By a jumbo chair, it wasn't easy, but nothing is no great.
When I'm feeling a little woo-hoo, and I'm feeling a little woo-hoo, well, I love it amazing.
It's not my problem
Yes, Blur with song two kicking off a beautiful bank holiday morning here on six music from the BBC.
This is Adam Buxton.
Hey, I'm Joe Cornish and we're delighted to be with you this morning for three hours of nostalgic fun.
Why?
Why, Joe?
Well, because, Adam, of the fact that it is a special day here on Six Music, it is what we're calling the class of 1997.
It's a special retro celebration of the year 1997, six years ago.
It was six whole years ago.
Six years.
That 1997 happened.
Actually, 10 years.
It was over 16 years ago.
16 years.
That this year happened.
And what a year it was.
We'll be talking about what a year it was and why it was.
Shall we give the listeners one retro factoid about 1997 just to get their brains in gear?
Filthy 1970s?
Yes.
Go on then.
On June the 30th, 1997, the first ever Harry Potter book was published.
I knew you were going to... Harry Potter.
Harry Potter.
Potter!
the beginning of the good times for joe cornish began 10 years ago can you believe the world has lived under the shadow of potter's robes for 10 whole years amazing how magical for it and uh we'll be thinking about all the other amazing things that began that wonderful year how the world was better and how the world was worse
ten years ago, and we're of course filling in for Sean Keveny.
If you've just switched on, if you didn't listen last week and you were expecting to hear Sean this morning, he's in Italy for another week.
Actually, he's not.
Where is he?
Because on the way home from the show on Friday, I popped into a newsagent on St Martin's Lane.
There he was.
And who should walk in but Sean W Keveny?
No.
Hello, Joe.
He'd come back from Italy, and he's heading to the Lake District, so he's in the Lake District now.
Oh, nice weather for him.
Yeah, yeah.
I said to him as I said goodbye, I said, hey, hey Sean, enjoy your last week of holiday.
And I thought I shouldn't have used the word last.
Ever.
Well, you know.
It sort of implies that he's going to die.
He just suddenly looked really depressed that he might have to get up again.
I know.
I've forgotten about the fact that... The early mornings.
It's strange in the West End this morning, folks, here in London town where we're doing the show from.
It's quite deserted.
It's a bit like 28 Days Later.
It's sort of... Deserted.
Yeah, deserted.
Yeah.
And with zombies in.
Does it, in fact,
Ironically, Adam, there are zombies in London today because they're trying to break the world zombie record in Leicester Square.
Are they?
They're having a shuffle.
I think it either starts or ends in Leicester Square, but they're having a zombie shuffle in London today.
A shuffle off?
As part of Fright Fest, the big horror festival that's happening in Leicester Square.
Nice.
So if you're in Leicester Square and you see some zombies, don't be alarmed.
They're just idiot horror film fans with a bit of makeup on.
Either that or it's just like a couple of girls that I saw wandering down Oxford Street.
They've just been clubbing and they haven't been to bed yet.
They looked so depressed.
I didn't want to be them at all.
It was one time I was very happy to be me.
Now, music time.
Here's the delightful baby shambles.
I've had a leaky cape, what's going like a good call?
Now, what use am I to anyone?
Well, I'm frozen beneath the sun I'm bouncing along where you get what I've got told Here comes the delivery Straight from the heart of my misery Here comes the delivery
I'm the leader of school on what's on earth Do you intend to do as good as you can?
Take the man, go downtown with all your skills and mods You get together, make pretend It's 1969 forever Ooh, I'm the girl, have a drink, have a dance and play This song of delivery To all the harshness and misery This song's a delivery
Check out my eyes and my mind
Baby shambles with delivery, this is Adam and Joe, BBC6 Music, filling in for Shaun W Keeney.
It's class of 1997 morning, a morning when we celebrate 1997 and all the wonderful music and movies and events and talkings and doings.
What happened then?
All the wonderful doings.
That's the thing I'm most excited about.
Do you remember all your doings from 1997?
I've kept them in a bucket.
Have you really?
That's great.
Music though, let's talk a little bit about the great music that was around in 1997.
97 was in many ways a vintage year, not only for movies which we'll be talking about later on, but certainly for music.
But to put things in context... For muses.
For what?
Movies and muses.
Yes.
Which combined is muses, yes.
Radiohead's OK Computer, I suppose, is the one that many people remember from that year.
It regularly tops the 100 greatest albums ever list.
Does it?
In many magazines, yes.
Does it top it?
It tops it.
I thought Marvin Gaye usually tops those lists.
No.
Marvin might pop up.
With what's going on?
No, no, no.
No?
Or the Beatles?
By no means.
No, Revolver used to hover around the top three, maybe still does in certain mags, but OK Computer I think probably on average has topped the most.
Do you think so?
Yeah.
You know what?
I haven't even got it.
Have you not?
No.
It's good.
Is it good?
It's really good.
I should get it.
Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys also is up there a lot.
Can I get it in a garage?
That's a good question.
I think you probably can't.
Are there only certain sorts of albums that are available in garages?
Mainly Roy Chubby Brown, Simply Red, Filthy, what's he called that comedian?
Uh, Bernard Manning?
No, no, not Filthy Frank Manning.
Um, who's the other guy?
Oh, uh, Kevin bloody... what's his name?
We don't know.
Kevin Bloody Wilson, he's called.
Is he?
Yeah.
I think he might be from Australia.
Anyway, back to the music of 97, one of the greatest albums, the most underrated albums as well, that I was going on about the other day came out that year.
Supergrass's second album, In It For The Money, that was fantastic.
And of course, The Verve dominated the charts with Bitter Sweet Symphony and their album, Urban Hymns.
But let me put all this in context by telling you about some of the records that were selling a lot in Australia that year.
Now, this... Why should we care about Australia?
Well, because it shows you what the rest of the world was listening to, you know?
OK.
And stops it being...
completely UK centric.
Good.
And it puts things in context because it reminds you of what else was out there that year for better or worse.
The top selling album in Australia and I believe in many other parts of the world was Savage Garden's Savage Garden.
Wow.
Do you remember Savage Garden?
Yeah I do.
It got a lot of play in the UK as well.
Well of course it did, it was very popular but it didn't top too many critical polls.
No, lead singer Darren Hayes, he's now solo isn't he?
Is that Darren Hayes?
Wasn't he the lead singer of Savage Garden?
Was he?
Lisa's not sure.
I think he was.
He's on the cover of Attitude magazine, isn't he, this month?
Probably.
Talking about the fact that Michael Jackson helped him come out of the closet.
Yeah.
Right.
And he's all dressed up like all four members of Kraftwerk on the cover of Man Machine.
Other top albums in Australia in 1997, The Wiggles soundtrack.
The Wiggles.
Yeah, they were way ahead of the pack.
The Wiggles, of course, is an amazing kids TV program that hails from Australia.
And the soundtrack from that groundbreaking program was a big seller in Australia in 1997.
Tango by Julio Iglesias.
Ah, that was the number 98 top seller.
And of course, who could forget Grinspoon's Guide to Better Living by Grinspoon.
That came out that year.
They're very big in Australia.
As well as Unit by Regurgitator.
Now if you'd like to text us with your memories of 1997, amazing things that happened to you or happened in your life in 1997, go ahead and text 64046 or you can email adamandjoe.sixmusic at bbc.co.uk.
A band that popped up for the first time I think in 1997
Who went on to become one of my favorites Joe?
Can you imagine how exciting that must have been for them to?
Become one of my very exciting and it was all ahead of them Then it was eels with novocaine for the soul the class of 97 on six music
Life is hard and so am I You better give me something so I don't die I'm the king for the storm Before I sputter out Before I sputter out Life is white
Before I spread her out Before I spread her out
Springbond numbers love is full of my head
It feels good And I feel great Cause mother says I was A great mistake Lubricate Before the sun You better give me something To fill the hole Before I start around
Adam and Jones on 6music.
Long legs don't give me no head rush in the morning Oh, baby too bad, too bad I don't think I'll ever see your face again Oh, and I don't wanna lose your love
But I don't want to choose just one I'll be having too much fun Always bad, too bad I don't think I'll ever see your face again Oh baby, baby, I'll beg, I'll beg Cause I found it, but I don't know what it is
Oh, and I don't wanna lose you much But I don't wanna choose just one Oh, I'll be having too much fun
And I don't wanna lose you but Oh, but I don't wanna choose just one Oh, I'll be having too much fun Oh, but it's gone Long legs don't give me no head rushin'
Baby, baby, I'll beg, I'll beg Cause you're leaving and I won't know how it ends Oh, and I don't wanna lose you much But I don't wanna choose just one No, I'll be having too much fun
And I don't wanna lose your love But I don't wanna choose just one No, and I don't wanna lose your love
I'll be scorned
The Restaurant on BBC Two.
I am chef and restauranteur Raymond Blanc.
And on Wednesday night, you're invited to join me for the opening of The Restaurant.
There's lots of big egos, lots of personalities in the kitchen.
Nine couples compete to win their dream restaurant, backed by me.
I'm just petrified.
It's going to get messy.
You need to check in the kitchen.
Thanks, Laura.
That's really helpful, yeah.
And messier.
It's lovely in here.
Come on, why are people not coming?
And even perhaps messier still.
is to do with me finally finding someone that I can trust.
The restaurant starts Wednesday night from 8 on BBC Two.
That sounds like an Aardman animation.
That's serious, doesn't it?
I just pictured all those people in plasticine.
There's big dogs and rabbits.
No, it don't work.
Nobody come in.
And you're well when you're on the restaurant.
I wish that was an Aardman animation.
That sounds ridiculous.
Well done, BBC Two.
I finally found someone I can trust.
Oh, I'm looking forward to hearing that again.
We are just rats.
It is our job to live- It's Ratatouille.
It is.
We live in the restaurant.
We cannot go outside.
We will be killed by the humans.
Have you seen Ratatouille, Adam?
Not yet.
Looking forward to it.
I saw Ratatouille.
Two thumbs up.
Yeah, Two Thumbs Up was very good.
Ratatouille's the new Pixar animation listeners.
Is it Pixar?
Better or worse than Flushed Away?
Oh, well, Flushed Away isn't Pixar.
No, I'm just saying.
I haven't seen Flushed Away.
Maybe not.
But there's a reason I didn't see it.
Yeah.
Because I didn't think it looked very nice.
Because it deserved to be Flushed Away.
I don't like films generally set in toilet bowls.
It's not my number one location for a comedy adventure.
Well, there's a very funny scene in Flushed Away where their rats are swimming along in the sewer and what appears to be a giant pop suddenly floats to the top of this little river that they're swimming along.
But it's OK.
It turns out to be just a chocolate bar.
Oh, what a relief!
That's the same joke as Kevin and Barry, is that?
I don't know, someone's done that joke before.
Probably.
