Greetings and welcome to the Annual Hootenanny.
ALL: Hootenanny!
Together, we will all be going from one year into the next.
We will be saying farewell to '24 and greeting in '25.
Are you feeling good?
Are you feeling ready?
CHEERING
Hootenanny!
Start with this.
# Your daddy gave you beautiful earrings
# But nothing in between the pair
# From your head to your crown
# And all the way down
# Just filled with nothing but air
# That's right!
FUNKY JAZZ MUSIC PLAYS
# Them that speak don't know
# Them that know don't speak
# I see that TV show
# I heard that every week
# Them that know don't speak
# Everybody's having a shot Yeah, yeah, yeah
# At the man that shots can't hit Oh, yeah!
# Picked my shot-a
# He's a fool, no doubt
# To a blind man that is clear
# That's right!
# Oh, them that speak don't know
# Them that know don't speak
# I see that TV show
# I heard them every week
# Them that know don't speak
# Ask me a question in the morning Yeah, yeah, yeah
# Give me the hustle late at night Oh, yeah!
# Offer me a penny but I really haven't any
# Thoughts to share tonight
# That's right Oh, them that speak don't know
# Them that know don't speak
# I see that TV show
# I heard them every week
# Them that know don't speak
FUNKY JAZZ PLAYS
# Uh-huh!
# Them that speak don't know
# Them that know don't speak
# I see that TV show
# I heard them every week
# Them that know don't speak
That's right! #
CHEERING
Thank you, the Rhythm and Blues Orchestra,
who will be at the core...
..at the core of this evening's entertainment.
Let us meet some of the amazing artists we've got on the show
this evening. From Philadelphia,
the fabulous dance legend that is Kathy Sledge.
CHEERING
From Sheffield, one of the most beautiful voices on Earth,
Paul Carrack!
CHEERING
From South Shields, the amazing Jade!
CHEERING
And over in this corner, more legendary, beautiful faces.
From Southport, the one and only iconic Mr Marc Almond!
CHEERING
From Dunboyne in Ireland, it is CMAT.
CHEERING
From Cornwall, the fabulous new and wonderful Toby Lee.
CHEERING
And now, unbelievably, for the first time on our show, ever,
from Queen, the writer, vocalist and drummer,
the multi-talented fellow,
it is the one and only Roger Taylor.
CHEERING AND WHISTLING
Also, royalty is in this room tonight in the form of the
Boogie Woogie queen - Ruby Turner!
CHEERING
And in this corner,
the greatest rock'n'roll band in the world, or certainly
from Dun Laoghaire, it is The Boomtown Rats.
CHEERING AND WHISTLING
From Canada, with an extraordinary bluegrass sound,
if I may use that word, it is The Dead South.
CHEERING
We're looking forward to them.
And also, look, a room full of extraordinary
and wonderful guests.
Exactly the sort of people you want round your house
for New Year's Eve.
But over here, now, in this corner, the Brit Awards named them
Group Of The Year.
And we agree with them because they are Jungle.
CHEERING AND WHISTLING
# Let's go, let's go back
# You know I need you here Just go back
# Darling, when you let go, can't go back
# You know I need you here Let's go back
# I guess I'll never let go Let's go back
# You know I need you here Just go back
# Darling, when the lights go Let's go back
# That's why I need you here Let's go back
# Oooh-oooh
# Why, why, why Won't you give me some love now?
# Why won't you give me it, babe?
# Oooh-oooh
# Why won't you give me some of your time?
# Why won't you give it away?
ALL: # Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
# Let's go, let's go back
# You know I need you here Just go back
# Darling, when you let go Let's go back
# You know I need you here Let's go back
# I guess I'm gonna let go Let's go back
# And I need you here Just go back
# Darling, when the lights go
# Let's go back
# That's why I need you here Let's go back
ALL: # Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
# Why won't you give me some love?
# Why won't you give me it, babe?
# Why won't you give me some of your time?
# Why won't you give it up, babe?
ALL: # Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
# Let's go, let's go back
# You know I need you here Just go back
# Darling, when you let go Let's go back
# You know I need you here Just go back
# I guess I'll never let go
# Let's go back
# And I need you here Just go back
# Only when the lights go Let's go back
# It's why I need you here
# Why won't you give it away?
# Why won't you give me some of your time
# Why won't you give me it, babe?
# Why won't you give me some of your time?
# Why won't you give it up?
# Woo-woo-woo-woo Woo-woo-woo-woo
# Woo-woo-woo-woo Woo-woo-woo-woo. #
CHEERING AND WHISTLING
Joy to have them in this room.
Thank you, Jungle.
CHEERING
Now, we've got a few moments left in this year.
Now, if you were observing the first number we did,
and if you've been... The Hootenanny has been on for some years.
Has anybody seen the Hootenanny before?
CHEERING
Has anybody not seen the Hootenanny before?
CHEERING
Same people shouting out both times. We love you all!
But if you have been watching the Hootenanny
and have been following my orchestra who are at the centre of it,
you will notice that our long-term drummer, Gilson, is not
with us this evening. That's because he has decided to throw the sticks
in and he's going to... He's retiring.
He might write a book, he might paint some pictures,
we're going to wish him all the best.
I've known him for over 30 years, or might be probably 40 years.
And for the last two or three I've learned his name
and I'm going to really miss him, as are the whole band.
But let's just remind ourselves of what a wonder Gilson Lavis
has been over the years.
CHEERING
Gilson Lavis, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes!
And that gives us the opportunity to welcome in Ed Roddy Richardson
on the drums with us this evening.
So we want to wish him all the best.
So let us now move on.
And I think it's time to welcome our first very special guest
with the Orchestra, in the form of one of the great legends of dance
music of all time, Kathy Sledge.
CHEERING
Whoo! Here we go.
# As warm as the summer rain
# I want you to feel my arms around you
# And as sweet as a soft refrain
# My heart wants to sing a song about you
# And just when you thought love
# Was passing you over
# I want you to know I can't live without you
# Promise me
# You'll never be
# Lonely when I'm around
# Yeah
# As sure as an arrow's aim
# I want you to know I'm standing by you
# Whisper low, shout it out, it's all the same
# I want you to know just how I feel
# Yeah, yeah
# And just when you thought love
# Was passing you over
# I want you to know I can't live without you
# Promise me
# You'll never be
# Lonely when I'm around
# No
# Hey
# I know it sounds crazy
# But I think that maybe
# You need to know that this is real
# Yeah, yeah, yeah
# So if you just hold me
# You'll never be lonely
# Now that you love me
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
# Oooh, oh
# And just when you thought love
# Was passing you over
# I want you to know I can't live without you
# Promise me
# You'll never be
# Lonely when I'm around
# Yeah, yeah
# You'll never be lonely, no
# You'll never be, oh
# Yeah
# You'll never be lonely
# No, no, no, no... #
Everybody, put it here!
# Promise me... #
Let me hear you!
# You'll never be... #
Yeah!
# Lonely when I'm a...
# Lonely, lonely
# Lonely when I'm around! #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Yeah!
The wonderful Kathy Sledge!
The fabulous Kathy Sledge.
Well, you might be thinking about getting your various...
I don't know, whatever you're getting out ready,
you know, a few sort of special glasses of something, or just maybe
a cup of tea or whatever it is for that special moment.
The time is getting closer.
And somebody over here I just have to speak to now is Jo Brand!
CHEERING, WOLF-WHISTLE
Darling Jo Brand.
Lovely to see you.
Now, it's very nice to have you back on the show.
Anything... Well, first of all, anything...
Look, it's nearly the end of the...
..nearly the end of the year now.
Looking back, any sort of high points or low points or...?
Um, had a nice, a nice, nice Christmas.
Oh, good. Ish.
What always happens at Christmas, I don't know if you do this,
I mean, looking at me, you wouldn't think I do,
but I always eat far too much.
LAUGHTER
So what I do is I have to lie down on the floor
and get in a position where it doesn't hurt any more.
Or quantitative easing, as I call it.
I'm going to come and chat to you later,
but any particular thoughts for next year?
Um, I think I might finally get married to Rod Stewart.
I know he's not here again this year. He was here last year.
I know, and I nearly pulled it off.
I mean, I'm still with my lovely husband
of 800,000 years, it seems like.
And, you know, no,
they do say if you've been together a long time,
husbands become like mature wine.
Which is why he's in the cellar now.
