Second Helpings - Yungblud

(Warning, I think this guest swears more than me!) Before we entered Lockdown 2.0 in November 2020, we had the pleasure of high tea’ing with a young gentleman by the name of Yungblud at mum's. Whilst sipping on champagne and eating sausage rolls, Yungblud (real name Dominic) talks all about Hobnobs, Yorkshire tea & his mum’s Doncaster cake shop ‘Jaffa & Cakes’, named after the family sausage dog. He tells us about his rockstar lifestyle; hanging out in 'Hollyweird', nights out with Brooklyn Beckham, elephant tattoos & just wanting a pint of lager at Noma, the best restaurant in the world. Dominic has now released 2 additional albums since we met - ‘Yungblud’ & ‘Idols’ are both out now! Listen & watch Table Manners here - https://tablemanners.komi.io/ Follow Table Manners on: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tablemannerspodcast/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@tablemannerspodcast Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/tablemannerspodcast YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TableMannersPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 0:03Jessie Ware?

  Hello and welcome to Second Helpings 2026. We have for our guest this week, Youngblood, who came on the podcast in November 2020.

• 0:13Speaker 01

  Wow, that blew my mind. What did? Youngblood.

• 0:16Jessie Ware?

  Oh, I love him so much. Dom is such

• 0:19Speaker 01

  I know.

• 0:19Jessie Ware?

  A fantastic human. It was before we entered lockdown 2.0 and so we had high tea with Youngblood at mum's. And we had all the windows open and I think we had to be separated from each other slightly. We had to do the photo outside. And he came over to talk about his album Weird.

• 0:34Speaker 01

  Didn't Youngblood have makeup on? He certainly had black nail varnish.

• 0:38Jessie Ware?

  Yeah, I'm sure he had a bit of eyeliner on.

• 0:39Speaker 01

  And he had eyeliner on. And now and again, the picture of him and us together comes up on my

• 0:46Jessie Ware?

  Memories.

• 0:46Speaker 01

  Memories. And then I say, I think, who's that? And then I realise who it is.

• 0:51Jessie Ware?

  Yeah, it was high tea with champagne, sausage rolls, sandwiches and a lot of swearing. So brace yourself. He swears even more than me. Youngblood coming up on Second Helping.

• 1:03Jessie Ware?

  Hi Dom.

• 1:03Speaker 02

  Hiya, how are you?

• 1:05Jessie Ware?

  Oh my God, you are, you are a star. I feel like I'm in the presence of a star.

• 1:09Speaker 02

  Really?

• 1:09Jessie Ware?

  Yes.

• 1:10Speaker 02

  Oh, that's mental.

• 1:11Jessie Ware?

  You're like, you've, you've got it, baby.

• 1:14Speaker 02

  Don't tell me that.

• 1:15Jessie Ware?

  No, but it's, and you are, I think, the youngest person we've ever had on this fucking podcast.

• 1:19Speaker 02

  Really?

• 1:19Jessie Ware?

  I mean, you were born in 96.

• 1:21Speaker 02

  97, actually.

• 1:22Jessie Ware?

  97.

• 1:23Speaker 02

  97, yeah.

• 1:24Jessie Ware?

  Shit.

• 1:26Speaker 02

  I remember the years well.

• 1:28Speaker 01

  So you're Youngblood, I'm Oldblood.

• 1:30Speaker 02

  I'm into that. I'm into that. I love it.

• 1:33Speaker 01

  Your mother's probably younger than Jessie.

• 1:35Speaker 02

  My mum's, my mum is, my mum's, no, my mum's 50 this year.

• 1:38Jessie Ware?

  Oh, crikey. No, I'm not 50.

• 1:40Speaker 01

  Not yet.

• 1:41Jessie Ware?

  But how's things?

• 1:42Speaker 02

  Good, man. Like, it's all a bit weird, isn't it?

• 1:45Jessie Ware?

  Yeah.

• 1:45Speaker 02

  It's all a bit bizarre.

• 1:47Jessie Ware?

  Yeah.

• 1:47Speaker 02

  But I don't know, I'm happy. I literally got home two months ago, so I'm happy to be back in the UK.

• 1:52Jessie Ware?

  Where have you been?

• 1:53Speaker 02

  I was in Los, I was in Hollywood.

• 1:56Speaker 01

  Do you not like it?

• 1:57Speaker 02

  I hate it.

• 1:57Speaker 01

  I love Los Angeles.

• 1:59Speaker 02

  I just, I don't know why, I'm, I'm just so British. Like, I love hobnobs and Yorkshire tea.

• 2:06Jessie Ware?

  I mean, the tea is shit.

• 2:07Speaker 02

  It's so shit.

• 2:08Speaker 01

  Jessie's not made that brew long enough.

• 2:10Jessie Ware?

  Sorry.

• 2:10Speaker 02

  No, I'm actually into it, man. I kind of like it. It's like, it's best, at least it's an English teabag.

• 2:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:15Speaker 02

  Well, I mean, probably not, but like, typical, typical British person.

• 2:19Jessie Ware?

  You don't get, I like Yorkshire. You don't get Yorkshire.

• 2:21Speaker 01

  No, it's too strong for me. That's English breakfast.

• 2:23Jessie Ware?

  But Lipton, that's shit. The Lipton shit.

• 2:27Speaker 02

  The Lipton shit.

• 2:28Speaker 01

  So where were you living in LA?

• 2:30Speaker 02

  I was living in Venice Beach.

• 2:31Jessie Ware?

  Oh, it's gorgeous.

• 2:32Speaker 02

  I mean, it was gorgeous. But that's the thing about it. I like cold and wet and cigs and pints and like

• 2:41Jessie Ware?

  You can't get that.

• 2:41Speaker 02

  Tea. Do you know what I mean? You just can't get that there. And it was like, it's all right, but it's like, I just find people a bit full of shit out there. I'm kind of like, tell the truth till it gets me in trouble. Do you know what I mean? Like, most of the time it's like, oh shit, shouldn't have said that. Do you know what I mean? If someone's like, do you like my jumper? I'm like, not really. Do you know what I mean? I'll say it in like the nicest way, but.

• 3:01Jessie Ware?

  Mum has just said, so, so Dom.

• 3:04Speaker 02

  You've got some balloons in the house.

• 3:05Jessie Ware?

  Dom, Dom, yeah, we're actually gonna do some laughing gas now. We said we were gonna give you a sausage roll, but actually we're gonna get the catheters out.

• 3:12Speaker 02

  I'm actually down. Come to Jessie Ware's house, we're gonna get high.

• 3:16Jessie Ware?

  Yeah. Well, anyway, for people that can't see, Youngblood, he has a skull jumper on. It's really nice. And my mum, I don't know why you've got these, but mum's got balloons.

• 3:26Speaker 02

  Skull balloons, but it's for Halloween, obviously.

• 3:29Jessie Ware?

  Was it for Halloween, mum? There you go, you're sorted, babe.

• 3:31Speaker 02

  Do you know what? I love it. I'm gonna, can I nick somebody's to put up in the house for Halloween? Thank you so much, man.

• 3:36Jessie Ware?

  Um, so, so, I mean, food. Tell me, growing up in Doncaster.

• 3:41Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 3:42Jessie Ware?

  What's like a memorable meal from your childhood?

• 3:45Speaker 02

  Bangers and mash. Always. Like, stews. Like, my mum would make, like, to be honest, my mum, like, runs a cake shop. She's got a little cake shop.

• 3:52Jessie Ware?

  Oh, nice.

• 3:53Speaker 02

  No, I promise you.

• 3:54Jessie Ware?

  Jessie. Oh shit, and my cake's soggy in the middle.

• 3:57Speaker 02

  No, it's all right, no.

• 3:57Speaker 01

  I'm definitely getting the cream of the roast myself.

• 3:59Speaker 02

  She's probably listening now, but my sister's does all the work, to be honest.

• 4:03Speaker 02

  My sisters do like the cake making. My mum's gonna kill herself.

• 4:05Speaker 01

  How many, how many brothers and sisters?

• 4:07Speaker 02

  I got two younger sisters, two little, two girls.

• 4:09Speaker 01

  So they were born in like 2000?

• 4:11Speaker 02

  Yeah, Izzy's 13 and Gem's 22. So Gem's a year younger than me and Izzy's 13. I think, I think that, like, one night on the red wine, to be honest. Do you know what I mean? And then I think they're like, my mum was like, I wanna have a baby. And my dad's like, what? And then she came out and she's, she's definitely the favourite kid.

• 4:28Speaker 01

  Is she?

• 4:29Speaker 02

  Absolutely.

• 4:30Jessie Ware?

  Really?

• 4:31Speaker 01

  She's the middle one.

• 4:32Speaker 02

  Oh no, she's the youngest. She's like a

• 4:33Speaker 01

  The youngest is the favourite.

• 4:34Speaker 02

  Yeah, complete length.

• 4:35Jessie Ware?

  Oh, fancy that. Yeah, that's like Dr Alex too.