And I went to see that film with my son and I thought, is this as good as this film gets?
And it turned out that it was almost yes.
That was the best bit!
I'm excited about Ratatouille though, better or worse than Cars.
Um, about the same, I'd say.
About the same.
Yeah, it has certain conceptual issues.
Right.
Similar to cars.
Not an entirely successful or convincing world.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Some difficult blending of the human mouse world or whatever.
Some leaps of, some suspensions of disbelief required.
Yeah.
E.g.
cars talk and live in their own world.
Yeah.
On a similar sort of level, you know?
Mm-hmm.
Required for Ratatouille.
Does that sentence make any sense?
There are about three parenthesis in there.
Parenthesi.
Yeah, yeah.
So it's not entirely realistic, is that what you're saying?
Yeah, the rats can talk!
They can talk!
No, but you know what I mean?
It's just, oh, I don't know.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
This is Adam and Joe on 6music.
Don't forget you can text us, 64046.
It's possible that because it's a bank holiday Monday and the majority of people in England are in bed, even though we know that it's not a bank holiday in Scotland, we're not entirely sure about Wales.
If you live in Wales, give us a text, tell us whether you've got a bank holiday there or not.
But it's possible that we may not be getting that many texts.
It's not definite, we may be getting thousands of texts, but it's possible that we've only got three so far.
Prove us wrong, text us in anyway.
Now it's time for the first of our session picks from the Peel archives.
What have you gone for later on, Joe?
Hey, later on I'm going for some musical youth.
Musical youth?
Good choice.
Well, I'm going for a band that we kind of fell in love with in 1997.
In fact, we did a little piece for the Adam and Joe show with them.
And they're from Wales.
They're called Gorky Zygotic Monkey.
And this was a peel session they did back in actually it was before 90.
Was it really 93?
They did this.
Surely not.
Right.
OK, there you go.
I'm amazed at that.
1993.
Okay, there you go.
But this is a track from that session called... Wow, you're good with Welsh.
It's good, isn't it?
All the Welsh people will be impressed by that.
And it translates as girls doing each other's hair.
Enjoy!
Adam's pick of the BBC archive.
Why is that, Johnny?
What you
There's again no need to worry Why is it, Johnny?
Cause we Ain't got school in the morning, baby No, no, no Ain't got school in the morning, baby No, no, no Ain't got school in the morning Well, you can try, try, try Baby, cry, cry, cry But what you'll ever know
Cause we ain't got school in the morning, baby No, no, no, no Ain't got school in the morning, baby No, no, no, no Ain't got school in the morning Well, you can cry, cry, cry Baby, try, try, try But won't you ever know
Merchant in New Guata Gilead by Gorky zygotic monkey and that was from the John Peel session from 1993 this is Adam and Joe here filling in for Sean Keveney on BBC six music the home of sixes and music and we're broadcasting live from the centre of London town from the big British castle
Yeah, now we recommend Gorky's Zygotic Monkey a lot.
If you've never heard of them, you should really investigate their albums.
I think they're being re-released at the moment.
You should also investigate the solo albums of lead singer Eiros Childs.
He's got two solo albums and a third one about to come out in the next couple of weeks.
Which is brilliant.
The Miracle Inn, I listened to it the other day.
Did you?
Where did you get it from?
Sneaky preview copy.
How dare you?
And it's really fantastic.
Absolutely great.
I'm looking forward to that very much.
I recommend it strongly.
In 1993, they must have been in their late teens when they recorded that session.
Maybe not even, maybe like 17 and stuff on their first album, Patio.
There's some amazingly sweet pictures of them and they're like about 14, 15.
They used to just set up in their bedroom and play their stuff and it was all very much homemade.
That was one of the reasons we liked them.
yeah their very first album uh has a bit where their dad tells them to turn it down yeah i'll bring that in maybe tomorrow as well it's it's really funny you're playing it's too loud bass sounds travel i've told you before it does not need to be that loud it's really good uh okay it's uh news time soon but first here's gossip with jealous girls
You said you'd miss.
It's killing me.
I can't believe it's over.
Oh, oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh.
You're not the enemy.
You're not the enemy, but underneath You don't agree, take comfort that it's over There's an urgency
We'll get you anything that you love
Gossip with jealous girls, this is element joe on BBC6 music.
It's time for the news with yo lad.
Digital radio.
Digital TV.
BBC Six Music.
Six released in Reece's murder case, fires still raging in Greece, and Camilla's memorial move welcomed.
BBC Six Music.
It's 7.30, I'm Yolande Nel.
Police in Liverpool have released all six teenagers who have been questioned in connection with the murder of 11-year-old Reece Jones.
Four were released without charge.
Two others were granted police bail.
Reece was shot in a pub car park last Wednesday.
Our reporter Nick Garnett says detectives still have other lines of inquiry.
There are seven CCTV cameras on the pub itself, all with a very good view of what happened and the police are studying those images, they've enhanced them and they're hoping that they have got a very good view of the killer.
More than 60 people are now known to have died in the forest fires sweeping through Greece.
The fires have reached Olympia, but officials say the historic site is safe.
MP Liana Canelli says arsonists are mostly to blame.
We have fires in the middle of the night, 3 o'clock in the morning, 11 o'clock at night, where no heat, no sun.
in places that is practically impossible.
In other Six Music News, friends of Princess Diana have been expressing their approval of the decision by the Duchess of Cornwall not to attend the service marking the 10th anniversary of her death.
She'd been invited along by Princes William and Harry.
Most people in England and Wales have problems finding reliable connecting services on public transport.
That's according to a study by the group Transport 2000.
It also says most people think there should be more provision for cyclists using public transport.
The first flight in a low-cost charter operation organized by the Vatican will take off from Rome today.
It's taking pilgrims to Lourdes in southern France.
And two million people are expected to attend the final day of the Notting Hill Carnival.
Police made a total of 57 arrests yesterday.
Today's main parade will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the end of the British slave trade.
The weather, clouds and showers over Scotland and Northern England, cloudy over Northern Ireland, England and Wales dry and sunny at first, but cloudy later.
That's Six Music News, more in an hour.
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Find out whether Mercury nominee, Fionn Regan, will be backing himself to scoop the gong.
And join us for a trip to Leeds as we get the skinny on the city's music scene.
The Music Week podcast, this week's music news in a lovely, bite-sized chunk.
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When you cast your eyes upon the skylines of this,
What's a proud nation?
Can you sense the fear and the hatred growing in the hearts of this population?
And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced by the greedy hands of politics And half the truth, the beaten generation
The beaten generation, reared on a dice Of prejudice and misinformation The beaten generation, the beaten generation Open your eyes, open your imagination
We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes and hypnotized by the satellites.
Isn't you believing what is good there, what is right?
You may be worshipping the temples of man, or lost in the prisons of religion, but can you still walk back to happiness when you've nowhere left to roam?
The beaten generation, the beaten generation,
The beaten generation The beaten generation Open your eyes Open your imagination
They'll send in the special police To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace They'll make the bridge set ill upon their tongues When they tell us justice is being done The freedom lives in the barrels of a war gun The beating generation
Reared on a diet of prejudice and misinformation The beaten generation The beaten generation Open your eyes Open your imagination
That's the the.
Yeah.
From 1989.
He tricked me.
Matt Johnson tricked you.
Damn you.
That was the beat, brackets, un generation.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 music.
Good morning.
What a beautiful morning it is.
I think all over Britain it's amazingly sunny and lovely.
Imagine all the stuff people can be getting up to today.
Putting on their little shorties and their sandals, taking a frisbee and a bucket of
lard lard and going to the beach covering themselves in the lard and lying outside in the sun gently cooking but you know what it probably is going to be today what bank holiday hell why because it always is in england road chaos road chaos bank holiday hell if you're thinking of leaving the house don't bother it's hell on the road it's the wrong kind of heat the trains grind to a halt
Scorching temperatures made bank holiday a misery for millions of holiday makers in Britain today.
Thousands of festival goers in Notting Hill stabbed each other in an orgy of violence never before seen on the streets of the UK.
Motorways were totally clotted with cars, clark hots north and south of Britain.
Holiday makers keen to eat ice creams were poisoned in their thousands by toxic ice cream lollies.
Yes, by Britain.
There we go, holiday hell, stay in bed, close the curtains, get under a desk, spend the whole of your bank holiday there.
Because it's Britain.
It's Britain.
That's the end of that, Link.
This is Adam and Joe, incidentally.
We're broadcasting live from the big British castle, and it's now time for Joe's breakfast single of the week.
This is exciting.
Is there a jingle for this?
Lisa, the producer?
No jingle.
OK, so the deal with this, listeners, is each week Adam and I get to choose a single from the current sort of list of releases, right?
And it gets played every day.
Every day.
Last week.
Here on our show.
We had Spoons, The Underdog, which we played every day, and it was a delight to hear it.
And it's had a massive effect on Spoons' sales, hasn't it, playing it last week?
They're now the biggest band in the world.
Really?
So a similar thing is going to happen to my chosen artist this week, and my chosen artist is King Creosote.
And the single of the week this week is called You've No Clue, Do You?
What?
You've No Clue, Do You?
Is it really that?
Rather than You Do?
You've no clue, do you?
Yeah, exactly.
There you go.
And it's taken from his forthcoming album, Bombshell.
I saw him playing live at the Green Man the other weekend, and he was fantastic.
Right.
Yeah, he's got a lovely sound, lovely voice, lovely hair.
Has he?
Yeah, really shiny, and a lovely texture.
Well-conditioned.
Really, it's like he's just stepped out of a salon.
Brilliant job.
So here we go.
This is Krink.
Oh, dear me.
Here we go.
This is King Creosote with You've No Clue, Do You?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
As with all your rules of thumb This one comes with an end
There's few good moves in there for some
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
Library-led pipe, Professor Plumb There's yet another wrong guest Watch real close where others mark their
The night that piqued the interest Of a cheat, of a lie, of a scumbag That's that of my child
You take a tan mustard as a seed, so I'll wash the tan with cream.
Yes, his peacock is a ready feather and sky.
Yes, his white is no more scared of his flower and sky.
Yes, scarlet doesn't bite us too hard, he beats my eye.
So what have you created?
How fast can you overcome?
Propose pronouns in the strong
King Creosote with You've No Clue Do You and that's my single of the week.
You'll be hearing that every day here on the Adam and Joe Breakfast Show on BBC6Music.
I just called it the Adam and Joe Breakfast Show.
How exciting.
How easily you can slip in to... To Sean W Keaveny's early morning slot.
That was taken from Kring... dear me I cannot speak today.
King Creosote's forthcoming album Bombshell.
yeah I've set myself kind of a challenge for the week ahead by choosing that single because it's a bit of a tongue twister right isn't it well it's difficult because it's got no question mark at the end of it on our statement so it looks like a strange statement you've no clue do you
But actually, you've no clue, do you?
