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00:09TFI
00:10Luke, whatever you want.
00:11TFI is to survive. 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 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, 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.
01:06Boom.
01:07My name's Owen, and I've just started working on TFI Unplugged.
01:18What do you do, Owen?
01:20Er, you 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.
01:31No, we'd never been fed.
01:33Total t-f**k, innit?
01:34Total t-f**k, innit?
01:35Yaah, you're dead!
01:39Yeahhh!...
01:40Yeahhh!
02:03Yeahhh!!
02:10Hey, happy Friday, friends.
02:12Thanks 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.
02:28TFI Unplugged.
02:30What are you talking about?
02:32I look like Jedward.
02:34How many times did you do, TFI?
02:36Loads.
02:36It was like it was our second half.
02:38I'd rather top and go down than England win the World Cup.
02:42Yes, I 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 Sam 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, because 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.
03:29It's Your Letters.
03:31Letters.
03:32It's Your Letters.
03:34At number four with It's Your Letters, it's Robbie Williams.
03:50At number three with It's Your Letters, it's the Bee Gees.
03:55It's Your Letters.
04:01It's Your Letters.
04:06It's Your Letters.
04:14It's Your Letters.
04:16Wow.
04:17At number two with It's Your Letters, it's the Foo Fighters.
04:24It's Your Letters.
04:34How about that?
04:35And at number one with It's Your Letters, the founding father of It's Your Letters, it's Ree.
04:41CHEERING
04:41It'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.
05:03MUSIC PLAYS
05:07It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps.
05:18CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
05:20OK, now, is this better or worse?
05:23Once again, Mr. Jack Savaretti.
05:27MUSIC PLAYS
05:29It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps.
05:39And he has more.
05:41Once again, is this better or worse?
05:43Jack Savaretti.
05:48It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps.
05:55CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
05:58How good is Jack Savaretti?
06:01Jack has a number one album today in the UK!
06:05CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:07So all we need now, by the way, is a Whatapp, 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?
06:18What's happened, I know, to Will since TFI last time?
06:23And is it true, he hasn't aged today?
06:25Well, let's find out.
06:26Please welcome back, Will!
06:30CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:31WILL!
06:33WILL!
06:35WILL!
06:35WILL!
06:36WILL!
06:37WILL!
06:38WILL!
06:39WILL!
06:39WILL!
06:40WILL!
06:41WILL!
06:44WILL!
06:46WILL!
06:47WILL!
06:48WILL!
06:49WILL!
06:49WILL!
06:49WILL!
06:50WILL!
06:50WILL!
06:51WILL!
06:52We've been here before, haven't we Will?
06:53WILL!
06:53I mean we've been here anyway, yeah.
06:5596, 97, 98, 99.
06:57Yeah.
06:57But also, they're saying TFI is back, you know, first time since the 90s, but we've done
07:02it 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 quite 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
07:18show?
07:19They said 20th anniversary.
07:21Yes.
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,
07:45you were exec producer, and we did loads and loads of shows,
07:48and then I didn't do the last six.
07:50You 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 did the last TFI Friday.
07:58He put it to rest, yes.
08:00Yeah, well, it didn't go well for him,
08:01so 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.
08:11OK, and then what did you do?
08:12I produced this wonderful novel here, novella here.
08:18OK.
08:19Cool.
08:19How to be a pub genius.
08:20Thank you very much for your admiration.
08:22Available in any good eBay's discount bin now for 50p.
08:25The thing is, because pub genius was the slot we did on the show,
08:28people loved it.
08:29Yeah, yeah.
08:29And to the extent that you brought out this book,
08:31Will MacDonald, pub genius, did really well.
08:33You took it on tour.
08:33You had a whole live show.
08:34You had Dancing Girls, everything.
08:36Sure, yeah.
08:36Pyrotechnics going on.
08:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:37I knew about that.
08:38It's funny.
08:39I mean, you call it a book.
08:41My other half calls it a pamphlet,
08:42because the ink comes off on your fingers.
08:43Yeah.
08:44And what does your other half do for a living?
08:46Uh, she works in opera.
08:48Yeah, she's, uh, she's a little pamphlet pub genius.
08:53No, but I knew about that.
08:54So what's the confession?
