This programme contains some strong language
CHEERING
Alexandra Palace,
surrounded by the villages of London.
In a small park, the palace in the middle.
In the middle of that park, this room.
In the middle of this room, you and me, and now
Jessie Ware!
CHEERING
# Free yourself
# Keep on moving up that mountaintop
# Why don't you please yourself
# If it feels so good then don't you
# Baby don't you stop
# Don't stop
# Baby don't you
# Don't stand there waiting all of your life
# For the night to come and find you
# The clock is ticking baby
# Now is the time
# For someone to come and hold you
# You are a name Not a number
# Extraordinary colours
# Don't you hide under cover baby
# Free yourself
# Keep on moving up that mountaintop
# Why don't you please yourself
# If it feels so good then don't you
# Baby don't you
# Stop
# Don't stop
# Baby don't you
# No complications
# Distractions
# Reactions No retractions
# Only obsessions
# Motivations
# Investigations New information
# You are a name Not a number
# Extraordinary colours
# Don't you hide under cover baby
# Free yourself
# Keep on moving up that mountaintop
# Why don't you please yourself
# If it feels so good then don't you stop
# Free yourself
# Keep on moving up that mountaintop
# Why don't you please yourself
# If it feels so good then don't you
# Baby don't you
# Stop
# Don't stop
# Baby don't you
# If you feel it
# If you feel it take it Over
# If you feel it
# If you feel it take it Over
# If you feel it
# If you feel it take it Over
# If you feel it
# If you feel it take it
# Don't tease me
# If you feel it
# Don't Don't tease me
# Don't
# Don't tease me
# Don't
# If you feel it
# Don't tease me
# Don't If you feel it
# You got to free yourself
# Keep on moving up that mountaintop
# Why don't you please yourself
# If it feels so good then don't you
# Stop
# Free yourself
# Keep on moving up that mountaintop
# Why don't you please yourself
# If it feels so good then don't you
# Baby don't you
# Stop
# Don't stop
# Baby don't you. #
CHEERING
The wonderful Jessie Ware.
More from her later. And a room, of
course, filled with dazzling and wonderful guests.
From Deptford, I'm delighted the welcome Dave Okumu
and The 7 Generations.
CHEERING
Over at the piano, tittle-tattle all the way from Los Angeles.
He's come to be here this evening - it is Stewart Copeland.
Legendary Police drummer.
From Walthamstow, a dazzling new talent in the form of Olivia Dean.
CHEERING
From Nottingham, some of my favourites,
the wonderful Sleaford Mods.
CHEERING
And now, the dazzling Rose Elinor Dougall
and Graham Coxon, who are The Waeve!
CHEERING
# In between the silent times
# I still speak with you
# Hold the sky
# Inside your mouth
# Breathe your words
# Into my bones
# Oh heavy and sweet
# How you came to me
# Like all the best things
# Under my skin
# Whispers and screams
# I'm tired of being in love
# I'm sick of being in pain
# Won't you just kiss me Then kiss me again?
# I feel my heart It dies in me
# That's what they call atrophy
# I'm tired of being in love I'm sick of being in pain
# Won't you just kiss me Then kiss me again?
# I feel my heart It dies in me
# That's what they call atrophy
# I'm tired of being in love I'm sick of being in pain
# Can't you just kiss me Then kiss me again?
# I feel my heart It dies in me
# That's what they call atrophy
# I'm tired of being in love I'm sick of being in pain
# Can't you just kiss me Then kiss me again?
# Can't you just
# Can't you just. #
CHEERING
Wonderful. Thank you. The Waeve.
More from them later on, but now I launch over to the piano to
have excellent piano-side chats with Stewart Copeland.
Welcome to the show, dear sir. Lovely to see you.
Now, great to have you here,
and you've been touring with a whole symphony orchestra.
Now, you've toured with all sorts of people.
I mean, The Police and everybody we can think of.
But this must be one of the biggest set-ups you've done,
but first of all, how did it come about? Whose idea was it to tour
The Police songs with a symphony orchestra?
Well, there's two different things.
One is the symphony orchestra part,
which by the way is a different orchestra every night,
cos with the orchestras, you just put the chart
out in front of them - two hours rehearsal - we play the show.
The Atlanta Symphony, the National Symphony.
So the Police derangement songs came from a film that I made
and I had to mess up the Police music to fit this film,
and so that's where the derangements came,
and I've been playing these shows with these orchestras,
playing film music and various things,
and the penny dropped - how about I play some hits?
Yeah, maybe some of your own music. Yeah, exactly.
Well, no, I normally play my own music. This is actually...
No, but I mean... Stingo's music, in this case.
