What you gonna do to us this time?
Oh, holy cave, what you gonna do to us this time?
BBC 6 Music BBC 6 Music Closer to the music that matters
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax I can't sleep cause my bed's on fire Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire Psycho killer
Psycho pillar!
Let's get sane!
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba Better run, run, run, run
You start a conversation, you can't even finish it You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed Say something once, why say it again?
run run run
Don't moan, it's what she meant Let's bail it far, OK?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah We are vain and we are blind I hate people when they're not polite Cycle killer, cuske seein' Fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa, fa
Let's go say it
you
Talking Heads with Psycho Killer.
Hi, this is Adam Buxton.
Hey there, this is Joe Gornish.
Welcome to the Adam and Joe Breakfast Show here on Six Music.
It's our penultimate show.
Sean Keeney's coming back on Monday, but we're here with you for three hours this morning and tomorrow morning.
There's a little band just playing in the corner of the studio.
That's all we do here.
We come in.
The band's called the Dirty Boys.
Hey, you guys.
Sounded good.
Sounded good this morning, dirty boys.
They're just jamming.
That's what it's like here at the Big British Castle, the home of music that matters, important music.
What is this bed?
Bed?
Lisa.
What are you talking about?
Apostrophe.
Apostrophe.
That's the perfect bed.
Yeah.
This is the wake up, come on, hey, good morning bed.
And then later on when things calm down a bit, James Brown comes out and he plays behind us.
Yeah.
Now life is difficult for David Bowie fans, just as a rule, isn't it?
Having to endure his... All the changes.
All the changes, having to endure his latest appearances in movies and TV shows, you know.
What's he done now?
This morning it's been announced that he might appear in Doctor Who as a villain.
Now this is something I want to talk about, because Joe and I are big Bowie fans.
Yes we are.
And I certainly was obsessed by him for quite a long time, so we should chat about this a bit later on.
Also coming up in the show, we have Text-A-Nation.
It's the nation's favorite feature.
It's an opportunity for you, ordinary people everywhere, leading ordinary lives, just to get in touch with us.
Joe Cornish and Adam Buxton.
We're like geniuses and we'll be moderating a debate.
I'm setting ourselves up for a fall for fall.
Yeah We'll be moderating a debate between People all over that.
Please start talking start.
Yeah text the nation.
It's it's the nation's favorite feature It's where you text us and we read them out.
Good.
No one else does it we invented it
We invented it.
But there's of course serial thriller coming up at eight o'clock.
Lots of other stuff on the show.
Great music this hour from the likes of Vrente, Baby Chambles and also The Shains.
But here's some Swixy Swix.
That's how you say it, isn't it?
That's correctly pronounced.
Yeah, with Into a Swan.
What in the world is happening?
What in the world could this be?
I'm on the verge of an awakening A new kind of strength for me I feel a force I've never felt before I don't wanna fight it anymore
Can't be ignored, I burst, ouch, I'm transformed Rising up, shaking it off, the yesterday dreary Graceful and strong
Don't be surprised This change is my design
I don't wanna fight it anymore Feeling so strong can be ignored I burst, ouch, I transform I feel a force I've never felt before I can't hold it down, I've just got to go And laugh in my face, that is so true I burst, ouch, I transform
I feel a force I've never felt before I don't wanna fight it anymore Feeling so strong can be ignored I burst out, I'm transformed
I burst out, I transform, I burst right out Into a swarm, swarm, swarm, swarm
this is david bowie on six music that was susie soon into the swan david uh i'll be i'll be i'm calling myself david hello this is david bowie and um
That sounds less like David Bowie than my one does.
It is, it's David Bowie.
Oh my one was a lot better than yours.
Okay.
What I like most about this program is the theatricality.
I like the superlative nature of a lot of the tracks that we play on the show.
The theatricality is superlative I think.
