🏘️ TFI Unplugged (2026) - Season 1 Episode 1 ★ SERIES PREMIERE
Sometimes the best stories are the ones we don't plan to tell. In Episode 1 "Raw & Real: The First Conversation", TFI Unplugged launches with an intimate, unfiltered interview featuring a groundbreaking guest who opens up about career highs, personal struggles, and the moments that shaped their journey. No teleprompter, no edits — just honest conversation, unexpected laughter, and the kind of vulnerability that only happens when the cameras stop pretending.
🔹 Episode Highlights:
• Premiere guest reveal: a compelling figure shares their untold story
• Unscripted moments: spontaneous laughter, tears, and genuine connection
• Behind-the-scenes insights: the real person behind the public persona
• Audience interaction: live questions that take the conversation deeper
• Signature TFI Unplugged energy: authenticity, intimacy & unforgettable honesty
🔹 Series Info:
• Format: Talk Show / Interview Series / Unscripted Documentary
• Original Network: [Streaming Platform] / International Distribution
• Series Launch: 2026 | Season: 1 | Episode: 1 | Title: "Raw & Real: The First Conversation" ★ PREMIERE
• Setting: Intimate Studio Setting | Language: English
• Runtime: ~45-60 minutes (full) | Clip/Highlight version: ~10-15 min
🎧 Prefer audio? Listen to talk show recaps & interview podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts.
👉 Enjoying the series? Hit LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and comment: "What question would you ask the guest? 👇" Turn on notifications 🔔 for Episode 2!
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Sometimes the best stories are the ones we don't plan to tell. In Episode 1 "Raw & Real: The First Conversation", TFI Unplugged launches with an intimate, unfiltered interview featuring a groundbreaking guest who opens up about career highs, personal struggles, and the moments that shaped their journey. No teleprompter, no edits — just honest conversation, unexpected laughter, and the kind of vulnerability that only happens when the cameras stop pretending.
🔹 Episode Highlights:
• Premiere guest reveal: a compelling figure shares their untold story
• Unscripted moments: spontaneous laughter, tears, and genuine connection
• Behind-the-scenes insights: the real person behind the public persona
• Audience interaction: live questions that take the conversation deeper
• Signature TFI Unplugged energy: authenticity, intimacy & unforgettable honesty
🔹 Series Info:
• Format: Talk Show / Interview Series / Unscripted Documentary
• Original Network: [Streaming Platform] / International Distribution
• Series Launch: 2026 | Season: 1 | Episode: 1 | Title: "Raw & Real: The First Conversation" ★ PREMIERE
• Setting: Intimate Studio Setting | Language: English
• Runtime: ~45-60 minutes (full) | Clip/Highlight version: ~10-15 min
🎧 Prefer audio? Listen to talk show recaps & interview podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts.
👉 Enjoying the series? Hit LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and comment: "What question would you ask the guest? 👇" Turn on notifications 🔔 for Episode 2!
#ShowTVMovies #TFIUnplugged #TalkShow #RawAndReal #S01E01 #UnscriptedTV #StreamingOriginal #BingeWatch #HonestConversations #InterviewSeries
⚠️ Copyright Disclaimer: This video is shared for promotional, review, and informational purposes only. All rights to "TFI Unplugged" belong to the respective producers and networks. This upload complies with Fair Use guidelines (Section 107, U.S. Copyright Act). No copyright infringement intended.
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00:09TFI
00:10Luke, whatever you want.
00:11TFI survives. Take it away.
00:17My name is Chris Evans, original presenter of TFI Friday.
00:24So Chris, how would you describe this TFI?
00:29Er, like the old one, only, er, 1% of the budget.
00:37Am I getting paid for this?
00:41It's a bit cheap, isn't it?
00:45My, what, that one?
00:48TFI, to survive. Take that.
00:52So, er, yeah, I'm Kedge, and I'm the exec producer of TFI Unplugged.
00:56So, Evan says it's like the original, except 1% of the budget.
01:001%? No, no, it's much less than that.
01:03Don't tell him.
01:04Take, take, take, boom.
01:07My name's Owen, and I've just started working on TFI Unplugged.
01:18What do you do, Owen?
01:20Er, mostly get blamed for things.
01:22That seems a bit harsh.
01:25I love it.
01:28Did I feed you lot?
01:29No.
01:31I thought not.
01:32No, we'd never been fed.
01:33Total t-ing, ain't he?
01:36Not in, on the road.
01:40What do you do?
01:49I love it.
01:51I love it.
01:52I love it.
01:59I love it.
02:01I love it.
02:04I love it.
02:04I love it.
02:10Hey, happy Friday, friends. Thanks for tuning in.
02:13This is actually episode nine of TFI Unplugged.
02:17And because it's episode nine, that means we can do this.
02:22Previously on TFI Unplugged.
02:29Do you want... What are you talking about?
02:32I look like Jedward.
02:34How many shows did you do, TFI?
02:36Loads. It was like, it was our second show.
02:38I'd rather top and go down...
02:40Than England when the world...
02:42Yes, that's it! I've got it!
02:43It doesn't make for good TV.
02:44You can have that.
02:45Thank you very much.
02:46Basically, only homeless people turned up.
02:53All right, so that's all you've missed,
02:55but you can catch up on the first eight episodes of TFI Unplugged on YouTube.
03:00I know.
03:01Coming up tonight, we've got some Ryder on the show.
03:04Jack Saboretti singing live.
03:07And India's biggest star, Shreya Gashal, on the show.
03:12But first of all, I've got a letter here about letters, actually.
