Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - MINI: Calum Scott Dropped By!

Episode Date: July 5, 2021

In this MINI edition of the Jono & Ben podcast, Calum Scott dropped by to tell us about his new single!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John O'Bien, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. That's Callum Scott dancing on my own. He's got a new single out, it's called Biblical. It's the title track from an album with the same name and he joins us right now. We're really excited about this. You managed to get the Zoom working, Gallop Scott.

How are you? How are you doing? I'm good, man. How are you? Lovely to see you, buddy. What room are we in here? I like to get a bit inquisitive about what rooms we're visiting. So this is my little studio.

I'm back up in my hometown of Hull in the northeast of England. So this is my little studio. I'm back up in my hometown of Hull in the northeast of England. So this is my little studio. I put a guitar on the wall so it looks like I know what I'm doing. And yeah, this is where I've been doing all my lockdown stuff, guys. This has been where I've been writing during lockdown. Well, it must be exciting to have music coming out. Well, you know,

biblical. Do you feel pressure with that album and the song's been such a success or is there more pressure now that I've asked this question? No, do you know what? I feel like 2018 was the year I put out my album, toured all across the world. I think I even toured the powerhouse in Auckland, I think.

Your power station, yeah. Yeah, so yeah, so 2018 was a mad, mad mad year and then 2019 is where the label and i was just like okay let's write the second one and it was just peace and quiet but it was bizarre never being used to that kind of tranquility so that was where i put the the focus on and the concentration and with that came the pressure because i'm like how am am I going to match up to everything I've just done? Like even all on the floor down here, there's just tons of plaques from all over the world and I'm like looking at those,

I'm not going to be able to do that again. No, right. We've got the same. We've got a ton of plaques down here. A lot of awards. Yeah, yeah. It's just all hundreds, hundreds. I'm just saying a word for it.

We're definitely not going to show you. But actually speaking of the power station, you were here in New Zealand in 2018. I was reading that someone threw a soft toy sheep onto the stage when you were up there. Now, that does nothing for New Zealand stereotypes. So can we apologise on behalf of New Zealand about that? I probably brought that sheep home, you know.

I'm very sentimental. Somebody throws me a gift, I'm taking it home. Unless it's knickers, then we're on to a different thing. Do you get knickers on stage? Yeah. Yeah, knickers I've had before, yeah. What else have you had thrown up there? I've had people, I've had some amazing times on stage.

You know, I've had people proposing in the audience. I've had people pass out. I've had people fighting. Who fights at a council? Those beautiful love ballads, they really fire people up, don't they? They do. Oh, that's hilarious.

There was some guy that was probably there against his will with his girlfriend. He's like, I don't want to be here. I'm going to punch someone in the throat. You're probably sick to death of talking about this, but we were introduced to you from the wonderful uterus of Simon Cowell's Talent Factory. And we didn't actually witness the whole audition process

with you and your sister. That was an emotional rollercoaster. I know. If anyone hasn't seen it, you and your sister auditioned for Britain's Got Talent. She came out first and then she didn't quite make it through, which must have been devastating, obviously, for you and her. He was ruthless.

He was arrogantly putting his hand up to stop the music. And then you had to perform afterwards. It was really emotional. It must have been such a rollercoaster for you that day. I know, mate. It was, like, the best and worst day because, you know, my sister was the one who discovered that I had a voice because I would be, like, I was a drummer back at school,

never wanted to be a singer. I always thought the singers weren't the coolest. And then, like, you know, I'm singing in my room. room my sister overhears me puts me in a couple of karaoke competitions i got the the buzz for it instantly and then she was the one who entered into britain's got talent so at the time i was kind of being like i don't want to do that i was in my maroon five tribute band at the time so i was living life yeah oh yeah because i don yeah. Oh, yeah. Because I don't have tattoos, I was wearing the tights with the tattoos. Oh, the sleeve.

Oh, were you Adam Levine? Yeah. Obviously, yeah. Name another Maroon 5 member. I didn't know there was much of a market for a Maroon 5 tribute band. Was there? Yeah, but boys, there was one less of us

so we called ourselves Maroon 4. But yeah, no, so I was in that little band and I was enjoying myself and I was getting experience. And then, yeah, when she went on and she didn't get where she wanted to go and she was really nervous, man. She was so nervous. And then when I went on, it was like a mixture of,

like, I hated Simon because he just, you know, scowled on my little sister but then again I wanted to impress him and you know the whole thing was just it was just an emotional roller coaster but I think again you know that's why the performance in that and the audition is so raw and powerful is just because of you know the emotions I was going through you know and I don't think I've ever stopped performing like that you know since yeah you got the golden buzzer from Simon Cowell. The golden seal of approval.

Yeah, which is amazing. But then you lost to a dog in the final, I understand. I'm going, I'm going. Where is that dog now? Because we're hoping to interview the dog today. We were told we ended exclusive with the dog. We've ended up with a second place getter. No, it was honestly, I know it would have been just such an awkward

and weird time for you and your family, but champagne television, mate. Oh, Jesus. Yeah, I know. I had a lot of people going, it must have been fixed. You must have, like, known about it. I was like, no, that's why it's so emotional is because I had no idea what was going to happen next but now you know

that gave me a platform and I've taken advantage of that and I've I've worked hard and put out music and it's it seems to have done well and also you've got to watch out

there's another Callum Scott doing quite well at the amateur golf champs recently I don't know if you know about this I hope he loses to a dog as well. Nice to meet you, mate. You're going to have a great day.

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