I've just finished filming The Prestige with Christopher Nolan.
and Christopher Nolan whoa whoa what kind of voice do you do on the prestige with Christopher Nolan in in the prestige i'm playing Nikola Tesla Tesla i'm trying to do Bowie's voice in the prestige he plays a french guy
I do a sort of slightly Germanic accent, don't I?
I'm very interested in the... It's very hard to do.
It is, my Tesla cars have gone all sparky.
Sparky!
Is that a line from it?
Yes.
But you need the accent as well.
I had the accent.
My Tesla cars have gone all sparky.
It's difficult to be David Bowie, I tell you.
Hey, this is Adam and Joe.
This is BBC6 Music.
Welcome to The Breakfast Show.
We were just discussing the shocking news that David Bowie might be in Doctor Who.
Now, if you're a fan of sort of an icon, especially someone who sort of reached the peak of their creative powers.
Ben Sheppard.
I am talking about Ben Sheppard here, yeah.
And also David Bowie.
Someone who reached the peak of their career, maybe 10 or 15 years ago.
You know?
David, he's had a couple of decent... Well no but that peak was so high, you know, the absolute, you know, irreturnable pinnacle.
Then you've got to deal with what they do in their autumn years.
How they spin their career out and with, for Bowie fans it's quite difficult.
The rot set in, when would you say the rot set in?
I mean something like Labyrinth was difficult for some of us.
Absolutely not so difficult for Adam and me we thought that was a good move But I remember the day when we first saw labyrinth and there was jay-vid wearing a big spiky wig dressed as the goblin king juggling babies Singing a song called dance baby dance.
Do you remember that?
Yeah, we were confused and worried But then but then after a few minutes we thought yes.
No, this is good.
This is a good new direction for David
Look at the look at the hair since then it's been harder to kind of completely stay with David's creative decisions Do you know what the hardest thing for me has been boss and let me just say briefly put this in context This is a man that meant everything to me I mean, I'm a happily married heterosexual man with two lovely sons, but I loved David Bowie and
Just in every conceivable way I was romantically, I adored the man.
I wouldn't have done anything for him.
I used to dream about him the whole time.
Alright, steady.
He was wonderful.
Anyway, now in the Twilight years of my life, I see him doing all these extraordinary things and the most painful thing for me is that he's chummed up with Ricky Gervais.
Now love Ricky Gervais or hate him.
I personally love the man.
He's a comedy genius and I love his output.
He gives all his profits to charity, which means he's lovely.
I'm a sincere and big fan of both The Office and Extras and many of Gervais' comedy efforts.
But sometimes you don't want two worlds to mix, do you?
You want Ricky to stay in his universe and Bowie to stay in his quite different rock universe.
Exactly.
And if he steps out of his Bowie castle and he starts chumming up with a comedian and
Not him.
You don't want him singing kind of songs written by Ricky Jafais.
No, that was a painful thing.
I mean, you know, I was very conflicted on that episode of Extras that Bowie appeared in.
Because it was a good episode.
It was a good episode, it was a funny song.
But it was mixing things that maybe shouldn't be mixed.
I was the jealousy.
And now Doctor Who?
And now Doctor Who.
Can we have him appearing in Doctor Who?
I would rather he appeared in Doctor Who.
Exterminate.
Exterminate.
Time for some music now.
Hey, I bet you every breakfast show in the land has made that joke.
What?
Exterminate.
No they haven't.
This is the Lars with There She Goes.
That's a brilliant new joke.
Good accent as well.
At the last, there she goes.
They're quite happy about her leaving.
They didn't really like her in the first place.
It's good that she's gone.
Time's going to be freed up.
You know, house to themselves.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
It's Adam and Jo on BBC6 music.
It's just coming up to twenty past seven.
We've got to say a hello.
A hello.
A hello.
We don't usually say hellos but we've had a lovely evocative email from Joils.
Which is... Joyles.
Wow.
That's pretty good.
