Jools welcomes award-winning, festival-headlining, chart-topping Manchester band The 1975, who make their debut on the show performing a couple of tracks from their upcoming fifth album Being Funny in a Foreign Language, which sees them build on their witty lyricism and infectious synth-pop sound.

Returning to the show following her debut in 2021, Rotherham's powerhouse vocalist and icon of female empowerment Self Esteem performs songs from her Mercury Prize-shortlisted album Prioritise Pleasure, having just completed a marathon of tour dates and festival appearances as well as composing the soundtrack for Suzie Miller's West End play Prima Facie earlier this year.

Completing the line-up are three more debutants. First, US soul group Ural Thomas and the Pain, whose frontman is one of the original singers of the 50s and 60s soul era. He rubbed shoulders with some of the biggest names in music, from Etta James to Mick Jagger and Stevie Wonder. They perform a new song from their recent third album Dancing Dimensions.

Next up is London collective The Comet Is Coming, who consist of saxophone player Shabaka Hutchings, keyboardist Dan Leavers and drummer Max Hallett. They tear the roof off the theatre with a performance of their ‘intergalactic head-banger' Code, which explores hidden meaning in humans and technology.

And lastly, German-born Spanish-American pianist and singer-songwriter Victoria Canal performs her track Swan Song, which was praised by Chris Martin as 'one of the best songs ever written'.

Jools welcomes south Londoner Raye, who is best known for featuring on many dancefloor hits but who now steps forward in her own right with a couple of numbers from her debut record. She also chats to Jools about her musical influences, including Joan Armatrading, who she chooses from the Later... archive.

Jools bids a welcome return to two acts. From Versailles come Phoenix, who perform a couple of tracks from their new album Alpha Zulu, which was recorded in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in the Louvre. Also, Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott perform a song from their fifth and latest album together, N.K-Pop.

Making their debuts on the show are Dubliner Dermot Kennedy, who is about to release his second album, Sonder, the follow up to his 2019 number one debut album, and folk musician ANGELINE MORRISON, from Cornwall, whose focus as an artist is on the place of people of colour in British folklore. She will perform Unknown African Boy from her debut album The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience.