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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?
01:34Yeah.
01:37Yeah!
01:38Yeah!
01:50Yeah!
01:59Cherry With Everything
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.
02:55Maybe you've missed, but 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 Sabaretti 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, It's Your Letters.
03:31Letters, It's Your Letters.
03:34At number four with It's Your Letters, it's Robbie Williams.
03:39At number three with It's Your Letters, It's The Bee Gees.
03:55It's Your Letters.
04:01It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters.
04:12It'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,
04:39It's Reef.
04:42CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
04:42It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters.
04:50CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
04:54Best audience ever.
04:56But the thing is, it's 2026, so we actually need an It's Your What apps, please, Mr. Jack Savaretti, if
05:02you don't mind.
05:07It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters.
05:11It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters.
05:18CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
05:20OK, now, is this better or worse?
05:23Once again, Mr. Jack Savaretti.
05:24MUSIC PLAYS
05:37CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
05:39And he has more.
05:41Once again, is this better or worse?
05:43Jack Savaretti.
05:45MUSIC PLAYS
05:47MUSIC PLAYS
05:48MUSIC PLAYS
05:48It's Your Letters, It's Your Letters, It'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?
06:00MUSIC PLAYS
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 WhatsApp,
06:09and I just happen to have one here from made-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?
06:18See, what's happened?
06:18What's happened?
06:19I know.
06:20To Will, since TFI last time.
06:23And is it true he hasn't aged today?
06:25Well, let's find out.
06:26Please welcome back, Will!
06:30CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:31CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:33CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:36Oh, Will is back!
06:38Come in, James!
06:40Come and enjoy a bit of Will, everybody!
06:44CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:47Steve Denyer's been dying to do that, haven't you?
06:48Don't do that!
06:50Weeeeee!
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,
07:00first 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 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,
07:16because Channel 4 said,
07:17why don't you do, like, a 20th anniversary show?
07:19They said 20th anniversary.
07:21Yes.
07:21We went, great, that's brilliant.
07:23I sat down and went, tip, tip, tip, tip.
07:25Oh, it's 19, actually.
07:26Yeah, and they said, it doesn't matter,
07:27just call it the 20th.
07:28Yeah, yeah.
07:29So we did it.
07:29Which is 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.
07:41So when we were doing it back in the day,
07:45you were exec producer,
07:46and 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.
07:56Elton John.
07:57Elton John did the last TFI Friday.
07:58He put it to rest, yes.
07:59Yeah.
08:00Well, it didn't go well for him,
08:01so he had to go back to singing.
08:03It was his top gear.
08:05Yeah, yeah.
08:06At least that's how I'm going to frame it.
08:09So, yeah.
08:10And then it went away.
08:11Okay, and then what did you do?
08:12I produced this wonderful novel here,
08:17novella here.
08:17Okay.
08:19Called How To Be A Pub Genius.
08:20Thank you very much for your admiration.
08:22Available in any good eBay's discount bin now.
08:25The thing is,
08:26because 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 McDonald 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.
08:36And it's going on.
08:37Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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,
08:42because the ink comes off on your fingers.
08:43Yeah.
08:44And what does your other half do for a living?
08:47She works in opera.
08:48Yeah.
08:48She's a little pamphlet, Pub Genius.
08:53No, but I knew about that.
08:54So what's the confession?
08:55The confession is,
08:57you probably don't know this,
08:58brought out a second volume.
09:01You did not.
09:02Yay!
09:02I didn't know that.
09:04This now sounds like a plug for a book that came out 25 years ago.
09:08Will McDonald'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 re-imagination of
09:16Will McDonald, Pub Genius!
09:20CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
09:22I'm going to drink the beer in that glass,
09:25out of that cherry glass.
09:28Cherry...
09:28Ask your dad.
09:29Anyone who knows what a cherry glass is.
09:31Out of there without touching it with my hands.
09:33Right, at this point we'll go...
09:35No way!
09:36No, can't be done.
09:37No way!
09:38No way!
09:38Can't be done!
09:39No way!
09:41No way!
09:43The man's a fraud!
09:44Never going to happen!
09:46Never going to happen!
09:47Never going to happen!
09:47Don't believe it!
09:48Never going to happen!
09:49Don't believe it!
09:49Watch the microphone!
