Speaker 1: Hey guys, working Away a very special podcast that involves
Speaker 1: this man.
Speaker 2: Good By my Lover, Goodbye Bangers. Yes, actually loved James Blunt.
Speaker 3: He's so funny breakup songs.
Speaker 1: What I don't love is a Sunday night interview. We
Speaker 1: got the chance to interview James Blunt. It was a
Speaker 1: Sunday evening and you know who put a hand up
Speaker 1: and said, hey, guys, I would love this.
Speaker 4: Jenny. Nope, that's not I actually loved j It was
Speaker 4: gen Z.
Speaker 3: The issue with gen Z, we were like absolutely gen
Speaker 3: Z young producer in her twenties. The issue is that
Speaker 3: she doesn't really know any of James Blund's music. She's
Speaker 3: too young.
Speaker 2: She made us.
Speaker 4: Feel exactly, I didn't even know who James Blunt was.
Speaker 3: She thought she was interviewing someone else, so she found
Speaker 3: out it was JB.
Speaker 4: Please enjoy gen Z with what is it okay?
Speaker 2: So welcome to your first interview. Thank you. How's it
Speaker 2: going so far?
Speaker 5: I'm a bit nervous, not gonna lie me why. I
Speaker 5: don't know. I just feel like, well, they originally told
Speaker 5: me so. I don't usually work on Sundays, so it
Speaker 5: was pretty big for me to come in on my weekend.
Speaker 2: Well, that's amazing over me. Thank you. I'm so touched
Speaker 2: that you should come in and work on a Sunday.
Speaker 2: You must be gen Z. They just don't work weekends.
Speaker 5: I don't work at all. No, but they originally told
Speaker 5: me I was interviewing JB. I thought, oh my god,
Speaker 5: I'm let and I was like, I'm so excited, so
Speaker 5: am I.
Speaker 2: I would have walked out, walked in the door, looked
Speaker 2: at me and thought I'm out of here.
Speaker 5: I was like, I was hoping to get like sung
Speaker 5: like one less lonely girl, like baby, but I think
Speaker 5: I think you're beautiful.
Speaker 2: Were fine, Yeah, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: It's okay. I'll forgive you this.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll try and make up for it.
Speaker 5: But so we hear it rod labor Arena before your
Speaker 5: concept and you've just done sound check. So everything went well, you.
Speaker 2: Never think seems to work. The guitars work, the ukulelely works,
Speaker 2: the drammer is alive, and we're in. And so we
Speaker 2: came from Sydney last night, which was an amazing concert
Speaker 2: and an amazing audience, and I think the band went
Speaker 2: to Better three like gen Z, Yes, exactly. And you
Speaker 2: don't want to know my generation. I'm a seven am. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I live in Spain.
Speaker 5: That's true. Where about in Spain?
Speaker 2: I live in Nibithai.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've always wanted to go that. I've been trying
Speaker 5: to plan, like my brat euro Summer there, right, and
Speaker 5: I was thinking of China go next year?
Speaker 2: You must, it's really epic.
Speaker 5: What is it like? Tell me about it?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I moved there because I really don't
Speaker 2: like my style of music. I like dance music.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's so unexpected.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. I mean who would like mine? So and
Speaker 2: and well, in fact, my on my second album, there's
Speaker 2: a song called nineteen seventy three and it's about the
Speaker 2: most famous nightclub, which the very first night club in
Speaker 2: a Beitha called Pasha, which opened in that same year.
Speaker 5: So it's not about partying and idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally. And then and then remarkably that the DJ
Speaker 2: Pete Tong remixed it and played it in Pasha the
Speaker 2: nightclub when he had our residency there, so the song
Speaker 2: did full circle. So and yeah, our club sort of
Speaker 2: opened at one, but you wouldn't go there before two am. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they close at you know, seven am, seven thirty
Speaker 2: eight am even and you know it's kind of full
Speaker 2: on and really fun and you must go.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, I feel like I could out
Speaker 5: party you. I think gen Z's got a good chance here.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have a nightclub at the end of
Speaker 2: my garden of what Yeah, I must go. So I
Speaker 2: don't know if you could, because I do all day.
Speaker 5: Okay, I could do all day and all night as well.
Speaker 5: I think maybe we should collapse.
Speaker 2: I think, okay, you should stop competing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we sho. Yeah, have you ever had a wet
Speaker 5: pussy shot?
