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00:00Can we go back in a bit with the packs, alright?
00:03Luke, whatever you want.
00:04TFI, to survive, take it away.
00:10My name is Chris Evans, original presenter of TFI Friday.
00:17So, Chris, how would you describe this TFI?
00:21Er, like the old one, only...
00:251% of the budget.
00:30Am I getting paid for this?
00:34It's a bit cheap, isn't it?
00:38My, what, that one?
00:41TFI, to survive, take that.
00:45So, er, yeah, I'm Kedge, and I'm the exec producer of TFI Unplugged.
00:49So, Evan says it's like the original, except 1% of the budget.
00:531%? No, no, it's much less than that.
00:56Don't tell him.
00:57Take, take, take, boom.
01:00My name's Owen, and I've just started working on TFI Unplugged.
01:05It's great, but what we're doing is school drivers to plan,
01:09so we need TFI.
01:11What do you do, Owen?
01:13Er, mostly get blamed for things.
01:15That seems a bit harsh.
01:17I love it.
01:21Do they feed you lot?
01:22No.
01:23I thought not.
01:24No, we've never been fed.
01:26Total t-ing, ain't he?
01:27Yeah.
01:43Yeah.
01:45Yeah.
02:03Hey, happy Friday, friends.
02:05Thanks for tuning in.
02:06This is actually episode nine of TFI Unplugged.
02:10And because it's episode nine, that means we can do this.
02:15Previously on TFI Unplugged.
02:23Do you want, what are you talking about?
02:25I look like Jedward.
02:27How much sums did you do to you?
02:29Loads. It was like, it was our second half.
02:31I'd rather top and go down than England when the world comes.
02:36Doesn't make for good TV.
02:37You can have that.
02:38Thank you very much.
02:39Basically, only homeless people turned up.
02:46All right, so that's all you've missed.
02:48But you can catch up on the first eight episodes of TFI Unplugged on YouTube.
02:53I know.
02:54Coming up tonight, we've got Sam Ryder on the show.
02:57Jack Sabaretti singing live.
03:00And India's biggest star, Shreya Gashal, on the show.
03:05But first of all, I've got a letter here about letters, actually.
03:09Hey, Chris, what is the current state of the It's Your Letters top five?
03:12Well, it's funny you should ask, because at number five in the all-time top five for It's Your Letters,
03:17it is, with It's Your Letters, Tony Bennett.
03:21Letters. It's your letters.
03:24Letters. It's your letters.
03:27Letters. At number four with It's Your Letters, it's Robbie Williams.
03:32It's your letters.
03:34It's your letters.
03:43At number three with It's Your Letters, it's the Bee Gees.
04:09Wow. At number two with It's Your Letters, it's the Foo Fighters.
04:17It's Your Letters.
04:27How about that?
04:28And at number one with It's Your Letters, the founding father of It's Your Letters, it's Ree.
04:34CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
04:36It's your letters.
04:39It's your letters.
04:41It's your name.
04:41It's your name.
04:47Best audience ever.
04:49But the thing is, it's 2026, so we actually need an It's Your Whatapps, please, Mr Jack Savaretti, if you
04:55don't mind.
05:00It's your whatapps, it's your whatapps.
05:05It's your whatapps, it's your whatapps.
05:10CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
05:13OK, now, is this better or worse?
05:16Once again, Mr Jack Savaretti.
05:21MUSIC PLAYS
05:22It's your whatapps, it's your whatapps.
05:26It's your whatapps, it's your whatapps.
05:31CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
05:32And he has more.
05:34Once again, is this better or worse?
05:35It's Jack Savaretti.
05:37MUSIC PLAYS
05:41It's your whatapps, it's your whatapps.
05:44It's your whatapps, it's your whatapps.
05:50CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
05:51How good is Jack Savaretti?
05:54Jack has a number one album today in the UK!
05:58CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:00So all we need now, by the way, is a whatapp, and I just happen to have one here from
06:04made-up name.
06:04Kelly from Kentucky, that'll do, OK.
06:07Kelly Kentucky says, she doesn't say, but we say,
06:09what's happened, see, what's happened, what's happened, I know,
06:13to Will since TFI last time, and is it true he hasn't aged today?
06:18Well, let's find out.
06:19Please welcome back, Will!
06:23CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:24Sweetie!
06:28CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:29Oh, Will is back!
06:31Come in, gang.
06:33Come and enjoy.
06:34A bit of Will, everybody!
06:37CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:40Steve Denyer's been dying to do that, haven't you?
06:41Don't do that.
06:42Wee!
06:43Don't do that.
06:44All right, we've been here before, haven't we, Will?
06:46I mean, we've been here anyway.
06:47Yeah, yeah.
06:4896, 97, 98, 99.
06:50But also, they're saying TFI is back, you know, first time since the 90s,
06:54but we've done it before.
06:56Yep, 2015.
06:572015.
06:58Was it 10 we did?
06:59We did a special.
07:01Right.
07:01Which was quite special.
07:02It was very special.
07:02It was quite special.
07:03It was a very special show.
07:04And then we did 10 more.
07:06All right, so we did 11.
07:07So we did 11.
07:08All right, so we brought it back, because Channel 4 said,
07:10why don't you do, like, a 20th anniversary show?
07:12They said 20th anniversary.
07:14Yes.
07:14We went, great, that's brilliant.