09:51LAUGHTER
09:52That's the strangest heckle ever.
09:53Be careful with the microphone!
09:56What about my nice jumper?
09:57Erm, can be done.
09:59Drum roll please.
10:00Drum roll.
10:00degrading motors...
10:15It was a confront con vÃdeo!
10:18Break on your aesthetic!
10:23Amen!
10:24That's the Auley kannst du amour!
10:26No way!!
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 and the brightest smile in
11:00showbiz.
11:00He is a mentor in the new series, Your Song, which continues on Sundays on Channel 4.
11:05So let's make our whole day a lot brighter with Sam Ryder.
11:27I'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 like that.
11:36I was just like, this is where you need to be done.
11:38Well, this is it.
11:38We're back.
11:38You're back.
11:39And you have your own thing going on with playing with me.
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 and setting it up and organising
11:52people just to get on that stage.
11:54You've probably never sung in public before, by the way, with 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 depths of their soul that they're sharing with total strangers that are just
12:12out shopping, walking 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, it is just beautiful, man.
12:24It's so, so lovely.
12:26And you're perfect for this because you wear your heart on your sleeve and some, don't
12:30you?
12:30Well, I try my best to.
12:32I think it's a nice way to live because you get to meet people where they're at and you
12:36find out more about them.
12:39Like any interaction with a stranger, if you're emotionally open and your heart is open, I
12:43feel it's more valuable.
12:44So is it an anti-talent show?
12:47How would you describe it?
12:48I would say, I've never thought of it that way, but it's interesting because there's no carrot,
12:51man.
12:51There's no like sort of, you know, you win a record deal at the end or we'll put your
12:55single out.
12:56Like at the end.
12:57It's nothing like that because these people, they're not professional singers.
13:01They're likely hadn't ever stood on a stage with a live band, like an actual drummer playing
13:07before or something like that.
13:08And they're singing a song that's totally just theirs.
13:12The words mean something different to them than 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.
13:18If somebody comes on and smashes it, what are you going to do?
13:21You're not going to ignore them, are you?
13:22No, you don't ignore them.
13:23But you, you like, you have an event at the end of it at the Hackney Empire.
13:28Yeah.
13:28And then all the singers, every single person's invited.
13:32Everyone comes down and absolutely rinses the free bar.
13:34But a couple of the people from each round, like we have them perform on the night.
13:41So that, that is the prize.
13:42There's no, there's no, there's no record deal.
13:44There's no like old tropes.
13:45It's made by the Bake Off people.
13:47Yes.
13:47So it's got heart.
13:48Yeah.
13:49Well, also the point is, I know that a lot of people who've won the Bake Off have gone
13:52on to do an amazing things.
13:53Most of them have in fact, and that is hot by the way.
13:56Sorry about that.
13:58I tried, I tried to style that out.
13:59It's not only our shows that are smoking, so is the tea.
14:02How many things have changed at Channel 4, they bought a kettle.
14:05It's unbelievable.
14:07Not only you, but Paloma Faith as well, and Alison Hammond as well.
14:09Yeah, man.
14:09They're fantastic.
14:11I mean, they're mad as a box of frogs, like both, but 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, it's unreal.
14:25So I'm like, and like Paloma as well, and Alison.
14:28So the three of us laughing together, it'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 business.
14:38Oh, mate.
14:38She'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.
14:46There's a little, they call it a golden hour.
14:49So anyone passing by that sort of wants to get involved can just jump up and sing.
14:54And it's so lovely, man, because you'll just see someone passing by with literally holding
14:59a bag of shopping and be like, I'll have a go.
15:02And everyone's getting involved.
15:03I love it.
15:04It's such a simple concept, isn't it?
15:06Yeah.
15:06This?
15:07It's like, it's music to your ears and it's the wind beneath your wings.
15:09Yeah, mate.
15:10Absolutely.
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.
15:16Can you hear my voice?
15:17Well, we do have a guitar.
15:20Are you working on anything new at the moment, Sam?
15:23Always.
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.
15:35Last orders of the bar, not just someone I drink at the moment.
15:38How long have you not had a drink for?
15:40Over two years.
15:42Two years.
15:43Nearly three.
15:44Mate, come on.
15:45Which is ironic, because the last time we did have a drink was together in a sauna.