03:16Hey, Chris, what is the current state of the It's Your Letters top five?
03:19Well, it's funny you should ask,
03:20because at number five in the all-time top five for It's Your Letters,
03:24it is, with It's Your Letters, Tony Bennett.
03:28Letters, It's Your Letters.
03:31Letters, It's Your Letters.
03:34At number four with It's Your Letters, it's Robbie Williams.
03:51And number three with It's Your Letters, It's The Bee Gees.
03:55It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters.
04:18It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's The Foo Fighters.
04:24It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters.
04:34How about that?
04:35And at number one with It's Your Letters,
04:37the founding father of It's Your Letters, it's Ree.
04:42It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters.
04:54Best audience ever.
04:56But the thing is, it's 2026, so we actually need an It's Your Whatapps, please, Mr. Jack Savaretti, if you
05:02don't mind.
05:07It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters.
05:17OK, now, is this better or worse?
05:23Once again, Mr. Jack Savaretti.
05:29It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters.
05:33It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters.
05:39And he has more.
05:41Once again, is this better or worse?
05:43Jack Savaretti.
05:48It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters.
05:57CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
05:58How good is Jack Savaretti?
06:01Jack has a number one album today in the UK.
06:07So all we need now, by the way, is a WhatsApp, and I just happen to have one here from
06:11made-up name, Kelly from Kentucky.
06:13That'll do, OK.
06:14Kelly Kentucky says, she doesn't say, but we say,
06:17What's happened, see, what's happened, what's happened, I know,
06:20to Will since TFI last time?
06:23And is it true he hasn't aged today?
06:25Well, let's find out.
06:25Please welcome back, Will!
06:28CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:31Will!
06:35Oh, Will is back!
06:38Come in, James!
06:40Come and enjoy a bit of Will, everybody!
06:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:47Steve Denya has been dying to do that, haven't you?
06:48Don't do that.
06:49Will!
06:50Don't do that.
06:51All right, we've been here before, haven't we, Will?
06:53I mean, we've been here anyway.
06:54Yeah, yeah.
06:5596, 97, 98, 99.
06:57But also, they're saying TFI is back, you know, first time since the 90s, but we've done it before.
07:03Yep, 2015.
07:042015.
07:05Was it 10 we did?
07:06We did a special.
07:08Right.
07:08Which was quite special.
07:09It was very special.
07:10It was quite special.
07:10It was a very special show.
07:11And then we did 10 more.
07:13All right, so we did 11.
07:14So we did 11.
07:15All right, so we brought it back, because Channel 4 said, why don't you do, like, a 20th anniversary show?
07:19They said 20th anniversary.
07:21We went, great, that's brilliant.
07:23I sat down and went, oh, it's 19, actually.
07:26Yeah, and they said, it doesn't matter, just call it the 20th.
07:28Yeah, yeah.
07:29So we did it.
07:29It's a very TFI thing to do.
07:30Yeah, it did really well, didn't it?
07:32And then they said, why don't you do some more?
07:33So we did some more.
07:34Yeah.
07:34So that was fun.
07:35Yeah, yeah.
07:35And then you went nuts.
07:36Then I went nuts.
07:37Not for the first time.
07:39Not for the first time.
07:42So when we were doing it back in the day, you were an exec producer, and we did loads and
07:48loads
07:48of shows, and then I didn't do the last six, you didn't do the last six.
07:51Who did do the last six?
07:53Presented by the likes of a couple of Spice Girls?
07:56Elton did the last one.
07:57Elton John.
07:57Elton John did the last TFI Friday.
07:58He put it to rest, yes.
08:00Well, it didn't go well for him, so he had to go back to singing.
08:03It was his top gear.
08:06At least that's how I'm going to frame it.
08:09So, yeah, and then it went away.
08:11Okay, and then what did you do?
08:12I produced this wonderful novel here, novella here, called How to a Pub Genius.
08:20Thank you very much for your admiration.
08:22Available in any good eBay's discount bin now for 55.
08:25The thing is, because Pub Genius was the slot we did on the show, people loved it.
08:29And to the extent that you brought out this book, Will MacDonald, Pub Genius, did really
08:32well.
08:33You took it on tour.
08:33You had a whole live show.
08:34You had Dancing Girls, everything, pyrotechnics going on.
08:37I knew about that.
08:38It's funny.
08:39I mean, you call it a book.
08:40My other half calls it a pamphlet, because the ink comes off on your fingers.
08:44And what does your other half do for a living?
08:47She works in opera.
08:48Yeah, she's a new old little pamphlet, Pub Genius.
08:53No, but I knew about that.
08:54So what's the confession?
08:55The confession is, you probably don't know this, brought out a second volume.
09:01You did not.
09:02I didn't know that.
09:04This now sounds like a plug for a book that came out 25 years ago.
09:08Well, Will MacDonald's here to talk about his new book.
09:11Seeing as you have two of these books out now, I think it's time for an updated reimagination
09:16of Will MacDonald, Pub Genius.
09:22I'm going to drink the beer in that glass, out of that sherry glass.
09:28Sherry, ask your dad.
09:29Anyone who's known what a sherry glass is.
09:32Out of there without touching it with my hands.
09:33Right, at this point we all go, no way.
09:36No, can't be done.
09:36No way!
09:38Can't be done.
09:39Can't be done.
09:41Impossible.
09:43The man's abroad.
09:44Never going to have it.
09:46Never going to have it.
09:47Never going to have it.
09:49I can't believe it.