His new album's released on September the 10th.
It's easy to say.
But his previous album, King Creosote Rules OK, KC Rules OK, is fantastic.
Where are they from, King Creosote?
I don't know.
okay i love it though have a think about that uh this is adam and joe on bbc6 music it's a special uh class of 97 morning this morning we're uh going on a kind of a retro trip down memory lane to 10 years ago 1997 the year that the rapper the notorious big was killed in a drive-by shooting i don't think they found it who done it yet
Have they still not found out who done it?
I don't think they've found out who done it.
There you go.
Nick Broomfield tried to find out.
He couldn't.
No.
And he's the Columbo of the documentary world, so if he can't find out, who can?
If Broomfield doesn't know, forget about it.
No one's ever going to find out.
The Nintendo 64 was released in Europe and Australia.
That was your favourite console, wasn't it?
That was my first ever video game console I ever bought.
I'll have you know, Adam Buxton.
Was it?
What had you done for video games before then?
Well, we used to rent them, didn't we, from that place in Lavender Hill?
Oh, yeah.
We rented a SNES once, and I used to borrow Zaks.
Do you recall that we had a little argument about the Nintendo 64?
No.
One time we had an argument about whether PlayStation was better than something.
Oh, I do, I do, yeah, I do.
And me and Joe, one day when we were making our program, and we were a little tired and emotional, we got interviewed for a magazine, I was reading this in my diary yesterday, I was going through it for Memories of 97, and the subject of video games
Came up in this interview and we had a little Contra Tom about whether the N64 was better than the PlayStation.
Maybe we'll have it again.
And I was saying everybody likes PlayStation better Tomb Raider.
That's a massive game.
What's on the N64 and Joe got furious.
Well I was furious listeners because, you know, Super Mario World was on the N64.
It was the first ever 3D game and I just wanted Adam to realise that this was a massive step forward in video game technology, 3D realms.
Now he probably realises he was wrong.
In retrospect he realises that Tomb Raider
was kind of mainstream rubbish.
Yeah.
Listen, of course you were right, man.
Thanks, man.
It was one of the most important arguments that two grown-up men have ever had.
And I'm glad we had it.
But right now, is it time for Joe's session track?
No.
Oh, it's time for PJ Harvey.
No.
What time is it for then?
It's time for a trail.
It's 8.45.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music.
Here is the trail.
BBC6.
The year 1997.
A conquering hero was greeted as if he brought back the World Cup.
From the memorable.
Just accepted the majesty of the Queen's fine offer to form a new administration of government in this country.
To the forgettable.
Katrina and the wave, wanted for the United Kingdom.
We celebrate the best music of the year.
Join us for the class of 97, throughout today.
On 6music.
The ceiling is moving
But conscious of nothing, but the will to survive I lay on the bed, waist down undressed, look up at the ceiling
Kindness The woman beside me Is holding my hand I point at the ceiling She smiles so kind Something's inside me
Disappears in the ether This world to the next Disappears in the ether The world to the next
I feel so old.
It's okay, don't worry man.
That was PJ Harvey with When Under Ether.
Why are you depressed, man?
Not really.
Well, why are you having a little... Because she was being all emotional.
Oh.
I don't know.
Just a lot of tension built up over the last few days.
Yeah.
You know, early mornings.
Sure.
It's just suddenly PJ Harvey, she flicked some kind of a switch.
Oh, and it all popped out.
Hey, it's okay.
Hey, listeners.
It's why I'm only pretending.
Are you?
I don't understand, are you pretending or are you really sad?
Who knows, that's why I'm such a successful actor.
Listeners, now listen listeners, we'd like you to text us 64046 because we're not sure whether it's a bank holiday in Scotland or not.
There's a lot of disagreement, Jo's girlfriend Annabelle who is Scottish, or was Scottish before I beat it out of her, assured Jo that it was not.
Did she say it was or it wasn't?
No she said it was not.
She said it was not a bank holiday in Scotland and here's a text from Liz in Edinburgh who says after we said that it wasn't a bank holiday in Scotland she texted in saying oh no I was adamant it was a bank holiday in Scotland too I convinced my friend who's a teacher in Scotland she's having a lie-in and I've prevented children from learning things hehehe
lives in Edinburgh.
So, you know, this is having an impact on children around the nation.
It's very important that we have a definitive answer to whether it's a bank holiday in Scotland or not.
As far as we know, it is one in Wales.
Right.
But but text us as soon as you possibly can.
This is a sort of a minor national emergency.
It's an emergency, you know, because if the big British castle is giving out incorrect facts about that could be curtains for us.
curtains not only for us but for all listeners of this show and the BBC in general.
It's like foot and mouth.
Everyone might have to be culled.
That's right.
Everyone who's listened to the show has been contaminated with BS.
And they'll gather us all up in a field and they'll... Government will come around with trucks, we'll be put on the back and then they'll set fire to the lot of us.
That'll be it, because of the incorrect facts being given out.
Or possibly not, you never know, but it's not worth taking the risk.
Listen, it's time for my archive session track, Joe's archive session track.
We, Adam and I, have been rifling through the BBC 6 Music Peel sessions and sort of picked out our favourite things.
I'm going to go back all the way to 82.
Yeah.
To the top reggae band in the country.
What a year.
What a year.
But we can't talk too much about 82 because it's 97 this morning.
Sure.
But the top reggae band in the country were of course musical youth.
That's right and they popped in to the BBC studios to do a session.
The frustrating thing about some of these Peel sessions is you get excited about the band and you're going to hear some of their classic tracks and then when you actually get the CD they don't play any of their hits.
Right.
They play a lot of kind of obscure tracks.
This is the case with musical youth.
I wouldn't have thought they had any obscure tracks.
Which one were you hoping that they would play?
You know, the Pass the Duchy.
Pass the Duchy?
Come on, I'm only human.
They had a couple of great ones though.
I mean, they covered Desmond Decker's... We went downtown to buy a little bike, but when Miss Order priced me nearly, I'd lose my sight.
That one.
The Youth of Today, is that the one?
The Youth of Today, exactly.
And what was the one about a girl?
There was a brilliant one.
Never Gonna Give You Up.
What's that?
I mean, they're all sort of covers of classic reggae tracks, aren't they?
Is that album still available, that album?
I don't know.
I've got it on 12-inch.
Right.
I think I stole it maybe from you.
No, I don't think you did.
Maybe I bought it secondhand.
You were ahead of the curve on that one.
It's a great album.
It really is.
It's got a terrific comic strip on the inside.
It might have been re-released recently.
I hope so, because it is an absolute peach.
But here's a track from that session back in 1982.
This is Musical Youth with Young Generation.
Jo's pick of the BBC archive.
I want to make your sister understand
We come from a nation We come from a nation
Me granny and shit, I'll slip this Me have a hoe and granny and shit, I'll slip this Me care about what Dr. Fico get better Me care about what Dr. Fico get better Me doctor tell me granny finna take too much risk Me doctor tell me granny finna take too much risk And your slip this will get better And your slip this will get better Come and say young gender wish I could be my shop
Searching to find some peace and rest And after that they come and finish Me say we carry rest of your money, we carry sleep this I tell you it be like we have a feel alright We carry rest of your money, we carry sleep this I tell you it be like we have a feel alright Stay young, then I wish I could finish up the nation Young, then I wish I could finish up the nation We could finish up the nation
Yeah, nobody says BIM.
Quite like him.
BIM!
Was it called Kelvin?
I think so, yeah.
Kelvin McKenzie.
He edited The Sun for a while.
This is Adam and Joel on BBC6 Music.
That was Musical Youth from 1982 from a Peel session.
Sounding brilliant.
Adam?
Yes.
Can you just burn that off, that Peel session, onto your laptop?
Yeah, go on.
Because I haven't got my laptop and then you can run me off a copy.
Is the second CD there?
Will do.
Are we allowed to burn the Peel Sessions off?
Not really, don't worry no one will know.
That's great though.
That was amazing.
Now did Musical Youth play their own instruments or were there sort of top of the range session musicians bought in?
As far as I know they played their own, they were very accomplished musicians.
Because it's a Pete Waterman production right?
No.
I think yeah I think Pete Waterman was behind Musical Youth.
I think you'll find we better do some fact checking on that.
That was pre...
If you can help us, 64046.
In those days, what was Waterman up to in those days?
Was he not part of Art of Noise or something?
No.
No, I don't know.
I'm confused.
But I would be very surprised if Waterman had his filthy fingers all over musical.io.
We'll find out.
It's somebody like that.
It's someone who you would be surprised to hear.
But anyway, that was all the way back from 1982.
Now, the is it or is it not a bank holiday in Scotland controversy is raging on our text board.
You would have thought it would be something that would be easy to clear up.
But apparently not, no.
But the people of Scotland themselves are confused about whether or not it's a bank holiday.
We've had a text reading, it's definitely not a bank holiday in Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales only.
Yeah, does that make sense?
Yeah.
That's from Gail.
That's crystal clear.
And now Sarah in Edinburgh, she queers the pitch.
Nice.
Is that a phrase I can use?
Certainly.
By saying some places don't take the bank holiday in Edinburgh, so we can take a local holiday in mid-September.
Banks are shut though.
Well, that doesn't make any sense, Sarah.
Take the bank holiday?
Makes it sound like it's a sort of after eight mint or something.
A delicious glass of holiday tea.
But how can it... It's not just a voluntary thing, though.
You can't sort of go, listen, I'm taking the bank holiday this morning.
I won't be coming into the surgery.
Fed up in Glasgow says it's not a bank holiday here.
And then Alan Dickerth says, Adam and Jo, there is a bank holiday in Scotland today.
what so it's west terribly confused it's not from scotland it's great authority no it's me that's a scottish name yes yes great authority and the cost means ellen from scotland but he has moved to france he does not know about the bank holiday where are we gonna get
Where are we going to find an authoritative source of information?
The texts contradict each other.
The internet is a tissue of lies.
The internet is a tissue of lies.
You know, you can't believe anything you read on the internet.
No.
Can't believe what you read in the papers.
No.
In modern Britain, there isn't such a thing as a fact anymore.
Who do you trust above anyone in the public eye?
Who do you trust?
Who do you trust?
A policeman?
No.
No.
No, I'm asking you to punish.
Jordan Brown?
No, he's obsessed with spin.
Is he?
Well, that's what I've read.
Who do I trust, Joe Cornish?
My mum and my dad.
Ask them then.
Mmm, they might not be awake.
Come on, they're bound to be awake, they're hardworking people.
Mummy, daddy, that's what I call them.
Can you text on 64046 and tell, I think they listen, so they should be listening.
Right.
Just tell us whether it's a holiday in Scotland, authoritatively please, because if I can't trust you, who can we trust?
Exactly.
Now here's the DJ of Shadows with a track called High Noon.
The class of 97.
