You took my people to war I'm the king of anger
BBC 6 Music.
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Closer to the music that matters.
if you can
dangerous thing to do exactly what you want because you cannot know yourself
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
That's the Flaming Lips there with a song that they sang.
It's called the Yeah Yeah Yeah song.
There you go.
Good morning.
Hi, this is Adam.
Yeah, this is Joe.
Welcome to The Breakfast Show here on 6music.
We're with you till 10am.
Hope you're feeling very well this morning.
Physically and medically, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You should be, because it's a lovely day.
It's another nice day.
Did you have a good bank holiday yesterday, Joe?
Well, it was quite short for us, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Because it started at like 11am and finished at 9pm.
I watched a film though.
What did you watch?
Had a couple of friends around, we projected a film up.
Was it Air Bud again?
No, it was called The Reaping.
The Reaping.
Is that with Lady Man in it?
Hilary Swank.
Hilary Swank.
That's a good name to say on a Tuesday morning, isn't it?
and was it fantastic no it was rubbish oh what yeah it was terrible listen i could have told you it was going to be rubbish i knew it was going to be i don't know you that was one of the two dvds that you got on some purchase mission and the other one was what mr beans holiday beans holiday i've seen everything what are you like i've seen everything why don't you just get like you've got cats haven't you why don't you just watch the cat
Mr. Bean was quite good.
Playing around with a ball of wool or something.
Mr. Bean, I'm sure Mr. Bean was better than quite all that kind of business.
Does he speak in those films?
Yeah, he does.
It's always a bit weird when they start speaking from nowhere, isn't it?
Like when Tom and Jerry, the non-talking people.
yeah like when tom and jerry start chatting you know no he does mr bean is a really weird film i'd like to hear about it it's really odd very much indeed listen we've got great music for you who's your session by uh my session uh is by um that's a very good question who is my session by oh it's by corner shop corner shop nice and it's early corner shop it's early punky corner shop that's right people forget that before corner shop became a kind of funky unit
They were agit prop.
I mean, they were always fairly agit in their props.
But man, they used to be a real shouty little outfit.
Well, it's a shouty track.
You got some shouty corner shop.
I've got some some incredibly mellow tortoise, a wonderful kind of mainly instrumental Chicago band.
And I'll be playing a peel session of theirs a bit later on, at least a track from it.
We'll be texting the nation at about eight o'clock.
We're going to have our serial thriller also at eight o'clock.
Everything's happening at eight.
Yeah, before then, it's like a vast desert of triviality and nothingness.
But it's filled.
There's little oases in the desert of music.
And right now, here's one of those.
It's the Go Team with Doing It Right.
you wait
That's the fourth form of St Wilfred's grammar school, and that's their end of year song.
And they'll all be in detention.
And they're all in detention.
Because it was a bit of a mess.
It was a little bit of a mess.
They only practised a couple of days for that.
And so that's not bad considering that, but they should have been in practice for at least two weeks.
And Mrs Harold is very upset about it.
Harold?
Harold.
She's their form teacher.
of course it was the go team with doing it right and this is adam and joe here covering for sean kevney we've only got like uh three more days after this i know it's gone very quickly hasn't it yeah and then we're gonna be sleeping all day all day in the street and sleeping in the street it's gonna be exciting
Now, I was having some problems this morning with my printer, Joe Cornish, just as I was coming out of the house.
You know, obviously I'm on top of everything.
I've done some notes for the show.
Well done.
I thought I'm going to print these notes out and then I'll have them handy and I'll be able to refer to them during the radio show that we're doing.
So the printer wouldn't do the printing it did it's it's going through a stage right now where it Refuses to feed the paper through the actual printing mechanism So it clicks at me and that the kind of mouth of the thing you can hear it opening and closing Do you know what I'm saying?
And the paper goes, what's his problem?
Do you think, I don't know what its problem is, but it's a nightmare.
And it means that this has been happening now for a year.
And it means that, um, most of the time I have to manually feed the paper.
It's good for you.
You reckon?
Yeah.
Like I'm feeding a little bird.
That's what Charles Dickens did.
No it isn't.
He manually fed paper into his epson printer.
Into his printer.
That's outrageous.
And listen, I've been thinking this is more than my life's worth because it's reached a stage now where this labour saving device of mine is no longer saving me labour but actually creating labour for me.
It would be simpler for me to write in longhand the things that I wish to print.
You know what I mean?
It would save me more time.
New printer?
new printer you'd think that was the solution wouldn't you but about a year ago I went on a cartridge splurge yes and I thought I'm fed up of running out of ink I'm gonna buy a year's worth of ink cartridges and it cost me almost a thousand pounds the ink splurge you know because those cartridges are really expensive yeah not for nothing to their like hux's sell those ludicrous syringe device ones yeah yeah where you can refill the cartridges so I've got about a
grand's worth of ink cartridges for this printer that no longer works and I went online to see if I could find another printer that takes the same cartridge.
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
So I'm stuck with the same malfunctioning printer that I have to feed like a lame bird every time I want to print something out.
It's a total nightmare.
And I was just wanting to get it off my chest.
Well, well done you have.
Thank you.
There we go, more printer news the same time next year.
Here's what this it says here, Radio Heezz.
We can only assume it's Radiohead with fake plastic trees.
What you bought from a rubber mind And a time full of rubber plans To get rid of the sound The words are loud
She lives with a broken mind
The words are loud The words are loud
And it wears mirrors It wears mirrors It wears mirrors It wears mirrors And if I could be
If I could be
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That's a very irresponsible trait.
It's absolutely disgusting.
It's drawing a comparison between six music and some sort of hideous drug that someone would put in your drink in a nightclub.
Exactly.
Six music, the Rohypnol of the big British castle.
That's what they seem to be saying.
Either that... What has become of the big British castle?
Either that or they're suggesting that it's like some kind of
sexual favour.
I've lost all my trust in the media.
So have I. I used to rely on the media to be honest.
Well exactly, you'd watch a... Now it's corrupt harlot.
You'd watch a tele-program and you'd think that's the way it happened.
Yeah I thought Michael Barrymore was lovely.
They're giving me the facts.
He was the lanky funster running up and down those stairs pressing those buttons on those TVs.
That's right and in this documentary this is an actual representation of what happened and why would they... I thought those were real owls.
Why would they laugh?
Why?
Why?
Why would they lie?
Is this true that, you know that BBC programme Spring Watch?
With Bellodi.
Yeah.
Is it true, listeners, you might be able to tell me this, but they had a season of that, didn't they, earlier in the year?
Yeah.
That at one point during kind of children's television, they cut to some owls and a big mummy owl and some baby owls.
Right.
And they were talking about how sweet they were when suddenly the mummy owl picked up the weakest baby owl in its beak
and fed it alive.
Bad one.
To the other baby owls.
Nobody wants to see that.
Who ripped it into pieces.
No one.
This is what owls do apparently.
Yeah.
It's the natural way of things.
But apparently that kind of went out live on children's television and traumatised a lot of young viewers.
Is that true?
Listeners, did anybody see that?
A nation of owl fanciers.
Because there's nature's truthfulness bursting through.
That's a shame, isn't it?
Is that a shame?
Yeah, because owls are lovely creatures.
Children love them.
Not that lovely.
You know, not anymore.
No one likes to be an owl now, do they?
Yeah.
What?
The end.
Here's Peter, Bjorn and Jon.
I told you things I did before Told you how I used to be Would you go along with someone like me?
If you knew my story word for word Had all of my history Would you go along with someone like me?
I
No one will surprise me unless you do I can tell there's something going on Ours seems to disappear Everyone is leaving, I'm still with you It doesn't matter what we do We are going too
We can stick around and see this night through And we don't care about the young folks Talking about the young stuff And we don't care about the old folks Talking about the old stuff too And we don't care about our own folks Talking about our own stuff All we care about is talking
What are you doing?
I'm freestyling.
Freestyling over Peter, Bjorn and John.
It's going to be a valuable remix of that song.
Yeah.
I've got a version with Joe Cornish whistling on the end.
Doing it's freestyle with Lynn.
No, I haven't.
That was Young Folks by Peter, Bjorn and John.
This is Adam and Joe here on BBC6 music.
It's time now for my session track.
This is pulled from the John Peel Sessions archives and it is by the band Tortoise who come from Chicago.
I believe that tortoise a variously featured members of other bands including Jim O'Rourke an artist in his own right who was he's very good He's great isn't he a brilliant solo artist also produced Wilco and Sonic Youth maybe he's like the extra member of Sonic Youth now I can't remember and Also members of a band called the sea and cake.
I'm very good.
Yeah, they're excellent an offshoot.
Maybe I'd like tortoise I
i'm sure you would if i like those two their classic album is um considered to be an album called millions now living will never die and uh uh lisa stop doing the windy hand signal i'm just explaining who tortoise are for people who are interested i'm sure many people are very bored by what i'm saying okay and i know you're one of them but i'm talking to wind up come on wind up two people session tracks
who are interested in this and taking notes about tortoise.
Right, I'm taking notes.
Anyway, this is not from that classic album.
It's a track from an album called TNT, which is also amazing.
And it's got one of the most long, pretentious names ever in the history of music.
But I believe it's taken from a kind of art poem.
It's called In Sarah Mencken Christ and Beethoven, there were men and women by tortoise from the Peel Sessions.
Adam's pick of the BBC archive.
Lovely, isn't it?
That's lovely.
It's like a lovely dream.
That's a slightly truncated version of Tortoise's Peel Session with the track called In Sarah Mencken, Christ and Beethoven, they were men and women.
Now it's time for the news on BBC six music read by Nicola and Ruth.
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Digital TV.
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No early pull-out from Iraq, Farmers in Crisis and Murray Triumphant.
And in Six Music News, Spectre loses lead lawyer The Shins on the importance of festivals and holds steady inspire comic books.
BBC Six Music.
It's 7.30, I'm Nicola Gibson.
Gordon Brown has ruled out an early withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
He says British soldiers still have an important job to do.
Our correspondent Norman Smith says the Prime Minister wants to dampen speculation that the government's about to set a timetable for withdrawal.
There is a concern in Downing Street that there is an expectation building up in the media, amongst commentators, amongst politicians, that we are heading for some sort of early pull-out from Iraq.
There's a warning that farmers are at breaking point and meat prices will have to rise.
Consultants Deloitte say feed costs have doubled in a year and farmers could go out of business unless they pass the increase on to customers.
