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Shit to murder, shit, shit to murder I'm the king and she's my queen
Oh, yeah
There you go, that's Kasabian with shoot the runner.
It seems a little extreme just to shoot the runner.
I mean, what's the problem with the runner?
Well, you're not supposed to shoot, but he's sort of the messenger maybe.
You're not supposed to shoot him, are you?
Because he's just the runner.
Yeah, he's just the purveyor of the message.
Right.
Yeah, so Kasabian are being anti-establishment.
And they don't care, they're just going to shoot him anyway.
Yeah, yeah.
That's the kind of rock attitude that you'll find on a lot of popular music.
And frankly, it's bringing the country to its knees.
Is it?
I think so, maybe.
You know, we can't even put away Pete Doherty.
That's what one of the papers says this morning.
Really?
Yob culture.
We can't even put Doherty in jail.
He had to appear in court within 24 hours of being arrested.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
And they couldn't, they didn't do it.
They couldn't do it.
Couldn't do it.
How did he manage that?
Because he's too sweet.
he's too lovely they were feeding him peanuts bits of bread dipped in milk hi this is adam my name's joe hello good morning very nice to be with you again listeners our third morning covering for sean keithney here on sixth music it's an absolute delight to be here at the bbc
And you know, if you're curled up in bed, listening to this in bed under your duvet, still a tiny bit pleasurably stinky from the night's activities, then you're very lucky.
I envy you.
Is that all?
That's it.
That's where that was going.
Yeah, that's it.
That's good enough, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
Lucky you.
Lucky you.
Why not roll over and just pop your head on that lovely chilly bit of the pillow?
Ooh, I love that little bit.
Or even flip the whole, flop the whole pillow over.
Flop the whole pillow over.
Why not just stretch your legs and worm your foot into that lovely little cool bit of the duvet that you haven't kind of slept in?
Why not just pop your foot out of the corner of the duvet?
Flip the corner over and expose your foot.
Waft it.
Will they have a little waft?
Oh, you're very lucky to still be in bed, but we're very lucky to be here this morning on the BBC6 Music Breakfast Show and we've got loads of stuff for you.
We've got terrific music from the likes of Adam and the Ants.
I'm looking forward to that.
We've got some Maximo Parks and Mohawks.
We're going to be doing the serial thriller.
Top session, Peel Session tracks that we've picked for you this morning, folks.
Do you want to tease yours there, Joe?
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to be playing some sprouts.
Nice, prefab sprout.
Yeah.
And I've got a few nuggets from the pixies for you folks.
You've been out in the fields collecting pixie nuggets.
Yeah, pixie droppings.
Popping them in my music bin.
And the most exciting thing of all, folks, is we've got a new jingle.
Yeah.
You might have witnessed the birth of a new segment yesterday called Text the Nation.
Well, it's the proud owner of a jingle.
It's come very vividly alive in jingle form.
It's like a baby that's grown hair and a moustache.
Are we looking at Rilo Kylie here?
This is the original version, not the hub version, right?
This is Rilo Kylie with The Moneymaker.
You've got the money maker.
You've got the money maker.
This is your chance to make it out, out, out.
Oh yeah.
You'll get out, out, out.
Oh yeah.
You've got the money maker.
They showed the money to you.
You showed them what you can do.
Show them your money make you get out, out, out.
She is yours for the taking You know you wanna make her Show her your money man She said ow, ow, ow
I will
There you go.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
I'd love to, thank you very much.
Actually, you shouldn't smoke a pipe this early in the morning.
Certainly not with Rylo Kylie, and it would be too strong.
It would just take your head right off.
You know, I had the most incredible star-studded dream last night.
I know it's a bit tedious to talk about your dreams, but I feel this is an exception to the rule.
Or we'll put a sort of one-minute alarm on you there.
Okay.
I dreamt I was at Michael Bay's house.
Michael Bay, the director of Transformers.
An Armageddon, yeah.
And he had the most amazing huge house in the Hollywood Hills.
You'd expect him to.
Enormous.
And he was there with Clint Eastwood.
And I was watching Transformers projected and I was stealing DVDs.
From Michael Bay's collection?
Yeah, from Michael Bay's collection.
He probably had the worst collection of DVDs ever.
No, he had amazing obscure horror titles.
Did he?
And I was stacking them up.
uh, being careful to keep it secret from the bay and the Eastwood.
And then I sneaked out and my friend Edgar came into the dream and we were trying to sneak out of Michael Bay's house and we entered a room with a massive sort of parquet wooden floor.
Nice.
And in the middle of the floor was what appeared to be the severed head of sub end Kingsley.
Just from the neck up.
Can you picture sub end Kingsley's angry face?
Uh, like Gandy Gandy was on at the weekend.
Yeah.
without the glasses, though, and he was just looking very angry, a bit like his sexy beast character.
Right.
And Edgar was shocked.
He went, Oh, oh, my gosh, they've done this.
They've severed head.
Yeah.
And then I realised the head wasn't severed.
It was merely buried in the parquet floor, like in a Beckett play, right in that Beckett play when everyone's buried up to their neck in sand.
Well, like they did with the extras in Apocalypse Now.
Exactly.
So I said to Edgar, Don't worry,
he's he's rehearsing a Beckett play and Kingsley just gave us a really dirty look and went shush like that yeah quite right he's trying to get into character it's where the dream ended wow that's pretty good isn't it and I woke up this morning really feeling as if I'd hung out with Michael Bay Clint Eastwood and Sir Ben Keesley how was Eastwood looking what a night what a star-studded night was uh Eastwood looking haggard or no ravishing ravishing he's looking good an amazing silver quiff you know that he has you didn't chat to Michael Bay about Transformers
No, I didn't.
Could have done a bit better there, Bay.
No, I didn't.
I was in awe, in the dream I was in awe of all his achievements.
Right.
Do you know what my dream was about last night?
What?
I dreamt that I was in a secondhand shop and I found a black and white video game console.
And it was a binnatone.
I was very excited.
And I was about to buy it because it was only 15 pounds.
And then I looked at the back and it was American.
You needed a transformer and the correct leads were not included.
You had a dream about leads.
Yeah.
What a boring compared to my dream.
That's extremely mundane.
I'll give you that.
I'll give you that.
Let's let's have some Adam and the Ants.
This is Xerox.
Cause I'm here again I'm never bored, I'll steal your car Ooh, Ferris machine
This is how I want the rest
Let them fall, set them off tonight
I'm all ashamed
Oh shit Oh
Do you know what?
I'm a big Adam and the ants fan.
I've well, obviously I'm not big enough because I've never heard that before.
Never heard Xerox before.
Is it dirt?
Where's White Sox?
If you could text us in, uh, that would help us.
Where's our text number?
Jenny assistance.
Where's the text number?
6 4 0 4 6 you can text us on at any point during the show 6 4 0 4 6 that was incredible a moment of miles in dead air totally just everything fell apart though is miles in a word it is it is apparently officially now he's the king of dead air
Yeah.
Hello, we're Adam and Joe.
This is BBC6Music.
Welcome to the show.
We're here with you until 10 o'clock.
It's now 15, 16, 17 minutes past seven.
I feel we should be doing more time checks.
People love time checks.
People love time checks.
What about a weather watch?
Well, yeah, we don't do the weather.
We're just ignoring the weather at the moment.
Oh, thanks a lot Al Gore.
It's not so yeah, thanks Al Gore.
Thanks very much for all the global warming.
Yeah, thanks.
Thank you.
If you hadn't made that film, maybe we wouldn't be in this situation.
Exactly Al Gore.
But it's not so bad this morning.
I did actually cycle through a little rain shower, but there's some at least blue patches in the sky.
So and it's supposed to be a bit warmer today.
Can I tell you another quick Michael Bay story?
Come on, this is a real story, this actually happened.
Is it in real life?
Yeah, a friend of mine, who's a comedian in America, went to a party.
Can't drop any names here?
No, and Michael Bay was there at the bar.
So my friend decided to go over to Michael Bay and pretend he didn't know who he was.
So he went over and went, hey.
Michael Bay went, hey.
He said, so who are you?
I'm Michael Bay.
My friend went, oh, what do you do?
Michael Bay went, oh, I'm a director.
My friend went, oh, what films have you done?
Michael Bay went, come on.
I didn't like that.
That's the end of the story.
He just went, come on.
No one in the world doesn't know what films I made.
He got a result.
Yeah.
Well, he has made some of the biggest, the most prominent films.
And the Transformers, the Transformers, Pearl Harbor.
Wasn't one of the biggest box office smashes.
The bad boys won.
And the bad boys to has he ever made a good film?
That's the question.
Hmm.
I like bad boys to didn't he once make a good film Michael Bay?
I don't know.
We'll look into that.
Yeah, we'll get we'll get some BBC mice to look into that somebody texted in Thank you very much for your texts and messages folks.
They want to hear some pixies a bit later on.
Well, as I said, you'll be pleased to know that we've got a rare pixies peel session for you coming up, at least a track from it.
Very soon.
Yeah, exactly.
So stay tuned for that.
But right now, right now, it's seven.
Sorry to interrupt, but it's seven.
It's 719.
Nice.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I was getting a little anxious about what the time was since we last did a time check backflashes.
How much do you know about backflashes?
Joe Cornish?
Nothing.
Nothing.
She is beguiling.
People are really with the lady from backflashes.
What's her name?
I don't know.
But I tell you what, while this works in
Natasha Khan.
Natasha Khan.
While this plays, why don't you do me a sketch of her?
Okay, I will do, yeah.
Do me a sketch, and then after the thing, after the song, I'll describe the sketch.
This track's called Priscilla.
There's a girl that wants to start Thinking about having a couple of kids
She wants to live in a place that has a number and a name
In front of us and uncur before the courage is gone She really loves him in Priscilla She really loves him in Priscilla She really loves him, I tell you
She really loves him, I tell you
To live life outside the world To break the cross that bears her name
Need something better than running away She really loves him, Priscilla She really loves him, Priscilla She really loves him, Priscilla
She really loves him, I tell you Go away, queen of the highway
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bbc.co.uk slash six music the music week podcast now available online on demand hello uh this is element joe bbc six music before that fantastic trail we heard bracilla uh what by bat for lashes yeah i've done a little picture of her joe do you want to see yeah this is what this is what we'll show it to the webcam afterwards folks so you can see now this may not exactly this may not be accurate
oh my god she's attractive isn't she well according to we don't know what she looks like but according to adam sketch and is this have you just made this up or is this based on your memory of her a little based on my memory i haven't really seen her she's got a center parting and very long straight hair that goes behind her ears they're slightly juggy her ears she's got sort of mad Picasso eyes with big eyelashes one iris is much bigger than the other oh no
She's got a kind of upturned piggy nose.
She's got a black top lip and a white bottom lip and sort of very, very slopey shoulders and tiny little breasts like purses strapped to the front of her jumper.