On sixth music.
You will hear my heart and the circuit of good.
BBC 6 Music.
BBC 6 Music.
Closer to the music that matters.
But it's gonna rain again today There's a devil at your side But an angel on her way Someone hit the line Cause there's more here to be seen When you caught my eye I saw every
That's how you'll leave With hope in your hands A net of grace
I won't disappoint you as you fall apart Some things should be simple, even an end has a start Someone hit the line, cause there's more here to be seen When you caught my eye, I saw everyone
On your own That's how you live
On your own, that's how you live With hope in your hands, never breathe You'll lose everything
That's editors with an end has a start.
Think about that for a second.
He's got a very authoritative voice, that guy, doesn't he?
He certainly does.
He came on the road.
Yes, he does.
That's how you'll live.
And that's probably how he talks normally as well, just even if he's being offered a cake.
Would you like a cake?
Yes, I would, thanks, but not that slice.
Somebody's touched it.
OK, I'll get you something else.
Are you all right for tea there?
I do not like tea.
That's what he's like, probably.
Do you know in the future, he is gonna be reading the news?
Is he?
In fact he'll be singing it, because in the future young people won't care about the news unless it's sung for them by a bloke like that in a grey shirt.
That's an absolutely correct fact.
And he will be in charge of the more serious news.
That's right.
Yeah, like worrying stuff, you know, political global turmoil.
And now over to Tommy from Editors for serious news.
Yeah.
Other bands will do the more lighthearted news like Jamiroquai will do the travel news for instance.
Yeah.
Anyway.
And Lily Allen she'll do the kind of celebrity news.
She'll do local news.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like yeah like street markets and that sort of business and what the latest secondhand stores are.
Where she's bought some little buttons.
La la la la buttons.
And Kate Nash will do the weather.
Yeah, no she'll clean the studio.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6Music.
It's class of 1997.
We're going on a fantastic trip down memory lane.
Everyone's favourite lane to 1997.
ten years ago I love memory lane can you remember what a year it was a momentous year in many ways for world events that year of course Bill Clinton yeah sexy president the president one looks back on now and thinks hey those were the days we had it good with Bill yeah he started his second term as president of the United States of course all the scandals the moniker gates the Lewinsky cigar world was all ahead of him and he started as president in 97 did he
No, no, second term.
Second term.
And now you look back and you think, wow, why did we squander the good times that we had with Bill just because he got it together with that slightly roby woman?
Well, there was a similar situation here in the UK because of course 1997 was the year that we elected Tony B. Liar into the government.
Little did we know that he was pure evil.
He was a nugget.
That's not true.
We have to be balanced here on the BBC.
He was wicked.
And he made a lot of very, very good decisions.
I think he was wicked.
Joe believes he was evil.
These aren't our opinions, listeners.
We're merely refracting.
We're not even reflecting.
We're refracting some of the opinions out there.
That's true.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Through a little reflective, refractive glance.
Refractive.
But yeah, wow, it was exciting.
We thought the world's gonna change.
Tony B's gonna come and he's gonna sort it all out.
Sort it all out.
He sorted some of it out.
Yeah, he did.
But he made a bit of a mess of other bits.
Sorted out of Northern Ireland but the rest of it he's slightly ruined.
And speaking of which, it was already bubbling away in Iraq.
September the 25th.
The UNSCOM inspector Dr. Diane Seaman, saying nothing, catches several Iraqi men sneaking out the back door of an inspection site.
Sounds like the beginning of an erotic story in some political gentleman's magazine.
But it couldn't have been further from that.
She caught them sneaking out of the back door of an inspection site with log books for the creation of prohibited bacteria and chemicals.
Still quite erotic to me.
That whole miserable fart storm was brewing away there you see, back in 1997, September the 25th, the Iraq disarmament crisis.
But do you remember this hit record from 1997?
Nice!
Yeah.
And this is Blue Boy.
Now, we were just playing a little snatch of this to remind ourselves.
This was one of the dancey tracks because it was quite a rocky year in the charts there.
You know, you had Blur and you had Radiohead and The Verve and stuff.
It was mainly about guitars and
and white men, you know, with angst problems.
But here was a little dancing number from Blue Boy and a lady, she was angry about the fact that she'd had a baby and the person involved didn't remember.
Let's listen to her complaints.
The class of 97.
On six music.
there we are from 1997 that's blue boy with remember me there's a couple of different theories we've got in the studio about what's going on in that track there I was thinking actually listening back to it again maybe she's saying hey remember me I'm the one who had your baby's size she works in a in like baby or whatever in mother
In mother care, and someone, it's, and she's... It's an unusually shaped baby.
That's right.
And it's like the dad's come in, or what, or the mum's come in a couple of months later, and she's like, hello, it's me, do you remember me?
I'm the one who had your baby's size.
You were looking for it, it was an unusually large baby, and I went down to the stockroom and I found it, I found that little baby grow for you.
DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING
Or alternatively, she's saying, remember me, I'm the one who has your baby's eyes, right?
Suggesting that she's the mother of the baby.
Right.
And then she says, ginga ginga ginga ginga ginga ginga, suggesting that she's red haired as well as well as the baby.
Oh yeah, exactly.
I'm the ginga ginga ginga ginga ginga ginga ginga ginga.
Is that possible?
No, sure.
Unless she died.
Hey, it's in the past.
It's 10 years in the past.
Nobody cares anymore.
That's Blue Boy with Remember Me.
Now we're asking you listeners to text in your reminiscences of the year 1997.
We want to know what you were up to.
If something momentous happened in your life, if maybe your favourite film came out, if your favourite album came out, what significant happened to you in 1997?
We're very, very keen to know here at the big British castle.
Once again, we're collating these facts for an important national database that'll survive throughout history, similar to the Doomsday Book.
We might even be able to play our Text-A-Nation jingle, mind we?
Yeah.
I think that perhaps after this next track by Kandy Payne, and I think we should maybe chat about some of the great movies that came out that year, because wow, it was certainly a year for films.
That's enough man, just because wow.
Oh, good point.
Because wow.
BBC Six Music.
It has long been rumoured in showbiz circles that there was once a game of Top Trumps between Morrissey, Bruce Forsythe, 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 sixth music this afternoon from Three.
That's a special AKA.
also known as the specials I guess with too much too young and he's pouring scorn there on the notion of eating current buns for tea well it's a stupid thing to do you know he's correct and he's saying I'm glad I'm not you you're probably chained to the sink having car rent buns for tea you idiot
You know, and I've reached the stage in my life where I look forward to being chained to the sink eating current buns for tea.
What does that say about me?
It's a sort of sort of family version of the film Black Snake Moan.
That's true, isn't it?
You know, that's not a bad film.
Oh, yeah.
I enjoyed it.
You're crazy for current buns and it has to be bluesed out of you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
By changing you to the sink and singing you songs about the joys of fruit or something like that.
anyone I'm the only person who's seen that film aren't I quite good Sam Jackson's good yeah this is Adam and Joe this is BBC six music just before we move on to your texts and emails about 1997 let's just put this whole Scottish bank holiday thing to rest because my mummy has texted in thanks mummy
She's been on the internet and she says that... I thought we agreed that the internet is a tissue of lies.
She says, hello Joe, we're awake and listening and enjoying the show.
Look, Scottish Bank holiday up on the internet.
It's not a holiday in Scotland but it is one in Wales.
Right.
So as far as I'm concerned, my parents are, you know,
sources of all truth and justice in the world that's true and you know I think it is true because we've had another very informed email in from a gentleman saying that in Scotland the banks themselves are on holiday but people aren't.
But individual Scottish towns may have a holiday because different towns have different holidays.
That's the worst of both worlds though isn't it?
It's brilliant man.
Everybody has to go to work and yet the banks are closed so like the banks are rubbing your face in it
We're on holiday.
You're at work.
You know the best the optimum scenario would be that everyone's on holiday and the banks are open so that you can go and you can withdraw lots of money and spend it on toffee.
Do you think it's the case that if you if you go and look through the window of a bank in Scotland you can see the staff in their knickers with having a party?
Probably yes I would say yes in the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Making rude gestures at the window to the customers.
Yeah.
Pressing their naked bottoms against the windows.
Exactly.
They're notorious for it at the Royal Bank.
While outside the window are the workers with their backs bent, a big sack of coal and tears rolling down their eyes.
Look inside.
The 14 year old chimney sweeps and stuff.
14?
They would be the bosses of the three year old chimney sweeps.
wow what what world what a sick world it is up there in scotland but listen let's forget about the now uh and let's think back 10 years ago to 1997 when we were all 10 years younger like on that channel 4 program and many of my favorite films came out that year looking at a list of all the
releases that year contains many absolute monumental landmarks in cinema history.
The film Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven came out and I looked up a whole bunch of sort of top films of 97 and here was a list that was compiled by a guy called Bob Blackwelder.
Oh, he's brilliant.
Have you heard of him?
No.
Bob Blackwelder's movies of 97 here's a few of the movies that he didn't like so much and he tops his list with Starship Troopers saying with this disaster of galactic proportions director Paul Verhoeven proves that he can make a movie even worse
than Showgirls.
This flick wallows in just about every moth-ridden cliche known to filmdom and relies heavily on naked teenage girls and recycled special effects for what it deems excitement.
He's an idiot, isn't he?
He's an absolute... He's misunderstood the whole thing.
Yeah.
Starship Troopers is a classic.
And what is the, it's the triumph of the will, Lenny Riefenstahl's film, propaganda film for the Nazis that is heavily drawn upon by Verhoeven.
in this much misunderstood satire... Exactly.
It's a satire!
Can't be taken at face value, Bob Blacksmith, or whatever your name is.
A satire of propaganda and, you know, fascistic impulses to go out and conquer other countries, and in this case, giant alien bugs.
It's got a lot to say to us ten years later.
In many ways it's a prescient film.
Exactly.
And it just happens to feature naked teenage flesh.
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.
In a sort of genius way.
No, absolutely not.
One of the brilliant bits of the film, in fact, one of the innovations that they have for this futuristic vision of the world, is that in changing rooms, men and women just walk around naked, quite happily showing their little totties to each other.
And it's not a problem at all.
Now here's a bit of music by Interpol.
This is called Mammoth.
So spare me the suspense Just spare me the suspense Lady Wraith, I so hope you try
Now I'll let you set by, so cold in the pitch night alone you can't make amends Now I'll let you set by, so cold in the pitch night we should dance like tw-twins
There are seven ancient pawn shops along the road I know some are making daddies you may want to know
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 it the pitch night Alone, you can't make amends And I won't let you set by So call it the pitch night It's enough with this incense Just spare me a suspense
To know you're wrong When it's only two days, you may want to know
There you go.
That's Interpol.
Flippin' heck, Tucker.
Can you imagine the bloke from Interpol and the bloke from Editors on holiday?
