Podcast: Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware - featuring Finneas

16 October 2024 - Press release

 

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The world No. 1 podcast, Table Manners with Jessie & Lennie Ware is back for its highly anticipated 17th series. This episode features singer-songwriter, record producer, actor and brother to Billie Eilish, Finneas. Together, they all discuss his new album, headlining festivals with his sister, his rider, playing with Phoebe Bridges and more.

On his nostalgic taste
"As a child I had so much anxiety and weird existential dread - for no reason as I was living a very nice life - but I spent a lot of my time with separation anxiety. So I have a lot of memories of eating ice cream and feeling worried about the state of the world, which is a little bit goofy. I'd be eating ice cream on my sister's birthday thinking about how we're all going to die one day." 

On being a worrier
"I used to think my parents were imposters. I'd talk to my mum and ask her what my favourite colour was - quizzing her. It was probably from reading Coraline." 

On growing up in LA
"I would play in Battles of the Bands with Phoebe Bridges. I knew her through high-school, it's a small pool of people that live in LA." 

On his desert island meal
"I love an orange wine, Orangina if we're going non-alcoholic, which is my beverage of choice. For my appetiser, I'm a big fan of a Farro salad. It's like if quinoa and rice had a baby that's better. Japanese sweet potato or basil Gnocchi for my main. Or pulled oyster mushrooms with pitta bread and hummus. For dessert, Paul's chocolate cake from ALL TIME in LA - it's unbelievable." 

On his songwriting
"I probably had my girlfriend on the cover and in the music videos to make up for the fact that she's not really who the album's about. The album's not about a love interest of mine. You've got a family you love and a mum you love, and what are you supposed to do? Write about that all the time only? That's not interesting. " 

On the album process
"I made the last album under my own name, really alone in a room, privately, and it was a lonely experience [...] And so on this cycle, I spent the last several years just being friends with a bunch of writer producers and I spent all this time with them. I said what if we did a week where we wrote some songs for my project? We'll be in a recording studio and all mic'd up. It was a really fun experience and creatively satisfying. After about a week, we had half the record and so we did three weeks, and did the whole record like that." 

On headlining festivals with Billie
"In 2019, we often played direct support or third to the top of every festival and Billie's first album was so big that year. I remember the feeling of playing at sunset and we'd walk off stage and you'd walk by the headliners crew and be like, beat that motherfucker! It's like the audience is still fresh. Then we headlined all those festivals in 2021 and 2022 and that was a huge honour, but it was way more stressful. I remember specifically playing Austin City Limits, and Billie was headlining with Doja Cat right before her, and being so intimidated by how good she was.  

On his rider / tour demands
"My rider is purposefully very boring, because when I first started touring, it was stuff like Oreos and chocolate bars and crackers, and then I would eat those every day and feel bad. So now my rider is an apple and a ginger shot so that I'm not eating junk food every day."

Known for celebrating food, family, and the delightful art of conversation, Table Manners returns straight from Jessie's table. With help from her culinary superstar mum, Lennie, each episode features a stellar lineup of guests from music, culture, and politics, who stop by for a meal and a good chat. Expect plenty of laughter, stories, and a healthy dose of oversharing.

With over 200 episodes to date, past guests have included icons like Robert De Niro, Dolly Parton, Cher, Sir Paul McCartney, Baz Luhrmann, P!nk, Princess Eugenie, Ed Sheeran, David Schwimmer, Sir Keir Starmer, Shania Twain, Florence Pugh, Elizabeth Olsen, Dua Lipa, Dan Levy, and many more.

 

Table Manners is released weekly. You can listen here.