That's quite a high tech farm, isn't it?
They've got digital radio in their milking shed.
They've got DAB actually in the cows.
Really?
Yeah.
The cows come with DAB now.
I don't know if you knew that.
Do the cows occasionally just say no signal received?
Yes.
Across their eyeballs?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You try and get the station.
That's the only annoying thing about digital radio.
No.
Quickly.
Next record.
Because they're cows.
Gosh, not gonna get better than that.
Let's have the shins.
You can fake it for a while Badger 20 smile like every mother does And rock with your child But it starts to leakin' out Black spittle for the club And last resentment floating ounce and pound Are you entertaining any doubts?
Cause you had to know that I was fond of you Fond of who I am, you Though I knew your mascot is dead
I can see the change was just too hard for us Hard for us You always had to hold the reins But I'm headed you just don't know the way
Do surf actions fade away?
Or do adults just learn to play the most ridiculous repulsive games?
All our favorite ruddy songs and the double-barre guns You'd better hurry, rabbit, run, run, run
Cause mincing you is fun And there's a lot of hungry hollers And this was said on taking it over Like brittle thumb stems They break before they bend And neither one of us is one of them And the tales are never meant Cause you had to eat for me so long ago Boy I still don't
If you'd only seen yourself hating me Hating me When I was so much more than fair But when you'd have to lay those feelings bare One thing I know still got you scared You're all that cold eyes And never once held a dare
So I took your lips at the time And a chance like that is just so hard to do Hard to do
Those old fire sisters were right The worst part is over Now get back on that bus and ride
Hooray, that's what's good isn't it?
That's good, that's good is what that is.
Yeah that's good, that's The Shins with Turn Me On, this is Adam and Joel on BBC6 music.
Turn On Me!
Why can't you read?
Because I'm very, you know, sexy this morning.
Very sexy this morning.
That's a brilliant album incidentally, The Shins album.
I want someone to turn me on with their shins.
Whincing the night away.
Is that possible?
It is possible, it's easily possible.
There's many, many websites dedicated to exactly that.
Now, we're going to play a trail very shortly and after that, are we going to come back or am I going to introduce it off the back of the trail?
What?
We're going to come back off the trail.
This is unorthodox.
A trail usually comes immediately after a song or before a song.
We're going to talk around the trail.
Talking around the trail.
Here's the trail.
This weekend, Six Music brings you the record producers, the producers cut.
First aired on Radio 2 over the bank holiday weekend, the program features new material looking in greater detail at the work of Holland, Dozier and Holland.
You'll hear the original multi-track recordings from some of their classic songs and a previously unheard version of Baby Love.
Berry Gordy rejects the original Baby Love.
He tells the Holland brothers, guys, it's not gonna happen.
If you would have heard the original track of that, you'd say, how did that came out to be when it came out to me?
The record producers.
The producers cut.
Saturday night from 9.30.
On BBC6 music.
I wonder what the original Baby Love did sound like for it to be rejected by Berry Gordy.
Like this.
Guys, I love that track.
You don't need to do anything to it.
Unfortunately, it's been rejected.
Apparently we need to do some tweaking.
They don't like the...
bit.
That's exactly what it went.
That's a little extract, but there's an extra extract.
Yeah, that extract was previously broadcast on BBC two from the radio to on the bank holiday.
Look at the beautiful sunrise there on the telly.
It's the weather lady.
I don't think you should tell the listeners were watching telly.
I'm not watching it.
It's just on in the corner.
Anything like, you know, in case in case important news meteorite or something.
Now, it's time for my session track.
This is from the John Peel Sessions and it's a track from 1997, 15th of July, when Yo La Tango, an American band from Hoboken, New Jersey, went into the BBC studios and laid down a few crazy tracks for John Peel.
Now, this is a wonderful band, well worth investigating.
Joe Cornish, you were going to say something?
What does it mean?
What does Yo La Tango mean?
