Radio 1 DJ, TV presenter and author / Inventor of board games. I have a new podcast where I've made an album's worth of songs with ten of my favourite musicians
Look, I know we repeated Friends and The Big Bang Theory quite a lot, but we at least made up for it by putting on that beach festival in Weston Super Mare.
#T4
This was our opening link on the radio this morning. Me and
@MollieKing
needed to have this chat, and also to just say that it’s okay not to be okay. This is why I love Radio 1. ❤️📻 via
@BBCSounds
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"I was getting kinda used to being number one" 😂
@MattEdmondson
rewrote Someone You Loved for
@LewisCapaldi
and we think it's just what he needs to get back to the top of the charts 🥇
Football is still coming home, but it’s accidentally used Apple Maps instead of Google Maps and is currently stuck in the middle of a field that it thought was a road.
#ENGBEL
If you are suffering with your own mental health, or feeling suicidal please call
@samaritans
on 116123 or
@theCALMzone
on 0800585858 or find help at their websites.
When I was 22, my Dad took his own life. It was exactly 12 years ago today. He suffered from manic depression and bipolar and he was an alcoholic. He’d been in a very depressed state for several years, however it still came as an enormous and awful shock.
#Brexit
is upon us. The trees have all gone. Birds are nesting in the gutter, dogs are pissing against other dogs, the autumn section of the Next Directory is shot in a car park, coffee tables are made of meat.
#HayleysBrexit
#loveIsland
Gareth Southgate leading an England team to a penalty victory 20 years after he missed ‘that’ goal is an M Night Shyamalan movie waiting to happen.
#ENGCOL
I’ve been working through all of this stuff with a counsellor, and it’s helping hugely. If you have had a similar experience, I really do think it might help you too. You can speak with your GP about it, and they should be able to recommend a mental health service to you.
If you would like help with alcohol addiction please talk to your GP or seek out a local AA meeting. Also, talk to your family about it. They love you.
I’m SO LATE TO THE PARTY on this one, but I think Fleabag might be the greatest thing I’ve ever watched. It’s almost unsettlingly perfect in every way.
I loved him, but often didn’t like him. I found it hard to grieve for him, as I was so angry with how he had died, and what it had done to our family that I couldn’t forgive him.
I also asked my Mum and sister if this was okay to share, and they’ve been very understanding.
I hope you like it. I’ve put the song up on Soundcloud so you can easily listen to it should you wish.
We've just heard from
@GregJames
and it's not good news.
The weather conditions are so bad that it's not currently safe enough for the
#Gregathlon
to continue.
Greg and the
@SportRelief
team are devastated, but their safety is the biggest priority. We're so proud of you! ❤️
Writing this song forced me to look at some of those feelings, and connect with the kid who was scared and unsure about his Dad. Having spent every day since his death avoiding sitting in a room and thinking about it, during lockdown I sat in a room and thought about it.
So I wanted to share the song. I asked the incredibly talented
@aymeeweir
to sing on it. She has one of my favourite voices ever and you should definitely check out her stuff. She’s amazing, and I’m beyond grateful that she put her voice to this for me.
I also didn’t understand what it meant to have a parent whose moods could vary so differently. For a lot of my childhood my Dad was a hilarious, pun making, playful father, but he was also really difficult to live with.
As a kid I wasn’t really aware of what it meant for someone to be an alcoholic, or that my Dad was one, but I was aware of his drinking and I often felt worried by it.
I never took the time to address my feelings properly. It was much easier to run back to my normal life and try and forget it had happened, which I did.
I only really clicked that he was suffering from alcoholism in the immediate months before his death, when I was an adult and I took him to an AA meeting. He’d been hiding the full extent of it for years.
In my teenage years, we had a huge falling out, instigated by his behaviour. We were able to go some way to patching things up in the years prior to his death, but I’ve spent a really long time wrestling with my feelings about him.
For the last year or so I’ve been trying to write some songs, and learn to produce as a bit of a hobby. I’ve been properly obsessed with it and have spent lots of my free time listening to things I love and trying to figure out HOW DID THEY MAKE THIS?
I didn’t expect to write a song about him to be honest, but it just sort of fell out of me and I found the experience so unbelievably cathartic I thought it might be worth sharing, so that other people who had been through something similar might take something from it.
Wow. Emma Raducanu was simply astonishing. What an amazing talent. I believe the summer after my own A Levels I came third in a magic competition (of three competitors) so I know roughly what she’s experiencing. Face with tears of joy
I feel an unsettling level of vulnerability posting something like this. From a producing and songwriting perspective, I’m still very new at it, and I know I have loads to improve upon, but the hardest part of it all is the song itself.
The songs I’d been writing up until recently were very much designed to improve my production skills with a variety of styles, but the song I’m sharing with you today is a bit different.
@danielhowell
What a beautifully made, incredibly articulated, hugely important, hilarious and emotionally moving video Dan. So glad that you’ve shared this with us all. ❤️
I'm in a taxi. The driver has asked me to download 'Waze' on my phone. He has then taken my phone, and put it in his mount, where his own phone was previously. I'm too polite to enquire as to why he needs my phone to navigate us, not his own. Tweeting from laptop.
On my way to a party organised by the listeners of
@BBCR1
this morning for young carers... I’m going to be performing close up magic for the first time in YEARS. Wish me luck!