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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

S7, Ep6, Jazzie B, DJ, music producer

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Grace welcomes the legendary DJ, producer and founder of Soul II Soul, Jazzie B, to the podcast. Over a bowl of ‘yellow’ – one of his childhood comfort foods –Jazzie takes Grace on a journey from playing his sound system, aged 12, at a silver jubilee street party for the Queen, to finding inspiration on tour in Japan and Korea, and on to Buckingham Palace, where he received an OBE in 2008. The jobcentre suggested he should become a milkman, but instead Jazzie chose to channel his energy into his north London community through music. This decision transformed Soul II Soul into a global success and established Jazzie as an internationally renowned musician who has collaborated with some of the world’s most talented artists

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:05.0

I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian. A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.

0:19.0

Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often that snack

0:25.9

you cobble together when you curled upon the sofa.

0:29.4

Each week I asked my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives

0:36.0

because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind clothes door.

0:52.8

Hello friends you find me doing a bit of a home spray tan.

0:58.2

I have not got time for a real salon spray tan, which means I'm just gonna be sort of orange from my face down to my shoulders.

1:05.0

And I will be washing my hands about five times,

1:09.0

but rest assured by 7 PM tonight tonight I will have worn orange palm. Now my guest today is

1:17.1

Trevor Beresford Romeo O be better known's Jazzy B, British DJ, music producer and founder of soul to soul.

1:28.0

He's in a taxi, is en route, I need to get these bits between the fingers. That's what gets me every time.

1:36.4

Now this is the time of year I'm going to admit to you. I get a familiar feeling and I'll be honest.

1:46.8

I think it's envy why is grimy in Tokyo with Rita Ora and nine other influences how did he organize that I can't get a

1:51.6

group of four people to go to Pizza Express without months of

1:55.3

diary planning. Even then one of them will turn up. Now my wisdom has to be that as ever comparison is the thief of joy and let me tell you.

2:08.1

That holiday groom is on, yes it might have cost him thousands, but is he getting the joy that I'll get out of my fridge magnet, bought from Longston

2:16.6

Light House's visit the centre in Northumbria? I do not think so.

2:28.7

Jazzie B and soul to soul are credited with putting black British music on the map in the 80s with their slogan Happy Face a thumping bass for a loving race, which is also the name of his later memoir.

2:37.0

Their 1989 album, Club Classics Volume 1, literally wallpaper the late 80s with Back to Life, hitting the top of the charts across Europe and in the US.

2:49.0

The DJ and music producers' upbringing in North London is the eighth of nine siblings was rooted in the

2:56.2

sound system culture of the 70s. His music career has spanned four decades and taken him across the globe in 2008 he got an OBE for his services to music at Buckingham Palace.

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