• 4:38Speaker 02

  Oh, Dr Alex.

• 4:39Jessie Ware?

  Yeah, exactly. Doesn't matter, I'm a pop star.

• 4:42Speaker 02

  You don't need to say anything. Dr Alex.

• 4:44Speaker 01

  You can't trump that.

• 4:45Jessie Ware?

  Exactly.

• 4:46Speaker 02

  He's a doctor, you know, Alex. Alex is a doctor.

• 4:49Jessie Ware?

  I had to put it in, but usually it's my mum. She's my son. And she kind of does it like she's apologising for you because you're, you're not a doctor.

• 4:57Speaker 02

  You're not quite a doctor. It's like, you are not as good as my little boy.

• 5:01Speaker 01

  Or people will say, oh, your daughter's an actress. Oh, your other daughter's a singer. And I say, yeah. I say, ask me about my son.

• 5:09Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 5:11Jessie Ware?

  Anyway, so your, your middle, the middle one works in the cake shop.

• 5:15Speaker 02

  Yeah, Gem's like a crazy cook and it's mad. Like, I think she like kind of learnt from my mum and my nan. Like, they're just the best.

• 5:23Jessie Ware?

  So what were your birthday cakes like? If your mum had a cake shop, did she have a cake shop then?

• 5:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, pretty mental. No, she got it, like, my mum had a bad car accident a couple of years ago, actually, which was a bit, which was so sad. Like, she nearly like, we nearly lost, to be honest. But she used her insurance money to kind of, she always had a dream of having a cake shop. So she was like, do you know what?

• 5:42Speaker 01

  Something positive about it, something bad.

• 5:44Speaker 02

  Like, proper northern woman, broker back in like, like two places, had a mad operation. Seven months later, she's like, running around in a cake shop. It's so rock and roll. More of a punk than me.

• 5:56Jessie Ware?

  What's it called, the cake shop?

• 5:57Speaker 02

  Jaffa and cakes.

• 5:58Speaker 01

  Jaffa and cakes.

• 5:59Speaker 02

  Because she's got a little sausage dog that's orange and, and black called Jaffa Cake. So she's like, Jaffa and cakes.

• 6:07Jessie Ware?

  I love it.

• 6:07Speaker 02

  Because dogs always in shop. You know what I mean? So like, dogs just running around.

• 6:10Speaker 01

  Does she serve a cup of tea as well?

• 6:11Speaker 02

  Everything, like a cup of tea.

• 6:13Speaker 01

  Sandwiches.

• 6:13Speaker 02

  Sandwiches, sausage rolls. It's good sausage rolls.

• 6:15Speaker 01

  Oh God, darling. Why have we done high tea then?

• 6:19Speaker 02

  I'm too loud. Everyone always used to say to me in school, everyone always used to say to me in school, energy not volume.

• 6:26Speaker 01

  Energy not volume.

• 6:27Speaker 02

  Do you know what I mean? Every single person who's ever met me, Dom, we just want energy, not volume. I'm always like, all right.

• 6:33Speaker 01

  So were you very clever at school?

• 6:34Speaker 02

  Um, I was, to be honest, I was, I was good at what I wanted to be good at, I feel.

• 6:39Speaker 01

  All right. So what you're good at?

• 6:40Speaker 02

  I was good at, I loved history. I loved history. Hated maths. Got suspended for mooning at my maths teacher.

• 6:46Jessie Ware?

  What did you do?

• 6:46Speaker 02

  Pulled a moonie at my maths teacher.

• 6:48Jessie Ware?

  Love that.

• 6:49Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 6:49Speaker 01

  Why?

• 6:51Jessie Ware?

  Because you hated maths.

• 6:53Speaker 02

  But why?

• 6:53Speaker 01

  Because you got the question wrong.

• 6:55Speaker 02

  No, it was just like, I don't know, man. I think, to be honest, like, in school, everyone knew. I always loved performing. Do you know what I mean? I was like, I would, half the time I wouldn't even go to maths. I'd be skiving in the music centre. I remember all my mates were like, yo, I'm dating Mooney Miss Amo. And I was like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. Go on, Dom, go on, Dom, go on, Dom. I'm like, I'm not doing it, man. I'm just not gonna do it. They're like, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on. I was like, all right then. Bang, pulled my bum out and pressed it against the glass and

• 7:26Jessie Ware?

  Get suspended.

• 7:27Speaker 02

  Oh dude, like, you should have seen it, like, walked in, like, it, two classes later, two hours later, the deputy head walks in and is like, you know exactly who you are. Get out of this classroom now. And I'm like, oh, this is, this is bad, bad. Like, there's kind of a bad and then there's like a bad, bad. I'm like, all right, cool. I'm probably gonna get expelled and I'm not gonna be able to become a doctor. So, do you know what I mean? So like, mum's not gonna be

• 7:49Jessie Ware?

  But everyone's gonna want to see your bum in the future.

• 7:51Speaker 02

  Exactly. And that's what I'm saying.

• 7:53Speaker 01

  Have you showed your bum ever to anyone else since?

• 7:57Speaker 01

  In public?

• 7:58Speaker 02

  In public? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, I learnt that lesson very much, very quickly, to be honest. The deputy head pulls me into his office and he's suspending me, but he's laughing. He's like, can't hold his humour. And so he's like, um, we're gonna have to

• 8:14Jessie Ware?

  Who's calling?

• 8:14Speaker 02

  That's my mum.

• 8:15Jessie Ware?

  Oh, answer.

• 8:21Jessie Ware?

  Your fans are devoted beyond, right?

• 8:25Speaker 02

  They are, they are the best. All it was about for me was kind of building a culture. Because like, in Donny, it was great, but a lot of people didn't get me. Do you know what I mean? I was always like, wearing, like, I want to wear makeup and I wanted to kind of wear skirts and was always very loud and very opinionated. And people loathe people being free. You know what I mean? Especially in a place like that where it's like, we're setting our ways, we know what we want. We, like, everything's been done a certain way. If anyone tries to disrupt the status quo, you're gonna kind of get your arse smacked. Do you know what I mean?

• 9:01Speaker 01

  Your mum and dad didn't mind you?

• 9:03Speaker 02

  No, my dad sold guitars for a living.

• 9:05Speaker 01

  Okay. So he was pretty rock and roll.

• 9:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, my dad saw it all. Do you know what I mean? And then my mum literally would paint me nails and straighten me hair and she's just mental. You know what I mean? So she loved it. But then I was like, I just wanna build a culture. Like, I can't exist in this world. And it made me like, kind of hate myself and kind of be like, I'm such a weirdo. You know what I mean? And why am I different? And I was like, if I can't belong in this world, so I'm gonna build a world I can belong in for myself. And if there's anyone out there like me, I don't want them to feel like this. So I want them to be able to exist in a place that is accepting no matter what colour you are, what sexuality you are, what size shape you are, whatever you wanna wear, whatever you wanna look like, whatever you wanna say. And basically, I just started putting out music with that message.

• 9:52Speaker 02

  And I would just like, is there anyone out there like me? And like, fuck me, man.

• 9:56Speaker 01

  There were a lot of them.

• 9:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, like millions. And it's like, it's literally like, I always kind of, it's like me having a conversation with 3 million kids. It's like the music's second. It's just about talking and

• 10:12Speaker 02

  It's always like plays in my head, because once you get into the music industry, like headline, once you're gonna get like a label and start to get big or whatever, everyone's always talking about like hits and whatever. And I was like, I never really cared about that. Like, it's great that the songs do well and it streams. It's like, I just wanted to play stadiums.

• 10:30Jessie Ware?

  You just wanted to play stadiums, okay.

• 10:32Speaker 02

  Yeah, but I mean, that's just like.

• 10:33Jessie Ware?

  That would kind of require a hit, right?

• 10:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, I mean, mate, well, that's what I'm saying. It's like, when I look at it, like, I wanna build my career like the Stone Roses did. Like, the Stone Roses did like two nights at Spy Cat, because it was a culture. You know what I mean? It's like, I don't, I don't know. You know what I mean? What, like at Marilyn Manson, did he ever have a number one hit? No, but he had number one albums, you know, and he had a culture and he plays the biggest shows ever. Do you know what I mean? I think like, I, it would be great, like, trust me, it'd be like, sick, cool, I got a hit song. But it's like, I don't really think about that when I write. I just wanna tell the truth, you know what I mean?

• 11:08Jessie Ware?

  Has it been quite a weight, that having this kind of responsibility of being this messenger for this youth and kind of, or, or, I mean, have you ever, ever got yourself into trouble?

• 11:18Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah.

• 11:19Jessie Ware?

  Because I can imagine all these people are watching, waiting on every word.