Yo La Tango means I have it.
Really?
Yes.
Wow.
And this is a track called Autumn Sweater.
Enjoy.
Adam's pick of the BBC archive.
Is it too late to call this on?
We could slip away Wouldn't that be better?
Nothing to say
It's just a waste of time
Yolotengo with Autumn Sweater from the John Peel Sessions.
That's from 1997.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music.
Time now for the news read by Catherine and Lucy.
And in Six Music News, more tributes paid to CBGB's founder, Fionn Regan, comes in from the cold and Franz Ferdinand, UK festival date.
BBC 6 Music.
7.30, I'm Catherine Cracknell.
A fifth of teenagers have driven while drunk.
That's according to a new survey this morning.
Road safety charity Break and Co-operative Insurance also found a third of those questioned had been a passenger with a driver under the influence of either alcohol or drugs.
These teenagers in Glasgow aren't surprised.
You want to go out but you don't want to spend extortion of mine to get in a taxi.
There is a real temptation.
friends of mine smoking joints basically.
I haven't ever been in a car where they've been like absolutely trolley but they have been under the influence.
In other six music news, prison officers in England and Wales have been getting back to work this morning.
Their unions set to get back round the table with the government to talk about pay.
Thousands of officers walked out yesterday morning without warning.
The BBC's uncovered a network of gangs organising a supply of American pit bulldogs for fighting in the UK.
The breed's been banned since 1991, but an investigation from Panorama found they were being brought into the country using false documents.
There's been an earthquake in Manchester this morning.
The tremor was felt in the city centre just after quarter to six this morning.
There are no reports of any damage or injuries.
It's the second minor quake in three weeks and measured 2.4 on the Richter scale.
Workers should be given more time to use social networking sites like Facebook, that's according to the TUC.
They think employers are within their rights to stop staff using the sites during the day, but workers should be trusted to take time off during their lunch break, same reveals from the TUC.
What I think employers should do is talk to their workforce representatives, agree that a little bit of lassitude is not a bad thing to have a good flexible approach to it,
But to make sure that your employees know that if they start using it excessively and it is quite easy to spot that, they will be stopped and you have a disciplinary procedure.
Six Music Sport Football and Arsenal have booked their place in the group stages of the Champions League.
They beat Sparta Prague 3-0 at the Emirates Stadium.
Celtic will join Arsenal in the lucrative group stages.
They beat Sparta at Moscow 4-3 on penalties after the match finished 2-1 on aggregate.
And the weather cloudy for most of us, but dry with the sun breaking through later if we're lucky.
Some patchy rain in northwest Scotland though.
Highs similar to yesterday, high teens early 20s.
6 Music News now, here's Lucy O'Doherty.
BBC 6 Music.
Coming in this morning for Hilly Crystal, founder of the iconic New York punk club CBGBs.
He died from lung cancer aged 75.
Patti Smith is due to play the final gig in his famous venue in October after a campaign to keep it open failed.
She's written a poem dedicated to Crystal on her website.
Brondie's Debbie Harry, Marky Ramone and David Byrne have also paid tribute with the Talking Heads frontman saying other clubs are all about models and beautiful people and he was about letting the musicians in for free to hear music and get cheap beers.
In other 6music news this morning, the countdown is on to the Mercury Music Prize.
The winner will be announced at a ceremony in London next Tuesday.
And ahead of the big day, we've been catching up with nominee Fionn Ragen.
And the Irish singer-songwriter says he finds it quite difficult to accept he's been given the nod.
The only way I have explained it is that I felt a little bit like a lighthouse keeper at a wedding.
You've been out in a lighthouse for months on end and then you arrive at a wedding.
I think people can spot that you've been out at a lighthouse for a couple of months.
It sort of goes without saying.
And Franz Ferdinand have announced their only UK festival appearance this year.
As part of their Scottish tour next month, they'll play the Lupe Lu Festival in Ullapool on September 22nd.