Is he still talking to you after all this? Yes, that's...
He's actually well into it.
I sent him the score - this huge document like that,
just to make him go cross-eyed. Yeah.
Um, and so that's what the derangements are.
They're other arrangements... Derangements? Derangements.
Not arrangements. Derangements. That's called Police Derangements.
Very good. Deranged - get it? Yep, yep.
Uh, they're jams that we did on stage, extrapolations,
various other versions of Police's stuff, which I put
into the orchestra and orchestrated to make it sound magnificent.
Three soul singers on the mic, Carmel Helene,
Amy Keys and Ashley Tamar Davis.
Wonderful, and it does sound...
And also, it's got your drums,
and I've always said you're one of the most distinctive drummers.
That sound on your records, you can tell it's you.
I'm just banging stuff.
And so you've got that at the centre of the symphony orchestra.
Yeah, big-ass orchestra and me banging stuff.
Three beautiful singers on the mic singing those songs that we
all know and love.
Win, win, win. Let's have a look.
# Oh can't you see
# You belong to me
# How my poor heart aches
# With every step you take
# Every move you make
# Every vow you break
# Every smile you fake
# Every claim you stake
# I'll be watching you
# Every move you make
# Every step you take
# I'll be watching you... #
CHEERING
That is a great idea, and it sounds amazing,
but also in October, you might be having a new book come out.
Is that right? Why, yes.
A new book on an old subject. It's my diaries from '76-78 -
The Police starving years.
The other part, which was what the movie was about,
was the stadiums and all that, but this is the hungry part, and it's
the part where we stuck together for a year and a half,
almost two years, before Sting ever wrote Roxanne or
Can't Stand Losing You or any of those.
We stuck together on the basis of my lame bass riffs with yelling
so that we could fit into the punk scene - you know, two-chord tricks.
And yet we bonded and we stuck together even without those songs.
And it wasn't until Andy joined that Sting started to get his music
going and start to write those big songs.
But let's paint a picture of that time,
because it's an interesting time that people have
sort of forgotten, because it was the time punk had just exploded
and there were a lot of people who got swept along in that who
didn't really fit into the bouffanted-haired rock
music of the time and punk opened a door for lots of people, didn't it?
But paint a picture of you and Sting -
what's the most unpleasant experience
and repulsive thing you had to eat, or whatever it was at the time?
What was your hardest moment?
It's hard to even imagine, but the most unpleasant
part about the punk rock thing - really cool hair, by the way. Yeah.
There was a whole new hairdo. Yeah. But the gob. Yeah, the gob.
People have forgot about that. You remember the gob? Yes.
Yeah, even Squeeze probably got the gob.
Because the punks are all pogo-ing around and they're spitting
because they think the band like it! That's right. People...
It's a little bit that's been written out of history, but it was.
They gobbed at you cos they liked you.
Imagine if all the people in this room
and the camera crew started gobbing. Don't do it, no! No!
No, but behind the drums, I was cool.
I'm behind the drums like that,
but the singer with his mouth open at the front of the stage...
Yeah, ugh!
These days. That's why they pay him the big bucks.
Yeah, that was a hard part.
What's a tip to keeping a diary, do you think?
Uh, remembering to do it. I just don't throw things away.
I've got all the receipts, because I was managing the band as well.
I had the truck receipts, the roadie salaries,
I had my kind of dodgy accounts, which on hindsight -
wait a minute, those numbers don't add up.
But I've still got all the accounts
and all the receipts for the PA, I had notes of every gig
we played, how much we got paid, how many were there.
I gave us reviews out of five stars, and I was kind of a generous critic.
Cos bands are, you know? Bands all...
All of you guys in the bands here, "You think you're going to make it?"
"Of course we're going to make it. Cos we kick our ass.
"We slay us." That's what being in a band is all about. Optimism.
That's right, and you capture...
I've been looking forward to the diaries because I think
perhaps they'll capture that - the fact you've got to believe...
Well, you're in them. Well, great. Am I? I hope it's great.
Well, actually, speaking of great, when it gets to the '80s,
there's a little film of us here, which we can see.
A fine little film which was rather fun, which is in the early '80s when
we're in The Young Ones together doing a Bob Dylan song, Subterranean
Homesick Blues, and I think I'm playing Ken Bishop
and the group are called his Nice Twelve.
So it's Ken Bishop and the Nice Twelve,
and you're one of the Nice Twelve.
Let's have a little look at that. Take us back to that. Golden days.
