The album contained a collaboration with former Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder, who lent his vocals to the Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé song "Barcelona".

The album also featured a duet with Cleo of girl group Cleopatra on the song "Someone Like You".

In late 2002, Watson released the single, "Nothing Sacred – A Song for Kirsty", to raise money for the Francis House children's hospice in Didsbury, Manchester.

The campaign to raise £5 million was fronted by Kirsty Howard, a seven-year-old girl with a serious heart defect.

His fifteenth studio album, Shine, in collaboration with Helen Jane Long, was released in December 2024.