i think it's better than the first one okay but if it doesn't do it as well as the first one
then it's not better than if i i hate it right let me just make that clear now
how the official yeah yeah i'm very proud of it and i love the record but if it does
horribly i'll be furious and it's the worst record i've ever made in my life
my guest this morning is a multi-platinum album selling artist with two number one singles and
two brit awards under his belt the last time we saw each other he was also given the great
honour of reopening the absolute radio lift it is of course luis capaldi how are you
very good man how are you i'm very well that's quite the list of accolades actually the lift
is still working and that's a miracle you've got a magic touch there very very good stuff thank you i
i'm proud that i think i was in that with them or was it james mcavoy who came up just after me yeah
and cut the rabbit the stars come in well said my friend well said louis you've got brand new
music out today which is so exciting for all of the fans i've been lucky enough to hear it it's
called forget me yes um how are you feeling about everyone getting to hear this right now
oh i'm nervous okay oh i'm nervous i say yes scary i i wish i had more positive thing i'm
excited but mostly it's nerves mostly i feel an immense sense of dread okay and helplessness
and fear but it's good to be back well listen i i can't tell you how to be but
let me try and alleviate some of those fears by saying personally i absolutely love the song
i know that your millions of fans around the world are going to absolutely love it as well
and also you're kind of not alone i think as an artist feeling that way because it's been a really
unusual time you know you took a break from social media to focus on writing the album that
forget me is coming from but we also had coving and lockdown and when i've been able to have
artists back on the breakfast show and i'd like to ask you the question you know how how did you
find the creative process during that time was it nice to hunker down and write and perform
or was it difficult was it a void it was faint i guess yeah excellent yeah i gave that question
a really big build-up oh i like it yes no it was good we kind of got to work pretty
quickly got to work on my job this isn't a real job but um yeah we kind of got to just because
that was the thing the first three weeks of the lockdown it was like oh this is great nice cool
week off and when they were like oh this might be a bit longer it was like okay we should probably
do some workman but yeah i think it's went well i mean hopefully it's gone i mean i won't know let's
be honest i think it's better than the first one okay but if it doesn't do it as well as the first
one then it's not better than if i i hate it right so let me just let me just make that clear now how
the official yeah yeah i'm very proud of it and i love the record but if it does horribly i'll
be furious and it's the worst record i've ever made in my life uh well we know that's not going
to be the case uh i read and if i'm wrong here apologies but there's some collaborations here
working alongside the likes of dan from bastille and johnny from snow patrol and you've co-written
something with ed sheeran i believe yes the songs with dan aren't on the record so
take that dan yeah they were good songs but they just didn't fit with the kind of thing
but yeah so we've got a song with ed and johnny on there they they called him them and steve mack
so that was good it was fun it was nice to get to like sort of i kind of wanted to keep things
for like exactly the same okay the first time around i didn't want it better myself i didn't
want to you know expand my horizons my horizons are expanded enough i wanted to come in make
the same type of record and just stick with it you know i mean if ain't broke there's too much change
in this world dave yeah we've been through a lot of change recently i'm sick of it familiarity is
key at the moment of something something you can just go back i'm like i'm like pizza express you
know what i mean when you come to pizza expression you know what you're getting and that goes for
everybody you know you're the two foot pepper mill yeah of the music world exactly exactly did you
get to work with people irl was this an in real life situation or was it all kind of done over
teams or zoom or one of those creative vacuums in which we now live most of it was done um in person
right i'm glad to see there was there's a couple songs that were over zoom i didn't really like the
zoom thing no it was really it's just it's just especially meeting new people over zoom and then
trying to like write a song with them i tried to do most of it in person even if it was like going
on zoom and sort of starting an idea and then yeah finishing it later but yeah zoom's a nightmare man
i absolutely hate it unless they want to do a brand deal in which case zoom's the best
but just in terms of like yeah just for walking over for me it was like i mean i'm glad it's cool
that i was able to do it but like it just didn't really it didn't really ignite much in in terms of
passion as soon as i was able to have guests back in uh most recently we had search from kasabian
we've had george ezra pop by which has been lovely we came up with a new idea it's one of my favorite
new things to do and i would like to do it with you it's called star sign scenarios okay i've
had a deep dive into the traits of your star sign and i'm going to ask you some questions tailored
especially for your astrological projection great okay your birthday is next month in the month of
october october the 7th yes and therefore you are a libra a libra and that obviously means a lot
well we're about to find out there's some ladies on the internet oh does it yeah it's a big thing
in dating apps he's this yeah i can't date a libra well i won't date someone who believes in stuff