Researchers claim the government's investment in free nursery places hasn't worked.
They say children starting school in England are no better at maths or language skills than children were six years ago.
Hundreds of people have been protesting on the streets of Athens that the Greek government's failure to control raging forest fires.
They accuse ministers of being too slow to react.
Two teenaged boys are recovering after being shot at the Notting Hill Carnival.
Police say a hard core of young men came to fight and cause trouble.
The campaign group has called for a ban on television ads for alcohol before nine in the evening.
Alcohol Concern says thousands of children see the ads while watching programs like The Simpsons, Coronation Street and The X Factor.
Britain's number one tennis player Andy Murray is through to the second round of the US Open after beating Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay in straight sets.
It was his first Grand Slam match since missing Wimbledon and the French Open with a wrist injury, and that made victory even sweeter.
That result meant so much to us, more than a lot of the results I had earlier in the year.
The weather dry with sunny spells in southern England and South Wales, other places showers.
Now with 6Music News, here's Ruth Bonds.
BBC 6Music.
Or Phil Spector's lead lawyer,
Bruce Cutler announced yesterday that he is leaving the music producer's murder case because of a difference of opinion on strategy.
It's not clear if he quit or if Spector fired him.
Cutler has been absent from the trial for weeks so he could appear on a syndicated TV show.
He told Superior Court Judge that there's nothing I can do for Mr Spector.
I can no longer effectively represent him.
Defense attorney Roger Rosen has stepped in.
In other6musicnews this morning, the Shins played the Reading and Leeds festivals this weekend before heading back to the States.
Frontman James Mercer told us that festivals are essential for bands to reach large audiences in the current singles-obsessed climate.
The way people are receiving music nowadays in a way is almost old-fashioned in that it's songs, you know?
And that's how my dad grew up.
And he would buy singles.
He'd buy 45s.
They didn't have albums.
He wouldn't buy an Elvis Presley album, you know?
So, it's weird, it's futuristic and it's all fashion at the same time, I guess.
And finally, The Hold Steady's latest album, Boys and Girls in America, has inspired a comic book, which is available to buy on the band's website.
That's six music news, your next bulletin's at eight.
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 Theon Regan will be backing himself to scoop the gold.
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.
Is that I am but your hound They said in fear I'd slay me trembling Cause now it seems that I am out here on my own And I'm feeling so undone That I had to turn to the great streets and the broken roads Some calling some some calling
Welcome to paradise A gunshot rings out at the station Another urchin snaps and left dead on his own It makes me wonder why I'm scared But such a tease and it's now feeling like I'm home And I'm never gonna go
I wanna take you through a wasteland I'd like to form my own Welcome to paradise
Give me life, I know, that I'm never gonna die Now I have to turn to the fresh leaves and the broken bones Some common salt, some golden eyes I wanna take you to a wasteland of tomorrow Welcome to paradise
That's Green Day with Welcome to Paradise.
This is Adam and Joe here on Six Music.
We're filling in for Sean Keveny for a couple of weeks.
And this is our second week.
We're having a good time.
And we've inherited a number of Sean's features, his swarthy good looks, his long legs.
I'm joking, of course.
I'm talking about audio features, sonic features.
And one of them that he does on this show where we're told is called Band Aid.
And it's some kind of
effort to raise money for
The person with the most votes gets to play their track in its entirety.
And that's exactly what we're doing this week.
And I'm going to speak to one of our featured artists right now.
And we have him on the line.
Are you there?
Hello.
Hi.
What's your name?
My name's Joe.
Joe Cornish.
Joe Cornish.
Hi.
Hi.
It's exciting.
Are you excited to be part of Band Aid this week?
Very excited just to be on the radio.
Yeah, well it's a great opportunity.
It's a great opportunity for a young artist And perhaps you could tell us a little bit about your track.
What's it called first of all?
My tracks called it's sort of a it's sort of an ambient techno track.
Yeah, it's called European supermarket Yes, and it's kind of a it's kind of a song about what it's like to go abroad and
to Europe and go into a supermarket, how exciting it is to, how exciting and confusing it is to go shopping in a supermarket in Europe.
All the different products, etc.
All the products, it can be confusing.
And well, you should just listen to the track.
It's really danceable.
It's intriguing.
It's mysterious.
It's kind of a bit like Kraftwerk, crossed with maybe the Pet Shop Boys.
It's really, really good.
That's a beguiling sounding mix.
Shall we have a quick listen to a clip right now?
Yeah.
That's tantalizing.
That's amazing.
Whereabouts in the song does that happen?
Is that a clip from the middle there or right at the beginning?
No, that's about, I'd say, 10 seconds into the song.
Yeah.
How long is the whole song, if you don't mind me asking?
The song's two minutes.
Two minutes?
Yeah, songs are getting shorter because kids get bored really easily.
Sure.
So there's been a sort of agreement across the industry to cut down the length of songs.
Well, that sounds fantastic.
Remind us of the name of the track again, shopping in... No, it's called European Supermarket, Adam.
European Supermarket.
European Supermarket.
That's how the chorus goes.
Okay, good one.
Well, listen, Joe Cornish, thanks very much.
Vote for me!
Vote for Joe Cornish, thanks very much indeed for talking to us.
Very shortly, we'll have our other Band-Aid competitor on the phone, and we'll be chatting to them about their track.
But right now, here's KT Tunstall.
Wait, hold on!
Say you to me, you're a bird with an eye for anything shiny Searching the land for a hero of a man
You say I need More than my fair share of attention But I think you know That just isn't so underneath I felt the fire of a burning question Tearing me apart Right from the very start And now I see That it don't take a trick of the light to excite me So strong, so long, you will see
Hold on to what you've been given lately Hold on to what you know you've got Hold on to what you've been given lately Hold on, cause the world will turn if you're ready
A heart of gold, an old hand, young shoulder It's quiet and lovely, become a part of me And now I see, throw my hand full of names and a thousand faces One light burning, free of sleep I was tired of January, I was tired of June I thought the change had come
That was Katie Tunstall with Hold On, this is Adam and Jo on BBC 6 Music.
As Adam was explaining before that track, this morning we're launching an exciting competition, it's called Band Aid, and we'd like you to go to our website, what's the website Jenny?
Log on to our little site there and we'd like you to vote.
We'd like you to choose between two tracks, one of which is by the exciting new ambient techno artist Joe Cornish and the other of which is by an artist who I think is on the line right nigh.
Hello, are you there?
Hi Joe, yes hello.
Hello, what's your name?
Hi, my name's Adam Buxton.
Hey Adam.
I'm from London.
From London.
Where are you calling from right now specifically?
I'm from London.
But yeah, but where are you actually calling from in London?
Oh sorry, sorry, London.
London, okay.
Now Adam, you've submitted a track that we're going to put up for Band Aid this week here on The Breakfast Show.
Can you tell us a little bit about it?
Yes, this is a track called Jane's Brain and it's a rock and roll track.
It's got guitars in it and drums and a bass and it's mainly for rocking and it's
A rock track.
OK.
And you wrote this and perform it yourself, Adam?
Yes, it's entirely performed by me, Adam Buxton, and it's called Jane's Brain.
And it was inspired by a girl called Jane and the idea that she might have a brain and she would use it to think about things.
And what was it inspired by?
It wasn't inspired by anything.
I just made it up when I first
just did the music.
Okay.
Let's hear a little, let's hear a little snatch of that record.
Okay.
Wow.
So, so you, did you hear, that sounds really good Adam.
Yeah, thanks very much.
That's the bit, that's the bit of the song where she's thinking about cars and fancy dresses.
Yeah.
And so did, did you hear the clip from Joe's track earlier a few minutes ago?
Yeah, the German techno one.
It was about shopping.
Yeah.
Yeah, I didn't like it.
You didn't like it?
No, I thought it was... Not as good as yours?
Not as good as mine.
No offence to Joe.
You know, I think he's really good.
He's a really good artist.
But I don't like that kind of music.
You know what I mean?
I think it's a little bit for pansies.
So who do you think is going to win in this battle?
Well, I think there's a good chance that Adam Buxton and me could win because I do the rock and people generally like rock.
Yeah.
Well it's not what our polls are showing us Adam.
We've got a lot of support for Joe Cornish out there I think.
So you know, prepare yourself to take a blow.
Thanks for coming on Adam.
So there we go.
There we go listeners, log on to www.bbc.co.uk forward slash six music.
You can hear both of those snatches of the tracks and it's a very simple interface.
You can vote for your favourite with just one click.
We'll be doing this all week and we'll be playing the winner in full at the end of the week and now it's trail time.
I'm Calvin Harris.
In session today.
Calvin Harris.
I've got hugs for you if you would mind.
In session this morning after eleven thirty.
On six music.
Yeah that'll be great.
In session on Gideon Code show.
Harris in the hub.
That'll be brilliant.
Playing live.
There's a party round at my hub.
He's not gonna have hugs for us.
Hugs?
Yeah he's only got hugs for you if you were born in the 80s.
Oh.
He likes much younger ladies.
Oh yeah we were born in the 50s.
We don't get anything except uh handouts.
Now it's time for my archive session track this is my selection from John Peel's uh classic recordings this is from January 1993.
Now when I looked down the list I was excited to see Corner Shop.
Because you love a bit of Tajinder Singh.
I do but then when I got the actual CD it was very different from what I expected.
It shocked you didn't it?
I thought it was going to be sort of noodley, jangly, dancey sort of fun business and it kind of is but in a much more punky fashion and Adam here had to give me a little lesson about the early history of Corner Shop.
Yeah, not that I'm an expert, but I certainly remember them in the old days staring out from the NME as a quite furious little punk outfit.
And this is from those days, you know, with these Peel sessions, he was so prescient, so ahead of his time, so ahead of the curve that a lot of the bands that one digs out really have a very different sound, a very primitive sound.
Yeah, exactly.
This is right at the beginning.
Yeah.
So here's Corner Shop.
This track's called England's Dreaming.
It was recorded on the 17th of January, 1993.
Joe's pick of the BBC archive.
Shut up shop, get on the streets and fight!
The power's a B!
Every morning on the railway track I take the 804 and it brings me back Before I think you know, don't tell me that you don't With experience only getting worse, not better
There's racist, sexist, homophobics fight!
The powers that be!
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour.
Fight the power!
We don't want to, of the people of Earth, we don't know God.
We finally have to fight.
