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So the album's called <i>Luck anrt Strange.</i>

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It's the luck of the very strange moment

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that me and Baby Boomers in general ,

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all in the postwar period
have Iived through ,

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to have had such a fortu nate moment,

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so many positive ideas
that one thought were moving us forward .

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"The Piper's Call" is a song
about the Faustian pact,

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<i>you know, lhal deal wllh lhe rtevll.</i>

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<i>Il's basically wrlllen muslcally
by me on a ukulele.</i>

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The ukulele opens the song .

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There was a Iong saga of thinking
about producers

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which had been driving me nuts for months
and Polly started researching .

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It felt Iike we needed something new
on this particular occasion

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and we just invited him
to come down to the house and chat.

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<i>Iljusl felt very rlgbl.</i>

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He's quite bossy

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and hasn't got
any great preconceptions

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about what I do,
or Pink Floyd has done, all that stuff,

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and he just tells me
what he wants us to get on with

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and we get on with it.

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Cool . So that's the idea.
How do you feel about that?

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It's great, I'm absolutely Ioving
doing it the way we're doing it.

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For me, being in the studio
with the whole gang ,

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Polly, David , it's just been such
a lovely environment to be part of,

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and David has been
really receptive to my bossiness.

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Well , thank you for the drill .
I Iike being drilled .

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If I've got an opinion
or a new idea or something ,

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he's been open to exploring it.

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I've been trying to really rock it out,

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but I'm thinking
maybe I should melody it out

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in a slightly different way.

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The result is extremely pleasing to me.

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<i>Polly and l are a leam.</i>

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<i>We 've been wrlllng songs logelher
for over 30 years now.</i>

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We are very much in sync with each other
in what we want to do,

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and this album is the result of
that reaching a firmer, better point

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in that process.

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<i>He wanled lD lDok al tbe lyrlcs,
so we hanrted him all lhe Iyrlcs,</i>

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<i>anrt he was very keen lo share lhose Iyrlcs
and whal lhey mennl lo hlm.</i>

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I think Iyrics are so important
to understanding what the song is

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but I think it can be
easy to overlook that sometimes.

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I think there can be a focus on :

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"Is the groove doing this
and the guitar sounding this,"

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but actually what
is the song trying to say?

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Charlie sees music and words in a way
that I haven't come across before

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in quite that way.

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So someone coming in to play a part,

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he wants them
to absolutely understand the Iyric

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and then if I'm arou nd , he'Il say,

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"Can you come
and just chat about this Iyric,"

51
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and I found that really pleasurable.

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I think I remember saying ,
"What are we making the record for?"

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And then instantly, I think
it started that process.

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<i>And lhe orcheslralions
are rtone by Will Gardner.</i>

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<i>His rtlrecllon oflhe cholr
ls so strnnge and avanl-garrte.</i>

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AIthough they are deliberately
out of tune, they somehow seem to fit.

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It's very, very strange.

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So yeah , do another one
as written , basically.

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Okay.

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The orchestrations will break your heart,
I mean , they're beautiful .

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They're break-your-heart beautiful
and also unusual and ...

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Yeah , I think he's a real genius.

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<i>I wenl lo my son Charlle</i>

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<i>lo see lfhe wanled lo bave a go
al wrlling some Iyrlcs.</i>

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<i>Those llnes aboul holdlng back lhe llrte
anrt lhe disobedlence oflhe lirte.</i>

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It's brilliant
and related to King Canute I guess.

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The music sprang out at me one day.

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I was really enjoying it

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and thinking it was really exciting
and great to have come across this thing

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and I was thinking we're going
to have to get some words.

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I'm gonna have to write some words
and get Polly to write some words.

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Polly had given me a poem
for our wedding anniversary

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that happened to be sitting
on my desk right next to me

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as I had been working on this track.

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And I just picked up the paper
and thought, I'Il just...

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J ust to hear
what words sound Iike on it.

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So I turned on the microphone

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and sang these words
and then played it to Polly.

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And she said "Lovely, great,
I'Il need to work on them some more."

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So she did .

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There it was.
I mean , serendipitous really.

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It's a song that we have loved

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and had on our own personal playlists
since the '90s.