08:56Uh, the confession is, you probably don't know this,
08:57uh, 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.
09:08Will MacDonald's here to talk about his new book.
09:11Seeing as you have two of these books out now,
09:13I think it's time for an updated reimagination of
09:16Will MacDonald, pub genius!
09:21Uh, I'm going to drink the beer in that glass
09:25out of that sherry glass.
09:28Cherry, ask your dad.
09:29Anyone who's known what a sherry glass is.
09:32Uh, out of there without touching it with my hands.
09:33Right, at this point we all go,
09:34no, at this point we all go,
09:35no way!
09:36No, can't be done.
09:37No way!
09:38Can't be done!
09:39Can't be done!
09:41Impossible!
09:42Impossible!
09:43The man's the fraud!
09:52That's the strangest heckle ever.
09:53Be careful with the microphone!
09:55What about my nice jumper?
09:58Um, can be done.
09:59Drum roll, please.
10:00Drum roll.
10:24Oh, no way!
10:29No way!
10:32Oh, yeah!
10:44Well, Pop Genius, Volume 3, coming soon.
10:49Let's hear from Will, everyone.
10:51He remains the UK's official Pop 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!
11:25Sam, Sam, Sam!
11:26Mate, I'm buzzing for this.
11:28We're buzzing on Channel 4, both of us on Channel 4.
11:30How are you?
11:31I'm great. How's your new show?
11:32I was, like, getting goosebumps hearing your intro to show again like that.
11:36I was just like, this is where you need to be.
11:38Well, this is it. We're back. You're back.
11:39And you have your own thing going on with Play With Me.
11:41Yes.
11:41Tell us all about it, Sam Ryder.
11:43It's berserk.
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, depth 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 and that story.
12:18And the connection that you see being made, honestly, Chris,
12:22it is just beautiful, man.
12:25It'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.
12:32Yeah, you do.
12:32I think it's a nice way to live because you get to meet people
12:35where they're at and 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?
12:46How 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,
12:54you 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.
13:01They're likely hadn't ever stood on a stage with a live band,
13:06like an actual drummer playing 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.
13:16All right.
13:17All the way to best songs do.
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.
13:28And 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.
13:42There'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.
14:13But 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 Ryder 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 around the cauldron.
14:31Alison Hammond's laugh is 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?
14:42Do you perform at any point, you and Paloma?
14:45Every now and then we'll jump up.
14:46Like, there's a little, they call it a golden hour.
14:49So anyone passing by that 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.
15:02And everyone'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 now.
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?
15:22Um, always.
15:23But, 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 the pair of us.
15:31Yay!
15:35Woo-hoo!
15:38How long have you not had a drink for?
15:40Um, over two years.
15:42Yeah, two years.
15:43You?
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, yeah.
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?
16:02It was.
16:02That was our bottom.
16:03Yeah, that was absolutely the Lancaster,
16:06all the engines out, just back.
16:08It really was, wasn't it?
16:09Sam, great to see you, ma'am.
16:10Mate, this has been...
16:10All right, this has been Sam Ryder, everyone!
16:13All right, we'll be back after the break
16:17with more TFI Unplugged!
16:19CHEERING
16:19A stupid girl
16:22A stupid girl
16:26A stupid girl
16:29All you had it wasted
16:31All you had it wasted
16:35A stupid girl
16:47It's stupid, girl
16:50Oh, yeah, have you wasted
16:54I can't believe you faked it
17:01Wow!
17:02That was the brilliant Garbage and Stupid Girl.
17:06How good is that?
17:07All right.
17:07Still to come on TFI Unplugged,
17:09India's biggest star, Shrega Scholl's going to be here.
17:13She's going to be forming an amazing cover
17:15of Coldplay's Fiction.
17:16Plus, we reveal the winner of
17:18Slurpsy Jolly Juggler 2026.
17:21I know.
17:22I know.
17:23The finalists are amazing.
17:24Will it be Olympic gold medalist Matt Weston?
17:31Not bad.
17:33Or will it be Patrick McDreamy,
17:36Dr McDreamy Dempsey, with it?
17:39Yeah!
17:42Very good.
17:44Or will it be Rockin' Ross Noble juggling and eating?
17:53Exciting stuff.