Listen, I'm not sure if it's accurate.
I don't know if it's accurate.
We'll show it to the viewers.
It's very beguiling.
We'll show it to the people on the webcam.
If you've got an internet connection and you can find your way to the 6music webcam, we're going to be putting Adam's sketch of Priscilla up there.
You know what?
Looking at it again, it's not accurate.
But you know what?
It doesn't have to be.
That's not what drawing is about.
Drawing is about capturing the spirit, the essence, the feeling.
You know, it's not supposed to be photorealistic.
Yeah, this is what Natasha Khan from Back 4 Lashes means to me.
And the way you described it, it's like I've done a bad drawing of her.
You haven't, man.
It's good.
But I think she's lovely.
Now it's time for our first pick of the Peel Sessions this morning folks and I've gone for one from the Pixies.
Now Pixies of course did about three or maybe four Peel Sessions and all of them were pretty extraordinary.
Some of them are too sort of insanely shouty and sweary for this hour of the morning but here is a lovely track from a 1989 Peel Session and this is called Wave of Mutilation from the Pixies.
Adam's pick of the BBC archive.
Cease to insist, giving my goodbye Drive my car into the ocean You think I'm dead, but I sail away
Walk the sand with our crustaceans Could find my way to Maria
Wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave Wave Wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave of mutilation Wave Wave
Adam and Joe on 6music.
With me, a year to the day Three hundred and sixty Five days watching media games We used to talk about girls who play guitars We used to talk about plans in tiny bars
In the gaps between words are the things that really intrigue me.
It's the gasps and the sighs that say more about what's inside you.
We used to cuddle on a high horse every time.
We used to talk about boys with missing spines.
It's her life and her life is worth living.
Her life.
The path of excess just led to boredom You've lived your life with your mouth wide open It's her life and her life is worth living
Don't even know how much that hurts You can pretend and I wouldn't know I can feel you wanting in the dark She goes how she gets drunk She gets off She goes how she gets in She goes how she gets drunk She gets off She goes how she gets in It's her life and her life is worth living Her life It never struck her just to pass her on me
There you go, that's Maximo Park with Girls Who Play Guitar.
This is Adam and Joe here on Six Music for the BBC.
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Biker murder arrests, CIA criticises ex-chief over 9-11 and support for payers you throw.
And in Six Music news, Spectre won't take the stand, James Brown's clan expands again and Dylan and Casello team up.
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It's 7.30, I'm Harvey Kirk, so this morning detectives investigating the murder of the biker Jerry Tobin on the M40 in Warwickshire 10 days ago have made a number of arrests.
Mr Tobin, who was 35, was shot dead as he rode home from a biker's festival.
Police aren't there saying at the moment how many people are in custody.
Senior staff at the CIA have come under intense criticism for the way they acted in the run-up to the September 11th attacks in 2001.
A report by the urgency's watchdog, which has just been declassified, accuses its former head, George Tenet, of failing to come up with a strategy to beat Al-Qaeda.
Mr. Tenet's called the findings flat wrong.
National Security Council official Rand Mears
What it demonstrates is how large the problem was in terms of information sharing and the willingness to overcome the culture of secrecy.
Also in six music news this morning, police in North Wales have found the body of nine-year-old Sean Laxson from Norwich, who fell into the river Conway on Monday afternoon.
He slipped on the footpath as he was walking with his family.
Almost two-thirds of people would support a pay-as-you-throw system for collecting household waste.
As according to a survey for the local government association, the idea is to reduce the amount of waste getting sent to landfill sites, and our correspondent John Andrews has been looking at the research.
People will ask whether they support or oppose a scheme where their council tax was reduced and they then pay according to how much rubbish they produce.
In other words, the more you recycle, the less you pay.
64% supported that idea.
23% were opposed.
Researchers in Manchester have calculated the speed at which five two-legged dinosaurs were able to run using a new computer.
They say the Consognathus was the fastest sprinter at 40 miles per hour.
The giant Tyrannosaurus Rex was only able to run a more leisurely 18 miles an hour.
and a six music sport.
England's cricketers have won their first one day against India by 104 runs.
Centuries from Alistair Cooke and Ian Bell set up the victory.
The weather, well, if you're in London in the southeast, it's a pretty grim start and it's going to be a cool, breezy and damp day with more showers on the way.
Better in the west, though, where there'll be some good sunny spells.
Size of 23 degrees in Cardiff, 19 in London and 17 in Newcastle.
Now with six music news, Joe York.
Well, Phil Spector will not be testifying at his murder trial.
He waved his right to take the stand last night and the defence began to wrap things up.
It's thought that will be done by the end of the week.
Spector is accused of killing actress Lana Clarkson at his home in 2003.
Another child of the late James Brown has been discovered through DNA testing this morning.
The unidentified woman is the third person to determine he's their dad since he died last December.
Brown's will name six children is still being disputed in court.
Back here and last night marked the first of a trio of gigs for the Rolling Stones at London's O2 Arena, which ends on Sunday, and they wrap up a massive two-year Bigger Bang tour.
6music's Julie Cullen was there for us last night.
Well, you can probably just hear the last chords of Brown Sugar as the Stones take their encore here at the O2, right from the opening chords of Star Me Up, which sounded like a jet plane landing.
They were determined to prove they defy the laws of time and gravity.
Playing for more than 90 minutes, Jagger strutted and wriggled like Shakira without breaking sweat.
Highlights included satisfaction, painted black, and jumping jack flash.
And after his tour of Australia and New Zealand, music legend Bob Dylan is heading back to the US for a tour with Elvis Costello.
The pair will team up next month and play 13 shows right through until October 9th.
That's 6 Music News, more at 8 o'clock.
Down in New Orleans Scott Old Slave I know he's doing alright
You should've heard him just around the corner
Just like a pack of cherries I bet your mama was a taste for a queen And all the portraits of Sweet Sixteen I'm no scooper, but I know that
In what way is Mick Jagger like Shakira?
Is this a joke?
No, because on the news she said he was shaking his stuff like Shakira.
Oh, I see.
Well, I guess the implication was that he's like... Like a really old... Like an old, wrinkly lady.
wrinkly lady yeah fair enough thanks leathery old woman that was the rolling stones in case you didn't realize folks with uh brown sugar this is uh adam and joe on bbc6 music in case you didn't realize folks yeah uh for the under sixes yeah fun for the under sixes so to continue our theme of fun for the under sixes yesterday we were talking about alarm clocks that's right seeing as what we're on early in the morning
In fact this morning I did exactly what you were talking about yesterday and I guess my my body alarm has now kicked in and I woke up three minutes before the alarm was really go off.
Yeah like a dog that knows its owners coming home exactly and so I didn't have the pleasure of my alarm this morning but I've been enjoying my alarm after years of having really quite offensive alarms and particularly that one I don't know if it's got a I'm sure it does have a proper name but that the alarm that goes
beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep
I think it is true yeah you told me that so yes not you're responsible no I'm sure I've read it somewhere I'm sure I've read it but listeners we'd like your help with this we'd like to play alarm clock wars we want you to kind of focus on the noise your alarm clock makes and we want to try and find the loveliest and nastiest alarm clock sound out there so text us on six four zero six describe your alarm clock sound tell us whether you think it's a you know fantastically
designed or whether it's appallingly designed.
Here are a couple of examples to start us off.
This is my alarm clock.
I bought it in Tokyo.
It's a Studio Ghibli one, you know, based on their film My Neighbour Totoro.
It's very cute.
It looks like it's been hewn out of wood.
It is actually wooden, right?
Yeah.
Describe it there, Adam, what you can see.
Well, it's a sort of insane mix between a kind of Swiss design
a sort of very oldy-worldy wooden Swiss kind of curlicues on it and then the Japanese Studio Ghibli influence of course they were responsible for things like Princess Mononoke and was it not swept away but that would have been very bad.
Spirited away.
Spirited away there you go and things like that so presumably it makes a fun chirpy sound.
That's the noise it makes.
That's alright.
That's alright.
That is a horrific noise.
Is it?
It's a little wooden clapper striking a sort of big wooden acorn.
It's like a drill.
It's like a road drill.
That's not a soothing noise to wake up to in the morning.
But it's natural sounding.
It's like a very excited woodpecker.
A very excited woodpecker who has fastened its claws onto your head and is drilling into your skull.
That's like that horrible advert.
Terrible business.
Our producer's telling us to turn it down because it's maxing out all the wires and dingles.
I'm not going to go on a massive tangent, but you know that advert with the woodpecker drilling into the guy's head.
Yes.
Oh, that's terrible stuff.
So that's the nastiest we could find.
What about the nicest?
You've got a nice one.
I've got a nice one.
Yeah, do you want to play my one there, Lisa?
It's got a lot of bars on it there.
That just would make you go deeper to sleep.
It's like someone beautiful's lying next to you.
It's like a fairy princess cape.
Kate Moss is lying next to you and she's going... And then Pete Doherty's lying on the other side and he's going... It's probably quite a typical scenario in the Moss Doherty household that no longer exists, of course.
Yeah, yeah.
It's nice though isn't it?
That is nice.
So can you beat that listeners?
Have you got a more aggressive alarm sound or a more soothing one?
Text us on 6406 and if you convince us verbally we'll give you a call and maybe get you to get your alarm clock to make a noise down the phone.
Is this competition going to work?
Well, I don't know.
It's not a competition.
It's not a competition.
No, no, no, no, no.
By no means.
Is this event going to work?
I don't know.
There's no competition.
We're relying on you, listeners.
Text 64046.
I was going to remind you.
We were talking about Brian Eno doing the startup sound there the other day.
I was going to remind you of what it sounded like.
Yeah, but you ain't shut your laptop down.
Well, I'm doing it now.
It's restarting.
Well, it'll take ages.
No, no, no.
Let's have some music while we wait for that.
Oh, as soon as the music starts.
What's next on the music list?
What have we got?
Here we go.
Here we go.
Look, it's happening now.
Brian Eno.
That was the max startup chime by Brian Eno.
This is Reverend and the Makers with He Said He Loved Me.
He said he loved me He said he needs me He said to Keeley He thinks I'm special He didn't love me He didn't need me Got off with Keeley She thinks she's special
She used to get dressed up and all the while She's getting more messed up and she looks out Through the windowpane as all her friends Are going out to game
to go to bars Now it's just rattles and baby food in jars Know how she's feeling because there ain't no text I know she's reeling, they're at the multiplex Mams and prams, twelve weeks can Wish you weren't a story if they also ran
He said he loved me, he said he needs me He said to Kayleigh he thinks I'm special He didn't love me, he didn't need me Got off with Kayleigh, she thinks she's special
She takes him to his nan's Gives her some time off, go to the caravan Now she's a mother, although it breaks her heart Her friends don't know her, they've grown so far apart Mams and prams, twelve week scans Wish she weren't a story if he also ran He said he loved me, he said he needs me, he said to kill me
The new football season on the BBC.
