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Tfi Unplugged - Season 1 Episode 1 - Sam Ryder, Peter Capaldi, Gemma Arterton
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00:10TFI
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, 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, mostly get blamed for things.
01:22That seems a bit harsh.
01:25I love it.
01:28Did I feed you lot?
01:30No.
01:31I thought not.
01:32No, we'd never been fed.
01:33Total t-ing, ain't he?
01:36Did I feed you?
01:39You're a dumm.
01:39You're a dumm.
01:40You're a dumm.
01:54You're a dumm.
01:56You're a dumm.
01:58You're a dumm.
01:58You're a dumm.
01:59Oh, we've heard you've heard you've heard, right?
02:01You're a dumm.
02:02Oh, my God!
02:02Wow, my God!
02:04And that's a good one.
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 much time did you do, TFI?
02:36Loads. It was like it was our second power.
02:39I'd rather top and go down than England win the World Cup.
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.
02:53All right, so that's all you've missed,
02:55but you can catch up on the first eight episodes of TFI Unplugged on YouTube.
03:00I know.
03:01Coming up tonight, we've got some Ryder on the show.
03:04Yay!
03:04Jack Saboretti 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,
03:20because at number five in the all-time top five for It's Your Letters,
03:24it is, with It's Your Letters, Tony Bennett.
03:28Letters, It's Your Letters.
03:31Letters, It's Your Letters.
03:34At number four, with It's Your Letters, it's Robbie Williams.
03:51And number three, with It's Your Letters, It's The Bee Gees.
03:55It's Your Letters.
04:00It's Your Letters.
04:06It's Your Letters.
04:16Wow.
04:17At number two, with It's Your Letters, it's The Foo Fighters.
04:34How about that?
04:35And at number one, with It's Your Letters,
04:37the founding father of It's Your Letters, it's Ree.
04:41CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
04:42It'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,
05:01please, Mr Jack Savaretti, if you don't mind.
05:04MUSIC PLAYS
05:08It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps
05:12It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps
05:17CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
05:20OK, now, is this better or worse?
05:23Once again, Mr Jack Savaretti.
05:26MUSIC PLAYS
05:29It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps,
05:35It's Your Whatapps, It's Your Whatapps,
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
05:58How 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,
06:09and I just happen to have one here for a made-up name,
06:11Kelly 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!
06:28CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:31CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
06:36Oh, Will is back!
06:38Come in, gang!
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?
06:49Don't do that.
06:49Wee!
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.
06:57But 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.
07:12And 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,
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.
07:30Which is a very TFI thing to do.
07:31Yeah, 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,
07:47and we did loads and loads of shows,
07:49and 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.
07:57Elton John did the last TFI Friday.
07:58He put it to rest, yes.
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, and then it went away.
08:11OK, and then what did you do?
08:12I produced this wonderful novel here,
08:17novella here.
08:18OK.
08:19Cool.
08:19How to be a pub genius.
08:20Thank you very much for your admiration.
08:23Available 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 MacDonald, pub genius,
08:32did 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.
08:38I knew about that.
08:39It'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?
08:45Uh, she works in opera.
08:48Yeah, she's, uh, she's...
08:51No, there's not...
08:52Your little pamphlet pub genius.
08:53No, but I knew about that.
08:55So what's the confession?
08:56Uh, the confession is,
08:57you probably don't know this,
08:58uh, brought out a second volume.
09:01You did not!
09:03I didn't know that!
09:04This now sounds like a plug
09:05for a book that came out 25 years ago.
09:09Will MacDonald's here to talk about his new book.
09:11Seeing as you have two of these books out now,
09:14I think it's time for
09:15an updated reimagination of
09:16Will MacDonald, pub genius!
09:19CHEERING
09:22I'm going to drink the beer in that glass
09:25out of that sherry glass.
09:28Cherry...
09:28Ask 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'll go...
09:34No, at this point we'll go,
09:35No way!
09:36No, can't be done.
09:37No way!
09:38Can't be done!
09:41Impossible!
09:42Impossible!
09:43The man's the fraud!
09:45Never going to have it!
09:46Never going to have it!
09:47Never going to have it!
09:49I believe it!
09:49Watch the microphone!
09:52That's the strangest heckle ever.
09:54Be careful with the microphone!
09:56What about my nice jumper?
09:58Um, can be done.
09:59Drum roll, please.
10:00Drum roll.
10:02CHEERING
10:26No way!
10:28No 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,
10:57the hair of a god and the brightest smile in showbiz.