LAUGHTER
Suits me.
It's lovely to see you, Jo. I'll be seeing you later.
There's a lot of marvellous people here, look.
Look at this incredible array of showbiz gold
and entertainment treasure.
I'll be talking to you in a moment.
Thank you very much.
It's very nice to have you all here.
So now I think we need,
we now need to welcome our next Hootenanny guest.
Somebody who really has had a remarkable year this year
and we're delighted to have her here.
We welcome Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, aka CMAT!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# One hundred bright green birds
# Atop a Tesco in Clapham
# Me on you
# It didn't make sense, but it happened
# And now I'm flying home
# Just like I always do
# Back to business, huh
# And far away from you
# Oh, what are we like?
# You cracked an egg into my mouth
# Had me over to your house
# Loved your friends and ... me out
# Oh, what am I like?
# I waited time and time again
# Always pecking like a hen
# That isn't fed, that isn't fed
# So have fun
# Ooh, have fun
# Cos I'm done
# I-I'm done
# Five hundred and ten quid
# Before bills out my purse
# Dublin back then was cheap
# But it's never been worse
# I gave you all I had
# Cos I believed in nests
# Huh, silly bitch
# Aaagh!
# You shoulda spend it on yourself
# But that's what I'm like
# I stick my neck right out for love
# Give my beak and give my blood
# Only part of me that's good
# Oh, what are you like? Ah!
# You did me wrong and lost out
# I wonder what you're up to now
# But I don't care, I don't care
# So have fun
# Ooh, have fun, hey!
# Ooh, have fun
# Ooh, have fun... # Yes, babe!
# Cos I'm done
# I-I'm done
# One hundred bright green birds
# I think Jimi Hendrix let 'em in
# I think Humphrey Bogart let 'em in
# I think I don't care who let 'em in
# I think I don't care, I don't care. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you so much, CMAT.
I'll be chatting to you later.
Thank you so much for letting me walk over you with my shiny shoes.
So next we shall be celebrating,
they will be celebrating their 50th anniversary next year.
I'm delighted to have them in this room.
True legends of the popular music world.
Please welcome Boomtown Rats!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# Ga-ga-ga-ga!
# La la-la la laaaa
# La-la-la-la laaaa
# La la-la la laaaa
# La-la-la-la laaaa
# She's so 20th century
# She's so She's 1970s
# She knows The right things to say
# She's got The right clothes to wear
# She's a modern girl
# Oh, yeah She's a modern girl
# G-g-g-girl She's a modern girl
# Oh, yeah
# Cos Suzie is a jewel
# Yes, she flashes when she smiles
# She's cunning and she's clever
# She's got the lowdown in her files
# But Magenta, she's the best
# You know, she really makes me laugh
# She's always trying her impressions
# She wants to be a photograph
# She's so, she's 20th century
# She's so She's 1970
# She knows The right things to say
# She's got The right clothes to wear
# She's a modern girl
# Oh, yeah She's a modern girl
# G-g-g-girl She's a modern girl
# Oh, yeah
# And Jean confided to me
# She's Mona Lisa's biggest fan
# She drew a moustache on her face
# She's always seen her as a man
# But you know, Charlie, she ain't a Nazi
# She liked to wear her leather boots
# Cos it's exciting for the veterans
# And, well, it's a tonic for the troops
# She's so 20th century
# She's so She's 1970s
# She knows The right things to say
# She's got The right clothes to wear
# She's a modern girl
# Oh, yeah She's a modern girl
# G-g-g-girl She's a modern girl
# Oh, yeah
# She's so
# La-la la-la
# Da da-da da
# Da da-na na-na
# Da-da-da... #
Do it again!
Yeah!
R-r-r-r-rah!
# Yeah, Jean confided to me
# She's Mona Lisa's biggest fan
# She drew a moustache on her face
# She's always seen her as a man
# But, you know, Charlie, she ain't a Nazi
# She likes to wear her leather boots
# Cos it's exciting for the veterans
# And, well, it's a tonic for the troops
# She's so, she's 20th century
# She's so Yeah, she's 1970s
# She knows The right things to say
# She's got The right clothes to wear
# She's a modern girl
# Oh, yeah
# G-g-g-girl, she's a modern girl
# Oh, yeah
# She's so m-m-m-m-modern
# She's so She's 21st century
# She's so She's 2020
# She knows Yeah, the right things to say
# She's got The right clothes to wear
# And she's so, she's 21st century
# She's so 2020
# She knows She's coming alive
# She's got 2025!
# So, so, so, so, so
# So so so so modern! #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Top of the range!
Wonderful. The Boomtown Rats! Thank you.
CHEERING
OK, so there's not much time left in this year,
but what I like is a bit of the blues.
And I said earlier, we have royalty here,
so we now welcome in the form of
the boogie-woogie queen,
it is Ruby Turner!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# I got bad news, baby
# You're the first to know
# Yeah, I got bad news, baby
# You're the first to know
# I discovered this morning
# My top's about to blow
# I've been rocking on my feet
# Talking all out of my head
# Yeah, I've been rocking on my feet
# Talking all out of my head
# And when I'm through with talking
# Can't remember a thing I said
# No
# You see me shopping dressed in the latest style
# Now walking down Broadway with nothing but a smile
# I see a kind of little man I know they're never there
# I tried to push the A-train Poured whiskey in my hair
# I'm a girl you can't excuse
# I got those blow top blues
# Last night I was five foot tall
# Today I'm eight foot ten
# I fall right down the stairs
# And then I float back up again
# Well, someone turned the light on
# Nearly drove me blind
# I woke up in Bellevue
# But I left my mind behind
# I'm a girl you can't excuse
# I got those blow top blues
# Ah, yeah
# Yeah. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you.
Ruby Turner!
The wonderful Ruby Turner.
So I've been looking at my... at my watch,
and we've been in constant contact
with the people in the Royal Observatory
in Greenwich, where, of course, the meridian line is
and the time clock is.
And word has come through that it is nearly that moment.
So get prepared, because we say farewell in just a moment to '24
and hello to '25.
We need somebody to help us.
So please welcome the pipes and drums
of the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
FANFARE
And let's add to that the beautiful Louise Marshall
and her lovely voice, who will lead us in song.
Wherever you are, in your car, in your shed, in a pub,
please join in with us in a moment.
So let's just get the time.
Have we got the signal from Greenwich Mean Time yet?
Is it that time?
Yes!
ALL: Ten, nine,
eight, seven,
six, five,
four, three,
two, one...
Happy New Year!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# ..auld acquaintance be forgot
# And never brought to mind
# Should auld acquaintance be forgot
# For auld lang syne
# For auld lang syne, my dear
# For auld lang syne
# We'll take a cup of kindness yet
# For auld lang syne
# For auld lang syne, my dear
# For auld lang syne
# We'll take a cup of kindness yet
# For auld lang syne
# For auld lang syne, my dear
# For auld lang syne
# We'll take a cup of kindness yet
# For auld lang syne
# For auld lang syne, my dear
# For auld lang syne
# We'll take a cup of kindness yet
# For auld lang syne
# For auld lang syne, my dear
# For auld lang syne
# We'll take a cup of kindness yet
# For auld lang syne
# For auld lang syne, my dear
# For auld lang syne
# We'll take a cup of kindness yet
# For auld lang syne
# For auld lang syne, my dear
# For auld lang syne
# We'll take a cup of kindness yet
# For auld lang syne
# For auld lang syne, my dear
# For auld lang syne
# We'll take a cup of kindness yet
# For auld lang syne
# For auld lang syne, my dear
# For auld lang syne
# We'll take a cup of kindness yet
# For auld lang syne. #
CHEERING
Thank you, Louise Marshall.
Thank you, the pipes and drums
of the 1st Battalion of the Scots Guards.
And most of all, Happy New Year to all of you
wherever you are in your homes, your pubs, in the car, sort
of in the shed, wherever you are, in the cellar, maybe
in somebody else's house and they're out. Whatever.
Happy New Year to you and I hope it's a beautiful one.
I think we want to keep the party going, and I think that the best
way to do that is with the one and amazing Kathy Sledge.
Hey, come on, everybody!
We are family!
Yeah! We know this song.
Everybody stand up and sing along.
Yeah!
# Yeah-eh-eh! #
Woo!
Hey! Put your hands together.
Because we...
We are...family!
