WEBVTT 00:00:01.870 --> 00:00:06.309 And now here they are, Nick and Sue on Chatterbox. 00:00:06.450 --> 00:00:09.869 When the stars talk, they talk to Nick and Sue. 00:00:33.450 --> 00:00:36.750 to the Chatterbox Redux podcast and our special 00:00:36.750 --> 00:01:03.229 guest in this edition is Jessica Sweetman. We're 00:01:03.229 --> 00:01:06.189 Chatterbox giving you all you need to know about 00:01:06.189 --> 00:01:14.469 musical entertainment Oh yeah Chatterbox, the 00:01:14.469 --> 00:01:18.569 best interviews with Nick and Sue Chatterbox, 00:01:19.209 --> 00:01:29.390 the best news And now in Chatterbox, we're just 00:01:29.390 --> 00:01:31.709 lucky enough to welcome Jessica Sweetman. Jessica, 00:01:31.750 --> 00:01:34.409 welcome to Chatterbox. How are you? I'm good, 00:01:34.489 --> 00:01:37.590 Nick. How are you? I'm great, thank you. I hope 00:01:37.590 --> 00:01:40.530 the sunshine is as great where you are as it 00:01:40.530 --> 00:01:42.730 is down here on the south coast. It's lovely 00:01:42.730 --> 00:01:45.909 here. It is. It's really nice here today as well. 00:01:45.930 --> 00:01:47.730 I just popped out for a quick minute and it is. 00:01:47.909 --> 00:01:50.209 It's beautiful. Wonderful. Makes everyone smile 00:01:50.209 --> 00:01:53.189 a bit. Yes, it does. Makes a difference, doesn't 00:01:53.189 --> 00:01:55.109 it? Yeah, you're having a great year. You're 00:01:55.109 --> 00:01:57.760 having a great month. I'm looking at your website, 00:01:59.379 --> 00:02:02.219 just to see a little bit about you, and I see 00:02:02.219 --> 00:02:06.040 that you cut your teeth performing in Smokey 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:10.919 Jazz bars, barely 15 years old, 19 you moved 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:13.659 down to London and you start playing in the cigar 00:02:13.659 --> 00:02:17.919 clubs of Soho, performing night after night, 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:19.840 but you end up burning up, which I can quite 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:23.919 understand, and I'm quite sure that Smokey clubs 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:27.219 didn't do a great deal. For your health? No. 00:02:28.740 --> 00:02:31.240 But tell us a little bit about when you jetted 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:33.360 off to America and some of the people you played 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:36.819 with. That looks absolutely fascinating. Yeah, 00:02:36.939 --> 00:02:40.460 you know, it's been a journey. It's been a ride. 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:42.840 I started off my first ever gig was in a pizza 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:46.379 express. in in certain coalfield and i remember 00:02:46.379 --> 00:02:49.879 i got i got a free pizza 60 quid and dough balls 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.860 as well and um and uh and i sang jazz i sang 00:02:53.860 --> 00:02:57.300 jazz because i loved jazz i grew up on jazz so 00:02:57.300 --> 00:02:59.800 i did um i remember for my like audition for 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:02.659 it i sang a norah jones song and let devy love 00:03:02.659 --> 00:03:04.340 napkin call which is one of my favorite songs 00:03:04.340 --> 00:03:06.699 so it all started with pizza express and then 00:03:06.699 --> 00:03:09.719 yeah i went to the cigar rooms up in london and 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:14.009 burnt out you know it was at the time it was 00:03:14.009 --> 00:03:17.629 such a glamorous scene to be on and I remember 00:03:17.629 --> 00:03:20.689 used to put on my little dresses and you know 00:03:20.689 --> 00:03:23.349 be in these beautiful cigars but you know it 00:03:23.349 --> 00:03:26.469 was it was a it was a challenging time for me 00:03:26.469 --> 00:03:30.430 and that's kind of when I decided then to go 00:03:30.430 --> 00:03:35.610 to America and landed in New York City and was 00:03:35.610 --> 00:03:38.750 there was there three months and I just wrote 00:03:38.750 --> 00:03:42.479 and wrote and wrote and And then I managed to 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:48.180 get a deal and then BMG, who are my publishers, 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:50.460 brought me back. They brought me back a few months 00:03:50.460 --> 00:03:53.840 and I ended up spending 10 years of my life out 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:56.300 in New York between New York, Nashville and LA. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:58.479 And I've just recently just come back to the 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:03.919 UK because I've got touring here. But it's been 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:05.759 wonderful. And I still will be going back to 00:04:05.759 --> 00:04:07.500 the States a lot because a lot of my work is 00:04:07.500 --> 00:04:10.930 there. But right now it's... My music's brought 00:04:10.930 --> 00:04:13.389 me home, which I love, I love, you know. Fantastic. 00:04:13.509 --> 00:04:15.669 And I see that you've opened for the likes of 00:04:15.669 --> 00:04:19.050 Keane and Van Morrison and all manner of people. 00:04:19.230 --> 00:04:22.639 So fantastic. Thank you, thank you so much. So 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:24.279 you're already long established really aren't 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:28.279 you, so this is great. Just before we start talking 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:29.819 about this, because obviously this month's massive 00:04:29.819 --> 00:04:32.199 for you, but when you did land originally in 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:34.079 New York, just out of interest, did you have 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:35.660 anything planned there, what you were going to 00:04:35.660 --> 00:04:37.399 do? Did you just land there and then worry about 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.360 playing and writing and doing what you did? No, 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:42.180 I mean I had no idea. I was just, I remember 00:04:42.180 --> 00:04:44.699 one of my last gigs here in London was in a cigar 00:04:44.699 --> 00:04:48.759 room in a casino actually and my mom was there 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:52.060 and it was it was becoming apparent to us all 00:04:52.060 --> 00:04:56.139 that I was just I was just at the end of that 00:04:56.139 --> 00:04:59.339 chapter and I was tired and it's not what I wanted 00:04:59.339 --> 00:05:01.699 to do you know I mean I was grateful for the 00:05:01.699 --> 00:05:04.579 work and I needed to pay my rent you know I was 00:05:04.579 --> 00:05:06.579 like really grateful for the gigs you know I 00:05:06.579 --> 00:05:08.459 always will be for that time because I had to 00:05:08.910 --> 00:05:11.310 be able to write and stuff but when I look back 00:05:11.310 --> 00:05:14.569 it wasn't a healthy environment for me to be 00:05:14.569 --> 00:05:16.370 in and not I don't mean just because the smoke 00:05:16.370 --> 00:05:18.310 but just just because it's just generally it 00:05:18.310 --> 00:05:21.850 just wasn't a great great environment so you 00:05:21.850 --> 00:05:25.189 know I think um I think it's you know what though 00:05:25.189 --> 00:05:27.610 there's I think it's all part of you learn the 00:05:27.610 --> 00:05:29.889 craft you know you learn it makes you stronger 00:05:29.889 --> 00:05:32.810 in a way and I think that was a big part of my 00:05:32.810 --> 00:05:35.970 story and you know I drank a lot of champagne 00:05:36.250 --> 00:05:39.069 I drank a lot of champagne that's why I can't 00:05:39.069 --> 00:05:41.029 drink anymore now unfortunately five years off 00:05:41.029 --> 00:05:43.970 it but I drank I did all my drinking time then 00:05:43.970 --> 00:05:47.750 so it's it's now I now I'm not on it but um I 00:05:47.750 --> 00:05:50.089 had fun as well you know but when I went to America 00:05:50.089 --> 00:05:51.990 I mean I just went I got on a plane I took the 00:05:51.990 --> 00:05:53.930 deposit for my flat here in London I had like 00:05:53.930 --> 00:05:56.170 800 quid and I remember I was like that's it 00:05:56.170 --> 00:05:58.610 I'm off I'm gonna go and try something else you 00:05:58.610 --> 00:06:02.250 know and that was it I could see you done Album 00:06:02.250 --> 00:06:04.610 in 2023 is some good stuff there lovely chat 00:06:04.610 --> 00:06:05.910 some more about you about other things you've 00:06:05.910 --> 00:06:08.569 done in the past But we must get on to the new 00:06:08.569 --> 00:06:13.529 single and where we are at the moment April 2026 00:06:13.529 --> 00:06:19.269 right you are opening for Alfie bow On a long 00:06:19.269 --> 00:06:21.670 tour actually, I would say looking at this so 00:06:21.670 --> 00:06:24.009 he's got a new album out So he's celebrating 00:06:24.009 --> 00:06:27.329 that and you're opening for him all over the 00:06:27.329 --> 00:06:31.490 place everywhere Yeah, well, isn't it? Dundee, 00:06:31.670 --> 00:06:35.449 Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Nottingham, 00:06:35.709 --> 00:06:39.069 Gateshead, Hull, Blackpool, Blackpool Opera House, 00:06:39.230 --> 00:06:43.629 well, that's pretty cool. Liverpool, York, Harrogate, 00:06:44.129 --> 00:06:46.889 Sheffield, Leicester, Milton Keynes, Bath, Warwick, 00:06:47.230 --> 00:06:50.230 Birmingham, Ipswich, King's Lynn's, Gegness, 00:06:50.709 --> 00:06:53.949 Cambridge, Oxford, Torquay, Truro, Hull and Udnoe, 00:06:53.990 --> 00:06:57.949 which I make a mess of saying every time. Ales... 00:06:58.009 --> 00:07:03.189 Bury, Guildford, Southend, Folkestone, London, 00:07:03.490 --> 00:07:06.870 Eastbourne, London would be Royal Albert Hall. 00:07:08.110 --> 00:07:12.069 Yeah. Nice name drop there. Bournemouth, Swansea 00:07:12.069 --> 00:07:14.829 and Cardiff. So there may be some more added 00:07:14.829 --> 00:07:18.509 to that, but that is quite some tour. And that 00:07:18.509 --> 00:07:23.230 is, well, April and May. Busy, busy, busy, busy. 00:07:23.689 --> 00:07:27.250 So it's a huge tour, nearly two months. Yeah. 00:07:27.750 --> 00:07:30.170 So you opened for, how did you get the gig? I 00:07:30.170 --> 00:07:32.730 mean, did you know him already or was it just? 00:07:32.889 --> 00:07:35.329 Yeah, me and Alfie put a song out in October 00:07:35.329 --> 00:07:38.709 called Broken Perfect Love. So we put this collaboration 00:07:38.709 --> 00:07:41.410 out. We recorded at Angel Studios, which is the 00:07:41.410 --> 00:07:44.649 sister studio to Abbey Road. We put the song 00:07:44.649 --> 00:07:47.250 out and he was like, let's, you know, join me 00:07:47.250 --> 00:07:49.170 on tour. And I said, I would love to. Alfie's 00:07:49.170 --> 00:07:51.370 a great guy. He's become a dear friend of mine. 00:07:51.550 --> 00:07:53.870 So, you know, to be on the road with him for 00:07:53.870 --> 00:07:55.629 a couple of months is going to be great. Yeah, 00:07:55.629 --> 00:07:58.420 it's going to be really good. Brilliant, fantastic. 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:02.339 So we come to one of your, just like the nearest 00:08:02.339 --> 00:08:04.800 one to me is Eastbourne. So we go to the Congress 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:09.879 Theatre Eastbourne on 27th of May. And you come 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:12.720 on stage, you open up. How long is your set and 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:15.879 what do we expect from you? So I think it's 25 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:18.920 minutes. So it's all my latest, all my latest 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.160 music. We'll be doing Broken Perfect Love, Stay 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:25.100 Wild, Hallelujah, Rise Up. I'll be doing a cover. 00:08:26.570 --> 00:08:29.069 Um, which I haven't told anyone about yet, but 00:08:29.069 --> 00:08:31.589 I'm going to tell you now because it's no, you 00:08:31.589 --> 00:08:32.909 know, I can say it. So I'm going to be doing 00:08:32.909 --> 00:08:35.350 a cover of one of my favorite songs, which is, 00:08:35.350 --> 00:08:37.970 uh, this must be the place. The talking head 00:08:37.970 --> 00:08:41.590 song home is where I want to be. I love that 00:08:41.590 --> 00:08:42.889 song so much. So we're going to do an acoustic 00:08:42.889 --> 00:08:47.850 version of that. Um, but yeah, it's, uh, yeah. 00:08:48.049 --> 00:08:51.149 25 minutes. Oh, I think that's great. Brilliant. 