11:00He is a mentor in the new series Your Song,
11:03which continues on Sundays on Channel 4.
11:05So let's make our whole day a lot brighter with Sam Ryder!
11:23Oh my God, Sam, Sam, Sam!
11:26Mate, I'm buzzing for this!
11:28We're buzzing on Channel 4!
11:29Both of us on Channel 4!
11:30How are ya?
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 done.
11:38Well, this is it, we're back, you're back, and you have your own thing going on with Palermo.
11:41Yes!
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've probably never sung in public before, by the way, with a live band,
11:58and the band are absolutely cooking.
12:00They're so good, and these guys just come, they share a story, could be something seismic
12:07that's happened in their life, the deepest depths of their soul that they're sharing with
12:11total strangers that are just out shopping, walking down the high street, and they'll sing
12:16a song that's attributed to that feeling and that story, and the connection that you see
12:20being made, honestly, Chris, it is just beautiful, man.
12:25It'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
12:37find out more about them, like any interaction with a stranger, if you're emotionally open
12:42and your heart is open, I feel it's more valuable.
12:45So 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
12:51carrot, man.
12:51There's no, like, sort of, you know, you win a record deal at the end, or we'll put your
12:56single out, like, at the end.
12:58It's nothing like that, because these people, they're not professional singers, they're likely
13:03hadn't ever stood on a stage with a live band, like an actual drummer playing before, something
13:08like that, and 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 do.
13:18The 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
13:26the Hackney Empire, and then all the singers, every single person's invited, everyone comes
13:32down and absolutely rinses the free bar, but a couple of the people from each round, like,
13:38we 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.
13:49Yeah, 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.
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, so is the tea.
14:03Things have changed at Channel 4.
14:04They bought a kettle.
14:06It's unbelievable.
14:07Not only you, but Paloma Faith as well, and Alice and Hammond as well.
14:09Yeah, man, they're fantastic.
14:10I 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, ha, ha, ha, 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.
14:38Oh, mate, she's great.
14:38Which is unbelievable.
14:40And so do you get together?
14:42Did you, like, do 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.
14:50So 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.
15:16Yeah, I know, mate.
15:17Can you hear my voice?
15:17Well, we do that big guitar.
15:21Are you working on anything new at the moment, Sam?
15:23Always.
15:24But no, mate, honestly, you don't want to hear it.
15:27It is bad.
15:28So, seeing as we're now back on show, that's all the pair of us.
15:35Last orders of the bar, not just someone I'm drinking at the moment.
15:38How long do you know how to 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, absolutely 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.
15:59It was good tequila.
15:59Yeah, and that's probably what it did for both of us, I think, wasn't it?
16:02Yeah, it was.
16:02That was our bottom.
16:03Yeah, that was absolutely the Lancaster, all the engines out, just bang.
16:08It really was, wasn't it?
16:09Sam, great to see you, man.
16:10Mate, this has been so fun.
16:11All right, this has been Sam Ryder, everyone.
16:14All right.
16:15Okay, okay.
16:16All right, we'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
16:41We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
16:54We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
17:10We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
17:22We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
18:06We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
18:14We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
18:17And where better to start than with David Bowie.
18:39We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
18:47We'll be back after the break with more TFI Unplugged.
18:50I think you'd be taller than me.
18:50All right, now listen, you've got these high heels.
18:52Very high heel shoes.
18:54But they don't...
18:54Oh, okay, it counts.
18:57Well, look, there you go, I'll give you...
18:58I should measure out five foot ten and a half.
19:01I can't do five foot ten and a half.
19:02Guess.
19:03Are you five foot ten and a half?
19:04You're not five foot ten and a half.
19:06I'm five foot ten and a half.
19:07Okay, all right, hang on a minute.
19:08Let's see.
19:09What are you?
19:10Six, let's see.
19:11There you go.
19:11There you go.
19:12That's pretty accurate.
19:14David.
19:14I'm still big.
19:15Bowie?
19:16I'm...
19:16B...
19:18O...
19:19Go on.
19:20Carry on.
19:21W-I-E...
19:22Okay, officially, David Bowie is taller than Beno!
19:24Yeah!
19:30Oh, David!
19:31Oh, yeah.
19:33So, David...
19:34I had a hell of a time getting here.
19:35I know, go on.
19:36I thought you were to talk about this, go on.
19:37Oh, let me tell...
19:38No, you don't know.
19:39I 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.
19:48All that.
19:48All 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?
19:59Do you know how I got that?
20:01Go on.
20:01I was in Indonesia.
20:02I was lost in the jungle.
