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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: In the morning.

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Speaker 3: We love having our next guest on the show. He's

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Speaker 3: just released his sixth album, Once Upon a Mind, and

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Speaker 3: luckily for us, he's heading down Under in November to tour.

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Speaker 3: So you're always charming James Blunt, Hello, James, So.

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Speaker 1: Nice to see you. Guys, surely see you too. Can't

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Speaker 1: be always charming. There's got to be times.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean a moment this microphones off, I'm going

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Speaker 4: to be swearing at you.

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Speaker 3: And we've all been so moved and I know on

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Speaker 3: Leased Wilkinson boost into tears on the project the other night.

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Speaker 3: Your film clip for the song You've made Monster about

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Speaker 3: your dad's kidney disease. It's a beautiful song, a beautiful clip.

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Speaker 3: But I've heard since then good news for your dad.

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Speaker 1: Yet he was fifty three weeks ago he was offered.

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Speaker 4: A kidney by somewhere fifty three weeks. Yeah, and as

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Speaker 4: of this week that's that's taking place, and we hope

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Speaker 4: it all goes well. So remarkable story and but yeah,

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Speaker 4: and in the process it has been for me an

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Speaker 4: incredibly heartwarming time because I've got to say in a

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Speaker 4: song things to my farm that I wouldn't have otherwise

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Speaker 4: had to say. The song says, you know, I'm not

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Speaker 4: your son, You're not my father. We're just two grown

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Speaker 4: men saying goodbye. No need to forgive, no need to forget.

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Speaker 4: I know your mistakes and you know mine. And there's

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Speaker 4: a kind of emotional moments that he and I were

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Speaker 4: very close but would never have otherwise.

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Speaker 2: Well, in watching the film clip, was it, did it

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Speaker 2: feel a bit weird because I couldn't imagine you're younger

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Speaker 2: than me, but my dad who's passed away a few

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Speaker 2: years now, but we never had that relationship. Was just

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Speaker 2: it's a different We're looking at men who are quite

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Speaker 2: willing to express their feelings to their father, which I

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Speaker 2: really like.

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, as you can see, I'm the one

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Speaker 4: blubbing on the camera and the crew all blubbing their

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Speaker 4: eyes out, and he certainly isn't. He's looking at us

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Speaker 4: wondering what on earth we're all doing because he's still alive.

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Speaker 4: But he's an expert, he's a brit and you know,

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Speaker 4: in normal everyday chat, no, I wouldn't express that kind

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Speaker 4: of emotion for him. But I think what it really

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Speaker 4: showed is although the song talks about you know, it's

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Speaker 4: my turn to look after you. It's my turn to

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Speaker 4: chase the monsters away. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 4: he's still my father, and there's me, you know, looking miserable,

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Speaker 4: and him patting me on the arm saying, don't worry, son,

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Speaker 4: you can get through this.

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Speaker 3: Do you find having i'm a father that you look

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Speaker 3: at your parents differently?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Very much.

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Speaker 4: And I could only have written this song because I

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Speaker 4: have a small family now, because yeah, you suddenly look

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Speaker 4: at the world through a father's eyes.

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Speaker 3: How do you go about writing your songs? Obviously this

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Speaker 3: was something that was playing for a long time with you.

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Speaker 3: What are your other inspirations when you're songwriting?

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Speaker 4: Well, I suppose I've always written about real life and

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Speaker 4: real life experiences. This album is very different from me

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Speaker 4: because my first album, back to Bedlam, I wrote before

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Speaker 4: I had a record deal. I didn't know if anyone

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Speaker 4: would ever hear it. So I was very open and

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Speaker 4: very honest, and then suddenly when it did hit big,

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Speaker 4: you realize that audience is out there, the critique is

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Speaker 4: out there that you might get and so I held

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Speaker 4: myself back in the subsequent albums and I love those songs.

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Speaker 4: I'm very proud of them, but I never opened up

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Speaker 4: in the same way until now, until this album, when

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Speaker 4: suddenly things are going on at home. I've really I

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Speaker 4: found more important than the music business and the records

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Speaker 4: I'm putting out for that audience, with my father being ill,

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Speaker 4: with a new family, with going out on tour and

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Speaker 4: leaving that little family behind for eighteen months at a time,

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Speaker 4: Suddenly I need to say things to the ones I love,

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Speaker 4: and I'm no longer in the music business. I'm just

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Speaker 4: in the music and it's a great place to be.

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Speaker 2: It must be so satisfying when you make that connection, though,

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Speaker 2: you know, there's that point you think, where am I

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Speaker 2: going to be successful?

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Speaker 1: Is anyone going to get this? And then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden when they get at them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, And you know it's a poison challeish at

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Speaker 4: the same time, because then suddenly you can't help but

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Speaker 4: be aware of that. And so when I'm writing songs,

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Speaker 4: perhaps in the past I've been thinking, you know, wow, okay,

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Speaker 4: what would they like to hear? And that's not the

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Speaker 4: way to write songs, and you just say, what do

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Speaker 4: I need to say? And you know it's taking me

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Speaker 4: six albums to learn.

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Speaker 3: That, but now you've written such a personal album, I

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Speaker 3: guess you have to be careful your song Sorry about

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Speaker 3: the Stripper, I mean your wife may not understand that song.

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Speaker 4: I think you're quite right and so yeah, you know.

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Speaker 2: Me too, I haven't seen I haven't I'm not for

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Speaker 2: me with Sorry about the Stripper as a B side. Well,

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Speaker 2: the day is young, isn't it really, so you don't

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Speaker 2: do anything controversial, James.

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Speaker 1: It is always great to talk to you.

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Speaker 2: The new album, Once Upon Her Mind is out now,

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Speaker 2: and catching him touring in November, my god, it's like

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Speaker 2: Miles Awad Well.

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Speaker 4: We needed to make sure that people had no excuse,

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Speaker 4: their diaries were free. And for me, the highlight of

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Speaker 4: that tour in November is I'm coming back with Jason Moraz,

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Speaker 4: which I think every we he and I have toured

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Speaker 4: before together and it's I'm so excited.

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Speaker 1: To be with him. So get craiging on Sorry about

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Speaker 1: the Stripper and Sorry.

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Speaker 3: About Stripper, wed like that song written, but also Bookie

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Speaker 3: Babysitter because you need to be free in November.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, James Blunt, thank you, great to see you guys.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: Join the and Amanda in the morning one one point

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Speaker 4: seven t