We don't want to, of the people of Earth, we don't know God.
We finally have to fight.
We don't want to, of the people of Earth, we don't know God.
We finally have to fight.
wow a very different kind of corner shop there for you this morning uh not your traditional corner shop more a corner shop selling molotov cocktails uh dangerous fireworks chainsaws and bother boots that's right uh but good stuff there man from the peel sessions a track called uh england's dreaming it that that goes to show you what uh
how how artists can develop and change it does doesn't it doesn't it because when was their hit when was brim full of asher what year was it 97 i think 97 so that's four years between that and brim full of asher so so what you're saying is in that four year period they changed yes
Yeah, it's an interesting theory.
But they changed quite a lot, Adam, is what I'm saying.
I see.
It's what I'm trying to say to kids out there who might have a sort of a thrashy, unkempt band.
Right, right.
And their mums and dads are going, that noise is awful, it'll never get anywhere.
Don't listen to mum and dad.
No, something refined always forms from the sputum.
Exactly.
Keep going.
You know, Gorky's were like that as well.
Really?
The psychotic monkey started out sounding very similar to the track you just played from Corner Shop.
The Arctic monkeys are still like that.
Oh, yeah, but they're good at it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The thing is to play to your strengths and Corner Shop obviously realized that good as they were at that shouty stuff, they were, you know, they're calling lay elsewhere.
And the Gorky's were the same.
They turned into wonderful melodic folksters and the monkeys.
I hope they never stop shouting because they're the best at it.
That's my personal opinion.
Now, here's a public service announcement to all listeners.
We'd like you to get up and feel like being a sex machine.
Tell us I'm ready to get up and do my thing!
I wanna get into it, man, you know.
Like a sex machine, man.
Moving, doing it, you know.
Can I count it all?
One, two, three, four!
Get up.
Get on up.
Get up.
Get on up.
Stay on the scene.
Get on up.
Like a sex machine.
Get on up.
Get up.
Get on up.
Get up.
Get on up.
Stay on the scene.
Get on up.
Like a sex machine.
Get on up.
Get up.
Get on up.
Stay on the scene.
Get on up.
Like a sex machine.
Get on up.
Wait a minute.
Shake your arm.
Then use your palm.
Stay on the scene Like a sex machine You got to have the feeling Should you bone Get it together Right on, right on Get up, get on up Get up, get on up Get up, get on up
Get up, get on up Get up, get on up Get up, get on up You said You said you got You said the feeling You got to get You give him a fever And a cold sweat The way I like it Is the way it is I got mine Don't worry about his
Get up.
Get on up.
Stay on the scene.
Get on up.
Like a sex machine.
Get on up.
Get up.
Get on up.
Get up.
Get on up.
Bobby, should I take him to the bridge?
Go ahead.
Take him on to the bridge.
Take him to the bridge.
Can I take him to the bridge?
Yeah.
Take him to the bridge.
Go ahead.
Hit me now.
Come on.
Stay on the scene.
Like a sex machine.
The way I like.
I got my diggin' He's got his Stay on the scene Like a lovin' machine Stay on the scene Like a lovin' machine Stay on the scene I wanna count it off one more time You wanna hit it like you did on the top, fellas?
Hit it like you did on the top
Get on up, get up, get on up, get up, get on up, get on up, get on up, stay on the scene, get on up, like a loving machine, get on up, get up, get on up, taste, get on up, a piano.
Get up!
Get on up!
Stay on the scene!
Get on up!
Like a sex machine!
Get on up!
You're gonna have to feel it!
Get on up!
Show off your bones!
Get on up!
Get up, get a hood up.
Get up, get a hood up.
And then shake your money maker.
Shake your money maker.
Shake your money maker.
Shake your money maker.
Shake your money maker.
Shake your money maker.
Shake your money maker.
Get up, get a hood up.
Get up.
Get up, get on up Get up, get on up Get up, get on up Can we hit it like we did one more time From the top Can we hit it like that one more time One more time Let's hit it and quit Can we hit it and quit
Yes, you can James.
That's Jimmy Brown with Get Up and Be Sexy or whatever it's called.
Get Up!
I feel like being a sex machine.
Do you remember the first time you ever heard that track?
Yeah.
And it was like, wow, this is the best thing I've ever heard in my life.
I went to the record shop and bought a 12 inch that turned out to be a stupid Megamix.
James Brown megamix it was called the froggy mix in those days that was in the early 80s they should do that all the time do dreadful mega mixes of things but listeners don't don't be a sex machine all day it can be annoying and can get you into legal trouble it's dangerous
It is dangerous, exactly.
And if you're not properly trained... No.
Make sure you've established an intimate relationship with somebody first.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can get into all sorts of trouble and some women get very angry.
Machine-like behaviour generally, it's not good.
Try and be a human.
Yes, exactly.
And with that thought, it's time for the news, read by Nicola and Ruth.
It's 8 o'clock, I'm Nicola Gibson.
Gordon Brown's ruled out an early withdrawal from Iraq.
He says he won't set a timetable for pulling out British troops.
Farmers say they're in crisis because of the rising cost of feeding livestock.
They warn the price of meat is set to soar.
More people have been rescued from forest fires in Greece.
The Greek government's denying it's been slow to react to the emergency.
Campaigners want to ban TV ads for alcohol before nine at night.
They claim the ads are corrupting children staying up to watch programmes like The X Factor.
The weather?
Southern England and South Wales.
Dry and sunny?
Other places?
Showers.
Now with six music news, here's Ruth Barnes.
And our top story this hour, Ronnie Woods put all the current rumours to rest.
The Rolling Stones are not retiring after this tour.
He says they'll never stop.
More on that in our next Bulletin at 8.30.
BBC Six Music.
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Closer to the music that matters.
They'll say your life's a crime Destroy your own good reason
Yeah
That's the way my love is for you That's the way my love is for you
That's quite an adenoidal performance there.
Imagine waking up in bed with Corgan.
He's got a very blunt nose.
That's the Smashing Pumpkins with That's The Way, open brackets, My Love Is, close brackets.
No thank you.
Or maybe a bun.
I'm going to the kitchen.
Is he American?
What nationality was he there?
He puts on an American accent.
Does he?
Yes.
Where's he from?
He's from Scunthorpe.
No, he's not from Scunthorpe.
He's from London.
It's serial thriller time here on the Adam and Jo breakfast show on BBC6 music.
This is the time of the show when we get a caller, a listener who has called to vote for two tracks back to back to give us a chance to have some brekkie.
to have some breakfast I've got a delicious banana you've eaten it already you you like you BBC liar lies that'll be in the papers tomorrow Buxton announced he had a full banana when clearly in plain sight there was a spent banana peel well you never know I might have another one in my bag
It's true.
It's true, isn't it?
I'd be the liar.
Yeah, then you'd be the liar.
Big British castle.
Yeah.
Now, Chris, are you there?
Hello.
How are you doing?
I'm very well, thank you.
Now you're in Norwich, aren't you?
I'm actually from Norwich.
I'm actually in London.
Really?
Well done.
You've made it.
You've made it.
Yeah.
How much is it exciting for you in London?
Do you feel dizzy around the big buildings?
It's terribly exciting.
Is it?
Choked by the by the pollutants.
Yeah, a few less farmers, which is a bit disconcerting, but apart from that, it's all very enjoyable.
Norwich is a nice place though, isn't it?
That's where my... It's a fine city.
My family-in-law are from.
And I like Norwich.
I think it's an exciting place.
And Chris, what do you do... It sounded a bit more convincing.
It didn't sound sincere, did it?
I actually mean that.
I like Norwich a lot.
Chris, what do you do now that you're in London?
I'm a journalist.
Ah, what kind of journalist?
Music journalist.
That's not really a real journalist, though, is it, Chris?
Oh, I don't know about that.
Someone has to write about these things.
What publication do you write for there, Chris?
I write for Virgin Media.
For their web presence?
Web and WAP, mainly.
And WAP?
Ooh, wow.
All very new media.
Do people use WAP?
Um, increasingly so.
Really?
It's not a term you hear said a lot, is it?
No.
It was big about four or five years ago and then people suddenly stopped saying it.
People say mobile internet these days.
Do they?
It sounds a bit snappier.
Nobody, I know.
Well, WAP, they've got to think of a new phrase for WAP because it just sounds rubbish.
Any suggestions?
LAP.
Well, what is it precisely, Chris?
What does WAP stand for?
Wireless?
Wireless Application Protocol, I believe.
Wireless.
OK, what about space vision?
That's much better.
Because the pictures and the words come from space.
Brilliant.
I'll come back to Richard Branson today.
Thanks a lot, if you could.
Are you mates with Richard Branson?
Sadly not, no.
I really want to be mates with Richard Branson.
It's got to be easy.
He's got that amazing island.
What's it called, Necker?
Necker Island.
Yeah.
We met Branson, man.
We were on the plane one time.
We didn't meet him.
He went around and sort of paperly blessed everybody on the plane.
He happened to be on the same flight as us one time when we were going to America, the land of dreams.
And he came down and shook hands with every single person on the flight.
And listen, I was excited about it.
I was really genuinely excited.
It was like a visit from the headmaster.
Adam was excited because he knew the plane was much less likely to crash.
That's true.
I always feel happier if there's a famous person on board.
Have you met him, Chris?
I haven't met.
What's going on?
Now, Chris, we've got an anecdote here about you.
This was supplied by you to our producer and she's transcribed it.
And I'm now going to read it out.
Chris went to a stag do and the actor who plays Des Barnes in Coronation Street was there.
It wasn't his stag do, nor did he know the stag.
He was just there.
Yeah, I did write that, although I didn't write it in the third person as you just presented it.
Is that a true story, Chris?
It is, yes.
It was up in Hull last year.
A good friend of mine, Emlyn, was getting married.
And Dez Barnes was staying in the same hotel and we kept sitting in the kind of activities that we'd planned.
What kind of activities had you planned?
That sounds slightly sinister.
Sam Castle are making... Motor racing.
Dancing.
No killings.
No killing, man.
No in whole.
No.
No, exactly.
They don't allow it, no.
And man, that's quite an anecdote you've got there.
Surely you've accrued more exciting celebrity encounters than that in your time as a music journalist.
Yes, but that's, you know, not involving the former Coronation Street stars.
Fair enough, yeah.
You're right, that has a sort of inverse glamour that's more powerful than meeting a famous person.
