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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?
00:45Am I, 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, you mostly get blamed for things.
01:22That seems a bit harsh.
01:25I love it.
01:28Do they feed you lot?
01:30No.
01:31I thought not.
01:32No, he'd never been fed.
01:33Total t***, ain't he?
01:34No, he'd never be fed up.
01:37No, he'd never be fed up.
01:48No.
01:51There's no, no, no.
01:53No, no, no!
01:55No, no, no, no!
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.
02:30Do you want, what are you talking about?
02:32I look like Jedward.
02:34How many songs did you do, TFI?
02:36Loads. It was like, it was our second row.
02:39I'd rather top and go down.
02:41Than England when the world.
02:42Yes, I've got it.
02:43It doesn't make for good TV.
02:44You can have that.
02:45Thank you very much.
02:46Basically, only homeless people turned up.
02:54All 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 Sabaretti singing live.
03:07And India's biggest star, Shreya Ghashal, 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.
03:51And 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.
04:16Wow.
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 AND APPLAUSE
04:42It's Your Letters.
04:43It's Your Letters.
04:46It's Your Letters.
04:48It'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 Whatapps, please, Mr Jack Savaretti, if you
05:03don't mind.
05:06MUSIC PLAYS
05:07It's Your Whatapps, it's your whatapps, it's your whatapps
05:20It's your whatapps, it's your whatapps
05:21Now, is this better or worse?
05:23Now, is this better or worse?
05:23Once again, Mr Jack Savaretti.
05:29It's your whatapps, it's your whatapps, it's your whatapps, it's your whatapps.
05:37CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
05:39And he has more.
05:41Once again, is this better or worse?
05:43Jack Savaretti.
05:47MUSIC PLAYS
05:48It's your whatapps, it's your whatapps, it's your whatapps
05:52It's your whatapps, it's your whatapps
05:56CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
05:58How good is Jack Savaretti?
06:00APPLAUSE
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
06:10to have one here for a made-up name, Kelly from Kentucky.
06:13That'll do, OK.
06:14Kelly Kentucky says, she doesn't say, but we say.
06:17Whatappened, see, whatapp, whatappened, I know, to Will
06:21since TFI last time, and is it true he hasn't aged today?
06:25Well, let's find out.
06:26Please welcome back, Will!
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 Denya has 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.
06:55Yeah, yeah.
06:5596, 97, 98, 99.
06:57Yeah.
06:57But also, they're saying TFI is back, you know, first time since the 90s,
07:01but 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...
07:09It was very special.
07:10It was quite special.
07:10It was a very special show.
07:11And then we did 10 more.
07:13All right, so we did 11.
07:14So we did 11.
07:15All right, so we brought it back, because Channel 4 said,
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, just call it the 20th.
07:28Yeah, yeah.
07:29So we did it.
07:29It's a very TFI thing to do.
07:30Yeah, it did really well, didn't it?
07:32And then they said, why don't you do some more?
07:33So we did some more.
07:34Yeah.
07:34So that was fun.
07:35Yeah, yeah.
07:35And then you went nuts.
07:36Then I went nuts.
07:37Not for the first time.
07:39Not for the first time.
07:42So when we were doing it back in the day, you were an exec producer,
07:47and we did loads and loads of shows, and 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.
07:57John did the last TFI Friday.
07:58He put it to rest, yes.
08:00Well, it didn't go well for him, so he had to go back to singing.
08:03It was his top gear.
08:05Yeah, yeah.
08:06At least that's how I'm going to frame it.
08:09So, yeah, and then it went away.
08:11Okay, and then what did you do?
08:12I produced this wonderful novel here, novella here.
08:18Okay.
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 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.
08:36Pyrotechnics going on.
08:37I knew about that.
08:38Yeah, it's hot.
08:39I mean, you call it a book.
08:41My other half calls it a pamphlet, because 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, she's a little pamphlet, Pub Genius.
08:53No, but I knew about that.
08:54So what's the confession?
08:55The confession is, you probably don't know this,
08:58brought out a second volume.
09:01You did not!
09:02Yay!
09:03I 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!
09:22I'm going to drink the beer in that glass,
09:25out of that sherry glass.