20:04This is absolutely true.
20:07What?
20:07I believe you, Colin.
20:08And 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.
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 gunrunner.
20:31And he had guys in turrets all around the palace with guns to keep the poor people out.
20:35He was so pleased to see me that he put a sheet up in the garden at the bottom of
20:39the garden.
20:41Pour in 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.
20:48And 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.
21:05And the seven daughters, they entertained me royally with dance and, no, flute playing.
21:13Flute playing and dance.
21:15And he fed me things like monkey breast and parrot beak, I think it was.
21:20It was the course that night.
21:22And the next day I redecorated the bathroom.
21:26But he sent his daughter over to me.
21:29Yeah.
21:29His favourite daughter.
21:30He sent to me.
21:32If you know what I mean.
21:33Yes.
21:34To you.
21:35And I couldn't make it to the front door.
21:37Go away.
21:38You're beautiful, but go away.
21:40This was many years ago.
21:41That has nothing, this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I got gastroenteritis
21:48the 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 can talk about whatever you want.
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, Virgin Airlines are great, except this one.
22:19It's the 747-200 series.
22:21And he bought it from Cathay, I think, Cathay Pacific.
22:24And they've left the old chairs on, the Chinese chairs, but they've just put Virgin material
22:30on it.
22:30And you can't, you know, it won't go anywhere.
22:33It's all, and so I slept like that.
22:36I've only just, I've been up for 29 hours.
22:39I know.
22:39We can tell, can't we?
22:42This is me straight, buddy.
22:44You're lucky you didn't know me 25 years ago.
22:49How are you doing?
22:50I'm great, actually.
22:51Great.
22:52Good.
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.
23:09I can imagine.
23:09They all disappeared when I stopped doing drugs, so I think you're probably right on
23:12the 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, All Straight.
23:24By the way, by the way, by the way.
23:27Without drugs.
23:30Pretty much without drugs.
23:33I don't think, I think it's just an attitude more, you know, whether you're enjoying it
23:37and, you know.
23:38But you don't have a drink now either, do you?
23:39I don't drink and I don't drug, no.
23:41But you do, you smoke facts and you drink coffee.
23:43I smoke, 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 turning it into one.
23:53It's very good sense.
23:54It's not a drama or a thing.
23:56If you were, if the harm that cigarettes did could be seen on the outside of your body.
24:02Could 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?
24:08Forget anthrax, buddy.
24:10Nicotine.
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,
24:50realising 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 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.
25:08Sure 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 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 grey and Wednesday too.
25:46Thursday, I don't care about you.
25:49It's Friday, I'm...
25:51I'm so good to see.
26:10Oh, yeah!
26:19Oh, yeah!
26:21I know. The actual cure. That 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!
26:40I'm glad. I'm glad.
26:41How does it feel to be number one?
26:45What a way!
26:46I feel like I'm slightly too old for this.
26:48No 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. It feels like forever.
26:57We will always be there.
26:58The brand new album from Jack Sabaretti is currently number one in the league.
27:03Yeah, absolutely smashing the opposition.
27:07Okay, so Cruel World, Holly Humberston.
27:11Amazing record.
27:12Yeah, nice one, Holly.
27:14So close, but no cigar.
27:16They're at number two.
27:17Ella Langley, Dandelion.
27:18Another amazing...
27:19They're all amazing records.
27:20They're all amazing.
27:21And 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.
27:29And 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 of these artists.
27:43But once again, let me say Jack Sabaretti at number one, my friend.
27:47I didn't prepare a speech, right?
27:49No, really.
27:52But when were you told, when did the Whisperers 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.
28:05Because 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,
28:15look, we might be up in for a chance of a number one album, you suddenly start to think it's
28:19just 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.
28:25Or 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.
28:36Yeah, 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 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.
28:49You know when the decorators come in and you have to move the sofa out from the living
28:52room to the kitchen?
28:53It's the same thing.
28:54It's the same as that.
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 in size.
29:03The band, they go, Jack, we're fine with this.
29:05Yeah, 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.
29:11There's something about that room when you walk into.
29:13It's not the size of it.
29:15It'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?
29:25There'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, we'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.
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.
30:04And we're doing something really grown up.
30:05We're going to do – I 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.
30:14Exactly.
30:15Is that because you –
30:16Because we're so grown up now.
30:18We need a brand.
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 – I think it was the Eagles.
30:27I think it was the Eagles.
30:29Amazing.
30:29One of my dream shows.
30:31Yeah, one of the dream shows.
30:31And 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 beers
30:42are.