Let me hear you say...
# We are family
# I got all my sisters with me
# Yeah-eh-eh
# We are family
# Get up, everybody, and sing
# Sing it to me
# We are family
# Hey
# I got all my sisters with me
# We are family
# Get up, everybody, sing... #
Here we go!
# Everyone can see we're together
# As we walk on by
# And
# And we flock just like birds of a feather
# I won't tell no lie
# All
# All of the people around us, they say
# "Can they be that close?"
# Just let me state for the record
# We're giving love in a family dose
# You say...
# We are family
# Yeah-yeah
# I got all my sisters with me
# Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah
# We are family... #
Hey!
# Get up, everybody, sing
# Sing it to me
# We are family
# I got all my sisters with me
# We are family
# Get up, everybody, sing... #
Woo!
# Living life is fun and we've just begun
# To get our share of this world's delights
# High
# High hopes we have for the future
# And our goal's in sight
# We
# No, we don't get depressed
# Here's what we call our golden rule
# Have faith in you and the things you do
# You won't go wrong
# Oh, no, this is our family jewel
# You say...
# We are family
# Sing it to me
# I got all my sisters with me
# We are family
# I can't hear you, y'all
# Get up, everybody and sing
# We are family
# I got all my sisters with me
# We are family
# Love is just begun for me
# Get up, everybody, sing... #
Let's make some noise, everybody.
CHEERING
# Yeah, yeah
# Get up and sing it to me
# I can't hear you, y'all... #
Are we ready?
# Have faith in you and the things you do
# Yeah-eh, hey
# Oh, hey-hey-hey
# Get up, get up, y'all
# Ha, oh!
# Hey! Woo! #
OK, I tell you what.
On the count of four,
we're going to have some fun.
We're going to sing it all the way up to the heavens.
Are we ready? Are we ready?
Yeah.
One, two.
One, two... You say...
# We are family
# Hey, hey, yeah
# I got all my sisters with me
# Hey, hey
# We are family
# I got my sisters with me
# Get up, everybody, sing
# We are family
# Hey, hey
# I got all my sisters with me
# We are family
# I got my sisters with me
# Get up, everybody, sing
# Yeah!
# We are family
# I got all my sisters with me
# Yeah
# We are family
# Get up, everybody, sing
# We are family
# I got all my sisters with me... #
Happy New Year.
# We are family
# I got my sisters with me
Get up, everybody, sing
# Yeah-yeah, yeah! #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you, Kathy Sledge.
Thank you. How beautifully done.
That's got me in the party mood now, I think.
Let's go and see who we've got over here.
I can spy with my little eye...
I hope you're settling in for New Year. You've had a dance around
with your rellies and whatever you've been doing.
And now it's time to lunge into the audience, packed
with showbiz gold people, to try and work out what's happened last
year and what's happening next year.
I meet Jim Moir, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Lolly Adefope.
CHEERING
Welcome. Happy New Year. Happy New Year.
Happy New Year, darling, Lolly. Mwah. Mwah.
New year's greetings. Yes. Greetings.
New year's. Yeah, yeah. Steady. And all that.
Yeah. So it's fantastic to have you here.
Perhaps I should start with you, Sanjeev.
First of all, how's the evening been for you in here so far?
Gosh, amazing. Amazing.
You know, what I love about this show is, apart
from all the great acts and everything that you've got,
legends that have sung already,
and then there's people that I hadn't heard
before but I'm introduced to, future legends... Like Sister Sledge.
Yeah. She's amazing.
Yes. Yes, exactly.
Any things for the next year you're looking forward to?
Any predictions or expectations?
Predictions, expectations...
I hope that people can celebrate kindness more, because we really
need to kind of put... Especially on social media,
it gets swamped with negativity.
And we could be the people that could put positivity back on there.
More compassion, more kindness and call out kindness.
Highlight it and express it.
Yes, there we are.
That's very nice.
And Lolly, it's been a fantastic year for you.
You've been making films, you've been doing...
You've been more busy than anything.
One of our top actors now at the moment.
Any reflections on last year or things to look forward
to next year?
Next year I'm going to get big into crypto.
Nice.
This year was TikTok. Next year it's crypto.
Yes. And I'm going to win big.
What is crypto?
That's what I'm going to find out.
Yes. No, that's what we're going to sell him.
Yeah.
You can buy my coins. Yes, it's a coin, isn't it?
It's a valuable coin that you can...
Valuable coins?
Yes. Well, it's worth nothing.
Yes. Not yet.
Yes. Not yet. But you will be.
Once you've bought it. Yeah, exactly. Nice.
So that's your tip for the next year, is it?
Yeah. Buy my crypto. Yes.
Thanks very much. So, Jim... You haven't sold it to me.
Anyway. Yes... Just you wait.
Can I just say...? Yes.
Have we got time? Yes.
Right. We were talking...
I was saying I really love, um, the Sister Sledge, and that was my...
She was my favourite.
We were talking about what we had on our bedroom walls.
Yes. Well, it says you are, you are who's on your bedroom wall.
So you are... Yeah. Who you have on your bedroom wall.
What did you have above your bed, on your bedroom wall?
When I was a teenager? Yes.
Arthur Lowe. No.
Yeah, I did.
Thank you. It's lovely to see you all.
See you again a bit later.
Now we've got a legend. I don't...
Do you think I bandy the word legend around?
Er... Yes. No.
Well, I'm going to now, because we have a true legend.
This is a man who's in one of the biggest groups
in the world and one...
And he was one of the songwriters in one of the biggest groups
in the world. He has an amazing voice
that was maybe...people weren't so much aware
of because of the lead singer, but he's here and he's going
to celebrate before he does one of their own songs later on.
A Little Richard, little medley, we're going to have
to get ourselves in a boogie woogie way.
Are you ready for a Little Richard medley?
And are you ready to meet the man from Queen,
from Queen in this room?
Roger Taylor!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# You keep on knocking but you can't come in
# Come out tomorrow night and try again
# You say you love me but you can't come in
# You say you love me but you can't come to me
# Come back tomorrow night and try it again, yeah!
# You keep on knocking but you can't come in
# Come back tomorrow night and try it again
# You say you love me but you can't come in
# Come back tomorrow night and try it again. #
# A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boo
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boo
# Got a girl named Sue
# She knows just what to do
# Got a girl named Sue
# She knows just what to do
# She rocks to the east
# She rocks to the west
# She's the girl that I love best
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boo
# Got a girl named Daisy
# She almost drive me crazy
# Got a girl named Daisy
# She almost drive me crazy
# She knows how to love me
# Yes, indeed
# Boy, you don't know what she do to me
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boo
# Yeah!
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boo
# Got a girl named Daisy
# She almost drive me crazy
# Got a girl named Daisy
# She almost drive me crazy
# She knows how to love me
# Yes, indeed
# Boy, you don't know what she do to me
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# Tutti frutti
# Oh, rooty
# A wop bop-b-luma b-lop bam bom. #
CHEERING
# There was a lot of rocking going on that night
# It was cruising time for all the young, bright lights
# Down at the gasworks, by the meat factory door
# The Five Lamp boys started coming on strong
# The Saturday night city beat had already started
# When the pulse of the corner boys sprang into action
# Young Billy watched it under the yellow street light
# And he said, "Tonight of all nights
# "There's gonna be a fight"
# See, Billy don't like it living here in this town
# He says Traps have been sprung
# Long before he was born He says
# Hope bites the dust behind all the closed doors
# And pus and grime ooze from its scab-crusted sores
# There's screaming and there's crying in the high-rise blocks
# It's a rat trap, Billy, but you're already caught
# You can make it if you want to or you need it bad enough
# You're young and good looking, you're acting kind of tough
# It's Saturday night, time to see what's going down
# Put on the bright suit, Billy, head for the right side of town
# It's only 8 o'clock but you're already bored
# You don't know what it is but there's got to be more
# You'd better find a way out, hey, kick down the door
# It's a rat trap
# And you've been caught... #
Come here.
# "In this town," Billy says,
# "Everybody tries to tell you what to do"
# "In this town," Billy says,
# "Everybody says you gotta follow rules"
# You walk up to the traffic lights, they switch from left to right
# You push in that button when that button comes alight
# It says, walk Don't walk
# It says, talk Don't talk
# Come on, Billy, talk Don't talk
# Why don't you walk? Don't walk
# Come on, Billy, talk Don't talk
# Don't talk Don't talk
# Hey, Billy, take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
# Billy, take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
# Hey, Billy
# Take a walk with me
# Take a walk to victory
# You're swinging nice, you're swinging free
# Swing with me, Billy, swing with me... #
Come on!