• 11:23Speaker 02

  Completely. It's like a proper conversation. It's literally like I'm having Christmas dinner with three million people. You know what I mean? So it's like, because that boundary, like, there is no boundaries in my fanbase. There's literally not. It's not like, cool, I had a great show, I'm gonna get him a Mercedes fucking Viana with a glass bottle of champagne. You know what I mean? It's like, after every show, no matter, now we're like moving into like arenas and I'm like, I'm gonna be outside the show as I was at a hundred seater, I'm figuring that out. Like putting a platform in the car park and going to meet everyone afterwards. Do you know what I mean? Because that's what it's about. I kind of like that more than being on stage.

• 11:57Jessie Ware?

  It's about connecting.

• 11:58Speaker 02

  Completely. It's about connecting person by person. That's what I said at the beginning, like, I was at this music industry event in LA, obviously. And this guy, like, I think this music industry person comes up to me, he's like, got a bit of fucking canapé on his shirt. You know what I mean? And then, and he's like, what's the formula, man?

• 12:16Jessie Ware?

  Oh, no.

• 12:18Speaker 02

  What? He's like, I mean, come on, what's the formula? Like, it's all a load of bollocks. And I'm just like,

• 12:24Speaker 02

  tell the truth, speak to someone, person by person. Do you know what I mean? It's like, it's kind of.

• 12:31Jessie Ware?

  Because they, the thing, I think, you're very unique, aren't you? And you're like, but you, you are. I mean, there is only one young lad, right?

• 12:39Speaker 02

  It's mad.

• 12:40Jessie Ware?

  But it's this thing, and the industry want what you've got, and they want to take it and be able to apply it to someone else.

• 12:50Speaker 02

  No, exactly. But it is hilarious that it starts off as

• 12:56Speaker 02

  no one in the, like, when we started out, no one gave a shit. No one even writes something bad about us. I wish someone would be like, this is the shittest thing I've ever heard. I wish people would be like, this is the worst.

• 13:05Speaker 01

  But it just didn't bother.

• 13:06Speaker 02

  It just didn't bother. They were just like, just like a B-rate Arctic Monkeys. I was like, okay, I understand your point slightly, but,

• 13:14Speaker 02

  but just listen to what I have to say and you might learn something. And then it just started working in like the most odd places. Like, I remember going to the Netherlands and there were like two hundred kids at a show lined up, camped out, as they would do now. I was like, wow.

• 13:31Jessie Ware?

  How long ago was this?

• 13:34Speaker 02

  Probably three years ago, two and a half years ago.

• 13:37Jessie Ware?

  And when your, your first record came out, when?

• 13:39Speaker 02

  Uh, twenty eighteen, twenty, twenty eighteen, yeah.

• 13:44Speaker 01

  So you were just twenty?

• 13:45Speaker 02

  Just turned twenty, yeah.

• 13:47Speaker 01

  Yeah. So just let me, I just got to catch up a little bit. So you get excluded from school, you're a bit of a bad boy, but you entertain everybody.

• 13:57Jessie Ware?

  A lovable rogue.

• 13:58Speaker 02

  That was it, man. I was like, out like, do you know what I mean? If I wanted to get an A, I would kind of.

• 14:04Speaker 01

  You're right.

• 14:05Speaker 02

  I, I could. Do you know what I mean? It's like.

• 14:07Speaker 01

  Did you get GCSEs?

• 14:08Speaker 02

  Yeah, I did, yeah. I got an A star in English literature. I didn't even read the book.

• 14:13Speaker 02

  Do you know what I mean?

• 14:13Jessie Ware?

  Wow.

• 14:14Speaker 02

  Do you know what I mean?

• 14:14Speaker 01

  One of those people that wing it.

• 14:16Speaker 02

  Because I was just blagging it. I was just like forming, forming fucking opinions about like, I don't.

• 14:23Speaker 01

  Must have known a little bit.

• 14:24Speaker 02

  I can't even remember.

• 14:25Speaker 01

  Which was the book?

• 14:26Speaker 02

  No, I knew a little. It was important to be earnest. Do you know what I mean? I remember and I formulated some answer that Jack and Algernon were secretly in a gay relationship.

• 14:37Speaker 01

  Well, I think that was, yeah.

• 14:39Speaker 02

  I know, but like, you can potentially take that, but then I ran with it for a whole essay and it, and it must have been like, oh wow, this must have been blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Do you know what I mean? And, do you know what I mean? If I wanted to do it, whereas I turned up to my physics GCSE high. Do you know what I mean? I like smoked a spliff in the park with my mate before, so like.

• 15:00Jessie Ware?

  How did that work out?

• 15:01Speaker 02

  Not really got a D. Do you know what I mean? No, it was just like, if I was like, if I was into it, like, or drama, I'd just be studying and studying and studying all music. I knew every single piece of music back to front and play it backwards.

• 15:15Speaker 01

  Did you leave school at sixteen?

• 15:16Speaker 02

  I left school to come to, to London at sixteen. I don't know what year, but I was sixteen if I'm twenty-three now, that is.

• 15:24Jessie Ware?

  Five years ago, seven years ago.

• 15:26Speaker 02

  Seven years ago, seven years ago.

• 15:27Jessie Ware?

  Well, in maths.

• 15:28Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, seven years ago.

• 15:30Speaker 01

  So who did you live with?

• 15:31Speaker 02

  I lived with a lady called Marge.

• 15:34Speaker 01

  Why?

• 15:35Speaker 02

  Right, because I did, it was cheap, it was seventy quid a week for an house share. And I, I met my best mate there, James, and we are chalk and cheese. Like, I don't talk about this very often. This is a funny story. So I moved out of London, right? I'm in like Hounslow, and I'm like thinking, big city, so.

• 15:50Speaker 01

  Not really that big.

• 15:51Speaker 02

  That's what I'm saying. It's actually not London, it's Middlesex, but all right. It was, it was saying, you know what I mean? Potato, potato. And then I go into the house and I, and I'm like, I meet my friend and my mate, I'm like, hello mate, how are you? Pretending to be Liam Gallagher. He's like, hello, I'm, nice to meet you. I'm James from Portsmouth. And like, he's like the polar opposite to me. Tourette's, OCD, like folds his socks kind of shit. Do you know what I mean? I'm like, socks under my bed.

• 16:18Speaker 01

  Why was he there?

• 16:19Speaker 02

  Because he was like, he was in London as well. We were gonna go, I was going to.

• 16:21Speaker 01

  Doing what?

• 16:22Speaker 02

  I was gonna go to art school.

• 16:24Speaker 01

  Oh, okay.

• 16:25Jessie Ware?

  So you're on a mission.

• 16:26Speaker 02

  To Arts Educational School in Chiswick, right?

• 16:28Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, that's where I went.

• 16:29Jessie Ware?

  So were you gonna be doing like performing arts there?

• 16:31Speaker 02

  I was like, I was gonna do drama, I was gonna do music, and I, I was like, God, there's so much in there. Like, we're just like plowing through my life. I'm kind of looking at it like mad. And it was weird, bro, because I was like, music, I wanted to do music, I wanted to be in a band, but it seemed so hard to me. So I was like, cool, I might do theatre for a bit. And then I did a couple of shows. I did a show in Manchester. I did West Side Story and the director riff in West Side Story.

• 16:57Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 16:58Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 16:58Speaker 01

  Now you're talking.

• 16:59Speaker 02

  That's what I'm saying. I was like, when, yeah, when you're a jet, that, that kind of shit. Do you know what I mean? And I was like, I did that and I met a choreographer called Drew McConaughey, because they wanted to do it with people that it would be, it would be fifteen-year-old young people. In West Side Story, it wouldn't be twenty-five-year-olds playing fifteen-year-olds. They did it as real young people, which was sick. And the choreographer was like, listen, I can put in a word art said, because I think you should train now. I was like, all right, cool, let's try it, it'd be sick. Got in, met James, completely chalk and cheese. He'd be like, hello, how are you? Like, I'm the best kid in the world. He's still my best mate, so I can just take the piss out of him like that. He's like, oh, I'm, I'll be back by seven. And I've not been home in three days. And Marge is ringing my mum like, he's been out.

• 17:44Speaker 02

  Well, she wasn't from Doncaster, so she's like, she was from the north, but she looked like Cher, to be honest. It's kind of cool.

• 17:49Jessie Ware?

  Amazing.

• 17:50Speaker 02

  She's quite spooky and she made so much lasagna. Fuck me. She made a lasagna every two days and I was skinned, so I lived on lasagna.

• 17:56Speaker 01

  Did you like it? Do you eat it a lot now?

• 17:59Speaker 02

  I didn't like it. It's like scar me for life. I'm sorry, Marge, no offence. But it scar me for fucking life because it was like so gloopy and it was fine, but it was like the gloopiest lasagna you've ever had. It's like, could feel it through my heart, it is. And then I would live off it because I'd spend all my money on

• 18:18Jessie Ware?

  What?

• 18:18Speaker 02

  Beer. Like, do you know what I mean?

• 18:20Speaker 01

  You like beer? We've never got any beer in jazz.