15:48Yeah.
15:49Absolutely never.
15:50Yeah.
15:51Yeah.
15:53Highly unrecommended.
15:54That's like the worst possible thing you can do in a sauna.
15:56You were hydrated in a sauna with a bottle of tequila.
15:58Yeah, it was.
15:58It was good tequila.
15:59And that's probably what it did for both of us, I think.
16:01Wasn't it?
16:02It was.
16:02That was our bottom.
16:03Yeah, that was absolutely the Lancaster, all the engines out.
16:08Just bang.
16:08It really was, wasn't it?
16:09Yeah.
16:09Sam, great to see you, ma'am.
16:10Mate, this has been so fun.
16:11Alright, this has been Sam Ryder, everyone.
16:13Alright.
16:15Okay, okay.
16:16Alright, we'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
16:24Let's go.
16:25Let's go.
16:28Let's go.
16:36Let's go.
16:39Get ready for the time.
16:43You stupid girl, you're stupid girl.
16:50Oh yeah, have you wasted?
16:54I can't believe you faked it.
17:02Wow, that was the brilliant Garbage and Stupid Girl.
17:06How good is that?
17:07All right, still 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 of Coldplay's Fit Cube.
17:16Plus, we reveal the winner of Celebrity Jolly Juggler 2026.
17:21I know, I know, the finalists are amazing.
17:24Will it be Olympic gold medalist Matt Weston?
17:27CHEERING
17:31Not bad.
17:33Or will it be Patrick McDreamy, Dr McDreamy Dempsey, with it?
17:40CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
17:42Very good.
17:44Or will it be Rockin' Ross Noble juggling and eating?
17:49CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
17:52Exciting stuff.
17:54And remember, Celebrity Juggling fans, your vote counts.
17:58And most importantly, you can only think your vote's in.
18:01Remember that, OK?
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 on TFI Unplugged.
18:14Every single week, we're going to bring some TFI gold.
18:16And where better to start than with...
18:19David Bowie.
18:20CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
18:42I 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.
18:53But they don't...
18:54Oh, 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.
19:02Guess.
19:02Are you five foot ten and a half?
19:04Yes.
19:04You're not five foot ten and a half.
19:05I'm five foot ten and a half.
19:07OK, all right, hang on a minute.
19:08Let's see.
19:09What are you?
19:10Six foot three.
19:11There you go.
19:11There you go.
19:12That's pretty accurate.
19:13David.
19:14I'm still big.
19:15Bowie?
19:16I'm...
19:16B...
19:17B...
19:18O...
19:19Go on.
19:20Carry on.
19:20W-I-O...
19:22OK, officially, David Bowie's taller than Benno.
19:24CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
19:31Oh, yeah.
19:33So, David...
19:33I had a hell of a time getting here.
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
19:42have got it all blocked up.
19:44Right.
19:45So I got fined, dragged into court,
19:48all that, all in the last half hour.
19:49No way.
19:50Yes, it's absolutely true.
19:51And I've had gastroenteritis.
19:53Oh.
19:55All in the last half hour.
19:57Hey, Colin, you tell the gastroenteritis
19:58is 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.
20:09And an old man with one leg and a donkey found me
20:11and took me to a glade
20:14and pointed to a temple
20:15and a palace.
20:17And I said,
20:18I'm not Muslim.
20:19Wife is.
20:20I'm not.
20:20So 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.
20:25You started it.
20:26We got to the palace
20:27and it's the son of,
20:29I think he was a gun runner
20:31and he had guys in turrets
20:32all around the palace with guns
20:33to keep the poor people out.
20:35He was so pleased to see me
20:37that he put a sheet up
20:38in the garden
20:39at the bottom of the garden
20:40pouring with rain.
20:42Yeah.
20:42Servants holding a sheet up
20:44at the far end of the garden
20:45had a projector
20:46on the porch
20:47where we were
20:47and we sat and watched
20:49Sahara with Brooke Shields.
20:53Then
20:56then he threw a party
20:57and he had seven daughters
20:58and seven sons.
21:02Yeah.
21:03I always laugh
21:03when I say that.
21:05And the seven daughters,
21:07they entertained me
21:08royally
21:09with dance
21:10and, no,
21:11flute playing.