# See, little Judy's trying to watch Top Of The Pops
# But Mum and Dad are fighting, don't they ever stop?
# She takes off her coat and walks down to the street
# It's cold on the road but it's got that home beat
# Deep down in her pocket, she finds 50p
# Now is that any way for some young girl to be?
# "I'm getting out of school, I'll work in some factory
# "Work all the hours God gave me
# "And get myself a little easy money"
# Now, now, now
# Her mind's made up, she just walks on down the road
# Hands in her pockets, coat buttoned 'gainst the cold
# She finally finds Billy at the Italian cafe
# He's drunk, it's hard to understand what Billy says
# He mumbles in his coffee and he suddenly roars
# "It's a rat trap!
# "And we've been caught"
# It's a rat trap... #
You know what I'm talking about!
Oh, yes, you do!
Let's go!
# Rat trap, you've been caught in a
# Rat trap, you've been caught. #
Kick it!
CHEERING
2025!
CHEERING
Thank you very much!
JOOLS: The thrill of having Boomtown Rats in this room with
their 1978 number-one single.
Yes, The Boomtown Rats, thank you!
CHEERING
More from them later.
So, we've got a lovely crowd in here this evening.
You all feeling good there?
CHEERING
Hootenanny.
ALL: Hootenanny!
All feeling good there?
Thanks for the cuddle earlier, it was sounding really good.
And now, from Little Mix to a dazzling solo career, with now
a unique performance of two songs that she has never performed before,
I'm very excited indeed to welcome Jade!
CHEERING
# Sitting here, eating my heart out, waiting
# Waiting for the lover to call
# Dialled about a thousand numbers lately
# Almost rang the phone off the wall
# Looking for some hot stuff, baby, this evening
# I need hot stuff, baby, tonight
# I want some hot stuff, baby, this evening
# Gotta have some hot stuff
# Gotta have some love tonight
# Hot stuff
# Whoo!
# Looking for a lover who needs another
# Don't want another night on my own
# Wanna share some love with a warm-blooded lover
# Wanna bring a wild man back home
# Looking for some hot stuff, baby, this evening
# I need hot stuff, baby, tonight
# I want your hot stuff, baby, this evening
# Gotta have some hot stuff
# Gotta have some love tonight
# Hot stuff
# I need hot stuff
# I need hot love... #
Whoo!
Let's go!
# I don't wanna lose you, this good thing
# That I've got, cos if I do
# I would surely, surely lose a lot
# Cos your love is better than any love I know
# It's like thunder, lightning
# The way you love me is frightening
# You better knock
# Knock
# On wood
# Baby
# Ooh-ooh-ooh
# Baby
# Ooh-ooh-ooh... #
Yes, Jools!
Whoo!
# Baby
# Ooh-ooh-ooh
# You better knock, knock, knock on wood
# Jade, you better knock, knock, knock on wood
# Knock on wood
# Jade, you better knock, knock, knock on wood... #
I want to hear you all singing!
Let's go!
# Jade, you better knock, knock, knock on wood
# Jade, you better Knock, knock, knock on wood... #
Beautiful, stunning!
# Jade, you better knock, knock, knock on wood
# Yeah, yeah... #
Whoo! Let me hear you!
# Jade, you better knock, knock, knock on wood
# You better knock, knock, knock on wood
# Jade, you better knock, knock Knock on wood
# Jade, you better knock, knock, knock on wood
# Baby, baby
# Jade, you better knock, knock, knock on wood
# Oh, oh, oh!
# Jade, you better knock Knock on wood
# Jade, you better knock, knock on wood
# Jade, you better knock You better knock
# Baby
# Ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh-ooh
# Ooh. #
CHEERING
Fabulous, fantastic! Jade!
CHEERING
Happy New Year. Some marvellous people in this room tonight.
And now, at this table here, a dream table of people you'd want
to have dinner with if you were on a desert island, or anywhere.
Kathy Sledge, Bob Geldof and Roger Taylor!
CHEERING
It's so nice to have you all here this evening in this lovely room.
I'll start with you, Sir Bob.
Any things you're looking back on last year that were
highlights for you, or things you're looking forward to for this
coming year now, which we're now in?
Well, I intend to be even more fabulous next year,
if it's possible. Not possible, no. CHEERING
Did you hear them? Yes.
Do you see what I'm saying here? Yes, I can see that. Yes.
Your intention is to be more fabulous than ever before.
Celebrate our 50 years as one of the global, international,
mega rock bands of all time. Yes. From...?
Well, from Dun Laoghaire!
From Dun Laoghaire, yes, exactly. County Dublin, you know.
And double album, Songs Of Boomtown Glory.
Perhaps a triple album, who knows, maybe quadruple?
There's so many songs, Jools. Exactly, unstoppable.
Where do you end? Yeah, exactly. I don't know. After one.
Or why do you end? Yeah, exactly.
And, Kathy, so lovely to have you here.
How would you normally celebrate? If you were back home in America,
how would you be celebrating New Year's Eve, do you think?
Definitely having Champagne.
But now I'm sitting amongst royalty right now,
so it couldn't get any better than this. Exactly.
We have got some Champagne. Or it's certainly a wine-style drink.
LAUGHTER
No, I'm actually enjoying every minute of this.
Well, it's lovely to have you here, very lovely.
Kathy Sledge. Yes, let's hear it!
CHEERING
Now, Roger Taylor, it's the first time you've been on the Hootenanny.
You came on Later and I insisted, because people don't realise,
that, one, you wrote loads of the songs
and you're one of the singers in Queen, your voice is amazing.
And later, you're going to be doing one of the legendary Queen songs.
Have you done this song often since...? Well, only in concert.
And I won't say what it is, but I just don't understand how
Bob could be even more fabulous next year.
I thought you were doing one of my songs later. No, no.
No, they're much too difficult. No.
And how about you, is there anything particular you look back over
last year and think, that was great, or looking forward to
now we're in this year?
Well, I'm not sure last year was that great, actually.
But I think this next year's going to be wonderful.
And what a great start.
Yes, I think if we think it's going to be wonderful - think,
therefore we will be. Absolutely.
Manifest. Manifest. Manifest 2025.
Positive. Yes, exactly. Manifest it all for the best.
See, Paul Carrack's over there, one of the loveliest fellas,
let me just ask Paul, Happy New Year, anything...?
You've been touring all over the place, stuff with big bands,
what are you looking forward to next year?
Well, I actually think I can be more fabulous then Sir Bob. Really?
I can be Lord Chorley of Chorleywood. Yes, OK.
It's turned into a competition of fabulousness.
Something we're all going to look forward to. Thank you, Paul Carrack.
And over here, we've got Jordan Stephens.
Jordan, it's lovely to see you, you came on Later. Lovely to see you.
Nice to see you having a lovely time here.
Now, looking back over the last year, anything...?
What sticks out for you as being something you enjoyed?
Something I enjoyed?
For me, a big thing was obviously Jade coming out as a solo artist,
that was a really big moment for me,
to see my wonderful girlfriend smash it, who just nailed it!
Yes! Your girlfriend nailed it! Yes! CHEERING
The MOST fabulous. Sorry!
And, yeah...
BOB HECKLES JORDAN LAUGHS
And you're saying most fabulous,
but who is this woman you're sitting next to?
Oh, this is Jade's glorious mother, Norma. Make some noise for Norma!
CHEERING
There's a few mums in tonight. There's a few mums about?
Mums of the artists, artists' mums. Artists' mums! Yes.
All artists and their mums here.
Yeah, that was a big highlight for me.
And Rizzle Kicks came back as well, but just a little plug, thanks.
And also, you did appear on Later once, didn't you,
so that must have been a big highlight? Yeah, so...
You know what, it was, it was off the bucket list, mate,
and now I'm at Hootenanny! I'm buzzing! Yes! It's win, win, win!
It's win-win, Jools!
Thank you very much, Jordan. Thank you to all of our wonderful guests.
I'll be blundering into you later on.
And I'd like to now welcome back in this corner
the absolutely wonderful Jungle!