07:16I sat down and went, oh, it's 19, actually.
07:19Yeah, and they said, it doesn't matter, just call it the 20th.
07:21Yeah, yeah.
07:22So we did it.
07:22It's a very TFI thing to do.
07:23Yeah, it did really well, didn't it?
07:25And then they said, why don't you do some more?
07:26So we did some more.
07:27Yeah.
07:27So that was fun.
07:28Yeah, yeah.
07:28And then you went nuts.
07:29Then I went nuts.
07:30Not for the first time.
07:32Not for the first time.
07:35So when we were doing it back in the day, you were an exec producer,
07:40and we did loads and loads of shows,
07:41and then I didn't do the last six, you didn't do the last six.
07:44Who did do the last six?
07:46Presented by the likes of a couple of Spice Girls.
07:49Elton did the last one.
07:49Elton John.
07:50Elton John did the last TFI Friday.
07:51He put it to rest, yes.
07:52Yeah.
07:53Well, it didn't go well for him, so he had to go back to singing.
07:56It was his top gear.
07:59At least that's how I'm going to frame it.
08:02So, yeah, and then it went away.
08:04Okay, and then what did you do?
08:05I produced this wonderful novel here, novella here.
08:10Okay.
08:12Called How to a Pub Genius.
08:13Thank you very much for your admiration.
08:15Available in any good eBay's discount bin now for $50.
08:18The thing is, because Pub Genius was the slot we did on the show,
08:21because people loved it.
08:22Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:22And to the extent that you brought out this book,
08:24Will MacDonald, Pub Genius, did really well.
08:26You took it on tour.
08:26You had a whole live show.
08:27You had Dancing Girls, everything.
08:29Sure.
08:29Pyrotechnics going on.
08:30Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:30I knew about that.
08:32It's, I mean, you call it a book.
08:33My other half calls it a pamphlet,
08:35because the ink comes off on your fingers.
08:37And what does your other half do for a living?
08:40She works in opera.
08:41Yeah, she's a little pamphlet, Pub Genius.
08:46No, but I knew about that.
08:47So what's the confession?
08:48The confession is, you probably don't know this,
08:51brought out a second volume.
08:54You did not.
08:55I didn't know that.
08:57This now sounds like a plug for a book that came out 25 years ago.
09:01Well, Will MacDonald's here to talk about his new book.
09:04Seeing as you have two of these books out now,
09:06I think it's time for an updated reimagination of Will MacDonald, Pub Genius!
09:13CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
09:15I'm going to drink the beer in that glass,
09:18out of that sherry glass.
09:21Sherry, ask your dad.
09:22Anyone who's known what a sherry, sherry glass is.
09:24Out of there without touching it with my hands.
09:26Right, at this point we'll go,
09:27no, at this point we'll go,
09:28no way!
09:29No, can't be done.
09:30No way!
09:31Can't be done!
09:32Can't be done!
09:34Impossible!
09:35Impossible!
09:36The man's a fraud!
09:45That's the strangest heckle ever.
09:46Be careful with the microphone!
09:48What about my nice jumper?
09:51Erm, can be done.
09:52Drum roll, please.
09:53Drum roll.
10:05Let's go!
10:08No way!
10:09Turn in the way!
10:09Oh, God!
10:17Bye!
10:18It'll be done!
10:19No way!
10:21It'll be done.
10:22It won't be done!
10:24Then it won't stage the last minute.
10:37Well, Pop Genius, Volume 3, coming soon!
10:42Let's hear from Will, everyone!
10:44He remains the UK's official Pop Genius!
10:48Our next guest has the voice of an angel, the hair of a god
10:51and the brightest smile in showbiz.
10:53He is a mentor in the new series Your Song,
10:56which continues on Sundays on Channel 4.
10:58So let's make our whole day a lot brighter with Sam Ryder!
11:18Sam, Sam, Sam!
11:19Mate, I'm buzzing for this!
11:21We're buzzing on Channel 4, both of us on Channel 4!
11:23How are ya?
11:24I'm great! How's your new show?
11:25I was, like, getting goosebumps hearing your intro to show again.
11:29Yeah!
11:29I was just like, this is where you need to be done.
11:31Well, this is it, we're back, you're back, and you have your own thing going on with
11:34Yes!
11:34Tell us all about it, Sam Ryder!
11:36It's Berserk!
11:37It's, so we go up and down the country, we bring a stage with us, this amazing crew that work
11:42tirelessly
11:43building this thing and setting it up and organising people just to get on that stage,
11:47who've probably never sung in public before, by the way, with a live band, and the band are absolutely cooking!
11:53They're so good!
11:54And these guys just come, they share a story, could be something seismic that's happened in their life,
12:01the deepest depths of their soul that they're sharing with total strangers that are just out shopping,
12:06walking down the high street, and they'll sing a song that's attributed to that feeling and that story,
12:11and the connection that you see being made, honestly, Chris, it is just beautiful, man.
12:17It's so, so lovely.
12:19And you're perfect for this, because, you know, you wear your heart on your sleeve and some, don't you?
12:23Well, I try my best to, like, I think it's a nice way to live, because you get to meet
12:28people where they're at,
12:29and you find out more about them, like any interaction with a stranger, if you're emotionally open and your heart
12:35is open,
12:36I feel it's more valuable.
12:37So is it an anti-talent show? How would you describe it?