21:13Flute playing and dance
21:14and he fed me things
21:16like monkey breast
21:17and parrot beak,
21:19I think it was.
21:20It was the course that night
21:21and the next day
21:24I redecorated the bathroom.
21:26But he sent his daughter
21:28over to me.
21:29His favourite daughter
21:30he sent to me.
21:32If you know what I mean.
21:33Yes.
21:34To you.
21:35I couldn't make it
21:35to the front door.
21:37Go away!
21:38You're beautiful
21:39but go away.
21:40This was many years ago.
21:41That has nothing...
21:43This has absolutely
21:45nothing to do
21:46with the fact
21:46that I got gastroenteritis
21:48the other day.
21:48That was just...
21:49It just reminded me, though,
21:51that I've had it twice.
21:52I've had it twice.
21:53I've had it twice.
21:55APPLAUSE
21:59We're going to talk about the chair.
22:01OK.
22:02Shall we talk about the chair?
22:03No, you talk about whatever you want.
22:04This is the second worst chair
22:06I've sat on today.
22:07Show them.
22:07Show them the chair.
22:08Look at this chair.
22:09That chair.
22:10The first one
22:11is owned by Richard Branson
22:12on Virgin Airlines.
22:14And he has...
22:15No, they're fabulous.
22:16Virgin Airlines are great.
22:18Except this one.
22:19It's the 747-200 series.
22:21And he bought it from Cathay,
22:23I think, Cathay Pacific.
22:24And they've left the old chairs
22:26on the Chinese chairs
22:27but they've just put
22:28Virgin 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?
22:42This is me straight, buddy.
22:44You're lucky you didn't know me
22:4625 years ago.
22:49How are you doing?
22:50I'm great, actually.
22:51Great.
22:51Good.
22:52You used to stay up
22:53for 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,
23:05you mean?
23:06The reason I had friends?
23:08Probably, yeah.
23:09I imagine.
23:09They all disappeared
23:10when I stopped doing drugs
23:11so I think you're probably
23:12right on the money there.
23:13So, did you find
23:14that you wrote better songs
23:16or worse songs
23:17when you did the old, you know...
23:18Well, as I wrote things like
23:20Low, Heroes, Lodger,
23:22Scary Monsters,
23:23or Straight.
23:24By 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.
23:48We're not allowed to.
23:48In the old days you could,
23:49but you can't anymore.
23:50Seriously, can't.
23:50You can have one in drama,
23:51but this ain't a drama.
23:52Mind you, you're telling it into one...
23:53It's very good sense.
23:54It's not the job of a drama or a...
23:56If you were...
23:57If the harm that cigarettes did...
23:59Yeah.
24:00Could be seen on the outside of your body...
24:01Could be bottled and sold.
24:02Well, 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.
24:10Nicotine in a bottle.
24:11They did a programme 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
24:21if terrorists threw anthrax down on the American subway.
24:25And they spent all this money
24:27showing us how 500,000 people
24:30would be dead in one day in New York.
24:32How bodies would be piled up
24:34because all the gravediggers
24:35would have buggered off to Queens
24:37or wherever they come from.
24:39Brooklyn?
24:39I 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
24:48and I was so depressed at the end of it
24:50realising that I really mustn't stay in cities
24:53where even the tiniest possibility
24:56of anthrax being loosed upon me and my family.
25:00But then I forgot all about it in a half an hour
25:02because 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?
25:20Do they kiss differently?
25:24You know, there are a lot of doctors
25:26who can actually help you with this.
25:32David, actual baby.
25:33That seemed to work, didn't it?
25:34So let's do it again.
25:35Here's the cure.
25:36Back after the break.
25:39I don't care if Monday's blue
25:42Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too
25:45Thursday, I don't care about you
25:49It's Friday, I don't care about you
26:23This is Friday, I'm in love.
26:27Okay, our next guest, it's Jack Savoretti!
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 Savoretti 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.
27:18They'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,
27:28and 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, but it's all real.
27:39Yeah, and Ray is at number five as well.
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 special?
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.
28:05Because 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,
28:15Luke, we might be up in for a chance of a number one album.
28:17You suddenly start thinking, it'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.
28:38Well, you've done this before.
28:40Not 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 room to
28:53the kitchen?
28:53It's the same thing.