It's the sixth music demographic, I believe.
Exactly, that's very well tailored.
That's right.
Now, Chris, can you tell us about the tracks you've chosen today, please?
Um, Doves, There Goes The Fear.
Oh, yeah.
Now, was that from their big selling album?
Yeah, the last broadcast, their second album.
That was the one that sort of broke them through, wasn't it?
Yeah, it's just a superb track.
The drumming at the end is mind-blowing.
Yeah, drumming at the end, we'll keep an ear out for that.
And what's the second track there, Chris?
It's Oh Yeah by Ash off their debut album, 1977.
And we're told that you're in the video, is that right?
I am indeed, yes.
Are there lots of people in the video?
Sorry?
Are there a lot of people in the video?
Yeah, there's about 15 to 20 young youngsters.
I was about 16 at the time.
Really?
Wow.
OK, well, we'll kind of mooching around.
We'll try and imagine you bopping around, even though we don't know what you look like.
We'll just try and guess.
Chris, thank you so much for talking to us today.
We really appreciate it.
And thanks for your choices.
They're excellent.
Not a problem.
Take care.
Have a good day.
And here is Doves.
Thank you.
Have a good day.
Bye.
Bye.
I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you
Let's do it
Sick or sleepy
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One June evening, she would come to my house Still in her school skirt and her summer blouse Talking too long, wasn't like anymore Was the best time of my life Beastie lips, kisses for everyone Then she'd whisper
As your hair came undone in my hands Oh yeah
After the night I felt so good Everything was alright Her thoughts were lost In the night sky I remember everything Don't know why these things ever end I sometimes wish it wasn't so now again
Still I don't regret one thing Oh yeah She was taking me over Oh yeah It was the start of the summer Oh yeah
Ooh...
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It's more of a sexy thing, isn't it?
Than a drug thing, I think.
I think it is, yeah.
It sounds appealing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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It's been, it feels like ages since we heard the text the nation jingle.
It does, doesn't it?
We didn't have it yesterday because it was a special retro day.
It was almost four days ago that we lost it.
Oh, it's lovely to hear it again.
It's great to hear it again in its slightly longer form.
Yeah.
Making it clear that even though it's called Text the Nation, you're welcome to submit entries as an email.
or as a handwritten letter, a fax, a telegram, any way you want to.
Yeah, the text number is 64046.
The email is adamandjoe.sixmusicatbbc.co.uk.
Today's text the nation question is, what's the biggest argument you've ever had over the stupidest, smallest thing?
Something that started out as just the germ of a little discussion, and then it turned into a disagreement.
via by way of a contretemps and then it turned into a giant cataclysmic shoutfest and then maybe spiral totally out of control and end in violence or even death.
Now Adam and me used to make a kind of a homemade comedy show for Channel 4 a few years back and we worked very closely together under high pressure circumstances trying to make little films with toys and stuff
and we used to kind of build up a bit of you know bubbly anger and fury with each other uh but being you know good people we try and repress it as all human beings do good middle class boys you just repress it keep it inside try and be polite but this is what we're getting at eventually all that repressed fury will bubble up
but caused by something nothing to do with The Repressed Fury.
And now we were saying yesterday, Adam and I suddenly had a huge argument about which was better, the N64 or the PlayStation.
We were going to put one of these consoles in one of our links.
And I insisted it was the N64.
Adam thought that was a stupid idea, that we'd get more viewers if we put the, you know, the argument's going to start again now.
If we put the more popular PlayStation in the link, I was.
Yeah, because I was thinking, you know, that we have to maximize the amount of people who are going to be able to get the joke of this link and respond to it.
And it was it was about the fact that I think the link was something like if you play video games a lot, then you start to dream about them.
No, you can, if you play video games for a long time, then you can actually play them in your mind when you close your eyes without actually having a console.
And I was saying, come on, you've got to do Tomb Raider, man.
That was the big game at the time, Tomb Raider.
That's a game that you can just imagine.
You can watch Lara Croft's bottom bouncing around in caves.
And it was like, no way man, it's all about the N64.
Mario Kart, I thought it was all about Mario Kart.
And I was like, no.
But anyway, the point is that years of repressed anger between us bubbled up over the issue of the N64 and the Playstation.
The argument wasn't about that at all, was it?
no it was about it's just about how tired and frustrated and in love we were that's right wasn't it and it ended up with us kissing very passionately on the little bed that we had there so if you've got a similar story text 64046 what's the biggest argument you've ever had over the stupidest thing we're looking for a real imbalance here something really pathetic and an argument that may have turned physical
you know, a spectacular fight over something really retarded.
I've got a couple of examples as well from my home life that I'll tell you in just a second.
But right now, here's the Sundays, or maybe just Sundays.
I can't quite remember which.
All I remember about Sundays or the Sundays is that the lady has a beautiful whiny voice.
And here's a track called Here's Where the Story Ends.
People run out of places I go Make me feel downtime And I can see how people look down Here on the inside
People I see, weary of me Showing my good side Like you see how people look down
It's that little souvenir of a terrible year, which makes my eyes feel sore.
Oh, I never should've said the most that you've read for all.
There's that little souvenir of a terrible year Which makes me wonder why There's the memories in your shed That make me turn red So close, so close, so close Lazy and loud, places I go Make you feel so tired
People look down on the outside For hits where the story ends For hits where the story ends
It's that little souvenir Of a terrible year This makes my eyes feel sore And whoever would've thought The best you brought You're all I have
Oh, the devil in me said Go down to the shed I know where I belong But the only thing I ever really wanted to say Was wrong, was wrong, was wrong It's that little souvenir Of a California This makes me smile
So I cynically, cynically say, well, in that way, surprise, surprise
That's the Sundays with Here's Where the Story Ends.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6 music.
It's just coming up to half past eight.
Just to remind you, we're in the middle of our Text the Nation feature.
A very important feature.
It's a kind of statistical survey.
It's the nation's favourite feature.
Yeah.
The text number is six four zero four six We're looking for the biggest arguments you ever had over the tiniest things something really trivial that turned into just mushroomed into a way out of control Argument really heated and you know the matter the consequences the better We want to hear exactly what the nature of the argument was and where it went I'm gonna tell you some stories from my home life
Yeah.
Uh oh.
After, after the news and some more music.
Um, because man, you're not going to believe the kind of crazy stuff that goes on in your house.
It goes on in my house.
Also a couple of things that I do that are coming back to me now from our childhood at school and a few arguments that we had.
Anyway, before that, uh, we have the national, international and music news read for you by Nicola and Ruth.
And in 6Music News, stones will never stop, another download store launches and the Young Knives prepare new albums.
It's 8.30, I'm Nicola Gibson.
Gordon Brown says there'll be no early pull-out from Iraq.
He says Britain's soldiers still have an important job to do.
The Foreign Secretary David Miliband says before British forces are withdrawn, we have to build up the Iraqis' ability to run their own country.
We want to make sure that as we change the deployment of our forces, we have Iraqi forces in place with the deployment, the intelligence, the capabilities to take our place.
Forest fires in Greece are threatening dozens more villages.
More people have been rescued by helicopter.
Researchers claim the billions of pounds spent on nursery education hasn't worked.
A team from Durham University say children starting school are no better at maths or language skills than people's were six years ago.
There's a warning that farmers are at breaking point and that lease prices will have to rise.
Consultants in Deloitte say feed costs have doubled in a year and farmers could go out of business unless they pass on the increase to customers.
Mahmood Malar is a butcher in London.
Lamb prices might go up to about 30% and it might stay up there for a while.
I think beef might go up to about 40% to 45%.
And I can see an end to cheap meat prices.
Police say this year's Notting Hill Carnival attracted a hard core of people determined to commit crime and cause trouble.
Two boys aged 14 and 17 were shot.
A survey suggests one in four people don't save any money.
The Post Office says nearly three-quarters of them say it's because they have no spare cash.
Britain's top tennis player Andy Murray is through to the second round of the US Open.
He beat Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay in straight sets.
The weather?
Dry with sunny spells in southern England and South Wales.
Other places will have showers.
And with Six Music News, here's Ruth Bonds.
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Well, Ronnie Wood has set the record straight on rumours the Rolling Stones were going to retire after finishing their Bigger Bang tour.
The band have just wrapped it up.
It's been two years on the road and they finished at London's O2 Arena.
Ronnie, who turned 60 in June, says they all plan to take a break, but also that they will tour again.
They will never stop.
In other 6music news this morning, Nokia has announced the launch of a global download store this week.
Go Play is expected to include the unveiling of a flagship store on London's Regent Street and a new handset.
This follows a recent glut of American-based online music store debuts, including Universal's six-month MP3 trial,
Walmart's digital rights management free download store and G-Box, which offers music via click-throughs from Google Ads.
And finally, the Young Knives have been talking to us about the follow-up to their Mercury-nominated debut, Voices of Animals and Young Men.
Singer Henry gave us a hint as to its sound.
I think it's a bit more psychedelic.
And you know how the Stone Roses, not that we're as good as the Stone Roses, don't get me wrong, we're well rubbish compared to them.
Their album had that sort of East Coast kind of psychedelic.
I think it's got an element of that and wow, it's heavier, yeah.
That's 6 Music News on ex-Bulletins at 9.
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 Theon Regan will be backing himself to scoop the gold.
And join us for a trip to Leeds as we get the skinny on the city's music scene.
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It's the same old boring Sunday morning old man tells, what's in the jar?
Mum's in the kitchen, it's Sunday dinner, her bed's built, thrown in by the jars.
And Johnny is out standing in bed, sitting in the dark.
And I know the name of it.
This is the sound.
This is the sound of the suburbs.
This is the sound of the suburbs.
Every lousy Monday morning heat from death go crashing on the road.
Ten o'clock brought more sirens trying to beat me.
Won't leave me alone.
This is the sound of the solos This is the sound of the solos
This is the sound of the summers This is the sound of the summers
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This is the sound of the silence This is the sound of the silence This is the sound of the silence This is the sound of the silence
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It's the nation's favourite feature.
And before that, incidentally, you heard the members with Sound of the Suburbs.
Yeah, they were being evocative about what the sound of the suburbs could be during most of the song.
And then at the end, they play the sound of a sort of railway station tannoy, thereby being very explicit about what the sound of the suburbs is.
That's right.
That was also used as the theme to a wonderful show called Sound of the Suburbs with John Peel.
I remember that show.
And that was a great show.