09:28Sherry, ask your dad.
09:29Anyone who knows what a sherry glass is.
09:32Out of there without touching it with my hands.
09:33Right, at this point we'll go,
09:35No way!
09:36No, it can't be done.
09:37No way!
09:38No way!
09:38Can't be done!
09:39No way!
09:41Impossible!
09:42Impossible!
09:43The man's a fraud!
09:44Never going to happen!
09:46Never going to happen!
09:47Never going to happen!
09:48Never going to happen!
09:49Don't believe it!
09:49Watch the microphone!
09:52That's the strangest heckle ever!
09:53Be careful with the microphone!
09:56What about my nice jumper?
09:58Erm, can be done.
09:59Drum roll please!
10:00Drum roll!
10:10sub-alternals,
10:14No way!
10:15No 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!
11:26Hey, I'm buzzing for this!
11:28This is so good!
11:29We're both of us on Channel 4!
11:30How are ya?
11:31I'm great!
11:31How's your new show?
11:32I was getting goosebumps hearing your intro to show again.
11:36Yeah!
11:36I was just like, this is where you need to be done.
11:38Well this is it, we're back, you're back and you have your own thing going on with
11:41Blowing Away!
11:41Tell us all about it Sam Ryder!
11:43It's Berserk!
11:44So we go up and down the country, we bring a stage with us, this amazing crew that work
11:49tirelessly building this thing and setting it up and organising people just to get on
11:54that stage, who have probably never sung in public before by the way, with a live band
11:57and the band are absolutely cooking, they're so good!
12:01And these guys just come, they share a story, could be something seismic that's happened
12:07in their life, the deepest depths of their soul that they're sharing with total strangers
12:12that are just out shopping, walking down the high street and they'll sing a song that's
12:17attributed to that feeling and that story and the connection that you see being made.
12:21Honestly Chris, it is just beautiful man, it's so lovely.
12:26And you're perfect for this because you wear your heart on your sleeve and some don't you?
12:30Well I try my best to, I 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, like any interaction with a stranger,
12:40if you're emotionally open and your heart is open, I feel it's more valuable.
12:44So is it an anti-talent show, how would you describe it?
12:48I would say, I've never thought of it that way but it's interesting because there's no
12:51carrot man, there's no like sort of you know you win a record deal at the end or we'll
12:55put your single out like at the end, it's nothing like that because these people, they're
13:00not professional singers, they're likely hadn't ever stood on a stage with a live band,
13:06like an actual drummer playing before or something like that and they're singing a song that's
13:10totally just theirs, the words mean something different to them than they do to like anyone
13:15else in the world, all the way to best songs.
13:18Here's the thing though, if somebody comes on and smashes it, what are you going to do?
13:21You're not going to ignore them are you?
13:22Well no, you don't ignore them but you like you have an event at the end of it at the
13:27Hackney
13:28Empire and then all the singers, every single person's invited, everyone comes down and
13:33absolutely rinses the free bar but a couple of the people from each round, like we have them
13:39perform on the night, so that is the prize, there's no record deal, there's no like old
13:45tropes.
13:45It's made by the Bake Off people.
13:47Yeah, so it's got heart.
13:48Yeah, well also the point is, I know that a lot of people who've won the Bake Off have
13:52gone on to do amazing things, most of them have in fact, and some people-
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, so is the tea, things have changed at Channel 4,
14:04they bought a kettle.
14:06It's unbelievable.
14:07Not only you but Paloma Faith as well and Alison Hammond as well.
14:09Yeah man, they'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?
14:18Then 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 ha ha ha, and like Paloma as well and Alison, so the three of us laughing
14:29together, it's like the Witches of Eastwick around the cauldron.
14:31Alison Hammond's laugh is second only to her smell.
14:36She's the greatest smelling person in the show business.
14:38Oh mate, she's great.
14:39Unbelievable.
14:40And so do you get together, do you perform at any point, you and Paloma?
14:44Usually every now and then we'll jump up, like there's a little, they call it a golden
14:49hour, so 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.
15:01I love it.
15:02Everyone's getting involved.
15:03I love it.
15:04It's such a simple concept, isn't it?
