13. Paolo NutiniSunny Side Up
I saw him on the Jay Leno show, and I thought ‘wow, this is a good band’. It was like the Kings of Leon, southern rock, and he came on with that thing and I thought ‘I wonder where this kid’s from, he must be from the South somewhere’. And then when Jay Leno says ‘that was great’, Paolo says [adopts Scottish accent] ‘thank you very much’, and I thought ‘he’s fucking Scottish!’ So it’s great, but the album he did as well, that’s great. I play that – there’s so many great things on there. Again, it’s fresh, it’s different from other things, so I hope he can come up with more, because he writes as well. And Ethan John [Jones’s producer for Spirit In The Room] produced the album, which I didn’t know, when I heard the album. There’s a jazz band thing, a traditional jazz band thing. ‘Simple Things In Life’, I like that, about going round to his mother’s for tea, it’s great. He paints a picture, you can see him do it.