I wonder if you can hunt that down on online.
I'm sure you can.
Shall I go and try?
Could you try right now?
No.
Oh.
Because we're in the middle of Text the Nation, our exciting survey of the nation's opinions on important issues.
And today we're asking you what the biggest argument you ever had over the smallest thing was.
And we've had some pretty good examples come in.
Would you like to hear it?
Yes, please.
Yes, please.
OK.
Ollie in Exeter has texted.
He says the only time I've ever punched someone in the face was when a friend refused to desist from claiming that Steely Dan a crap.
Punched him in the face for that?
It was on his 21st birthday too.
It's always amazing, isn't it?
Music arguments certainly have the potential to spiral way out of control.
It's happened to me on a number of occasions.
Punching someone in the face.
But punching him in the face is a bit much, isn't it?
Over Steely Dan.
You'd think a Steely Dan fan would settle the argument with wit and wordsmithery.
Yeah, that's amazing, Ollie.
And not resort to face punching.
How?
That's just depressing.
I'm not sure Fagan and Becker would approve of that kind of behaviour, Ollie.
But thanks for admitting it to me anyway.
I had a massive argument one time, maybe you were even there, Joe, one time around at Mark's house and Dom was there and we got into this conversation about the... These names won't mean much to the listeners.
but I'm putting it in context with you people can relate everyone knows a mark exactly exactly that people like human beings and we were talking about using music and adverts it was around the time that play by Moby was a big album and he was using a lot of the tracks for adverts and stuff and I was
Towing the whole line about it being a sellout.
No, it's no good.
Music cheapens the music, you know.
And Dom was very fervently on the other side and he was like, you're just a music snob.
It doesn't change the music in any way whatsoever.
It doesn't matter.
Still, the music is still there and it's not a problem.
And this argument just went way out of control and ended up dominating the whole evening.
There were other people around at that point, you know what I mean?
But after a while, all the other conversations fizzled out and it was just me and Dom facing off about the rights and wrongs of,
music in adverts it was pretty embarrassing how embarrassing it was embarrassing here's one from jessica and cardiff the only argument that my boyfriend and i have have ever had was just after we moved house when i discovered that he'd made a unilateral decision to throw away some of those plastic containers that takeaways come in i can't remember being so angry ever before or again and we both ended up crying
that's brilliant jessica very good isn't it amazing how irrelevant things can take on you know an enormous resonance i really like that he what he threw so what were they collecting them yeah i guess so she had a little collection of them because you know this is a a sexist generalization but ladies like to put things in airtight
They love tough boy.
Generally in fact if there was a contemporary remake of the Clint Eastwood film The Beguiled it would be to do with women putting a cowboy in an airtight box and sealing it tightly so it was kept fresh.
I'm just extrapolating but I imagine that's what happened and whereas men like to free things.
That's true.
They like to set things free they don't like things in boxes.
Yeah particularly their manhood.
Hence their conflict.
Yeah one more quick one.
I tell you what, why don't we go to your breakfast single of the week and then we can hear some more of these in a second.
That's a good idea.
This is my breakfast single of the week.
This is by King Creosote.
This is a lovely single.
It's called You've 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 Pawan There's yet another role
That piqued the interest Of a cheat, of a lie, of a scumbag That's that of my child
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
Do you take a test?
Try and master this, it seems so worth the time.
No clue, do you?
Yes, I speak of this already feather in the sky.
No clue, do you?
Yes, I speak of this already feather in the sky.
No clue, do you?
Yes, I speak of this already feather in the sky.
No clue, do you?
Yes, I speak of this already feather in the sky.
This scarlet is a vital step towards the future Even cleaner, every green is envious to the sky I'm not scared to go from pro-post-pro down to the strong
King Creosote with you've no clue, do you?
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music.
That's our single of the week.
He's starting a tour from the 12th of September.
You'll be able to see him in Scotland, in Bristol, in Cardiff and Southampton.
And he's fantastic live.
Really brilliant.
His music almost sounds better than it does recorded.
Right.
He's got the musical chops.
He really has.
He's brilliant.
King Creosote there.
We'll be playing that again tomorrow.
Now we're in the middle of Text the Nation, the nation's favourite radio feature where we ask you to text in and
you know take part in kind of a sort of a survey type thing you said the way you said the nation's favorite radio feature you just tossed it off there like with yeah like it was like it was a real fact you know it's because should i tell you why come on it's because someone texted in yesterday and said that i sound sarcastic all the time
So I've decided to try and occasionally sound a bit sincere.
That's easily done.
I tell you why, listeners, sometimes one can sound sarcastic on the radio.
It's nerves, mainly.
It's just trying to think of, like, what are you going to say next?
Well, you know what I mean?
I do know what you mean.
It's like not being entirely comfortable because we're not used to doing it.
I do know what you mean.
That's better.
You sound a lot better then.
Yeah, that's a sarcastic noise, isn't it?
A little bit sarcastic.
Nope.
So here we go.
So this is our text competition.
We're asking you to text in stuff that arguments that sort of mushroomed out of tiny trivial little incidents.
And we've got some good ones here.
Does that sound sincere?
That sounds... Oh, they're really good.
It's some really good ones.
Now you just sound like a wookie.
That's Yoda, wait, come on.
Our family have those fridge magnets that are letters.
And I've always had a certain phrase spelt out on the fridge using some of these letters.
One time, one time, Lisa our producer's giggling, I can't concentrate.
One time I saw a letter had been moved to create another phrase and I asked my brother if he could change it back.
He told me that was silly.
There was no point in having alphabet fridge magnets if he couldn't use them all.
I told him there were plenty of spare letters that he could use.
It escalated into him shouting really loud at me and leaving the kitchen with my dinner uneaten on the table to run upstairs, slam my bedroom door really loud.
That's excellent.
When my mum came up to tell me off, I just got even more annoyed and wouldn't talk to anybody until the next day.
Yeah, boy.
That's brilliant.
An all day sulk.
You tell them.
I feel like having an all day sulk.
I haven't had one of those for years.
That's cool.
When I was a kid, my sulks would last three or four days as an adult.
Three or four days?
Yeah, you know, sometimes over something major.
Holy moly.
Now, the longest sulk I do is probably 45 minutes.
Right, yeah.
The longest sulk I can recall in the last 10 years was maybe two hours.
Was 10 years.
And then it just becomes embarrassing after a while.
It's just boring sulking after a bit.
Yeah, yeah.
You don't realise it as a kid, but you know it's a bit of a waste of life.
Who was that text from there?
That was from Ash.
That wasn't a text presumably, that was an email, that would have taken ages to text.
Yeah.
Ash, thanks for that, that was amazing.
Hey is that lovely Ash who hangs out outside the studio?
Possibly, we met someone very nice called Ash yesterday and she... She's our stalker.
She drew a picture of us, it was really good.
Here's another one, this is from Jez in Manchester.
I actually, I hope this isn't true Jez, I actually ended up self-harming after a huge and long lasting row with my wife.
Did you read this before you?
Yeah I did.
I'm being brave.
Not wishing to sound like I live in a sitcom but the argument was about wallpaper.
Not choosing it though, just putting it up.
That was quite sad but it's all good now.
Hope this helps Jez in Manchester.
You see I had to read that out as a service to Jez because he's in treatment.
It doesn't sound much like a sitcom Jez.
At least it sounds like a sitcom created by Marilyn Manson.
Okay, here's another one.
Let's have a more upbeat one.
Here we go.
I had a row with my sister over a black bin liner for sledging, which ended up with me punching her in the nose and she bled in the snow.
You what?
from Fiona in Edinburgh.
These are hopefully childhood things, not like fully grown adults.
But that sounds like an epic sort of Citizen Kaney, a traumatic childhood incident, you know, a sort of Freudian thing that you'll be suffering the after effects of for the rest of your life.
She's going to be, she's going to have a massive grudge against you.
Let's have some more in a second.
Keep texting those 64046 or adamandjoe.sixmusic at bbc.co.uk.
Keep them coming in.
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There's a girl that wants to stop Thinking about having a couple of kids
Simply and we need it Her name is Carrie And on the road for so long She wants to live in a place that has a number and a name
Find love as an anchor before the courage is gone She really loves him Priscilla She really loves him Priscilla She really loves him I tell you
She really loves him
To live life outside the world To break the cross that bears her name
Need something better than running away She really loves him, I take you
She really loves him, Priscilla She really loves him, Priscilla She really loves him, I tell you Go away, queen of the highway
Oh.
Oh that's lovely isn't it.
So you bat your lashes but why would you bat for lashes?
Bat for lashes?
Maybe you have got no eyelashes.
Yeah.
And there's a man with some and he's having a competition he's saying okay I'm only gonna give these lashes to someone who can really bat their eyes really well.
Oh.
Because then it'll really pay off.
I thought it was a cricket competition when you started describing it
really bad for lashes exactly so listen chaps maybe they're all bondage freaks and they're having their bondage people you know who like those bondage people that have those horrible magazines and stuff oh i hate them uh every year they have a cricket match that's right and the winner gets whipped i think that's it it could be that or the other thing is it could be a sort of gothic thing
right are they still called goths you know the kids that dress up like yes yeah yeah or are they have they got a special new name anyway um you know i think they're called hoobs hoobs maybe the hoobs who don't have proper eyelashes they use a tiny bat like a flying creature and they oh yes put it onto their
And the bat flutters its wings.
Exactly and that works in the same way that lashes would do.
There you go.
They use a bat for lashes.
That's that name explained.
That's cleared up that problem.
That was the name of the band incidentally lovely Natasha Khan who is the who is bat for lashes basically isn't she and that song was called Priscilla.
Now we've been asking you to text in the biggest rows and arguments you've ever had over the smallest, most trivial things.
Here's one from Jane in Glasgow.
This is a good one, another music one.
My boyfriend stormed out of the house and broke up with me when I argued that Elvis was more successful than Carl Perkins merely because he was white.
Hmmm.
From Jane in Glasgow.
It's a big debate, a big issue, but maybe not big enough to break up a relationship.
I thought Carl Perkins was white as well though.
That shows how much I know.
Uh, here's another one from Claire in Shepherds Bush.
Uh, my ex and I had an almighty row that ended in us wondering why we were still together.
But it started with a tiff over the rationale of the license fee.
That wasn't why we split up, though it would have saved a lot of hassle if it had been.
That's a bit mysterious.