15:06Yeah.
15:06This, it's like, it's music to your ears and 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.
15:16Can you hear my voice?
15:17Well we do have a guitar.
15:20Are you working on anything new at the moment Sam?
15:23Um, always.
15:24But no mate, honestly, you don't want to hear it.
15:27It is bad.
15:28So, seeing as we're now back on channel for the pair of us.
15:35Last orders of the bar, not just someone I drink at the moment.
15:38How long have you not had a drink for?
15:40Um, over two years.
15:42Yeah.
15:42Two years.
15:43Nearly three.
15:44Mate, come on.
15:44Three.
15:45Which is ironic because the last time we did have a drink was together in a sauna.
15:48Yeah.
15:49Absolutely nevered.
15:50Yeah.
15:51Yeah.
15:53Highly un-recommended.
15:54It's like the worst possible thing you can do in a sauna.
15:56We went to be hydrated in a sauna with a bottle of tequila.
15:58Yeah it was.
15:59It was good to do.
15:59And that's probably what it did for both of us I think, wasn't it?
16:02Yeah.
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 man.
16:10Mate, this has been so fun.
16:12All right, everyone.
16:12Woo!
16:13All right.
16:15Okay, okay.
16:16All right, we'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged!
16:27All right!
16:29Yeah, we'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged!
16:35Yeah!
16:36Yeah!
16:43Yeah!
17:01Wow! That was the brilliant Garbage and Stupid Girl. How good is that?
17:07All right. Still to come on TFI Unplugged, India's biggest star, Shrega Scholl is going
17:11to be here. She's going to be forming an amazing
17:14cover of Coldplay's Fix You. Plus, we reveal the winner of Cerepsy Jolly Juggler 2026.
17:21I know. I know. The finalists are amazing. Will it be Olympic gold medallist Matt Weston?
17:32Not bad. Or will it be Patrick McDreamy, Dr McDreamy Dempsey, with this?
17:38Yes!
17:40Yes!
17:43Very good. Or will it be Rockin' Ross Noble juggling and eating?
17:53Exciting stuff. And remember, Cerepsy Juggling fans, your vote counts. And most importantly,
18:00you can only think your votes in. Remember that, OK? Yeah. No. We don't accept any actual real
18:05votes.
18:07Sorry.
18:08Who watches this rubbish?
18:10All right. Now, it's time for something very special on TFI Unplugged. Every single week,
18:15we're going to bring some TFI gold. And where better to start than with David Bowie?
18:41Thank you very much.
18:45I think if you put Clive on his back, he'd be taller than me. Sorry?
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... I should measure out five foot ten and a half.
19:01I 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?
19:10Six foot ten. There you go. There you go.
19:13That's pretty accurate.
19:14David.
19:14I'm still big.
19:15Bowie?
19:15I'm... Uh... B-O...
19:18Go on.
19:20Carry on.
19:21W-I-E...
19:22OK. Officially, David Bowie is taller than Beno.
19:24Yeah!
19:30Oh, yeah.
19:33So, David...
19:34I 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. I tried to cross Hammondsmith Bridge
19:41and I didn't know that the rich people have got it all blocked up.
19:44Right.
19:45So, I got fined, dragged into court.
19:48All that. All in the last half hour.
19:50No 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, Colin.
20:08And an old man with one leg and a donkey found me and took me to a glade and pointed
20:15to a temple and a palace.
20:17And I said, I'm not Muslim.
20:20Wife is.
20:20I'm not.
20:21So, we're going to the palace.
20:23You're going to let me go on with this, aren't you?
20:24I'm dead right, mate.
20:25You started it.
20:26We got to the palace and it's the son of, I think he was a gun runner, and he had
20:31guys in turrets all around the palace with guns to keep the poor people out.
20:34And he was so pleased to see me that he put a sheet up in the garden at the bottom
20:39of the garden, pouring with rain.
20:42Yeah.
20:42Servants holding a sheet up at the far end of the garden, had a projector on the porch where we
20:47were, and we sat and watched Sahara with Brooke Shields.
20:55Then he threw a party and he had seven daughters and seven sons.
21:02Yeah.