• 18:22Speaker 02

  No, it's all right, it's all right. But I'd be like, do you know what I mean? Doing what I was doing. I was like at my mate's party or whatever or, and it was just funny because I, I, me and James were quite good influences on each other because he would straighten me out a bit. So if we had like lines to learn, he'd make sure I learnt my lines. And I'd just be like, come on, man, you've been sat in your room for three days. We're gonna do something naughty now. Do you know what I mean? Like, let's go to the park and ask someone to get us some beer in the shop or whatever, I don't know. And then, yeah, it was, it was great.

• 18:50Jessie Ware?

  Where does James live now?

• 18:51Speaker 02

  He lives in Chiswick still. And he's vibing.

• 18:54Jessie Ware?

  And what's he doing? He moved from Hounslow to Chiswick.

• 18:56Speaker 02

  He's like, he's an actor, but he's having a hard time right now. Because obviously, because of the, yeah, exactly, there's no jobs right now. So he's like, he's good though, man. He's like, he's like teaching a lot and he's inspiring and he's cool.

• 19:12Speaker 01

  Was Doncaster ready for you?

• 19:14Speaker 02

  I don't know. I mean, do you know what's interesting? I'm playing my first show in Doncaster.

• 19:20Speaker 01

  I was going to ask that.

• 19:21Speaker 02

  And I've avoided it for as long as I could.

• 19:24Speaker 01

  Why? Bet it's the biggest crowd.

• 19:26Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

• 19:27Speaker 01

  A lot goes on in Doncaster.

• 19:29Speaker 02

  I mean, it's gonna be the biggest crowd. My mum's gonna have a guest list of like 700.

• 19:32Jessie Ware?

  Tell me about it. It's a nightmare.

• 19:34Speaker 02

  Ain't it a nightmare? It's mental, like.

• 19:36Speaker 01

  Do you crowd surf?

• 19:37Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah. Do it all. I've had so much.

• 19:39Speaker 01

  You've never done that, darling.

• 19:40Speaker 02

  I had so much nicked off me in the thing.

• 19:42Speaker 01

  Really?

• 19:42Speaker 02

  Because to grab it, but not intentionally.

• 19:44Speaker 01

  Oh, take those balloons next time.

• 19:47Speaker 02

  You nicked me balloons?

• 19:48Speaker 01

  Stick 'em on.

• 19:50Speaker 02

  Weirdest, yeah, dude, like weirdest thing was when we were in Warsaw in Poland.

• 19:54Jessie Ware?

  Oh.

• 19:54Speaker 02

  They broke the barrier.

• 19:55Jessie Ware?

  They're amazing in Poland.

• 19:57Speaker 02

  They're the best.

• 19:58Jessie Ware?

  Is that one of your biggest places?

• 20:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, dude, cra- and the cra- the craziest thing was Milan. Milan was mad, right? Song two, right? Song two in Milan.

• 20:09Jessie Ware?

  Just warming up.

• 20:09Speaker 02

  Yeah, just on, like, gone on, madness, massive show. And I see this little Italian man walk to the side of the stage. I'm like, why is it? I'm like, I'm like, you don't look like you're in my fanbase, like, you know what I mean? Like bald and, you know what I mean, little moustache. I'm like, why is he coming on stage? All right. And he comes on stage, he's like, there's been 75 casualties and it's song two. And I'm like, because I'm like.

• 20:36Speaker 01

  It's not your fault.

• 20:37Speaker 02

  But that's what I'm saying, it's hilarious. And it's like, you have to calm them down. And he's like shouting, I'm like.

• 20:41Jessie Ware?

  Same to you to calm them down.

• 20:42Speaker 02

  I'm hearing screams from the front, from the most incredible Italian crowd ever. Because Italian crowds are just like.

• 20:49Jessie Ware?

  I've never played.

• 20:50Speaker 02

  The best. Like, I cry every time because they just sing and it's just like, what the, like, do you know what I mean? What the fuck? And basically, I had to calm them down because with my crowd, it's like, it's usually like younger girls and boys at the front who've been queuing outside for days.

• 21:06Speaker 01

  So what's your average age of kids?

• 21:08Speaker 02

  I don't know.

• 21:09Speaker 01

  Of your audience?

• 21:10Speaker 02

  It's kind of weird, like, I'm very much growing up with them, like, they're just like my family, man. It's like, it kind of starts with 15 to 18 year olds at the front. And then there's the kids beating the shit out of each other behind them. And then it goes all the way back to like.

• 21:25Speaker 01

  Do they throw beer?

• 21:25Speaker 02

  60. Oh, no, they're just laughing. It's like the best crowd in the world. Like, everyone's just like.

• 21:30Speaker 01

  Do they have older people?

• 21:31Speaker 02

  Oh, completely, like.

• 21:32Speaker 01

  Would I be the oldest young lad?

• 21:34Speaker 02

  There's literally a nan. There's like, there's one nan. Everyone calls a nan, like the Noah for all the world. Like, she's on the front row every time. It's a nan in the, from the UK.

• 21:43Jessie Ware?

  No, stop.

• 21:43Speaker 02

  I swear to God. Everyone calls a nan. And everyone's like, like.

• 21:47Speaker 01

  Nan's here.

• 21:47Speaker 02

  My family, fanbase call them the Black Arts Club, selves the Black Arts Club, because the tattoos on my fingers, that they get. We'll go into that in a second. And I know, so much, man. And that's just how much of a family we are. Do you know what I mean? It's like, everyone just knows each other from different continents. Everyone's best friends from different continents. People are getting like engaged and married.

• 22:10Jessie Ware?

  Have you ever shagged a fan?

• 22:11Speaker 02

  No, absolutely not.

• 22:12Jessie Ware?

  Jessica, I need to know this.

• 22:14Speaker 01

  That's a bit much.

• 22:15Speaker 02

  That is, that is, that is the thing. I probably would.

• 22:17Jessie Ware?

  Well, if you're lonely on tour and you've got this big old family.

• 22:21Speaker 01

  He's got his crew.

• 22:22Speaker 02

  It's weird. It's, it's, it's like, it's not like that. It's very odd. Do you know what I mean? It's like, people do ask me that a lot. I just, I don't, I don't know. Do you know what I mean?

• 22:31Speaker 01

  Darling, do they all look like you?

• 22:33Speaker 02

  Everyone's got, it's like a uniform, man. Like, I, um, I.

• 22:39Speaker 01

  So they've all got this red hat?

• 22:40Speaker 02

  So they're ba- we call, they call themselves a Black Arts Club. And I got, I was out in LA when I had like, I don't know, 7,000 followers on Instagram, like just been signed or something crazy, maybe more, I don't know. Um, and I was out with Brooklyn Beckham and Anwar Hadid for some reason.

• 22:59Speaker 01

  Oh, excuse me.

• 23:01Speaker 02

  That's what I'm saying. I, I, like, I, I'd had a mate who'd introduced me to Brooklyn and Brooklyn's like.

• 23:06Speaker 01

  Is he lovely?

• 23:07Speaker 02

  He's the best. Like, he's just, yeah, he's very charming. And like, he's just like, British. And like, we're just like talking about Ribena and football, you know what I mean? In LA, so we're like.

• 23:17Speaker 01

  Excuse me, what's your team?

• 23:19Speaker 02

  Ooh, Doncaster Rovers. I know, yeah.

• 23:22Speaker 01

  No, no, no, it's fine.

• 23:24Speaker 02

  I know. What's your team?

• 23:25Speaker 01

  Man, you.

• 23:25Speaker 02

  Is it? I've been, but I mean.

• 23:27Speaker 01

  I compliment Chester.

• 23:28Speaker 02

  But I was something saying, but it's like, I have a bit of a connection with Leeds United as well, to my grandad's side, so we're probably gonna fight in a minute, aren't we?

• 23:34Speaker 01

  Yeah, you're a white rose, I'm a red rose.

• 23:36Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's all right. We got the best hot pot.

• 23:38Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 23:38Speaker 02

  But anyway.

• 23:42Speaker 01

  Have you ever heard of Yorkshire hot pot?

• 23:44Jessie Ware?

  No, I've heard of Lancashire hot pot.

• 23:46Speaker 02

  I mean, fair enough, yeah, first.

• 23:47Jessie Ware?

  Oh, wow.

• 23:48Speaker 02

  My mum's hot pot's really good.

• 23:49Jessie Ware?

  It's a hot pot off.

• 23:50Speaker 02

  But yeah, it's a hot pot off. But I, I remember getting these tattoos on my fingers. One of them's broken and one of them's.

• 23:56Speaker 01

  It's the Black Hearts, not Black Hearts?

• 23:58Speaker 02

  No, the Black Heart.

• 23:59Jessie Ware?

  It is Doncaster Arts.

• 24:00Speaker 02

  Arts Club, Black Arts Club. And, and I remember getting these tattoos on my fingers and like, one of them's broken and one of them's full. And I was just starting to get this community, no matter how small it was, like, it was tiny back then.

• 24:12Speaker 01

  So everyone's got those tattoos?