17:54And remember, Celebrity Juggling fans,
17:56your vote counts.
17:58And most importantly,
17:59you can only think your votes in.
18:01Remember that, OK?
18:02Yeah, no.
18:03We 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 on TFI Unplugged.
18:14Every single week, we're going to bring some TFI gold.
18:17And where better to start than with David Bowie?
18:20Yeah!
18:22Yeah!
18:23Yeah!
18:33Yeah!
18:38Ah!
18:39Hello, Chris.
18:40Welcome to the show, sir.
18:41Thank you very much.
18:42OK.
18:45I think if you put Clive on his back, he'd be taller than me.
18:48Sorry?
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, OK, it counts.
18:56Well, look, there you go, I'll give you...
18:58I should... measure out five foot ten and a half.
19:00I can't do five foot ten and a half.
19:02Yes.
19:03Are you five foot ten and a half?
19:04Yes.
19:04You're not five foot ten and a half.
19:06I'm five foot ten and a half.
19:07OK, all right, hang on a minute, hang on a minute. Let's see.
19:09What are you?
19:10There you go. There you go.
19:12That's pretty accurate.
19:13David.
19:14I'm still big.
19:15Bowie?
19:17Uh... B-O...
19:19Go on.
19:20Carry on.
19:21W-I-E-N.
19:22OK, officially, David Bowie is taller than Ben Elm.
19:24Yeah!
19:30Oh, yeah.
19:33So, David...
19:33I had a hell of a time getting here.
19:35I know, go on. I know you want to talk about this.
19:37Oh, let me tell... No, you don't know.
19:38I tried to cross Hammond-Smith 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,
19:48all 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, Colin, you tell the gastroenteritis is still doing the rounds?
20:00Do 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, and an old man with one leg and a donkey found me
20:11and took me to a glade and pointed to a temple and a palace.
20:17And I said, I'm not Muslim.
20:20Wife is. I'm not.
20:21So, we're going to the palace.
20:22You're going to let me go on with this, aren't you?
20:24I'm dead right, mate. You started it.
20:26We got to the palace, and it's the son of, I think he was a gun runner,
20:31and he had guys in turrets all around the palace with guns
20:33to keep the poor people out.
20:35And he was so pleased to see me
20:37that he put a sheet up in the garden
20:39at the bottom of the garden, pouring with rain.
20:42Yeah.
20:42Servants holding a sheet up at the far end of the garden
20:45had a projector on the porch where we were,
20:47and we sat and watched Sahara with Brooke Shields.
20:54Then...
20:56Then he threw a party, and he had seven daughters
20:58and seven sons.
21:02Yeah.
21:03I always laugh when I say that bit.
21:05And the seven daughters, they entertained me royally
21:09with dance and, no, flute playing.
21:13Flute playing and dance,
21:15and he fed me things like monkey breast
21:17and 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 favourite daughter he sent to me.
21:32If you know what I mean.
21:33Yes. To you.
21:34And I couldn't make it to the front door.
21:36I was like, go 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
21:46that I got gastroenteritis the other day.
21:48That was just...
21:49It just reminded me, though, that I've had it twice.
21:59We're going to talk about the chair.
22:01OK.
22:01Shall we talk about the chair?
22:02No, you can talk about whatever you want, but...
22:04This is the second worst chair I've sat on today.
22:07Show them, show 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...
22:15No, 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,
22:27but they've just put virgin material on it.
22:30And you can't...
22:31You know, it won't go anywhere.
22:32It's all...
22:33And so I slept like that.
22:36I've only just...
22:37I've been up for 29 hours.
22:39We can tell, can't we?
22:41This 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, great.
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,
23:11so I think you're probably right on the money there.
23:13So, did you find that you wrote better songs or worse songs?
23:17When you did the old, you know...
23:18Well, as I wrote things like,
23:20Low, Heroes, Lodger, Scary Monsters...
23:23Oh, by the way, by the way, by the way.
23:27Without drugs.
23:30Pretty much without drugs.
23:33I don't think...
23:34I think it's just an attitude more.
23:36You know, whether you're enjoying it and...
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 smoke facts and you drink coffee.
23:43Oh, God, yeah.
23:44I'm dying for a cigarette.
23:46Well, you can't have one on the telly.
