# You broke the mould
# Another lie to you your mother told
# Sinatra
# Viagra
# Iguana
# Sharia
# Diana
# Samosa
# Verruca
# Tequila
# Banana
# Alaska
# Medusa
# Gorilla
# I told you all
# That I have heard
# And do you promise not to breathe a word?
# Look at you now
# Edge of your seat
# I pay you money just to humour me
# You take a bow
# Each time you leave
# The satisfaction that it bothers me
# I'll show you how
# If I may, please
# To serve you up some mutual therapy, yeah
# Sinatra
# Viagra
# Iguana
# Sharia
# Diana
# Samosa
# Verruca
# Tequila
# Banana
# Alaska
# Medusa
# Gorilla
# Wash that, wash that boy
# Wash that, wash that And bring him to me
# Wash that, wash that boy
# Wash that, wash that And bring him to me
# Wash that, wash that boy
# Wash that, wash that And bring him to me
# Wash that, wash that boy
# Wash that Ooh, Sinatra
# Viagra
# Iguana
# Sharia
# Diana
# Samosa
# Verruca
# Tequila
# Banana
# Alaska
# Medusa
# Gorilla! #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you! Nadine Shah! Thank you so much,
and thank you to all of my guests here this evening,
who have done a fabulous job, and we'd now like to finish
where we started - the wonderful Paul Weller!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
MUSIC: Soul Wandering
# I prayed today
# That you would stay
# Right here with me
# I wear a cross
# For superstitious
# Remedies
# Soul wandering
# Mm, mm
# Each day I wake
# And try to shake
# These chains from me
# They weigh me down
# In mental quicksand
# Shimmering
# Soul wandering
# Still searching
# And I want
# To believe
# In something
# Greater than me
# And I'm humbled
# By the majesty
# Of the sea
# And the stars
# And your love
# Soul wandering
# Still searching
# Soul wandering
# Still searching
# And I want
# To believe
# In something
# Greater than me
# I'm humbled
# By the majesty
# Of the sea
# And the stars
# And your love. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
MUSIC: Never Need Me by Rachel Chinouriri
# Ah-ah
# Just promise you'll take it easy
# I hope that you never need me
# Ah!
# Ah-ah
# Just promise you'll take it easy
# I hope that you never need me. #