I like it when they, um, I like it when those kind of arguments start over something.
And your girlfriend for no reason or your wife or whatever,
or your husband, or boyfriend, seems to, I was just trying to cover all the bases there, you know it's a big British castle, you can't, you've got to be balanced.
What about interspecies relationships?
Oh for goodness sake, when your alien partner, your animal friend, seemingly for no reason just takes the opposing side, do you know what I mean?
Now you know what, I've taught my lady partner just to say yes.
One of my catchphrases around the house is, just agree with me.
What kind of relationship is that?
No, it's a really good lesson in life.
If someone offers you a point of view, the best way to deal with it is go yes, and make a point of it.
Agree with them, go yes, you're right.
but it could also be said that.
All you have to do is just agree first, then kind of put your argument, but with a note of I'm not sure whether I'm right or not.
It's amazing the difference it makes to your life.
Genuinely.
The problem with that is that after a while she may just lose the will to live, and she just goes, yes, and stops there.
And then in 20, 30 years time... That's what I'm aiming for.
You've just... You're right.
You're right.
Because I usually am.
Partners will often take just the opposing side for a mad reason, end up sort of arguing on behalf of something totally outrageous.
Well this is the whole point of this texting thing, isn't it?
That you're angry for other reasons and then the person puts a point of view and you just decide to take the opposite view, you know, for illogical reasons.
My partner does that.
My life partner, who I'm married to.
Harry.
Harry.
and um she i i call her harry and she um basically like sometimes i just like get completely furious and just say you don't really believe what you're arguing about do we had this massive row one time about the concept of britishness right like is there such a thing as britishness what would you say to that i'd say you're boring
Obviously I'm boring.
That's a given.
I'm watching telly.
But with the, with that in mind, would you say there was such a thing as, as typical things that are British to everyone?
Yes, I'd agree.
Yes.
You see, here's my, here, you see, I'm now going to put my eyes into practice.
Yes.
I think that's true.
But seriously, engage me on this.
Just, just cause otherwise, all right, well, my theory
Yes, there were.
There were things that were quintessentially British that the rest of the world, like cliches of Britishness, things like that.
Harry disagreed.
Big Ben and Grenadier Guardsman and red phone boxes and stuff.
My partner wasn't having any of it.
She said, no, there's no such thing.
What are you talking about?
No one thinks those things are typically British.
And I just sort of, it was just a logic block, you know, and ended in a massive round.
Do you want to chat to me about it during the news?
I'd love to.
Okay.
Before that, here's the Kaiser chiefs.
You can stop anything It starts with just one and turns to two and three It's only cause you can't
This is Adam and Joel on BBC6 Music.
It's time for the news with Nicola and Ruth.
It's nine o'clock, I'm Nicola Gibson.
Britain's soldiers won't be coming home early from Iraq.
Gordon Brown says they still have a job to do.
The price of meat could soar because of the rising cost of animal feed.
Analysts blame the weather.
The Greek government's denying being slow to respond to forest fires, which have killed more than 60 people.
Demonstrators have been protesting on the streets of Athens at its handling of the emergency.
Police say a hard core of criminals turned up at the Notting Hill Carnival at the weekend determined to fight and cause trouble.
Two boys aged 14 and 17 were shot.
The weather, southern England and south Wales, will be dry and sunny.
Other places will have showers.
Now with six music news, here's Ruth Barnes.
And our top story this hour, Phil Spector's lead lawyer has quit the music producer's murder trials, saying that a difference of opinion on strategy has meant he can no longer continue with Spector's defence.
More on that in our next bulletin at 9.30.
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I can't get through I've been trying hard to reach you cause I don't know what to do Oh brother I can't believe it's true I'm so scared
you can't
Something that's never been done Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle you can't find?
Do you miss in peace?
And they're talking in a language I don't speak And they're talking into me
It's something
Adam and Jones on 6music Here she comes, the summer in her heels You can meet her at the station to escape for a day She wants to know existence exists So you take her to the places that the tourists never see
You lift her up and feel yourself full You feel so proud beside her while you walk a little taller She's a beatific vision the world can see She's got your tongue tied, got your heart skipping beats I don't know why
I can tell you in my life, she's the best I've found You walk together through the lanes and the parks Wrap her in the evening till the stars come out
The afterlife is what you leave behind Gonna leave a lot of footprints, gonna take a lot of time
scientific visions entwined in one another there she goes with summer in me
Oh, isn't it nice?
It is nice, but why is it necessary to have that slight sort of freak out there in the last 30 seconds?
It's just filling time.
Well, it sounds as if they're trying to have their cake and eat it, you know, to re-establish their indie credentials, almost as if they're ashamed of the summery tune fest that they've created there.
Breaks I'm talking about with their single Beatific Visions, which is a lovely song, but I'm just questioning the wisdom of having the little freak section there.
I'm going to change the subject.
Go on then.
We're in the middle of our text competition.
Text the nation.
It's not a competition.
Oh no, I'm going to be killed.
You're going to be all killed.
I'm going to be excluded.
But we're asking you what the biggest arguments you've ever had over the stupidest, smallest things are.
And we've got some good emails.
Can I read you some, please?
Yes, please.
Morning chaps.
This is from Chris at work in London.
The worst argument I can remember was over whether trivial pursuit is any good.
Me and a couple of friends were playing Dungeons and Dragons when the subject of trivial pursuit came up.
Nerds.
I love nerds.
I offered the opinion that Triv's was a great game, while my friend said it was rubbish.
The argument escalated to the point where I, as Dungeon Master, ripped up his character sheet, thereby killing his character.
He burst into tears.
I'm quite sure he did.
Wow, that's like tearing up his soul.
How old were you?
I'd love to know how old you were.
At the time, we were 38.
A lot of arguments start over Trivial Pursuit, don't they?
It's a very divisive game.
Yeah because sometimes the questions are slightly badly worded.
You know there's an element of ambiguity in the question.
That's true.
And you try and you know claim your rights you know that you're clever and the people that made the game are.
And also oftentimes it can seem like the other team is getting a run of easy questions and you know like the other team will get like who is the lead singer of the band Coldplay.
I know it seems unjust that's absolutely right.
And you'll get like who invented quantum
We could almost do a whole other text the nation on board game arguments.
Here's one from Dave in Cardiff.
Probably the most pointless argument I had was a few years ago working in an office with workmate Billy.
Oh workmate Billy.
On the radio in the background was the classic Down Under by Men at Work.
Quoting one of the lines, I asked Billy if he'd ever tried a Vegemite sandwich.
He said I was talking rubbish and the line was a bit of my sandwich.
It flared up into a huge argument with me trying to explain that Vegemite was the Oz equivalent to Marmite, but he wasn't having any of it.
Workmate Billy, what are you thinking?
We didn't speak for three days.
To this day, he still thinks I'm talking rubbish.
Man, Workmate Billy, you know you can go on the internet.
Workmate Billy, is he like a doll?
Yeah, there's a kid's TV program.
An inflatable...
Workmate.
The kid's TV program and it features an ignorant man who refuses to check facts about the lyrics of Men at Work songs by using the internet.
Of course it's a Vegemite sandwich, Workmate Billy, I'm with you on that one.
What was his name?
Uh, his name was Dave.
Dave, thanks Dave.
Hi Adam and Joe, I had a fight with a schoolmate over Tiswas versus Swapshop.
Basically, he punched me in the face and knocked a tooth out.
Man, he knocked a tooth out!
I'm pleased to say I was sticking up for Tiswas and was therefore correct.
That's from Alan Manager.
Well, that's the... No, Manger.
Manger, Mongere.
Mongere.
Alain Mongere.
And he was on the side of Tiswells.
That was a big divisive thing.
ITV versus the BBC back in those days.
It was very much Posh Boys versus the Ruffians, wasn't it?
Yes.
Well, Tiswas was an exception to that rule, I'd say.
Why, Tiswas was kind of a rough program, wasn't it?
Yeah, but it was also strangely sophisticated.
Oh, it was sophisticated.
I'm not saying it was for yobos.
Personally, I used to... I could never... Well, Tiswas was on late, though.
Oh, no, that was... OTT was on late, yeah, the spin-off.
Okay, here's one more.
This is quite involved.
Are you ready?
You've got to concentrate to follow this one.
This is from Martin.
Okay.
When I was about 22 I drank in a pub in Gloucester and vaguely knew quite a few of the regulars.
One night a group of five or six quite hard men came in after watching Rambo at the cinema.
Foolishly, I thought I was in with them and started what I considered to be a light-hearted row with the chaps.
I questioned the artistic integrity of said film and its star, Stallone.
What a load of lowbrow tripe, I said, to which one of the fellows replied, it's a brilliant film.
Stallone makes loads of money.
My response was, well, what about Joy Division?
Not much money, but great art.
One of the group then queried, Joy Division?
What film was she in then?
To which I unwisely uttered, I rest my case.
Before strolling confidently home.
Okay fade to black.
Couple of days later, fade up.
Couple of days later I saw one of these men across the road and I waved jauntily at him.
He merely made a fist and slapped it into his opposite palm.
On my return to the pub, I was followed into the toilet by the fellows and threatened and made to apologise.
The inn's chef saved me from further damage.
I was humbled.
It was a daft row and it taught me some serious lessons about pub banter.
Who's that from?
That's from Martin, Martin Cole.
Martin!
I love that's like a sort of Beano strip.
I love that like the thug punching his fist into his palm like that.
Does that sort of thing really happen?
Oi!
That's like a landlord shaking his fist at you.
I like Joy Division, what film was she in?
That's very good Martin.
And then I rest my case.
Right now Joe, it's time for your free choice.
Yeah, keep those texts coming in by the way.
64046 or elementjoe.sixmusicatbbc.co.uk.
It's time for a sort of a free play.
This is Eiros Childs, former lead singer of Gorky's Zygotic Monkey.
This is called Costa Rita.
I was working for peanuts selling ice cream on my brother's stall I tell you ice cream sells when it's hot But it don't sell so well when it's not And when everybody calls you away
I'm going steady but I like it if you know what I mean Did I fall in love, oh yes I will say
I sat down when my brother had something to say A girl you liked has gone away She took the last train out today And where everybody goes away Why did she promise she would stay?
Now I just don't know what to He's making little bit brighter I really liked Now I just don't know what to He's making little bit brighter I really liked Now I just don't know what to
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That was Lovely Song there you picked for us, Joe.
That was Lovely Song.
