God Help the Girl

You could argue even, you know, Nick Drake's mystique is a lot

to do with him not being around, d'ya know what I mean?

If Nick Drake was now on Chatty Man with Alan Carr,

talking about his new record,

that mystique would be dissipated, wouldn't it?

No, you're absolutely right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Age shall not wither him, you know what I mean?

- He's frozen at that moment. - Ian Curtis.

And it's a slender body of work, Ian Curtis has got two albums.

And of course, people who never knew the band at the time,

guys our age, "Blimey did you ever see Joy Division?"

I said, "Yeah, about 30 times, they were always around,

I was bored with them," but the mystique builds inextricably.

Starting to think that both of us still being here

is rather a kind of tired, bourgeois thing to do.

- What are you saying? - I'm not saying anything, mate.

Anyway, this is Findley and Donovan

and coming up later, Wobbly Legged Rat, who,

if you've been a regular listener to this show,

you'll know we're very keen on.

Looking forward very much to seeing them

tomorrow, live in Glasgow.

And later on in this show,

we have Gabriel and Damascus.

Thank you, thank you, people.

We are Wobbly Legged Rat.

This song is for you.

Eins, zwei, drei, vier!

Hello, we are King James the Sixth from Scotland.

Yeah, we're just... we're kind of trying that name out,

so if you get any ideas, just shout them out.

All right!

Come on, get started!

Right, just...

We want Anton!

I want Anton!

This is actually... it's quite a good song

if we could play it.

All I can hear is the bloody drums.

Ow.

Fight, fight, fight!

Fight! Fight! Fight!

You're a bloody tea drinker, pal.

You shouldn't be in a band!

Are you okay?

You're the guy from the fight.

My guitar got it worse.

You don't look so good.

Morning.

I was just gonna come and check your pulse,

see if you were still alive.

Who are you again?

Oh, James, the guitar player.

So, do you have a job or do you just make money playing guitar?

No, I work at the university swimming pool.

- I'm a lifeguard. - Lifeguard.

I see, you're always saving people.

Grab the ring and just calmly swim back.

Here is the safeness.

Yeah, when I get the chance.

This is my stop coming up.

So, thank you, lifeguard.

I know where to find you.

Eve?

Eve, come back here!

Eve, wait, hey, wait.

Come, come, come here.

Let's get her in to one of the single rooms.

I'm fine where I was.

Well, you should've thought about that before.

So, we've had the police looking for you.

You've wasted our time and the police's time.

You've put yourself right back where you started.

So, you're gonna stay in the single room

that we've got for you.

You'll have no visitors.

We're gonna take your phone and your books

and you'll have a nurse watching you at all times.

Morning, Eve.

Come on.

Thank you.

Step on for me.

Okay.

Okay, this is your life.

People need to start at the bottom

and work their way up, okay?

So, if you don't have the basic things, like food,

water, sleep, you can't go anywhere.

Only when you have those,

you can proceed up to the next level

where you have a home, family, friends,

have money to get by.

You have well-being, relationships, sex.

And then you could move up to this top layer,

where you have art, morality, music.

And these things can catch you if you fall,

but if you try going for this top layer first

and there's no support, then the whole pyramid

just crashes down.

So, it's as simple as that, is it?

Yup, it is.

Don't worry about it.

Your stomach shrunk, it's not used to a full meal.

I've been crying all day.

It's pathetic.

It's maybe not such a bad thing.

It's progress.

Two weeks back, you wouldn't have been able to,

but now that you're eating again,

your body is waking up.

You're feeling things again.

That's good.

And what if everything I'm feeling is shit?

That's the hard part.

Do you ever think about writing your feelings down?

So, how are you liking it here?

It's fine.

It's not like I have anything else important to do

at the moment.

But you will one day.

All right, that's you're done.

Eve, can you tell me when the last time was

that you felt good?

I don't know, really, I mean,

I guess everything sort of started going downhill

after I moved away from home, you know?

What did you love when you were young?

Um...

I loved reading, I kind of loved being by myself, I suppose.

Um...

Watching movies, dressing up.

I know I have to eat, I know how to eat.

I know I wasn't looking after myself,

but I'll do okay.

Why don't you try for a music school?

I could help you with the applications.

Well, I might do one day, but right now,

I just wanna get back to life.

But your life before you first came in here

was a disaster, so it has to be a different life.

And I've got a plan that involves

a gradual reintroduction to your life,

combined with a step by step reduction in your pills.

And how long's that gonna take?

Enjoying our time in Glasgow, very much so.

They "Kissing in the Red Zone" hit makers,

we can now say Wobbly Legged Rats are gonna be coming in

and doing a live session later in the week,

which people are looking forward to enormously.

Come on, fire up.

We look frightened, we don't need to be frightened of them

because we're all fucking mental, do you understand?

They're not mental, they don't have a clue, right?

These are children... they're beautiful children,

but they're children, and we can take them down,

do you understand?