CHEERING
# You keep me walking on the same line
# When we get high on my break time
# And we're just watching from the same town
# But that don't change when it break down
# So we've been talking 'bout the same crime
# No, it don't hurt when it rains now
# I learned my lesson at the same time
# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, where did it
# Go? Back on 74 When I noticed you
# Call this place my home Ooh, ooh
# Never gonna cry anymore
# Where did it all
# Ooh, oh, oh-oh
# You keep me walking on the same line
# When we get high on my break time
# And we're just watching from the same town
# But that don't change when it break down
# So, we were talking 'bout the same crime
# No, it don't hurt when it rains now
# I learned my lesson at the same time
# Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, where did it
# Go? Back on 74 When I noticed you
# Call this place my home Ooh, ooh
# Never gonna cry anymore
# Where did it all
# Go, let it go
# Let it go, ooh
# Let it go, let it go
# Let it go Where did it all
# Go, back on 74
# Call this place my home
# Never gonna cry anymore
# Where did it all
# Go, let it go
# Let it go, ooh
# Let it go, let it go
# Let it go
# Where did it all
# Go? Back on 74 When I noticed you
# Call this place my home Ooh, ooh
# Never gonna cry anymore
# Where did it all
# Go? Back on 74 When I noticed you
# Call this place my home Ooh, ooh
# Never gonna cry anymore
# Where did it all
# Go? Back on 74
# Call this place my home
# Never gonna cry anymore
# Where did it all. #
CHEERING
# Looking back over my shoulder
# I can see that look in your eye
# But I never dreamed it could be over
# I never wanted to say goodbye
# Looking back over my shoulder
# With an aching deep in my heart
# I wish we were starting over
# Instead of drifting so far apart
# Everybody told me you were leaving
# Funny I should be the last to know
# Baby, please tell me that I'm dreaming
# I just never want to let you go
# Looking back over my shoulder
# I can see that look in your eye
# Turning my heart over and over
# I never wanted to say goodbye
# I don't mind everybody laughing
# It's enough to make a grown man cry
# I can feel you slipping through my fingers
# But I don't even know the reason why... #
Derek! Derek, come on, now!
# Every day, it's a losing battle
# Just to smile and hold my head up high
# Could it be we belong together?
# Baby, won't you give me one more try?
# Looking back over my shoulder
# I can see that look in your eye
# I never dreamed it could be over
# I never wanted to say goodbye
# Looking back
# Come on, now Over my shoulder
# I can see There's an aching feeling inside
# It's cutting me up, babe It's cutting me up
# Deeper and deeper
# Fills me with a sadness that I can't hide
# Looking back over my shoulder
# I can see that look in your eye
# I never dreamed
# It could be over. #
CHEERING
Yeah! Thank you!
JOOLS: The wonderful, amazing voice of Paul Carrack!
CHEERING
The fabulous voice of Paul Carrack.
So, that brings us to our next special guest.
We were doing a film about the blues for an American film company
and they said, "We've got this amazing 19-year-old person
"from Cornwall who plays guitar and sings beautifully.
"Could he be in the film?" Yes, OK.
As soon as I heard his amazing voice,
I swore there and then that he must be on this Hootenanny!
ALL: Hootenanny!
I give you, then, Toby Lee!
CHEERING
# Sky's the limit when I'm with you
# Oh, baby, I mean it
# I ain't even confused
# Whatever we do, whatever we say
# Makes me happy anyway
# Want to take a minute
# Just to dance with you
# We get on
# Like a house on fire
# We get on
# Like a house on fire
# Sky's the limit
# We'll never get home
# Oh, baby, you're in it
# You don't even know
# Whatever we do, whatever we say
# Makes me happy anyway
# Let's take another minute
# And do what we do
# We get on
# Like a house on fire
# We get on
# Like a house on fire
# Sky's the limit
# Whenever we meet
# Every time I see you
# You sweep me off of my feet
# We get on
# Like a house on fire
# We get on
# Like a house on fire. #
CHEERING
Toby Lee! Yes, Toby Lee!
Toby Lee.
And it's been a pleasure having him
on tour with our orchestra all this year.
Now I'm going to lunge back over to this corner here
and see who I'm going to find.
Nish Kumar, somewhere, and Jo Brand.
And Mawaan Rizwan. Where are they? There! There, you all are.
Welcome to the show. Happy New Year to you all.
Welcome back, thanks for coming in.
Congratulations on your Bafta.
Oh, thank you, Jools.
Yes, we were nominated for one and, after 32 years...nothing.
Oh! It's meant a lot. Anyway.
Can't relate, can't relate. No!
That must be so hard, Jools. It has been.
But thank you for your sympathy.
Yeah, and all the crew and everybody, it's not just me.
So, it's fantastic having you all here.
Any particular things you want to look back on or look forward to
now we're in 2025? What's your thoughts?
Well, the Conservative Party lost the election
and I was rock hard for a week, Jools.
And at 39, that's actually quite hard to come by.
In the interest of BBC balance, I already hate the Labour government.
So we're all good.
One way or another, we're covered. I am permanently unsatisfied.
So, do you have any resolutions?
Yeah, my resolution is to join Jungle,
because I think there's quite a lot of them and they wouldn't notice.
CHEERING
I just genuinely think...
They've got a lot of different representation there,
what they don't have, a fat Indian guy.
I sneak in the back, I'm part of Jungle.
Xylophone or something.
Nothing high-profile, God, no.
I have no musical talent to speak of,
I just want to be in the back, bringing the vibes.
OK, well, I'll talk to them about that.
Now, Mawaan, tell us what - Bafta, great year,
great stuff coming - looking back on last year,
any particular highlights?
Erm, no, that was it, really.
The rest of the year's been really dull, actually.
And I want to say my highlight was my personal life,
I'd love to say...
But my relationships are suffering, do you understand?
When you work... All I do is work, you know what I mean?
So the Bafta is great but I do need to say sorry to
a lot of people for not spending any time with them.
And, you know, the deadlines come thick and fast, don't they?
Not when you're my age, no.
LAUGHTER
But you're doing well and I'm really pleased for you.
I want to go for more dinners. I want to go for more dinners.
Is that your resolution? I'll go for more dinners with you.
I want to do sophisticated... Who am I, chopped liver? Yes, you are.
You're too busy being negative.
We're going for dinner, so bog off.
A positive dinner. We're not talking politics.
Just like wine tasting and being bougie for no reason,
because we're adults.
Can I just say, having dinner isn't being bougie for no reason,
you do have to eat. No, I know, but I don't. Well, that's it...
Yeah, I'd just love to eat in 2025, that'd be lovely.
Right, well, if you eat in 2025, I'll stop.
Let's see what happens at the end of the year.
LAUGHTER
Marvellous exchange.
Thank you very much, everybody. We'll see you in a moment.
Showbiz gold.
So, a man we've had the pleasure of being on tour with last year
and he's here tonight with one of his great songs.
A true icon, a wonder of the music world.
We welcome Marc Almond!
CHEERING
MARC: I hope you'll sing with me.
# Standing at the door of the Pink Flamingo
# Crying in the rain
# It was a kind of so-so love
# And I'm going to make sure it never happens again
# You and I
# It had to be
# The standing joke of the year
# You were a sleep around
# A lost and found
# And not for me, I fear
# Whoa, whoa-oh
# I tried to make it work
# You in a cocktail skirt and me in a suit
# Well, it just wasn't me
# You're used to wearing less
# And now your life's a mess
# So insecure, you see
# I put up with all the scenes
# And this is one scene
# That's going to be played my way
# Take your hands off me
# I don't belong to you, you see
# Take a look at my face
# For the last time
# I never knew you
# You never knew me
# Say hello, goodbye
# Say hello Wave goodbye
# Under the deep red light
# I can see the make-up sliding down
# Hey, little girl, you will always make up
# So take off that unbecoming frown
# What about me? Well
# I'll find someone
# Who's not going cheap in the sales
# A nice little housewife
# Who'll give me a steady life
# And won't keep going off the rails... #
Everybody.
# Take your hands off me
# I don't belong to you, you see
# Take a look at my face
# For the last time
# I never knew you
# You never knew me
# Say hello, goodbye
# Say hello Wave goodbye
# We've been involved for quite a while now
# And to keep you secret, it has been hell
# We're strangers meeting for the first time, OK?
# Just smile and say hello
# Say hello then wave goodbye... #
Everybody!
