Hello and welcome to Happy Police, where I, Fern Cotton sit down with artists,

experts and people who have just lived life to find out what gets them out of bed

in the morning. Today it's the turn of chart topping singer-songwriter James Bay.

Writing is a different journey full of these like energy highs and lows and it's

its own roller coaster ride so to be honest it's quite a distracting in a

really great way it can be quite a distracting thing from touring. It's a

wonderful chat about his songwriting process and how this wonderfully humble man

deals with the pressure of being a public figure and this is another live

recording of Happy Place recorded with the help of the brilliant dice at the

gorgeous troxy in London from epic arena shows and sweaty exclusive gigs to

immersive film screenings and food festivals yum. Dice is on a mission to help

you discover and buy tickets to your next amazing event. Just check them out at

dice FM. For this episode of Happy Place we partnered with Heritage by Julox.

Heritage Velvet Mat has a luxury soft-to-touch paint finish that stands up to

the demands of a busy modern home available in a beautifully timeless

colour palette that allows us to fill our homes with whichever rich feelings we

please. I've got a pot of an utterly gorgeous rich shade called Deep Ultra

Marine right here. Do you know the Lapis Lazuli Stone? It's like that a completely

hypnotic blue that reminds me of just how much I feel mesmerised whenever I'm

by the sea on the south coast. It's got that gorgeous seaside feel to it that

deep sea feel to it. Whenever I'm by the sea I feel oh just so much calmer my

nervous system my physical body just everything slows down a bit and feels less

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