-What are you doing for the holidays, anything special?
-Just the usual, go home and spend time with the fam.
-Where, in Ireland? -Yeah, Ireland, yeah.
-Yeah. -I probably get home once,
twice a year. -Yeah.
-That's if second time is if I have a gig in Ireland.
-Oh, really? -So really, just once
for Christmas and stuff like that.
-Wow! What do you do in Ireland?
-Just kind of see all the people that I don't get to see
from one end of the year to the other.
And then, kind of -- We always do, like --
Like, all my mates from school, there's like 15 or 16 of us,
and we do this thing called 12 pubs of Christmas.
[ Laughter ]
-Where -- -The 12 pubs of Christmas?
-Yeah, it's basically like there's 26 pubs in one mile
in my hometown.
[ Laughter ]
It's bad news. -I love Ireland so much.
-And there's about -- And there's about 14,000 people
so it's well spread. You know, you go --
You got room in the pub when you go in there.
-Yeah, exactly, right, yeah. [ Laughter ]
12 pubs of Christmas, so -- -Yeah, you just go around,
there's rules -- Yes, some, like, some pubs
between 4:00 and 5:00, you have to, like, link
with one of your mates and then walk backwards
to the next pub, so -- And you can have --
You have a certain amount of time to drink.
I'd say it's a complete disaster.
-Oh, my gosh. -Like, it should be --
We should make it into a documentary, because --
it would. -Yeah.
-I'd watch it. -I would watch 12 --
Sounds like a Hallmark movie to me.
"12 pubs of Christmas." [ Cheers ]
I would watch that in two seconds.
We should make that movie. -Yeah, we should do it.
-Yeah. Do you have any traditional
Irish foods?
-No, it's pretty, you know, ham and turkey and...
-Everything in Ireland... -..all the different types
of potatoes. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah. Everything is in Ireland --
-Yeah, no -- Don't be like -- Don't be like that.
-No, no, no. No, yeah, exactly.
You're very Irish. -Yeah.
-No, but everything is boiled in Ireland.
No. Oh, yeah. So, there's like --
There's always been this thing in Ireland,
and you probably won't get it because you don't boil the crap
out of everything you eat, but --
[ Laughter ]
We have -- But there's always been this, like, stigma
with Brussels sprouts.
So, you're basically told when you're a kid that you don't like
Brussels sprouts even before you've tasted them.
-Yeah. -So, you know, it's just like,
you know, that you're not going to like them,
you shouldn't eat them. So they're just --
They always end up just in a massive bowl
and no one touches them. -Of course.
-And then I moved to the States for a bit and realized that
you fry things here. So, Brussels sprouts --
-They're actually great. -Which is good and bad.
But on Brussels sprouts, it's phenomenal.
-Yeah, it changed the whole game for you.
-So I'm going to bring loads of the fried ones back with me
this time. -That's -- See, that's the way.
That's what I'm talking about. -There you go.
-Smart guy. [ Applause ]
You're on this world tour.
You're going on this world tour with Maren Morris
and Julia Michaels. -Mm-hmm.
-I love both of those artists. -Yeah.
-Oh, my gosh. That's going to be fun.
-Yeah, I know. They're two good friends of mine
and Maren actually has his duet --
is featuring on a song on my album.
So, that was easy do.
And we're good friends and I got to know her over the time
that we've spent doing the song. -And Julia Michaels...
-And Julia is -- -...is fantastic.
Oh, my God. -Julia's the sweetest girl
in the world, she's an unbelievable songwriter,
so I'm looking forward to spending time on the road
with her and maybe writing pieces.
-How's the tour bus? How's the tour bus life?
I always liked that part of the rock star.
-Yeah, you know, to be fair, like, the last couple of tours
that we did with One Direction, it was kind of, like, you know,
we got to the stage where it's just jets and, you know, car --
convoy of cars with, like, police escorts and all that.
-So you don't even do tour buses.
-And then, yeah, yeah, we did for a couple of tours
and then the last couple, we didn't.
So, it's been great to get back on the bus, you know,
myself and my band and our tour manager and stuff
and just kind of bounce around the place.
But like our -- Our guitarist kind of came up
with this thing where we would have a different night
every night on the bus.
So, like, one night is, like, Country music night.
-Yeah. -So we're sitting there having
a few beers, only listening to Country music.
-We'll do, like, you know, rock and roll night.
We'll do Manchester in England night.
So you got Stone Roses, Oasis.
So you, like, do this kind of thing.
The other night we were doing a show in San Jose,
a Jingle Ball show, and after the show,
we decided that we were all going to go for a drink
in San Francisco so we jump on the bus and Ed Sheerhan
and Logic, the rapper Logic, come with us on the bus.
And we're -- We decided before we got on
the bus, probably because Ed's got ginger hair,
but we decided we were going to have Irish night on the bus.
Yeah. -That's good.
-Why not? Yeah. -And it turns out that Ed
knows more about Ireland than all of us put together,
and all of us are Irish. -Does he really?
-Yeah. And so we're flying --
We're going along, just leaving the venue,
and some car pulls out in front of our bus and we're all there,
having beers, listening to these jiggy Irish songs
and then some car pulls in front of us.
So obviously, we can't see through the window but a car --
our bus just goes -- Slams on its brakes.
I go flying. [ Light laughter ]
End up, like, we're all lying on top of each other.
It's weird. I hit my nose off the top of
a bottle of beer. Very aggressive.
Very aggressive. -Was beer everywhere?
-Beer absolutely everywhere.
And so Ed was like, "All right, well, I've got nothing to wear.
Have you got anything I could wear?"
So luckily, we're on my tour bus so I go back down to the back
of the tour bus, my suitcase is on my bed --
on my bunk.
So he starts trying on my jackets, and Ed's about
my height but he's just -- You know, he's a little bit
broader in the shoulders and nothing would fit him.
And he goes, he goes, "What's that?"
I was at a Boston Bruins hockey game about three weeks previous.
[ Cheers ]
There we go, people from Boston.
Probably Irish. [ Laughter ]
-Yeah. -And yeah, and they gave me
a Boston Bruins home shirt with Horan, number 17,
on the back of it and that was the only thing
that Ed could wear.
So -- Oh, yeah, I think you got a photo.
So, yeah, we ended up going to the pub, as if we weren't
recognizable enough.
[ Laughter ] [ Cheers and applause ]
Yeah, we ended up -- -Dude, that's the greatest, man.
That's the thing, you get recognized enough.
He's wearing your Jersey with you name on it, yeah.
-That's classic. -He's got bright ginger hair
and he's wearing my Jersey with "Horan" on the back of it.
-I love it, buddy, he's awesome.