well this fun-loving virgo agrees with me let me tell you
so libras are a romantic bunch uh we know that you can pen some beautiful songs you're a man with a
big heart but tell me who was your kind of teenage crush which obviously wasn't too long ago for you
you know chronologically speaking but was there someone who was the screen saver on your phone
was there a poster on the bedroom wall i can't remember about teenage cross but i definitely
remember my sexual awakening oh okay which was remember the moulin rouge video like the
hey sister go sister yeah how could i ever forget it really yeah well you know
you know what i'm talking about you just mean the whole thing not specifically one
or all that baby of beauties was uh that sounded like a sun rifle in there in the early 2000s
but provocatively dressed bevy of beauty yeah
she left little to the imagination if someone even met someone speak some french near me i'm
away okay it's a good one for all the fans out there to know um libras are a curious bunch
lewis i want to know the last few things you maybe googled aside from the moulin rouge video which
you still do to this day but other things will you go past a building of interest maybe on the
tour bus yeah i think i'd like to know a bit more about that and therefore give it a little google
i've got i've definitely got something we'd love to take a look through usually i do but i don't
know okay oh as time travel possible ah excellent the articles from space.com so i don't know how
valid i don't know how how they are respected and the and the um you know celestial world
space.com as time travel possible and they give like a sort of you know non-answer of like yeah
technically it's possible because this astronaut who has a twin spent a year in space and now he's
like six seconds younger than his brother or something like it's you know i mean one of
those ones but it's like well give me the juicy yeah the juicy stuff am i gonna go is it back to
the future why were you looking for this lewis am i i'm interested today would you go backwards or
forwards i can't remember why i was looking for it to become okay but i don't know i would maybe go
far enough forwards you want to see the future i want to see how bad things are really going to get
yeah do you know what i mean they're pretty bad now yeah i mean who knows what the rest of that
2023 is going to be an absolute [ __ ] show if that keeps going up this at this rate and plus
i've got a new record coming out so it's even adding fuel to the fire and that for for the poor
public who have done nothing to deserve this ah um yeah but uh yeah forward i think forward libra's a
very persuasive bunch of people um could you tell us about a time maybe you convinced someone to
do something that they probably later regretted and maybe even knew yourself went yeah probably
shouldn't have advised you do that i'm quite good at like convincing other people to like shave the
beards in certain ways so like my whole i can't grow a beard myself or a mustache for that matter
my band are all quite bearded men a hair suit bunch yeah yeah and i would say that i played
a big part in convincing all of them to shave their beards into mustaches this was in 2018
and they all shaved them yeah that was that was probably pretty good i'm quite good at
getting people to just come out and get pissed okay oh yeah i'm gonna say that yeah i'm a good
convincing of like oh come on it's wednesday night we'll have one and then next thing you know yeah
you're at a strip club platinum lace and you're just absolutely loving life and finally libras are
social lewis tell us some of the whatsapp group names you've got going on i'm most fascinated
by that my group with my friends from school is called a bunch of no user loser bastards
that's one i don't know why that's called that but yeah how many people are in that group uh
eight oh okay they're your friends from school effectively yes yes one of them is there one of
them is one of the guys in the uh the you know lf system they've got a song afraid i feel oh yeah
that's my pal from school oh great we didn't go to like a private school or like a british
school or anything so it's very it's nice just normal skill who else has this oh i've got one
called poppy oh who's in that one just just me and some friends there's nothing to do with puppies
and then there's one called curry boys okay like every wednesday yeah yeah they come we go have a
curry mother india and scotland glasgow best car you'll ever have nice and then that's all kind of
soaking a boat there's one called eggtopia this one called this one called ipad boys
there's one called gem boys a little wild man gym boys and ipads yeah that's that's a pretty strange
one i've got fan chat that's my family okay that's good i mean one called brofty surprises
i love this how do you feel about the new thing if you heard that whatsapp are changing it so you can
now exit a group without announcing i feel very good with that i love that yeah i got there's one
my guitar i've done 30 quite recently and then we oh he made a big group but he's one of these
guys it's like everywhere we go in the world you'd be like oh i'm going to be able to power
for lunch and you're like what we're in like saudi arabia well we haven't often frequented something
like well like the ascent of nowhere and you're going to meet some random guy so there was like
30 40 people in it and i'm just like this is absolute this is this is hell on earth but you
can't leave it because then it's like oh i'm a bad guy and then especially when just lose capaldi's
life chat a little bit oh he thinks he's too good to be in this chat yeah so there's a white there's
a burden yeah which which is true i was too good to be that i didn't want to be at the top
yeah i'm over the moon about that and i'm very pleased