4.4 • 926 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Straight-up legend Jake Shears broadcasts from a rare week off in Laguna Beach to talk about his brilliant and summer-defining solo album Last Man Dancing, and: spontaneous New Orleans house parties, Jessie Ware, Alison Goldfrapp, Padam Padam, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, the gentle heaviness of Queens of the Stone Age, life as a gay teen in Seattle the year Nirvana broke, Dan Savage as mentor, the magnetic pull of Emerald City, what he looks for in a man, and a surprising semi-celebrity crush (who we have independently researched and can verify could get it).
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| 0:20.7 | Subscribe today as streamed on TV. Yeah. Matt, I mean, I mean, Jake Sheeras is here. |
| 0:53.0 | There's just, there's no other more artful way to say it. |
| 0:56.2 | Jake Sheer's is here and it's, we should just get into it. |
| 0:59.1 | In a beautiful high ceiling space, where are you, Jake Sheer's? |
| 1:02.0 | I am in a, I'm in Laguna. I came out for I had like a week on my calendar that I saw that I could |
| 1:10.0 | after launching the record and everything I could come out and write some more tunes. |
| 1:13.3 | My buddy Cheever, who's back here with headphones on, pounding away on the keyboard. |
| 1:18.6 | And yeah, we wrote a lot of this album together. |
| 1:22.0 | So I'm just here kind of chilling out |
| 1:24.0 | and just sort of decompressing after, |
| 1:26.9 | you know, the last month, six weeks have been full on. |
| 1:30.3 | So just kind of hanging in one spot, good food working out making music in the daytime having nine hours sleep |
| 1:37.5 | Just chilling for a second living the life |
| 1:41.6 | It's good is So nine hours of sleep is I like what I'm hearing about this |
| 1:49.6 | routine because that that was a question I wanted to get out of the way just off the bat just for my own kind of superficial education was simply like how how and why are you do you look so good I'm sorry go other way to put it but it sounds like that's part of the |
| 2:06.9 | The the secret nine hours of sleep good food laguna air I really try to like take care of myself sometimes. |
| 2:14.7 | I mean, Lord knows I love a good time, and I do, |
| 2:17.9 | but I have to be very judicious with, I've got to be judicious with with any kind of partying or I've got |
| 2:28.0 | to like even just be careful with alcohol just because I work so much and there's I've got so many I've got a lot of |
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