12:41I would say, I've never thought of it that way, but it's interesting because there's no carrot, man,
12:44there's no, like, sort of, you know, you win a record deal at the end, or we'll put your single
12:49out, like, at the end.
12:50It's nothing like that, because these people, they're not professional singers,
12:55they're likely hadn't ever stood on a stage with a live band, like an actual drummer playing before, something like
13:01that,
13:01and they're singing a song that's totally just theirs.
13:05The words mean something different to them than they do to, like, anyone else in the world.
13:10All right.
13:10All the way to best songs.
13:11Here's the thing, though, if somebody comes on and smashes it, what are you going to do?
13:14You're not going to ignore them, are you?
13:15Well, no, you don't ignore them, but you, like, you have an event at the end of it at the
13:20Hackney Empire.
13:21Yeah.
13:22And then all the singers, every single person's invited, everyone comes down and absolutely rinses the free bar.
13:27But a couple of the people from each round, like, we have them perform on the night.
13:34So that is the prize.
13:35I love the idea.
13:36There's no record deal.
13:37There's no, like, old tropes.
13:38And it's made by the Bake Off people.
13:40Yeah, so it's got heart.
13:41Yeah, well, also, the point is, I know that a lot of people who've won the Bake Off have gone
13:45on to do amazing things.
13:46Most of them have, in fact.
13:48That is hot, by the way.
13:49Sorry about that.
13:51I tried to style that out.
13:52It's not only our shows that are smoking, so is the tea.
13:55Things have changed at Channel 4.
13:57They bought a kettle.
13:58It's unbelievable.
14:00Not only you, but Paloma Faith as well, and Alison Hammond as well.
14:02Yeah, man.
14:02They're fantastic.
14:04I mean, they're mad as a box of frogs, like, both.
14:06But they're so good to be around.
14:08Individually, they're bonkers.
14:09Yeah, no.
14:09But together, all of us.
14:11Do you know what I mean?
14:11Then sprinkle a bit of rider on top.
14:13Yeah, yeah, mate.
14:13Who knows what might happen?
14:14All of our laughs, also, are so cackly, it's unreal.
14:18So I'm like, ha, ha, ha.
14:19And, like, Paloma as well, and Alison.
14:21So the three of us laughing together, it's like the Witches of Eastwick around the cauldron.
14:24Alison Hammond's laugh is second only to her smell.
14:27Yeah.
14:29She's the greatest smelling person in the show.
14:31Oh, mate, she's great.
14:32Unbelievable.
14:32Unbelievable.
14:33And so do you get together?
14:35Like, do you perform at any point, you and Paloma?
14:37Every now and then we'll jump up.
14:39Like, there's a little, they call it a golden hour.
14:42So anyone passing by that sort of wants to get involved can just jump up and sing.
14:47And it's so lovely, man, because you'll just see someone passing by with literally holding
14:52a bag of shopping and be like, I'll have a go.
14:54I love it.
14:55Everyone's getting involved.
14:56I love it.
14:57It's such a simple concept, isn't it?
14:59Yeah.
14:59This, it's like, it's music to your ears and it's the wind beneath your wings.
15:02Yeah, mate, absolutely.
15:04And I just want to sing wind beneath my wings now.
15:07Well, I always told you're on vocal.
15:09Yeah, I know, mate.
15:10Can you hear my voice?
15:10Well, we do that big guitar.
15:13Are you working on anything new at the moment, Sam?
15:15Um, always.
15:17But no, mate, honestly, you don't want to hear it.
15:20It is bad.
15:21So, seeing as we're now back on show, that's all the pair of us.
15:24Yay!
15:28Last orders of the bar, not just Sam and I drink it at the moment.
15:31How long do you know how to drink for?
15:32Um, over two years.
15:34Yeah.
15:35Two years.
15:35You?
15:36Nearly three.
15:37Mate, come on.
15:38Which is ironic, because the last time we did have a drink was together in a sauna.
15:41Yeah.
15:42Absolutely never.
15:43Yeah.
15:44Yeah.
15:46Highly unrecommended.
15:47That's like the worst possible thing you can do in a sauna.
15:49We went to be hydrated in a sauna with a bottle of tequila.
15:51Yeah, it was.
15:51It was good to do.
15:52Yeah, and that's probably what it did for both of us, I think, wasn't it?
15:55Yeah.
15:55It was.
15:55That was our bottom.
15:56Yeah, that was absolutely the Lancaster, all the engines out, just back.
16:01It really was, wasn't it?
16:02Yeah.
16:02Sam, great to see you, ma'am.
16:03Mate, this has been so fun.
16:04All right, this has been Sam Ryder, everyone.
16:06All right.
16:08Okay, okay.
16:09All right, we'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged!
16:12grade Shawn Man full-clock in the reboot.
16:12Bowers!
16:13Good girl, were you feeling the need?
16:30I want you some stress-based thing.
16:36Just keep going so hard.
16:37Just keep going on it.
16:37posit losing feeling after getting started, getting started!
16:54Wow. That was the brilliant Garbage and Stupid Girl.
16:59How good is that?
17:00Still to come on TFI Unplugged, India's biggest star Shrega Scholl is going to be here.
17:06She's going to be performing an amazing cover of Coldplay's Fiction.
17:09Plus, we reveal the winner of Serpity Jolly Juggler 2026.
17:14I know. I know. The finalists are amazing.
17:17Will it be Olympic gold medalist Matt Weston?