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 queues 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
30:57rest.
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 just to sort of see
31:06if 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.
31:13It'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, but you can lose it in the second half.
31:33Absolutely.
31:33Oh, my gosh.
31:34I don't want to sew that suit.
31:35Don't blame this on me.
31:37No, no, no.
31:37We won't.
31:38We'll keep it together.
31:38But 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 hits.
31:44It's going to be like an hour.
31:45You're almost hits.
31:46You should have an almost greatest hits album.
31:48An almost greatest hits.
31:49But you don't need to because I don't know if you know, but Jacksonville is currently number one in the
31:54UK.
31:57Oh, 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 concept, which sounds a
32:09bit clumsy.
32:10But in the past, I'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
32:19may 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...
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 because you're number one.
32:36Can we hear it for the current number one selling artist in the UK album chart?
32:41It's Jack Severetti.
32:45Now, I've had a lot of people asking, is Will McDonald still here?
32:48Will!
32:49Will!
32:51Will!
32:52Will!
32:54It's Will!
32:56He loves that.
32:58He doesn't hate it.
32:59All right, coming up now, Jack Severetti.
33:00Please welcome Jack Severetti with the Ocean Colour Scenes, The Day We Call A Trail.
33:05Yay!
33:07Never saw it as the star.
33:10It's more a change of heart.
33:14Wrapping on the windows, whisking down the chimney pots.
33:20Blowing off the dust in the room where I forgot.
33:24I laid my plans inside the rock.
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.
33:39You and I should ride the coast and wind up in our favorite coast, just bounce away.
33:48Roll another, write another song like Jimmy heard the day he caught the trail.
33:56Whoa, whoa, whoa, la, la.
33:59Whoa, whoa, whoa, la, la.
34:05Whoa, whoa, whoa, la, la.
34:07Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, la.
34:09Sipped another rum and coke.
34:13Told a dirty joke.
34:16Walking like a groucho, sucking on a number two.
34:22Holding on the floor with the cigarette burns, walked in.
34:26I miss the crush and I'm home again.
34:30Hey!
34:31Stepping through the door with the night in store while in 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 heard the day he caught the trail.
34:59Whoa, whoa, whoa, la, la, la.
35:04Whoa, whoa, la, la.
35:07Whoa, whoa, la, la.
35:09Whoa, whoa, whoa.
35:11You and I should ride the tracks and find ourselves just wading through to my roads.
35:19You and I, we're not coming down, we're only getting back.
35:22And you know I feel that sorrow.
35:25Oh, we've got the whole wide world, yes.
35:30When you find the things are getting wild, don't you want days like these?
35:35When you find the things are getting wild, don't you want days like these?
35:40When you find the things are getting wild, don't you want days like these?
35:45Like these?
35:47Whoa, whoa, la, la.
35:49Whoa, whoa, whoa, la, la.
35:55All right, coming up next, India's biggest star, Shreya Ghoshal is going to be here.
36:01Performing Coldplay's picture, it's going to be amazing.
36:04But before that, first, more TFI.
36:37We'll step in wonder, this keeps moving on to us, let's stand where the river bends, I hope we fall
36:50in, this time may be it.
36:56How great is that, Sleeper Sailor of the Century from back in the day, TFI Gold.
37:01Our next guest, a superstar singing sensation, it doesn't get any bigger than our next guest.
37:06With over 3,500 songs under her belt and hundreds of millions of fans across the planet, her new album,
37:12All Hearts Live Tour, is out now.
37:14So let's say hello to our new pal, it is Shreya Ghoshal!
37:33So welcome, you're so welcome.
37:36Shreya Ghoshal, you are gracing us with your presence, your band are here.
37:39Tell us about your latest tour to the UK, what's been going on?
37:42Yeah, so we were here for the Unstoppable Tour and we just finished our London O2 Arena, which was our
37:51first for me as well, like the O2 Arena.
37:53And it was a wonderful tour.
37:55It started from Manchester, Birmingham and then London.
37:59Okay, was 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, from when we said you were going to be on the show, oh
38:08my gosh, and 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, it's something sort of, you know, our sort of world of rock and roll.
38:19You know, if the Beatles recorded 400 or 500, you're three and a half thousand.
38:23Oh no!
38:24You're three thousand ahead of the Beatles.
38:26How does that feel?
38:27Oh God, no, nothing like that.
38:29But I think it's just the amount of work that happens back in India because it's not just Hindi, which
38:35is the main language spoken.
38:37There are so many different regional languages as well.