Speaker 2: I'm sure I probably haven't. If I haven't, I'm definitely
Speaker 2: open to it.
Speaker 5: It is one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: Do that.
Speaker 5: Now, we should do one?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 5: Guys? Can we can we get some wet pussies in here? Please? Amazing?
Speaker 5: We'll We'll slap back a few.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many comments from I can make
Speaker 2: it the stage, so many really crass comments. But great, Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's we should move on.
Speaker 5: We should move on from that anyway. So I have
Speaker 5: a feeling I can guess your set list tonight? Can
Speaker 5: I can I give you my run through? That's what
Speaker 5: I think it's going to be.
Speaker 2: It's going to be your beautiful twenty times, that's what
Speaker 2: you're guessing at, and a little bit of sand Man
Speaker 2: thrown in.
Speaker 5: I don't even know what that is, Yeah it's but it's.
Speaker 2: A totally guitar bassed rock band.
Speaker 5: Welle that I'll keep that in mind for next time.
Speaker 5: So I think you're going to start off with the
Speaker 5: song you wrote about.
Speaker 2: Me, You're Beautiful absolutely yep.
Speaker 5: And then you're probably going to go into sand Man
Speaker 5: as your second song.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just to get ap.
Speaker 5: And then I think you're got to close with Goodbye
Speaker 5: My Lover. So I want to say it's going to
Speaker 5: be about twelve minutes long. So that's quite a short concept.
Speaker 5: We love a time sensitive King Sleigh pop off.
Speaker 2: You know. I think I like to keep my setlist,
Speaker 2: like myself, short and sweet. We love a good time, yeah,
Speaker 2: and that means we can just move straight to the
Speaker 2: arter party with a wet foota show. Yes exactly. If
Speaker 2: I could just do three songs, I really I promise
Speaker 2: you our words that would be you know, that's that
Speaker 2: would be enough for me. Yeah.
Speaker 5: No, we're very excited. What what inspired you for the
Speaker 5: new album? Who We Used to be?
Speaker 2: Really good question. I've got some kind of blurb I
Speaker 2: could like say, which I repeat over and over. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll let me try for it. Who we used to
Speaker 2: be is my new autog and it's a reflection on
Speaker 2: who the hell I was and where the hell I
Speaker 2: am now. I don't know. I mean, I write songs
Speaker 2: about real life and what's going on in my life
Speaker 2: at that at this particular stage. I'm a married man now,
Speaker 2: and so my muse is not the girl on the
Speaker 2: subway who I passed for one second in time, but
Speaker 2: my wife instead, And so I write, I can't just
Speaker 2: say you're beautiful to her, because she's not going to
Speaker 2: fall for that. And you've said that exactly many many times.
Speaker 2: So I have to write deeper, rich songs saying all
Speaker 2: the love that I ever needed, I got it from you.
Speaker 2: I uh, you know, we've been on a journey. I'm
Speaker 2: aspiring to start a family, and we've had successes, and
Speaker 2: you have failures like anyone else along the way. So
Speaker 2: I write poignant songs about that kind of journey. I
Speaker 2: have friends who struggle with a dick and h and depression,
Speaker 2: and so I write songs like saving a life for them,
Speaker 2: and you know, and I write songs for my kids,
Speaker 2: because because rather than being worried about myself, you know,
Speaker 2: which I used to write songs for myself. Now I
Speaker 2: now I'm the least important person in my equation and
Speaker 2: I have to think about others. And I suppose there's
Speaker 2: another touching song on this album for Carrie Fisher, who
Speaker 2: was Princess Laire from Star Wars.
Speaker 5: Uh think I was about two when that came out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, but still around and I was lucky enough
Speaker 2: to live with her, and so it took me a
Speaker 2: few years since she died to write that song for her.
Speaker 2: But I've kind of I feel I've nailed that and
Speaker 2: that's on this album too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So how long, like does a process take? Like?
Speaker 5: How long was the album from such?
Speaker 2: I think it was probably about a year of writing
Speaker 2: and then getting to a studio after just to put
Speaker 2: it all together.
Speaker 5: Have you heard of chat GPT?
Speaker 2: I have? And so what I do occasionally, you know,
Speaker 2: and I'm writing a song is I'll say the chat
Speaker 2: Gupta and I'm struggling with this second verse. So here's
Speaker 2: the first verse, write the second verse in the style
Speaker 2: of Sames Blunt, and then I and it just is
Speaker 2: a total humiliation because of what it does is it
Speaker 2: points out how really crap my lyrics by just you know,
Speaker 2: everything sky and High and Goodbye, and it's just like, wow,
Speaker 2: I really am really basic.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was like, we'll just do the whole album
Speaker 5: like that.