09:49Watch the microphone.
09:52That's the strangest heckle ever.
09:53Be careful with the microphone.
09:56What about my nice jumper?
09:58Can be done.
09:59Drum roll, please.
10:00Drum roll.
10:25No way!
10:44Well, Pub Genius, Volume 3, coming soon.
10:49Let's hear from Will everyone.
10:51He remains the UK's official Pub Genius.
10:55Our next guest has the voice of an angel, the hair of a god,
10:58and the brightest smile in showbiz.
11:00He is a mentor in the new series, Your Song,
11:03which continues on Sundays on Channel 4.
11:05So let's make our whole day a lot brighter with Sam Ryder!
11:23Oh, my God!
11:25Sam, Sam, Sam!
11:26Mate, I'm buzzing for this.
11:28We're buzzing on Channel 4.
11:29Both of us on Channel 4.
11:30How are you?
11:31I'm great.
11:31How's your new show?
11:32I was, like, getting goosebumps hearing your intro to show again.
11:36Yeah.
11:36I was just, like, this is where you need to be.
11:38Well, this is it.
11:38We're back.
11:39You're back.
11:39And you have your own thing going on with Play With Me.
11:41Tell us all about it, Sam Ryder.
11:43It's berserk.
11:44It's...
11:44So we go up and down the country.
11:46We bring a stage with us.
11:47This amazing crew that work tirelessly building this thing
11:51and setting it up and organising people just to get on that stage.
11:54You've probably never sung in public before, by the way,
11:56with a live band.
11:57And the band are absolutely cooking.
12:00They're so good.
12:01And these guys just come.
12:03They share a story.
12:04Could be something seismic that's happened in their life.
12:08The deepest, like, depths of their soul that they're sharing
12:11with total strangers that are just out shopping,
12:13walking down the high street.
12:15And they'll sing a song that's attributed to that feeling
12:18and that story.
12:19And the connection that you see being made,
12:21honestly, Chris, it is just beautiful, man.
12:24It's so, so lovely.
12:26And you're perfect for this because, you know,
12:28you wear your heart on your sleeve and some, don't you?
12:30Well, I try my best to.
12:32Like, I think it's a nice way to live
12:34because you get to meet people where they're at
12:36and you find out more about them.
12:39Like, any interaction with a stranger,
12:40if you're emotionally open and your heart is open,
12:43I feel it's more valuable.
12:44So is it an anti-talent show?
12:47How would you describe it?
12:48I've never thought of it that way,
12:49but it's interesting because there's no carrot, man.
12:51There's no, like, sort of, you know,
12:53you win a record deal at the end
12:55or we'll put your single out, like, at the end.
12:57It's nothing like that because these people,
12:59they're not professional singers.
13:02They're likely hadn't ever stood on a stage
13:05with a live band, like an actual drummer
13:07playing before or something like that.
13:09And they're singing a song that's totally just theirs.
13:12The words mean something different to them
13:13than they do to, like, anyone else in the world.
13:17All right.
13:17All the way to best songs.
13:18Here's the thing, though.
13:19If somebody comes on and smashes it,
13:20what are you going to do?
13:21You're not going to ignore them, are you?
13:22Well, no, you don't ignore them,
13:23but you, like, you have an event at the end of it
13:26at the Hackney Empire.
13:28Yeah.
13:29And then all the singers,
13:30every single person's invited,
13:32everyone comes down
13:32and absolutely rinses the free bar.
13:34But a couple of the people from each round,
13:38like, we have them perform on the night.
13:41So that is the prize.
13:43There's no record deal.
13:44There's no, like, old tropes.
13:45It's made by the Bake Off people.
13:47Yeah, so it's got heart.
13:48Yeah, well, also, the point is,
13:50I know that a lot of people who've won the Bake Off
13:52have gone on to do amazing things.
13:53Most of them have, in fact.
13:55That is hot, by the way.
13:56Sorry about that.
13:58I tried to style that out.
13:59It's not only our shows that are smoking,
14:01so is the tea.
14:02Things have changed at Channel 4.
14:04They bought a kettle.
14:05It's unbelievable.
14:07Not only you, but Paloma Faith as well
14:08and Alison Hammond as well.
14:09Yeah, man, they're fantastic.
14:11I mean, they're mad as a box of frogs,
14:12like, both.
14:13But they're so good to be around.
14:15Individually, they're bonkers.
14:16Yeah, no, but together, all of us.
14:18Do you know what I mean?
14:18They sprinkle a bit of rider on top.
14:20Yeah, yeah, mate.
14:20Who knows what might happen?
14:21All of our laughs also are so cackly,
14:24it's unreal.
14:25So I'm like, ha, ha, ha.
14:26And, like, Paloma as well and Alison.
14:28So the three of us laughing together,
14:29it's like the Witches of Eastwick
14:30around the cauldron.
14:31Alison Hammond's laugh
14:33is second only to her smell.
14:34Yeah.
14:36She's the greatest smelling person in the show.
14:38Oh, mate, she's great.
14:39Unbelievable.
14:40And so do you get together?
14:42Did you, like, do you perform at any point?
14:44You and Paloma?
14:45Every now and then we'll jump up.
14:46Like, there's a little, um,
14:48they call it a golden hour.
14:49So anyone passing by
14:51that sort of wants to get involved
14:53can just jump up and sing.
14:54And it's so lovely, man,
14:55because you'll just see someone passing by
14:57with literally holding a bag of shopping
15:00and be like, I'll have a go.
15:01I love it.
15:02Everyone's getting involved.
15:03I love it.