That would be a shouty holiday.
Anyway, it's time now for the news read by Yoland.
Teenagers released in Reece's murder case, rewards for catching Greek arsonists, and Harry Potter works his magic on tourism.
It's 8.30, I'm Yolande Nel.
Detectives investigating the murder of 11-year-old Reece Jones have released the six teenagers they were questioning.
Yesterday, officers made a breakthrough when a witness to the shooting came forward to speak to them.
Fiona Trotz in Liverpool.
Nobody is in police custody this morning.
Four people have been released without charge, including a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl.
And two people have been bailed pending further inquiries.
So as far as the police are concerned, they're still trying to catch Reece's killer.
The government in Greece has offered a reward of one million euros for help in catching arsonists as fires rage across the country.
Ten people have already been arrested.
The United Nations report is expected to show opium production in Afghanistan at record levels.
Helmand province, where British troops are based, is thought to have increased production by between a third and a half on last year, which was already a record harvest.
Friends of the late Princess Diana have welcomed the Duchess of Cornwall's decision not to attend the special service to mark the 10th anniversary of her death.
Clarence House said yesterday the Duchess had been invited by Princes William and Harry, but later announced she'd decided not to attend.
Princess Diana's former bodyguard Ken Wharfe says it's been badly handled.
My own view is I doubt whether Camilla was even consulted in the early planning stages, which she should have been.
And with regards to William and Harry extending a personal invitation, I just don't see that happening.
A teenager to appear in court later charged with killing a man at Walsend in Tyneside.
Thomas Fellows, who was 51, died from head injuries after being attacked early on Saturday.
And places used as locations for films and TV programs can benefit from a huge boost to tourism, according to a new study.
It says Annet Castle in Northumberland, which became Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter films, more than doubled its visitor numbers.
The weather, clouds and showers over Scotland and Northern England, cloudy over Northern Ireland, England and Wales dry and sunny at first but cloudy later, highs of 22 Celsius.
That's Six Music News, more in an hour.
This is the house that funk builds.
Groove a modest style.
All right, I'm checking all your houses.
You know what I'm saying?
Give me volume on everything, cause I want you to hear me.
I want to hear myself.
I want the world.
Shake it out.
What y'all got for grandmas all day and my grandbabies?
Be ready to get down before you get loose.
I see you, baby, shaking that ass.
Shaking that ass.
Shaking that ass.
I see you, baby.
Shakin' that ass, shakin' that ass, shakin' that ass I see you, baby Shakin' that ass, shakin' that ass I see you, baby Shakin' that ass, shakin' that ass, shakin' that ass I see you, baby Shakin' that ass, shakin' that ass
Close your eyes and get sexy with it.
Whoo!
I know y'all know what I'm talking about.
Don't be looking at me like that now.
I see you.
Come on.
I see you.
Get dizzy with it.
Make it on down.
I see you, baby.
You're shaking that ass.
You're shaking that ass.
I see you baby
you
Shakin' her ass, shakin' her ass I see you, baby Shakin' her ass, shakin' her ass Shakin' her ass, I see you, baby Shakin' her ass, shakin' her ass Shakin' her ass, I see you, baby Shakin' her ass, shakin' her ass
It's revolting.
It's a song about the back end of cars.
Wasn't that used for an advert?
Was it?
Yeah, where it's got lots of people waggling their bottoms and it's advertising the back of a car.
Absolutely disgusting.
It is disgusting, isn't it?
Shaking that, I see you baby, shaking that arse.
What kind of a message is that for young listeners?
No wonder the country's in total disarray.
When did that come out?
Was that from 97?
Yeah.
The Rock said it. 99?
Why are we playing that?
We're just confusing everybody.
That's confusing.
That's very confusing.
That track was a disaster.
Groove Armada with I See You Baby.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6Music.
We're asking you for your reminiscences of 1997.
Ten years ago, before the world changed.
Absolutely.
Forever.
Irrevocably.
Of course we're talking about the arrival of The Strokes.
Yeah.
In 2001.
So we've had a couple of communiques from our listeners.
Here is one from Ross.
In Norwich, Ross is another DJ.
Is he?
On another radio station, yeah.
It's got his address at the bottom of the email.
You'd think he would be sick of DJs.
I know.
You would have thought he would be sick of sort of trivial phone-in type things like this.
But no.
Ross, who broadcasts on future radio, the afternoon session, has emailed our silly phone-in thing.
Well maybe he does a sort of political show, so usually he deals with the news.
Maybe he does.
He likes to escape into the world of trivia and reminiscence.
And nonsense.
but Ross says morning you two with the number two I went to my first gig in 1997 which was the V festival and got hooked on gigging ever since then hey we were there boy were we yeah with bad dad really we were at V 97 did you come along to that one I don't think I did is that the one that you and Louie went to yeah
Yes, we went along to film for our show and we saw Beck, we saw the Foo Fighters, my dad was in the mosh pit for the Foo Fighters set and he got into a plastic bottle battle and it was really fun man, we had a great time.
Well Ross says, I also had some sexy time with my then girlfriend Kerry behind the wine stall.
He doesn't sound like he does a political show.
Not that kind of sexy time, just a nice Frenchy.
Oh, that's good, man.
I haven't heard anyone call a French kisser Frenchy for ages.
That's really unappealing.
Love your show, you two, from Ross and Norwich.
Hey, thanks for that email.
That's precisely the sort of thing we're looking for, listeners.
Text us on 64046 or email adamandjoe.sixmusicatbbc.co.uk.
Here's one more that's come in via text.
This is from an anonymous person.
He or she or it, who knows, it might be some hermaphroditic mutant hybrid in a genetic lab somewhere.
It's possible.
Text you.
Professor, let me borrow the phone.
Why, Grungleweed?
Because I want to text you some music.
No, alright then.
I can understand that.
But it's gone now.
It's gone.
Completely contradicted themselves.
One sentence to another.
Wow, that's an action packed email there.
So first boyfriend there.
There seems to be a lot of, you know, physical activity between people going on in 97.
There was.
I had a certain amount of physical activity.
Did you?
Yeah, I met the woman who would become my wife in 97.
Wow.
And the whole fraught
union was soundtracked with um with okay computer it was difficult because it wasn't like a typical romance it wasn't like total love at first sight she made it really hard for me to get it together with her so uh it was really it was really like lots of frustrating evenings of going home and listening to paranoid android and thinking is this girl on for it or not i can't really tell anyway the answer was yes and i married her
uh what a lovely story it's a lovely story so please text us your reminiscences of 1997 64046 adamandjoe.sixmusicatpbc.co.uk now we had a choice for the next track to play and it was a very difficult one listeners we could either choose reef the
with Place Your Hands on, or the Spice Girls with Spice Up Your Life, two tracks from 97.
Yeah, the reef track I always associate with Chris Evans.
And the TFI Friday program.
It's your letters, it's your letters.
For that reason, we feel we can't play it.
No, because a much more important phenomenon, certainly in our lives, was the spice.
The Spicy Girls, and we think this is one of their most listenable tracks.
Certainly.
So let's hear a bit of Spice Girls, yeah.
Oh
La, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la Yellow man in Timbuktu
Shake it, shake it, shake it.
Hot girl.
Shake it, shake it, shake it.
Hot girl.
Hold tight, steady on.
Our producer Lisa said that we should justify playing that track.
Well we did, we had a choice between it and Reef and I think we've saved the listeners from Reef and also we've given them a sort of sexy lady holiday in a samba area
you know, with the Spice Girls.
They were in space, I think, for that video, weren't they?
They were sort of riding on spice, what would you call them, spice boards?
Hoverboards.
Hoverboards, and they were kind of slicing between high rise buildings in a futuristic citadel.
It was the future, and it was a sort of Blade Runner-ish vision of the future.
Well, it was the future if the world was controlled by the Spice Girls.
Everything was colourful, there was a carnival going on all the time.
Um, and it was brills.
Yeah, it was brillo pads.
Yeah, strange lyrics though to that there song.
Someone's taken over my computer.
We're trying to print out the lyrics of the song because they sing so fast in there it's hard to hear what they're saying.
All you really hear is I see ya hold tight.
Yeah but there are a lot of words in there.
At one stage it says yellow man in timbuktu, colour for both me and you, kung fu fighting, dancing queen, travel spaceman and all that's in between.
What's that?
Well everything is in between those things.
All things in the entire universe.
All matter.
Yeah, a dancing queen and a travel space man.
What's a travel space man?
Yellow man in Timbuktu.
That's right, I remember hearing that line.
Yeah, that's a bit of a controversial line.
That's a strange one.
Spice up your life, there we go.
Did you spice up your life in 1997, Adam?
I thought you asked our listeners that.
That would be a good thing to ask the listeners.
Did you spice up your life in 1997?
What spices did you use in 1997?
If you did, just... What are your favourite spices?
Marjoram.
I love Marjoram.
I love Marjoram.
Oh deary me.
Here's another lyric from that song, flamenco, lambada, but hip-hop is harder.
That's true isn't it?
That's probably a lyric that Posh Spice made up after a dance class.
Oh flamenco, lambada, hip-hop's harder though.
That'd make a great lyric.
Yes baby, yes.
What an extraordinary song, but very exciting.
It was bought by the Under Sixes, I think, that song, mainly.
And yeah, I would say that's probably true.
And yeah.
It's Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music.
You can see the effect it's had on us.
Barely holding it together.
It's made us hysterical with joy.
Now it's time for a trail.
BBC6 Music.
The year 1997.
The conquering hero was greeted as if he'd brought back the World Cup.
From the memorable... This accepted the majesty the queens find offer to form a new administration of government in this country.
to the forgettable.
We celebrate the best music of the year.
Join us for the class of 97 throughout today.
Pretend, keep you in the dark and somewhere long
The need you buried deep The secrets that you keep forever Ready Are you ready?
I'm finished making sense Done pleading ignorance at home
Don't you listen to me It's never-ending, never-ending Same old story
I'm not so untold I'm just another soul for sale Oh well The page is out of place We are not permanent and tambled Every temple
Another one of your plays You're the pretender What if I say that I'll never surrender What if I say I'm not like the others What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays
The voice inside your head, you refuse to hear I'm the face that you have to face, mirror in your stare I'm what's left, I'm what's right, I'm the enemy I'm the hand that'll take you down, bring you to your knees So who are you?
Pretend
So who are you?
That's it.
Oh, sorry.
You see?
Got me.
The Foo Fighters with The Pretender.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music.
Good morning.
This is an accurate time check now.
I did one earlier in the programme that was an hour late, confusing various listeners.
But now it's seven minutes to nine in the morning.
Seven minutes to nine.
Yeah, and we've been asking you to text in your reminiscences from the year 1997.
It's a special themed day here on BBC6 Music.
All through the day, every show is going to be talking about 97 celebrating that marvellous year 10 years ago.