• 24:13Speaker 02

  But yeah, so this one represents like me when I was growing up and like completely isolated, feeling like an alien. And I'm, I'm left-handed and I got the full heart on my second hand, on my left hand because by writing, I connected to him and I had a conversation with him. So I got them, posted them online. I wake up the next day, 10 kids have got them.

• 24:35Jessie Ware?

  Parents pissed off with Youngblood.

• 24:37Speaker 02

  Yeah, 10 kids have got them. Then a thou- and like now apparently there's tha- like 10s of thousands, hundreds of thousands of black hearts.

• 24:43Speaker 01

  Have you got other tattoos?

• 24:44Speaker 02

  What, an elephant on my arse?

• 24:46Jessie Ware?

  Shut up.

• 24:46Speaker 02

  Swear to God.

• 24:47Speaker 01

  Sophie Moon's again. No, we do not, thank you very much.

• 24:51Speaker 02

  It's all right, man. I'll shut.

• 24:52Jessie Ware?

  I need to see him, sorry.

• 24:53Speaker 02

  I promise you.

• 24:54Jessie Ware?

  Jessica.

• 24:55Speaker 02

  I don't, I don't really, I don't wear underwear to me, I'm honest.

• 24:57Jessie Ware?

  You don't? Why don't you wear underwear? Isn't it gonna hurt your willy with those jeans?

• 25:01Speaker 02

  No, I don't, I look.

• 25:02Speaker 01

  I can't look.

• 25:03Jessie Ware?

  Oh my, oh, it's a little one.

• 25:05Speaker 02

  It's a nipple. That's what I'm saying.

• 25:07Jessie Ware?

  Christ.

• 25:08Speaker 02

  I don't know why you're prepping up.

• 25:09Speaker 01

  But I don't want the Beckhams to have a bad influence on you.

• 25:13Jessie Ware?

  What, with tattoos?

• 25:13Speaker 01

  You know their record with tattoos. You'll have it up to here by the end.

• 25:17Speaker 02

  So funny. I kind of like, dude, I'm, I'm such a little shit because I'm like, if people expect something of me, I won't do it. Do you know what I mean? So it's like, everyone always expects me to be covered in tarts, so I'm just not gonna do it.

• 25:27Speaker 01

  No. But you're quite pretty, actually. I hate to say it.

• 25:31Speaker 02

  Thanks.

• 25:31Speaker 01

  But you are quite lovely and you've got gorgeous eyes.

• 25:34Speaker 02

  My green eyes.

• 25:34Speaker 01

  Have you seen those eyes?

• 25:36Jessie Ware?

  Yeah, you're very handsome.

• 25:37Speaker 01

  You're beautiful, yeah.

• 25:37Jessie Ware?

  This is verging on like, kind of, I feel like, mommy, we're like going Jeffrey, Jesus.

• 25:43Speaker 01

  I'm the nan on the front row.

• 25:45Speaker 02

  I'm into it, I'm into it.

• 25:46Jessie Ware?

  Shall we have a sausage roll?

• 25:47Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 25:47Speaker 02

  Oh, you've got a sausage roll?

• 25:49Jessie Ware?

  We've got, yes. They're sausage rolls with. And do you want some champagne?

• 25:53Speaker 02

  I love a bit of champagne, yeah, wow.

• 25:55Speaker 01

  Do you want another cup of tea?

• 25:56Speaker 02

  I love a champagne. They look incredible.

• 25:58Speaker 01

  Here, take a place, darling.

• 26:00Speaker 02

  Wow, man, what's on them?

• 26:03Jessie Ware?

  So they are, I had them in Lincolnshire, so they're like, they've got cheese in them and mustard and they're fucking delicious.

• 26:11Speaker 02

  I love that. They look fucking awesome. Wow.

• 26:13Jessie Ware?

  Topped sausage rolls.

• 26:14Speaker 02

  Thank you so much. What a, what a.

• 26:17Speaker 01

  And we've got cake.

• 26:18Speaker 02

  So, what an insane spread.

• 26:21Jessie Ware?

  So, okay, so what do you cook? When, do you cook?

• 26:25Speaker 02

  I'm at, do you know what? I'm actually surprisingly good. I make a banging Sunday roast.

• 26:29Jessie Ware?

  Oh, do you?

• 26:30Speaker 02

  But I can do a Sunday dinner. And it's the hardest thing to cook. Oh, bro, it's the, it's the hardest thing to make. It's like so much stuff to like stress out on. Because you have to juggle. If you're making a Sunday dinner, you've got to be able to like juggle because it's like all about the last five minutes, making sure everything's hot and everything's together and everything's like good because, you know what I mean? You don't want cold roast potatoes with like cold chicken. Like, you've got to make sure everything's like out at the same time, gravy's good, ready to rock and roll.

• 26:59Jessie Ware?

  What's your secret?

• 27:00Speaker 02

  Um, if I'm cooking, man, like, it's so unhealthy. I put like so much fat and cream and, and like salt in it. Do you know what I mean? So it's just like, because my mum always said that, man, do you know what I mean? She would always just overdo it.

• 27:13Jessie Ware?

  Indulge.

• 27:13Speaker 02

  And it was insane. You know what I mean? Everyone comes around like, wow. And then like, my roast potatoes are insane. Because I get like beef dripping and that, you know what I mean?

• 27:22Speaker 01

  What's your key to good roast potatoes?

• 27:24Speaker 02

  Um, so obviously you boil your potatoes until they're like a little bit soft. Make sure the outsides are soft. As if like Youngwood Cooking Channel. No one knows this about me. World exclusive, Bill. Um, until they're soft, drain the water, smash the fuck out of them. Just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Little bit of flour. I usually put like, like garlic salt and on.

• 27:49Speaker 01

  Oh, you put flour on them?

• 27:50Jessie Ware?

  That's a good idea.

• 27:51Speaker 02

  I put flour on them, garlic salt and onion salt on them.

• 27:53Jessie Ware?

  That is a good idea.

• 27:54Speaker 02

  Then I get a massive baking, like a deep baking tray. Loads of beef dripping in it. It's got to be like smoking. Like, if you put your finger on it, like you cook your finger, do you know what I mean? Like, you pour your potatoes in, cover it in that, put them in, take it out, baste it a bit more, turn them around, keep putting them in. But the more smashed you can get them on the outside, it makes it like, go like crispy.

• 28:16Jessie Ware?

  Who did we talk to about who put semolina on them? Did Dawn French?

• 28:20Speaker 01

  Semolina?

• 28:20Jessie Ware?

  Yes, Dawn French put semolina. Yeah, just like, and so it brings a little crunch?

• 28:24Speaker 02

  Wow.

• 28:25Jessie Ware?

  Yeah.

• 28:25Speaker 02

  I'm into it. I'll try that next time.

• 28:27Jessie Ware?

  So, okay, so that's what you'd cook. Roast, uh, Youngblood roast. And where do you like to go out in London? Where's a good place? Where's like a Youngblood special food place?

• 28:38Speaker 02

  Where do we go for food? There's loads of them.

• 28:40Jessie Ware?

  Are you bothered about food?

• 28:42Speaker 02

  I love food.

• 28:43Jessie Ware?

  Okay.

• 28:43Speaker 02

  No, I do love food. I'm just trying to think now.

• 28:45Speaker 01

  I don't know if you ever stopped to eat, though.

• 28:47Speaker 02

  Bro, I don't stop to eat. I always eat out. I literally always eat out.

• 28:50Speaker 01

  What did you eat last night?

• 28:52Speaker 02

  What did I eat last night? What day is it? What even day is it?

• 28:54Jessie Ware?

  It's Friday.

• 28:55Speaker 02

  What did I do last night? Oh, I had a, I had a burger last night. It was good. I, I, no, I had burger and wings from Wingman's. It was great.

• 29:02Speaker 01

  Where's Wingman's?

• 29:03Speaker 02

  It's a thing on delivery, you can get it. I promise. It's like oriental wings. It's like, fuck. And I love Chinese food. I love a Chinese takeaway. Oh, can't beat a Chinese takeaway.

• 29:12Jessie Ware?

  I haven't had a Chinese takeaway in so long.

• 29:14Speaker 02

  That's the thing, that's the thing about it is, right, Chinese takeaway is just not good here in London. Like, when you go home, it's.

• 29:23Speaker 01

  Have you been to Chinatown?

• 29:25Speaker 02

  Chi- China, yeah, I've been to Chinatown. It's all right, but like, not like.

• 29:28Jessie Ware?

  So Doncaster does a better Chinese takeaway?

• 29:30Speaker 02

  I swear to God, yeah.

• 29:30Jessie Ware?

  So what are you ordering in Doncaster?

• 29:32Speaker 01

  You have Chinese curry in Doncaster.

• 29:35Speaker 02

  Do you know, we love Chinese curry. The thing about it is, right, it's like, it's your Chinese, you know what I mean? When you have your own Chinese, nothing beats it. They could be serving anything, but it's like just your Chinese. But I do like a little pasta joint in Soho. You been to Lina's Stores?

• 29:49Jessie Ware?

  Yes, I like Lina, yeah, totally.