15:04It's such a simple concept, isn't it?
15:06Yeah.
15:06This, it's like, it's music to your ears
15:08and it's the wind beneath your wings.
15:09Yeah, mate, absolutely.
15:11And I just want to sing wind beneath my wings.
15:14Well, I always told you're on vocal.
15:16Yeah, I know, mate.
15:17Can you hear my voice?
15:17Can you hear my guitar?
15:20Are you working on anything new at the moment, Sam?
15:23Always.
15:24But no, mate, honestly, you don't want to hear it.
15:27It is bad.
15:28So, seeing as we're now back on show.
15:30That's all, a pair of words.
15:31Yay!
15:35Last orders of the bar.
15:36Not just someone I'm drinking at the moment.
15:38How long have you not had a drink for?
15:40Um, over two years.
15:42Two years.
15:42You?
15:43Nearly three.
15:44Mate, come on.
15:45Which is ironic,
15:46because the last time we did have a drink
15:47was together in a sauna.
15:48Yeah, absolutely never.
15:50Yeah.
15:51Yeah.
15:53Highly unrecommended.
15:54That's like the worst possible thing
15:55you can do in a sauna.
15:56We hydrated in a sauna
15:57with a bottle of tequila.
15:58Yeah, it was.
15:59It was good to do that.
15:59And that's probably what it did for both of us,
16:01I think, wasn't it?
16:02Yeah, it was.
16:02That was our bottom.
16:03Yeah, that was absolutely the Lancaster,
16:06all the engines out, just bang.
16:08It really was, wasn't it?
16:09Sam, great to see you, man.
16:10Mate, this has been...
16:11All right, this has been Sam Ryder, everyone.
16:13All right.
16:15Okay, okay.
16:16All right, we'll be back after the break
16:17with more TFI Unplugged.
16:41We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
16:54We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
17:10We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
17:22We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
17:34We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
17:35We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
17:55Celebrity Juggling fans, your vote counts.
17:59Most importantly, you can only think your vote's in.
18:01Remember that, okay?
18:02Yeah, no, we don't accept any actual real votes.
18:07Sorry.
18:08Who watches this rubbish?
18:10All right, now it's time for something very special
18:12on TFI Unplugged.
18:14Every single week, we're going to bring some TFI gold,
18:17and we're better to start than with...
18:19David Bowie.
18:24CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
18:30CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
18:32CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
18:38Hello, Bill.
18:40Welcome to the show, sir. Thank you very much.
18:45I think if you put Clive on his back, he'd be taller than me.
18:48If you put Clive on his back, he'd be taller than me.
18:50All right, now, listen, you've got these high-heel things.
18:52Very high-heel shoes.
18:54But they don't... Oh, okay, it counts.
18:56Well, look, there you go. I'll give you...
18:58I should measure out 5'10 1⁄2".
19:00I can't do 5'10 1⁄2".
19:02Yes.
19:03Are you 5'10 1⁄2"?
19:04Yes.
19:04You're not 5'10 1⁄2.
19:05I'm 5'10 1⁄2.
19:07Okay, all right, hang on a minute.
19:08Let's see.
19:09What are you?
19:10Six, let's see.
19:11There you go.
19:12That's pretty accurate.
19:14David.
19:14I'm still big.
19:15Bowie.
19:16I'm...
19:18B-O...
19:19Go on.
19:20Carry on.
19:21W-I-E...
19:22Okay, officially, David Bowie is taller than Benno.
19:24Yeah!
19:31Oh, yeah.
19:33So, David...
19:33I had a hell of a time getting there.
19:35I know, go on.
19:36I know you want to talk about this.
19:37Oh, let me tell...
19:38No, you don't know.
19:39I tried to cross Hammondsmith Bridge.
19:41And I didn't know that the rich people have got it all blocked up.
19:44Right.
19:45So, I got fined, dragged into court, all that, all in the last half hour.
19:49No way.
19:50Yes, it's absolutely true.
19:51And I've had gastroenteritis.
19:54Oh!
19:55All in the last half hour.
19:57Hey, can't you tell the gastroenteritis is still doing the rounds?
19:59Do you know how I got that?
20:01Go on.
20:01I was in Indonesia.
20:02I was lost in the jungle.
20:04This is absolutely true.
20:07What?
20:07I believe you.
20:08Yeah.
20:09And an old man with one leg and a donkey found me and took me to a glade and pointed
20:15to a
20:15temple and a palace.
20:17And I said, I'm not Muslim.
20:20Wife is.
20:20I'm not.
20:21So, we're going to the palace.
20:23You're going to let me go on with this, aren't you?
20:24I'm dead right, mate.
20:25You started it.
20:26We got to the palace and it's the son of, I think he was a gun runner, and he had
20:31guys
20:32in turrets all around the palace with guns to keep the poor people out.
20:35He was so pleased to see me that he put a sheet up in the garden at the bottom of
20:39the
20:39garden, pouring with rain.
20:42Yeah.
20:42Servants holding a sheet up at the far end of the garden, had a projector on the porch
20:47where we were, and we sat and watched Sahara with Brooke Shields.
20:55Then, then he threw a party and he had seven daughters and seven sons.
21:02Yeah.
21:03I always laugh when I say that.
21:05And the seven daughters, they entertained me royally with dance and, no, flute playing.
21:13Flute playing and dance.
21:14And he fed me things like monkey breast and parrot beak, I think it was.
21:20It was the course that night.
21:22And the next day, I redecorated the bathroom.
21:26But he sent his daughter over to me.