# Say hello then wave goodbye
# Say hello, wave goodbye
# Say hello then wave goodbye
# Goodbye
# Good
# Bye, oh... #
CHEERING
Yes! Give me that big finish now.
# Yeah. #
End. Thank you!
CHEERING
JOOLS: The amazing Marc Almond! CHEERING
Happy New Year.
And Happy New Year to us all.
So, let's get a nice different vibration again.
A quartet who have travelled all the way to be with us
from Canada tonight.
Performing a medley of two songs from their marvellous latest album,
Chains & Stakes. Where exactly are you from? Regina, Saskatchewan.
Say that once again. Regina, Saskatchewan.
That's what I wanted to say but I couldn't. Thank you so much.
Please welcome, The Dead South!
CHEERING
One, two, three, four.
# I have loved you for some time
# While all those other men wait in line
# I've worn down my own
# No conversation this time, please
# Then I saw the hole in the sky
# That's when I heard the angel's cry
# All the love that is in her eye
# She's just a little devil in disguise
# All the love that is in her eye
# Just a little devil in disguise
# It was only in our dreams
# I was there this time, don't you, please
# Writing's on the wall, they did scream
# Your voice is never heard when it's this clean
# Then I saw the hole in the sky
# That's when I heard the angel's cry
# All the love that is in her eye
# She's just a little devil in disguise
# All the love that is in her eye
# Just a little devil in disguise. #
CHEERING
# Baby, I was out for milk the other day
# Just where you sent me to
# They were out of milk so I grabbed a bottle of bourbon
# Now I'm coming home drunk to you
# But you ain't got no loving like that
# You ain't got no loving for me
# You ain't got no loving like that
# When I'm out drunk flat on my back
# Will times ever change with all I do?
# Cos I've been boozing so long
# But I just want your sweet old loving
# One more bottle then I'll stop
# But you ain't got no loving like that
# You ain't got no loving for me
# You ain't got no loving like that
# When I'm out drunk flat on my back. #
CHEERING
# Mmm ba de
# Mmm ba be
# Doo buh dum ba beh beh
# Pressure
# Pushing down on me
# Pressing down on you
# No man ask for
# Under pressure
# That burns a building down
# Splits a family in two
# Puts people on streets
# Um ba ba be
# De day da
# Ee day da
# That's OK
# It's the terror of knowing what this world is about
# Watching some good friends screaming
# "Let me out"
# Pray tomorrow gets me higher
# Pressure on people, people on streets
# Day
# Da da da ba ba
# OK
# Chipping around, kicking my brain around the floor
# These are the days, it never rains, but it pours
# Ee do ba be
# Ee da ba ba ba
# Um bo bo
# Ba lap
# People on streets
# Ee da de da de
# People on streets
# Ee da de da de da de da
# It's the terror of knowing what this world is about
# Watching some good friends screaming
# "Let me out"
# Pray tomorrow gets me higher Higher, high
# Pressure on people, people on streets
# Turned away from it all like a blind man
# Sat on a fence, but it don't work
# Keep coming up with love but it's so slashed and torn
# Why, why?
# Why?
# Love, love, love, love, love, love
# Insanity laughs, under pressure we're cracking
# Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
# Why can't we give love that one more chance?
# Why can't we give love, give love, give love, give love
# Give love, give love, give love?
# Cos love's such an old-fashioned word
# And love dares you to care for
# The people on the edge of the night
# And love dares you to change our way of
# Caring about ourselves
# This is our last dance
# This is ourselves
# Under pressure
# Pressure
# Pressure. #
CHEERING
Roger Taylor and Louise Marshall!
The legendary song by Queen!
Written by Roger.
Thank you, Roger Taylor! Louise Marshall.
CHEERING
How great to have that song in this room on this evening.
Now, I'm just going to lunge over here,
David Morrisey, Jessica Gunning and, of course,
Adrian Lester, who are sitting here, relaxing at a table,
enjoying themselves. Hope it's all going very well.
It's lovely to see you all. Happy New Year to you all, of course.
Happy New Year. Happy New Year, Happy New Year.
They all tried to lunge forward,
to push forward there, to get closer to Roger Taylor. To cuddle him.
But I'm here to be cuddled instead.
Tell us about, first of all, let me ask Adrian, looking back...
What are you looking forward to this year?
Resolutions, I suppose.
To be honest, I think there are some parts of the world that I wish
would find a resolution but for myself,
I've stepped behind the camera, I've written a film, taking part
in creating projects and just waiting for one of them to land.
So I'm just trying to do that thing now.
Well, we're looking forward to that very much. Jessica, how about you?
Any things you're looking back on last year, good, bad,
and looking forward to this year?
Looking forward to '25, let's...thrive.
I was trying to think of a rhyme!
Nice! Hang on, I think you've got it.
No, you've got it.
'25, let's... ALL: Thrive!
Thrive.
I think they were shouting thrive,
they might have just been going "ah".
Anybody in particular you're enjoying in the room this evening?
CMAT is one of my absolute faves,
so I'm so, so pleased I get to see her live.
I've loved her for years and I think it was just amazing. Lovely.
We like her, we love her. She's amazing.
Is she going to do another one?
She is going to do another one. She's got a fantastic cover,
actually. It's very sad, it actually makes me cry, it did make me cry,
but it's a fantastic cover. Oh, she's just incredible. I agree.
Now, how about you? What's been a highlight of the last year for you,
there must have been lots? Well, yeah, funnily enough,
I went to see CMAT twice in concert in the last year,
and I just loved her.
Where did you see her? Kentish Town, I saw her, and Ally Pally.
And she was just fantastic. Are you a resolutionist?
Not really, I'm just going to have more fun.
I'm going to take the energy from tonight in this room
and walk into '25 with it, it's great.
Yes, yes. What a lovely way of looking at it.
All the energy of all the bands tonight have been fantastic. Yeah.
What a lovely way of looking at it.
Well, it's lovely to talk to you all.
Do have a knees up if you feel free and appropriate to do so.
And there is some, what are they called?
Bit...gots, what are they?
Bitcoin. Bitcoins. Yes. You've got some bitcoin if you want some.
Bit gots as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Big cods. Big cods!
Very large cod. OK, thank you very much, David Morrissey,
Jessica Gunning and Adrian Lester. And now...
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..I think it's time for another,
as I look at the Boomtown Rats sitting there.
They're going on tour next year.
You can see... This year. This year they're going on tour.
50 years of them. What a treat.
So now, we go now for another lovely, timeless classic.
We welcome back Kathy Sledge!
APPLAUSE
Hey, everybody!
This feels so good tonight.
We're thinking of you.
Yeah!
Tell you what. If you feel good,
bring your hands in the air like this.
There you go.
Nice.
# Doo, doo, doo, doo
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
# I'm in love again
# And it feels so good
# Everybody, let me tell you 'bout my love
# Brought to you by an angel from above
# Fully equipped with a lifetime guarantee
# Once you try it, I am sure that you'll see
# Without love, without love
# There's no reason to live
# Without you
# Oh, what would I do with the love I give
# All my loving
# To you I'll be giving
# And I promise this I'll do
# As long as I live
# Let me hear you sing!
# I'm thinking of you
# And the things you do to me
# That makes me love you
# Now I'm living in ecstasy
# Hey, it's you and the things you do
# That makes me love you
# Now I'm living in ecstasy
# All the time he makes me glad that I'm alive
# Together, we will survive
# What do you think brought the sun out today
# It's my baby, help me sing
# Without love, without love
# There's no reason to live
# Without you
# Oh, what would I do with the love I give
# All my loving
# To you I'll be giving
# And a promise this I'll do
# As long as I'm living
# Here we go!
# And the things you do to me
# That makes me love you
# Now I'm living in ecstasy
# Hey! It's you
# And the things you do to me
# That makes me love you
# Now I'm living in ecstasy... #
Sing this with me, sing!
# Ba da ba ba ba ba ba
# Ba ba da
# Ba da ba ba ba ba ba
# Ba ba da da
# Ba da ba ba ba ba ba
# Ba ba da
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... #
Put your hands together one more time and sing.
You look beautiful.
