29 September 2016
Newsdesk
Last night on Julie’s Beats 1 show, she spoke with Craig David at Apple Music Festival 10 ahead of his album dropping this Friday 30th September.
On performing with Bastille at Apple Music Festival
CD: I mean I’ve been feeling them since they did “Of The Night” do you know what I mean, that’s a tune, and the way they flipped it. But I met Dan a couple of times along the way, and they were just making their album and he was talking about, oh maybe we can get you on the record or maybe the mixtape, you know they did a mixtape thing as well, and he was like, oh no but we’re doing the Apple Music Event, why don’t you come through and do the special guest thing, I was like, I’m in, and then when we did the rehearsals then, it’s going to be so sweet, people are not going to expect what Dan’s going to do on one of my tunes. That’s what’s going to be hard.
On Bastille offering advice to have a number 1 album
CD: This has been mad love, when we did the rehearsals, we were just hugging it out and saying congratulations. They were about to go for their second week holding at number 1, so I was just like, guys this is amazing. We were talking about this prior to you releasing, and how you were getting things cleared and stuff and it was so good to see that, but you know what, I’ve been doing it for such a long time now that releasing this album is just exciting to me. The whole follow my intuition record is just a body of work I want people to enjoy, if it goes number 1 or 101, it’s all the same to me.
On the past 12 months and working with Shy FX
CD: Well, it’s kind of been on a rollercoaster ride, like you’re going up the thing, get to the top and you’re like ooh you ready, you ready, and literally it’s like are you going to be no hands on this? I was like yeah I’m in, no hand and going, it’s just been since meeting Big Narstie, When The Baseline Drops, going to number 10, then it was like getting called up to do certain things that was just like, how am I on this show and this TV show, and the next thing you know, the 16 track went viral when we were doing one of the shows, and it’s just kind of led to me meeting all these right people at the right time. Then the new album is everything that I kind of have been wanting to do for the last sort of six years. It’s an R&B record, it’s got a little drum and bass on there, my man Shy FX has got a tune on the record, I saw him the other day and was like Shy FX, oh man, when people hear out tune, they don’t know, they’re not ready for this yet, I promise you.
On his music
CD: I just want, the people who grew up with my music, to press play, I’m going press play, people don’t really press play anymore, to play ain’t really a play button anymore. Actually yesterday I pulled out an old tape cassette player where I was pressing play, it felt so good to push it and it had feedback to it. Okay so, you go on to whatever you listen to, you’re going to go on to your iTunes, and you’re going to press play, and you’re just like, “oh man, you came through, you’re giving me them feelings like”, it feels 2016 but it’s got those melodies and lyrically you’re talking from the perspective of a 35 year old rather than you’re trying to go on like you’re 16 again. And then for the people who just found me, the new generation, I’m seeing like teenagers who are literally just like “oh yeah we just found this new kid called Craig David, he’s doing this spit a 16 thing, he was sick”, and I’m like wow, this is cool for you. They may discover the R&B side to stuff because a lot of the music I’ve put out has been house & garage, the last tune with Sigala, “Ain’t Giving Up” is more of a dance tune, so the funny conversations they’ll be having with their friends like “oh he does R&B as well”, yes I do R&B.
CD: I feel like I’m so in my lane right now, it just feels so good