00:08:51.690 --> 00:08:53.690 So then Alfie comes on. What does he do? Does 00:08:53.690 --> 00:08:56.309 he do a couple of 45 minute sets or does he do 00:08:56.309 --> 00:08:58.269 as his part? I don't know. Actually, I'm not 00:08:58.269 --> 00:09:01.330 sure. I'm not sure yet. You'll find out in Dundee 00:09:01.330 --> 00:09:03.309 on the 14th then, won't you? I will find out 00:09:03.309 --> 00:09:07.549 very, very soon. Right. You've got this beautiful 00:09:07.549 --> 00:09:11.570 release single called Rise Up and it is beautiful 00:09:11.570 --> 00:09:15.289 as well. Tell us about how that came about and 00:09:15.289 --> 00:09:17.690 the story behind that and why you brought it 00:09:17.690 --> 00:09:21.860 basically. Thank you. I'm very excited and very 00:09:21.860 --> 00:09:23.539 proud of this video as well. So I was at the 00:09:23.539 --> 00:09:27.940 Irish Post Awards in November last year and I 00:09:27.940 --> 00:09:29.500 performed the song there for the first time I've 00:09:29.500 --> 00:09:32.559 ever performed it. I opened the show with that 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:36.059 song and Emmett J. Scanlon, who we all know, 00:09:36.179 --> 00:09:39.120 everyone knows Emmett, he's an amazing actor 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:44.799 from Mobland, Peaky Blinders, Kin, so much, just 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:50.570 incredible. had seen me perform the song at the 00:09:50.570 --> 00:09:53.490 beginning of the show and at the after party 00:09:53.490 --> 00:09:55.629 I got me and my brother got talking to him and 00:09:55.629 --> 00:09:57.990 he was like you know it's it's on my bucket list 00:09:57.990 --> 00:10:02.029 to be in a music video and I said well I got 00:10:02.029 --> 00:10:05.789 a song you know I got one he goes I love it I 00:10:05.789 --> 00:10:07.769 saw you sing it I love the song and then before 00:10:07.769 --> 00:10:10.450 we know it fast forwards a few months and and 00:10:10.450 --> 00:10:14.740 there we are in Hastings you know um filming 00:10:14.740 --> 00:10:18.159 this stunning piece of art that we're both so 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:22.519 proud of. He's really brought that song alive, 00:10:22.779 --> 00:10:26.659 really has. It's been magical working with him, 00:10:26.659 --> 00:10:29.580 and he's a wonderful, wonderful person. On top 00:10:29.580 --> 00:10:31.259 of just being an incredible actor, he's just 00:10:31.259 --> 00:10:34.740 nice, down -to -earth, really good people. Yeah, 00:10:34.779 --> 00:10:36.320 Hastings and St. Leonard's, that's actually where 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:41.320 I'm based. I've got to say, and yeah, believe 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:46.309 it's true, It's one of the biggest undiscovered 00:10:46.309 --> 00:10:48.830 places in the country. When it's discovered, 00:10:49.190 --> 00:10:51.210 people realize how beautiful it is for filming, 00:10:51.389 --> 00:10:54.889 just how great it is. People spent decades slacking 00:10:54.889 --> 00:10:57.169 it off, but it's come into its own. It's got 00:10:57.169 --> 00:10:59.190 two art house cinemas, it's got art, it's got 00:10:59.190 --> 00:11:01.850 everything. It's a secret to a lot of people 00:11:01.850 --> 00:11:05.509 and when you discover it, you think, wow. It's 00:11:05.509 --> 00:11:08.090 great, great backdrop. I had never been, but 00:11:08.090 --> 00:11:09.789 I've got to say we got there, we were there for 00:11:09.789 --> 00:11:13.809 a few days, two days, and it was absolutely brilliant. 00:11:14.090 --> 00:11:16.090 It was cold when we were there, we were filming 00:11:16.090 --> 00:11:20.330 in January, I think, no, February. Really cold, 00:11:20.389 --> 00:11:22.990 but you know what, I was like, all for the art, 00:11:23.090 --> 00:11:26.370 you know, we got on with it, we were fine. Yeah, 00:11:26.450 --> 00:11:38.470 brilliant, brilliant. and Tutu present a radio 00:11:38.470 --> 00:11:46.049 show. So here's Nick and Sue, your musical duo. 00:11:47.409 --> 00:11:49.509 This is Nick and Sue with Cheddar Box, giving 00:11:49.509 --> 00:11:52.250 you all you need to know about musical entertainment. 00:12:01.830 --> 00:12:04.769 So very busy times there. What can we expect? 