# I'm in love again
# And it feels so, so good
# Here we go
# Hey, it's you and the things you do to me
# That makes me love you
# Now I'm living in ecstasy
# Yeah, it's you
# Yeah
# That makes me love you
# Now I'm living in ecstasy
# Yeah, yeah
# It's you, you, you, yeah
# That makes me love you
# Yeah, yeah, it's you
# And the things you do to me
# That makes me love you
# Now I'm living in ecstasy
# Hey, it's you and the things you do
# That makes me love you
# Sing it to me one more time
# You and the things you do
# That makes me love you... #
One more time, bring your hands in the air because it feels so good!
# You
# Yeah
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
# Just keep on doing what you're doing to me
# Yeah, yeah, yeah
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. #
Woo!
APPLAUSE
Thank you, Kathy Sledge!
Now, let's have a little chittle chattle over here.
We've always got time for chittle chattle.
I think I'm going to start at the back and work my way forward.
First of all, Marc Almond, let me ask you...
Marc Almond is here now.
How are you, Jools? I'm very well, thank you.
Have you had a good...good '24? Looking forward to '25?
Fantastic, actually. Lots of musical adventures, amazing things.
New album and everything. Soft Cell shows, my own shows.
But you know what the highlight was?
Ending the year with touring with you, Jools.
Thank you very much. Very good of you.
CMAT, it's lovely to have you here. And I think...
Ciara. Ciara, if I may.
I was particularly impressed with the opening, but I want people
to know it was you that instigated it.
It wasn't me that told you to lay on the floor
while I stepped over you.
Because I've never stepped over a guest that I've introduced before.
I've been stepped over many times in my life, Jools.
Not the first time, won't be the last time.
Oh, that's too sad.
Is your mum here tonight?
Sinead.
Yeah! Welcome to... Let's hear it for the mums everywhere.
APPLAUSE
She really wants a picture of Bob Geldof.
Sir Bob, I need you to get a picture with my mam at some point, please.
Or I'll never live it down.
Thank you so much. Love you.
Easy, easy, easy.
Look, there we are.
Here we are, showbiz gold in the middle of it.
Of all the people in the room, it was the positive man
that she wanted to be pictured with.
Thank you. Yeah.
Cos you're on tour. Yes, we know. Go and have a sit down.
Ruby Turner, it's lovely to have you.
The boogie woogie queen.
How has it been for you this New Year's Eve and this last year
and then looking forward to the next?
It's been absolutely fabulous. It's all about positivity.
I'm going forward with just that - end of.
End of, going forward positively. Yeah, that's right.
That's what we like to hear. Beautiful.
And I'm going to move over here actually to talk to Jade,
because you're right over there and I don't want to lunge in.
So sorry, Mum. Lovely to see you.
So, Jade, it's been fantastic.
Let's face it, a fantastic year for you.
You've been doing so much amazing things.
Your records are out of this world. Thank you.
And coming from the giddy height of pop stardom,
how has that been?
Oh, it's been lovely. I've had a great year.
The response to my music's been amazing.
CHEERS
Woo! That's my boyfriend going woo woo.
Yeah, Jordan, we spoke to him, yeah.
So, very excited for 2025.
Got a new album out. Hey! Hey, hey!
And very excited to make new friends.
Have you been making friends with Ruby?
Who can't?! Exactly. Who can't?
She's fabulous. She's oozing positivity.
Honestly, I'm having the best night ever.
I'm absolutely beaming to be here.
It's one of the best nights of my life, to be honest.
I'm having a great time. Happy New Year, dear Jade.
Lovely to see you. I'm going to go right to the forward here.
So now, Paul, you're going to sing something for us,
but also it's a night, it's a time for the blues.
And it's also...
We lost Quincy Jones. This is true.
So we're going to celebrate Quincy Jones with one
of his arrangements, aren't we? Great idea.
Can I invite you over to now the piano?
If I've got the moment right. Well, it's as good as any.
It's as good as any.
We welcome Paul Carrack with the beautiful Quincy Jones arrangement.
Let's chill for one moment, please.
APPLAUSE
# Yeah
# I'm gonna move
# Way to the outskirts of town, babe
# I'm gonna move
# Way out on the outskirts of town
# Mm
# Cos we don't need nobody
# Always hanging around
# Listen to me, honey
# We're gonna move away from here
# We don't need no ice, man
# I'm gonna get you a Frigidaire
# When we move
# Way out on the outskirts of town
# Whoa
# We don't need nobody
# Always hanging around... #
Chris Holland on your Hammond organ.
# Whoa
# Yeah
# Well, you might be lucky, baby
# Lucky as can be
# If we have a dozen children
# They all better look like me
# When we move
# Way on the outskirts of town
# Whoa
# We don't need nobody
# Always hanging around
# No, we don't need nobody, baby
# Always hanging around
# Oh
# Always hanging around
# Yeah, yeah. #
APPLAUSE
# So you've come a long way
# Woo-hoo, but you're never out late
# Never had plans for a normal life
# It's crime, too busy earnin'
# You can't get enough
# Just busy earnin'
# You can't get enough
# You think that all your time is used
# Too busy earnin'
# You can't get enough
# And I get it always
# But I bet it won't change, no
# Damn, that's a boring life
# It's crime, busy earnin'
# You can't get enough
# Just busy earnin'
# You can't get enough
# You think that all your time is used
# Too busy earnin'
# You can't get enough
# Just busy earnin'
# You can't get enough
# You think that all your time is used
# Just busy earnin'
# You can't get enough
# You think that all your time is used
# Too busy earnin'
# You can't get enough
# Just busy earnin'
# You can't get enough, no
# Just busy earnin'
# You can't get enough. #
APPLAUSE
Thank you, Jungle!
With Busy Earnin'. Thank you so much.
We're delighted to have you. What an amazing...
Are you having a good Hootenanny so far?
CHEERING
There's a lot of you I want to come and talk to.
We're getting a bit close on time because it is New Year's Day.
Happy New year!
ALL: Happy New year!
And now, performing her song Fantasy, with her wonderful voice,
we welcome back Jade!
CHEERING
# Ha ha
# I need to
# Passion, pain
# Pleasure, no shame
# If you like it weird, I like it strange
# It's a fantasy, babe
# Whatever floats your boat, I'll help you sail away
# What is your cup of tea? I'll sip it and I'll add the sugar, babe
# Release your fear, no judgment here
# It could be loopy, it could be kinky
# It could be hot and that's OK
# I need to know what you've been dreaming of
# I want to tell you all my secrets
# And bring all of that freaky shit to life
# Ooh, I want that
# Passion, pain
# Pleasure, no shame
# If you like it weird, I like it strange
# It's a fantasy, baby
# Uh, I think it's time that we should pop Pandora's box
# Get it unlocked
# Think of the time that we lost trying to be who we're not
# Yeah
# All your ideas are welcome here
# We can go too far, we can be bizarre
# And we'll always make it hot
# I need to know what you've been dreaming of
# I want to tell you all my secrets
# And bring all of that freaky shit to life
# Ooh, I want that
# Passion, pain
# Pleasure, no shame
# If you like it weird, I like it strange
# It's a fantasy, baby
# Passion, pain
# Pleasure, no shame
# If you like it weird, I like it strange
# It's a fantasy, babe
# Woo!
# Hey! Woo! Yeah!
# It's a hootenanny, baby
# If you like it weird, I like it
# Woo!
# I need to know what you've been dreaming of
# Dreaming of, baby
# I wanna tell you all my secrets
# And bring all of that freaky shit to life
# I wanna tell you all my secrets, baby
# Oh, whoa-oh
# Not just fantasy any more, baby
# A reality to explore, baby
# Not just fantasy any more, baby
# A reality to explore, baby. #
APPLAUSE
Thank you.
Thank you, Jade.
Jade! Thank you.
What a great song. So let's walk round over this way now.
I think it's maybe time to talk to, uh, Mad...
Maggie Aderin-Pocock,
who I spoke to last year, Matt Tebbutt and...
Can't speak now. Well, we've had a few drinks.
It's New Year's Day. What harm can it do?
Matt Tebbutt and Adam Frost.
Where... They're over there. Excellent.
Lovely to see them over there.
So, first of all, Maggie, I've got to say... How are you?
I'm very well, thank you, but I...
Are you enjoying it? I'm having such fun.
It's like the best party I've never been invited to before.
Well, I'm so sorry you haven't been before. What should we...?
I mean, it's late now, but later on in the New Year's Day,
what do we... I know, I'm glad you came to me late.
What's my best feast I could have?