17:24Not bad.
17:26Or will it be Patrick McDreamy, Dr McDreamy Dempsey, with this?
17:36Very good.
17:37Or will it be Rockin' Ross Noble, juggling and eating?
17:46Exciting stuff.
17:47And remember, Serpity Juggling fans, your vote counts.
17:51And most importantly, you can only think your vote's in.
17:54Remember that, OK?
17:55Yeah, no, we don't accept any actual real votes.
18:00Sorry.
18:01Who watches this rubbish?
18:03All right, now it's time for something very special on TFI Unplugged.
18:07Every single week, we're going to bring some TFI gold.
18:10And where better to start than with...
18:12David Bowie.
18:33Welcome to the show, sir. Thank you very much.
18:38I think if you put Clive on his back, he'd be taller than me.
18:41Sorry?
18:41If you put Clive on his back, he'd be taller than me.
18:43All right, now listen, you've got these high heel things.
18:45Very high heel shoes.
18:47But they don't...
18:47Oh, OK, it counts.
18:49Well, look, there you go, I'll give you...
18:51I should measure out five foot ten and a half.
18:53I can't do five foot ten and a half.
18:55Yes.
18:56Are you five foot ten and a half?
18:57Yes.
18:57You're not five foot ten and a half.
18:58I'm five foot ten and a half.
19:00OK, all right, hang on a minute, hang on a minute.
19:01Let's see.
19:02What are you?
19:03Six, let's see.
19:04There you go.
19:05That's pretty accurate.
19:06David.
19:07I'm still big.
19:08Bowie?
19:09I'm...
19:09B...
19:10B...
19:11O...
19:12Go on.
19:13Carry on.
19:14W-I-
19:15OK, officially, David Bowie,
19:16it's taller than Ben Elm.
19:22Yeah!
19:23Thank you, David.
19:24Thank you, David.
19:24Oh, yeah.
19:26So, David...
19:26I had a hell of a time getting here.
19:28I know.
19:29Go on.
19:29I know you were talking about this.
19:30Go on.
19:30Let me tell...
19:31No, you don't know.
19:32I tried to cross Hammondsmith Bridge, and I didn't know that the rich people have got it all
19:36blocked up.
19:37Right.
19:38So, I got fined, dragged into court, all that, all in the last half hour.
19:42No way.
19:43Yes, it's absolutely true.
19:44And I've had gastroenteritis.
19:46Oh!
19:48All in the last half hour.
19:50Hey, Colin, you tell the gastroenteritis is still doing the rounds?
19:53Do you know how I got that?
19:54Go on.
19:54I was in Indonesia.
19:55I was lost in the jungle.
19:57This is absolutely true.
20:00What?
20:00I believe you.
20:02And an old man with one leg and a donkey found me and took me to a glade and pointed
20:08to a
20:08temple and a palace.
20:10And I said, I'm not Muslim.
20:12Wife is.
20:13I'm not.
20:14So, we're going to the palace.
20:16You're going to let me go on with this, aren't you?
20:17I'm dead right, mate.
20:18You started it.
20:19We got to the palace and it's the son of, I think he was a gun runner.
20:23And he had guys in turrets all around the palace with guns to keep the poor people out.
20:28And he was so pleased to see me that he put a sheet up in the garden at the bottom
20:32of
20:32the garden.
20:34Pour in with rain.
20:35Yeah.
20:35Servants holding a sheet up at the far end of the garden had a projector on the porch
20:40where we were.
20:40And we sat and watched Sahara with Brooke Shields.
20:48Then he threw a party and he had seven daughters and seven sons.
20:55Yeah.
20:56I always laugh when I say that, Ben.
20:58And the seven daughters, they entertained me royally with dance and no, flute playing.
21:06Fluke playing and dance.
21:07And he fed me things like monkey breast and parrot beak, I think it was.
21:13It was the course that night.
21:15And the next day, I redecorated the bathroom.
21:19But he sent his daughter over to me.
21:22Yeah.
21:22His favourite daughter.
21:23He sent to me.
21:25If you know what I mean.
21:26Yes.
21:27To you.
21:27I couldn't make it to the front door.
21:30Go away.
21:31You're beautiful, but go away.
21:33This was many years ago.
21:34That has nothing...
21:36This has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I got gastroenteritis the other day.
21:41That was just...
21:42It just reminded me, though, that I've had it twice.
21:52We're going to talk about the chair.
21:54OK.
21:54Shall we talk about the chair?
21:56No, you talk about whatever you want, but...
21:57This is the second worst chair I've sat on today.
22:00Show them.
22:00Show them the chair.
22:01Look at this chair.
22:02That chair.
22:03Yeah.
22:03The first one is owned by Richard Branson on Virgin Airlines.
22:07And he has...
22:08Oh, no.
22:09They're fabulous.
22:09Virgin Airlines are great.
22:11Except this one.
22:12It's the 747-200 series.
22:14And he bought it from Cathay, I think.
22:16Cathay Pacific.
22:17And they've left the old chairs on, the Chinese chairs.
22:20But they've just put virgin material on it.
22:23And you can't...
22:24You know, it won't go anywhere.
22:25It's all...
22:26And so I slept like that.
22:29I've only just...
22:30I've been up for 29 hours.
22:32I know.
22:32We can tell, can't we?
22:34This is me straight, buddy.