Here's an email from Lee in Slough.
He says, all right there, 1997 wasn't a good year for me.
I got sent to prison for two years for unlawful wounding.
Oh, well, dot, dot, dot.
Keep up the good work, Lee and Slough.
There's one to get you thinking, listeners.
Text 64046 if something important to you happened in 1997.
It was the year, of course, that Adam got married.
So did Nick from Chelmsford.
I didn't get married but I... Oh sorry, met your wife.
I do apologise.
Nick from Chelmsford also met his wife in 97.
The fraud union being conceived to pop music by U2.
Is pop music a track by U2?
Oh I don't know.
Is it?
Pop music, pop those albums.
From the Pop Mart.
Yeah, there we go.
Do we have...
Any other reminiscences about 97?
Yeah, some great films, here we go.
Do you want some great films from Phil and Preston?
Great films of 97, 24-7 by Shane Meadows.
As good as it gets?
Yeah, with Bobo Hoskins and Bobo.
and the boxing kids I know it just occurred to me I haven't that's one of the Shane meadows films I haven't seen he's something of a genius Shane meadows my favorite Shane meadows films are the one with the naughty man what's it called dead man's shoes yeah dead man shoes in an amazing film this is England
is incredible as well.
Room for Romeo Brass is also well worth catching.
All his movies are very good but that was one of his earlier ones 24-7 also released in that year according to Phil from Preston as good as it gets loved it.
Waiting for Guffman loved it gross point blank
uh overrated cop land quite good event horizon brilliant is it i like it horizon's one of those films when it comes on in um in the evening on telly even though you've got the dvd you watch it through anyway a bit like a you should say i instead of you yeah that's true i should say i shouldn't yeah alien 3 you know what i mean i've got it filed away in my rubbish movies memory banks but then when it comes on telly i'll watch it
Really?
Yeah.
According to Phil from Preston, Best Albums released in 97, Jeff Buckley's Grace.
That topped the mojo.
Was that in 97?
I thought that was 96.
Well, Phil says it was 97.
Elliot Smith's Either Or.
Yeah, lovely album.
And Pavement's Brighten the Corners.
That was a peach.
Yeah.
Absolute smash.
There was a lot of good albums that year, man.
There was Blur by Blur, their new grittier direction, you know, after the slight misfire of what was it called?
The Great Escape, which was the follow up to Park Life, of course.
But blur by blur, they were right back on track.
Amazing.
tracks on that album.
You had Coffee and TV which was accompanied by that wonderful video by our friend Garth Jennings with a little man dressed up as a milk carton.
One of the greatest videos of all time.
That falls in love with some strawberry flavoured milk I believe.
That gets crushed very tragically by the wheels of a car.
Now it's music time again, here's some shins.
yeah no no no now it's our special funky track yeah okay this is from craig charles funky bunker yeah this is we've got to tell you about this listeners uh the funk and soul show here on six music has a special competition uh where they vote for uh their funk and soul hero here's the winner of this week's competition or was it last week's competition probably last week just before we hear this can i just say
that whilst looking through the Peel Session listings, there was a mention of Craig Charles having done a Peel Session.
That's true, I noticed that.
Now was that in his capacity as the People's Poet?
Was he reading some of his street poetry?
Or was he playing with a band?
If anyone knows, if anyone can elucidate, I would very much like to hear from you.
Yeah, but this is the winner of that competition on the Funk and Soul show.
This is Big Bird by Eddie Floyd.
Gonna be with my lady
Open up the sky Open up the sky Cause I'm coming up to you I'm coming up to you So send down your weapon
BBC 6 Music.
BBC 6 Music.
Closer to the music that matters.
All I can ever be to you Is a darn new step we know And this regret I got a custom too Once we walked the ride When we were at our high
Waitin' for you in the hotel at night I knew I had him at my match But every moment we get snatched I don't know why I got so attached It's my responsibility And you don't owe nothin' to me But to walk away I have no progressive taste He walks away The sun goes down He takes the day But I'm grown And in your way
I don't understand Why do I stress to men When there's so many real things at hand We could have never had it all
We had to hit a wall, so this is never to fall withdrawal.
Even if I stop wanting you and respect it for shit true, I'll be some next man's other woman.
So I cannot play myself again.
I should just be my own best friend.
I'll fuck myself in the head with a stupid man.
He walks away.
The sun goes down.
He tastes the day.
In this blue shade, my tears die on their own.
So we are history, the shadows come, the skies above.
He walks away, the sun goes down.
He takes the day, but I won't.
In this blue shade, my tears die on their own.
Wish I could say no regrets and almost to no day.
Cause then you kiss goodbye to sunset.
So we are history.
The shadow covers me.
The sky above a black lonely lover's sea.
He walks away.
The sun goes down.
He takes the day.
But I'm gone.
And in your way, my blue chain.
The sun goes down, he takes me, but I am grown And in your way, my teeth shave, my teeth dry on their own He walks away, the sun goes down, he takes me, but I'm grown And in your way, my teeth shave, my teeth dry
One of the papers this morning is speculating that the recent photos of Winehouse and her boyfriend leaving some sort of establishment
with some kind of wound is actually an act of scratching one another's initials into their faces.
We've all done that.
Isn't that sweet?
We've all done that.
Haven't we?
No one has.
It's insane.
It's absolutely insane behaviour that you would only undertake having drunk far too much Pepsi.
Yeah.
Or something similar.
She's out of control but her music's nice.
That was Tears Dry On Their Own by Amy Winehouse.
Now listeners.
Just before we get into that, a little bit of house cleaning.
I said before that I was remembering Blur by Blur Fondly, the album, saying that it featured Kofi on TV.
Of course it didn't.
Someone has texted in that Kofi on TV was on Thirteen, which I think was the album that followed that one.
Yes.
There have been all sorts of inaccuracies in this morning's show.
It's something we do specially for a bank holiday.
Just to keep you on your toes.
Yeah.
Okay, now we'd like you ladies and gentlemen to vote for your album of the year 1997.
Now you can't vote for any old album, you have to choose between these two albums that we've specially selected and in fact have been selected by BBC Computers.
Can we expect people to vote?
Read out that text from that guy.
Which one?
the one who said he was remembering yeah here's here's somebody with we we were inviting you to text in your reminiscences of 97 john has texted him by saying i voted for tony blair and then princess diana died i never voted again john there making a a peculiar connection and maybe blaming himself for the death of princess diana in an unnecessary way
Not a good year for Jon.
But listen, Jon, maybe today is the day that you and voting are reunited once again.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So text us on 64046 and vote for your favourite album between the Chemical Brothers, Dig Your Own Hole and Verve with Urban Hymns.
I know which one I'd vote for.
Well, you wouldn't go for the Verve.
You don't like Spadeface, do you?
No, I don't like the long-faced horseman and his moaning.
So that's what I'd vote for, but you may think I'm wrong.
What would you vote for there, Adam?
I might go for Spadeface.
Really?
Yeah, because Chemical Brothers is good as it was.
For Dr. Gloom?
I liked, I was, that was the, one of the songs that summed up my year for me was Bittersweet Symphony.
Really?
Yeah, I can change, I can change.
You sound like a rattled old drag queen Well, it's because I am that's what my soul is like yes, but no urban hymns I quite liked and and there was the drugs don't work as well I remember thinking wow this is a subversive song you know the drugs don't work, and it's riding high in the charts and
Yeah, it meant a lot to me at the time.
So text 64046, vote for your favourite album either The Chemical Brothers with Dig Your Own Hole or Verve with Urban Hymns.
Here are some preview montages of those albums just to remind you this is what that Chemical Brothers album sounded like.
There we go.
That was a montage of highlights from Dig Your Own Hole, the Chemical Brothers album.
Have we got a montage of the Verve album as well?
Just just to remind you out there.
Here we go.
Here's some Verve.
With fire in my hands Now the trucks don't work They just make you worse But I know I'll see your face again This is love if you want it Don't sound like no sonnet My love
There we go, that's a reminder of the Verve's album, Urban Hymns.
We want you to vote, listeners, between the Chemical Brothers, Dig Your Own Hole, and Verve's Urban Hymns, both contenders for the best album of 1997, text 64046, and vote for your favourite out of those two.
You know the amazing Michelle Gondry video for the Chemical Brothers track, which is the one I'm thinking of with all the... With all the mirrors.
Real time effects and... All the mirrors, the lady getting out of bed and all the mirrors, yeah, I do know that one.
Oh, what's that one called?
Let forever be.
There you go.
Was that on Dig Your Own Hole?
I can't remember.
We're not sure.
We'll have someone look it up.
That would sway it for me a little more because, you know, that montage certainly made Dig Your Own Hole sound like that.
Hey, we mustn't bias the listeners, no?
We mustn't influence them.
No, I would never influence them.
64046.
Is it going to be The Verve with Urban Hymns or Chemical Brothers with Dig Your Own Hole?
Has to be one of those two.
Now, while you're thinking about that, here's a piece of a slice of classic rock and roll from
Bob Dylan, I don't know if you've heard of Bob Dylan, Joe Cornish.
He's like a little pixie and he's from space.
Wow, I'm excited to hear it.
You know what, that's a bad description of him.
He's like a little old man from a wood.
You know Bob Dylan, there's about to be a film about Bob Dylan.
Is there?
Made by Todd Haynes.
Right.
And it's going to have lots of different actors and actresses playing Bob Dylan.
Oh for goodness sake.
No it looks, that's what I thought when I first heard about it but then I saw a clip on the internet and I think it had Cate Blanchett playing Dylan and she's brilliant.
Is she?
And it's got someone playing Allen Ginsberg who's quite interesting.
I think Stephen Ray or something like that.
But it looks really cool.
It looks like a kind of arty film experiment that might have worked.
Come on, he's a bit of a genius, Todd Haynes.
I'd say a very small bit of a genius.
Oh, I think he's a bit of a genius.
Anyway, I'm excited about that.
And here's Bob Dylan with Rainy Day Woman.
They'll stone you when you're trying to be so good They'll stone you just like they said they would They'll stone you when you're trying to go home They'll stone you when you're there all alone But I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned
They'll stone you when you're trying to keep your seat They'll stone you when you're walking on the floor They'll stone you when you're walking through the door But I will not feel so all alone Everybody must get stoned They'll stone you when you're at the breakfast table
They'll stone you when you are unable They'll stone you when you're trying to make a buck They'll stone you and then they'll seek good luck Well, I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get
They'll stone you and say that it's the end Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again They'll stone you when you're riding in your car They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar Yes, but I would not feel so all alone Everybody must get
Well, they'll stone you when you are all alone.
They'll stone you when you are walking home.
They'll stone you when they say they are brave.
They'll stone you when you're sent down in your bed.
I would not feel so all alone
That's Bob Dylan there with Rainy Day Women, not woman singular as I introduced it.
But women plural, right?