00:12:04.970 --> 00:12:06.549 Let's say you were coming back. I mean, this 00:12:06.549 --> 00:12:08.429 could probably sound really bad actually, but 00:12:08.429 --> 00:12:10.309 if you were to come back in six months time, 00:12:10.610 --> 00:12:13.250 what would you be wanting to tell me that you 00:12:13.250 --> 00:12:15.210 got planned or you've achieved? We also know 00:12:15.210 --> 00:12:18.230 all about this tour, but just say we get into 00:12:18.230 --> 00:12:20.909 June and from June onwards, what would you like 00:12:20.909 --> 00:12:23.519 to be telling me you've achieved? Oh, that's 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:25.700 a great question. Well, I have a London show 00:12:25.700 --> 00:12:29.279 on June 18th and I'm hoping that I'm going to 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:31.580 sell it out because it's my headline show. So 00:12:31.580 --> 00:12:33.740 I'm hoping in six months I'll come back and say, 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:36.220 yeah, I sold it out. That will make me happy 00:12:36.220 --> 00:12:38.279 because that's one of my first big headline shows 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:42.360 at St. Pancras Old Church. So, yeah, that will 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:45.080 be great. So I'm manifesting and hoping we sell 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:46.919 it out. But it's looking good. That's going to 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:50.940 be June 18th. And then, you know, just that the 00:12:50.940 --> 00:12:53.799 tour has been wonderful, which I know it's going 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:55.879 to be. I know it's going to be because it's just, 00:12:55.919 --> 00:12:58.360 it's just going to be great. And we're going 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:00.279 to start putting out new music as well, you know, 00:13:00.379 --> 00:13:02.440 again, so as soon as I come, we just already 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:06.139 started re recording the vocals for that stuff. 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:08.080 So as soon as I get back off the tour, we have 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:11.039 we have new music to come out. Sure. Well, now 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:13.220 I know, I've heard of you, but now I know of 00:13:13.220 --> 00:13:14.960 your new music and just how wonderful it sounds. 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:17.399 I'll be looking out for it. And we work with 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:22.740 Heart Media all the time anyway. They're brilliant, 00:13:23.059 --> 00:13:26.600 I love them, love them guys. Absolutely, absolutely. 00:13:26.940 --> 00:13:29.019 Such high standards and they're just great for 00:13:29.019 --> 00:13:30.779 the artists to advise them and everything else 00:13:30.779 --> 00:13:32.460 but you don't need much advice, you're established 00:13:32.460 --> 00:13:34.240 so you know where you want to be, where you're 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:37.809 going. We'd certainly like to have you back and 00:13:37.809 --> 00:13:39.549 a bit more of a chat and I'd love to chat a bit 00:13:39.549 --> 00:13:41.230 more something about what you've achieved in 00:13:41.230 --> 00:13:44.230 the past at some point in the future because 00:13:44.230 --> 00:13:47.070 I know there's like the 2023 album maybe a bit 00:13:47.070 --> 00:13:48.690 more about some of them Smokey Clubs maybe you 00:13:48.690 --> 00:13:50.230 could tie it up with a new album when we talk 00:13:50.230 --> 00:13:52.529 about the new tracks on that when that comes 00:13:52.529 --> 00:13:54.429 out we'll do something like that that'd be fantastic. 