38:40You've enjoyed over 12 billion downloads and streams and you have like tens of millions of followers on all the
38:47social medias, 34.1 million followers on Instagram.
38:49What does that feel like to have that sort of, that quantity of A, output, B, love, you know, clearly
38:57people absolutely adore what you do.
39:00Do you have to sort of, can you, how does one deal with that or do you just, is it,
39:06do you just have to park it, I suppose?
39:08I don't think so much about this.
39:10I mean, if you start thinking about how to manage listeners, algorithms, social media, then I think the music takes
39:19a backseat.
39:19So I just focus on the music and everything follows.
39:23Yeah.
39:23That's easy.
39:23But you have such said, you have also said, you know, you look after your fans there because there's literally
39:28more and more coming on board all the time.
39:31Yeah.
39:31And so you have to sort of, you are aware of, of course you're aware of it.
39:35Yeah.
39:35And you do engage with your fans.
39:37I do.
39:37But you, you have 4 billion more listens than there are people on the planet.
39:44On the planet.
39:45So where are they listening to me from?
39:47Mars!
39:48Right.
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, we were there.
40:03I think we, me and my husband, we have the most fondest memory of being in that concert and we
40:11can't forget those memories.
40:14And then when finally Coldplay came to Mumbai and they played, I was there again and I think literally tears
40:22streaming down your face.
40:24It was true.
40:26It was true and it's special.
40:29I think that song has a lot of depth and a lot of meaning to not just me, to many
40:33people.
40:33It fixes their problems and their, you know, how to deal with loss or how to deal with issues of
40:42life.
40:42So fix you a special song and Coldplay.
40:45They're just too amazing.
40:47All right.
40:47Now you've never met Chris Martin, but you'd like to.
40:49Yeah.
40:49Please make it happen.
40:50Is this your, well, you've got to make it.
40:53Is this your love letter to Chris saying, please, can we hook up?
40:56Yeah.
40:56All right.
40:57So, so, so, so, no, no, no, no, no, just professionally.
41:02So, so we need, we need to get you to be best mates with Adele.
41:06Yeah.
41:06Yeah.
41:07And collaborate with Chris Martin.
41:08Yes.
41:09All right.
41:09Okay.
41:09Well, let's see how this goes.
41:11I'm sure it's going to be fine.
41:12All right.
41:12You go and get yourself ready to perform.
41:15All right.
41:15We've just about got time for this week's star of the week.
41:18Please welcome Supermax.
41:22Hi, Maxie.
41:23All right.
41:24Tell everybody about yourself.
41:25So, my name is Max.
41:26I have a lifelong condition called osteogenesis imperfecta, otherwise known as brittle bone
41:31disease, meaning that my bones are a lot more fragile than other people's.
41:35I get a lot of chronic pain and fatigue daily, and it means I have to use distraction techniques
41:40to kind of try and put the pain out of the picture so that I can focus on everyday life,
41:46such as I use fidget toys.
41:49I do things like listening to audio books, playing a bit of Lego and coming on TV shows.
41:54Coming on television shows.
41:57All right.
41:58Now, you are supported by a charity, and now you also support that charity.
42:02Yeah.
42:03So, the Brittle Bone Society is a charity that has supported me literally throughout my entire
42:07life from the moment I was diagnosed.
42:10So, they have helped with grants and funds, and they've been there for me whenever I needed
42:15them.
42:16So, I wanted to say a big thank you to them, and I wanted to raise a bit of money
42:19for them
42:20so that they could be able to help even more people.
42:24So, I did a sponsored bike ride, which was the length of 26.2 miles, equivalent to a marathon.
42:31Wow.
42:33So, I rode that around my local area, and after that, I managed to raise £142,000.
42:42So, he's just one of the many reasons he's our first ever TFI Unplugged Star of the Week,
42:47and you know what your prize is, don't you?
42:48Okay, okay.
42:49The prize for the Star of the Week, and by the way, feel free to nominate another Star of
42:52the Week for next week.
42:53It is to tell us what's on next week's show.
42:56So, drop her off, please.
43:04On TFI, next week is...
43:08We've got absolutely no idea.
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
43:43And 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
44:32beats play
44:33Pom pc
44:33And I will try to laugh
44:49In a simple way
44:50you And hide
44:59Other Even
45:00As
45:02Și
45:02met
45:02Beij
45:04Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
45:37Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
45:56This dream down your face I promise you I will learn from the mistakes
46:09This dream down your face tonight
46:24Lights will come to home
46:30And we plot your bones
46:37And I will try to fix you
47:07Can't believe they brought this show back.
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