21:29His favorite daughter, he sent to me.
21:32If you know what I mean.
21:33Yes.
21:34To you.
21:35And I couldn't make it to the front door.
21:37Go away.
21:38You're beautiful, but go away.
21:40This was many years ago.
21:41That has nothing.
21:43This has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I got gastroenteritis the other day.
21:48That was just, it just reminded me, though, that I've had it twice.
21:59We won't talk about the chair.
22:01Okay.
22:02Should we talk about the chair?
22:03No, you talk about whatever you want.
22:04This is the second worst chair I've sat on today.
22:07Show them.
22:07Show them the chair.
22:08Look at this chair.
22:09That chair.
22:10The first one is owned by Richard Branson on Virgin Airlines.
22:14And he has, no, they're fabulous.
22:16Virgin Airlines are great, except this one.
22:19It's the 747-200 series.
22:21And he bought it from Cathay, I think, Cathay Pacific.
22:24And they've left the old chairs on, the Chinese chairs, but they just put virgin material on
22:30it.
22:30And you can't, you know, it won't go anywhere.
22:32It's all, and so I slept like that for, I've only just, I've been up for 29 hours.
22:39We can tell, can't we?
22:42This is me straight, buddy.
22:44You're lucky you didn't know me 25 years ago.
22:49How are you doing?
22:50I'm great, actually.
22:51Great.
22:51Good.
22:52You used to stay up for seven to eight days at a time.
22:54I did indeed, yes.
22:55Now, what's that like?
22:56I had a lot of friends.
22:58And you've got to give friends time.
23:01Was that the drugs, then?
23:04What, that attracted the friends, you mean?
23:06The reason I had friends?
23:08Probably, yeah, I imagine.
23:09They all disappeared when I stopped doing drugs, so I think you're probably right on the money,
23:13there.
23:13So, did you find that you wrote better songs or worse songs when you did the old, you
23:18know?
23:18Well, as I wrote things like Low, Heroes, Lodger, Scary Monsters, or Straight.
23:24By the way, by the way, by the way.
23:27Without drugs.
23:30Pretty much without drugs.
23:33I don't think, I think it's just an attitude more, you know, whether you're enjoying it
23:37and, you know.
23:38But you don't have a drink now either, do you?
23:39I don't drink and I don't drug, no.
23:41But you do, you smoke facts and you drink coffee.
23:43Oh, God.
23:43Yeah.
23:44I'm dying for a cigarette.
23:46Well, you can't have one on the telly.
23:48We're not allowed to.
23:48In the old days you could, but you can't anymore.
23:50Seriously.
23:50You can have one in drama, but this ain't a drama.
23:52Mind you, you're telling it into one.
23:53It makes sense.
23:54It's not a drama or a...
23:56If you were, if you, if, if the harm that cigarettes did could be seen on the outside of your
24:01body.
24:01Could be bottled and sold.
24:03Well, it is, I suppose.
24:04You could provide half the mercenaries in America with a new weapon, couldn't you?
24:07But if it was, if it was visible on...
24:11They did a program on American television the other night.
24:14I cannot believe it.
24:16As though we haven't got enough problems.
24:18Dateline did this thing.
24:19Let's recreate what would happen if terrorists threw anthrax down on the American subway.
24:25And they spent all this money showing us how 500,000 people would be dead in one day in New
24:32York.
24:32How bodies would be piled up because all the gravediggers would have buggered off to Queens or wherever they come
24:38from.
24:38Queens, Brooklyn, I don't know where, where do gravediggers come from?
24:41I don't know.
24:42Yeah.
24:43See, the questions this kind of debate rises.
24:46And it went on for about an hour and I was so depressed at the end of it,
24:50realizing that I really mustn't stay in cities where even the tiniest possibility of anthrax being loosed upon me and
24:58my family.
25:00But then I forgot all about it in a half an hour because friends came on.
25:05And that's the world we live in.
25:06That's the world we live in.
25:07It is.
25:07Sure enough.
25:08Who are the best kissers?
25:09Stop smiling, your camera's shaking.
25:12Who are the best kissers, men or women?
25:15Why, ask me.
25:20Do they kiss differently?
25:24You know, there are a lot of doctors who can actually help you with this.
25:32David, actual baby.
25:33That seemed to work, didn't it?
25:34Let's do it again.
25:35Here's the cure.
25:36Back after the break.
25:39I don't care if Monday's blue.
25:43Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too.
25:46Thursday, I don't care about you.
25:49It's Friday.
25:50It's Friday, I'm sorry, I don't care about you.
25:58Bye.
25:59Oh, yeah.
26:21I know.
26:22The actual cure.
26:23That was The Cure with Friday, I'm in Love.
26:27Okay, our next guest, it's Jack Sabaretti!
26:35Number one, baby!
26:39Number one!
26:41How does it feel to be number one?
26:44What a way!
26:45I feel like I'm slightly too old for this.
26:47No way!
26:49But it's all thanks to you.
26:51It's not all thanks to me.
26:53You wrote the darn songs and you've been in it forever.
26:55Yeah, forever.
26:56It feels like forever.
26:57We will always be there.
26:58The brand new album from Jack Sabaretti is currently number one.
27:03Yeah, absolutely smashing the opposition.
27:06It's all true.
27:07Okay, so Cruel World, Holly Humberston.
27:11Amazing record.
27:12Yeah, nice one, Holly.
27:14So close, but no cigar.
27:16They're at number two.
27:17Ella Langley, Dandelion.
27:18Another amazing...
27:19They're all amazing records.