Yeah, numbers 12 and 35.
He numbers his women?
He numbers his women and it's one of those song title tracks that's really very confusing.
It's hard to remember and also you would think that that track was called Everybody Must Get Stoned, you know?
In fact I think I recall
hearing it on the radio as a youngster and going into WH Smith and saying, excuse me, have you got everybody must get stoned by Bob Dylan, please.
And the guy sort of said, yes, call for only day women numbers 12th and 35 actually.
And no, we don't.
In Smith's?
Yeah.
Really?
It was a quite a little muso guy.
Those were the days when you used to get musos working in Smith's.
Right, in the Earl's Court Road.
He was, he was quite a patronising muso chap.
I had to appease him by buying the model by Kraftwerk instead.
Really?
Yeah.
Tough times.
Absolutely.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music.
We're asking you to vote for your favourite album of 97 but we've limited the voting field slightly to the Chemical Brothers with Dig Your Own Hole or Verve with Urban Hymns.
Text us 64046.
It's a good choice though, this choice of albums, because it's very divisive.
A lot of listeners are very supportive of the Verve and angry about the trivial, throwaway dance music of the Chemical Brothers, whereas another section of the audience are angered by the long-faced moaning of the Verve frontman and want to celebrate the hedonistic, upbeat atmosphere of the Chemical Brothers.
So our listeners are at war.
Classic videos they spawned though.
I can't remember, I mean, well, Setting Sun?
Was that a classic video?
The Verve of course had the famous video directed by a guy called Walter Stern.
Right.
Who I went to film school with years ago.
Did you?
Of Mr Verve Man walking down the street and rudely bumping into everybody.
Yeah it was an absolutely iconic video you know and it spawned a sort of amusing imitation in the form of Vindaloo wasn't it?
Didn't the Vindaloo video have Paul Kay?
Yeah I think pretty much everybody spoofed it.
We did a little spoof of that one with some little toys for a video we did for Gorky's Zygotic Monkey for a track called Sweet Johnny which you can see on the wonderful YouTube if you're interested.
It's very old.
Yeah but we did a good little spoof of
There we go.
So do keep voting and, you know, choose a favourite between the Chemical Brothers, Dig Your Own Hole and The Verve with Urban Hymns.
It's time for my special track.
It's a free play.
And this is a track I just sort of stumbled upon on iTunes a while ago.
And it's a reggae style celebration of drinking a cup of tea.
But just before we hear it, explain to me a little bit more about how you find these tracks.
I don't understand how you're sort of trawling through iTunes.
What's your modus operandi?
My criteria, I usually look in R&B and soul and rock and I just look at the little pictures.
And if it, you know, it just sounded intriguing.
It's by, who's it by?
It's by somebody called Bobo Desert, Luciano and Friends.
So it's some big sort of Jamaican reggae collective.
And it was called cup of tea, and I thought I've got to hear I've got to listen to a song called cup of tea So you get a little 30 seconds natch yeah, and it sounded great, and then you invest yeah, and then I clicked it 79p and now here it is on BBC six music right but but but Just before we hear that is it it wasn't one of those tracks that was protected so you couldn't burn it off No, oh good one
Yeah.
That doesn't exist anymore.
They're removing that protection, that ludicrous protection.
I couldn't answer that, Adam.
Maybe one of our listeners could.
Yeah, yeah.
But this is a great track.
You know, everyone likes tea.
I bet you a vast percentage of our listeners out there are currently sipping a cup of it.
And what better way to celebrate the nation's favourite drink than with a bit of a slice of reggae toast.
Dig it.
I'll tell him, if we drink we had to put tea.
I'm a
Nothing to me like me royal goatee Give me nah the man and run five thirty The liquor baby love me black tea You see, half a drink me hot cup of tea Had me rise up nah the man and run five thirty
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
I'm a pretty old family.
You see, half a drink me and cup of tea.
As me rise up inna the morning, run five-thirty.
Just a mint and sesame.
I'm a whole lot of red friends and a yellow trinity.
Half a drink me and cup of tea.
As me rise up inna the morning, run five-thirty.
Just a mint and sesame.
I'm a whole lot of red friends and a yellow trinity.
The baby love the tea.
me.
Go make some tea.
BBC Six Music.
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 this afternoon from three.
That's good, man.
I'm going to be listening to that.
Harry Hill at three o'clock here on six music.
This is Adam and Joe.
Incidentally, we're filling it for Sean Keveney while he's on holiday.
He'll be back next week.
So if we're annoying you, don't worry.
There's only four more days after this left.
There's been another mistake on our show.
The Chemical Brothers album with the video you referred to is Dig Your Own Hole, apparently.
I thought we were talking about Diggyroll.
Which one are we talking about?
This is Diggyroll that we're voting for.
Wrong!
You're wrong!
Sussed!
You're so sussed!
I'm right!
You're wrong!
I'm the king and you're...
Surf.
Surf.
Yes.
It's our celebration of 1997, ten years ago here on BBC6Music.
Thanks to everybody who's emailed and texted in.
You can email on 6music at bbc.co.uk or text on 64046.
Here's one that's come in from Paul in Glasgow, Adam.
Are you ready for this?
Yeah, go on.
Hi.
1997 was a young, idealistic, stupid... Sorry, I'm going to start again.
Hi.
In 1997 I was a young, idealistic and stupid 15 year old that was very happy the day young Tony got put in charge.
My fondest memories are of a life changing moment when Paranoid Android came out and then OK Computer.
I attended my first concert, be impressed, it was Tea in the Park in 97.
I jumped about like crazy to the band that we all knew were the biggest and bestest band ever, Cooler Shaker.
Hey, that's right, Tatfa.
That was a good single.
Here's one from Matt in Preston.
Morning Adam and Joe.
1997 was a busy year.
I bought my first house.
I got made redundant.
It's a nice little coincidence there.
Moved from Norwich to Lancaster for a new job.
Proposed to the now wife and saw television at the platform in Morecambe.
Hey hey, Teravision.
We like to kill, it makes us happy.
We like to kill, blah blah blah blah.
Thank you very much.
Here's one from David.
Two of my favorite albums of all time came out in 97.
Stush by Skunk Anansi.
That's one of your favorites as well isn't it Adam?
I love the bold sounds of Skunk Anansi.
And Whatever and Ever Are Men by Ben Folds Five.
That's one of your favorites.
Yeah, I love the Ben Folds Five.
Too bad I was only 13 at the time and not really old enough to appreciate them.
what so he's just got rid of them yeah he's throwing them away that's it didn't appreciate it that's the end of that for ben falls five unfortunately stooch is the kind of album that you would appreciate when you're 13 ben falls five that matures like a fine wine
yeah a sophisticated thing to be into at that age uncork that one anytime you like and you'll get some delicious flavors from that now here is a band that I've gone on about a couple of times on this show already and this is an amazing era-defining moment from for me watching the video for this for the first time on TFI Friday I just thought wow that is something different and special and it was Supergrass with Richard the third the class of 97 on six music
I spent too much time
It's the hottest place you've ever been
Trying to get at you, trying to get at you, trying to get at you
nice richard the third from supergrass from their album in it for the money one of the great albums of 1997 this is adam and joe here on six music time now for the news
6 released in Liverpool's shooting case, Camilla's memorial decision welcomed and call for new British bank holiday.
It's 9.30, I'm Yolande Nel.
Four teenagers arrested in connection with the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Liverpool have been released without charge.
Two other teenagers questioned in connection with the schoolboy's death have been released on police bail.
Friends of Princess Diana have welcomed the decision by the Duchess of Cornwall not to attend this Friday's memorial service to mark 10 years since Diana's death.
The Duchess decided her presence would divert attention from the purpose of the occasion.
The publicist Mark Bokowski says the royal family should have realised earlier that many people wouldn't accept the presence of the Prince of Wales' former mistress.
I don't know what it takes for the Royal Family really to listen to the public.
Clearly this was never going to sit very well with the sort of minority that really, really, well I think the majority of people, who really take Diana and the Miss to heart.
In other six music news, the authorities in Greece are offering a reward of up to 700,000 pounds to help catch people who've started forest fires across the country.
So far, 63 people have died.
The United Nations report is expected to show that opium production in Afghanistan is at a record high.
In Helmand province, where British troops are fighting, production is thought to have increased massively on last year.
A man's in a stable condition in hospital after being stabbed at the Notting Hill Carnival in West London.
Three people were arrested in connection with the attack.
Large crowds are expected today, the main day of the carnival.
And how about this?
If we had a British National Day as an extra bank holiday, it would boost attempts to build a British national identity.
That's Jim Bennett who works for the group the Institute for Public Policy Research.
It's calling for us to get an extra day off in November so we can celebrate what it is to be British.
The weather, clouds and showers over Scotland and Northern England, cloudy over Northern Ireland.
England and Wales dry and sunny at first, but cloudy later, highs of 22 Celsius.
That's Six Music News, more in an hour.
In the Music Week podcast this week, catch up on all the news and backstage gossip from the Reading Festival.
Find out whether Mercury nominee, Fionn Regan, will be backing himself to scoop the gong.
And join us for a trip to Leeds as we get the skinny on the city's music scene.
The Music Week podcast, this week's music news in a lovely, bite-sized chunk.
I hope you don't mind me writing It's just There's more than one thing I need to ask you Yes, yes, yes, yes You're so undefined, you're so worthless Instead of dressing down all the same
It's your mind looking right, and I've gotta split my distance.
Let me explain, when you've never seen me in the movies.
If I think I'd like to report you, you've gotta think of her.
You've gotta think of my girlfriend.
You're like a dumb dumb patriot!
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
You're so fucking fierce, I'm angry!
What a fright!
Let me bail out from your lies!
You've never seen me in a few years Will you paint your roof on me or go back in the night?
Listen to your rhythms but your logic's far too narrow to rise We've had a bunch of our life, can you really see us here?
See, I've been searching many young soul rebels.
I've been searching everywhere.
I can't find them anywhere.
Maybe it's you.
Maybe you should welcome a new soul vision, welcome a new soul vision, welcome a new soul vision, welcome a new soul vision.
You're not the only one to change your vision.
You're men who are rushing, rubbing hearts from their best ways.
I will never see you again.
Hooray, Dexys Midnight Runners there on BBC6 Music.
What was that one Adam?
That was called There There My Dear.
The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things.
Is that the lyrics?
That's one of the lyrics in there.
It's a great lyric.
And their album Two Raies is just getting the re-release treatment with lots of extra tracks.
Is it?
They should really come back.
Yeah.
Kevin Rowland, come back to us.
You know what, I was listening to Kevin Rowland on Mark Lamarr's show, he's covering for Jonathan Ross at the moment, and there is a reformed version of Dexys playing.
Really?
I think so.
With Kevin Rowland in them?
Oh yeah, definitely.
Cool.
Listen, I've got some crow eating to do.