• 29:51Speaker 02

  It's so cute. But it was kind of funny. I went to like, I had a bit of a breakdown, so I went to Lake Como for a couple of days. And then like you come, I went.

• 29:58Speaker 01

  How gorgeous is that?

• 29:59Speaker 02

  Mad. Rented an house. And it's so funny because all my me- like, I took my mates out and everyone's like dressed in thing. I don't change. I'm in like fucking leopard print and like spikes in Lake Como. Like, we're driving on a boat and this guy's looking at me like, who just crawled out of Satan's bumhole and got on my boat, you know what I mean?

• 30:19Jessie Ware?

  But it's great, expensive.

• 30:20Speaker 02

  Then I came back and every Italian food I fucking ate, I was like, it's just shit. You're like eating Italian food and then you're like, oh god, this is so good. Then you go to Lake Como and you come, come back and you're like, fuck me, you're imposters. We went to this restaurant the last night and I was like, wow, this is great. Like, I didn't even kind of like, they did this like black garlic risotto and I've never put anything that good in my mouth.

• 30:41Jessie Ware?

  Really?

• 30:42Speaker 02

  Never. Not even, don't even come close. And I've kissed many people.

• 30:57Jessie Ware?

  So, okay, so we ask everybody what their last supper would be.

• 31:01Speaker 01

  Darling, could we have a little more champagne?

• 31:02Jessie Ware?

  Oh, sorry.

• 31:03Speaker 02

  I love it, I love it, man.

• 31:04Speaker 01

  Me and Darwin are kind of suffering here.

• 31:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's got to keep, keep me lit, tell me secrets.

• 31:08Speaker 01

  So tight.

• 31:09Jessie Ware?

  So, I want to know, last supper, what's it gonna be? Starter, main pudding and drink of choice.

• 31:15Speaker 02

  Last supper, alright. For starter, I love Spanish food, what? I have prawn, prawn pill, pill. Have you ever had that?

• 31:22Jessie Ware?

  Hmm.

• 31:22Speaker 02

  Mad.

• 31:23Speaker 01

  Pill, pill.

• 31:24Speaker 02

  On a, on a, like, but the shittest one you can get, like on a beach bar, like on like granny's in the kitchen and it looks like you're gonna get salmonella but you're not, you know what I mean? And you're just like-

• 31:32Speaker 01

  Nice bread to dip in.

• 31:33Speaker 02

  Yeah, proper nice bread to dip in and just like, just pint of lager, do you know what I mean? So, oh man, I need to tell you my story in a minute. I've finished this, this is the funniest fucking story ever.

• 31:44Jessie Ware?

  Tell us now.

• 31:44Speaker 02

  Alright, fuck it, I'll do my last supper in a minute, right. So, me, me tour manager, right, Jess, she's a, she, I don't, she's an incredible Australian woman, like with the biggest like heart, but I don't know how she puts up with us, like we are little shits, absolute little shits on, on tour. So for like-

• 32:01Jessie Ware?

  Oh Jess, bless you.

• 32:01Speaker 02

  Bless her, shout out Jess, she, you know what I mean? She's like probably listening to this embarrassed as hell because she hates any attention. She's like, don't take photos of me, ever. We were in Denmark and had a couple of days off and you know Noma? It's like the best restaurant in the world, right?

• 32:15Jessie Ware?

  Did you get a, did you get a place there? I mean, it's a huge rating list.

• 32:19Speaker 02

  Listen, so some, like, I was like, it's her birthday, she really wants to go to this nice restaurant called Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark, it's the best restaurant in the world.

• 32:29Jessie Ware?

  Chef's table, it's phenomenal.

• 32:31Speaker 02

  All, all, all, all that shit. So I was like, alright, cool. So I get a table, right? And I'm, I'm, I'm northern as fuck, right? And it's gonna be seven hundred quid a head and they're gonna take four of us and I'm gonna pay for it for her birthday. I'm like, fucking okay, well, alright.

• 32:43Jessie Ware?

  Love your dress, yeah.

• 32:44Speaker 02

  You know what I mean, like fucking twenty, you know what I mean, whatever, twenty eight hundred quid for a table. I'm like, fuck yeah, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna have the best steak of my life and it's gonna be great. I'm gonna sit there, so I'm saying to you, listen, this is why the story's really funny. So I get there and I'm like, cool, I'm gonna have a fucking great steak, I've been on tour for so long, I'm gonna have steak and chips and they're gonna give me whatever I fucking want and lychee martinis on tap till the fucking end of time. It's gonna be wicked. But as I say, so we pull up, right? We get into the side, I'm like, alright, cool, there's like, I'm thought of going to a restaurant, it's like six greenhouses, but alright. Have you seen that film, Midsommar?

• 33:16Jessie Ware?

  Yes.

• 33:17Speaker 02

  Do you know what I mean? So I'm walking up and it's like-

• 33:18Jessie Ware?

  You're all quite smiley.

• 33:19Speaker 02

  Everyone's like very fucking Viking and very like, hello sir, welcome to Noma, where your pleasures will be. I don't know, and I'm like, alright, nice, like I'm dry and northern, I'm like, alright, nice to meet you, fucking great. So I walk into Noma and I'm just like, cool, this is a bit fucking weird, isn't it? And everyone's like, oh, I'm so excited. I'm like, same, I can't wait.

• 33:38Jessie Ware?

  So that steak.

• 33:39Speaker 02

  Steak and chips and it's gonna be fucking great. And it's like, would you like this drink of the river to cleanse your palate? I'm like, I'm like, I'll have a, yeah, I'll have a taste of that, it's pretty fucking weird too, like, and you kind of, I haven't stopped staring at me for two minutes, you know what I mean? I'm like, stop looking at me, I wanna like chill. So they take us to our table and in Noma, it's like you have your own little living room and there's a fire. And I'm like, okay, cool, alright, sick, we're gonna sit down and it's gonna be great. So the waitress comes, it's like, again, welcome to Noma. And it's like some fucking, like I've gone to live with Harry Krishnas in Thailand or something, you know what I mean? And I'm like, fucking great. And it's like, okay, can I have a pint of lager and a steak and chips please?

• 34:21Speaker 02

  And she's got, she's like, she's like, they bring the drinks out and she starts pouring me this drink and I'm like, sorry, um, I, can I have a pint of, can I have a pint of lager? She's like, we don't do lager, sir. I'm like, um, okay, right, do you have like any like beer or anything? It's like, no sir. I'm like, alright.

• 34:39Speaker 01

  You're in Denmark?

• 34:40Speaker 02

  Yeah, I mean, but that's fine, I'm just like, I know, do you know what I mean?

• 34:42Jessie Ware?

  No, they should have beer, right?

• 34:44Speaker 02

  I have a beer and I'm like, and I'm like, and I'm like, do you have, do you have like anything, like do you have a glass of prosecco? No sir. Do you have a gin and tonic? No sir. I'm like, what do you have? And she's like, well, we have the fruits of the forest. Like shit, she's pouring me, I'm drinking this raspberry elderflower and fucking-

• 35:01Speaker 01

  Was it alcohol?

• 35:02Speaker 02

  Fucking drink.

• 35:03Speaker 01

  Was it alcohol?

• 35:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, it was alcoholic, right? And I'm drinking it and I'm like, okay, cool.

• 35:06Speaker 01

  But it's not what you wanted.

• 35:07Speaker 02

  No, it's not, that's what I'm saying to you, it's like, it's not what I wanted, so it's like, alright, cool. And I'm like, where's the menus? And Jessie's laughing at me because she's just brought fucking Devo meets Liam Gallagher into a fucking Scandinavian seance, you know what I mean? And everyone's like, bringing in the light and blessing the forest. And it's game season, right? It's game season. And everyone's laughing at me and Tom, my photographer, is quite a foodie and, and a bit pretentious. I love him, he's a pretentious cunt. Then there's Ed, who works at my label, who was somehow out in Denmark, I don't know why. And then Jess next to him.

• 35:41Jessie Ware?

  He wanted to go to Noma then.

• 35:42Speaker 02

  I know, I was-

• 35:43Speaker 01

  Knew you were paying.

• 35:44Speaker 02

  That's what I'm saying, so it's like, we're in, we're in Noma and we're eating and it's like, the first dish comes out and I'm like, I'm like just turning hysterically, like, where's the fucking menus? Like, where's the menus? I'm not, I'm, I'm, I'm like really, and I'm anxious because everyone's like, there's a person in the corner of the room looking straight forward, like not even like vibing, just like-

• 36:04Jessie Ware?

  No connection.

• 36:05Speaker 02

  Do you know, holding a bottle of water and looking straight forward. I'm like, it literally looks like a prosthetic doll, like standing there.

• 36:12Jessie Ware?

  It's a bit Midsommar.