# Get sick Get well
# Hang around the ink well Ring bell
# Hard to tell if anything is gonna sell
# Try hard Get barred
# Get back Ride rail
# Get jail Jump bail
# Join the army if you fail
# Look out kid You're gonna get hit
# By users, cheaters, six-time losers
# Hanging round the theatres
# Girl by the whirlpool is looking for a new fool
# Don't follow leaders Watch the parking meters... #
APPLAUSE
Thank you. Ken Bishop and His Nice Twelve.
Rowland Rivron in there, a lot of wonderful people -
another great drummer.
Now, the Police Deranged is a great record, and it's going to be
coming out soon and it's just an amazing-sounding record,
so I'm very delighted to have you here,
and thank you for being our guest this evening. Stewart Copeland.
CHEERING
Next, over in this direction, let's welcome an artist whose
single is all over the radio at the moment and has a wonderful voice.
We welcome Olivia Dean.
CHEERING
# It didn't work
# I'm a tidal wave of question marks
# And you're just surfing
# Leaning into me like it's an art
# It's so crazy lately
# You just understand my feelings lately
# Make me see I'm capable and fine
# And feeling beautified
# Tonight I'm ready to dive
# Maybe it's the loving in your eyes I'm here, see through
# Maybe it's the magic in the wine I'm feeling loose
# Maybe it's the fact that every time I fall
# I lose it all
# But you got me from my head to my feet
# And I'm ready to dive
# Cos the water's warm Ain't nothing wrong
# It's all right yeah
# I'm coming out and diving in tonight
# I feel like it's crazy lately
# You just understand my feelings lately
# See I'm capable and fine
# And feeling beautified
# Tonight I'm ready to dive
# Maybe it's the loving in your eyes I'm here, see through
# Maybe it's the magic in the wine I'm feeling loose
# Maybe it's the fact that every time I fall I lose it all
# But you got me from my head to my feet
# And I'm ready to dive
# Diving into you Diving into me
# Wanna swim good and I wanna swim deep
# I'm diving into you Diving into me
# Wanna swim good and I wanna swim deep
# I'm diving into you Diving into me
# Maybe it's the loving in your eyes I'm here, see through
# Maybe it's the magic in the wine I'm feeling loose
# Maybe it's the fact that every time I fall
# I lose it all
# But you got me from my head to my feet
# And I'm ready to dive
# Right into you
# I'm ready to dive
# Right into you
# Maybe it's the fact that every time I fall
# I lose it all
# But you got me from my head to my feet
# And I'm ready to dive. #
CHEERING
Thank you. The wonderful Olivia Dean. Let's hear it for Olivia Dean.
CHEERING
Now we change the vibration again.
Having returned from a triumphant tour of America,
one of my favourite bands of modern Britain today.
I'm delighted to say they're with us because we have Sleaford Mods!
CHEERING
Brrr!
# On the ground
# Ah-ah!
# On the ground
# Ah-ah!
# They're on the ground looking for you
# I told 'em what you look like Showed 'em what you do
# They're on the ground I gave them the info
# Down from the train station to the square
# Better figure out what you're gonna do
# They're on the ground and they're gonna check you
# Better figure out what you're gonna say
# This ain't a game for everybody
# I'm on the ground What do you want me to do?
# I sent a WhatsApp Did it go through?
# I see him there It's the one you want too
# I recognise his face from fucking Twitter
# Better figure out what you're gonna do
# They're on the ground and they're gonna check you
# Better figure out what you're gonna say
# This ain't a game for everybody
# Ah-ah!
# Brrr!
# But you can't hide
# I seen your face now
# And you can't lie
# On the ground
# Where you gonna run to?
# You fucking try
# I bet you regret being so lairy now online
# After the noise the city eats me
# I feel like shit in a heartbeat
# I get the strains of air past me
# From the stale smell and the dying feeling
# Better figure out what you're gonna do
# They're on the ground and they're gonna check you
# Better figure out what you're gonna say
# This ain't a game for everybody
# Ah-ah!
# Yeah, yeah, yeah
# But you can't hide
# I've seen your face now
# And you can't lie
# Ah-ah!
# On the ground
# Fucker
# Where you gonna run to
# You fucking try
# I bet you regret being so lairy now online
# On the ground, yeah
# That fucking freedom fighter
# On the ground
# On the ground ya fucking freedom fighter. #
CHEERING
Love the Sleaford Mods.
APPLAUSE
Next, an artist...
In fact, one of my dear artists who I think the world of.
He's a producer as well.
He's worked with Adele, Amy Winehouse, Grace Jones
and Jessie Ware, who was on earlier this evening and we're going
to see more of, and he's joined with a bit of extra vocalisation by Eska.
We welcome Dave Okumu and the 7 Generations.