Already a day of reckoning.
And he's pointed for the spot.
Never a penalty in a million years.
Can't for the life of me understand why he gave the decision.
Sven is a good club manager.
It was one of the great performances I've seen in any day.
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This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music on The Breakfast Show.
Good morning.
It is, what is it, 7.47.
Time check.
Joe time check Cornish.
Yes, very important to time check.
Get everybody off to work on time and all that sort of business.
It's coming up for my archive session track.
And you know what I'm most excited about?
What are you excited about?
Is the jingle with the woman saying that it's my archive selection.
That woman sounds so excited.
That's true, isn't it?
Is that real?
Does she know me?
Does she know my taste in music?
Is she genuinely excited about what I'm going to pick?
No.
Or is it fake?
Well, no.
Our producer, Lisa, she showed the lady a picture of you while she was doing the trail.
Really?
And her reaction is the, her immediate reaction to seeing your picture.
Really?
Let's hear that trail now.
Can we hear it now?
Joe's pick of the BBC archive.
Come on, she's excited.
She's more excited than she was for yours.
Wasn't Adams a bloke?
Come on, play Adams one.
With mine, I think I seem to remember she was a little bit.
No, it wasn't.
That's just a really effeminate bloke.
Yeah.
You've got a bloke.
And I've got a sexy woman.
My bloke was turned on though, yours was disgusted.
Your bloke was closing that door.
Mine was opening it.
Go away Adams choice.
Your bloke was then crossing your legs.
What?
Okay so here is my archive session track.
It's from Prefab Sprout.
Now when I was at school and very young I was into dreadful music.
No come on.
I was man and Prefab Sprout were the first good band, sort of legitimate band.
Listeners out there you might remember that I was into just awful but you know chart stuff as everybody is until there may be about 12 it might be younger these days.
But that was in the good old days there was nothing awful in the charts when we were growing up.
Oh that's fair enough but you know what I mean yeah and I was getting a bit picked on for not having you know a sort of hardcore musical taste that I could talk about so I remember going into WH Smith's
in Sloane Square and picking this record Sight Unseen, just off the cover.
Really?
Yeah, and then I listened to it over and over again, and Gruiser loved it.
Not this record, but Prefab Sprout's first album, Swoon.
But this is from their third album, Langley Park to Memphis.
Third or fourth?
Yeah, because it's Swoon, Steve McQueen, and then I think Langley Park to Memphis.
But this is from John Peel's session on the 18th of August, 1985.
This is Prefab Sprout with Cars and Girls.
If I pass my way, off they never begin Innocence, come on and grieve Up the hands of life's stinkin' carpet That's my concept of sin
Just look at us now.
We've been driving.
Some things go wrong, which may be causing us.
Just look at us now.
Stop counting the ones that believe in us.
Just look at us now.
We've been driving.
Life's a drive through a dust fall
Just look at us now, quit driving.
Something's done for much more than cars and buildings.
Just look at us now, stop counting while it's all over.
Just look at us now, quit driving.
Got a hot rod, thinks it makes him some kind of new god Well, this is one race he won't win His life's no cruise with the cool chick Too many folks feel incarcerated But it never pulls him
Lucy's thoughts, pretty streamers Guess this world needs its dreamers May they never grow Just look at us now Quit driving, stop being scared No much more in cars and buildings Just look at us now Stop counting
Just look at us now.
Start coming.
Rise up.
Look what you did with India.
Just look at us now.
Fantastic.
That's prefab sprout with cars and girls recorded for John Peel all the way back in 1985.
There's a lot of secret prefab sprout fans out there.
Do you have to be secret?
Well, no, I'm not saying that they've chosen a secret life of fandom for the band.
I'm just saying that they're one of those bands that's very critically under the radar.
Do you know what I mean?
They never pop up instead of hundred greatest album lists and stuff like that really should because they really swoon and Steve McQueen, certainly the first two.
I'm not so sure about Langley Park to Memphis, although that's got its moments.
But Swoon and Steve McQueen are two of the greatest albums ever made.
Macaloon is a genius, as far as I'm concerned.
Absolutely.
Yeah, he's a bit reclusive now.
He released an album a few years ago, I think it was called I Troll the Megahertz, a kind of a solo album, with all kinds of lyrics about being depressed about getting old.
Well he was going blind.
Yeah, so he spent a lot of time listening to the radio and literally trolling the megahertz and you heard that album Yeah, it's good.
It is good.
It's really strong though.
It's very odd.
It's it's sort of an art concept album Yeah, yeah, but he what what if he was listening?
Well, what if he was listening?
I love you We love you.
You're brilliant.
Yeah.
Anyway, it wasn't wasn't that great.
Yes, it was.
Thanks.
Bye
Now what are we going to talk about?
Oh yes, someone sent us in their alarm sound.
We've been talking about the alarm clock sound you wake up to, what the nicest ones are, what the nastiest ones are and we had a text here from Matt and he says the following.
Tired of oversleeping.
Let's start that again.
Opusleeping.
Tired of oversleeping.
Are you tired of Oprah sleeping?
Right in the middle of a show.
Tired of oversleeping because your alarm is not effective enough.
Getting told off for being late to work because you can't... I can't read.
You read it.
Read it.
You read it.
I can't.
My lips won't do it.
Are you tired of Oprah sleeping?
Tired of oversleeping because your alarm is not effective enough.
Getting told off for being late to work because you keep hitting snooze.
What you need...
What you need is the most effective alarm in the world which I've sent a sample of.
I was always late for lectures so I recorded a bit from the film GoldenEye where Bond wakes up in a helicopter which is about to explode with a woman screaming at him to wake up.
Now every morning I wake up in a flood of adrenaline and going back to sleep is a total impossibility.
It's not recommended for people with heart conditions.
So let's take a listen to his special ringtone.
Come on!
That's a nightmare!
What sort of thing is that?
Matt, you must be traumatised.
You must be like Tweak in South Park, constantly jittering hair, falling out.
What kind of a morning is that?
It's horrific.
That is that you've created the most horrific alarm sound ever.
Congratulations.
Can anybody beat that?
If you think you can, if you wake up to something more alarming text us 64046 and we're still looking for the most soothing possible way to wake up, the most soothing kind of electronically generated alarm song.
Text 64046 and if you can convince us verbally that you've got the one we'll give you a call and maybe get you to play it down the phone.
Coming up
After eight o'clock, we're gonna be unveiling our new text the nation jingle.
It's very exciting I think Adam did it yesterday afternoon and even more exciting than that.
There's an actual feature to go with it Wow Where we ask you to text in about a thing, but right now let's play some more music Here's Sonic Youth with cool thing
now you
Give you a share
Tell them about it.
Get away with it.
Hey, cool thing.
Come here.
Sit down beside me.
There's something I gotta ask you.
I just wanna know, what are you gonna do for me?
I mean, are you gonna liberate us girls from male, white, corporate oppression?
Tell her how like it is.
Huh?
I just want you to know that we can still be friends.
When you're a star, I know that you'll fix everything.
When you're a star?
What's she saying?
When you're a star, I know you'll fix everything.
I tell you what she's saying.
She's saying that was Sonic Youth with Cool Thing.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 music.
It's time for the news read by Joe and Harvey.
Digital radio.
Digital TV.
BBC 6 music.
So top stories at 8.
Detectives investigating the murder of the biker Jerry Tobin on the M40 in Warwickshire have made a number of arrests.
Mr Tobin, who was 35, was shot dead as he rode home from a biker's festival.
An internal inquiry into the CIA's performance in tackling the threat from Al-Qaeda before the 9-11 attacks has made withering criticisms of its leadership.
Almost two-thirds of people would back a system which rewards them for recycling before they put out the rubbish.
That's according to research for the local government association.
And the weather, well, it's a case of summer in western parts of the UK, like Wales, Northern Ireland and the West Country, where there'll be plenty of sunshine today, but more like autumn in London and the South East, where it'll be cool and breezy with showers, highs of 21 degrees in Belfast, 20 in Birmingham and 18 degrees in Norwich.
Joe, yours got six music news.
Our top story is down the latest from the LA courtroom where Phil Spector is on trial for murder as that he won't be taking to the stand to testify.
He waived his rights last night as the defence began to wrap things up there.
It's thought they'll be done by the end of the week.
More coming up on that on our next bulletin at 8.30.
BBC 6 Music.
Closer to the music that matters.
BBC 6 Music.
Bandages, hold my legs and my arms for new Bandages, bandages, bandages Up and down, hold my legs and my arms for new Bandages, bandages, bandages These bandages cover mothers graves Cuts and bruises from regrets and mistakes
I've been trippin' from sippin' to drippin' Dirty water top, I've been pokin' a food noodle That you do not know I made these bandages of anonymity I've been shakin' from makin' an awful description
I accept my arms from you There's no chance There's no chance There's no chance
I've been thinking I'm drinking too many drinks all by myself
Better just, better just, better just Up and down on my legs and my arms for you Better just, better just, better just Better just on my legs and my arms for you Better just, better just, better
Don't worry now Don't worry now
I'll steal my arms from you Badger jams, badger jams, badger jams Badger jams of my life I'll steal my arms from you Badger jams, badger jams, badger jams
Wow.
That was Hot Hot Heat with Bandages.
That sounds great, doesn't it?
It is good.
It came out ages ago, didn't it?
Have they done another one?
Yes, they did.
Their follow up, I think, to Bandages was not quite so successful.
Well, how could it be?
Because that's amazing.
They almost hoisted themselves on their own petard by coming up with a single that amazingly good.
It is good.
I like anyone who puts, like, extra syllables in a word, you know?
Yeah.
It's easy to get into your good words.
It's like, uh, it's like when Liam Gallagher says, uh... Yeah, isn't that just laziness?
Couldn't think of a word that fitted properly.
Anyway, it's serial thriller time here on BBC6 Music.
You're listening to Adam and Jo on The Breakfast Show.
Serial thriller is a segment we've inherited from Sean W Keveney, who's on holiday in Italy.
We're filling in for him.
And it's designed to let Sean have some breakfast.
But you know, to be perfectly honest, it's a sham.
Why?
Because we've had our breakfast.
I haven't had mine.
I mean, I'm halfway through.
I've had a couple of apples, but I've got a Danish in a bag.
So it's not a sham.
You're going to have that Danish during these two tracks.
Yeah.
I had some toast and honey and a couple of satsumas.
I'm fine.
What, before you left?
Yeah.
But that's because your driver guy had a flat tyre.
That's true.
So you're waiting for him to... Because normally you wouldn't have the time.
You'd wake up with just enough time to get out of the house and you wouldn't have had anything.
Let's get Michelle on the line.
Hello, Michelle.
Are you there?
Hello.
How are you doing?
Very well, thank you.
Good to speak to you.
Thanks for, thanks for, did she email with her serial thriller?