They'll join a line-up featuring the Saw Doctors, The Beast, Tiny Dancers and Paul Tiger Tale.
That's six music news.
Your next bulletin is at eight.
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Reviewing the new releases around the roundtable this week, Charlie Simpson from Fightstar, Brian Obert from Silversun Pickups, and singer, producer, and songwriter extraordinaire, Stephen Duffy.
Join me, Steve LaMack, from four with Roundtable from six.
Six music.
Sex money
Yeah, that's Goldfrapp with Train.
We were trying to think while that was playing about any other bands or outfits named after the surname of the lead singer.
Yeah, I didn't realise that Alison Goldfrapp's real surname was Goldfrapp.
I thought that might not be her real name.
I thought she might have changed it by Depole or whatever it is you do.
I can't guarantee that she didn't change it, but I believe that that was her given name.
Yeah, so I was asking Adam, are there any other bands who are named after the lead singer's surname?
And Adam suggested Jonathan Stereophonics, the lead singer of the Stereophonics.
Lead singer of Billy Bee Gees.
Yep.
Any others?
Listeners?
Maybe you know.
By the way, you can text us at any point on 64046 or email us, adamandjoe.sixmusic at bbc.co.uk.
Now we should remind you of the extraordinary week-long kind of voting phenomenon that's going on on the show.
Basically, me and Adam have written a song each and we're asking you to listen to little clips of those songs and vote for which one you'd like played in its entirety on Friday's show.
It's like Sean Keveny's feature Band Aid.
In fact, it's the same feature, but instead of real bands, we've given you two little bogus bits of music.
Now, so we should play you these snatches again.
To vote you go to the BBC6Music website.
I'm not doing very well on this vote.
In fact Joe Cornish with his ludicrous techno track has accrued something like 64% of the vote so far.
Currently my song has got 64%, Adam's has got 36%. 36%.
Not bad, man.
That is bad.
I wouldn't say that the race has won yet.
You know, there's a whole two days play to go, is there?
Or is it just today?
Well, there's during the day tomorrow.
Basically, we're going to collate the figures at what point?
Maybe the last hour of the show, we'll play it on Friday.
So we'll collate the figures, you know, early morning tomorrow.
So it's all to play for.
Don't give up, Adam.
I am giving up.
Listen, I'm worried that maybe, because you've been playing my clip first generally, right?
Because it's Adam and Joe, so you play my clip.
I want you to play Joe's clip first today, alright?
Because I'm worried that maybe the track line thing is not... That makes no sense!
I don't care.
Usually people don't have the attention span... Oh, I see what you mean actually, that could be a point.
It sticks in the head.
Yeah, because the last one they hear sticks in the head.
Exactly.
Or you see on interactive voting shows, I usually think that the first person to feature in the clip montage has the advantage.
Right.
Because everybody leaps to the phone, the lines then become busy, you can't vote for later ones.
I want to switch it all around today and see if that changes.
Perhaps people aren't voting in the same numbers for this.
Let's have a look.
Let's see if this changes.
Hey, this is a clip from my song.
Vote for this song.
This is a kind of techno track about shopping in European supermarkets.
It's called European Supermarkets.
Want somebody?
Help me please.
A mini break in Amsterdam.
That's the bit.
European Supermarkets.
Ah, amazing.
That goes on for two minutes.
It's brilliant.
If you want to hear the whole of that, just go to BBC6Music and vote for Joe's song.
I think I could be big on the techno scene.
With that noise you could.
I mean, I hate to admit it.
It's not just the noise, man.
It's the noise.
That's very reductive.
You haven't heard the full two minute version and when you do you'll eat your hat.
What do you mean when I do?
I'm never going to hear it because I'm going to win this and no one will ever hear anything more than that tiny clip of your song.
So here's the other track.
What's this Adam?
This is called Jane's Brain and it's a bit of classic rock about what goes on inside a lady's brain.