You want something carby and fried, I think. Just fried food.
Fried carbs. Yeah, basically. Fried carbs.
Go to the pub. Yes. Support British pubs.
Yes, yes. Spaghetti pie.
Yes! Spaghetti pie in the pub.
Yes, very good. And how about in the garden? What should we look for
in...? New years are a fresh new day. What should we be...?
I'll be out there with my magnifying glass, I've had my fried pie.
Why are you...? Why?
What do you know about gardens?
Yeah. Sorry, sorry.
Quieten down. Come on. We, actually, we were discussing,
it might have been a better idea if you came to us about 11:45,
rather than, you know, whatever it is now. Would have been...
The garden... Last year.
Last year, yeah. I think more than anything, we've just got
to look forward to a good spring.
It's little steps in the garden, mate. Yeah. Don't think too big. No.
Let's get the spring under way.
Sow some seeds. Yes. Very good. Sow the seeds.
And then pray. Yes. Yeah. Wow!
That's good. Yeah. No, you're right.
It's all you can do, boy. OK, now, Maggie,
last year you said we're going to find alien life.
Yes. Yes.
That was a... Yes. How did that go for you? Yes.
Well, the thing is, I think it's a matter of perspective.
Yes. Because I think aliens are actually everywhere.
I think there's an alien, look, look, look, look, look, look.
Little alien here. Aliens everywhere. Earrings. Aliens.
Yes. So I think it's a matter of perspective.
We see the alien where we see the alien...
Where you want to see it. And the alien is in all of us. Yes.
I have to say, I won't try and mask my disappointment.
When you said we're going to have aliens,
that's not quite what I thought, but anyway, but thanks very much.
It got me an invite back, that's all I'm saying.
Jim, would you say that's a legitimate alien in your...?
Yes, yes. 100%.
Come on. Come on, guys.
CHEERING
Yeah, yeah. Well, let me just put it to the crowd here a minute.
Yeah, they're saying hurry along.
Is that an alien, yes or no?
CHEERING
Yes, very good. Well, thanks for... Bang on.
Thank you very much. I've got to go back over here now.
We're suddenly running out of time,
so I've got to go and do something else.
So next... Thank you.
Yeah, there's a lot of people I want to chat to.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to. Right, so next we go over
and let's have a lovely song, and the song,
the man that inspired this song for the artist who's going to sing it
was none other than the legendary Val Doonican.
CHEERING
And here he is, from his marvellous new album, this track is on,
we welcome back Marc Almond.
APPLAUSE
# You might wake up some morning
# To the sound of something moving past your window in the wind
# And if you're quick enough to rise
# You'll catch the fleeting glimpse of someone's fading shadow
# Out on the new horizon
# You may see the floating motion of a distant pair of wings
# And if their sleep has left your ears
# You might hear footsteps running through an open meadow
# Don't be concerned
# It will not harm you
# It's only me pursuing something I'm not sure of
# Across my dreams with nets of wonder
# I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love
# You might have heard my footsteps echo softly in the distance
# Through the canyons of your mind
# I might have even called your name
# As I ran searching after something to believe in
# You might have seen me running
# Through the long abandoned ruins of the dreams you left behind
# If you remember something there that glided past you
# Following close and softly breathing
# Don't be concerned
# It will not harm you
# It's only me doing something I'm not sure of
# Across my dreams with nets of wonder
# I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love
# Across my dreams with nets of wonder
# I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love. #
APPLAUSE
Thank you.
JOOLS: The wonderful Marc Almond!
Enchanting song.
How fitting for this evening.
So now we welcome into the room,
back into the room, in '25, when you can see them in a venue near you...
..Boomtown Rats. The Boomtown Rats, thank you!
# The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload
# Nobody's gonna go to school today
# She's gonna make them stay at home
# And Daddy doesn't understand it
# He always said she was good as gold
# And he can see no reasons
# Cos there are no reasons
# What reason do you need to be sure?
# Whoa, whoa, whoa
# Tell me why I don't like Mondays
# I want to shoot, ooh
# The whole day down
# The telex machine is kept so clean and it types to a waiting world
# Her mother feels so shocked
# Father's world is rocked
# And the thoughts turn to their own little girl
# Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen
# It ain't so neat to admit defeat
# They can see no reasons
# Cos are no reasons
# What reasons do you need?
# Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa
# Tell me why I don't like Mondays
# I want to shoot, ooh
# The whole day down, down, down
# Shoot it all down
# And all the playing's stopped in the playground now
# She wants to play with her toys a while
# And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
# But the lesson today is how to die
# And then the bullhorn crackles and the captain tackles
# With the problems and the hows and the whys
# And he can see no reasons cos there are no reasons
# What reason do you need to die?
# Die, oh, oh, oh
# And the silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload
# Oh, and nobody's gonna go to school today
# She's gonna make them stay at home
# And Daddy doesn't understand it
# He always said she was as good as gold
# And he can see no reasons cos there are no reasons
# What reason do you need to be sure?
# Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
# Tell me why I don't like Mondays
# Tell me why I don't like, I don't like
# Tell me why I don't like Mondays
# Tell me why I don't like, I don't like
# Tell me why I don't like Mondays
# I want to shoot, ooh
# The whole day down
# Ooh, ooh
# Ooh
# Ooh. #
APPLAUSE
# No, I can't forget this evening
# Or your face as you were leaving
# But I guess that's just the way the story goes
# You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows
# Yes, it shows
# No, I can't forget tomorrow when I think about my sorrow
# Oh, I had you there and then I let you go
# And now it's only fair that I should let you know
# What you should know
# Oh
# I can't live if living is without you
# I can't give
# I can't give any more
# I can't live if living is without you
# I can't give
# I can't give any more
# No, I can't forget this evening or your face as you were leaving
# But I guess that's just the way the story goes
# You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows
# Yes, it shows
# I can't live if living is without you
# I can't give I can't give any more
# I can't live if living is without you
# I can't give
# I can't give any more
# I can't live if living is without you
# I can't give
# I can't give any more
# I can't live if living is without you
# I can't give
# I can't give any more
# Ooh
# Ooh. #
APPLAUSE
Wonderful.
CMAT.
Not a dry eye in the house.
So I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who's watched us
this evening and put up with all this. It's very kind of you.
And I'd like to thank all of the wonderful guests
and wonderful people in the audience,
all the wonderful people at home and around the world.
We love you all madly.
Hootenanny!
ALL: Hootenanny!
And that brings us about to the end of the show,
and that means the cast of this show tonight has gathered over there,
and you might want to join us with a sing and a song and a dance.
If you're at home, you might want to do the same.
Maybe if you're in your neighbour's home and they're out
for the evening, you might want to do the same. It's time, then,
to thank all of the amazing artists
who have been our guests this evening.
CHEERING
Feel free to join in and have a bit of a song and a dance with us,
in a traditional knees-up style form.
Oh!
# Hey
# Oh-oh
# Hey-oh
# Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
# La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
# Said hey
# Hey
# Oh Oh
# Hey Hey
# Oh Oh
# Oh, let's go
# It's good to have fun
# When you're young
# When you're young, when you're young, when you're young
# Cos you're only young but the once
# Enjoy yourself Enjoy yourself
# Have a lot of fun
# Fun, fun, fun
# So go my friend and live like you are never done
# But enjoy yourself
# It's later than you think
# Enjoy yourself while you're still in the pink
# As the years go by
# As quickly as a wink
# Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself
# It's later than you think
# Get wisdom, get knowledge and understanding
# These three given free by the maker
# So go to school, learn the rules
# And be no faker
# For it's not wise for you to be another man's foot stool
# Hey
# Enjoy yourself
# It's later than you think
# Enjoy yourself while you're still in the pink
# As the years go by
# As quickly as a wink
# Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself
# It's later than you think... #
Let's hear you now.
# Enjoy yourself
# It's later than you think
# Enjoy yourself while you're still in the pink... #
As the years go by.
# As the years go by... #
As quickly as a wink. # As quickly as a wink
# Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself... #
Enjoy yourself! Have a wonderful new year.
God bless us each and every one.
# Enjoy yourself
# It's later than you think
# Enjoy yourself
# While you're still in the pink
# As the years go by
# As quickly as a wink
# Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself
# It's later than you think
# Oh, oh, oh
# Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself
# It's later than you
# Think. #
CHEERING
Happy New Year. God bless us each and every one.