Yeah.
Thanks for that.
And you've chosen two very good tracks.
We've got some background facts about you, Michelle, so we can, you know, flesh you out as a person in our heads.
You're from Leeds, but you now live- Yeah, so I've just moved to York, yeah.
But you now live in York, yeah.
Yeah, I've just moved there.
Very, very different place, isn't it?
Very different place.
Yeah, it's a lot quieter.
It's a lot smaller.
How's the, how's the Minster?
It's very lovely.
York Minster.
Well done Adam.
Adam's trying to make you think he knows what happens in York.
Well, he does.
That's all that happens in York.
Really?
I happen to believe there's a Smiths.
Yeah, that's true.
There is a Smiths.
Is there a Smiths?
There has to be a Smiths.
There is a Smiths.
That's my knowledge of York.
How's the station?
The station, yeah that's good, that's really good.
The station's good?
Good.
Is he convincing you that he knows about your town there Michelle?
Well I think he must live here to be honest.
Hey York's very pretty, come on, it's a lovely place isn't it?
He's very pretty.
Yeah.
Let's move on to your favourite film Michelle.
Yeah I got put on the spot quite this morning about that.
Did you?
Hang on, you've got the gazebo outside because you've just moved in?
Oh, do you mean to protect all your boxes and stuff?
Is that what you mean?
OK, that's a good idea.
Well, sorry to add to the pressures of your mourning.
What is your favourite film?
Bye bye Michelle.
Pretending they knew where York was and what was in York.
They kept interrupting me.
They made light of the gazebo disaster.
You know, I told them about the gazebo blowing over and then I blew over the wall.
I was disconnected.
Our producer Lisa's desperately trying to get her back on the phone.
What if she was savaged by wolves?
We happen to know, though, folks, what her favourite film was.
Shall we tell you?
It was Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which is about, you know, having your memory erased.
So maybe that's what happened to Michelle there.
someone just came along and grabbed her.
Elijah Wood in a white coat with a couple of prongs.
Yeah.
Erased her noggin.
But Michelle see it Stevenson sorry to lose you there.
Do call back if you're listening please call us back because you know that's unsettling.
Exactly but in the meantime Michelle has chosen two excellent tracks for us.
In a second we're going to hear the Who with Babur O'Reilly but first here's Milo with Drop the Pressure.
Adam and Joe on 6music.
you
To prove I'm right I don't need
Don't cry Don't raise your eye It's only teenage wasting Sally, take my hand We'll travel south across land Pull out the fire Don't look past my shoulder
The exodus is here The happy ones are here Let's get together all again
Stay!
so
It has long been rumoured in showbiz circles that there was once a game of Top Trumps between Morrissey, Bruce Forsyth, Roland Ratt and Adolf Hitler.
Well, there was one other at the Green Bay's table that night.
None other than I, Harry Hill.
I have remained silent for too long and at last tell my story in the world premiere of my long-awaited concept album, the story of the first meeting of the International Recipe Card Top Trump Society.
On six music bank holiday Monday from three.
I'll be listening that'll be excellent Harry Hill before that you heard the choices of Michelle Stevenson calling from York and she got cut off there but thanks very much indeed for calling in Michelle and you heard Babbo Riley.
by the who and before that Milo released release the pressure drop the pressure same sort of thing you know get rid of the pressure just I don't want no more pressure now yeah Drew in Weymouth was concerned that there might be some naughty words in that in that record but drew we're on top of that because that was the radio mix
Where the naughty words are obscured.
Can you imagine though if we weren't on top of it and for some reason the filthy word version went out at 10 past 8 on a Wednesday morning on the BBC?
What would happen Joe?
What would happen?
We would probably single-handedly corrupt about 30,000 children.
That's right.
How many people listen?
About half a million?
Yeah, probably about 30,000 kids out there listening, you know, having breakfast with their parents.
It'd be furious.
It would be terrible.
We'd plant a seed of hatred in there, in their little minds, like a bit of dirt in an oyster.
Right.
That's not a good analogy, is it?
Because they create pearls.
Pearls?
Yeah, I don't know.
Who knows what would happen?
thank god we didn't do it yeah oh dear it doesn't even bear thinking about and her favorite film michelle's favorite film was eternal sunshine in the spotless mind great film and a brilliant soundtrack by john brian who does many uh great bits of film music
I wish I could remember what band John Bryan used to be in.
But incidentally he also is involved with the new Spoon album.
We'll be playing a track from that later on.
It's our record of the week.
So stay tuned for that.
And in a second I think, not right now though, we are going to be playing our Text-A-Nation feature.
I'm worried about the webcam.
It's showing a picture of you, Adam, working on your computer and me with my feet up on the desk reading the paper.
That's what it's like.
That was what it was like for like 4 seconds.
That's what it's always like.
The BBC bosses are gonna see that.
That's what it's always like.
I'm gonna get fired.
That's what it's like.
Now, here's the stand dealt with dirty water after this.
We'll be back with Text-A-Nation.
I'm gonna tell you a story.
The Standells from 1966 with Dirty Water.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6Music.
Very good morning if you've just tuned in.
This morning we've been asking our listeners to send us their alarm sounds.
We've been trying to find the most horrible and nicest one.
The most soothing.
No one's really sent us a really lovely soothing one.
No, we had a very nasty Goldeneye sample one.
Yeah, a homemade one.
Who was that from?
What was his name?
Matt, I think.
Matt, that's right.
Here's another one from Dean.
He's sent us a very sort of pithy email that says this one always does the job for me.
Here's this noise that Dean wakes up to.
a brilliant rave track is that it just that's so that's how robots wake up is it yeah really no no well that was that's good um that's good there uh dean
What are you doing?
Is that the sound of you trying to think of something to say about it?
It's me telling him that it's good.
You know, it's a good sound.
It's good there.
It's the sound of an organised man who goes about his morning in a very disciplined manner.
I will brush my teeth now.
I have some breakfast.
Put on my pants.
That kind of thing.
You know, disciplined like a robot.
That's good.
So did Dean construct that himself?
Did he say?
No, it's just the sound of his alarm clock.
All right.
You've thought of the idea in the first place.
I was I was considering leaving that idea alone.
Really?
You were the one that I wanted to go back to the effort of recording.
That's true.
No, thanks for that, Dean.
Cheers.
Now it's time to not only launch this feature, but play you an amazing new jingle for this feature.
You ready for this, Joe?
I made this last night.
I'm ready.
This is going to be brilliant.
Yeah, I've incorporated all sort of things that people might be thinking there, and their idea, and what people have to do.
It's all in there.
Text the nation.
What if I don't want to?
Text the nation.
It doesn't matter.
Text!
What kind of answer is that?
It doesn't matter.
What if I don't want to?
It doesn't matter.
Oh, I'm trying to deal with people that might be on the fence about it.
You know?
It doesn't matter that you don't want to.
Get it, you know, just get on with it.
Well done, that's good work, man.
How bad did that take?
That took me half an hour.
Wow, longer than I expected.
Yeah, with GarageBand.
It's good stuff, man.
Anyway, this is our news section of the show, Text the Nation.
It's a massively important nationwide poll in which we present you with a kind of a dilemma or a question and invite you to text in and then we read the text.
Hence the jingle.
It's good.
OK, so today I was thinking about underrated pleasures.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
Like things in life that aren't don't have as much praise heaped upon them as as maybe they might do.
If we were on Radio One, we might say that they need to be bigged up.
Yeah.
But we're on six music, so we don't use phrases like bigged up.
No, we say underrated pleasures.
And I'm thinking, here's a few examples.
And these could be anything.
It could be a film that you're particularly fond of, but not something that's just totally rubbish, but you happen to have a soft spot for it.
I'm talking about something that you think is genuinely brilliant, but for some reason it's just fallen under the critical radar.
Give us some examples.
Okay, film-wise, how's this?
Dave, starring Kevin Kline, directed by Ivan Reitman.
about the ordinary joe who becomes the president exactly well it's about a guy kevin klein plays a bloke who uh earns a living not only doing work for the community but also as a double like a double for the president you know what i mean he looks exactly like the president he's a look-alike and when the president becomes ill he has to stand in for the president
For real okay, but here's the thing he turns out to be an even better president than the real president Who's actually a bit of a cynical schmuck, but Dave who's standing in for him?
He's got a heart of gold, and he's what presidents should really be like and you know on some levels.
It's it's a
ridiculous piece of whimsy this film but it's on other levels it's a peach and genuinely funny great performances from Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver's great sorry I won't go too much into it what about what about other underappreciated pleasures what about music wise music wise I was listening to this album the other day and it's it's an album that a lot of people know is very good but it's again not like in this sort of top hundred best ever and it should be super grass their second album in it for the money everyone goes on about
how great I should Coco was and stuff and of course it was one of the greatest debuts of all time but album number two that was amazing Richard the third when that was first on I remember the first time I saw that I think Chris Evans played it on TFI Friday played the video he just thought this is one of the best things I've ever seen so in it for the money super grass that's an underrated smash so text us 64046 with things that you think should be should be rated more highly underrated pleasures things that you love that kind of nobody else really does
And while you text us on 64046, let's have some more music.
What are we going to have?
This is Emma Pollock with a track called Acid Test.
This house does not feel like a home
This life has no one that I own Do I dramatize?
These days I think I'll stay at home by the fireside Just leave me outdoors to get on while I feel right There is nothing here to celebrate
I just
Emma Pollock there with Acid Test.
This is Adam and Joe here on 6music.
It's time for the news now, read by Joe and Harvey.
Arrests over M40 biker murder, ex-CIA boss slammed over 9-11, and support for payers you throw.
And in 6music news, back to Wave's right to testify, Penate Redding fears Anne Catey gives a masterclass.
BBC 6 Music.
It's just after 8.30, I'm Harvey Cook, so this morning detectives investigating the murder of the biker Jerry Tobin on the M40 in Warwickshire have been telling us they've made a number of arrests.
Our reporter Paul Moss can tell us more about what police are saying.
They say they've made arrests.
Note that plural, arrests.
They won't give us a number, but clearly more than one.
They're promising to give more information at 9.30 this morning.
There's going to be a press briefing.
And Jerry Tobin, of course, 35 years old, was shot back on August the 12th on the way back from this biker's festival, the Bulldog Bash.
Also making six music news, senior staff at the CIA have come under intense criticism for the way they acted in the run-up to the 9-11 attacks in 2001.
A report by the agency's watchdog, which has just been declassified, accuses its former director, George Tenet, of failing to come up with a strategic plan to beat Al-Qaeda.
Laurie Van Orkin, whose husband Kenneth died in the World Trade Center attack, wants those who made mistakes to be punished.
This is just
incompetence.
We're just talking about complete and utter incompetence and people should be held accountable and we should know who they are and they should be held accountable.
Now almost two-thirds of people would support a pay-as-you-throw system for collecting household waste according to a survey for the local government association.