• 36:12Speaker 02

  I'm very Midsommar, it's like, when, when, when am I gonna get my bollocks cut off, you know what I mean? In front of me. And then I'm sat there and the food comes out and the first thing comes out and it's like, an acorn on a plate, right? And it's like, I'm looking at this acorn, I'm like, alright, cool, like, everyone's like weird, it must be just like some hippie shit before they bring out, like the menu.

• 36:34Speaker 01

  Your dinner?

• 36:34Speaker 02

  Me, me, me dinner, yeah. Me big, nice steak. Do you know what I mean? Me big, nice dinner that I'm paying seven hundred quid for. And they, and they do the acorn and I'm like, okay, right, I'll nibble on this acorn and, and everyone's just laughing.

• 36:47Speaker 01

  Was the acorn in anything?

• 36:48Speaker 02

  No, it was just a fucking acorn, I don't know, like, do you know what I mean? It's an acorn.

• 36:51Speaker 01

  You could eat acorn.

• 36:52Speaker 02

  That's what I'm saying.

• 36:53Jessie Ware?

  Oh, you can eat-

• 36:53Speaker 02

  And it's like glazed in fucking, like, like molasses made from like Jesus Christ, you know what I mean? And, and, and, and, and every, like Jess is like, wanted to come to Noma but she's regretting it already.

• 37:09Jessie Ware?

  Because you're-

• 37:09Speaker 02

  Because, no, no, she's not regretting it because of me because now I find out that she is unadventurous with food. So I'm like, okay, fine, alright, fucking hell, you don't want to eat your acorn, that's a seventy quid acorn that you just, just turned away. Like I've turned mine away. And I'm sat down, it's like, cool, cool. Um, is there any menus coming out? It's like, the chef has decided what you're eating tonight, sir. And I'm like, as I say, like, I don't like being told what to do.

• 37:32Speaker 01

  How intimidating.

• 37:33Speaker 02

  No, it's very intimidating, like-

• 37:34Jessie Ware?

  I, see, I love that, they go, we've created.

• 37:37Speaker 01

  I'm definitely with you.

• 37:39Speaker 02

  Yeah, and I'm just like, alright, cool, like, it's like, is there gonna be any like meat and shit? Like, oh yes, sir, yes, we do, we use every part of our animals. And I get it because it's like good and, and it's good and, sorry to, sorry to any of the-

• 37:51Speaker 01

  Probably on this raw vegan.

• 37:52Speaker 02

  Yeah, sorry to any of the vegan fans out there, do you know what I mean? Um, but this was just Noma. And then they bring out duck's brain.

• 37:59Jessie Ware?

  No, they didn't.

• 38:00Speaker 02

  In front, I mean, like, no, duck, duck, like gland from, from the brain. And I'm like, and I'm like, like looking at the waitress, like, I'm like helpless, like, I'm, like, imagine me walking through the desert for seven days without water and I see you and I'm like, do you have any water? I'm like, do you have any fucking thing normal for me? Do you have anything possibly normal? And then the main event comes out and it's like, our good old friend Donald Duck. But this time, it's the face of, of the duck, like the face, right? Like, and it's, and I'm sat there and Donald Duck is looking at me in the face going, don't eat me, don't eat me because my child is across-

• 38:42Speaker 01

  And you've been on the Disney Channel.

• 38:43Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's what I'm saying to you, right? So I'm looking at fucking Donald Duck right now and then I'm like, okay, why is there ducks? Like, I'm not gonna eat a beak, it's not even cooked. And then one of the Midsommar characters walks around the corner and lifts up the duck's head.

• 38:57Jessie Ware?

  Oh my god, this is like Indiana, Temple of Doom.

• 38:59Speaker 02

  It's Temple of Fucking Doom shit, right? And people pay seven hundred quid each for this, right?

• 39:03Speaker 01

  I would not do that.

• 39:03Speaker 02

  That's what I'm saying. So it's like lifted off, lifted off and it's like, inside the head is duck's heart, ta ta. Right? And Jessie's laughing now because she's not eating anything either. She's like not eating-

• 39:17Speaker 01

  I would actually vomit.

• 39:18Speaker 02

  That's what I'm saying, like, Tom, my pretentious photographer-

• 39:22Speaker 01

  Could he count?

• 39:22Speaker 02

  Is fucking eating everyone's fucking food. And I'm like, I hope you're, I like, you're not getting a fucking birthday present this year.

• 39:28Speaker 01

  And it was small portions.

• 39:29Jessie Ware?

  That's for birthday presents.

• 39:30Speaker 02

  Small portions, right? And then like, after that, we have a palate cleanser and it's peppermint ice cream. And I was like, fuck yeah, alright, I'm into this, best peppermint ice cream in my life. And in theory, I paid two and a half grand for peppermint ice cream and then went for a Chinese afterwards. I had cut someone call, I was like, it's eleven PM, I need you to find me a Chinese takeaway. And I'm pretty placid, but I was pissed off, you know what I mean? I was like, I was like-

• 39:53Speaker 01

  I hate pretension.

• 39:55Speaker 02

  It was, yeah, do you know what I mean? And it was fine.

• 39:57Jessie Ware?

  I'm sorry, Jessie. Look, I am so desperate to go, this is the best entertainment.

• 40:02Speaker 02

  Do you know what? Not in a bad way, not in a bad way, right? Like with it, yeah, great, if you're into that shit, but I'm from, like, I'm from Donny, man, you know what I mean? I just wanted a pint of lager and some steak. If I go to a nice restaurant, do you know what I mean? If you go to Chilton Firehouse on a Friday night, I'm like, I'll have the cheapest lager you got, do you know what I mean? I just, just who I am and I love good food and I love it, but-

• 40:23Jessie Ware?

  Yeah, you-

• 40:23Speaker 02

  I just like good, like, I, I, you know what I mean?

• 40:26Jessie Ware?

  You don't like all the bells and whistles? I'm really worried about the cake.

• 40:30Speaker 02

  I'm into the cake, I'm into the cake.

• 40:31Jessie Ware?

  So just so I explain to you, Dom, I don't, I don't have a kitchen at the moment, so I have this really mini oven that it can roast a chicken and it can bake a cake, but the timings are a bit off, so fuck knows if it's worked, but I mean, it's sweet.

• 40:44Speaker 02

  But yeah, that's what I'm saying, I like, so I don't mind and it, it's alright because if this cake's shy on the next podcast of someone else I do, I'll be telling the- I'll be telling the Noma story, are you?

• 40:55Speaker 01

  No, you can't do that.

• 40:56Speaker 02

  I won't, I won't, I won't.

• 40:57Speaker 01

  Because I feel we've connected.

• 40:59Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 40:59Speaker 01

  I'm gonna get those tattoos, sorry.

• 41:01Speaker 02

  Alright, brother, flat out.

• 41:02Speaker 01

  Black arts.

• 41:03Speaker 02

  I'm into it, you're black arts man, black arts club, nan too.

• 41:11Jessie Ware?

  Okay, so we're back to the main.

• 41:13Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 41:14Jessie Ware?

  The main of your last supper.

• 41:16Speaker 01

  Sorry about the lumps.

• 41:17Speaker 02

  Sorry, yeah. So in hindsight, the main of my last supper in Donald Duck with the tart tart, it's probably steak and chips.

• 41:26Jessie Ware?

  Okay.

• 41:27Speaker 02

  But like, good steak and chips.

• 41:28Jessie Ware?

  How'd you do it? Well done, rare?

• 41:32Speaker 02

  Yeah, I liked ribeye. I had Kobe once, which was insane, you know what I mean? And then just ribeye steak. Usually if I can get a wagyu, be proper bougie, I'll do that. You know what I mean? Cook medium and then bougie. Bougie's like, kind of like.

• 41:48Jessie Ware?

  It's like when you wanna go to Nobu for your birthday.

• 41:51Speaker 02

  Yeah, if you wanna splash out, you know what I mean? Like, you know, when you have like, you know what I mean? Like, nice, nice things.

• 41:56Jessie Ware?

  Okay, so pudding? What's pudding?

• 41:58Speaker 02

  Um, what pudding? Probably banoffee pie.

• 42:01Jessie Ware?

  Ooh.

• 42:02Speaker 02

  Banoffee pie to the moon. Right, here we go. Ready, moment two.

• 42:06Jessie Ware?

  Yeah, it's all right. It's good.

• 42:08Speaker 02

  It's soft in the middle. I'm into it.

• 42:09Jessie Ware?

  Yeah.

• 42:10Speaker 02

  Absolutely.

• 42:10Jessie Ware?

  It's an olive oil cake. Um, so it's.

• 42:14Speaker 02

  Oh, I forgot to tell you, I'm allergic to olives.

• 42:16Jessie Ware?

  What?

• 42:17Speaker 02

  I'm joking.

• 42:19Speaker 01

  Fish will cope with, but not now.

• 42:21Jessie Ware?

  So pudding, banoffee pie. Does your mum make a banoffee pie?

• 42:25Speaker 02

  Oh, um, me, uh, my mum makes a good banoffee pie. My ex-girlfriend made a great banoffee pie.

• 42:30Jessie Ware?