27:20They're all amazing.
27:20And then there's this newbie, Olivia Dean.
27:23Olivia Dean.
27:24Yeah.
27:24I told you that when they put a picture of me and her on socials on the official chart.
27:28Yeah.
27:28And my daughter thought it was like me pranking her.
27:30Yeah.
27:31She didn't believe that I was actually...
27:32Well, first of all, you thought it was somebody pranking you.
27:33I thought I was being pranked.
27:35Yeah, and then you thought...
27:35I wasn't going to say that.
27:37I thought I was being pranked.
27:39Yeah, and Ray is at number five as well.
27:41It's all real.
27:41I'm such a fan of all of these artists.
27:43But once again, let me say, Jack Severetti at number one, my friend.
27:46Yay!
27:47I didn't prepare a speech, right?
27:48No, clearly.
27:52But when were you told?
27:54When did the whispers start getting loud enough for you to hear that this might be something
27:57special?
27:58It was online.
27:58I mean, I asked everybody before the campaign even started.
28:02I was like, Luke, I don't want to know anything.
28:04Because it's not something I set out to do.
28:07It's not something that's in my sort of my reason for going for it.
28:10But the minute you know you really want it, the minute they give you that thing of like,
28:15Luke, we might be up in for a chance of a number one album, you suddenly start to think
28:18it's just such a nice way to thank everybody that's helped you make the record.
28:22Of course it is.
28:22You can make it mean nothing.
28:23It can mean absolutely nothing to you.
28:24Or you can make it mean everything to the people that are involved with this.
28:27Yeah, and that's so important, isn't it?
28:29We've had loads of messages because people knew you were coming on.
28:32You've got loads of fans.
28:33Loads of people looking forward to the Royal Albert Hall next week.
28:35Yeah, that's another thing keeping me up at night.
28:37We're playing the Royal Albert Hall, which is good.
28:39But you've done this before.
28:39Not on my own back.
28:42I've opened up for people.
28:43No, you've done gigs before.
28:44Oh, I've done gigs.
28:46It's just a different room.
28:48It's a different room.
28:48You know when the decorators come in and you have to move the sofa out from the living
28:52room to the kitchen?
28:53It's the same thing.
28:54It's the same thing.
28:54I keep telling the band that.
28:57Like, I'm preaching exactly what you're saying.
28:58I'm like a football manager.
28:59We stick to our game plan.
29:00But you don't believe it.
29:01But I'm dying inside.
29:03The band will go, Jack, we're fine with this.
29:04Yeah.
29:05Well, no.
29:06Look, it is like a football player playing Wembley.
29:08Everybody wants to bring their A game.
29:09And it does make a difference.
29:11There's something about that room when you walk into it.
29:13It's not the size of it.
29:14It's the regalness of it.
29:16The majesty.
29:17Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:17And it's intimate.
29:18And that's kind of really wonderful but disconcerting how intimate it is.
29:22It is.
29:23It's like a velvet cushion, isn't it?
29:25Hopefully.
29:25There's lots of velvet around.
29:26There's lots of crushed red velvet around.
29:28It's lush.
29:29The acoustics are fantastic, aren't they?
29:30The acoustics are fantastic.
29:32They're really good for voice and if you keep it quite intimate.
29:34If you go too big, it can sort of bounce all over the place.
29:37All right.
29:38So if you got a ticket for next week, he's not going big.
29:40You might as well stay home.
29:42Oh, no.
29:43We're going to go big.
29:44But on a different level.
29:45I'm sorry.
29:46So will it change?
29:47Will the rhythm of the show change because of where it is?
29:50No, that's another thing.
29:51We're really trying to stick to our guns and the band playing with me is my band for pretty
29:56much 15 to 20 years.
29:57Some guys have been with me for ages and they're the guys playing on the record.
30:00So this is kind of like the first time we're playing the record from top to bottom and we're
30:04doing something really grown up.
30:06I stole this idea from Arcade Fire.
30:08We're going to do the new album, top to bottom, then have an interval.
30:11Oh!
30:12Right.
30:13Ooh.
30:14Exactly.
30:15Is that because you...
30:16Because we're so grown up now.
30:17We're so old.
30:19You need a wee.
30:20We...
30:21That's the thing.
30:22The first time this ever happened to me, right?
30:24I went to...
30:25I think it was the Eagles.
30:27I think I went to...
30:28I think it was the Eagles.
30:29One of my dream shows.
30:31Yeah, one of the dream shows.
30:32And there was an interval.
30:33And I was like, an interval?
30:34This is interesting.
30:35And I'm thinking, okay, that's...
30:36It's beer time.
30:37But of course, you then go from the stadium, from your seat, and you go down to where the
30:42beers are.
30:43You think, it's going to be a big queue.
30:44I better get there as quick as I can.
30:45No, the queue for the lose was so much longer than the keys for the beers because of the
30:50demographic of the audience.
30:52Yeah.
30:53Yeah.
30:53I mean, I kind of put myself in that.
30:55Like, it'll be nice to have a little half an hour rest.
30:57Yeah.
30:58And I think the band needed a comfort break as much as the audience.
31:02We did a sort of...
31:03We did a show, like a warm-up show in Liverpool about a month ago, just to sort of see
31:06if we
31:06could actually play this stuff live.
31:08Yeah.
31:08And we had an interval.
31:09And we were all like, why have we never done this before?
31:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:11It was so nice.
31:12We got this...
31:13It's like a half-time in a football game.
31:14You get to recap.
31:15I love what you did on that thing.
31:16Let's do that in the second half.