Speaker 2: It'd ben. I think it teaches me that I need
Speaker 2: to aspire not to be James Blunt. Justin Bieber.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, have you got like a favorite artist
Speaker 5: or like, who's like your dream person you'd like to
Speaker 5: collab with.
Speaker 2: I think The Weekend is just an epic musician and
Speaker 2: uh and and bizarrely that we write in obviously different
Speaker 2: style of music, lots of the lot of lyrical content
Speaker 2: is something I really relate to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, awesome. Yeah, I watched The Weekend when he was
Speaker 5: here and it was unreal. Is your constantly going to
Speaker 5: be the same vibe?
Speaker 2: I think probably, you know, probably more rocking. There'll be
Speaker 2: some crowdsurfing, yeah, and you know, and a few fights
Speaker 2: in the audience, and you know, the mosh pit's quite
Speaker 2: a messy, messy place in my gig.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I might. You might see me up there all right.
Speaker 5: Do you have any like pre show superstitions or anything
Speaker 5: like that?
Speaker 2: I Uh, you know what I do. I have a
Speaker 2: pre show ritual. I always checked my flies or my
Speaker 2: trousers are done. It seems just a sensible thing to do.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I love that. So you're obviously huge back
Speaker 5: like forty years ago.
Speaker 2: Just marginally fuck you.
Speaker 5: I'll take that. That's giving iconic. Yeah. So do you
Speaker 5: still get nervous like performing in front of sold out crowds?
Speaker 2: I'm do you know, I'm super chilled?
Speaker 5: Actually, yeah, yeah, I feel like you're very You've got
Speaker 5: a very chill aura.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I guess you know, if we've been
Speaker 2: on the road since February and we chuck out quite
Speaker 2: a few concerts. You know, on a full touring year,
Speaker 2: I can do two hundred and sixty concerts in a year. Wow.
Speaker 2: And so by the end, if the voice is struggling
Speaker 2: a little bit, then you know, maybe I'll be a
Speaker 2: little a little twitchy. But otherwise, you know, as far
Speaker 2: as you know that an audience and performing, no, I'm
Speaker 2: with super chilled. I've got that. I've got an amazing
Speaker 2: band as well, and so you know, I'm just this short,
Speaker 2: squeaky voice guy in the middle.
Speaker 5: We love a short king, thank you.
Speaker 2: And but they're these kind of you know, there are
Speaker 2: the rock stars I always wanted to be. So it's
Speaker 2: kind of rock concert and they carry me. I can,
Speaker 2: I can make mistakes and they'll carry me through.
Speaker 5: Because we saw some just back outside, but I think
Speaker 5: they're heading off to a pub. So I'm sad that
Speaker 5: you couldn't go with them or either could we? But
Speaker 5: what about like, yeah, I think it was the bandy
Speaker 5: I'm kidding.
Speaker 2: So the well amazing thing about my my band is
Speaker 2: that three of three of them have married girls from
Speaker 2: the audience.
Speaker 5: Really, Yeah, that's lit, that'sn't it. That's a slight.
Speaker 2: I love that. That's amazing. Two of them are Australian.
Speaker 5: Really do you love Australia? Like do you? Well?
Speaker 2: The two of them girls in Perth, so one of
Speaker 2: my so I lost I lost two of my band
Speaker 2: to Australian girls. One now lives in Perth, he works
Speaker 2: down in Mine so that that serves him right, and
Speaker 2: and the other one lives in Sydney with his with
Speaker 2: his with his girlfriend his wife on Perth. So yeah,
Speaker 2: it's been you know, we've been looked after.
Speaker 5: Yeah, have you got like a favorite spot in Australia
Speaker 5: that you always go to when you come back.
Speaker 2: Well, do you know I lived in Sydney for six months.
Speaker 2: I lived on BONDI Classic, Yeah, in Michael Clark's bachelor pad.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: And I did the Bond Eye to Bronze walk every day.
Speaker 2: And it's just really really a standing you beautiful place.
Speaker 2: But you know, Australia generally you have a very lovely
Speaker 2: way of life.
Speaker 5: I feel like it's well, especially in the summer, it's
Speaker 5: not as cold as the UK, which I'm sure you'd prefer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what a bit of global warming
Speaker 2: and we'll be sorted on.