00:13:55.409 --> 00:13:58.750 100 % just yeah absolutely have a chat to Joe 00:13:58.750 --> 00:14:01.429 and everyone and I would love to talk to you 00:14:01.429 --> 00:14:04.169 again for sure. brilliant that's fantastic now 00:14:04.169 --> 00:14:06.309 um you've got a great website in fact i've got 00:14:06.309 --> 00:14:08.629 rather your press release i've been doing it 00:14:08.629 --> 00:14:10.769 uh from your website well this is this this pretty 00:14:10.769 --> 00:14:13.110 sorted this website so we got jessicasweetsman 00:14:13.110 --> 00:14:16.830 .com and um basically all the other social media 00:14:16.830 --> 00:14:18.909 really is is covered on here so we go to your 00:14:18.909 --> 00:14:21.809 home page and uh well literally top right hand 00:14:21.809 --> 00:14:26.289 corner we got literally the all the uh the facebook 00:14:26.289 --> 00:14:29.789 and Spotify and Instagram well it's all there 00:14:29.789 --> 00:14:31.990 basically they just got to click and you go straight 00:14:31.990 --> 00:14:36.850 to it so yeah I don't expect anybody at home 00:14:36.850 --> 00:14:39.470 to have been writing down because I didn't give 00:14:39.470 --> 00:14:42.110 it I just said the cities and the towns but just 00:14:42.110 --> 00:14:44.590 literally also on your home page is a click on 00:14:44.590 --> 00:14:46.610 turn there's the nice picture of Alfie Bowen 00:14:46.610 --> 00:14:50.870 all the dates below and then I have there is 00:14:50.870 --> 00:14:53.600 something on your website where people can actually 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:55.779 subscribe to your mailing list, which I've also 00:14:55.779 --> 00:14:58.899 done now. Oh, thank you. People can do that and 00:14:58.899 --> 00:15:01.559 follow you. If somebody wants to write to you, 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.639 say, we saw you last night in Eastbourne and 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:05.720 you were fantastic. There's even a contact button 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:07.100 there so they can tell you how great you were. 00:15:07.340 --> 00:15:09.980 So there you go. Oh, yeah, absolutely. I love 00:15:09.980 --> 00:15:15.299 receiving emails and mails, messages. I'm always 00:15:15.299 --> 00:15:17.500 seeing all that stuff and grateful, you know, 00:15:17.580 --> 00:15:19.899 I'm always grateful for the positivity and support. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.179 It means a lot to me. It really does, you know, 00:15:22.299 --> 00:15:27.169 so. Yeah, absolutely. Well, just to say, it's 00:15:27.169 --> 00:15:29.789 a fantastic month for us, a fantastic year, and 00:15:29.789 --> 00:15:32.250 I'm looking forward to what's next. Now, with 00:15:32.250 --> 00:15:35.330 Rise Up, I've absolutely fallen in love with 00:15:35.330 --> 00:15:38.289 it now. My partner Sue and myself, we do a live 00:15:38.289 --> 00:15:40.429 show on Sundays. In fact, it's taken a break 00:15:40.429 --> 00:15:42.389 till the beginning of May. It's called Hit or 00:15:42.389 --> 00:15:46.730 Miss. And what we do, it's very big in the UK 00:15:46.730 --> 00:15:49.730 and very big in the Netherlands, actually. Oh, 00:15:49.730 --> 00:15:52.320 wow. We have a few Americans as well, but we 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:56.980 have people listening and the audience listen, 00:15:57.299 --> 00:15:59.500 they vote either by e -vote or in real time in 00:15:59.500 --> 00:16:01.340 the chat room as to whether they think a song 00:16:01.340 --> 00:16:03.419 is going to be a hit or a miss. So we're going 00:16:03.419 --> 00:16:05.620 to give rise up a little play on that as well 00:16:05.620 --> 00:16:07.799 and we'll see how it gets on. Will you let me 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:09.620 know whether it's going to be a hit or a miss? 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:12.200 I want to know. I will, I will. We have a panel 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:13.860 that votes and we have the listeners vote as 00:16:13.860 --> 00:16:15.500 well, then we put the two votes together. So 00:16:15.500 --> 00:16:17.840 I will, but at the beginning of May, so I'll 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:20.080 be in the middle of your tour actually. happily 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:22.200 hit your contact button and tell you. There you 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:25.399 go. Please let me know. I'm hoping it's a hit. 00:16:25.500 --> 00:16:27.919 I hope they all say it's a hit. I don't want 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:29.460 to put you on the spot but you could all say, 00:16:29.500 --> 00:16:31.639 I mean if you wanted to, I mean I could always 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:34.080 give you a link to the e -voting the week before 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.340 and you should put it on your social media and 00:16:36.340 --> 00:16:38.840 your fans can... I will send it to me, absolutely. 