31:16Yeah.
31:16Smelling salts.
31:17Bit of a rub down.
31:19Two beers.
31:20Yeah, why not?
31:20Two shots.
31:21Especially if it's going really well.
31:22That's the problem.
31:23Yeah.
31:23You've got to not celebrate though.
31:25It's only half-time.
31:25We learned that on our warm-up sort of run.
31:29Yeah.
31:29Don't get too excited.
31:30You can't really win it in the second half, but you can lose it in the second half.
31:33Absolutely.
31:33Oh my gosh.
31:34I don't want to sew that suit.
31:35Don't blame this on me.
31:37No, no, no.
31:37We'll keep it together.
31:39But it's really cool.
31:39And then the second half of the show, we're going to do our sort of old friends, our Almost
31:43Hits.
31:44It's going to be like an hour.
31:45You're Almost Hits.
31:46You should have an Almost Greatest It's Album.
31:48An Almost Greatest It's Album.
31:49But you don't need to, because I don't know if you know, but Jax is currently number one in
31:54the UK.
31:56Oh, Jack, Jack, Jack.
31:58Where was this new album?
31:59Where was it?
32:00Where was it?
32:01How was it born?
32:02Where did it come from?
32:03It's actually one of the first albums I've done in a long time without any preconceived
32:08concept, which sounds a bit clumsy.
32:10But in the past, I've sometimes protected the substance of what I'm saying in songs with
32:14style.
32:14It's a bit like if you feel like you're having imposter syndrome or you kind of don't feel
32:19like you maybe be up to scratch with what you're supposed to be doing, you dress it
32:22up a bit.
32:23And I've done that in the past.
32:24I've always also to protect the substance.
32:26With this one, I was like, no style.
32:28We're going full substance.
32:29This is jeans and t-shirt album.
32:30It'll do what it does.
32:31And you no longer need to fear Olivia Dean because you're number one.
32:35Can we hear it for the current number one selling artist in the UK album chart?
32:40It's Jack Soveretti!
32:45Now I've had lots of people asking, is Will McDonnell still here?
32:48Will!
32:49Will!
32:51Will!
32:52Will!
32:53Will!
32:54Will!
32:54It's Will!
32:55Will!
32:56Will!
32:56He loves that.
32:57He doesn't hate it.
32:58All right, coming up now, Jack Soveretti.
33:00Please welcome Jack Soveretti with the Ocean Colour Scenes, The Day We Call A Trail!
33:06I never saw it as the start.
33:10It's more a change of heart.
33:14Wrapping all the windows, whiskin' down the chimney pots.
33:20Blowing off the dust in the room where I forgot.
33:24I laid my plans in style and dry.
33:28Steppin' through the door like a troubadour while I'm just an hour away.
33:33Lookin' at the trees on the roadside, feelin' it's a holiday.
33:39You and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favorite coast, just bounce away.
33:48Roll another, write another song like Jimmy heard the day he caught the trail.
33:56Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
34:06-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
34:08-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
34:09-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
34:10-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
34:11-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
34:22Holding on the floor with the cigarette burns walked in
34:26I miss the crush and I'm home again
34:30Stepping through the door with the night in store
34:33While I'm just an hour away
34:36Stepping to the sky in the star bright
34:38Feeling it's a brighter day
34:41Well you and I should ride the coast
34:44And wind up in our favorite coast just miles away
34:50Roll a number
34:52Write another song like Jimmy heard the day he caught the trail
34:58Whoa-oh-oh-oh-la-la
35:01Whoa-oh-oh-la-la
35:04Whoa-oh-oh-la-la
35:06Whoa-oh-oh-oh
35:10You and I should ride the tracks
35:13And find ourselves just wading through tomorrow's
35:19You and I, when I'm coming down, we're only getting back
35:22And you know I feel that sorrow
35:26We've got the whole wide world, yes
35:29When you find the things are getting wild, don't you want days like these?
35:35When you find the things are getting wild, don't you want days like these?
35:40When you find the things are getting wild, don't you want days like these?
35:45When you find the things are these?
35:47Oh, la la, oh, la la
35:55All right, coming up next, India's biggest star, Shreya Gachelle's going to be here
36:00Performing Coldplay's big shoot, it's going to be amazing
36:03But before all that, first more T.F. Edgar
36:06Now
36:14We'll stand where the river bends
36:18I hope we fall in
36:21This time maybe
36:25Let's take a photograph
36:27We'll burn all the negatives
36:31I hope we fall in
36:37We'll step in wonder
36:41This keeps holding on to us
36:44We'll stand where the river bends
36:47I hope we fall in
36:52This time maybe
36:55How great is that?
36:57Sleeper sail of the century from back in the day, TFI Gold.
37:01Our next guest, a superstar singing sensation.
37:04It doesn't get any bigger than our next guest.
37:06With over three and a half thousand songs under her belt and hundreds of millions of fans across the planet.
37:11Her new album, All Hearts Live Tour, is out now, so let's say hello to our new pal. It is
37:17Shredder Gashal!
37:33So welcome. You're so welcome.
37:35Thank you. Shredder Gashal, you are gracing us with your presence, your band here.
37:39Tell us about your latest tour to the UK. What's been going on?
37:42Yeah, so we were here for the Unstoppable Tour and we just finished our London O2 Arena, which was the
37:50first for me as well, like the O2 Arena and it was a wonderful tour.
37:55We started from Manchester, Birmingham and then London.
37:59Okay, was this like a taste of tour? Are you going to come back and do more dates? You've got
38:03to.
