Live Lounge

Jo Whiley, host of the Live Lounge.

The Live Lounge is a segment of The Jo Whiley Show, on the British radio station BBC Radio 1. Hosted by Jo Whiley, it exhibits well-known artists usually performing one song of their own and one by another artist, in an acoustic format. The majority of the sessions are done from the BBC Maida Vale studios. The original songs are often from a completely different genre to that which the performer originates, and offer new perspective on the original songs. Jamie Cullum's cover of Pharrell's Frontin' lead to Cullum being signed to Pharrell's label Star Trak when played to him at a later visit to The Jo Whiley Show, and was added to his 2003 album Twentysomething. The album Radio 1's Live Lounge was released on 16/10/2006 and reached #1 in the UK Compilation Chart.[1]

In recent weeks, Jo Whiley has included a permanent option amongst the guest artist's choice of covers - "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson. Since the performance by Maxïmo Park on April 4 2007, no-one has chosen to perform the song, hinting that either a major artist will come on and perform the song, or Clarkson herself will.

Performances

(For a list of all the covers performed on the live lounge see Live Lounge Covers) Some of the songs performed on the Live Lounge:

• "Living for the Weekend" by HARD-Fi - performed by the Sugababes
• "I Predict a Riot" by Kaiser Chiefs - performed by McFly
• "Push the Button" by the Sugababes - performed by Starsailor
• "Don't Stop Movin'" by S Club 7 - performed by Starsailor
• "Drop The Pressure" by Mylo - performed by The Feeling
• "Numb" by Linkin Park - performed by Jamelia
• "Munich" by Editors - performed by Corinne Bailey Rae
• "What Time Is Love?" by The KLF - performed by Kaiser Chiefs
• "If There's Any Justice" by Lemar - performed by James Blunt
• "The Scientist" by Coldplay - performed by Natasha Bedingfield
• "Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane - performed by Natasha Bedingfield
• "In My Place" by Coldplay - performed by Jem
• "1 Thing" by Amerie - performed by Elbow
• "Get Ur Freak On" by Missy Elliot - performed by KT Tunstall
• "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead - performed by KT Tunstall
• "Love Machine" by Girls Aloud - performed by Arctic Monkeys
• "Let Me Love You" by Mario - performed by Charlotte Church
• "Smile Like You Mean It" by The Killers - performed by David Gray
• "Somebody Told Me" by The Killers - performed by Daniel Bedingfield
• "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand - performed by the Scissor Sisters
• "Take Your Mama" by the Scissor Sisters - performed by The Zutons
• "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis - performed by Maroon 5
• "Lyla" by Oasis - performed by the Foo Fighters
• "Maps" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs - performed by The Arcade Fire
• "Ooh La La" by Goldfrapp - performed by the Stereophonics
• "Crazy in Love" by Beyoncé - performed by The Magic Numbers
• "My Doorbell" by The White Stripes - performed by Jack Johnson
• "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes - performed by HARD-Fi
• "Hey Ya" by Outkast - performed by Razorlight
• "Hey Ya" by OutKast - performed by Will Young
• "Don't Cha" by the Pussycat Dolls - performed by Will Young
• "If I Ain't Got You" by Alicia Keys - performed by Athlete
• "Times Like These" by the Foo Fighters - performed by JoJo
• "Best of You" by the Foo Fighters - performed by Lee Ryan
• "Sweet Child of Mine" by Guns N' Roses - performed by Mylo
• "Feel Good Inc." by Gorillaz - performed by Kano
• "Feel Good Inc." by Gorillaz - performed by Editors
• "How Come" by D-12 - performed by Embrace
• "With or Without You" by U2 - performed by Keane
• "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by The Darkness - performed by Lemar
• "Vertigo" by U2 - performed by Lemar
• "Frontin'" by Pharrell - performed by Jamie Cullum
• "Hoppípolla" by Sigur Rós - performed by We Are Scientists
• "Beautiful" by Christina Aguilera - performed by Hope of the States
• "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley - performed by The Kooks
• "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley - Performed by The Zutons
• "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley - performed by Nelly Furtado
• "Time For Heroes" by The Libertines - performed by Graham Coxon
• "Gold Digger" by Kanye West & Jamie Foxx - performed by The Automatic
• "So Sick" by Ne-Yo - performed by Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy
• "Standing In The Way Of Control" by The Gossip - performed by Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
• "All The Things She Said" by T.A.T.U - performed by The Ordinary Boys
• "Valerie" by The Zutons - performed by Amy Winehouse
• "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse - performed by Paolo Nutini
• "Rehab" by Amy Winehouse - performed by Girls Aloud
• "Cry Me A River by Justin Timberlake - performed by Lostprophets
• "Ooh La Hot Love (a combination of Goldfrapp's "Ooh La La" and T.Rex's "Hot Love") - performed by The Fratellis

External links

• The Jo Whiley Show