It says the results lend support to calls for a change in the law allowing councils in England and Wales to charge people for how much waste they produce.
Ryanair has been criticised for misleading passengers by publishing ads claiming its flights from London to Brussels were
faster, cheaper and more reliable than Eurostar trains.
The advertising standards authorities said the airline had ignored the time and cost of getting to and from airports.
In six weeks export, England's cricketers have won their first one-day at the Rose Bowl against India by 104 runs.
And the weather, cool and showery in southeast England today.
In fact, a pretty grim start here in London.
Elsewhere, quite pleasant, with good sunny spells in the west particularly.
Highs of 22 degrees in Glasgow, 21 in Southampton and 20 degrees in Birmingham.
And would you believe it?
Signs are the bank holiday weekend is looking pretty good.
Now with Six Music News, Joe, you're
While the latest from the LA courtroom where Phil Spector is on trial for murder is that he won't be taking to the stand to testify, he waived his rights last night as the defence began to wrap things up there and it's thought they'll be done by the end of the week.
One lady that did do her bit though was a former employee that was told the music producer threatened at gunpoint when she tried to leave his house after a party, a scenario similar to that of four other witness statements in the trial.
Spector denies murdering actress Lana Clarkson at his house in 2003.
Now back here in Jack Penate is worried about his upcoming festival slots.
On his Myspace page he says he's losing his voice and reckons Reading in Leeds could be a washout in more ways than one this weekend.
And if you fancy being taught music from Coldplay, Blur or Supergrass, they've all started giving online tutorials.
They're teaching people how to play their songs on a website called Now Play It.
You can download lessons and Katie Tomstall is on there too.
I never had guitar lessons.
I just taught myself, so I'm a really potentially bad guitar teacher.
All I could really say was, well, this is how I blagged it.
You can do it, too.
And Six Music News, more at 9 o'clock.
Six.
News.
Ten.
Glaswegian Trio, the 1990s, are live in session this morning, and the Wednesday Westwagon will roll into town.
I'm Gideon Coe, after Adam and Joe, from Ten.
Six Music.
So spare me the suspense Just spare me the suspense They let you raise a soul, you try and you lay But you know it's your time
Now I'll let you stand by, so call in the pants Now we should dance like twins Just spare me the suspense The seven ancient pawnsharks are long away
I know seven making daddies you may want to know
Oh baby I can't deny Got a taste, a taste, a taste and it's time And I won't let you set by So call in the catch night Alone you can't make amends And I won't let you set by So call in the catch night It's enough with this incense Just spare me The suspense
Punch up to you
You're late, there's a hole in the sky No haste, no lesson, no lie Got a taste, that I can't deny And you wait, till you know that it's time You wait, till you know that it's time You wait, till you know that it's time You wait, till you know that it's time You say it, you say it
Text the nation!
Text!
Text!
Text!
Text the nation!
What if I don't want to?
Text the nation!
It doesn't matter!
Text!
There you go.
I like the way it doesn't matter, it's sort of cut off abruptly.
Yeah, yeah.
It's very effective.
It's important.
Hello, this is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music.
It's 20 to 9.
Good morning, thanks for joining us.
We're in the middle of our exciting text the nation thing.
feature yeah we've been asking you to text us with suggestions for kind of underrated pleasures could be uh books movies films or or things that you do that you think uh you know everybody should know are pleasurable right here's another example non-life-threatening illnesses okay i'm talking about things like a little bit of a cold that's just severe enough to keep you off work you know you're going to recover relatively quickly from it
and it means you can just go to bed for a while and stay there.
Watch telly all day.
Yeah, you can watch TV, you can read books that you've always been meaning to read but haven't got around to and watch films on your computer and stuff that you think like especially films that are perhaps a little bit boring or they look a little bit worthy and it's never the right time to watch them and then suddenly you watch them in bed while you're ill they turn out to be amazing and brilliant and they make a real impression on you an extra impression because you're feeling a bit ill and your head's all messed up.
Do you know what I mean?
It can be a wonderful experience.
It's like a little mini holiday in the middle of your life.
And especially if you've got children and stuff or a busy job or whatever, it can be a real fantastic little break.
So here are some examples sent in by you, the listeners.
Jake from London says the film 16 Candles by John Hughes always makes him feel warm inside no matter how grey the world is.
That's a classic, that one.
Sure.
Is it an underrated pleasure?
Well, I guess it's not one that regularly pops up on people's top ten lists, is it?
It's amazing, that film.
I agree, Jake.
It kind of wrote the book for nerd comedy.
Yeah, and the teen genre on the whole.
And Anthony Michael Hall in it is amazing.
Amazing performance.
Well, a lot of John Hughes stuff is underrated, I guess, because it's seen as being too trivial, I suppose.
What's happened to him?
He's vanished.
Is he?
Yeah he's vanished, hasn't made a film in ages.
Well he doesn't really need to anymore because he can sit happily on Ferris Bueller's Day Off and know that it's one of the greatest films ever made.
Here's another one from Mike in Hock, or his name is Mike Hock, not sure.
Hi Adam and Joe, cold baked beans are underrated, hot ones overrated.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cold baked beans are usually just eaten by kids.
Absolutely.
Also, I think his name might be one of those Simpsons style things that spells out something revolting.
Well, I fell for that one.
Here's another one from Mitch, who says the beater band.
deserve more attention than they got that's absolutely true now defunct they've set they sadly split up because they weren't selling enough records is that right that's true they got ground down there's a sort of heartbreaking documentary uh that's available about the beat band that um shows you what happened to them while they were making their last album and there's some really sad scenes of them just sat around in a cold rehearsal room just saying
We owe a million quid to our record company.
How did that happen?
And we just can't afford to carry on.
It's funny that, isn't it?
I think people don't realize that bands have to kind of finance their own tours and videos and stuff, don't they?
Yeah, exactly.
They're kind of given a loan by the record company.
It all comes out of their own pockets, and if it doesn't go right, you don't sell enough albums and you've spent too much on promotion.
Yeah, so when you're watching some glossy indie pop video and feeling jealous of the life those people are leading, you just have to remember, A, it's all fake, and B, they've paid for it all themselves.
Yeah.
Poor guys.
Yeah.
Anyway, the beat of Ben, that's a very good example of an underrated pleasure.
And the second, what was it?
Hot Shots Part Deux was a great album.
Well underrated.
Absolutely.
And then here's another one from Scott in Manchester.
He's saying that the TV show Arrested Development.
best example of underappreciated genius.
That's true.
I mean, there's a lot of stuff that people like we all know it, folks, right?
Things like Larry Sanders.
That's amazing.
Yeah.
But for some reason, especially when it was on in the UK, like BBC two used to squirrel it away at around 11, 1130 at night, used to move it around the schedules.
You could never really catch it regularly.
And no one really watched it.
And of course, the West Wing, of course, which many people absolutely love their religious about that program.
never really made an impression to chat channel for tried to show over here didn't get the ratings so they thought now let's not bother
But Arrested Development has launched the careers of lots of people who are in it.
Will Arnett was in Blades of Glory.
He's obviously doing very well as a comedy actor.
And the kid, Michael, is it pronounced Sarah?
Michael C-E-R-A.
Yeah, Sarah.
He's in this new film, Superbad, that's supposed to be really funny.
Another Judd Apatow.
Judd Apatow comedy.
So keep those underrated pleasures coming in.
Right now he is Air, the Frenchman with a lovely sound called Kelly.
Watch the stars.
Look over there, Kelly.
Look at the stars.
Watch them.
Can you watch the stars?
the star
Can't watch the stars Can't watch the stars
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This is Adam and Joe on 6 Music.
Good morning.
It's, uh, what is it?
It's like 11 minutes to 9.
It's like 11 minutes to 9.
I said that in a way that kids will understand.
Well it's not quite, it's 15 seconds shy of 11 minutes to 9 as I'm saying this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shall we wait until it's exactly 11 minutes to 9?
And then you can say it's 11 minutes to 9.
Yeah, what?
Our producer Lisa's saying, no don't do it.
We've been asking you to text in your underrated pleasures.
Here's another underrated pleasure for you, right?
Perhaps older married people with children might relate to more than other people.
Cancelling social engagements.
The delightful pleasure of cancelling a social engagement.
So you've been invited out to a party or dinner, whatever.
It doesn't matter.
It might be someone really nice.
I'm not saying this is people you want to avoid.
It might be a person that you really enjoy seeing.
But you just think, I can't face it.
I cannot face it.
Trekking across London, or wherever you live, getting a babysitter, you know, the trauma of putting them to bed and saying goodnight and deceiving them so you can sleep at night.
You know what a similar underappreciated pleasure is?
Walking out of a bad film.
Right.
Because you just get an hour of your life back, don't you?
If you decide it's not worth your time, and you just go out and you think, wicked, I've got an hour to go shopping.
Maybe you don't use the word wicked because it's not the late 90s.
Did you say wicklewockles?
WICKLEWOCKLES!
AC spacey pixie spacey!
Yeah!
What?
And go out and do some shopping.
Here are some more that have come in from our listeners.
Here we go.
Adventure by the band Television is an extremely eternally underrated album largely because it's always compared to its brilliant predecessor Marquee Moon says Paul in
That's absolutely true.
Mark, is it Mark Riley or Mark Radcliffe?
One of the two is a big advocate of adventure by television and it is.
It's got a lovely song called Days on there which is one of their best.
I recommend that one.
Here's one from Trudy in Warwick.
She's saying that strawberry jelly...
She had some for the first time in about 15 years and she said that was an underrated pleasure.
Jelly has certainly fallen off the critical radar.
I haven't had jelly in about 25 years.
I'm gonna go home right now, have myself a big bowl of jelly.
I don't like the fact that it's made from animal bones.
I do like it.
What do you mean it's made from animal bones?
Isn't that what jelly teen is?
It's like bones.
Is it?
I think it is, yeah.
I think vegetarians can't have jelly.
Isn't that right?
That's possibly true.
I'm sure there's veggie jelly though, but it probably doesn't have the consistency and that's of course half the fun of the jelly.
Here's somebody else voting for John Hughes as a procurer of underrated pleasures.
Nick from Brighton says that Weird Science is his favourite film.
If there's ever been a finer film in the world made then I've yet to see it.
Oh, I don't know about that mate.
I agree mate.
Particularly the closing track by Ongo Boingo.
weird science have you watched it recently yeah absolutely it does not stand up yes it does oh you're insane it does come on weird science is brilliant listen there's some good bits oingo boingo brilliant who's in oingo boingo oh is it Danny Elfman yeah who's who's now one of the most famous film composers in the world that's right and Rick from Durham is saying that Stuart Lee is a very underrated stand-up comic Rick I don't agree with you that he's a brilliant stand-up comic but I don't think he's underrated
you do agree with him that he's brilliant you don't agree that he's underrated yeah i think that everybody thinks he's brilliant everyone knows he's great isn't it yeah yeah time for more music now here's the garbage with when i grow up
Cut my tongue out, I've been caught out Like a giant juggernaut Happy hours, golden showers On a cruise to freak you out We can fly a helicopter Nothing left to talk about Entertain you, celebrate you I'll be back to frame you when
Turn the tables Trying hard to fit among you Floating out to Wonderland Unprotected, God I'm pregnant Damn the consequences when I
Blood and blisters on my fingers Chaos rules when we're apart Watch my temper, I go mental I'll try to be gentle when I
Go!