22:37You're lucky you didn't know me 25 years ago.
22:42How are you doing?
22:43I'm great, actually.
22:44Great.
22:44Good.
22:45You used to stay up for seven to eight days at a time.
22:47I did indeed, yes.
22:48Now, what's that like?
22:49I had a lot of friends.
22:51And you've got to give friends time.
22:54Was that the drugs, then?
22:57What, that attracted the friends, you mean?
22:59Well...
22:59The reason I had friends?
23:01Probably, yeah.
23:02I imagine.
23:02They all disappeared when I stopped doing drugs.
23:04So I think you're probably right on the money there.
23:06So, did you find that you wrote better songs...
23:09No.
23:09...or worse songs when you did the old, you know...
23:11Well, as I wrote things like Low, Heroes, Lodger,
23:15Scary Monsters, All Straight.
23:17By the way, by the way, by the way.
23:20Without drugs.
23:23Pretty much without drugs.
23:26I don't think...
23:27I think it's just an attitude more.
23:29You know, whether you're enjoying it and...
23:31But you don't have a drink now either, do you?
23:32I don't drink and I don't drug, no.
23:34But you smoke facts and you drink coffee.
23:36Oh, God.
23:36Yeah.
23:37I'm dying for a cigarette.
23:39Well, you can't have one on the telly.
23:41We're not allowed to.
23:41In the old days you could, but you can't anymore.
23:43Seriously.
23:43You can have one in drama, but this ain't a drama.
23:45Mind you, you're turning it into one.
23:46It's very good sense.
23:47It's time to tell that a drama or a...
23:49If you were...
23:50If the harm that cigarettes did...
23:52Yeah.
23:53...could be seen on the outside of your body...
23:54Could be bottled and sold.
23:56Well, it is, I suppose.
23:56You could provide half the mercenaries in America with a new weapon, couldn't you?
24:00But if it was...
24:01If it was visible...
24:01Forget anthrax, buddy.
24:03Nicotine.
24:04They did a program on American television the other night.
24:07I cannot believe it.
24:09As though we haven't got enough problems.
24:10Dateline did this thing.
24:12Let's recreate what would happen if terrorists threw anthrax down on the American subway.
24:18And they spent all this money showing us how 500,000 people would be dead in one day in New
24:24York.
24:25How bodies would be piled up because all the gravediggers would have buggered off to Queens or wherever they come
24:30from.
24:32Brooklyn? I don't know. Where do gravediggers come from?
24:34I don't know.
24:35Yeah.
24:36See, the questions this kind of debate rises.
24:39And it went on for about an hour and I was so depressed at the end of it.
24:43Realising that I really mustn't stay in cities where even the tiniest possibility of anthrax being loosed upon me and
24:51my family.
24:53But then I forgot all about it in half an hour because friends came on.
24:58And that's the world we live in?
24:59That's the world we live in.
25:00It is.
25:00Sure enough.
25:01Who are the best kisses?
25:02Stop smiling, your camera's shaking.
25:05Who are the best kisses, men or women?
25:08Why, ask me.
25:13Do they kiss differently?
25:17You know, there are a lot of doctors who can actually help you with this.
25:25David, actual baby. That seemed to work, didn't it?
25:27So let's do it again. Here's The Cure, back after the break.
25:32I don't care if Monday's blue.
25:36Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too.
25:39Thursday, I don't care about you.
25:42It's Friday.
25:43I don't care about you and I don't care about you.
25:51I don't care about you.
26:14I know. The actual cure. That was the cure with Friday, I'm in love.
26:20Okay, our next guest, it's Jack Saboretti!
26:28Number one, baby!
26:32Number one!
26:34How does it feel to be number one?
26:37What a way!
26:38I feel like I'm slightly too old for this.
26:40No way!
26:42But it's all thanks to you.
26:44It's not all thanks to me.
26:45You wrote the darn songs and you've been in it forever.
26:48Yeah, forever. It feels like forever.
26:50We will always be there.
26:51The brand new album from Jack Saboretti is currently number one in the league.
26:56Yeah, absolutely smashing the opposition.
26:59It's all true.
27:00Okay, so Cruel World, Holly Humberston.
27:04Amazing record.
27:04Yeah, nice one, Holly.
27:07So close, but no cigar.
27:09They're at number two.
27:10Ella Langley, Dandelion.
27:11Another amazing, they're all amazing records.
27:13They're all amazing.
27:13And then there's this newbie, Olivia Dean.
27:16Olivia Dean.
27:17Yeah.
27:17I told you that when they put a picture of me and her on socials on the official chart,
27:21and my daughter thought it was like me pranking her.
27:23Yeah.
27:24She didn't believe that I was actually...
27:25Well, first of all, you thought it was somebody pranking you.
27:26I thought I was being pranked.
27:28I wasn't going to say that.
27:30I thought I was being pranked.
27:32Yeah, and Ray is at number five as well.
27:34I'm such a fan of all of these artists.
27:35But once again, let me say Jack Saboretti at number one, my friend.
27:39Yay!
27:40I didn't prepare a speech, right?
27:41No, really.
27:45But when were you told?
27:47When did the Whispers start getting loud enough for you to hear that this might be something special?
27:51It was online.
27:52I mean, I asked everybody before the campaign even started.
27:55I was like, look, I don't want to know anything.
27:57Because it's not something I set out to do.
28:00It's not something that's in my reason for going for it.