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We always thought, imagined ,
that everyone knew it as well as we did .

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We thought it'd been a hit.

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So I made a backing track

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and realized the lyrics weren't something
that I would naturally sing about.

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- That was another short one.
- That was fine.

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I zoned out.

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- I think that was fine.
- Okay.

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You stayed right on the note.

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It's a very vulnerable lyric

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and somehow there's something
invulnerable about David .

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Delicately put.

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So we had Romany at the house.

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I said ,
"Romany, just come and sing this song ."

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She didn't know it at all ,
I just gave her a piece of paper.

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And she says,
"Okay, but I've got a train ."

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So she just sang it once through

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and 900Įo of what's on there
is the grumpy...

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- Diffident.
- Diffident girl .

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Since she was tiny she's always
been able to put on a pair of head phones,

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stand in front of a mic
and just knock it out Iike a pro,

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but this was quite extraordinary.

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Beautiful .

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There's a lovely thing ,
I think, about families' voices

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which seem to naturally blend .

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- The Andrews Sisters.
- The Andrews Sisters.

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- The Beverly Sisters.
- The Gallagher brothers?

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Maybe...

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Sort of. . .
Not too pronounced .

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Not quite like that.

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That's it.

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I can hear myself in the backgrou nd
willing her to...

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- See?
- Doesn't matter. I can't help it.

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On "Between Two Points",
in fact, I remember recording it.

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I dare say, it sounds mad . . .
I said it to Polly at the time,

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I was so into that moment that
it was Iike being stoned or something .

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But I wasn't.

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Not separated from the guitar and what
I was playing at that particular moment.

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I n a way that is rare and joyful .

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I'm always a bit nervous of calling people

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and Polly always says to me,
"Who's your favorite drummer?"

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Steve Gadd , of course,
greatest drummer in the world .

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So I gave Steve Gadd a call ...

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nervously, and said would he come

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and spend a week with us
in London recording , and he said yes.

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Simple as that.

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He's just a class act.
He's really, really good .

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Honestly, the sound of the drums
is quite phenomenal actually,

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and he plays them very gently
but they sound big .

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He just nails it immediately

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and it was such a joy to finally be able
to get him in and record with him .

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<i>"Fuck anrt Slrange " ls tbe lllle ofa song.</i>

135
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<i>Il comes from ajam lhal we rtlrt ln 2007
whlle Rlck Wrlghl was slill allve.</i>

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<i>I wrole cboruses anrt brlrtges for ll
anrt lhen Polly wrole lhese great words.</i>

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<i>From lhe firsl secondyou bear
Rickplaylng his eleclrlc planD,</i>

138
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<i>youjusl know lhere 's sDmelhing
absDlulely lndlvlrtual aboul wbal he rtoes</i>

139
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<i>lhal no one else does or coulrt do.</i>

140
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<i>Hls level Dfcreallvlly is somelhlng
lhal l've mlssert Dver lhe years,</i>

141
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<i>bul some oftbe people
lhal Chnrlie has brougbl</i>

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<i>have artded crealivlly oflhal sort.</i>

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<i>We have a keyboardplayer
called Rob Oenlry</i>

144
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<i>who 's been dolng a lol oflhe keyboards.</i>

145
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Some of the things he does
take a minute to get used to.

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They're very off-the-wall sometimes
but it's fantastic.

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I've also had Roger Eno
playing on a cou ple of tracks,

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Guy Pratt of course,
the Iegend that is Guy Pratt.

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Charlie brought in a drummer,
Adam Betts, who's brilliant,

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and a bass player called Tom Herbert,
who seemed to spend as much time

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playing with some strange looping pedals
that created the most brilliant sound .

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The joy on everyone's faces

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when we arrive every day
for the work that we're doing is palpable.

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It's a different level of thinking

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that we're really onto something
new and exciting and joyous.

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PIay from that second chorus.

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Good boy. Sit there. Wait.

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Good boy.

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There's a song called "Sings...

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The chorus part of it
is actually 25 years old ,

161
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and when Joe was two,
I made it up one day

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and I was sort of Ia-la-ing
along to it with a guitar

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and he was in the room
and he was 2 years old .

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And he's just talking and saying
"Sing , Daddy, sing , Daddy."