Ooh, steady!
That must have been embarrassing to have that at the end there without realising.
Shirley Manholm!
That was Garbage with When I Grow Up.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music.
We've got one more underrated pleasure here that's come in from John Skelton.
He says, the Super Mario Brothers motion picture, released in 1993 starring Bob Hoskins, was criminally banned.
They took a colourful, cheery video game, turned it into a dark, dystopian... I think you got the wrong word here, John.
dystopian.
He hasn't put the N on the end.
A dark dystopian nightmare with Dennis Hopper as King Koopa and it was fantastic.
I'm probably alone on this but I don't care.
The score by Alan Silvestri was also one of his best but not better than Back to the Future.
Jon I agree with you I'm going to rewatch the Super Mario Brothers.
It's probably got its moments doesn't it?
It's got John Leguizamo in it.
Yeah.
and little baby dinosaurs.
It's got some very imaginative art direction, some crazy creatures.
Like there's a brilliant, there's a genius stroke of having these massive, great, lumbering, weird lizard guards, but they've got tiny heads.
Yes, I do remember that.
And if you read an interview with Bob Hoskins, where they ask him about it, he is vitriolic in his fury, particularly for the directors who are Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton, who I think, did they create Max Hedrum or something?
They were kind of big video stars in the in the late 80s.
So many factoids.
And he reckons it was just mishandled.
Brilliant idea, they just didn't do it right.
He just thinks it's awful and he's embarrassed about it.
And he shouldn't be, should he John Skelton?
No he shouldn't.
It's a brilliant film.
Well thanks to everybody who's texted in with their underrated pleasures.
I'm kind of talking as if it's the end of the show.
We might have a few more of those after the news, but first here's the Smashing Pumpkins.
I am under reason
Where you at
The Smashing Pumpkins with That's The Way My Love Is.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music.
It's time for the news with Harvey and Jo.
So the top story's at nine.
Police investigating the murder of a biker on the M40 early this month.
So they've made arrests.
Jerry Tobin, who was 35, was shot as he drove home from a biker's festival in Warwickshire.
And we'll be hearing more from detectives in the next hour.
The CIA has criticized its own leadership in the run-up to the 9-11 attacks.
An internal report by the agency has accused its ex-director, George Tenet, of failing to do enough to stop Al-Qaeda.
Almost two-thirds of people would support a pay-as-you-throw system for collecting household waste, that's according to a survey for the local government association.
Barry George, who was convicted of the murder of the TV presenter Jill Dando, is applying for bail ahead of his second appeal in November.
And the weather, damp, cool and pretty miserable in London and the southeast, with more showers likely today.
Better as you head westwards though, plenty of sunshine in Wales, Northern Ireland and Devon and Cornwall, highs of 22 degrees in Plymouth, 19 in London.
Our top story this hour, Phil Spector has decided not to take to the stand in his murder trial and waived his right.
It comes as the Defence are in their final week of wrapping things up in the LA courtroom, though a key female witness popped up last night to say Spector also threatened her at gunpoint.
More on that coming up in our next bulletin at 9.30.
BBC 6 News.
Excuse me
In some respects I suspect you've got a respectable side When pushed and pulled in pressure You say I don't wanna hide But it's for someone else's benefit Not for what you wanna do Until I realize that you've realized I'm gonna say these words to you Yeah, you don't know what love is
You're not hopeless or helpless And I hate to sound cold But you don't know what love is You just do as you're told
I can see a man can't help but win any problems in their eyes But in his mind there can be no sin if you're never gonna silence You just keep on repeating all those empty I love you's Until you say you deserve better I'm gonna lay right into you
Just as a child a ten-mile act, but you're far too old You're not hopeless or helpless, and I hate to sound cold But you don't know what love is No, you don't know what love is No, you don't know what love is
You just do as you're told
There you go, more ultrasonic guitar stylings from the White Stripes there with You Don't Know What Love Is.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 music filling in for Sean W Keeney who's away on holiday in Italy.
What do you think he's doing right now?
I would say he's in bed.
Do you think so?
Yeah, wouldn't you think?
Is Italy an hour behind?
However many hours it is ahead or behind, if you host a breakfast show for a living and you go on holiday, I would guess that you all stay in bed all afternoon.
I think he's awake.
I think he's been up since 5.30.
He's pale and trembling.
He's got a banana and he's doing links into it.
Some kind of disturbed nutcase.
He can't let go.
He sat in a corner with his iPod on listening to indie music.
It's so odd.
to get into the routine of getting up so early and then behaving all chirpy.
Yeah.
And he's been doing it for so long that he can't snap out of it.
Right.
Yeah?
And he's going up and just asking random people what their... What the news is for the news bulletin.
And what their favourite kind of Sunday morning routine is.
Yeah, yeah.
That's probably what's happening somewhere in Italy.
Oh dearie me.
So what now?
Listen, yesterday I was talking about how I went to the Green Man Festival last weekend.
Was it last weekend?
It seems so long ago.
Yeah.
And it was kind of rainy.
The Green Man's a folk festival that happens near Abagaveni in Wales in the shadow of the Sugarloaf Mountain, a beautiful setting.
It's quite a small festival.
It had 7,000 people there last year.
This year they upped the number to 10,000.
They might have invited too many people.
is there a sugarloaf mountain around there i thought that was in brazil no well there's another one there there's another one anyway it started raining uh quite hard and i left uh the green man festival on account of not wanting to get all wet and it was muddy and claggy and it just all got a bit nasty uh so i was asking people to text in and tell me what happened on the sunday because there were some brilliant performers including gruffrice
Uh, playing there.
Stephen Maltmus you missed?
That's right, Maltmus was the kind of headline act on the Sunday afternoon.
Did you catch Joanna Newsome?
Uh, you know, I didn't hear her play, but I ate breakfast next to her in the hotel.
Oh, she's beautiful.
Um, was she, did she have her harp?
While she was eating her toast.
She did, yeah.
She did.
She was wearing it on her head.
She got it all covered in egg and bits of bacon.
Oh, I've got egg on my strings.
Knitted between the strings of the heart.
Yeah, is that what you want to hear?
Yes, thank you.
Happy now?
Yes, I am.
I was asking listeners who'd possibly been to the festival and stayed there for the Sunday to contact us, and Jocelyn Richardson did, and she's written this little appraisal of what happened on Sunday.
Thank you very much, Jocelyn.
I appeared to miss a lot.
She said that on the Saturday night she fell asleep in her tent listening to Tongue.
with their heavy bass, which apparently distracted Joanna Newsome while she was trying to play.
Now at the Green Man Festival this year, they did a silly thing.
They put two stages too close together.
Oh, page one.
The folkidoki tent was too close to the main stage.
Wasn't the case last year, so kind of music bled from one stage to another.
Now that wouldn't matter at a rock festival, because it's a kind of wall of noise, but at a lovely, gentle folk festival, it was a mistake.
That's right.
It's all about the silences in folk music, really, isn't it?
And the silences were corrupted.
So yeah, Jocelyn, I agree with you there.
There was a little bit of bleeding going on with the sound.
What happened there, on the Saturday, she went back to her tent, she listened to Fridge, and then she got frustrated as the sounds of battles and Robert Plant competed with one another, making it sound like a weird experimental bootleg.
It was a Plant battle battle.
It was.
um battles they're good they're a really good band it was a really good lineup at the green man festival and now she says she says on the sunday for those of us who weren't wimps like joe how very rude very and managed to last out until sunday it was well worth the trouble the rain had gone the wind died down the mud was manageable yeah gruff reese was joined by lisa jen both sitting in the middle of a large tv with candy lion as the test card that sounds brilliant that's excellent he's made a kind of effort with the with the scenery and stuff
uh to end the set gruff moved to an airplane seat for a 20-minute version of the track skylon from the album which included a play acting out the storyline of bombs a terrorist a beautiful actress and a bomb disposal expert you know that track of candy lion yeah where he's in a plane isn't it yeah i think it's the last track on the album it's a brilliant track but there you go he did a whole kind of theatrical version of it
That's amazing.
What a fool I was to go home.
You spacked out too early, but that's another little pleasure though.
Do you know, sometimes just knowing when to call it quits, you know, having a little bit of a bad time at something like a three day festival, you just think, you know what?
I don't have to stay.
I can just go home and then it'll all be over and I'll be happy.
Is it spoon time?
I think it might be.
This is the underdog.
Picture yourself in the living room Your pipe and slippers set out for you I know you think that it ain't too far But I hear a call of a lifetime rain
Got no regard for the thing that you don't understand You got no fear of the underdog That's why you will not survive
I wanna forget how convention fits But can I get out from under it?
Can I cut it out of me?
It can't all be wet in case It can't all be boiled away I try but I can't let go of it Can't let go of it Cause you don't talk to the water boy
Unless you're what you could love, but you don't wanna love You will not back up and let your love That's why you will not survive
The thing that I tell you now, it may not go over well.
Oh, it may not be for a while.
No way that I spell it out.
But you won't hear from the messenger.
Don't want to know about something that you don't understand.
You got no fear of the underdog.
I'll try you without a doubt.
Oh dear, what happened there?
Someone got shot.
Something fell over.
Someone squashed.
I think they shot one of the trumpet players there.
That was Spoon with the underdog.
That's their new single from the album Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and it is my choice for breakfast single of the week.
Joe's gonna choose something for you next week.
Yes!
Oh am I?
Yeah you are.
Yeah that we're gonna play every day.
Every day.
responsibility responsibility, but I'm happy about that spoon one that just gets better and better the more I hear it person Do you think you will playing it every day on this show will affect its sales in a positive way?
Do you think kind of spoon owe you?
Yeah, I think they probably do owe me a little bit I was thinking about this and make it clear to them that you've helped them and Really, you know extract your pound of flesh.
I really will do I will do.
Yeah, certainly Yeah, you know, even if you don't if they don't like you
I was actually think you should just demand it.
I was fantasizing about imagine if there was a little spike in their sales after this week of playing a single.
And then I'd be able to say, excuse me, I'm responsible for the spike.
That's my spike.
Can I please?
What would you demand from them?
I would ask them to play a little set for me in my room in your room.
Yes.
Not even in your front room, in your bedroom?
In my bedroom, I'd be tucked up in the duvet.
Would you or would you be lying naked on top of the bed?
That's what you'd be doing.
Pleasuring yourself.