23:47We're not allowed to.
23:48In the old days you could, but you can't anymore.
23:50Seriously, can't.
23:50You can have one in drama, but this ain't a drama.
23:52Mind you, you're turning it into one.
23:53It's very good sense.
23:54It's time to tell that a drama or a...
23:56If you were...
23:57If the harm that cigarettes did...
23:59Yeah.
24:00...could be seen on the outside of your body...
24:01Could be bottled and sold.
24:03Well, it is, I suppose.
24:04You could provide half the mercenaries in America
24:06with a new weapon, couldn't you?
24:07But if it was...
24:08Forget anthrax, buddy.
24:10They did a program on American television the other night.
24:14I cannot believe it, as though we haven't got enough problems.
24:17Dateline did this thing.
24:19Let's recreate what would happen if terrorists threw anthrax down
24:22on the American subway.
24:25And they spent all this money showing us how 500,000 people
24:29would be dead in one day in New York.
24:32How bodies would be piled up because all the gravediggers
24:35would have buggered off to Queens or wherever they come from.
24:39Brooklyn, I don't know.
24:40Where 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
24:55possibility of anthrax being loosed upon me and my family.
25:00But then I forgot all about it in 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 kisses...
25:09Stop smiling, your camera's shaking.
25:12Who are the best kisses, men or women?
25:15Why, ask me.
25:19Do they kiss differently?
25:24You know, there are a lot of doctors who can actually help you with this.
25:32David, actual baby. That seemed to work, didn't it?
25:34So let's do it again. Here's the cure back after the break.
25:39I don't care if Monday's blue.
25:43Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too.
25:46There's no, I don't care about you.
25:49It's Friday.
25:50There is no, I don't care if anyone else today.
25:55There is a Mother has never been told to go on.ucher,
26:09or an offensive community, An offensive
26:10player feels dangerous. And when
26:10can say, the access to your wealth is passar to her. At this
26:10point we were done in such an surprise today and got through it. Let's
26:13see if można our hearts only advised, onice
26:13people Jedal of Usher Ant timing reading,
26:21I know, the actual cure, that was the cure, it's 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 weight!
26:45I feel like I'm slightly too old for this.
26:47No way!
26:48But it's all thanks to you.
26:50I'm going to read the promo that you need to push.
26:51It's not all thanks to me, you wrote the darn songs and you've been in it forever.
26:55Yeah, forever, it feels like forever.
26:57We will always be there, the brand new album from Jack Sabaretti is currently number one in the league!
27:03Yeah, absolutely smashing the opposition!
27:06It's all true!
27:07Okay, so Cruel World, Holly Humberston.
27:10Amazing record.
27:12Yeah, nice one, Holly, but so close, but no cigar.
27:16They're at number two, Ella Langley, Dandelion.
27:18Another amazing, they're all amazing records.
27:20They're all amazing, and 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,
27:28and 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.
27:35I wasn't going to say that.
27:37I thought I was being pranked.
27:39Yeah, and Ray is at number five as well.
27:41I'm such a fan of all these artists.
27:43But once again, let me say Jack Sabaretti at number one, my friend.
27:47I didn't prepare a speech, right?
27:48No, well, clearly.
27:52But when were you told, when did the whispers start getting loud enough for you to hear
27:57that this might be something special?
27:58It was online.
27:59I mean, I asked everybody before the campaign even started.
28:02I was like, look, 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 reason for going for it.
28:10But the minute you know you really want it, the minute they give you that thing of like,
28:14look, we might be up in for a chance of a number one album, you suddenly start to think it's
28:18just 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?
28:29Yeah.
28:29We've had loads of messages because people knew you were coming on.
28:32You've got loads of fans, loads of people looking forward to the Royal Albert Hall next
28:35week.
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.
28:40Not for my own, not 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.
28:54I'm telling myself, I keep telling the band that.
28:57Like, I'm preaching exactly what you're saying.
28:58I'm like a football manager.
28:59I'm like, we 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, well, no, look, it is like a football player playing Wembley.
29:08Everybody wants to bring their A game.
29:09And it does make a difference.
29:10There's something about that room when you walk into it.
29:12It's not the size of it.
29:14It's the regalness of it.
29:16The majesty.
29:16Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:17And it's intimate.
29:18And that's kind of really wonderful, but disconcerting how intimate it is.
29:22It's like a velvet cushion, isn't it?
29:25There's lots of velvet around.
29:26There's lots of crushed red velvet around.
29:28It's lush.
29:28The acoustics are fantastic, aren't they?
29:30The acoustics are fantastic.
29:32They're really good for voice.
29:33And 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've got a ticket for next week, he's not going big.
29:40You might as well stay home.
29:42Oh, no, we're going to go big.
29:43But on a different level.
29:45So 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.
29:53And the band playing with me is my band for pretty much 15 to 20 years.
29:56Some guys have been with me for ages.
29:58And 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.
30:03And we're doing 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.
30:12Oh, right.
30:14Is that because you...
30:16Because we're so grown up now.
30:17We're so old.
30:19You need a wee.
30:21That's the thing.
30:22The first time this ever happened to me, right?
30:24I think it was the Eagles.
30:27I think it was the Eagles.
30:29Amazing.
30:29One of my dream shows.
30:30Yeah, one of the dream shows.
30:31And there was an interval.
30:32And I was like, an interval?
30:34This is interesting.
30:35And I'm thinking, okay, it's beer time.
30:37But, of course, you then go from the stadium, from your seat,
30:41and you go down to where the beers 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 loos was so much longer than the queue for the beers
30:49because of the demographic 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, and I think the band needed a comfort break as much as the audience.
31:02We did a show, like a warm-up show in Liverpool about a month ago
31:05just to sort of see if we could actually play this stuff live.
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.
31:12It's like a halftime in a football game.
31:14You get to recap.
31:15I love what you did on that thing.
31:16Let's do that in a second.
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.
31:23You've got to not celebrate, though.
31:25It's only halftime that we learned that on our warm-up sort of run.
31:29You can't really win it in the second half,
31:31but you can lose it in the second half.
31:32Absolutely.
31:33Oh, my gosh.
31:34I don't want to sew that suit.
31:35Don't blame this on me.
31:36No, no, no.
31:37We won't.
31:37We'll keep it together.
31:38But it's really cool.
31:39And then the second half of the show,
31:41we're going to do our sort of old friends, our almost hits.
31:43It's going to be like an hour.
31:45You're almost hits.
31:46You should have an almost greatest hits album.
31:47An almost greatest hits.
31:49But you don't need to, because I don't know if you know,
31:51but Jack's number one is currently number one in the UK.
31:56Oh, Jack, Jack, Jack.
31:58Where was this new album?
31:59Where was it?
32:01How was it born?
32:02Where did it come from?
32:03It was born out of...
32:04It's actually one of the few albums I've done,
32:05first albums I've done in a long time
32:07without any preconceived concept,
32:08which sounds a bit clumsy.
32:09But in the past,
32:10I've sometimes protected the substance
32:12of what I'm saying in songs with style.
32:14It's a bit like,
32:15if you feel like you're having imposter syndrome
32:17or you kind of don't feel like you may be up to scratch
32:20with what you're supposed to be doing,
32:21you dress it up a bit.
32:22And I've done that in the past.
32:23I've always...
32:24Also 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
32:33because you're number one!
32:36Can we hear it for the current number one
32:38selling artist in the UK album chart?
32:41It's Jack Soveretti!
32:45Now, if I've had lots of people asking,
32:46is Will McDonald still here?
32:48Will!
32:49Will!
32:51Will!
32:52Will!
32:54It's Will!
32:56He loves that.
32:57He doesn't hate it.
32:58All right, coming up now,
33:00Jack Soveretti.
33:00Please welcome Jack Soveretti
33:01with the Ocean Colour Scenes,
33:03The Day We Call The Train!