I'm gonna eat some delicious crow now.
That's the phrase you use when you've been a dick, isn't it?
And you've said something completely ludicrous and incorrect.
Eat Crow, right?
Yes, that is correct.
Well, yeah.
You know, I was saying that I was the king and everyone else was my slave before because I said that that track, Let Forever Be, I understood that someone had emailed in or texted in to say that Let Forever Be is on Dig Your Own Hole.
And I said, yeah, but Dig Your Own Hole is the album we're asking you to vote for.
Anyway, there was some confusion.
It's not on Dig Your Own Hole.
I'm insane.
And I'm sorry, I'm not the king.
I'm just a very low paid clerical worker.
And I'm very, very sorry.
But you can keep texting us 64046 to vote for your favorite album of 97.
Is it the Chemical Brothers with Dig Your Own Hole or is it Verve with Urban Hymns?
And it set our listeners at war of vicious savagery going on between the two factions.
We've got various texts.
Here's one from Benjamin in Norwich who says, hi, it's got to be urban hymns by the Verve.
Some great memories come flooding back when he listens to that.
On the other hand, someone else has texted in to say, it's got to be the Chemical Brothers and also there to admonish you, Adam, for your mistake.
Phil in Harrogate says it's hard to choose between two of my all-time favorite albums but if you play the private psychedelic reel in its entirety that would sway me towards the brothers and that's another thing you can do listeners when you text us in your vote between those two albums let us know which track you'd like played off those albums and we'll play one of them at the end of the show.
There's no way we're gonna play the private psychedelic reel in its entirety.
Is that a long one?
Yeah that's very long.
We're not going to play that one.
But you can choose from Blot Rocking Beats or Electro Bank or Setting Sun, any of those great tracks from the Chemical Brothers album.
Or maybe you'd like to hear Pitter Sweet Symphony or The Drugs Don't Work.
I wouldn't mind hearing The Drugs Don't Work, but I've been told it's a little bit depressing by my fellow studio chums.
But I like that one.
Of course, there's Lucky Man and Neon Wilderness.
I don't know that one, I just read it out.
I think it would be good to play The Drugs Don't Work.
Yeah, I like it.
On a bank holiday in England, it would encourage everybody to stay level-headed and sober all day.
Yeah, what's depressing about being a cat in a van?
Yeah, it's just a good message, and instead of wasting your way by drinking or maybe drugging, you should spend a day maybe catching up with some clerical work, maybe doing some DIY, or helping an old lady writing some thank you letters.
You know, I've got a lot of thank you letters to write, I might go home and do that.
Now, do you like music, Joe, that is made by around 35 people in a big kitchen and they're all banging pots and pans together and shouting?
I love that sort of music.
Well good, because that's the kind of thing we've got for you right now.
It's the Go Team with Doing It Right.
Who pulled you to play the picture you wait to see?
Yeah, the go team with Doing It Right.
That sounds like the theme tune from some kind of Saturday morning kids show that never existed.
Yeah, that's true.
I always imagine like loads of kids in a school gymnasium.
They're all jumping around and the band is in the background there, the school band.
They're a little off key and they're not, you know, they're not quite together, but they make up for it with sheer enthusiasm.
Joyeux de vivre!
Oh, lovely!
Hey happy Monday morning everybody it's Adam and Joe here on BBC six music it's a bank holiday in Wales and England it's a holiday only for the banks in Scotland and we here on six music are casting our minds casting our mounds casting our mans back ten years
and thinking about the year 1997 in all sorts of ways, musically, culturally, newsworthy and right now we're going to do some more reminiscing about some of it.
Did you know, Adam, that in 1997 a film called Face Off was released?
Did I know that?
Did you know we're currently having a face off?
between two of the top albums of 97.
That's a very good link there, Joe.
Thanks a lot.
The two albums are The Verve one by The Verve and The Chemical Brothers one by The Chemical Brothers.
The Chemical Brothers with Dig Your Own Hole and The Verve with Urban Hymns.
And it's time to announce who is currently in the lead.
So if your favourite isn't in the lead, it's time for you to get texting and rectify that matter.
And in the lead currently is...
The long-faced Mona.
It's the Verve with urban hymns.
The Verve are in fact in the lead by some way.
Maybe it's my cruel, groundless mocking of his Visigog visage that has caused people to rise up in his defense text.
64046 if you want to solidify the Verve's lead or if you want to help the Chemical Brothers fight back.
If the Verve does indeed win or if the Chemical Brothers wins,
We want your suggestions for which track we should play as well, so please include that.
Do you think in the world of money, and let's face it, that's all that matters in life, who has won out of these two artists?
Who lives in the biggest house?
I think it's probably their chemicals, don't you?
Well, they're still a viable commercial proposition in a way that... Richard Ashcroft hasn't released a record in a while, he's released solo stuff recently.
Yeah, his solo stuff does pretty well.
He's one of those artists who's sort of unbothered by critical barbs, really, as far as the sales of his albums go.
He's got a massive fan base and he sells pretty consistently well.
Yeah, but that doesn't matter.
It's the money that matters.
That's what I'm saying.
The size of the house... He keeps raking it in.
Does he?
Yeah.
Do you think they've got equally large houses?
I would say so.
I suppose the Chemical Brothers have to split stuff 50-50.
Have to share it, yeah.
Don't they?
In their grubby little flats.
Yeah.
Whereas Richard can keep all the money for himself.
That's probably why he left the Verve.
Exactly.
He didn't like counting out the cash into all those different piles.
Because there was about five of them in the Verve.
Yeah.
It depressed him when it came to Divvy uptime.
Absolutely.
He just wanted a big pot marked Ashcroft.
Yeah.
And that's what he's got now.
But hey, it's not about the money, is it, kids?
No, it's about the quality of music and it's about integrity.
It's about going to sleep at night thinking, hey, I've produced something really good and both those artists can do that thing.
Yeah, exactly.
Now, we were going to chat a little more about the movies of 1997, weren't we?
Can I return you to another review from Bob Blackwelder before you do a little reminisce in there?
This is the guy that thought that Starship Troopers was awful.
Bob Blackwelder reviews The Peacemaker, which was George Clooney's first big screen outing.
He was paired up with... It wasn't his first big screen outing, was it?
I think it was.
Was it before From Dusk Till Dawn?
uh perhaps not but it was his first big blockbuster i was going to go on to qualify that because of course his first big screen outing was uh either the blob or killer tomatoes or something like that wasn't it something like that anyway the peacemaker says bob black welder this riveting sledgehammer of an action movie
was one of the best films of the year.
While it visits many standard action staples, car chases, shootouts and terrorists with stolen nukes, this movie treats them with a fresh eye and it invokes more cerebral classic espionage fare at the same time.
Director Mimi Leder knows her job is to overdose the action, overdose the audience on adrenaline.
She just goes about it by employing more artful channels than the genre requires.
Rubbish.
Bob Blackwelder, you are insane.
That is one of the dullest films I've ever seen.
I like to call it the pacemaker.
Nice Joe.
You're the king.
Now what kind of movies were you digging at the time though?
I was digging Air Bud about a golden retriever with tiny little shoes that plays basketball.
But enough of that because it's music time.
What's coming up next?
This is from one of the big albums, the Mercury Prize winning Lifeforms, was it called?
I can't remember, something like that, by Ronnie Size.
The Ronnie Size represent, what was it?
New Forms, I think the album was called before I get into another inaccuracy hole.
And this track is called Brown Paperbag.
The class of 97.
On six music.
Step to the rhythm made out of brown paper Sounds that we bring are of a different nature Rhythms get greater, the rhythms they get greater Yes, another of us are full for the chaser New configuration, new riff and new structure Built on a frame that'll hold and won't puncture Tight, we wrap it up, it's rap, tightly
Step to the rhythm made out of brown paper Sounds that we bring are of a different nature Rhythms get greater and rhythms they get greater Yes, another of us are born for the chaser New configuration, new grip and new structure Belts on the frame that'll hold and won't puncture Tight, we wrap it up, it's wrapped tightly
Made out of brown paint.
Built on a frame that'll hold and won't puncture.
New configuration, new whip, and new structure.
More live music, live in the Six Music Hub.
In session tomorrow.
Calvin Harris.
Join in session tomorrow morning from 11.30 on 6 Music.
This is BBC 6 Music, this is Adam and Joe filling in for Shaun W Keaveney who's come back from his holiday in Tuscany.
He said he was a little bit rainy.
And is now in the Lake District.
Where it's bound to be rainy, surely.
I mean that's madness.
We're still doing our exciting vote for your favourite album of 1997 between the Chemical Brothers with Dig Your Own and The Verve with Urban Hymns.
Dig Your Own what?
Just dig your own.
Dig your own.
Go on, just dig your own.
We'll hear the winning track after this one.
This is one of my free plays right now.
And this is from a band called The Willows.
And they featured on the soundtrack to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Great soundtrack, incidentally.
And this is a brilliant album that they've got.
It's called Chatauakwa.
Chatauakwa.
Oh, I don't know.
Something like that.
Chatauakwa.
Chatauakwa.
and I urge you to check out the video for this track which is called Jubilee by the Willows with a Z at the end on YouTube it's really a great little video and you'll be impressed but here's the track Jubilee by the Willows
I'll take a look Now you're so sure From what you see
Very nice.
That's Jubilee by the Willows.
The video is like, you know, when you do that thing, you put a long exposure on a photograph and you've got a sparkler and you can write your name and stuff with a sparkler.
Well, that's the basic concept of the video, except not only do they sort of paint with light, they start animating the light trails as well.
And it's all done in camera.
No trickery.
It's really amazing.
You've got to check it out.
The Willows Jubilee is the track and you can see that on YouTube.
But that's pretty much the end of the show.
What's won the album vote, Joe?
Well, they were out in front halfway through the show and they're still out in front.
It is The Verve with Bittersweet, no, Urban Hymns.
Urban Hymns, yeah.
Clearly, yeah.
Some facts about that album released on the 29th of September 97 and in 1998 Q readers voted it the 18th best album of all time.
That's insane.
Isn't that insane?
That's absolutely insane.
So here we go and the track we're going to choose is Sonnet.
So that's it from us today.
We'll be back tomorrow morning at 7 till 10 after us.
The wonderful Anita Rani filling in for Gideon Co.
Thanks for listening.
Have a great bank holiday if you've got one.
Don't if you don't.
Faded I'm sure, but love seems to stick in her veins, you know Yes, there's love if you want it, don't sound like no sonnet
Just love if you want it Don't sound like no sonnet My Lord, my Lord Why can't you see That nature has its way off one
open wide Looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye Yes, there's love if you want it Don't sound like no sonnet, my Lord Yes, there's love if you want it Don't sound like no sonnet, my Lord
I stopped to say hello, cause I think you should know Right now, right now Right now, right now Right now, right now Right now, right now