That would be a stipulation, wouldn't it?
I can behave as obscenely as I like.
A spoon?
What nationality of spoon?
While you play.
They're from Austin, Texas.
Are they?
So they go, okay.
They've probably done similar sorts of things.
You reckon?
Yeah.
If you join a band, you've got to expect that kind of thing.
Listen, we've had a text, no, an email relating to our text the nation happening kind of event, non-competition thing.
It's from Chris.
He says, hey chaps, your text the nation feature discriminates against those of us who don't have mobile phones.
We can't take part.
We can only press our noses against the window and watch the fun from afar.
Can you make it text and email the nation?
And he's put the word and in bold.
Right.
That's from Chris, is it?
Yes, it's from Chris.
Chris, thanks very much for your email.
I'm sorry but no.
We can't.
It's text only and that's an absolutely rock solid stipulation.
Why?
Well because it's in the name of the feature.
Yeah why can't you change, just pop home, change the jingle tonight.
I'm sorry.
Only took you half an hour.
No this is the big British castle and we can't do things like that.
We can't just change things.
Actually as the person who thought of the brilliant name of the non-competition.
It's a play on Test the Nation, of course, with Anne Robinson and Phillip Schofield.
It doesn't work if you put email the nation.
So Chris, if you're listening, I hope you are.
You've got to think of a different name for the non-competition.
Also, Chris, on a serious note, obviously we don't discriminate between messages we get from text or email.
You can send a carrier pigeon if you want and we'll still include it in Test the Nation.
Our email address is adamandjoe, all one word, and A-N-D, not an ampersand, adamandjoe.6music, number six, not the spelt out six, at bbc.co.uk.
That's quite complicated, isn't it?
Now, Joe, you've got a free play coming up right now.
What have you got for us?
Yeah, this is one of my favourite tracks from the Outkast albums of a couple of years ago, Speakerbox and The Love Below.
This is from The Love Below.
So I think it's by Andre 3000.
Is it one of the sweary ones?
I certainly hope not.
It's called She Lives In My Lap.
This is Outkast.
Oh, I love this one.
hahahaha
to the coolest side of town.
The new football season on the BBC.
Already a day of reckoning.
And he's pointed to the spot.
Never a penalty in a million years.
For the life of me, I understand why you gave the decision.
Sven is a good club manager.
It was one of the great performances I've seen in any day.
Manchester City from nothing have the lead.
The language of football on the BBC.
The new season continues on TV, online, on your mobile and with more live Premier League games than anyone else on BBC Radio 5 Live.
That's all you need to know.
You'll never stop walking away It's not too soon, so come and tell me
Why do you stand so high?
Wrapped up like a doll in baggy jeans and broken arms Make these little shivers It's not too soon, it's not too soon
I watched you fall apart
What if I don't want to?
It doesn't matter.
Text!
I'm going to alter the jingle tonight to include people that wish to email the nation.
That's exciting.
As well as text them.
I might have to extend it though by a few extra bars to include that information.
Extend it a lot.
Make it ten minutes long.
Shall I make it the longest jingle?
We'll fill more of the show.
Hello this is BBC6 Music where Adam and Joe filling in for Shaun W Keeney.
It is now 9 26.
almost precisely we're going to wrap up our text the nation thing event not a competition here on the show we've had one or two more texts suggesting sort of unappreciated pleasures things that bring you happiness that you you want to alert other people to
So here we go.
Brian is saying the BBC3 TV show Pulling was amazing but I don't know anyone else who watched it.
Same goes for 15 stories high with Sean Lockwell.
I've heard a lot of people talk about 15 stories high.
15 stories high I've seen and I can confirm that it is amazing and it was one of those weird things that for whatever reason didn't connect and it was very strangely scheduled.
It's doing well on DVD I believe.
You can get the whole thing on DVD and it's got a really good reputation 15 stories high.
Brilliant.
Pulling I haven't seen but I do know an actress in it called Sharon Horgan who I think is maybe involved with writing it.
She's also in Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive and she's very talented and I'm sure it's an excellent show.
There we go Brian, well thanks for alerting us to that.
Here's another one from somebody, Rohan in Brighton.
He says in Britain, in Britain, Seinfeld is underappreciated.
Seinfeld.
Seinfeld.
That's how I'm saying it phonetically.
Seinfeld.
There's a sign next to a field.
Seinfeld.
Seinfeld.
And super furry animals should be as appreciated as Radiohead.
Consistently the most innovative and amazing British band.
I was talking to someone about this the other day.
And our theory was that maybe the reason super furries are not bigger is because they refuse to mine just one scene.
Do you know what I mean?
They're amazingly eclectic.
To be successful in Britain you just have to do one thing over and over and over and over until people get it.
That's our theory.
Yeah, absolutely.
Here's another one.
Underrated Pleasures.
Das Boot.
The German film.
It's very long.
That's a good one.
Who is that?
That's the guy that did Speed, isn't it?
That's Wolfgang Peterson.
Yeah, it is.
It's one of his first films, I think.
There we go.
So there we go.
Some very good underrated pleasures there to bring people happiness from unexpected places.
Thank you very much indeed for your texts and your emails.
And we'll be, you know, throwing open the doors tomorrow for another thing.
But it's news time now, is it?
No, of course it's not news time.
What is it time for then?
She's just pointing.
So what was all that kind of, wind it all up?
Lisa was like throwing her arms around going, come on, wind it, come on.
Quick, quick, quick.
All right, we're going to have some music.
Here is the salmon dance by the Chemical Brothers, but it's too late now.
Hello, boys and girls.
My name is Fat Lip, and this is my friend, Salmon is Salmon.
Today, we're going to teach you some fun facts about salmon and a brand new dance.
to you a brand new dance.
I know you're gonna love it if you give it one chance.
It's not complicated.
It's not too hard.
You don't even have to be a hip hop star.
See, anyone can do it.
All you need is style.
Listen up, peep gang.
I'ma show you how.
Put your hands to the side, as silly as it seems, and shake your body.
We change rats a couple of days after spawning, then we die.
When I first did the salmon, all the people just laughed.
They looked around and stood like I was on fire.
I heard somebody say out loud, what the fuck is that?
This dude been dancing like a fish while he's doing the snap.
by the end
by sense of smell, which is even more keen than that of a dog or a bear.
Wow.
Apologies to the chemical brothers.
We're going to have to cut them off short because it's news time here on 6music, read by Adrian and Joe.
Yeah.
Harvey and Joe.
Who knows some exciting combo of news type people.
Digital radio.
Digital TV.
BBC 6music.
US helicopter crashes in Iraq, biker murder arrests and the dinosaur sprinter.
And in Six Music news, Spectre won't testify.
Amy Paul's more dates and so do Interpol.
BBC Six Music.
It's just after 9.30.
I'm Harvey Cook.
We've been getting reports in the past half hour that 14 American soldiers have died in a helicopter crash in northern Iraq.
The US military says it looks like the Black Hawk suffered a mechanical failure.
Here, police investigating the murder of a biker on the M40 earlier this month, so they've made arrests.
Jerry Tobin, who was 35, was shot by a man in a car as he drove home from a biker's festival in Warwickshire, as a police news conference expected soon.
Also making six music news this morning, two men who murdered a police officer in Bradford two years ago have been charged with stabbing a fellow prisoner.
Yousuf Jama and Muzakar Imtiaz Shah are serving life for the murder of P.C.
Sharon Bergeneski during an armed robbery.
A survey has found that almost two-thirds of people would support a so-called pay-as-you-throw scheme for collecting their household waste.
The study by the local government association says the results lend support to calls to allow councils to charge people for how much waste they produced.
Ali Percy, who lives in West London, says it appears to be a fair idea.
If it's going to encourage people to think about what they're throwing away and encourage us to recycle more, we're obviously all producing too much waste.
So, yeah, I think it seems like quite a good idea.
The CIA has criticized its own leadership in the run-up to the 9-11 attacks.
An internal report by the agency has accused George Tenet, its director at the time, of failing to do enough to stop Al-Qaeda.
Researchers in Manchester have calculated the speed at which five two-legged dinosaurs were able to run using a new computer.
They say the comsognathus was the fastest sprinter at 40 miles per hour.
The giant Tyrannosaurus Rex was only able to run to more leisurely 18 miles an hour.
Dr. Bill Sullis was involved in the project.
What we've done is we've created computer simulations based on what we know about the anatomy of these animals because that's all the real evidence that we have.
So we've got very, very good skeletons and we know what the muscles were like.
And we create these simulations and then we get the computer to find
the best form of locomotion that it can for that particular morphology.
I don't know where they were.
If you're in London and the southeast today, you'll need your Brawley and your Mack.
It's going to be cool with showers, drier and brighter elsewhere, especially in the west, where actually it's going to be a pretty decent day.
So Devon and Cornwall, Wales and Northern Ireland, seeing plenty of sunshine.
Highs of 22 degrees in Manchester, 21 in Belfast and 18 in Norwich.
And improving for all of us for the weekend, though.
Yes, really.
Now it's music news, Joe York.
While a former love interest testified in Phil Spector's murder trial last night that he threatened her at gunpoint twice, the alleged incidents were about 10 years apart when she tried to leave his house, according to her, and are similar to those detailed by four other women called by the prosecution in the case.
She took the stand moments after Spector's lawyers announced he won't be testifying.
They should wrap up their defence this week.
Now, another day and more dates postponed by Amy Winehouse.
She was due to take her back to black album to the States in September, but has postponed her tour there until early next year.
Meantime here, the Carling Academy in Newcastle were left disappointed last night when New York Rockers Interpol failed to show.
But our bass player Carlos Dengler has fallen ill, but full replums will be valid for another show set to be announced later this week.
No word yet whether the rest of their UK dates or the Carling weekend slots will be affected this weekend.
If you fancy being taught music from Coldplay, Blur or Supergrass, they've all started giving online tutorials.
They're teaching people how to play their songs on a website that's called Now Play It.
You can download the lessons.
Atelier to run there as well.
Here's Joel from the band.
You know, we've picked songs that have been singles to say like Wires and then now Hurricane.
And yeah, just breaking it down so that, you know, I mean essentially those songs are, you know, quite simple.
That's 6 Music News, more at 10.30.
You got the world, boys, it's all you make it You have the joys that you wouldn't take Give me a whisk, Chuck, I'll give it the best for you And the years of my life, some they were so good But now when I gave them to you, I was a coward The holes in my soul, they tapped me for all these tears Well, I don't see it that way Away, away, what happened today?
The dancing world seemed really mean It meant something, boy, something's gonna change
Away, away, you've got to be safe But how do they know when you've never seen it?
And what will you do when they forget your name?
Will you ever get another one?
A place I know when I should live In this case I'd take up the den But I knew this place was never the place for me And all the years that rolled by your soul were so good But now I know that you were a gal With the holes in your soul, you tapped us for all these years No, you can't see it that way Away, away, what happened today?
