Tom Grennan

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

More exercise, more therapy, and less alcohol: these are some of the things artist Tom Grennan knows he needs in order to stay mentally well.

In this chat with Fearne, live from the Happy Place Festival in Chiswick, Tom explains how he’s learnt to ‘flip’ negative thoughts to positive ones using small language changes. They also share how anxiety manifests for each of them – from crying to trouble sleeping. Plus, how has Tom’s mum affected the way he interacts with crowds at his gigs?

Tom’s album, What Ifs and Maybes, is out now.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me, Fern Cotton. This is the show that helps us learn from each other's clever coping mechanisms.
0:10.0	Today the conversation I had with Tom Grennan at the Happy Place Festival in Chizek.
0:17.0	I love the ocean and waves come in and go out again and sometimes it might be a rough wave and if you can ride the wave then amazing.
0:28.0	But if you're going to get swallowed up by the wave then allow it to swallow you up for a minute and hopefully then you can pop your head back out and go actually I'm alright again.
0:37.0	I'll hit the next wave when it comes.
0:39.0	Tom sort of accidentally shot to fame as the vocalist on Chase and Status' all goes wrong in 2016.
0:46.0	He tells us that really cool story in this chat and he went on to have one of the best selling debut albums of 2018.
0:55.0	He's just released his new album What Ifs and Maybees which is so brilliant it is full of absolute bangers.
1:04.0	I love it and his voice is exceptional and it went to number one in the charts.
1:09.0	He's done a lot of thinking recently about what he needs in order to stay happy and grounded when life's a bit of a whirlwind.
1:18.0	More exercise and less alcohol seems to be the key for him.
1:23.0	Okay, let me set the festival scene for you. It was a really interesting day because we had to recall it challenging weather.
1:32.0	We were sort of ready for rain perhaps we only had a couple of short downpours but the wind was not our friend.
1:41.0	We coped it was fine there was hair blowing everywhere.
1:44.0	We had a mass evacuation at one point where a tent pole came out of the main talks tent.
1:51.0	So we had to get the whole audience who was sat patiently ready for Tom Grennan and move them to the uplift stage which was an outdoor area.
2:00.0	I think personally it worked out better we had a bigger audience because everyone could join in and watch which was great.
2:06.0	The sky was blue it was windy so we were sort of dealing with flapping tent pole in and hair in faces and scripts going everywhere.
2:17.0	But you know what it was all part of the fun everyone was up for it.
2:21.0	Everyone had a smile on their face and I just adored chatting to Tom.
2:26.0	It's definitely going to take a bit more than some dodgy weather to stop us having important conversations here at Happy Place.
2:34.0	I cannot wait to relive the amazing energy at the festival. Here's the chat and here's Tom.
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