How very condescending to all women.
I think that's why it's not being voted for.
The lyrics seem to go, she used her brain, as if that's something that she doesn't do very often, to think of things she didn't have.
This is suggesting that all women are in a sort of materialistic obsessive daze and all they think about are cars and dresses and then cars again.
Women don't care about cars.
So not only have you insulted them, you've got them all wrong.
Anyway, so get voting now.
Where do they go to vote?
the BBC six music website.
Six music.
In this day and age we don't give you the kind of the URL you just stick six music into Google it'll be the top hit.
There you go.
Navigate to our little site there and voting is very very easy.
Now here's a track from a band that I haven't actually heard before Silver Sun Pickups.
They're big news though right and the guy from Silver Sun Pickups is on Roundtable with Steve LaMac.
It's all happening for the pickups and this is called Lazy Eye.
I've been waiting for this moment all my life But it's not quite right And it's real It's impossible, if possible And whose blind word So clear does someone hurt?
I've been waiting for the silence all night long It's just a matter of time To appear sad With the same old nice and lazy eye Feds to rest on you
Turned into a bird, rearranged Everyone's so focused, clearly the sunshine
Everyone's so determined by the real me Everyone's so focused clearly
It's the room, the sun and the sky The room, the sun and the sky
We're waiting for this moment
Well, we can cross over now to our showbiz reporter at the Albert Hall, Harry Hill.
Hello, Harry.
Hello, Harry.
Here I am on the red carpet.
World premiere.
The story of the first meeting of the International Recipe Card Top Trump Society.
What's the weather like?
It's sheeting with rain.
And the carpet has become soggy like quicksand, and we have lost one or two of the very thin ones.
If you missed Harry Hill's bank holiday special, you can hear it again right now on our website, bbc.co.uk slash 6music.
You will never see or hear anything like it in your life.
6music.
Is he suggesting that the very thin stars on the red carpet, was he suggesting that they've been absorbed by the carpet?
Yeah, they've slipped through the carpet because it's turned into quicksand.
He's funny.
He's entertaining.
He's brilliant.
That's Harry Hill coming up on 6music.
That'll be really good.
We recommend you listen to that.
This is Adam and Joe though on a more downbeat note on The Breakfast Show.
until 10 o'clock for you now we were asking whether there were other bands that were named after the surname of the lead singer a bit like goldfrapp yeah and and thanks listeners our listeners respond very promptly efficiently and thoroughly to all music related queries this being six music can you not say query and can't i no it's it's on the list the big british castle insulting words list of words that are no longer acceptable
Hmm.
Okay.
Okay.
So here are some of the responses.
Karen Carpenter.
Of course.
Yep.
Carpenters.
Carpenters.
I suppose you can have that.
Although it's not exactly the same as Goldfrapt, you know what I mean?
It's like if it was called Carpenter.
That would be different.
The Carpenters, it's not the same because then it's like the cause doesn't count.
Yeah, like if it was the whole Goldfrapp family.
Yeah.
And they called it the Goldfrapp's.
That's not on.
That's not what we're talking about.
It's just not as exciting a name, is it?
Like someone else texted in Roachford.
That's what I'm talking about.
Right.
But he's a solo singer.
He doesn't really have a band, does he?
He did have a band, I think.
I mean, it was the same sort of situation as Goldfrapp.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Bon Jovi is a good example.
Yeah.
What about Bon Jovi, says Simon in Kent?
Argent?
Argent?
Who are they?
Argent.
Yes, they were around in the 70s, I think.
The White Stripes, Simon is also suggesting?
No.
Wrong.
What, they're called the Stripes?
Mr and Mrs. Stripe?
Aren't they?
Meg White Stripes.
And Jack White Stripes.
Yeah.
No.
And Al in London.
This is one of my favourite ones.
Says The The are named after the lead singer Tim The.
Which is not true.