28:03But the minute you know you really want it, the minute they give you that thing of like,
28:08look, we might be up in for a chance of a number one album,
28:10you suddenly start to think it's just such a nice way to thank everybody that's helped you make the record.
28:15Of course it is.
28:15You can make it mean nothing.
28:16It can mean absolutely nothing to you.
28:17Or you can make it mean everything to the people that are involved with this.
28:20Yeah, and that's so important, isn't it?
28:22Yeah.
28:22We've had loads of messages because people knew you were coming on.
28:25You've got loads of fans, loads of people looking forward to the Royal Albert Hall next week.
28:28Yeah, that's another thing keeping me up at night.
28:30We're playing the Royal Albert Hall, which is good.
28:32But you've done this before.
28:32Not for my own, not on my own back.
28:35I've opened up for people.
28:36No, you've done gigs before.
28:37Oh, I've done gigs.
28:39It's just a different room.
28:41It's a different room.
28:41You know when the decorators come in and you have to move the sofa out from the living room to
28:46the kitchen?
28:46It's the same thing.
28:47I'm telling myself, I keep telling the band that.
28:50Like, I'm preaching exactly what you're saying.
28:51I'm like a football manager.
28:52I'm like, we stick to our game plan.
28:53But you don't believe it.
28:54But I'm dying inside.
28:56The band, they go, Jack, we're fine with this.
28:58Yeah, well, no, look, it is like a football player playing Wembley.
29:01Everybody wants to bring their A game.
29:02And it does make a difference.
29:04There's something about that room when you walk into it.
29:06It's not the size of it.
29:07It's the regalness of it, the majesty.
29:09Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:10And it's intimate.
29:11And that's kind of really wonderful but disconcerting how intimate it is.
29:15It's like a velvet cushion, isn't it?
29:18Totally.
29:18There's lots of velvet around.
29:19There's lots of crushed red velvet around.
29:21It's lush.
29:22The acoustics are fantastic, aren't they?
29:23The acoustics are fantastic.
29:25They're really good for voice and if you keep it quite intimate.
29:27If you go too big, it can sort of bounce all over the place.
29:30All right.
29:31So if you've got a ticket for next week, he's not going big.
29:33You might as well stay home.
29:35Oh, no, we're going to go big but on a different level.
29:38So will it change?
29:40Will the rhythm of the show change because of where it is?
29:43No, that's another thing.
29:44We're really trying to stick to our guns.
29:46And the band playing with me is my band for pretty much 15 to 20 years.
29:50Some guys have been with me for ages.
29:51And they're the guys playing on the record.
29:53So this is kind of like the first time we're playing the record from top to bottom.
29:56And we're doing something really grown up.
29:59I stole this idea from Arcade Fire.
30:01We're going to do the new album top to bottom, then have an interval.
30:04Oh, right.
30:07Is that because you...
30:09Because we're so grown up now.
30:10We're so old.
30:12We need a wee.
30:14That's the thing.
30:15The first time this ever happened to me, right?
30:17I think it was the Eagles.
30:20I think it was the Eagles.
30:22One of my dream shows.
30:24Yeah, one of the dream shows.
30:24And there was an interval.
30:26And I was like, an interval?
30:27This is interesting.
30:28And I'm thinking, okay, it's beer time.
30:30But, of course, you then go from the stadium, from your seat, and you go down to where the beers
30:35are.
30:36You think, it's going to be a big queue.
30:37I better get there as quick as I can.
30:38No, the queue for the loos was so much longer than the queue for the beers because of the demographic
30:44of the audience.
30:45Yeah.
30:46I mean, I kind of put myself in that.
30:48It'll be nice to have a little half an hour rest.
30:50I think the band needed a comfort break as much as the audience.
30:54We did a show, like a warm-up show in Liverpool about a month ago just to sort of see
30:59if we could actually play this stuff live.
31:01And we had an interval.
31:02And we were all like, why have we never done this before?
31:04Yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:04It was so nice.
31:05It's like a halftime in a football game.
31:07You get to recap.
31:08I love what you did on that thing.
31:09Let's do that in the second half.
31:09Smelling salts.
31:10Bit of a rub down.
31:12Two beers.
31:13Yeah, why not?
31:13Two shots.
31:14Especially if it's going really well.
31:15That's the problem.
31:16You've got to not celebrate, though.
31:18It's only halftime.
31:19We learned that on our warm-up run.
31:22Don't get too excited.
31:22You can't really win it in the second half, but you can lose it in the second half.
31:25Absolutely.
31:26Oh, my gosh.
31:27I don't want to sew that suit.
31:28Don't blame this on me.
31:30No, no, no.
31:30We won't.
31:30Nice.
31:31We'll keep it together.
31:31But it's really cool.
31:32And then the second half of the show, we're going to do our sort of old friends, our almost hits.
31:36It's going to be like an hour.
31:38You're almost hits.
31:39You should have an almost greatest itself.
31:42But you don't need to because I don't know if you know, but Jack's never...
31:45It's currently number one in the UK.
31:49Oh, Jack, Jack, Jack.
31:51Where was this new album?
31:52Where was it?
31:54How was it born?
31:55Where did it come from?
31:56It was born out of...
31:57It's actually one of the few albums I've done...
31:58First albums I've done in a long time without any preconceived concept, which sounds a bit clumsy.