38:04Yes. The response we're getting just from you, from when we said you were going to be on the show,
38:08oh my gosh.
38:09And you've recorded over three and a half thousand songs.
38:12Yes.
38:13I mean, that's incredible, isn't it? It's like, it's something sort of, you know, our sort of world of rock
38:18and roll.
38:19You know, if the Beatles recorded 400 or 500, you're three and a half thousand.
38:23Oh no!
38:24You're three thousand ahead of the Beatles. How does that feel?
38:27Oh God, no, nothing like that. But I think it's just the amount of work that happens back in India,
38:32because it's not just Hindi, which is the main language spoken.
38:36There are so many different regional languages as well.
38:40You've enjoyed over 12 billion downloads and streams, and you have like tens of millions of followers on all the
38:47social medias, 34.1 million followers on Instagram.
38:49What does that feel like, to have that sort of, that quantity of A, output, B, love, you know, clearly
38:57people absolutely adore what you do.
38:59Do you have to sort of, can you, how does one deal with that? Or do you just, is it,
39:06do you just have to park it, I suppose?
39:08I don't think so much about this. I mean, if you start thinking about how to manage listeners, algorithms, social
39:17media, then I think the music takes a backseat.
39:19So I just focus on the music and everything follows. That's easy.
39:23But you have just said, you have also said, you know, you look after your fans, there's literally more and
39:29more coming on board all the time.
39:31And so you have to sort of, you are aware of it, of course you're aware of it, and you
39:35do engage with your fans.
39:37I do.
39:37But you have four billion more listens than there are people on the planet.
39:44On the planet. So where are they listening to me from? Mars!
39:48Right, you prepared something very special for us tonight. Can you tell us the story behind it, please?
39:54Oh, so when Coldplay performed in Wembley in 2017, we were there. I think we, me and my husband, we
40:07have the most fondest memory of being in that concert.
40:10And we can't forget those memories. And then when finally Coldplay came to Mumbai, and they played, I was there
40:19again.
40:19And I think literally tears streaming down your face. It was true. And it's special. I think that song has
40:30a lot of depth and a lot of meaning to not just me, to many people.
40:33It fixes their problems and their, you know, how to deal with loss or how to deal with issues of
40:42life.
40:42So Fix You is a special song. And Coldplay. They're just too amazing.
40:47All right. Now, you've never met Chris Martin, but you'd like to.
40:49Yeah, please make it happen.
40:52Is this your love letter to Chris saying, please, can we hook up?
40:55Yeah.
40:56All right. So, so, so, so, no, no, no, no, no, no, just correct me.
41:02So, so we need, we need to get you to be best mates with Adele.
41:06Yeah.
41:06Yeah.
41:07And collaborate with Chris Martin.
41:08Yes.
41:09All right. Okay. Well, let's see how this goes. I'm sure it's going to be fine.
41:12All right. You go and get yourself ready to perform.
41:15All right. We've just about got time for this week's star of the week. Please welcome Supermax.
41:21Hi, Maxie.
41:23All right. Tell everyone about yourself.
41:25So my name is Max.
41:26I have a lifelong condition called osteogenesis imperfecta, otherwise known as brittle bone disease,
41:32meaning that my bones are a lot more fragile than other people's.
41:35I get a lot of chronic pain and fatigue daily, and it means I have to use distraction techniques
41:40to kind of try and put the pain out of the picture so that I can focus on everyday life,
41:45such as I use fidget toys.
41:48I do things like listening to audio books, playing a bit of Lego, and coming on TV shows.
41:57All right. Now you are supported by a charity, and now you also support that charity.
42:02Yep. So the Brittle Bone Society is a charity that has supported me literally throughout my entire life from the
42:09moment I was diagnosed.
42:10So they have helped with grants and funds, and they've been there for me whenever whenever I needed them.
42:15So I wanted to say a big thank you to them, and I wanted to raise a bit of money
42:19for them so that they could be able to help even more people.
42:24So I did a sponsored bike ride, which was the length of 26.2 miles, equivalent to a marathon.
42:31Wow.
42:33So I rode that around my local area, and after that, I managed to raise £142,000.
42:42She's just one of the many reasons she's our first ever TFI Unplugged Star of the Week, and you know
42:47what your prize is, don't you?
42:48Okay, okay. The prize for the Star of the Week.
42:50And by the way, feel free to nominate another Star of the Week for next week.
42:53It is to tell us what's on next week's show.
42:56So drop roll, please.
43:04On TFI, next week is...
43:08We've got absolutely no idea.
43:11Here we go.
43:12We're here straight anyhow.
43:15When you try your best, but you don't succeed.
43:22When you get what you want, but not what you need.
43:29When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep.
43:35Stuck in rivers.
43:43And the tears come stream down your face.
43:49When you lose something, but it goes to waste.
44:02Could it be worse?
44:12Lights will guide you home, and ignite your bones, and I will try to fix you.
44:32When you
44:33When you sowie can tell you your bones, and you will try to approach me.
45:04Ah, ah, ah, ah
45:10It all
45:14Ah, ah, ah, ah
45:21Ah, ah, ah
45:28Tears streamed down your face
45:34When you lose something you can't already live
45:41Tears streamed down your face tonight
45:56Tears streamed down your face
46:01I promise you I will learn from the mistakes
46:10Tears streamed down your face tonight
46:24Lights will come to home
46:30And we'll come to home
46:37And I will try to fix you
47:06Can't believe they brought this show back
47:08I will try to fix you
47:09I will try to fix you
47:11You
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