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Stormzy co-hosts

Stormzy joins Jo live in studio to co-host the show, and talk about his new album This is What I Mean.

Stormzy joins Jo live in studio for a special co-host from 20:00 to 21:00.

Jo will play her favourite tracks from Stormzy’s new album β€œThis Is What I Mean”, the grime superstar will choose tracks that have influenced him from childhood to now, plus Jo has a few surprises up her sleeve. Also throughout the hour the pair will be chatting about Stormzy’s music, his career and the major influences on his latest work.

Stormzy stands not only as one of Britain’s most accomplished rappers, but one of its most accomplished musicians of any genre and a cultural icon.

The confidence which drove his new album stemmed from a deeper and far more spiritual place than we have seen from Stormzy previously. For all the success and awards that he has accrued during his brief, meteoric career, the lockdown that ensued from the coronavirus pandemic gave him one commodity he’d long lacked: time. And thanks to his sense of accomplishment following Glastonbury he was, for the first time, in a position to make the most of it.

Much of the creative energy that shaped the album emerged from a Stormzy music camp in Osea Island – a remote island in the Essex estuary that’s only accessible via a Roman Causeway for four hours a day at low tide. Surrounded by leading-edge producers and musicians (who will all be unveiled in due course), each and every morning they would eat and pray together and then spend the rest of the time driven to creative heights by each other's talents.

β€œWhen you hear about music camps they always sound intense and sombre” says Stormzy.

β€œPeople saying: β€œWe need to make an album.” β€œWe need to make some hit records.” But this felt beautifully free. We’re all musicians but we weren’t always doing music. Some days we played football or walked around taking pictures. And the bi-product to that was very beautiful music. Because when you marry that ethos with world class musicians and the best producers, writers and artists in the world, and we’re in one space, that’s a recipe for something that no one can really imagine. You can’t even calculate what that’s going to come up with. And it came up with a big chunk of this album”

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Mon 28 Nov 2022 20:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Stormzy

    Hide & Seek

    • This Is What I Mean.
    • 0207 Def Jam.

  • Florence + The Machine

    Shake It Out

    • Island.

  • DJ Yoda

    My Energy (feat. Eva Lazarus)

    • Prom Nite.
    • Lewis Recordings.

  • Lola Young

    Stream Of Consciousness

    • Island Records.

  • Beastie Boys

    (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)

    • Grand Royal.

  • The Big Moon

    Daydreaming

    • Fiction.

  • Stormzy

    Blinded By Your Grace, Pt. 2 (feat. MNEK)

    • Gang Sings & Prayer.
    • Merky Records.

  • Whitney Houston

    I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

    • Whitney Houston - Whitney.
    • Arista.

  • Stormzy

    Please

    • This Is What I Mean.
    • 0207 Def Jam.
    • 4.

  • So Solid Crew

    21 Seconds

    • CRAFT RECORDINGS.

  • Aled Jones

    Silent Night

    • Christmas Gold.
    • Crimson.
    • 1.

  • Stevie Wonder

    He's Misstra Know-It-All

  • Coldplay, We Are KING & Jacob Collier

    Human Heart

    • Warner Music Group.

  • Stormzy

    Holy Spirit

    • This Is What I Mean.
    • 0207 Def Jam.
    • 9.

  • Doris Day

    Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)

    • Housewives Choice (Various Artists).
    • Music & Memories.

Broadcast

  • Mon 28 Nov 2022 20:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2