00:16:39.039 --> 00:16:40.419 Will you send that to Joe and everyone? They 00:16:40.419 --> 00:16:42.879 can send it over to me because I will, 100%. 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.779 I'll get people voting that it's a hit. Of course, 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:47.500 well that's the idea because at the end of the 00:16:47.500 --> 00:16:52.649 day, Jessica, it is The hardcore fan base is 00:16:52.649 --> 00:16:54.830 going to be people that have got to know you 00:16:54.830 --> 00:16:56.850 through social media and things anyway. That's 00:16:56.850 --> 00:16:58.950 the hardcore place, basically, for anyone these 00:16:58.950 --> 00:17:02.710 days. It's the way to connect, isn't it? It's 00:17:02.710 --> 00:17:05.609 all about connecting and building community. 00:17:06.130 --> 00:17:07.589 Yeah, and these are the people that are going 00:17:07.589 --> 00:17:09.329 to be downloading the single, of course, and 00:17:09.329 --> 00:17:11.970 coming to see you. The initial hardcore people. 00:17:12.490 --> 00:17:14.930 There we go. Well, I'm truly grateful for everyone 00:17:14.930 --> 00:17:16.410 who's supporting me. I'm getting a lot of support 00:17:16.410 --> 00:17:19.690 right now, and it's funny. I have this thing 00:17:19.690 --> 00:17:22.349 that I'm really, I call it gratitude attitude 00:17:22.349 --> 00:17:26.349 and I just feel so grateful right now, you know, 00:17:26.369 --> 00:17:29.170 just for so much and just I just keep putting 00:17:29.170 --> 00:17:30.490 that out there because I think that's really, 00:17:30.490 --> 00:17:33.069 I'm really into all that stuff and like the universe 00:17:33.069 --> 00:17:35.309 and if you just have the gratitude attitude and 00:17:35.309 --> 00:17:37.730 people are what I'm grateful for, people who 00:17:37.730 --> 00:17:39.390 are listening, people who are streaming, people 00:17:39.390 --> 00:17:41.750 who comment, people who like, people like yourself 00:17:41.750 --> 00:17:43.289 who are having me on the shows, you know, this 00:17:43.289 --> 00:17:47.829 is what I'm grateful for so thank you so much. 00:17:48.029 --> 00:17:49.950 Oh, you're more than welcome, but you vote it 00:17:49.950 --> 00:17:52.150 yourself. You're a great artist. So I really 00:17:52.150 --> 00:17:53.750 enjoy it really enjoy that song and i'm going 00:17:53.750 --> 00:17:57.619 to do are going to be uh i mean i've been around 00:17:57.619 --> 00:17:59.779 a while but that that's been rude but you have 00:17:59.779 --> 00:18:02.500 but of course you know until um a promoter sends 00:18:02.500 --> 00:18:04.720 something to me i mean there's there's hundreds 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:07.259 of thousands of artists tens of i mean i get 00:18:07.259 --> 00:18:10.759 over a thousand emails a week so but of course 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:12.799 working with somebody like heart media of course 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:15.180 they all get open so that's the magic of working 00:18:15.180 --> 00:18:16.660 with somebody like that so that's how you get 00:18:16.660 --> 00:18:18.869 heard now that's brilliant aren't they Yeah, 00:18:18.910 --> 00:18:21.109 absolutely. Now I'm going to discover you backwards 00:18:21.109 --> 00:18:23.490 with that, you know, reverse if that makes sense. 00:18:23.730 --> 00:18:26.410 Yeah, I love that. Yeah, I love that. Well, thank 00:18:26.410 --> 00:18:28.170 you. And look, if you want to come to any shows 00:18:28.170 --> 00:18:30.089 or anything, have a chat to John, we will try 00:18:30.089 --> 00:18:32.730 and figure it out. OK, that'd be lovely. It'd 00:18:32.730 --> 00:18:35.490 be great. It's great to meet you. And I love 00:18:35.490 --> 00:18:38.049 making friends. And like I said, I appreciate 00:18:38.049 --> 00:18:40.930 all the support. I really do. That's lovely. 