The dancing words, they really mean a hell of a world Something's gonna change
Away, away, you got what they say How do they know when they never see you?
And what will you do when they forget your name?
Well, you're up again, I'm the one
away away
There you go.
That's very good, isn't it?
That's Deadwood by the Dirty Pretty Things.
Does that have any connection to the Stephen Frears film?
I suppose it must be... About hotel cleaners and organ smuggling.
Was that not an adaptation of a book?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm not sure that it was.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But yeah, they were christened.
The band was christened after that film came out.
Really?
Yeah, they certainly must have known about it.
Pop culture is a twisting labyrinth, isn't it, of words and references and one that we explore every morning here.
on BBC6 Music.
Listen, I'm becoming increasingly annoyed that I left the Green Man Festival because of the rain on Sunday morning.
Johnny has sent a very detailed email mocking me with what happened on the Sunday.
He says, Stephen Malkmus played no pavement tracks and all his songs went on far too long.
But at least he said that the V Festival was rubbish and he also said that Kasabian are awful to the utter disgust and uproar of four people.
in the crowd.
He also says that Monkey Swallows the Universe were one of my highlights of the entire weekend.
Are they a band you know, Adam?
I've heard of them, haven't heard their stuff.
Great name.
We should investigate them.
But thanks very much for that email, Johnny.
From a place what I can't pronounce.
What does that say?
Oh, I don't know.
Kirlion.
Kirlion?
Sure, I've never heard of Gere Leon.
But yeah, you wouldn't expect Malcolm Mustard to dip into the pavement basket just yet.
He's going through that phase that Frank Black went through, having left the Pixies before they reformed, where he wouldn't play any Pixies stuff and got very upset if anyone suggested... Are you like a music doctor?
Yeah.
Are you diagnosing the kind of stages of a condition?
Absolutely, yeah.
You're not so good at talking though, are you?
Not really.
No, I've entered that phase, like from nine o'clock to around... Ten?
Two in the afternoon.
Since getting up very early for these shows, I'm really in trouble.
Really?
You're doing well, man.
Listen, here's another email that has come from Eduards, which is spelt E-D-U-A-R-D-S.
He says, hi, Adam!
Hi, Joe!
I wonder, why don't you use background music when you talk?
That's an interesting question, Eduard.
Here in the radio business, we call them beds.
And we sometimes use beds.
We use beds at the beginning of the show.
Yeah, bring a bed in, Lisa, and we'll see what difference it makes.
See, there's a bit of a bed.
It makes our kind of dreary drivel sound a little more dynamic.
Purposeful, yeah.
Exactly, as if it's going somewhere, as if something's about to happen.
Whereas if we take the bed away, now it just becomes
a kind of airy uh desert a kind of massive empty room with a small child crying in the corner two small children and a cup of coffee falling in slow motion towards a tiled floor then smash it
Yeah, and now it's better, now it's like we're at a party and there's lots going on, we gotta go home soon and we got lots to talk about.
You see before I said, what was the phrase I used about tomorrow's text competition?
We'll be opening the doors to more things.
Something like that.
I think we'll be opening the doors to more things.
That was one of the phrases I came out with.
I come out with a lot of phrases like that, and when you've got a bed behind you, a phrase like that can slip by unnoticed.
All you care about is bed, isn't it?
I love that.
I wish I was.
Anyway, it's time for a track from our album of the day.
The album of the day is by the new pornographers.
It's called Challengers.
We'll chat about this track afterwards.
It's called Myriad Harbour.
I took a plane, I took a train Ah, who cares, you always end up in the city I said to Carl, look up for one And see just how the sun sets in the sky I said to John, do you think the girls here Ever wonder how they got so pretty?
All the boys with their homemade microphones Have very interesting sounds All the girls fall into ruin Dropping out of school Breaking daddy's heart Just to head around I walked into the local record store and
They taught my skills and stuck it on the walls
I took a plane, I took a train Who cares?
You always end up in the city Stranded at Bleecker and Broadway Looking for something to do Someone somewhere asked me Is there anything in particular I could help you with?
All I ever wanted help with was
Ah, that's a good classic ending to a track.
That's good, man.
Beginning, middle and an end.
What more can you ask for?
That's the new pornographers from their new album, Challengers.
That's a track called Myriad Harbour.
The new pornographers are an excellent proposition, let me tell you folks.
I think this is album number three?
No, it's the fourth album by the Canadian band.
Ah, there you go.
And it sounds like a peach.
I was listening to it yesterday for the first time.
It sounds very good, but all that stuff's excellent.
Well worth investigating.
I saw a great double bowl of them and a spoon.
I should shut up about spoon though, really shouldn't I?
Because I'm beginning to sound obsessed, but I sort of am.
and wow they were amazing.
Who, Spoon or the New Pornographers?
Both Spoon but the New Pornographers I was completely blown away by as well sounded really good and one of those bands that can actually you know cut the mustard live in a very impressive way and really sing.
Lots of good singers in that band.
Neko Case she is a singer and songwriter in her own right but she's also part of the New Pornographers and she's a great singer.
She's a great mustard cutter.
She loves cutting the mustard.
And that track that you just heard is going to be released as a single on the 1st of October and you can hear further tracks from the new Pornographers and from that album throughout the day here on BBC6 Music.
Now, what now?
Here's a trail.
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It has long been rumoured in showbiz circles that there was once a game of Top Trumps between Morrissey, Bruce Forsyth, Roland Ratt and Adolf Hitler.
Well, there was one other at the Green Bay's table that night.
None other than I, Harry Hill.
I have remained silent for too long and at last tell my story in the world premiere of my long-awaited concept album, the story of the first meeting of the International Recipe Card Top Trump Society.
On Six Music.
Bank Holiday Monday from 3.
watching me like you never watched no one don't tell me that you didn't try and check out my bum cause I know that you did cause your friend told me that you liked it gave me those pearls and I thought they were ugly don't you try and tell me that you never loved me I know that you did cause you said it and you wrote it down dancing at discos eating cheese on toast yeah you make me merry make me very very happy but you obviously you didn't wanna stick around
Dancing at discos, eating cheese on toast Yeah, you made me merry, made me very, very happy But you obviously, you didn't wanna stick around So I learnt from you Do, do, do, da-do, do Do, do, do, da-do, do Do, do, do, da-do, do Do, do, do, da-do, do
I can be alone, yeah I can watch a sunset on my own I can be alone, yeah I can watch a sunset on my own I can be alone I can watch a sunset on my own I can be alone, yeah I can watch a sunset on my own I can be alone, yeah I can watch a sunset on my own I can be alone I can watch a sunset on my own Sittin' in restaurants that we were so grown up But I know now that we were not the people That we turned out to be
Chatting on the phone, can't take back those hours But I won't regret, cause you can grow flowers From where the dirt used to be Dancing at discos, eating cheese on toast Yeah you made me merry, made me very very happy But you obviously, you didn't wanna stick around
Dancing at disco, eating cheese on toast Yeah, you made me merry, made me very, very happy But you obviously, you didn't want to stick around So I learnt from you Do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do Do, do, do, do, do, do
I can be alone, yeah, I can watch a sunset on my own I can be alone, yeah, I can watch a sunset on my own I can be alone, yeah, I can watch a sunset on my own I can be alone, yeah, I can watch a sunset on my own I can be alone, yeah, I can watch a sunset on my own I can be alone, yeah, I can watch a sunset on my own
No, we're gonna let the whole of this play out.
Every single doo-doo.
Surely the track kicks in again.
Shush, shush.
Da da da da da.
Do the, oh okay, let's finish it.
There's 50 seconds more of da da da.
Is there really?
Yeah.
I'm interested to see what she does, come on.
It's the slowest fade out in the history of music.
Lisa's fading it a little bit aren't you.
Wow, is this what the whole album's like?
So, uh, this is Kate Nash.
She's just making it up as she goes along there.
Was Mary happy?
Some people love the Nash.
Some people loathe the Nash.
But like it or not, we're playing the Nash.
She's sort of charming.
Did you see the video for her?
She was number one, wasn't she, with the first single?
Probably, probably.
It was quite a good video for her having a little Barney with her boyfriend there.
Is that not the video to this one?
Oh, I don't know, is it?
I'm confused.
You know, I'm not.
She's a very opinionated woman.
She's constantly arguing with boyfriends.
In fact, when you're her age, how old is she?
She's 18, 19, something like that.
She's eight years old.
She's eight years old.
That's all life's about.
The only reason you have a boyfriend is just to get angry with him and gossip and then and then giggle about it, right?
Is that condescending?
Because I intend it to be.
Good.
Well I think she's very good and you know there's certainly been worse movements in music than that kind of Lily Allen, Kate Nash type thing.
Who's the other one that completes that picture?
Kate, who would you lump in with that part?
The MySpace Trinity.
Well I suppose you wouldn't put that girl who was... I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair.
What was her name?
Oh, she was really dreadful.
Text us the name of the really dreadful flowers in your hair woman.
Text 64046CAKENASH over her any day of the week.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6Music.
It's just coming up to 7 minutes to 10.
This is the part of the show where our only listeners are the unemployed, prisoners or people who are being lazy at work.
And politicians.
Politicians or people who maybe work in convenience stores where they're allowed to choose what radio station they listen to.
Yeah, exactly.
If you're in a convenience store right now, then good morning.
Nice one.
And hey, those chocolate bars should be arranged better.
Exactly.
And put down that donut, you lardy.
now it's time for my free choice folks I've picked a track from the excellent midlake album this is an album that was in a lot of critics best of roundups last year but it certainly is good but it's it's like a weird
uh it's like a weird kind of sort i actually can't think with the with the rock and roll playing in my ear there there you go it's like a almost like a tribute to uh crosby stills and nash this album it's amazing and this track especially you'll know what i'm talking about but it's a lovely song it's called head home and it's by midlake
I think I'll head home Maybe I'll find them Gather round my doorstep Hold the sleep in the comfortable bed I think I'll head home Maybe I'll find them
The day must have all gone on without me again I think I'll head home I think I'll head home
It was all about the town and how it struggled still
that's mid lake with head home that's from their album the trials of van ocupantha very much worth investing in if you like that kind of summery west coast sound
We've been Adam and Joe on The Breakfast Show here on 6music.
We're just coming up to the end of our time.
We'll be back with you at 7am tomorrow morning.
All bright and bushy tailed, hopefully.
Gideon.
Yeah, come on.
No, I just wanted to say... Gideon.
Gideon.
Every now and again, I just say it.
Gideon.
Yeah, stick with 6music today.
Gideon Coe's coming up.
He's got the Glaswegian trio, the 1990s, playing live.
After that at one, it's Namone who's got Julian Clary coming in.
It's just non-stop goodness on 6music today.
Gideon.
Thanks for joining us, we'll see you tomorrow morning.
Cheers, bye!