Damon Albarn and Emeli Sandé

Jools Holland returns for a new series at his musical home, Helicon Mountain, in south London. To commence proceedings, Jools chats to not one but two special guests. Returning with a new solo album is the multitalented Damon Albarn, who also performs a track from The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows. Also, chart-topping, Brit-winning, MBE-honoured Scottish singer-songwriter Emeli Sande comes to tell Jools why she loves The Fugees, who are about to return to the live stage for the first time in many years. Emeli also chats about her new music, and how it marks a new era of creative freedom for her.

Making her debut on the show is Julie Campbell, aka LoneLady, filmed at Brunswick Mill in her hometown of Manchester. She performs a track from her third studio album, Former Things, an album that was created on electronic sequencers, synths and drum machines in a basement bunker beneath London’s Somerset House and offers an ode to the lost golden age of childhood and youth.