00:18:41.210 --> 00:18:42.829 You deserve everything you get. And I continue 00:18:42.829 --> 00:18:47.420 to love the audience. And yeah. I can tell, I 00:18:47.420 --> 00:18:49.180 just know that headline thing in London is going 00:18:49.180 --> 00:18:50.779 to be great because I can tell you're going to 00:18:50.779 --> 00:18:52.019 love it and they're going to be doing encore 00:18:52.019 --> 00:18:54.420 after encore and you're just going to be providing 00:18:54.420 --> 00:18:57.039 it whatever they want. I know you just love it, 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:59.680 I know you will. I can't wait, I can't wait to 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:01.660 literally start, we're going to head out to Dundee 00:19:01.660 --> 00:19:04.440 on Sunday and I can't wait just to get out there 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:07.140 and just, you know, perform. I haven't been performing 00:19:07.140 --> 00:19:09.119 live for a while so this is going to be, it's 00:19:09.119 --> 00:19:11.650 going to be beautiful. yeah do you ever actually 00:19:11.650 --> 00:19:13.829 get to go home because i see you i see where 00:19:13.829 --> 00:19:16.109 you're from originally though did you when you 00:19:16.109 --> 00:19:18.089 actually in the midlands you actually get to 00:19:18.089 --> 00:19:19.750 stay with your folks or you got a base there 00:19:19.750 --> 00:19:21.890 do you or is it just hotels all the way through 00:19:21.890 --> 00:19:24.329 is that how it is It's a lot of hotels. It's 00:19:24.329 --> 00:19:25.789 going to be a lot of hotels for two months as 00:19:25.789 --> 00:19:28.190 well. But no, I'm actually so my family moved 00:19:28.190 --> 00:19:31.230 down to Cornwall in Lewin, Cornwall. OK, years 00:19:31.230 --> 00:19:34.130 ago. So I haven't been back to Birmingham for 00:19:34.130 --> 00:19:37.230 quite a while. I visited my old school a couple 00:19:37.230 --> 00:19:39.750 of years ago and when I performed, which was 00:19:39.750 --> 00:19:40.750 great, I'm going to be doing that again this 00:19:40.750 --> 00:19:42.509 year. That was the last time I went back. But 00:19:42.509 --> 00:19:44.170 now I'm going back and we were playing Birmingham 00:19:44.170 --> 00:19:46.730 Symphony Hall, which blows my mind because we 00:19:46.730 --> 00:19:49.869 used to do school trips there. So that's one 00:19:49.869 --> 00:19:51.769 of my I'm really excited for that. And in Cornwall, 00:19:51.849 --> 00:19:53.559 we're doing tour. Hall for Cornwall. So I go 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:55.319 back home a lot of the weekends, like I went 00:19:55.319 --> 00:19:57.680 back this weekend, saw my family in Cornwall, 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:00.160 come back on the train Sunday night. But I'm 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:02.359 based in London, my home's in London now. So 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:06.500 yeah, yeah. But it's yeah, it's a lot of hotels, 00:20:06.579 --> 00:20:08.779 a lot of traveling. When I was living in New 00:20:08.779 --> 00:20:11.900 York, it was a lot of back and forth. But yes, 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:14.400 it's I love it all. I love all the travel, you 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:16.440 know, it doesn't it doesn't bother me at all. 00:20:16.880 --> 00:20:18.759 So At least you get to see your folks. That's 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:21.259 the main thing. That's fantastic. And yeah, get 00:20:21.259 --> 00:20:23.599 back to you guys as well. It's all good. Jessica, 00:20:23.660 --> 00:20:26.000 it's been amazing meeting you. It's been awesome. 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:28.920 So thank you very much. And we're all looking 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:31.440 forward to the next time already and every success 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:33.619 with this. And that's like at least a mega stuff. 00:20:34.420 --> 00:20:36.380 Thank you. Thank you for being so lovely. 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