- 2025-09-28
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MUSIC
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The Favors (FINNEAS & Ashe) Performs “Necessary Evils” & Miley Cyrus's “The Climb” on BBC Radio 1 Piano Session
Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter FINNEAS and Nashville-based singer-songwriter Ashe's new band The Favors appeared on BBC Radio 1 Piano Session to perform “Necessary Evils” and a cover of American singer-songwriter Miley Cyrus's “The Climb”.
This marks FINNEAS’s second performance on this program since 2020, while Ashe performed for the first time.
“Necessary Evils” was featured on their debut album “The Dream”, which was released on September 19, 2025 via Darkroom Records.
The original version of “The Climb” was released by Miley Cyrus as the lead single from the 2009 film “Hannah Montana: The Movie” soundtrack in 2009.
Ashe told Sian Eleri of BBC Radio 1 about the piano, “I mean, a lot of them started at the piano. I think a handful started at guitar. But anything that I sort of concocted from the jump, I'm only a piano player. I'm very, very bad at guitar. FINNEAS is great at every instrument. He's playing drums on a song that we're doing live. And, yeah, watching him has been really fun, but I am a pianist, and so a lot of songs started that way for me, and and FINNEAS brought a bunch in on piano too.”
FINNEAS added, “I was really like, that's the thing that I feel very comfy on bass and guitar and working on beats, on a computer, whatever, like I can muscle my way through it, but I really feel like I find stuff on piano in a way that I don't find stuff on a guitar or something like that. So especially like doing this BBC session like natural, obvious choice to do it on piano for us, I think.”- FINNEAS said of “The Climb”, “I think that I again, I don't want to insult anybody here. But I think that I love seeing through the way that the world sees a song, and being like that song is actually fantastic. I think that like that song is old enough and from Hannah Montana the movie, enough that there's probably not kids who were 13 when that movie came out, but maybe somebody who was, like a snobby 30 year old when that movie came out, there might be some level of, like dismissiveness about songs from Hannah Montana the movie. And I think that sometimes, in a space where you can cover a song, you can kind of shine light on how great of a song it is.”
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He continued, “So I just was like, I've all this song has always been stuck in my head. I remember one of us bringing it up at like, a rehearsal or some interview or something, and both of us were, like, always gonna be that, like, we immediately, like, started just like, ripping it and like that just is a sign that it's a great song. Like, if you remember, like, every word of a song 15 years later. It's like, probably a really good song. So I think that was what made it appealing, was like, we can just, like, really, kind of illustrate how great this song is, which, of course, wildly does. It's just been 15 years since it came out.” - source : BBC Radio 1
