Bill Nighy

And it's called Groove Me Like Out because my friend Brendan Thomas Elliott and I, when we were young, would sometimes sign off with the postmodern ironic ancient jive talk reference Groove Me Like Out, which amused us at the time and I have to admit still amuses me now.

The use of ancient jive talk and dragging it into the modern world has always given me enormous pleasure.

And groove or groove me or groovy were words that if anyone spoke the word groovy in 1973, you left the room.

You didn't want to breathe the same air as anybody who said groovy.

I remember the first time anybody ever said to me, dig you later.

And at the time, I was appalled.

But then you see, with time, irony is introduced to the whole affair.

And dig you later becomes kind of fun.

So I have on occasion said to people, I'll dig you later.

But I always put the T in later.

Sorry, forgive me.

Because it takes guts to put the T in later.

The first song is from one of my favorite artists, Johnny Guitar Watson.

Guitar is in inverted commas, obviously.

And as you may know, I'm a fool for inverted commas and for parentheses in song title terms.

I get excited, always did as a child, as a young man.

Anyway, Johnny Guitar Watson is someone I want to bring into the modern world.

He's not forgotten, but he's not remembered or known by enough people.

people in my view.

He's a beautiful guitar player and there may be more of him coming up in the future.