33:06I never saw it as the start
33:09It's more a change of heart
33:14Wrapping on the windows
33:16Wispin' down the chimney pots
33:20Blowin' off the dust
33:21In the nowhere I forgot
33:23I laid my plans
33:25In silent pride
33:28Steppin' through the door
33:29Like a troubadour
33:30While I'm just an hour away
33:33Lookin' at the trees
33:35On the roadside
33:36Feelin' it's a holiday
33:39You and I should ride the coast
33:42And wind up in our favorite coast
33:44Just find some way
33:48Roll a number
33:50Write another song
33:52Like Jimmy heard the day
33:55He caught the trail
33:56Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-la-la
33:59Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-la-la
34:04Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-la-la
34:08Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
34:09You sipped another rum and coke
34:13Told a dirty joke
34:16Walkin' like a groucho
34:18Suckin' on a number platforms
34:22Holdin' on the floor
34:23Where the cigarette burns walked in
34:25I 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
34:38Bright feeling it's a brighter day
34:41Well you and I should ride the coast
34:44And wind up in our favorite coast
34:46Just miles away
34:50Roll a number
34:52Write another song like Jimmy Hurd
34:56The day he called the train
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
35:18You and I, we're not coming down
35:21We're only getting back
35:22And you know I feel that sorrow
35:25We've got the whole wide world
35:28Yes
35:29When you find the things are getting wild
35:32Don't you want days like these?
35:35When you find the things are getting wild
35:37Don't you want days like these?
35:40When you find the things are getting wild
35:43Don't you want days like these?
35:46Whoa-oh-oh-oh-la-la
35:49Whoa-oh-oh-oh-la
35:52Thank you so much
35:55All right, coming up next
35:56India's biggest star
35:58Shreya Ghashal's gonna be here
36:00Performing Coldplay's big tune
36:02It's going to be amazing
36:03But before that
36:04First more TFI
36:17I hope you fall in
36:21This time maybe
36:25Let's take a boat to block
36:28We'll burn all the negatives
36:31I hope you fall in
36:37We'll step through one day
36:40This keeps having answers
36:44We'll stand where the river bends
36:47I hope you fall in
36:51This time maybe
36:53How great is that?
36:57Sleeper sail of the century
36:59From back in the day
37:00TFI girl
37:01Our next guest
37:02A superstar singing sensation
37:04It doesn't get any bigger
37:05Than our next guest
37:05With over three and a half thousand songs
37:07Under her belt
37:08And hundreds of millions of fans
37:10Across the planet
37:11Her new album
37:12All Hearts Live Tour
37:13Is out now
37:14So let's say hello
37:15To our new pal
37:16It is
37:17Shreya Ghashal
37:32You're so welcome
37:34You're so welcome
37:35Thank you
37:36Shreya Ghashal
37:37You're gracing us
37:38You're gracing us with your presence
37:38Your band are here
37:39Tell us about your latest tour to the UK
37:41What's been going on?
37:42Yeah so we were here for our
37:44The Unstoppable Tour
37:46And we just finished our London O2 Arena
37:50Which was the first for me as well
37:52Like the O2 Arena
37:53And it was a wonderful tour
37:55It started from Manchester, Birmingham
37:57And then London
37:58Okay was this like a taste tour?
38:01Are you going to come back and do more dates?
38:02You've got to
38:03Yes
38:04The response we're getting
38:05Just from you
38:06From 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
38:12I mean that's incredible isn't it?
38:14It's like
38:15It's something sort of
38:16You know
38:16Our sort of world of rock and roll
38:18You know
38:19If the Beatles recorded 400 or 500
38:21You're three and a half thousand
38:23Oh no
38:24You're three thousand ahead of the Beatles
38:26How does that feel?
38:27Oh god no
38:27Nothing like that
38:28But I think it's just the
38:29The amount of work that happens back in India
38:32Because it's not just Hindi
38:34Which 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
38:43And you have like tens of millions of followers
38:46On all the social medias
38:4734.1 million followers on Instagram
38:49What does that feel like
38:51To have that sort of
38:52That quantity of
38:53A. Output
38:54B. Love
38:56You know
38:56Clearly
38:57People absolutely adore what you do
38:59Do you have to sort of
39:01Can you
39:01How does one deal with that?
39:04Or do you just
39:04Is it
39:05Do you just have to park it I suppose?
39:08I don't think so much about this
39:10I mean if you start thinking about
39:12How to manage listeners
39:16Algorithms
39:16Social media
39:17Then I think the music takes a back seat
39:19So I just focus on the music
39:21And everything follows
39:22Yeah
39:23That's easy
39:23But you have just said
39:24You have also said
39:25You know you look after your fans
39:27There's literally more and more
39:29Coming on board all the time
39:30Yeah
39:31And so you have to sort of
39:33You are aware of it
39:34Of course you're aware of it
39:35Yeah
39:35And you do engage with your fans
39:36I do
39:37But you have 4 billion more listens
39:41Than there are people on the planet
39:43On the planet
39:44So where are they listening to me from?