21:03I always laugh when I say that bit.
21:05And the seven daughters, they entertained me royally with dance and, no, flute playing.
21:13Flute playing and dance.
21:14And he fed me things like monkey breast and parrot beak, I think it was, was the course that night.
21:22And the next day, I redecorated the bathroom.
21:26But he sent his daughter over to me.
21:29Yeah.
21:29His favourite daughter, he sent to me.
21:32If you know what I mean.
21:33Yes.
21:34To you.
21:34And I couldn't make it to the front door.
21:37Go away.
21:38You're beautiful, but go away.
21:40This was many years ago.
21:41That has nothing, this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I got gastroenteritis the other day.
21:48That was just, it just reminded me though, that I've had it twice.
21:59We're going to talk about the chair.
22:01Okay.
22:02Should we talk about the chair?
22:03No, you talk about whatever you want.
22:04But I...
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, no, they're fabulous.
22:16Virgin Airlines are great, except this one.
22:19It's the 747-200 series.
22:21And he bought it from Cathay, I think, Cathay Pacific.
22:25And they've left the old chairs on, the Chinese chairs, but they've just put virgin material on it.
22:30And you can't, you know, it won't go anywhere.
22:32It's all...
22:33And so I slept like that.
22:36I've only just, I've been up for 29 hours.
22:39We can sell, can't we?
22:42This is me straight, buddy.
22:44You're lucky you didn't know me 25 years ago.
22:49How are you doing?
22:50I'm great, actually.
22:51Great.
22:52Good.
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.
23:09They all disappeared when I stopped doing drugs, so I think you're probably right on the money there.
23:13So, did you find that you wrote better songs or worse songs when you did the old, you know?
23:18Well, as I wrote things like Low, Heroes, Lodger, Scary Monsters, or Straight.
23:24By the way, by the way, by the way.
23:27Without drugs.
23:30Pretty much without drugs.
23:33I don't think, I think it's just an attitude more, you know, whether you're enjoying it and, you know.
23:38But you don't have a drink now either, do you?
23:39I don't drink and I don't drug, no.
23:41But you do, you smoke facts and you drink coffee.
23:43Oh, God.
23:44Yeah.
23:44I'm dying for a cigarette.
23:46Well, you can't have one on the telly.
23:48We're not allowed to.
23:48In the old days you could, but you can't anymore.
23:50Seriously.
23:50You can have one in drama, but this ain't a drama.
23:52Mind you, you're telling it into one.
23:53It's very good sense.
23:54It's time to tell that a drama or a...
23:56If you were, if, if, if 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 with a new weapon, couldn't you?
24:07But if it was, if it was visible...
24:08Forget anthrax, buddy.
24:10Nicotine in a bottle.
24:11They did a program on American television the other night.
24:14I cannot believe it.
24:16As though we haven't got enough problems.
24:18Dateline did this thing.
24:19Let's recreate what would happen if terrorists threw anthrax down on the American subway.
24:25And they spent all this money showing us how 500,000 people would be dead in one day in New
24:32York.
24:32How bodies would be piled up because all the gravediggers would have buggered off to Queens or wherever they come
24:38from.
24:39Brooklyn?
24:40I 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 possibility of anthrax being loosed upon me and
24:58my family.
25:00But then I forgot all about it in a half an hour because friends came on.
25:05And that's the world we live in?
25:06That's the world we live in.
25:07It is.
25:07Sure enough.
25:08Who are the best kisses...
25:09Stop smiling, your camera's shaking.
25:12Who are the best kisses, men or women?
25:15Uh...
25:15Why ask me?
25:20Do they kiss differently?
25:24You know, there are a lot of doctors who can actually help you with this.
25:32David, actual baby.
25:33That seemed to work, didn't it?
25:34So let's do it again.
25:35Here's the cure, back after the break.
25:39I don't care if Monday's blue.
25:43Tuesday's great and Wednesday too.
25:46Thursday, I don't care about you.
25:49It's Friday, I don't care about you.
26:06Ohhhhhhhh.
26:16Ohhhhhhhhhhh.
26:18Woahhh yeah!
26:20I know, the actual cure.
26:23That was The Cure with Friday, I'm In Love.