28:54I keep telling the band that.
28:56Like, 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.
29:05Yeah, well, 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'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, we're going to go big.
29:43No.
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.
29:53And the band playing with me is my band for pretty much 15 to 20 years.
29:57Some 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.
30:05We're going to do...
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 need a brand.
30:18We're so old.
30:19You need a we.
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.
30:46The queue for the lose was so much longer than the keys for the beers because of the demographic
30:51of the audience.
30:52Yeah.
30:53Yeah.
30:53I mean, I kind of put myself in that, like, it'll be nice to have a little half an hour
30:56rest.
30:57Yeah, and 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.
31:08And 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 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.
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 half-time.
31:26We learned that on our warm-up run.
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.
31:32Absolutely.
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 crazy six album.
31:49But you don't need to, because I don't know if you know, but Jack is currently number
31:53one 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 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
32:19feel like you maybe be up to scratch with what you're supposed to be doing, you dress
32:22it up 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?
32:41It's Jack Savarelli!
32:45Now I've had lots of people asking, is 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.
32:58Alright, coming up now, Jack Savarelli.
33:00Please welcome Jack Savarelli with the Ocean Colour Scenes, The Day We Call A Train!
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 train.
33:56Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
34:05-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
34:14-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 while I'm just an hour away
34:36Stepping to the sky in the star bright feeling it's a brighter day
34:41Well you and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favorite coast just miles away
34:50Roll a number, write another song like Jimmy Hurd, the day he called the trade
34:58Whoa-oh-oh-la-la, whoa-oh-la-la, whoa-oh-la-la, whoa-oh-la-la, whoa-oh-oh
35:09-oh
35:09You and I should ride the tracks and find ourselves just wading through tomorrows
35:19You and I, we're not 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, like these
35:46Whoa-oh-oh-oh-la-la
35:49Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-la
35:52Thank you so much.
35:55All right, coming up next, India's biggest star,
35:58Shreya Shal's going to be here.
36:00Performing Coldplay's picture is going to be amazing.
36:03But before that, first, more T.F. Icon.
36:08We'll step in one day
36:11Just keep turning on to us
36:14We'll stand where the river bends
36:18I hope we fall in
36:21This time we'll leave it in
36:25Let's take a boat to go
36:28We'll burn all the negatives
36:31I hope we fall in
36:37We'll step in one day
36:40Just keep turning on to us
36:44We'll stand where the river bends
36:48I hope we fall in
36:52This time we'll leave it in
36:55Let's take a boat to go
36:56How great is that, Sleeper, Sailor of the Century
36:59from back in the day, T.F. Icon.
37:01Our next guest, a superstar singing sensation.
37:04It doesn't get any bigger than our next guest
37:06with over 3,500 songs under her belt
37:08and hundreds of millions of fans across the planet.
37:11Her new album, All Hearts Live Tour
37:13is out now
37:14So let's say hello to our new pal
37:16It is Shreya Gishal!
37:18CHEERING
37:24CHEERING
37:25CHEERING
37:26CHEERING
37:28CHEERING
37:29CHEERING
37:29CHEERING
37:33You're so welcome
37:34You're so welcome
37:36Shreya Gishal
37:37You are gracing us with your presence
37:38Your band here
37:39Tell us about your latest tour to the UK
37:41What's been going on?
37:42Yeah, so we were here for the Unstoppable Tour
37:46and we just finished our London O2 Arena
37:50which was our first for me as well
37:52like the O2 Arena
37:53and it was a wonderful tour
37:55It started from Manchester, Birmingham and then London
37:58OK, was this like a taster tour?
38:01Are you going to come back and do more dates?
38:03You've got to
38:03Yes!
38:04The response we're getting just 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!
38:13I mean that's incredible, isn't it?
38:14It's like
38:15it's something sort of, you know
38:17our sort of world of rock and roll
38:19you know, if the Beatles recorded 400 or 500
38:22you'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, nothing like that
38:28but I think it's just the 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
38:44and you have like tens of millions of followers on all the social medias
38:4734.1 million followers on Instagram
38:49What does that feel like to have that sort of
38:52that quantity of A, output, B, love
38:56you know, clearly people 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
39:04do 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
39:15algorithms
39:16social media
39:17then I think the music takes a backseat
39:19so I just focus on the music and everything follows
39:22Yeah
39:23That's easy
39:23But you have just said
39:24you have also said
39:26you know, you look after your fans
39:27there's literally more and more coming on board all the time
39:30Yeah
39:31And so you have to sort of
39:33you are aware of
39:34of course you're aware of it
39:35Yeah
39:35And you do engage with your fans
39:37I do
39:37But you have 4 billion more listens
39:41than there are people on the planet
39:44On the planet
39:44So where are they listening to me from?