32:03But in the past, I've sometimes protected the substance of what I'm saying in songs with style.
32:07It's a bit like if you feel like you're having imposter syndrome or you kind of don't feel like you
32:12maybe be up to scratch with what you're supposed to be doing,
32:14you dress it up a bit.
32:15And I've done that in the past.
32:16I've always...
32:17Also to protect the substance.
32:19With this one, I was like, no style.
32:21We're going full substance.
32:22This is jeans and t-shirt album.
32:23It'll do what it does.
32:24And you no longer need to fear Olivia Dean because you're number one.
32:29Can we hear it for the current number one selling artist in the UK album chart?
32:33It's Jack Soveretti!
32:38Now, if I'd like to be a blessing, is Will McDonald still here?
32:41Will!
32:42Will!
32:44Will!
32:45Will!
32:47It's Will!
32:49He loves that.
32:50He doesn't hate it.
32:51All right, coming up now, Jack Soveretti.
32:53Please welcome Jack Soveretti with the ocean colour scenes, The Day We Call a Train!
32:59I never saw it as the star It's more a change of heart
33:07Wrapping on the windows, whisking down the chimney pots
33:13Blowing off the dust in the room where I forgot
33:16I laid my plans inside the crowd
33:21Stepping through the door like a troubadour
33:23While they're just an hour away
33:26Looking at the trees on the roadside
33:29Feeling it's a holiday
33:32You and I should ride the coast
33:35And wind up in our favourite coast
33:37Just find us a way
33:41Roll a number
33:43Write another song
33:46Like Jimmy heard the day
33:48He caught the train
33:49Woah-oh-oh-la-la
33:52Woah-oh-oh-la-la
33:55Woah-oh-oh-la-la
33:57Woah-oh-oh-oh-la
34:01Sipped another rum and coke
34:06Told a dirty joke
34:08Walking like a groucho, sucking on a number two
34:15Holding on the floor with the cigarette burns
34:18Walk down
34:19I'll miss the crush and I'm home again
34:22Hey!
34:24Stepping through the door with the night in store
34:26While I'm just an hour away
34:29Sleeping to the sky in the star
34:31Bright feeling it's a brighter day
34:34Well, you and I should ride the coast
34:37And wind up in our favourite coast
34:39Just miles away
34:43Roll a number
34:45Write another song
34:48Like Jimmy heard the day
34:50He caught the train
34:51Woah-oh-oh-la-la
34:54Woah-oh-oh-la-la
34:57Woah-oh-oh-la-la
34:59Woah-oh-oh-la-la
35:14Now we're only getting back
35:15And you know I feel that sorrow
35:18We've got the whole wide world
35:22Yes
35:22When you find the things are getting wild
35:25Don't you want days like these?
35:28When you find the things are getting wild
35:30Don't you want days like these?
35:33When you find the things are getting wild
35:36Don't you want days like these?
35:38Woah-oh-oh-la-la
35:42Woah-oh-oh-la
35:45Woah-oh-oh-la
36:08We'll stand where the river bends
36:11I hope we fall in
36:14This time maybe we
36:18Let's take a photo block
36:21We'll burn all the negatives
36:24I hope we fall in
36:37We'll stand where the river bends
36:40I hope we fall in
36:45This time maybe we
36:48How great is that?
36:50Sleeper sail of the century from back in the day, TFI Gold.
36:54Our next guest, a superstar singing sensation.
36:57It doesn't get any bigger than our next guest
36:59With over three and a half thousand songs under her belt
37:01And hundreds of millions of fans across the planet
37:04Her new album, All Hearts Live Tour is out now
37:07So let's say hello to our new pal
37:09It is Shredder Gashal!
37:26So welcome, you're so welcome
37:28Thank you
37:29Shredder Gashal, you are gracing us with your presence, your band here
37:32Tell us about your latest tour to the UK, what's been going on?
37:35Yeah, so we were here for the Unstoppable Tour
37:39And we just finished our London O2 Arena
37:43Which was our first for me as well
37:45Like the O2 Arena
37:46And it was a wonderful tour
37:48It started from Manchester, Birmingham and then London
37:51Okay, was this like a taster tour?
37:54Are you going to come back and do more dates?
37:56You've got to
37:56Yes
37:57The response we're getting just from you
37:59From when we said you were going to be on the show
38:01Oh my gosh
38:02And you've recorded over three and a half thousand songs
38:05Yes
38:05I mean, that's incredible, isn't it?
38:07It's like, it's something sort of, you know, our sort of world of rock and roll
38:12You know, if the Beatles recorded 400 or 500, you're three and a half thousand
38:16Oh no!
38:17You're three thousand ahead of the Beatles, how does that feel?
38:20Oh God, no, nothing like that
38:21But I think it's just the amount of work that happens back in India
38:25Because it's not just Hindi, which is the main language spoken
38:29There are so many different regional languages as well
38:33You've enjoyed over 12 billion downloads and streams
38:36And you have like tens of millions of followers on all the social medias
38:4034.1 million followers on Instagram
38:42What does that feel like to have that sort of, that quantity of A, output
38:47B, love, you know, clearly people absolutely adore what you do
38:52Do you have to sort of, can you, how does one deal with that?
38:57Or do you just, is it, do you just have to park it, I suppose?