CHEERING
# How is this gonna work
# Love - broken heart
# How is this gonna work
# Learn to love with a broken heart
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# Amnesia
# Has the dream
# Become too dark?
# Is there even space for me
# To play my part?
# Yeah, yeah
# Am I supposed to be...
# Supposed to be grateful?
# Yeah
# Do I learn to play my time
# Just to appear hateful?
# Don't come bare
# Don't bring me along
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# So how is this gonna work?
# How am I gonna love with a broken heart?
# I take the hit
# Suck it up
# It's all in the past now
# I'll try to hold my tongue but it gets harder
# Hiding in plain sight
# How to learn to love is what it's all about
# Amnesia
# Yeah Broken heart
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# How is this supposed to work
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# How am I supposed to love a nation with a broken heart?
# Felt broken
# Is there even space for me to play my part?
# I don't even know
# Play my part
# Amnesia
# Yeah Broken heart
# Is there even space for me
# To play my part?
# Amnesia
# Yeah Broken heart
# Is there even space for me
# To play my part?
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# Amnesia
# Broken heart. #
CHEERING
Dave Okumu and the 7 Generations,
with Eska.
Now, please welcome at the piano, who has performed
so beautifully with her band a moment ago, Olivia Dean.
Welcome to the show, Olivia.
Really lovely to have you here.
Now, I'm going to say this, because you attended The Brit School,
and we've got a load of people from the Brit School
up in the audience tonight. Hello to you up there!
Hello!
I thought there was more than that. Hello!
CHEERING
There they are. Great.
Now, a lot of successful people - Adele,
all these people have been to the Brit School.
What was the most important lesson you learned there, do you think?
Erm, maybe it sounds kind of cliched,
but just to kind of do your own thing and be yourself
and, like, not compare yourself to what other people are doing
because it's pointless, really.
Cos you can't be somebody else, you can
only just do your own thing, so... You can only be you. Exactly.
So might as well do that.
In fact, in life generally there's no point in comparing
yourself to somebody else cos...
Means to an end. Yeah, exactly. There we are.
Now, your debut album's coming out next month, called Messy. Yes.
Nice title. Thank you. Where does the title come from?
Um, I think I just wanted to accept
the fact that I'm kind of a bit of a mess
and I think in an age where a lot of people are pretending to be
perfect, I think it's quite comforting for someone to be like,
"I'm a mess and you are too."
You're right. You're in the right place... Not to say that you are.
No, I accept that. You are in the right. But I quite agree.
All these annoying people pretending to be perfect. Right.
Own up to being messy. Yeah.
Also, I think your grandmother was
a great inspiration for the album, wasn't she?
Yes, well, the album is kind of dedicated to her because I think
throughout the process of making it, I was just thinking about,
you know, her coming over in the Windrush and she was 18.
Like, even younger than I was and changing her life.
And now I'm able to, like, make music and make this record
and be here and I just think it's really brave, so...
Yeah, it's dedicated to her.
We wouldn't be here without the people in front of us or behind us.
Well, exactly. They're the shoulders that we stand on. Yes.
Now, you started singing young.
What was one of the first things you started to sing or you used
to sing to your family and friends when you first heard stuff going on?
I sung a lot of musical theatre stuff. I did Tomorrow from Annie.
A bit of a classic there.
But I always loved, like, Carole King and, you know,
all those kind of songs.
Motown was where my heart is.
You mention there was a Carole King song you used to sing.
What was that?
Yes, well, (You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman is my favourite
song of all time. Would you like to do it? Shall we do a bit of it?
I would love to do it. It's such a great song. Yeah. Oh, please do it.
Olivia Dean, yes, let's hear it. CHEERING
# Looking out
# On the morning rain
# I used to feel so uninspired
# And then I knew I had to face another day
# And, Lord, it made me feel so tired
# Before the day I met you
# Life was so unkind
# But your love is the key to my peace of mind
# Cos you make me feel
# You make me feel
# You make me feel like a natural woman
# When my soul was in the lost and found
# You came along to claim it
# I didn't know just what was wrong with me
# Till your kiss helped me name it
# Now I'm no longer doubtful
# Of what I'm living for
# And if I make you happy I don't need to do more
# Cos you make me feel
# You make me feel
# You make me feel like a natural woman
# Oh, baby, what you done to me
# You make me feel so good inside
# And I just wanna be
# Close to you You make me feel so alive
# Cos you make me feel
# You make me feel
# You make me feel like a natural woman
# You make me feel
# You make me feel like a natural woman
# Natural woman. #
CHEERING
# Go to the silver moon
# Find the power there see you through
# Dark afternoon
# Ecstatic magic night
# Take me to your brightest sun
# Hold me fast beneath your hand
# I hang like a bird
# Above your seas and land
# Love burns
# Never denies
# Pull me down
# Turn this tide
# It's not in the words you're singing
# It's not in the things you do
# We fight for our lives
# Beneath the sun and moon
# I went to the silver moon
# Asked for the power there to see me through
# Dark afternoon
# Ecstatic magic night
# Take me to your brighter sun
# Hold me fast till the day is done
# You hang like a bird
# Above my sea and land
# It's not in the words you're singing
# It's not in the things you do
# We fight for our lives
# Beneath the sun and moon
# Love burns
# Never denies
# Come inside
# Turn this tide
# I run through your fingers laughing
# I fall through your eyes and then
# I don't care if I am dying
# Kill me again
# I run through your fingers laughing
# I fall through your eyes and then
# I don't care if I am dying
# Kill me again
# Kill me again. #
CHEERING
Thank you.