That's not true.
It'd be nice if it was.
Now Joe, it's time for your session track.
What have you pulled out of the vaults?
Yeah, we're going back to 78.
What a great year 78 was, was it?
What were you doing in 78?
It was the year after the Jubilee, wasn't it?
What was I doing?
I don't know, probably collecting Star Wars cards.
Right.
Yeah, probably playing around my friend Alexander MacFarlane's house.
Pretending that the bed in his spare room was a land speeder and that his little brother was a sand person.
Or an Ewok.
Or an Ewok and throwing him off.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, violently.
Were you into Smurfs around that stage?
Yeah, yeah I was.
Collecting those Smurfs.
Sure I was into Smurfs.
Yeah, sure, who wasn't?
Yeah, I was all the way up into Smurfs.
How many Smurfs did you have?
My brother had the big Smurf collection.
Did he?
I probably had about five or six, yeah.
Five or six?
You disgust me.
You disgust me?
What, is that a lot or?
That's nothing.
That's not even, you say, I say, were you into Smurfs?
You say, yeah, yeah, I was into Smurfs.
We weren't a massively, we weren't an enormously rich family like yours, Adam.
I've worked my way up to this position, I haven't just been dropped here by chopper like you.
Anyway, shush, shut up, shush, stop talking.
It's time for my archive session track.
This is back in 1978.
This is Elvis Costello.
What?
Elvis Costello and the Attractions with Pump It Up.
Joe's pick of the BBC archive.
a little
You can feel it coming
She's like a chemical blow, you try to stop She's like a knock out, if you wanna talk to her You wanna talk to her, all the things you've bought for her Put that good temperature, hold it up Until you can feel it, hold it up
until you can feel it pump it up until you can feel it pump it up until you can feel it pump it up
Wow, another amazing session track there from the Peel session.
Elvis Costello and the Attractions playing Pump It Up on the 13th of March 1978.
Now Adam and I were just having a bit of a tizzy during that song because before the song we were discussing what we were doing in 1978 and this is a query for the more mature listeners.
I thought I told you about saying query.
Sorry.
Thank you.
I'm obsessed with queries.
Inquiry.
Inquiry.
Quiz.
no you can't say quiz it's difficult isn't it um do you remember out there a campaign by uni-gate milk in the mid to late 70s to do with stripy straws called humpfries now my brother was obsessed with these things uh basically you could leave a note out or maybe a bit of money for the milkman and he would leave
See, this is what...
saying I'm saying well I'm saying it's like news night here isn't it but I'm saying that the Humphrey aspect of the whole thing was just part of the advertising campaign it was like a phantom presence that was stealing the stealing the straws drinking the most Humphrey the straw itself me and my brother used to think the straws were called Humphrey's well I used to think that as a toty as well as Humphrey a guy that came a kind of mysterious presence that stole the straws
Yeah, no, it wasn't so much stealing the straws as just drinking all the milk and stuff.
It was like, oh no, someone's drunk my milk!
Because it was all a campaign by Unigate Dairies to make the drinking of milk more attractive to young people.
If you can help us with that, text 64046 or email adamandjoe.sixmusicatbbc.co.uk.
What now?
Music time?
Yeah, here's the breaks with Pacific Visions.
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 what it is
When I ramble around 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
she's just got summer in her hair that's disgusting that's breaks with beatific visions this is adam and joe here on six music covering for sean kevney while he's away only one more day we've got tomorrow and that's it for us and then sean's back with you next week now we were we haven't had any um texts about the humphrey situation have we yeah
We have but we're just collating them.
Jenny and I are collating them.
Doing a little collating.
By putting them through the various BBC scans.
You know it's strange because nowadays of course milk doesn't have the same cachet that it once did in the medical world.
In fact there's many respected medical professionals who'll tell you to avoid milk altogether.
Are there?
Yeah, absolutely.