26:27Okay, our next guest, it's Jack Sabaretti!
26:35Number one, baby!
26:39Number one!
26:41How does it feel to be number one?
26:45What 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.
26:52You wrote The Darned Songs and you've been in it forever.
26:55Yeah, forever. It feels like forever.
26:57We Will Always Be There.
26:58The brand new album from Jack Sabaretti is currently number one in the new year.
27:04Yeah, 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.
27:19They're all amazing records.
27:20They're all amazing.
27:20And then there's this newbie, Olivia Dean.
27:23Olivia Dean.
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.
27:42But once again, let me say, Jack Sabaretti at number one, my friend.
27:47I didn't prepare a speech, right?
27:49No, well, 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, 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,
28:15look, we might be up in for a chance of a number one album,
28:17you suddenly start to think 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?
28:29Yeah.
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 week.
28:36Yeah, 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 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.
28:49You 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.
28:55I'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.
29:05Yeah, 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, the majesty.
29:17Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:17And it's intimate.
29:18And that's kind of really wonderful but disconcerting how intimate it is.
29:22It is.
29:23It's like a velvet cushion, isn't it?
29:25There'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've got a ticket for next week, he's not going big.
29:40You might as well stay home.
29:42Oh, no.
29:43We're going to go big but 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 and the band playing with me is my band for pretty
29:56much 15 to 20 years.
29:57Some guys have been with me for ages and they're the guys playing on the record.
30:00So this is kind of like the first time we're playing the record from top to bottom and
30:04we'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.
30:12Oh, right.
30:13Ooh.
30:14Exactly.
30:15Is that because you...
30:16Because we're so grown up now, we need a break.
30:18We're so old.
30:19We need a wee.
30:21That's the thing.
30:22The first time this ever happened to me, right, I went to...
30:25I think it was the Eagles.
30:27I think I went to...
30:28I think it was the Eagles.
30:29Amazing.
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, it'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.
30:43And you 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 because of the
30:50demographic of the audience.
30:52Yeah.
30:53Yeah.
30:53I mean, I kind of put myself in that.
30:55Like, it'll be nice to have a little half an hour rest.
30:57I 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, just to sort of see
31:06if we
31:07could 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 the second half.
31:16Yeah.
31:16Snelling salts.
31:17Bit of a rub down.
31:19Two beers.
31:20Yeah, why not?
31:21Two shots.
31:21Especially if it's going really well.
31:22That's the problem.
31:23Yeah.
31:24You've got to not celebrate though.
31:25It's only halftime.
31:26We learned that on our warm-up sort of 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.
31:33Absolutely.
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'll keep it together.
31:39But it's really cool.
31:39And then the second half of the show, we're going to do our sort of old friends, our Almost
31:43Hits.
31:44It's going to be like an hour.
31:45You're Almost Hits.
31:46You should have an Almost Greatest It's album.
31:48An Almost Greatest It's album.
32:06It's a long time without any preconceived concept, which sounds a bit clumsy, but in the past,
32:10I've sometimes protected the substance of what I'm saying in songs with style.
32:14It's a bit like if you feel like you're having imposter syndrome or you kind of don't feel like you
32:19maybe be up to scratch with what you're supposed to be doing, you dress it 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.
32:31It'll do what it does.
32:31And you no longer need to fear Olivia Dean because you're on the floor.
32:36Can we hear it for the current number one selling artist in the UK album chart?
32:41It's Jack Soveretti!
32:45Now, if I've had lots of people asking, is Will McDonald's still here?
32:48Will!
32:49Will!
32:51Will!
32:52Will!
32:53Will!
32:54It's Will!
32:55Will!
32:56He loves that.
32:57He doesn't hate it.
32:58All right, coming up now, Jack Soveretti.
33:00Please welcome Jack Soveretti with the Ocean Colour Scenes, The Day We Call A Trail.
33:06I never saw it as the star.
33:10It's more a change of heart.
33:14Wrapping all the windows, whispering down the chimney pots.
33:20Blowing off the dust in the room where I forgot.
33:23I laid my plans inside the drive.
33:26I laid my plans inside the drive.