Speaker 5: That that's true. Yeah. Well, if you're wanting to head
Speaker 5: out tonight, I could probably hook you up to go
Speaker 5: out somewhere.
Speaker 2: So sweet of you. But you know what, We've got
Speaker 2: a ton of bars already lined up.
Speaker 5: I can get you on the guest you can come.
Speaker 5: Gen Z will get you in. I can get you
Speaker 5: on the guest list. Okay, and I think we should
Speaker 5: go to Electric Great slap back.
Speaker 2: Some you're definitely old enough to get in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm a lot older than I. Look, let's just
Speaker 5: say that.
Speaker 2: Well, one day that will be a bad but right.
Speaker 5: Now, pop off let's go. Have you ever done a
Speaker 5: boiler room?
Speaker 2: I mean I've done the whole bloody room.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but have you do you know what the boiler
Speaker 5: room is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean sort of. Well, first you do a
Speaker 2: boiler run, okay, and then you and then you do
Speaker 2: the boiler room.
Speaker 5: Are you talking about a sauna?
Speaker 2: No, I'm talking about something else. But you're going to
Speaker 2: show me. Maybe it's a difference in language.
Speaker 5: So we're basically at a boiler room right now. I
Speaker 5: think you should put these on. Great please, Okay, so
Speaker 5: I've recently just been to the recent boiler room.
Speaker 2: Have these safety glasses?
Speaker 5: These are speedies like you just speed through the audience basically,
Speaker 5: But I think you should try and get on the
Speaker 5: list and do a little set. But you have to
Speaker 5: wear these a small club, is it? Oh, it's it
Speaker 5: goes off. I can't explain what it is you have
Speaker 5: to be there, but you can only do it with
Speaker 5: speedies on. Okay, I think you leave it up to
Speaker 5: your imagination.
Speaker 2: No, no, I'm wearing my speed like. I think I've got
Speaker 2: some parrots smugglers on you.
Speaker 5: Well that's well, I mean that helps, but just think
Speaker 5: of like Fredigan and like scrillax love the collab of
Speaker 5: James Blunt. I think we could really get something going here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm not sure if they would be game, but
Speaker 2: we can put it to them.
Speaker 5: I think we should. And another reason why I think
Speaker 5: you might be in Australia is, so are you the
Speaker 5: surprise guest at BTV this year?
Speaker 2: How did you know?
Speaker 5: Because you're wearing speedies and we're so excited.
Speaker 2: Don't tell anyone, it's just between us.
Speaker 5: Can you get me backstage?
Speaker 2: No? Okay, sorry, that's okay. Another if I can keep
Speaker 2: the glasses then yes, okay.
Speaker 5: Let's go great slight. Okay, another question for you? How
Speaker 5: did you get to Australia from UK?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well the way you do it? Do you have
Speaker 2: a passport?
Speaker 5: I do, but I'm thinking of like a plane?
Speaker 2: Great, which, so while you do that, and it probably
Speaker 2: has to stop somewhere like hongcour k bio.
Speaker 5: So do you have a private jet? A couple a few?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Can gen Z have a private jet and flat first class?
Speaker 2: You're going to have to work for it. That's the thing,
Speaker 2: gen Z. You have to work for these things.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: If I just given.
Speaker 5: Things, if I make you the BTV surprise guest, like
Speaker 5: you said you are, you should fly me in your
Speaker 5: private jet to the UK to your next concept deal.
Speaker 5: Let's go epic, okay, sleigh pop off?
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 5: I want to test you on some quick gen z
Speaker 5: words that I think, Roger, I feel like you might
Speaker 5: know a few, but I just want to I want
Speaker 5: to test you anyway. Okay, what do you think merizriz
Speaker 5: not Brisbane?
Speaker 2: Riz? Riz is?
Speaker 5: Do you have Riz?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Of course absolutely?
Speaker 5: How much? What would you rate your RIZ game?
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, a whole bottom half of it.
Speaker 5: That's iconic. Okay, you're we might just leave that one. Okay,
Speaker 5: what about no Cap?
Speaker 2: Well, you know I'm pretty chill, so yeah, I would
Speaker 2: say so no cap.
Speaker 5: All right. That's what about Sebes?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't really like hanging out with them, but
Speaker 2: I you know, I don't mind that they can do
Speaker 2: what they like, you know, and live and let live.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so close.
