Craig David is 24 years and going strong in the music business. He was Barclaycard's surprise guest at Capital Jingle Bell Ball 2024 and told us his dream Christmas guests as well as the inspiration for his first ever album, Born To Do It! Report by Jonesl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Whimsical, magical, like Charlie. Can I get the golden ticket? I'm a mummy's boy anyway.
00:04Six of one thing, half a dozen of another. Six of one thing.
00:06Oh, I've got to read a question. My bad.
00:07Hi. Come on.
00:09How are you?
00:10I'm good.
00:11It's always good to see you.
00:12It's so good to see you. I feel like we're the OGs, aren't we?
00:14No, we've been in this game for a minute, but we show up as if it's our first time.
00:20Yeah.
00:20You alright there? You good?
00:21I'm good. I'm loving all the hair. It's got bigger. I love it.
00:24Yeah, you've just got to grow it out. When you've got it, you've got to just let it go, you know what I mean?
00:28Usually, it's the other way. You're trying to like, how can I... Just let it go. Let it go.
00:31How does it feel being hidden as a surprise today, Craig? That's quite exciting.
00:35Do you know what? I feel the surprise is the cat's out of the bag a little bit.
00:37But do you know what? It's always amazing to be a part of this celebration.
00:42I mean, Jingle Bells has always been huge anyway, and to be able to come out as a surprise guest,
00:47dropping those songs that no one really is expecting they're going to get tonight is going to be amazing.
00:51I mean, it's almost 25 years since my first album,
00:53so we're going to be dropping some of those little dimes in there too.
00:55I didn't know about the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory reference. I didn't know that's why...
01:00I was blown away by that.
01:02Oh, yeah. The whole kid running into the candy shop, for anyone who doesn't know,
01:07they ask the candy man, how does he do it? The candy man says, my dear boy, do you ask a fish how it swims?
01:11He says, no. He said, do you ask a bird how it flies? He says, no. He says, no, sirree, you don't.
01:15They do it because they were born to do it, and it just... That movie hit me so hard at that point,
01:20and I was just writing those sort of songs that were going to make the first sound I wanted to do,
01:24and then it became seminal, so...
01:26Oh, unbelievable. And what about this year? How's it been? Has it been whatever you want it to be?
01:31Because I know you're very spiritual. Have you set out to do what you wanted in a year's resolutions?
01:35Do you know what? Every day that I wake up in the morning and I take that first breath,
01:39I'm just really grateful to have my friends and my family being healthy.
01:43The rest is in a bonus, and I think once you start your days from there,
01:46it's like it gets back to being whimsical and magical, like Charlie, can I get the golden ticket?
01:51It's that. So yeah, everything's been great this year.
01:52And Christmas, is that kind of like a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory moment for you every year?
01:56Yeah. Going back and seeing my parents and spending quality time with them and just being able to
02:01allow myself to be the young kid that my mum always wants to see me as and just be that
02:07and let her have undivided attention is the best feeling that I can give as a son for my mum and my dad,
02:12so I'm looking forward to it.
02:13I want to see more of your mum on Instagram. I love seeing your mum on your gram.
02:16She's the best. I mean, I'm a mummy's boy anyway, but when you see the things that she did for me
02:21growing up, and as an adult, you start to see, wow, you really went above and beyond to give me
02:26everything that I ever asked for as a kid, so just making her smile and keeping her healthy
02:32and happy and joyful.
02:33Next album, Above and Beyond, for your mum. That's quite a nice name, isn't it?
02:35I like Above and Beyond. I don't know about for my mum. I don't know. We've got to keep...
02:39The swag of it might just be... Even my mum would say, I think we could sort of park the mum bar.
02:44Above and Beyond is cool.
02:46Also, time is now. I know you love that on your watch.
02:48Yeah, I do love it.
02:48I have a little Christmas question to ask you, but you've got to go in the sack first to get it.
02:51Okay.
02:52Have a little rummage around for the one candy cane that I've left in there for you.
02:55Jeez, what have you got in there? Is that literally one? Is that how it's going down?
03:00Have I been that bad this year? Is this the call that I get? Is that what you come to?
03:04You've got to read the question.
03:05Oh, I've got to read the question. My bad.
03:07Okay, if you could host a Christmas dinner with any three fictional characters...
03:11Okay, so I would go with Harry Potter. Why not? I would go for Willy Wonka, just to chop it up.
03:22Another fictional character... Wow! Weirdly enough, Brit Marling in the OA. Her character in the OA.
03:31It would be a wild, whimsical... How did that work?
03:34That's a Christmassy, chocolatey dream there, isn't it?
03:37It's crazy with a wand somehow in the mix.
03:40Unbelievable, and we love all your little videos on doing all the acoustics, but I do want Six of One Thing,
03:46and I'm not going to stop until I get it.
03:47Oh, do you know what? Say less. Genuinely, the fact that you're on it like that, you're actually having a slight
03:54premonition of something we might have already done. So, that's a big tune-up.
03:59Six of one thing, half a dozen of another six of one thing. I love it. I've got you.
04:02Oh, Craig, nice to meet you.
04:04You're a star.
04:05Remember my account again, please.
04:05Oh, it is the cold one. It's that. Okay, okay.