33:28Stepping through the door like a troubadour while in just an hour away.
33:34Looking at the trees on the roadside feeling it's a holiday.
33:39Well, you and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favorite coast, just bounce away.
33:48Roll another, write another song like Jimmy heard the day he caught the trail.
33:56Whoa, whoa, whoa, la, la, la.
34:02Whoa, whoa, oh, oh, oh, ho, oh, la, la.
34:09Sipped another rum and coke.
34:13Told a dirty joke.
34:16Walking like a grouch, you're sucking on a number-time.
34:22Rolling on the floor where the cigarette burns walked in
34:26I miss the crush and I'm home again
34:31Stuckin' through the door with the night in store
34:33While I'm just an hour away
34:36Sleepin' to the sky in the star
34:38Bright feelin' it's a brighter day
34:41Well, you and I should ride the coast
34:44And wind up in our favorite coast
34:47Just miles away
34:50Roll a number
34:52Write another song
34:55Like Jimmie heard the day he called the train
34:58Whoa, ho, ho, la, la
35:01Whoa, ho, la, la
35:04Whoa, ho, ho, la, la
35:07Whoa, whoa, whoa
35:11You and I should ride the tracks
35:13And find ourselves just wading through to my rolls
35:19You and I, when I'm coming down, we're only getting back
35:22And you know I feel that sorrow
35:26We've got the whole wide world, yes
35:29When you find the things are getting wild
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?
35:45When you find the things are getting wild
35:45Don't you want days like these?
35:47Whoa, la, la
35:49Whoa, la, la
35:52Thank you so much
35:55Alright, coming up next, India's biggest star, Shrey Ghoshal's going to be here
36:00Performing Coldplay's picture, it's going to be amazing
36:03But before that, first, more TFI again
36:08We've got the wonder
36:11Your streets have been on to us
36:14We'll stand where the river bends
36:18I hope we fall in
36:21This time we're moving in
36:25Let's take a boat to black
36:28We'll burn all the negatives
36:31I hope we fall in
36:37We'll step in one day
36:40This keeps holding on to us
36:45We'll stand where the river bends
36:48I hope we fall in
36:52This time we're moving in
36:55Let's take a boat to black
36:56How great is that?
36:57Sleeper sail of the century from back in the day, TFI Gold.
37:01Our next guest, a superstar singing sensation.
37:04It doesn't get any bigger than our next guest.
37:06With over 3,500 songs under her belt
37:08and hundreds of millions of fans across the planet,
37:11her new album, All Hearts Live Tour,
37:14is out now.
37:14So let's say hello to our new pal.
37:16It is Shreya Gishal!
37:33So welcome, you're so welcome.
37:36Shreya Gishal, you are gracing us with your presence, your band here.
37:39Tell us about your latest tour to the UK, what's been going on?
37:42Yeah, so we were here for the Unstoppable Tour
37:46and we just finished our London Auto Arena,
37:50which was our first for me as well, like the Auto Arena.
37:53And it was a wonderful tour.
37:55We started from Manchester, Birmingham and then London.
37:59Okay.
37:59Was this like a taster tour?
38:01Are you going to come back and do more dates?
38:03You've got to?
38:04Yes.
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, and you've recorded over 3,500 songs.
38:12Yes.
38:13I mean, that's incredible, isn't it?
38:14It's like, it'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 3,500.
38:23Oh no!
38:24You're 3,000 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
38:31that 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 to have that sort of,
38:52that quantity of A, output, B, love,
38:56of, you know, clearly people absolutely adore what you do.
39:00Do you have to sort of, can you,
39:02how does one deal with that?
39:04Or do you just, is it,
39:06do 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, algorithms, social media,
39:18then 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,
39:25you have also said, you know,
39:26you look after your fans there,
39:27there's literally more and more coming on board all the time.
39:31Yeah.
39:31And so you have to sort of,
39:34you are aware of it,
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.
39:45So where are they listening to me from?
39:47Mars!
39:49Right.
39:49You prepared something very special for us tonight.
39:52Can 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,
40:04me and my husband,
40:06we have the most fondest memory of being in that concert.
40:11And 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.
40:26And it's special.