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I recorded that on a Mini Disc player.

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There's a sort of moment in the song where
it's kind of Ieft itself fairly blank.

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<i>Let'sjuslpul lhal demo on tbere</i>

168
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<i>from 25years ago
and ll's magical, lsn 'l lt?</i>

169
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<i>Iljusl sounds amazlng.</i>

170
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Well , you know,
I started off in a pop group

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and I found myself eventually
in the position of Ieading that group,

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not ever a position I was
hoping for or Iooking forward to.

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Being a solo artist also
not what I really asked for.

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I've always preferred being
a part of something .

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And this album feels much closer to that

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than anything I've had
in all these years with them .

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A group of people
who are all very collaborative,

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very positive, and putting in everything
that they can into what we're doing .

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It's the best work I've done,
it's the best album I've made

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since
<i>The Dark Side of Moon</i> in 1973.

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50 years.

1
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It's just home, sweet home.
I've done this room so many times.

2
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First time we came here, in 1968,
they had just redone the stage.

3
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It wasn't carpeted ,

4
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it was wood and it had been
all varnished , thickly varnished .

5
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And the road crew,

6
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the drum kit, the bass drum ,
kept slipping every time Nick hit it.

7
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So they got six-inch nails,
and drove them into their shiny new stage

8
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to hold his bass drum
in place, right there.

9
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And we got banned for Iife.

10
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For Iife.

11
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<i>- Shall we start wllh "Plper's "?</i>
- Yeah .

12
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<i>Okay.
Cbange ofplan.</i>

13
00:20:24,464 --> 00:20:27,384
<i>Cbange ofplan.
We 'll slart wllh "Plper's '</i>

14
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"Piper's" first, okay.

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Very nice bunch .

16
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You say that about everybody,
though , don't you?

17
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Yeah , when there's a camera in front of
me, and we're talking about the client?

18
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Yeah , of course.

19
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Well , what is there to know?
I don't know?

20
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- You set this up?
- Not in any way!

21
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- 1 992, chef on the QE2 , yes.
- QE2, my goodness.

22
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So I've got a phobia of cameras
but that's all good . That's coming .

23
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As Iong as it's not
a video camera, I'm all right.

24
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The glue that holds it all together.

25
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<i>...wbere Ben sings tbe blgh part?</i>

26
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<i>Yeah.</i>

27
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<i>Yeah, I'm gonna rto ll. . .
So lhal'Il be me.</i>

28
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<i>Neert anylhlng else Colln ?</i>

29
00:22:09,110 --> 00:22:11,196
- Yeah .
- N ight 3 at the Royal Albert Hall .

30
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- We're all very blasé about it now.
- It's Iike "been there, done that".

31
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I never liked either of them .
I never liked them .

32
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Greg is my hero.

33
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Five minutes people, then it's showtime.

34
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The suffragettes.

35
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When they tried to stop the women
from being in the Royal AIbert Hall .

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And she's whipping them .

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- Minus two.
- M inus two?

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M inus two.

39
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It's like herding cats, I tell you .

40
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Come on , ladies.

41
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Whoo-ooo-oo!

42
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Let's do another even bigger one.

43
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Tonight was a Iittle bit delicious.

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Each night has been getting more stronger
with more wondrous flavours.

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How was she, David?
How did she do?

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- Brilliantly!
- Yeah?

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- She takes these things in her stride.
- Yes.

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- Albert Hall . . .
- Albert Hall .

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- Circus Maximus. . .
- Circus Maximus.

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Here comes Madison Square Garden , hey ho.

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Yeah , it was good . That was actually
one of the most nervous...

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When I went on , and I was like, "I don't
know if I can play 'Vita Brevis"'.

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My fingers. . .
My fingers have turned to mulch .

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00:23:38,366 --> 00:23:39,784
And hold it, hold it.

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- It should be "bam , bam". The last chord .
- That'd be great. Thank you .

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<i>Peels llke ll's dlrent
lo lbe olher Dne.</i>

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<i>Peels llke ll's dlrent
lo lbe olher Dne.</i>

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00:24:36,966 --> 00:24:40,637
<i>O I lboughlyou were dolng tbe vamp.
You're rtolng lhe flrst cborus...</i>

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00:24:40,762 --> 00:24:43,473
<i>- Can I gel lbe flrsl one, flrsl Dne ?
- O sorry aboul lhal.</i>

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Two, three.