That was Lovely Song.
That's from Eiros's album, Chops.
The one before the one before the last, even though the new one isn't quite out yet.
It was his first solo album, Chops, I think.
Yeah, and it's got a marvellous cover, which is a sort of beautiful image made up of pork chops.
Yeah.
The new one is called Miracle Inn.
I think it's out this month.
If you like the sound of that, you could pretty confidently just go out and buy both of Eiros' albums.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And everyone's a winner.
Everyone's a winner, baby.
That's the truth.
Making love to you just sets me free.
Does it?
Yes.
Well, yeah.
Such a thrill.
No, that's the word, isn't it?
Now, we were talking about
arguments ladies and gentlemen in textination today arguments that are started fairly innocuously and then spiraled way out of control you know what a good example for the sort of science of arguments is uh not that anyone's watched it this year because it's rubbish but big brother uh in years past used to be a sort of you know a genuine social experiment and it used to be quite fascinating to watch how
you know repressed anger or frustration with someone else's character would pop up over a tiny little thing.
For me that was one of the most fascinating things about that program.
Well that's true.
When it used to be good.
Last year the Celebrity Big Brother with you know George Galloway and Pete Burns and Chantelle and Preston.
Now was that last year?
Yeah it was the beginning of last year.
Yeah it was because the controversial one was this year.
Yeah.
It was amazing.
The arguments that blew up in that house when all those lunatics were in there were Shakespearean.
It was extraordinary.
And I taped all those shows obsessively.
And one day I'm going to watch them back.
You could pretty much transcribe them and you'd have like an amazing play, but the stuff they argued about there was demented.
And it was mainly Michael Barrymore's fault, as I recall.
Here's one that's coming from Matt.
He says, my best friend from five to 16 stormed out and never spoke to me again after I fast forwarded through the sofa gag on The Simpsons episode he'd come round to watch.
No, come on.
That can't be real.
That's not true.
No one's that obsessed with The Simpsons.
If that's really the case, then you are thick.
No, well, the friend.
If that's really the case, then you know, who would want a friend who would sacrifice their relationship with you because of a Simpsons sofa gag?
That's what I mean.
You know what I mean?
It's insane.
It's insane behaviour.
You're well shot of that guy.
Here's another email that's come in, and this actually sounds like a serious marital rift that is happening in the life of Sasha Darroch-Davies.
Are you ready for this one?
Go on then.
Saturday just gone, my girlfriend and I had 20 odd people over for a barbie.
Just weird people.
Yeah.
Before our guests' arrival, I was preparing the last of the food.
A basil oil.
What?
A basil oil to brush skewers with.
Nice.
Yeah.
Anyway, the missus wanted to weed the flower beds, but wanted me to remove the cat pops first.
There were some cat pops in there.
That seems a little unfair, yeah.
I didn't want to get cat poppy hands.
He's not using the word pop here.
I'm cleaning it up for broadcast.
I did not want to get cat poppy hands and then return to the food preparation.
So I said, I'll do it in a minute, love.
Reasonable.
Then she started on about my food snobbery.
Who cares about the food?
Who are you trying to impress?
et cetera, et cetera.
I said, whoa, what?
So you're too precious to clean up cat pops.
She went mad and threw all manner of kitchen utensils at me.
To which I responded, now this is where I think you step over the line, Sasha Darroch-Davies.
This is to which I responded with loud playground like, whoo!
Now that sound, the wooooo's, is like a sort of international siren of things getting violent.
Escalation, isn't it?
It's the argument, because you're taking things to the level of a five year old, five year olds can't communicate, they just physically brutalise each other, right?
But you know, the sad thing is that sometimes the siren is employed to try and diffuse the situation.
Oh but it never does.
It never does, does it?
It's the worst possible thing you can do.
After all, after all-to-hand objects had bounced off my head, she attacked!
And punched me in the side of my head!
It hurt!
She's only five foot one!
That's harsh, man.
That's the end.
Sasha Darroch-Davies works for the Bear Film Company in London.
Your life is being lived at a high-octane level there, Sasha.
Can you just tell us if you're still together, just so we don't worry about you?
I hope everything's all right there in the... Now, Dr Cornish says that in order to defuse that argument, what should you have done?
At what point did it start to go... Picked up the cat pops.
Picked up the... I tell you what you should have done.
You should have popped five or six cat pops on a skewer.
brush them with a little bit of garlic oil and shove them in your wife's mouth that's what i would have done thanks dr cornish music time now here's a classic from the kinks
It's all part of my autumnal monac.
Breeze-blows leaves are the musty courage and love.
So I sweep them in my sack.
I like my football for the Saturday Roast beef on Sundays, alright I'll go to Blackpool for my holiday Sit in the open
This is my street And I'm never gonna leave it
Yes.
Yes.
That's the kinks with Autumn Almanac.
Now, Damon Albarn must have loved that track as a youth, you know, because that's pretty much the template for all Blur around the park life period.
That's from 1967.
And an amazing song it is too.
And I'm not putting down Blur or Albarn for liking that track and slavishly adhering to its rules therein, because it's a smash.
Now, we are talking about, in Text the Nation today, arguments that have spiraled out of control, that have started very trivially.
And someone mentioned before, TRIVs, Trivial Pursuit, and the kind of arguments that that can cause.
And of course, there are many games that provoke terrible arguments.
Scrabble is one of them.
And you must have had it, you're a bit of a Scrabble fiend aren't you?
I'm a bit of a Scrabble fiend but you know I've got something called a Scrabble dictionary.
Right.
Which you have to have to hand and it's got all the words without the boring definitions.
Okay so you adhere, you just stick to, if it's not in the Scrabble dictionary you can't have it.
Well the rules are, if, wait, games like this you've got to agree on the rules before you start playing.
That's the key thing, isn't it?
And I think the rules in Scrabble Go, that if a word is contested, then you go to the dictionary.
Yeah, is that it?
And then what happens if it's wrong?
Do you lose a go?
You retract the tiles and lose a go.
Or do you play again?
I'm not sure.
I'm not that serious a Scrabble player.
You're quite serious though.
Well, I'll confess something.
We used to play a version where you're allowed to look in the dictionary.
Right.
Yeah.
Because it was more fun that way.
Well, you can look it up before you lay the tiles down.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because you used to get incredible scores and learn new words.
It was fun.
I suppose.
Well, there was one time on holiday.
I wasn't actually there for this, but my friend told me all about it.
I was there.
Were you there?
Yeah.
For this big Scrabble game.
Well, keep telling the story.
This is the quick chop one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Were you really there?
Yeah.
so my friend's dad well maybe you should tell it then well it was it was a very posh holiday at a lovely house in Corfu and a friend of ours father who is quite an important man we were playing Scrabble with him and he played the word no somebody played the word
Quit.
Or was it quick?
I think it was quit.
Q-U-I-T and the friend's imperious father put down J-U-T on the end of quit.
To make quit jut.
Quit jut.
We went hang on a second.
We're only about 17 or 18.
We went hang on.
Quit jut.
Is that a word?
Of course it's a word.
Quick jut.
Quick jut.
And then he followed it up with bip.
Pip!
You played pip later.
B-I-P.
We said what does quit jut mean?
Well it's a part of a ship.
Is it?
Part of a ship?
He got furious about it.
And he was furious because three little straplings had badly thuffed him out.
Bip.
We started taking the mickey and dads don't like having a mickey taken out of them by kids today.
He got really angry and he only made it worse by playing bip.
Bip is one of my favourite words now.
Is it news time?
Here is the news read by Nicola and Ruth.
British troops won't be coming home early, food prices to rise and hedgehogs in danger.
And in Six Music News, Specter loses lead lawyer, Winehouse's father-in-law calls for music boycott and Danger Mouse works with the Black Keys.
It's 9.30, I'm Nicola Gibson.
Gordon Brown says there are no plans for an early withdrawal of British troops from Iraq.
He said any timetable would increase the risk to soldiers.
The Foreign Secretary David Miliband says British troops are determined to complete their mission.
We have very clear objectives that Iraq should be run by the Iraqis.
Secondly, we have very clear criteria for moving towards that sort of Iraqi control, and that is on the basis of their own security forces having the ability to run their own affairs.
Forest fires in Greece are threatening more villages.
Demonstrators have been protesting on the streets of Athens, saying their government's not doing enough to protect lives and homes.
In other Six Music News, police say they had to work hard to stop criminals taking over the streets of Notting Hill on the last night of the carnival.
Two boys aged 14 and 17 were shot.
We could soon be paying more for meat.
Consultants Deloitte say the cost of animal feed is rising and farmers will be forced to put up their prices.
David Maughan, who farms near Darlington, agrees.
If we don't get a price increase, quite literally many will take the option and leave the industry to do other things.
A Zeke man who wants to become a reserve in the Irish police force has been told he can't wear his turban on duty.
The Garda reserve uniform requires all officers to wear a cap.
The government's publishing a new list of endangered species.
More than 1,100 plants and animals are listed, including the house sparrow, the hedgehog and the grass snake.
Andy Murray has comfortably beaten his first-round opponent at the final tennis Grand Slam tournament of the year, the US Open.
Murray beats Pablo Cuevas and Uruguay in straight sets.
The weather?
Dry with sunny spells in southern England and South Wales.
Other places will have showers.
Now with 6Music News, here's Ruth Bond.
BBC 6Music.
Phil Spector's lead lawyer Bruce Cutler announced yesterday that he's leaving the music producer's murder case because of a difference of opinion on strategy.
It's not clear if he quit or if Spector fired him.
Cutler had been absent from the trial for a number of weeks so he could appear on a syndicated TV show.
He told the superior court judge that there's nothing I can do for Mr. Spector.
I can no longer effectively represent him.
Defense attorney Roger Rosen has stepped in as lead lawyer.
In other 6music news this morning, Amy Winehouse's in-laws have called on people to boycott her music until she overcomes her apparent drug addiction.
Her father-in-law Giles Fielder-Civil says it's the record company's responsibility to take action.
By doing that, that affects the record company and then the record company may take notice.
But I believe that the record company have a responsibility.
They could either cease the contract
Or they take responsibility and make the pair enter a proper rehabilitation unit where they can't leave until they're sorted out.
And finally, good news for fans of the Black Keys.
Super cool producer Danger Mouse has revealed that he is producing their fourth studio album, which is due out next year.
And that's not all.
