Joy Crookes: Making Music, Heritage & Thierry Henry

The Romesh Ranganathan Show

Ranga Bee & Platform Media

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Singer-songwriter Joy Crookes joins Romesh to talk about her second album, touring, and how her Bangladeshi and Irish heritage influences her work. Joy also discusses why she'd be perfect for a Bend It Like Beckham sequel, uncompleted ADHD tests, and brave words said to Thierry Henry. A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Listen.00:00 Intro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How do you say Ramesh Ranganathan, but in like a Tamil way?
0:03.3	Ranganadanadan.
0:04.5	Yeah.
0:05.5	Do I have to say, I am Joy Crooks?
0:07.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:08.1	Yeah.
0:08.8	I am Joy Crooks.
0:10.4	I'm 5'7 and I regularly breathe.
0:13.4	And I'm also on the Rommish Ranganadden show.
0:15.9	So, yeah.
0:17.2	Watch it. watch it oh shut up oh shut up
0:29.8	so um we're going to do your intro now joy
0:34.1	my guest today happy so far
0:36.4	is a Brit award nominated singer-songwriter
0:39.4	from South London, a debut album, Skin, reached the UK top five and received a Mercury Prize nomination.
0:44.2	Cementing her is one of Britain's most distinctive new artist. She sold at her first UK tour in
0:48.1	hours, has clocked up millions of streams in this great subpoly stage at Glastonbury. A highly
0:52.3	anticipated second album, Juniper is out now and she's touring the UK, Europe and Australia is Joy Crooks. Why I? I'm so excited to have you on the show. Thanks. I'm really excited to be here. Thank you for coming on. That's totally fine. How are you? I'm okay. How are you? Good, thank you. That's supposed to lead into some sort of light chat. All right. How are you? Very well. What have you been doing? Have you just been enjoying your second album being out? I have been. What have I been doing? I've been like making new music. Are you always
1:30.9	making music? I don't know. It feels that way right now. It just feels like when something massive
1:39.2	comes out, there's so much work towards it and there's so much like outward facing stuff
1:43.9	that it's quite nice to be inwards and just like in the studio.
1:47.8	So what's the cycle?
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