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High Hopes.

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Before we get too tempted .

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AII right, now.

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- All right
- You never Iet us have any fun .

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00:27:22,381 --> 00:27:25,384
No, that's right,
I'm such a tyrant.

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- AIl right, have a good one.
- You too.

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We've reached the bitter end ,
and it is bittersweet indeed .

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We're at Door 11 ,

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and it's the very Iast night
at the Royal AIbert Hall

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on my first-ever tour.

71
00:28:08,553 --> 00:28:11,055
So you've been playing with your dad ,
what is that Iike?

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00:28:11,138 --> 00:28:13,766
It's quite normal .
It's always been our relationship.

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00:28:13,933 --> 00:28:17,645
Nice to still have that when
so many people are watching .

74
00:28:19,021 --> 00:28:20,523
<i>Hector Bear</i>

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00:28:20,606 --> 00:28:23,442
Careful , Hector. How are you doing ,
Hector? Are you all right?

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00:28:23,526 --> 00:28:26,404
Having fun with those drumsticks?
Are you going to be a drummer?

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- I wouldn't.
- One, two, three, four.

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- Mamma!
- Mamma...

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It's the boy!

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Team of glory.

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<i>Team ofglory, leam of Chrisl</i>

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00:28:38,082 --> 00:28:41,627
<i>Team ofpreclous wonders and dellghl</i>

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<i>Oet up on lhe slage and be wondrous now
Porever anrt ever</i>

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00:28:52,471 --> 00:28:54,307
- How is tonight going?
- Half time.

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Perk u p the second half.

86
00:28:55,933 --> 00:28:57,727
Dave's gonna kick it into high gear.

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It's the vibrations of sorrow.

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Full body vibrations

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00:29:20,917 --> 00:29:23,377
Last of a series of shows
at the Royal AIbert Hall .

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00:29:23,461 --> 00:29:24,629
So what?

91
00:29:25,796 --> 00:29:27,632
Will you be back?

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00:29:27,715 --> 00:29:31,260
Maybe? Who knows?
Who knows what the future will bring?

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00:29:33,971 --> 00:29:35,723
<i>Thank you.
Thank you very much lnrdeerd.</i>

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<i>Good nlght to all. Good night.</i>

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00:29:58,257 --> 00:29:59,759
It's been amazing .

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00:29:59,967 --> 00:30:02,261
It's crazy.
This is only our third city.

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00:30:02,345 --> 00:30:04,680
We've been doing this for over a month .

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00:30:04,764 --> 00:30:06,933
Now, hang on . How Iong . . .
It seems Iike forever!

5
00:30:07,392 --> 00:30:08,434
I n a good way!

6
00:30:16,442 --> 00:30:20,113
Yeah , it's a drug having a live audience,
hopefully adoring you .

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00:30:20,196 --> 00:30:23,074
But you don't get the opportunity
to do that very often .

8
00:30:23,157 --> 00:30:28,079
And if you do it for too Iong ,
you can become a Iittle bit jaded .

9
00:30:29,288 --> 00:30:34,710
So a nice, short, snappy,
concentrated tour Iike that one,

10
00:30:34,794 --> 00:30:37,422
suits me at this moment in my life.

11
00:30:41,175 --> 00:30:45,138
And then we had three days off, which is
really weird , which never happens on tour.

12
00:30:45,221 --> 00:30:48,099
It's about 1 0 quid
to get to the coffee shop.

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00:30:48,182 --> 00:30:51,477
It's more than an U ber,
but I think it's pretty good .

14
00:30:54,355 --> 00:30:57,900
<i>Please rton 'l touch lhe sleerlng wbeel
orpedals rturlng your rlrte.</i>

15
00:30:58,985 --> 00:31:01,779
Doing it round Beverly H ills
is perfect as well .

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00:31:01,863 --> 00:31:04,866
It's so preposterous.

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00:31:06,617 --> 00:31:08,453
So David tried to call me,

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00:31:08,536 --> 00:31:12,415
I get this call from an unknown number,
and I'm ignoring it.