39:01I don't think so much about this
39:03I mean, if you start thinking about how to manage listeners, algorithms, social media
39:10Then I think the music takes a backseat
39:12So I just focus on the music and everything follows
39:15Yeah
39:16That's easy
39:16But you have just said, you have also said, you know, you look after your fans
39:20There's literally more and more coming on board all the time
39:24And so, you have to sort of, you are aware of it, of course you're aware of it
39:28And you do engage with your fans
39:30I do
39:30But you have 4 billion more listens than there are people on the planet
39:37On the planet
39:37So where are they listening to me from?
39:40Mars!
39:42Right, you prepared something very special for us tonight
39:45Can you tell us the story behind it, please?
39:47Oh, so when Coldplay performed in Wembley in 2017
39:54We were there, I think we, me and my husband
39:59We have the most fondest memory of being in that concert
40:03And we can't forget those memories
40:07And then when finally Coldplay came to Mumbai
40:10And they played, I was there again
40:12And I, I, I think literally tears streaming down your face
40:17It was true
40:18And, uh, it's, it's special
40:22I think that song has a lot of depth and a lot of meaning
40:24To not just me, to many people
40:26It fixes their problems
40:28And their, their, uh, you know
40:31How to deal with loss
40:33Or how to deal with issues of life
40:35So fix you a special song
40:37And Coldplay
40:38They're just too amazing
40:39Alright, now you've never met Chris Martin
40:41But you'd like to
40:42Yeah, please make it happen
40:43Is this your
40:44Well, you've got to make it
40:46Is this your love letter to Chris saying
40:47Please, can we hook up?
40:48Yeah
40:49Alright, so, so, so
40:51No, no
40:52No, no, no, just crash
40:54So, so
40:55We need, we need to get you to be
40:57Best mates with Adele
40:58Yeah
40:59And collaborate with Chris Martin
41:01Yes
41:01Alright, okay
41:02Well, let's see how this goes
41:03I'm sure it's going to be fine
41:04Alright, you go and get yourself ready
41:06Um, to perform
41:08Alright, we've just about got time
41:09For this week's star of the week
41:10Please welcome
41:11Super Max
41:14Hi Maxie
41:16Alright, tell everyone about yourself
41:17So, my name is Max
41:19I have a lifelong condition
41:20Called osteogenesis imperfecta
41:22Um, otherwise known as
41:24Brittle bone disease
41:24Meaning that my bones
41:26Are a lot more fragile
41:27Than other people's
41:28Um, I get a lot of chronic pain
41:29And fatigue daily
41:30And it means I have to use
41:32Distraction techniques
41:33To kind of, um, try and put the pain
41:35Out of the picture
41:36So that I can focus on everyday life
41:38Such as, um, I use fidget toys
41:41Um, I do things like
41:43Listening to audiobooks
41:44Playing a bit of Lego
41:44Um, and coming on
41:46TV shows
41:47Coming on television
41:48Alright, now you are supported by a charity
41:53And now you also support that charity
41:55Yep
41:55So the, um, Brittle Bone Society
41:57Is a charity that has supported me
41:59Literally throughout my entire life
42:00Um, from the moment I was diagnosed
42:02So they have helped with grants
42:05And funds
42:06And they've been there for me
42:07Whenever I needed them
42:08So I wanted to say
42:09A big thank you to them
42:10Um, and I wanted to raise
42:12A bit of money for them
42:12Um, so that they could, um, be able to help even more people
42:17So I did a sponsored bike ride
42:19Um, which was the length of 26.2 miles
42:22Um, equivalent to a marathon
42:23Wow
42:24Wow
42:26So I rode that around my local area
42:28Um, and after that
42:30I managed to raise £142,000
42:35She's just one of the many reasons
42:37She's our first ever TFI Unplugged Star of the Week
42:40And you know your prizes don't you
42:41Okay, okay
42:41Uh, the prize for the Star of the Week
42:43And by the way
42:43Feel free to nominate another Star of the Week
42:45For next week
42:46It is to tell us what's on next week's show
42:49So
42:49So
42:49Drum roll please
42:58On TFI
42:59Next week is
43:00We've got absolutely no idea
43:05We're here straight or anyhow
43:08When you try your best
43:11But you don't succeed
43:15When you get what you want
43:18But not what you need
43:22When you feel so tired
43:24But you can't sleep
43:28Stuck in rivers
43:35And the tears come streaming down your face
43:42When you lose something
43:45You can't replace
43:49When you lose someone
43:52But it goes to waste
43:54Could it be worse?
44:05Lights will guide you home
44:11And ignite your bones
44:18And I will try
44:22To fix you
44:25To fix you
44:51Ah
44:56Ah
44:58Ah
44:58Ah
44:59Ah
45:03Ah
45:04Ah
45:04Ah
45:05Ah
45:05Ah
45:06Ah
45:09Ah
45:09Ah
45:11Ah
45:14Ah
45:14Ah
45:15Ah
45:15Ah
45:16Ah
45:21Tears stream down your face
45:27When you lose something you can't already live
45:34Tears stream down your face
45:48This stream down your face
45:54I promise you I will learn from the missus
46:02This stream down your face
46:08And now
46:17Lights will come to home
46:23And it will come to home
46:30And I will try to fix you
46:37Yeah
46:39Yeah
46:40Yeah
46:42Yeah
46:44Yeah
46:44Yeah
46:45Yeah
46:45Yeah
46:46Yeah
46:47Yeah
46:47Yeah
46:47Yeah