39:47Mars
39:48Right, you've prepared something very special for us tonight
39:51Can you tell us the story behind it, please?
39:54Oh
39:56So when Coldplay performed in Wembley in 2017
40:02we were there
40:03I think we
40:03me and my husband
40:07we have the most fondest memory of being in that concert
40:10and we
40:11can't
40:12forget
40:13those memories
40:14and then when finally Coldplay came to Mumbai
40:17and
40:17they played
40:18I was there
40:19again
40:19and I
40:20I think
40:21literally tears
40:22streaming down your face
40:24it was true
40:25and
40:27it'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
40:36their
40:37you know
40:38how to deal with loss
40:40or how to deal with issues of life
40:42so fix you
40:43a special song
40:44and Coldplay
40:45they're just too amazing
40:46All right
40:47now 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
40:53is this your love letter to Chris saying
40:54please can we hook up?
40:55Yeah
40:56All right
40:57so
40:57so
40:57so
40:57no no no just cry
41:01so
41:02so
41:03we need to get you to be
41:04best mates with Adele
41:05Yeah
41:06and collaborate with Chris Martin
41:08Yes
41:08All right, okay
41:09well let's see how this goes
41:10I'm sure it's going to be fine
41:11all right
41:12you go and get yourself ready
41:13to perform
41:15all right
41:15we've just about got time for this week's
41:17star of the week
41:17please welcome
41:18Super Max
41:21Hi Maxie
41:23All right
41:23tell everyone about yourself
41:25So my name is Max
41:26I have a lifelong condition
41:27called osteogenesis imperfecta
41:29otherwise known as brittle bone disease
41:31meaning that my bones are a lot more fragile
41:34than other people's
41:35I get a lot of chronic pain
41:36and fatigue daily
41:37and it means I have to use
41:39distraction techniques
41:40to kind of
41:40try and put the pain
41:42out of the picture
41:43so that I can
41:44focus on everyday life
41:45such as
41:46I use fidget toys
41:48I do things like
41:50listening to audio books
41:51playing a bit of Lego
41:52and
41:53coming on
41:53TV shows
41:54Coming on television shows
41:57All right
41:58now you are supported by a charity
42:00and now you also support that charity
42:02Yep
42:02so the brittle bone society
42:04is a charity that supported me
42:06literally throughout my entire life
42:08from the moment I was diagnosed
42:09so they have helped with grants
42:12and funds
42:13and they've been there for me
42:14whenever whenever I needed them
42:15so I wanted to say
42:16a big thank you to them
42:18and I wanted to raise a bit of money for them
42:20so that they could
42:22be 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
42:32Wow
42:33So I rode that around my local area
42:36and after that
42:37I managed to raise
42:38£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 what your prize is don't you?
42:48Okay okay
42:48The prize for the Star of the Week
42:50and by the way feel free to nominate
42:51another Star of the Week for next week
42:53it is to tell us what's on next week's show
42:56So drop round please
43:04On TFI
43:05next week is
43:07We've got absolutely no idea
43:09Yay!
43:12Here we go!
43:12But here's Shreya anyhow!
43:15Thank you
43:16When you try your best
43:18but you don't succeed
43:23When you get what you want
43:25but not what you need
43:29When you feel so tired
43:31but you can't sleep
43:36Stuck in rivers
43:42And the tears come stream 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?
44:05Could it be worse?
44:12Lights will guide you home
44:18And ignite your foes
44:25And I will try to fix you
44:32And I will try to fix you
44:58And I will try to find you
45:11Could it be worse?
45:14I will try it
45:15And I will try
45:18And I will try and make you
45:18And I will try to leave
45:21And I will try it
45:24And you will try and make me
45:28Tears stream down your face
45:34When you lose something you can already live
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 now
46:24Lights will guide you home
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