James Morrison chats to I Like Music

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JAMES: That was so surreal. Because I used to watch that programme and dream that I'd be on it one day and just be like, 'That's a proper music programme' y'know. And when I met the lady who organizes people going on there, I was really hoping she'd like what I was doing, but she didn't get back to us for ages, and I thought, 'oh dammit, I'm not going to get on'. We had make a CD and re-record You Give Me, but acoustically so she could see what it was like on the show, so we sent that in, and we got a call back saying 'you're on the show'.

Yeah man, when I got there Jools was playing piano and it was like… 'what!?' It was so surreal. But as soon as I started playing, I kind of forgot where I was and I just enjoyed it. I just thought I'm here to do my thing and I just got on with it.

It was only afterwards; I was so excited afterwards when I was watching Gnarls Barkley and I was just loving it.

ILM: What's your current favourite James Morrison song to play live?

JAMES: Call The Police and Wonderful World, although I really like playing all of the songs. But mainly those two, they work really well. And Call The Police is always good because it rocks out a little bit and it always works when you play it at the end as the last song, so it's rockin'.

ILM: So everyone leaves on a high note.

JAMES: Yeah.

ILM: Well, your music is soulful and, just incredible we think. Can you describe the James Morrison songwriting and music-making process?

JAMES: It depends really. Sometimes you can just have a feeling of what you want to write about. Like when I wrote Wonderful World, I just felt for this guy that I saw, I just felt sorry for him. It was that feeling of inadequacy I suppose or not being important that kind of struck with me and I thought I've got to write a song about that.

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