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00:31:13,082 --> 00:31:16,461
And then I get a text from this number
a week Iater saying :

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00:31:16,544 --> 00:31:20,256
"H i Ben . It's David Gilmour here.
Give me a call back".

21
00:31:20,339 --> 00:31:23,301
And I'm going , "Fuck!"

22
00:31:27,847 --> 00:31:31,225
So then I went down to his house
and Polly suggested ,

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00:31:31,309 --> 00:31:34,353
"Why don't you guys jam
'Wish You Were Here'?"

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00:31:34,562 --> 00:31:38,691
I don't think I'd played
"Wish You Were Here" since I was Iike 1 2 .

25
00:31:41,736 --> 00:31:44,113
And , I'm sat next to him

26
00:31:44,197 --> 00:31:48,409
and he starts playing that riff while I'm
playing and I Iose it, freak out, and go,

27
00:31:48,493 --> 00:31:50,703
"Oh my God ,
I can't believe this is happening ."

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00:31:50,786 --> 00:31:52,288
And I forget how to play guitar.

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00:31:58,878 --> 00:32:01,923
I mean , how often do you get
such a lovely group of people?

30
00:32:02,006 --> 00:32:06,010
I can't believe the village
we've made along the way.

31
00:32:13,726 --> 00:32:14,936
One could do stripes.

32
00:32:15,019 --> 00:32:17,605
And it's the Iast two nights,
I guess I should be glittery.

33
00:32:31,244 --> 00:32:34,413
I feel the real kinship
with these musicians.

34
00:32:34,497 --> 00:32:37,375
There's a kind of a sense
of togetherness and unity

35
00:32:37,458 --> 00:32:40,378
that I would say, is very, very special .

36
00:32:40,795 --> 00:32:45,383
Doing new material on a tour

37
00:32:45,466 --> 00:32:47,802
is the joy of what we're doing .

38
00:32:48,302 --> 00:32:52,974
And you have to counter it a bit
with the expectations of the audience

39
00:32:53,057 --> 00:32:56,310
who want to hear music
that they know already.

40
00:32:57,728 --> 00:33:00,356
So it's a, yeah , it's a balancing act.

41
00:33:00,439 --> 00:33:02,400
You have this thing of always thinking ,

42
00:33:02,483 --> 00:33:04,986
the thing you've done
the most recently is the best,

43
00:33:05,069 --> 00:33:08,364
so one is stuck
with that sort of prejudice.

44
00:33:08,447 --> 00:33:14,787
But I genuinely think this is the best
album, solo album , that I've done.

45
00:33:49,905 --> 00:33:52,825
The shadow! It's me!

46
00:33:52,908 --> 00:33:56,370
There's something about this tour,
and anyone who's been will say this,

47
00:33:56,454 --> 00:33:59,665
and all the reviews seem to bear it out,
that we're in a special place now

48
00:33:59,749 --> 00:34:01,876
is that David , yeah ,
he owns his narrative.

49
00:34:03,586 --> 00:34:05,880
The new album plays amazingly.

50
00:34:05,963 --> 00:34:08,841
<i>The new album lsjusl wonrterful.
Il's wonderful.</i>

51
00:34:08,924 --> 00:34:13,095
<i>There shoulrt be some Paul anrt Llnrta,
John anrt Yoko, Pele anrt Rachel,</i>

52
00:34:13,179 --> 00:34:16,349
<i>anrt Davlrt anrt Polly sluffgolng on,
because Polly...</i>

53
00:34:16,432 --> 00:34:18,392
<i>l've always loved ber wrlllng.</i>

54
00:34:18,476 --> 00:34:20,436
That's what Pete Townshend thinks.

55
00:34:44,418 --> 00:34:47,713
Someone sent me a clip
of the end of "Comfortably Numb".

56
00:34:47,922 --> 00:34:49,590
It sounds ridiculously good .

57
00:34:49,674 --> 00:34:51,467
- From Iast night?
- Yeah .

58
00:34:56,013 --> 00:34:57,348
I mean , come on!

59
00:35:00,601 --> 00:35:02,895
<i>Can we rto "Belween Two Polnts "?</i>

60
00:35:21,997 --> 00:35:23,290
Ten gauge, 1 2 gauge...

61
00:35:23,374 --> 00:35:25,751
- It's your favourite, isn't it?
- That's my favourite.

62
00:35:25,835 --> 00:35:27,294
- 1 7 gauge. . .
- OK.

63
00:35:27,378 --> 00:35:29,296
24. 34. 44.

64
00:35:29,588 --> 00:35:32,842
- Sometimes people use up to a 50.
- Really?

65
00:35:33,551 --> 00:35:36,178
And there we have
Iessons with David . Thank you .

66
00:35:36,262 --> 00:35:38,806
I told him earlier today,
at the end of the sound check,

67
00:35:38,889 --> 00:35:42,601
I said , "You know what? I've worked
with several guitar players in my Iife,

68
00:35:42,852 --> 00:35:46,272
but nobody bends like you".

69
00:35:46,981 --> 00:35:51,569
And I Iove being reunited
with my main man ,

70
00:35:51,652 --> 00:35:53,404
who I call The Wizard .

71
00:35:53,779 --> 00:35:56,574
Marc Brickman is a genius.

72
00:36:04,957 --> 00:36:06,625
The main inspiration for me

73
00:36:06,709 --> 00:36:10,671
was not to have it Iook Iike
what everybody was expecting .

74
00:36:11,213 --> 00:36:15,718
So much of what I do now
is all based on algorithms.

75
00:36:16,343 --> 00:36:20,181
So we decided to make it
more manual feeling , human .

76
00:36:20,264 --> 00:36:22,850
I think it was really
about painting with Iight.

77
00:36:34,945 --> 00:36:39,283
Yeah , Hattie had a baby.
She brought her baby on tour.

78
00:36:39,366 --> 00:36:43,204
It helps create a very nice
family atmosphere on the tour,

79
00:36:43,287 --> 00:36:46,415
having Hat with her baby.

80
00:36:46,665 --> 00:36:50,127
I was really Iucky because
she was born on the Friday.

81
00:36:50,211 --> 00:36:54,173
I came back from the hospital
on the Saturday, so I think I had

82
00:36:54,757 --> 00:36:59,011
one week at home and then
we began our Gilmour adventure.

1
00:40:22,172 --> 00:40:26,259
Where we are is backstage in Rome,
at the fantastic Circo Massimo,

2
00:40:26,718 --> 00:40:31,181
which is built originally
for 1 50,000 people

3
00:40:31,473 --> 00:40:36,019
and then J ulius Caesar had it
increased to 250,000 people

4
00:40:36,102 --> 00:40:40,231
with fantastic chariot racing
over 2,000 years ago.

5
00:40:40,315 --> 00:40:44,694
And now I've got
a measly 1 5,000 poor people

6
00:40:44,778 --> 00:40:49,324
out there in the absolutely pouring rain .

7
00:40:49,991 --> 00:40:53,703
Let's hope they brought
their umbrellas and macs with them .

8
00:40:57,540 --> 00:41:00,168
This time of the year,
is a good time of the year,

9
00:41:00,251 --> 00:41:03,838
but what happened on this day
was completely u npredictable.

10
00:41:03,922 --> 00:41:08,593
We have a tank outside
that is ready to pump out the water.

11
00:41:08,677 --> 00:41:11,554
We do what we can
to make the show happen .

12
00:41:11,638 --> 00:41:13,056
They rock, we roll .

13
00:41:15,558 --> 00:41:20,146
The forecast is that this rain
and the wind will die down

14
00:41:20,230 --> 00:41:21,731
well in time for the show,

15
00:41:21,815 --> 00:41:28,655
but it's not Iooking like it's trying too
hard to achieve that at the moment.

16
00:41:29,030 --> 00:41:32,325
Well , it's raining , as you can see,
and it's continuing to rain .

17
00:41:32,742 --> 00:41:36,621
And when it stops, we'Il uncover
everything and try and put a show on .

18
00:42:40,643 --> 00:42:45,231
But I'm placing my grace
in my usual good fortune

19
00:42:45,315 --> 00:42:48,568
and that everything
will eventually be okay

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00:42:48,651 --> 00:42:50,278
and we'll get up there and do it.