Speaker 2: But the Seas they're cool with me. But you know,
Speaker 2: we just we don't hang so much.
Speaker 5: Okay, I might put that in the Urban Dictionary as
Speaker 5: a definition. Okay, what about lit, Like, let's get lit,
Speaker 5: let's get lit. We can get lit tonight, do you.
Speaker 2: Know I am in the Cockney the Dictionary for Cockney
Speaker 2: rhyming slang.
Speaker 5: Really yeah, James Blunt is a specific thank you James One.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, no, you're a complete. Now to James
Speaker 2: Blunt would be that is you. It's a slur on someone,
Speaker 2: You're a complete.
Speaker 5: What about like peaking peaking? James One is peaking?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean it takes me about three minutes, but.
Speaker 5: I get okay, I'm glad. I mean it's short but sweet,
Speaker 5: that's fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And what about Aura? Like I thought, you know, James
Speaker 5: Blake would have a negative aura.
Speaker 2: But it's actually Aura used to be an epic, epic
Speaker 2: little tiny club in a beef which has since died,
Speaker 2: so it has nostalgia nostalgia for me.
Speaker 5: Let's just move on from that. So you're obviously from.
Speaker 2: The pop Off Yeah, I know, pop Off King. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I love g Yeah no, I put a cap in
Speaker 2: that ass anyhow.
Speaker 5: That's an absolute slight. Oh my god. JB is like daddy,
Speaker 5: Oh my god. Okay, So you're from the UK, I am,
Speaker 5: which is close to Ireland.
Speaker 2: Well done?
Speaker 5: Can you split the g Yeah?
Speaker 2: Of course have you done it before? Well no, I
Speaker 2: mean you know you say England that I can slip
Speaker 2: the G if I tried.
Speaker 5: But can you splinting the G?
Speaker 2: Can you split the G? I mean, why would you
Speaker 2: do that? It seems like an dude. It would really
Speaker 2: even it would hurt.
Speaker 5: This is so off, but it's great. I love it.
Speaker 5: JB is really popping off today.
Speaker 2: Hey gen Z, this is awesome.
Speaker 5: I love you, James, James. I was gonna say JB,
Speaker 5: but I went to James. Okay, another one for you.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna give you three artists and I just
Speaker 5: want you to like rate them from slaps to canceled.
Speaker 2: Okay, slaps are canceled, so.
Speaker 5: Like slaps is like pull Mascal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think the only problem is
Speaker 2: I may not have heard of any of these people
Speaker 2: as it comes up. But let's see what happens exactly.
Speaker 5: What we need. Okay. So I'm gonna name three and
Speaker 5: then I want you to put an order from slaps
Speaker 5: to canceled. So we've got Sabrina Carpenter slaps, Chapel Rone,
Speaker 5: and Charlie XCX slaps.
Speaker 2: Absolutely we're on the same label.
Speaker 5: Charlie XCX, oh my god, pop off totally. Can you
Speaker 5: name can you sing? One of her songs for me. No, okay,
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 2: All right, so she just do you know what? She
Speaker 2: just beat me in the charts. Really, and if she
Speaker 2: hadn't beat me to the charts, I would have changed
Speaker 2: my name. I said I was going to change my
Speaker 2: name to whatever the British public chose if I got
Speaker 2: to number one in the charts. And she beat me
Speaker 2: to number one, so I didn't have to change my
Speaker 2: name and the British public could chosen blunt blunt face.
Speaker 2: So I'm quite relieved. But I came second. That's because
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 5: Normally you're usually number one, but it's all right, we'll
Speaker 5: take you for number two.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 5: So you've obviously got more than two songs, and I
Speaker 5: obviously am a big fan. What are like? What are
Speaker 5: your can't.
Speaker 2: Name a third song?
Speaker 3: Though?
Speaker 5: I really can't.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. That's that's totally fine.
Speaker 5: Can you name me one more song?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not worth it.
Speaker 5: Well, like your favorite song that you've ever done, My.
Speaker 2: Favorite song I've ever done is a song called Same Mistake.
Speaker 5: Okay, can we please get the track ID for this
Speaker 5: and put it on SoundCloud? Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, okay, cool? We should play it. Yeah, let's
Speaker 2: do a song.
Speaker 5: No, in all seriousness, James, thank you so much for
Speaker 5: coming back to Australia and Australia.
Speaker 2: So much and let's hit the town later.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's go. What Pilsies come up?
Speaker 2: Off?
Speaker 5: Pop off King