40:29I think that song has a lot of depth
40:31and a lot of meaning to not just me,
40:32to many people.
40:34It 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 a special song
40:44and Coldplay.
40:45They're just too amazing.
40:47All 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,
40:52well, you've got to make it.
40:53Is this your love letter to Chris saying,
40:54please, can we hook up?
40:56Yeah.
40:56All right.
40:57So, so, so,
40:58no, no.
40:59No, no, no.
41:00Just crack me.
41:02So, so,
41:03we need to get you to be
41:04best mates with Adele.
41:06Yeah.
41:06Yeah.
41:07And collaborate with Chris Martin.
41:08Yes.
41:09All right.
41:09Okay.
41:09Well, let's see how this goes.
41:10I'm sure it's going to be fine.
41:12All right.
41:12You go and get yourself ready
41:13to perform.
41:15All right.
41:15We've just about got time
41:16for this week's star of the week.
41:18Please welcome Super Max.
41:21Hi, Maxie.
41:23All right.
41:24Tell everybody about yourself.
41:25So my name is Max.
41:26I have a lifelong condition
41:27called osteogenesis imperfecta,
41:30otherwise known as brittle bone disease,
41:32meaning that my bones
41:33are a lot more fragile
41:34than other people's.
41:35I get a lot of chronic pain
41:37and fatigue daily,
41:38and it means I have to use
41:39distraction techniques
41:40to kind of try
41:41and put the pain
41:42out of the picture
41:43so that I can focus
41:45on everyday life,
41:46such as I use fidget toys.
41:49I do things like
41:50listening to audio books,
41:51playing a bit of Lego,
41:52and coming on TV shows.
41:54Coming on television shows.
41:57All right.
41:58Now, you are supported
42:00by a charity,
42:00and now you also support
42:01that charity.
42:02Yep.
42:02So the Brittle Bones Society
42:04is a charity
42:05that has supported me
42:06literally throughout
42:06my entire life
42:08from the moment
42:09I was diagnosed.
42:10So they have helped
42:11with grants and funds,
42:13and they've been there for me
42:14whenever I needed them.
42:15So I wanted to say
42:16a big thank you to them,
42:18and I wanted to raise
42:19a bit of money for them
42:20so that they could
42:22be able to help
42:23even more people.
42:24So I did a sponsored bike ride,
42:26which was the length
42:28of 26.2 miles,
42:29equivalent to a marathon.
42:31Wow.
42:33So I rode that
42:34around my local area,
42:36and after that,
42:37I managed to raise
42:38£142,000.
42:40Wow.
42:42She's just one
42:43of the many reasons
42:44she's our first ever
42:45TFI Unplugged
42:46Star of the Week,
42:47and you know your prizes,
42:48don't you?
42:48Okay, okay.
42:49The prize for the
42:49Star of the Week,
42:50and by the way,
42:50feel free to nominate
42:51another Star of the Week
42:52for next week.
42:53It is to tell us
42:54what's on next week's show.
42:56So, drop roll, please.
43:04On TFI,
43:06next week is...
43:07We've got
43:08absolutely no idea.
43:10Yay!
43:11No!
43:12We're here straight
43:13or anyhow!
43:15When you try your best
43:18but you don't succeed
43:22When you get what you want
43:25but not what you need
43:29When you feel so dark
43:32but you can't sleep
43:35Stuck in rivers
43:42And the tears
43:44And the tears come stream
43:45down your face
43:49When you lose something
43:52you can't replace
43:56When you love someone
43:59but it goes to waste
44:01Could it be worse?
44:05Could it be worse?
44:12Lights will guide you home
44:18And ignite your pulse
44:25And I will try
44:29And I will try
44:31To fix you
44:32And I will try
45:10Yeah, yeah, yeah
45:17Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
45:28Tears stream down your face
45:34When you lose something you can only live
45:41Tears streamed down your face tonight
45:56Tears streamed down your face
46:01I promise you I will learn from the mistakes
46:10Tears streamed down your face tonight
46:24Lights will guide you home
46:31And we'll guide you home
46:37And I will try to fix you
47:06I can't believe they brought this show back
47:08Thank you
47:11Thank you
47:13Thank you
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