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Chris Martin and Michael Ball

Chris Martin chats to Zoe about new music from Coldplay. Michael Ball performs live from the 成人快手's Maida Vale studios.

Chris Martin chats to Zoe about new music from Coldplay. The band have said that new single Higher Power is a song that arrived on a little keyboard and a bathroom sink at the start of 2020. It was produced by Max Martin who the band call 'a true wonder of the universe'. Coldplay are one of the biggest bands in the world and have sold over 100 million records, toured the globe and performed at the biggest festivals on the planet. They've won nine Brit Awards and seven Grammys.

Michael Ball performs live from the 成人快手's Maida Vale studios with music from his new album, We Are More Than One. Michael also has an exclusive cover for the show and a classic track from his back catalogue that will get everyone singing along. After a number 1 selling solo album in 2019 and Christmas album with best friend Alfie Boe, Michael Ball returns for a brand new album for 2021. We Are More Than One sees Michael exploring song-writing further after months in lockdown forced him to wonder why he was waiting to pursue something he enjoyed so much. Teaming up with songwriters Amy Wadge and Liz Rose the album sees Michael looking within himself for an album even more personal than the last. After learning how to write and record remotely, every track on this record has a story to tell.

Along with Clare Runacres on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, she and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 7 May 2021 06:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Wet Wet Wet

    Wishing I Was Lucky

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Years & Years

    Starstruck

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • The Cardigans

    Lovefool

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • CeeLo Green

    Anyway

    • Ladykiller: Platinum Edition.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 1.

  • B.J. Thomas

    Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

    • The Love Songs Of Burt Bacharach.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Rita Ora

    Anywhere

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Mr. Blue Sky

    • ELO - Out Of The Blue.
    • Jet.

  • James Arthur

    Medicine

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Jamiroquai

    Canned Heat

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.

  • Dua Lipa

    Don't Start Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Records.

  • David Morales & The Face

    Needin' U

    • (CD Single).
    • Manifesto.

  • Kim Wilde

    You Came

    • Kim Wilde - Singles Collection 81-93.
    • MCA.

  • The Original

    I Luv U Baby

    • (CD Single).
    • Ore Music.

  • Gabrielle

    Can't Hurry Love

    • Do It Again.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.

  • The Mock Turtles

    Can You Dig It? (Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • P!nk

    All I Know So Far

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • The Maisonettes

    Heartache Avenue

    • History Of The 80's (Various Artists).
    • Br Music.

  • Madonna

    Material Girl

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.
    • 2.

  • Coldplay

    Higher Power

    • Music Of The Spheres.
    • Parlophone.

  • Roachford

    Cuddly Toy

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • Lola Lennox

    Wherever You Go

    • (CD Single).
    • La Lennoxa Touring Inc/Humble Angel Records.

  • Boney M.

    Daddy Cool

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Michael Ball

    Be The One (Radio 2 Session, 07 May 21)

  • Michael Ball

    Budapest (Radio 2 Session, 07 May 21)

  • Gary Kemp

    Ahead Of The Game

    • INSOLO.
    • Columbia.

  • Olly Murs

    Dance With Me Tonight

    • In Case You Didn't Know.
    • Epic.
    • 24.

  • Maroon 5

    Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera)

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 1.

  • The Vaccines

    If You Wanna

    • If You Wanna (Single).
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 1.

  • Feeder

    Just A Day

  • Paul Weller

    Shades Of Blue

    • Cosmic Fringes.
    • Polydor.

  • Michael Ball

    One Step Out Of Time (Radio 2 Session, 07 May 21)

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

There鈥檚 lots of brilliant things about what I do for a living and one of them is I get to go to a lot of parties. And Zoe, I am a big fan of a party, particularly a buffet. Over the last 12 months, along with so many other things, I鈥檝e really missed the 鈥榙os鈥� that happen after the Christenings, weddings and funerals. It鈥檚 not so much the damp quiche and nibbles I鈥檝e missed but rather the chat and the laughter that happens over the trays of sausage rolls. I find folk are far more relaxed once the formalities are over and we all have a bit of beige pastry in our hand.

听

It鈥檚 particularly the buffets after funerals that I鈥檝e missed the most, because some of the best parties I鈥檝e been to have been wakes. Which is why when I did a funeral for a family remembering their lovely Granny recently I was chuffed to bits to see that a global pandemic wouldn鈥檛 stop them from giving her proper send off and providing refreshment. Now don鈥檛 worry, no rules were broken. You see, waiting for us when we emerged into the spring sunshine of the crematorium car park was a local sandwich van, with hot roast pork sandwiches for us all, individually wrapped in paper bags to eat in our cars, a takeaway wake. It was perfect.

听

Eating together can unite people like nothing else. In the communion service, central to the Christian faith, the words Jesus, said when he ate with his friends, are remembered, 鈥楾hough we are many we are one body because we all share in one bread鈥�. Bonding over barbeques, perched on picnic blankets and under gazebos in freezing cold pub gardens, when we eat together, something wonderful happens, the gap between us is narrowed and our differences somehow don鈥檛 seem so different, after all.听

听

I took my takeaway wake back to my car and munched my butty with glee, and I as I did I looked at the driver in the car next to me, she had a goody bag too and as we sat on our own, with our buffets for one, we both grinned like Cheshire cats, briefly united over the comfort to be found in catering and solace in our sandwiches.听

Broadcast

  • Fri 7 May 2021 06:30
    成人快手 Radio 2