39:47Mars!
39:48Right you prepared something very special for us tonight
39:51Can you tell us the story behind it please?
39:54Oh
39:56So when Coldplay
39:58Performed in Wembley in 2017
40:01We were there
40:02I think we
40:03Me and my husband
40:06We have the most fondest memory
40:09Of being in that concert
40:10And we can't forget those memories
40:14And then when finally Coldplay came to Mumbai
40:17And they played
40:18I was there again
40:19And I think literally tears streaming down your face
40:24It was true
40:25And it's special
40:28I think that song has a lot of depth
40:30And a lot of meaning
40:31To not just me
40:32To many people
40:33It fixes their problems
40:35And their
40:37You know
40:38How to deal with loss
40:40Or how to deal with issues of life
40:42So Fix You is a special song
40:44And Coldplay
40:45They're just too amazing
40:46Alright now you've never met Chris Martin
40:48But you'd like to
40:49Yeah please make it happen
40:50Is this your
40:51Well you've got to make it
40:52Is this your love letter to Chris saying
40:54Please can we hook up?
40:55Yeah
40:55Alright
40:56So
40:57So
40:57No
40:58No
40:59No just correct
41:01So
41:02We need to get you to be
41:04Best mates with Adele
41:05Yeah
41:06And collaborate with Chris Martin
41:08Yes
41:08Alright
41:09Okay
41:09Well let's see how this goes
41:10I'm sure it's going to be fine
41:11Alright you go and get yourself ready
41:13To perform
41:15Alright we've just about got time for this week's
41:17Star of the week
41:17Please welcome
41:18Super Max
41:19Yeah
41:21Hi Maxie
41:23Alright tell everyone about yourself
41:24So my name is Max
41:26I have a lifelong condition called osteogenesis imperfecta
41:29Otherwise known as brittle bone disease
41:31Meaning that my bones are a lot more fragile than other people's
41:35I get a lot of chronic pain and fatigue daily
41:37And it means I have to use distraction techniques
41:40To kind of try and put the pain out of the picture
41:43So that I can focus on everyday life
41:45Such as
41:46I use fidget toys
41:48I do things like listening to audio books
41:51Playing a bit of Lego
41:52And coming on
41:53TV shows
41:54Coming on television shows
41:57Alright now you are supported by a charity
42:00And now you also support that charity
42:02Yep
42:02So the Brittle Bone Society is a charity that has supported me
42:05Literally throughout my entire life
42:07From the moment I was diagnosed
42:09So they have helped with grants and funds
42:12And they have been there for me whenever I needed them
42:15So I wanted to say a big thank you to them
42:17And I wanted to raise a bit of money for them
42:20So that they could be able to help even more people
42:24So I did a sponsored bike ride
42:26Which was the length of 26.2 miles
42:29Equivalent to a marathon
42:31Wow
42:33So I rode that around my local area
42:36And after that I managed to raise £142,000
42:42She's just one of the many reasons
42:44She's our first ever TFI Unplugged Star of the Week
42:47And you know your prizes don't you
42:48Okay okay
42:48The 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
42:55So drop her off please
43:04On TFI
43:05Next week is
43:07We've got absolutely no idea
43:09Yay!
43:11Here we go
43:12We're here straight or 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
43:42And the tears come streaming down your face
43:49When you lose something you can't replace
43:56When you love someone but it goes to waste
44:01Could it be worse?
44:12Lights will guide you home
44:18And ignite your bones
44:25And I will try to fix you
44:57Ah
44:59I
45:03Ah, ah.
45:05Ah, ah, ah.
45:11Yeah, ah.
45:15Ah, ah, ah.
45:20Ah, ah, ah.
45:28Tears stream down your face
45:33When you lose something you cannot relish
45:41Tears stream down your face
45:55This stream down your face
46:01I promise you I will learn from the mistakes
46:09This stream down your face
46:15And I will try to fix you
47:06I can't believe they brought this show back
47:08I can't believe they brought this show back
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