The Waeve. Marvellous. Fantastic to have you in the studio.
Actually, just before...
Now, I was just looking at The Waeve and it's beautifully spelled.
It's said wave, pronounced wave, but spelled...
Is that a Middle English sort of spelling you've got there?
It's a Middle-Evil?
It's an Old English spelling of sea and so a lot of our songs
have references to the sea, so it was a riff on that. Nice.
See, I'm pleased I asked. Otherwise we wouldn't have known. Thank you.
Let's hear it once again for The Waeve and their sea references.
Thank you to all of our super guests. They've been marvellous.
So let's hear it for all of our guests.
Just on my way back out, though, I'm delighted Sleaford Mods are here.
Jason and Andrew's with me.
Jason, let me ask you first of all, America loves you - in fact,
the world loves you - you're coming
back here to do a gig at the end of the year. Yes.
But America loves you. How do they take...
Cos it's very, very British, your stylings? Erm, it's gradual...
It's been gradual, hasn't it? It has, yeah.
I think there's a lot of association with stuff like Peaky Blinders
and stuff like that.
You know, any kind of backyard kind of accent, kind of, "Oh, right, OK.
"This is England." They talk funny, you know what I mean?
You're exporting it beautifully.
And you've been working with Cold War Steve, who is a genius.
Yeah, he's absolutely brilliant, yeah. How did you hook up with him?
Erm, well, I've known Chris, for about... I don't know, a few years.
Not that well, but, you know, we got in touch with him when we did
the tune and asked him if he'd do the vid and he was like, "Yeah."
He was bang up for it. I couldn't believe it, to be honest.
I thought he'd tell us to do one, you know?
But, yeah, brilliant. Anyway, it's great to have you both here.
Andrew, thank you so much for joining us this evening.
Thank you so much, Sleaford Mods.
CHEERING
Now, let's finish where we began, with the wonderful Jessie Ware.
CHEERING
# I work all night
# I do my thing
# Just killing time
# Need a friend
# Is this my life
# Beginning or end
# Can I start again?
# Can we start again?
# There's a new moon on the rise
# Turn the tide
# I've been walking a thin line
# Between the earth and the sky
# When will my realities take over on my dreams?
# Why does all the purest love get filtered through machines?
# Gimme something good that's even better than it seems
# Why does all the purest love get filtered through machines?
# I work all night I work all night
# I do my thing I do my thing
# Just killing time Just killing time
# Need a friend A friend
# Is this my life?
# Beginning or end? Beginning or end?
# Can I start again? Can we begin again?
# Can we start again? Can we begin again?
# There's a new sun in the sky
# Where are you? Where am I?
# Have you been looking like I've been looking
# For a reason or a sign? Oh why oh why?
# I work all night I work all night
# I do my thing I do my thing
# Just killing time Just killing time
# Need a friend A friend
# Is this my life?
# Beginning or end? Beginning or end?
# Can I start again? Can we begin again?
# Can we start again? Can we begin again?
# Can we begin again?
# Can we begin? Can we begin again?
# Be who we were and start at the start again
# Can we begin again?
# Be who we were and start at the start again
# All night, all night, all night
# I work so hard
# Ooh ooh
# Can we begin again?
# Begin again and start at the start again?
# Moving time Moving time
# Woo
# When will reality take over on my dreams?
# Why does all the purest love get filtered through machines?
# Give me something good that's even better than it seems
# Why does all the purest love get filtered through machines?
# Can we begin again?
# Can we begin again? #
CHEERING
# Amnesia
# Yeah yeah Broken heart
# Is there even space for me
# To play my part?
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# Amnesia
# Broken heart
# Amnesia
# Broken heart. #