He's also working with CeeLo, putting the finishing touches to the follow up to Niles Barkley's Send Elsewhere.
That's 6 Music News on xBulletinz at 10.30.
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 Theon 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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Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
There we go, that's Toots and the Matles with pressure drop.
Maybe he was driving and he lost some pressure in one of his tyres.
Yeah, or he just went over a hill and he got that strange fluttery feeling in his stomach.
Or maybe he's had his blood pressure checked.
There's been a slight drop and he should eat more of that spread what Carol Vorderman does.
What she makes.
It's made from breast milk, is it?
Is that wrong to say that?
Yes, it is.
In every conceivable way.
I just heard that.
recently on the street that's the word on the street after an episode of countdown she's milked okay uh now it's band-aid time this week folks we have inherited this feature from the wonderful sean keithney usually sean will ask people to vote for a couple of people to vote for a band that they think should be heard on six music
This time, we have a couple of amazingly exciting young artists that Joe and I are pitting against each other.
Yeah.
Which is artist number one, Joe Cornish.
Artist number one is an artist called Joe Cornish, who's produced a kind of a kind of a euro, euro, what is it, euro house sort of a track called European Supermarket.
And it's a kind of craft work,
stroke Pet Shop Boys style exploration into what it's like to go shopping in a supermarket when you're on holiday in Europe.
Instead of Urban Electronica.
Urban Electronica, yeah.
So here's a brief snatch of that.
There we go, that's called European supermarket.
The full version is 1 minute 58 seconds long.
If you want to hear the whole thing then log on to bbc.co.uk forward slash six music and and you'll navigate your way.
Click on our stupid faces and eventually you'll find a thing where you can vote for either that track or its competitor.
Tell us about its competitor Adam.
Its competitor is by an artist called Adam Buxton.
He's from London.
Not a name I've heard.
No, well, he's a new artist.
He's an exciting new artist.
On the scene.
On the scene, a Jack White from the White Stripes is a big fan.
Really?
Yeah.
And didn't produce this song, but wanted to.
Really?
Yeah.
And the track is called Jane's Brain.
And Buxton says that it was created after thinking about a girl called Jane and imagining what it would be like if she had a brain.
If she had a brain?
Yeah.
And all the things she would, no, she does have a brain.
But imagining about the, just, you know, thinking about the things that her brain might do.
And that's where the song came from.
Let's hear a clip of it.
She'd use her brain to think of things that she didn't have She'd think of cars and she'd think of fancy dresses and she'd think of big houses and she'd think of cars
What a minor stroke.
That's really good.
It's a rock song.
So you just, listener, if you care to, if you'd log on to www.bbc.co.uk forward slash 6music forward slash shows forward slash sean underscore keaveny forward slash bandaid all one word dot shml that will take you directly to the voting site.
Alternatively you can just go to www.bbc.co.uk
And just work it out.
Forward slash six music.
It's an important, it's an important thing though.
Can they hear the whole song on them?
No, you can only hear a small snatch.
That's the whole point of the thing.
If you could hear the whole song, there would be no point.
Yeah.
And because we play the winner at the end of the week, it's very important that anybody listening, anybody who cares, does that and clicks one of those things because, you know, it ticks all the big British Castle boxes.
It's interactive.
and it's new music and it's just fun.
Now album of the day album of the day is Super Furry Animal's new long player and here's a track called Runaway check it out!
It wouldn't make me die a little I could've told you anything Except the truth which burns my little Run away That's what I did today Run away There's nothing I could've said
Someone to wipe away your tears I left it on me, I'm not me Never to turn and face my fears We may have fought with teeth and nails I still recall your broken details No, no way That's what I needed to be
There's nothing I can accept Close your cry and run away Let your cry another day Run away That's what I did to you
There's nothing I can observe
Try just a little
Inside Sport brings you the sporting stars that matter, getting closer to the players.
You won't see me knocking around the pedal.
I mean, I still enjoy a night out.
I've not turned into an absolute geek.
In-depth stories behind the action.
He said, John, I've got a bit of good news.
I'm going to make you my England captain.
And for once in my life, I was just speechless.
This is the show that gets to the heart of the biggest names in sports.
England, heavy squad of players who can win the World Cup.
We didn't do it.
And I'm extremely sorry about that.
So what will the big names reveal in the new series?
It's just air.
Completely empty.
It's a void.
So before that you heard a track from the album of the day.
That was Super Fairy Animals with Hey Venus.
No, with Run Away.
The new album is called Hey Venus.
It was released yesterday.
Yeah.
And it's their first for the Rough Trade label.
They've switched labels apparently.
And you can hear more tracks from that album all day here on BBC6Music.
Now, we were telling you earlier that you can vote for our Band-Aid feature, two tracks by new artists.
You have to vote for the one you want to hear.
You go to the BBC6Music website, listen to the samples, click on the one you like best.
You can also leave a comment there.
can you yeah you can leave a little message uh jason from west yorkshire has left a message he says both tracks are as good as each other honestly they are so i made my choice by having a cough war with myself i coughed twice and the noise which startled my cat more won it was my joke off which proved louder and more startling to otis which is his cat oh dear oh dear that's not i mean what's that that's a message is that the way you vote as well what's his name
His name is Jason.
I like the sound of Jason.
I think he sounds like a good guy.
In the polling booth, both parties have things to recommend them, so I'm going to have a little cough game and put my vote in the Tory box because... That's how all national decisions should be made, with coughing and the way cats respond to them.
Fair enough.
Cats are very wise.
All Egyptians worship them.
I'm going to carry on talking.
Are there other cat facts?
Come on, come up with three cat facts.
They like to eat meat.
Right.
Feminism is based on ancient cat history, according to Germaine Greer.
And my cat's called Macy.
Macy.
Yeah.
Three cat facts there from Joe Cornish.
Now here's the yayayares with maps.
Oh, say, say, say Oh, say, say, say Oh, say, say, say Oh, say, say, say Oh, say, say, say
Oh, don't stray Well, my kind's your kind I'll stay the same pack up But don't stray Oh, say, say, say Oh, say, say, say Wait
Yeah.
That's good stuff, isn't it?
That's Ye Ye Yez with Maps.
This is Adam and Joe here on BBC6Music covering for Sean Keating.
Just a quick technical problem that might have happened with the Band Aid website voting thing.
Oh yeah.
Thanks from Daniel from Durham who sent us a very nice email saying that both links play the same song.
We're having that investigated by BBC Technical Monkeys.
If that is the case, there will be an execution outside the big British castle and someone will be beheaded by who runs the BBC, Mark Thompson?
Someone like that.
Michael Jackson, the pop star.
Michael Jackson, the disgraced pop star, will be beheading a BBC monkey outside the big British castle so all big British peasants can come and throw fruit at them.
A rotten tomato.
Yes.
Also a little bit of house cleaning from earlier on.
Tell us a bit of controversy about the pronunciation of
Yeah, you see, I read a thing, we know Eiros, well we kinda used to, pretend we did, because we filmed the segment with him and we're kind of in love with the gawky psychotic monkey, and so we pretend we know him, and we used to know how to pronounce his name, right?
Yeah, well they sort of said, we started off saying, is it Euros?
It's spelt E-U-R-O-S.
I guess Welsh listeners can give us the definitive answer to this.
But he's such a sweet guy, he never, if you pronounce it wrongly, he never gets angry.
No, he said that's fine.
He doesn't really mind.
so and and one of the other band members said it's more like eros and so we did that but then we went a little too far how did you pronounce it just well in the new i've i've been wavering i kind of forgot how to pronounce it again and there was a profile of him in one of the papers on the weekend and it said in brackets pronounced iros e-y-e-r-o-s iros so i've been thinking right good that's the definitive answer i'll pronounce it iros that's what i've been doing but then
someone texted in and said that we were doing it wrong.
You shouldn't and the thing is at the BBC bad pronunciation is grounds for torture.
It cannot be tolerated and not in CBBC if you work for the children's castle the bouncy castle behind the main castle then the worse your pronunciation is the more likely you are to rise to the top.
yeah that's right here in the old big british castle uh owned by the national trust we have to do cross our t's and dot our p's exactly now it's time for my free choice uh this is a track from travis's latest album uh which is called the boy with no name i think and uh i love this song and it's very sort of winsome and sweet uh i guess that's what travis are like aren't they love them or hate them i personally love them and this is called sailing away
It's not worth dying Chasing away the blues I know you're trying And nobody wants to lose I don't know why Because I live by the river Live by the river And I'll die by the river I'm saying
What are you gonna say when they stop laughing?
You're giving it all away when you've got nothing How many times a day you feel like walking?
Taking a holiday from all the shine But I live by the river, live by the river And I die by the river
Now the river moves by the river and I'll die by the river I'm sailing away today You've got to grab the bull by the phones, my friend It's the only way to go And when the story is told
What are we gonna do when you stop crying?
Wherever you're going to, it's not worth dying Keeping away the blues, you know I'm trying Why have you got to lose and testify?
Cause I live by the river, live by the river
I'm sailing away today I'd like to go on a canal boat holiday and play that.
I love that song.
That's Travis from their album, The Boy With No Name.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music.
That's pretty much it for our show today.
Just before we leave, I'd like to say thank you very much indeed to everyone who texted us and emailed us.
Fantastic tea tea tea tea.
Fantastic teats.
Teats.
You've got fantastic teats.
Hey, that's a polite way of saying a rude word we just discovered.
We can run with that.
Just before we leave as well, I've been fascinated... She had beautiful teats.
We have, I'm going to gloss over that, the TV on in the corner here in the studio and I've been fascinated by Kate Garraway's hair.
She presents GMTV and I want you tomorrow morning folks to check out her hair and then talk to me about it because there's something insane going on there.
Yeah, hair, yeah.
That's it from us today.
Thank you very much for listening.
We'll be back between 7 and 10 tomorrow morning.
Coming up Anita Rani with Calvin Harris live in the hub.
So stay tuned.
This is Crumble by Dinosaur Jr.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Bye!
Cheerio!
I got lost in time, why?
There's a smile you made in time I'm not there and you know why And I'll run and get some light
Can I stop the wandering?
Why?
Will I crumble?
Will I fly?
And I've got to break you Will I be in time to sleep?
Will you follow me?
Can I fake out just to me?
You know I can't take this anymore
At the end, you flatten me instead Try to believe it cause you said You're like I almost had it But I don't have it at all And I'm sweating trying to stop Till I think I've heard it