  Have you got her next? Who's your ex-girlfriend?

• 42:31Speaker 02

  She was a pop star.

• 42:33Jessie Ware?

  Who?

• 42:33Speaker 02

  Yeah, she makes a great banoffee pie.

• 42:34Jessie Ware?

  Does she?

• 42:35Speaker 02

  She makes an insane banoffee pie.

• 42:37Speaker 01

  This is lovely.

• 42:38Speaker 02

  Like, not even, not even crapping to it. Like, she, like.

• 42:41Jessie Ware?

  Is she a good cook?

• 42:42Speaker 02

  Like, probably one of the best, like, cooks.

• 42:43Speaker 01

  Why did you finish with them then?

• 42:44Speaker 02

  We're just like, we're kind of better mates, to be honest. Do you know what I mean? I think it was like, it was, it was amazing, but like, things, you know what I mean? We just realised we loved each other, but like, in a different way, do you know what I mean?

• 42:55Speaker 01

  Do you like, uh, you going out with anyone else?

• 42:56Speaker 02

  Not really. Like, at the minute, doing the album, you know what I mean? In Covid times, you know what I mean?

• 43:01Jessie Ware?

  So your drink of choice would be lager, right?

• 43:03Speaker 02

  Probably a pint of lager, yeah.

• 43:04Jessie Ware?

  Which one?

• 43:07Speaker 02

  I like Camden Hells. I like Foster's. Everyone thinks I'm a, like, traitor for saying Foster's. It's what I grew up on. So I'd wait out the shop and be like, hello, mate, will you go into shop and get me a?

• 43:17Speaker 01

  Who are your style icons?

• 43:19Speaker 02

  Oh, style icons? Good, I'm glad you asked.

• 43:23Speaker 01

  It's got to be a Gallagher brother.

• 43:25Speaker 02

  I love Liam. Yeah, I love, I mean, both. I mean, he was like, he had incredible style.

• 43:30Jessie Ware?

  Have you ever met, have you ever met them?

• 43:31Speaker 02

  No, actually. Like, I love, like, I'm obsessed with, no, I'm really good mates with Aeneas, Noel's daughter. She, like, you, you might wink at me. Like, the Daily Mail think we're dating. Every time we see each other, it's like, are they dating? It's like, absolutely not. It's like my sister. Um, but they were massively inspirational to my life, you know what I mean? Like, built a culture. But then I love, like, Marilyn Manson and David Bowie and Lady Gaga, Vivienne Westwood. Obsessed with Vivienne Westwood. She lives around here, doesn't she?

• 43:59Jessie Ware?

  She does.

• 44:00Speaker 02

  She lives in Clapham, yeah.

• 44:01Jessie Ware?

  How do you know this?

• 44:02Speaker 02

  It's like, I'm a fan of Vivienne Westwood. I'm a psycho fan of Vivienne Westwood.

• 44:07Jessie Ware?

  You just announced your tour, didn't you?

• 44:08Speaker 02

  So, yeah, I do, yeah, for next, for next fall.

• 44:11Jessie Ware?

  And you're doing arenas?

• 44:12Speaker 02

  Dude, like, in some markets, yeah. Dublin, Dublin, London.

• 44:17Jessie Ware?

  Is there a feeling, okay, because everything is going so well and that thing of.

• 44:23Speaker 01

  Don't get worried.

• 44:25Jessie Ware?

  You know, you sell out everything.

• 44:26Speaker 02

  The thing about it is.

• 44:27Jessie Ware?

  You're superstitious?

• 44:28Speaker 02

  Yeah, the thing about it is, it's just like, of course, man, I get like scared and I, like, every day it's always about them. Like, Youngblood ain't me. That's one thing I wanna say. Youngblood is us. Like, it's a culture of people who came together because they didn't belong somewhere, you know what I mean? So I don't ever get scared that it's gonna go away because it's too special, do you know what I mean? It's too, we connect too much. The stories I've heard and been told just kind of turn my world inside out. I mean, we're so connected to them. But every day I'm, I kind of wanted to get bigger and reach more people because I know there's a lot of people out there who feel like it's not all right to be who they are, do you know what I mean?

• 45:12Speaker 02

  So it's just like, gotta keep pushing that, you know?

• 45:15Jessie Ware?

  What's your karaoke song?

• 45:16Speaker 02

  Karaoke song?

• 45:17Speaker 01

  Oh, it's gonna be bloody Oasis.

• 45:19Speaker 02

  It's actually, it's actually controversially, Girls and Boys, Blah.

• 45:22Jessie Ware?

  Oh, I can so imagine you doing that.

• 45:24Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 45:24Speaker 01

  They will never speak to you, those Gallagher boys.

• 45:27Speaker 02

  Oh, they're all right. It's all bollocks, isn't it?

• 45:29Speaker 01

  Is it?

• 45:30Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's all bollocks.

• 45:31Speaker 01

  So they like Damon Albarn?

• 45:32Speaker 02

  Probably, yeah.

• 45:33Speaker 01

  Okay. Have you got good table manners?

• 45:35Speaker 02

  Yeah, I think so. Um, I mean, I think so. I swear too much.

• 45:39Speaker 01

  You haven't eaten much.

• 45:41Speaker 02

  I'm just like.

• 45:43Jessie Ware?

  What are you doing this evening?

• 45:44Speaker 02

  I'm probably gonna go for a pint with my mate, I think.

• 45:47Speaker 01

  James?

• 45:48Speaker 02

  No, his name's Isaac. He's Jewish, actually, from Highgate.

• 45:50Speaker 01

  Is he?

• 45:51Speaker 02

  Nice kid, actually. Tell you what, going round to Mrs Grin's for a Friday night dinner.

• 45:55Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 45:56Speaker 02

  The fucking matzah balls and shit, come on. Bro, mad for it.

• 46:00Speaker 01

  We did that last Friday.

• 46:02Speaker 02

  Oh, I love it, man. Let me come round for a Friday night dinner.

• 46:04Speaker 01

  Well, but you can, but you, you came too early, you see.

• 46:07Speaker 02

  I'm down, innit? It's like what we're saying.

• 46:08Speaker 01

  Matzah balls are the best thing on earth.

• 46:10Speaker 02

  Matzah ball soup. Ah, mommy.

• 46:14Speaker 01

  We'll give you our cookbook and it's got it, the recipe.

• 46:16Speaker 02

  Oh, I love it, man.

• 46:17Jessie Ware?

  Dom, you are a pleasure to be with.

• 46:21Speaker 02

  Bro, thank you so much. I couldn't wait for this. I was buzzing.

• 46:23Speaker 01

  Cheered us up.

• 46:24Jessie Ware?

  Really cheered us up. Like, yeah, thank you so much for coming over.

• 46:28Speaker 02

  Thank you so much.

• 46:29Jessie Ware?

  I don't need to wish you luck with the tour because you'll sell it out.

• 46:31Speaker 02

  Touch wood, I mean, touch wood.

• 46:33Speaker 01

  Please, God, Jesus.

• 46:33Jessie Ware?

  I just can't wait for Lenny to come to a show.

• 46:36Speaker 02

  Oh, I am down.

• 46:37Jessie Ware?

  To see how it all works.

• 46:38Speaker 02

  Oh, dude, I'd.

• 46:38Jessie Ware?

  To see the Black Hearts.

• 46:39Speaker 02

  Dude, I'd love to get the Black Hearts Club out.

• 46:41Speaker 01

  Black Hearts.

• 46:42Jessie Ware?

  Um, thank you.

• 46:43Speaker 02

  No, thank you, man.

• 46:44Jessie Ware?

  Have a lovely weekend. Good luck with the movie.

• 46:45Speaker 02

  And have a great time at Noma when you go. Give my regards to Donald Duck.

• 47:03Jessie Ware?

  That was Youngblood on Second Helpings, talking about hobnobs, Yorkshire tea and his mum's Doncaster cake shop, Jaffa and Cakes. And also, you know, the Black Hearts Club, which he's continued to love and nurture. And he now has his Blood Fest, a festival, which he's just done his biggest Blood Fest ever, um, abroad.

• 47:23Speaker 01

  Does he spell it B L U D?

• 47:26Jessie Ware?

  Yes. Yeah. He's amazing. There was a really powerful video of him recently sobbing on stage. And then he wrote a note on Instagram saying that that reaction was due to him just having actually quite a tough time. I think he's a really remarkable bloke and I love him. And I think he's kind and talented and brilliant and is a rock star. And we don't get many of them anymore. And he told us the best story about Noma. I hope you did get your steak and chips somewhere else, babe, in Copenhagen. Just, you're brilliant, Dom. Keep doing what you're doing. And thank you for coming on the podcast. I'd have Youngblood back, actually. I feel like, it's been six years, maybe it's time to get Youngblood back.

• 48:07Speaker 01

  There's a few people I'd like back.

• 48:09Jessie Ware?

  Okay, we'll discuss. Um, that was Youngblood on Second Helpings 2026. And we'll see you next week for more Second Helpings.