Some people think it's... You've been watching Undercover Mums again haven't you?
Raw sewage.
You and your Undercover Mums obsession.
Right, now it's time for the news and it's read by Catherine and Lucy.
One in five teenagers are driving drunk.
That's according to a new survey.
A third also said they'd been a passenger in a car with a drunk driver.
Three people aged 17 or 18 are killed or seriously injured in road accidents every day.
Prison officers in England and Wales are reporting for work as normal after their union agreed to talks about pay.
Around 20,000 officers took part in yesterday's wildcat strike.
There's been a small earthquake in Manchester.
It measured 2.4 on the Richter scale and happened around quarter to six this morning in the city centre.
And the TUC is warning employers against cracking down on social networking sites like Facebook.
They say it's unreasonable to try to stop staff from having a life outside work.
And the weather dry, but fairly overcast for most of us.
The sun might make a break for it later.
Temperatures in the late teens, early twenties.
Lucio Docherty is here now with the six music news.
Our top story this hour.
David Byrne, Patti Smith and Debbie Harry have all been paying tribute to CBGB's founder Hilly Crystal.
He died of cancer at the age of 75.
More on that in our next bulletin at 8.30.
BBC.
Six.
Music.
Closer to the music that matters.
So spare me the suspense Just spare me the suspense
I won't let you set by, so cold in the pants Now we should dance like two twins Just spare me the suspense There are seven ancient pawn charts along the way
I know some are making daddies you may want to know
Oh, baby, I can't deny Got a taste, a taste, a taste And it's time, and I won't let you set by So call in the catch night Alone, you can't make amends And I won't let you set by So call in the catch night It's enough with this f***ing sense Just spare me
Punch up to your head
You're late, there's a hole in the sky No haste, no lesson, no lie Got a taste, that I can't deny And you wait, till you know that it's time You wait, till you know that it's time You wait, till you know that it's time You wait, till you know that it's time
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music.
That was Interpol with Mammoth.
We're going to talk about Humphries again in a second but first it's time for the serial thriller.
This is the part of the show where a listener calls in and chooses two tracks to play back to back that give Adam and I a chance to have a bit of breakfast.
And on the line we've got Marion Mardell.
Hello Marion.
Good morning.
How are you?
very good thank you bye-bye that was a joke Marion where are you calling from from Cardiff Cardiff do you like living in Cardiff I do been here a number of years now yeah yeah and what do you do for a living what are you gonna do the rest of today I'm a nurse you're a nurse what kind of are you a angry nurse or a nice nurse
Probably a bit of both sometimes.
Oh, she sounds like an angry one.
You caress with one hand and spank with the other.
Is that right?
Oh, quite possibly.
Do you smell very slightly of disinfectant?
Not at all.
Not at all.
Good, I'm very pleased to hear it.
How long have you been a nurse, Mary?
Oh, well over 30 years.
Oh, wow.
Good for you.
Yeah.
We here at the Adam and Joe Breakfast Show commend you.
We salute you.
We salute you.
A nurse is one of those jobs, though.
When you tell people you're a nurse, do you get this, Marion?
They sort of go, yeah, that's a proper job.
They're impressed.
You know what happens when you tell people you're a nurse, Adam?
That's why I, yeah, exactly.
That's why I tell people I'm a nurse.
You know, when I don't want to get into the whole thing of, well, I used to do a late night kind of comedy show on chat.
You know what?
I'm a nurse.
I'm a nurse.
Hey, Marianne, here's a question for you.
Have you ever been like on a plane or in a non-nursy situation and like saved somebody?
Not particularly.
I've been asked, I went to someone on a train once when they asked for somebody with medical experience.
Did you save them?
No, he decided, well, I went to him and so did somebody else and the person got off the train at the next station to get attention.
I thought it was going to end badly.
It's going to be a downbeat story.
They got off the train.
No, no, nothing heroic on the train.
I was asked to help, but I decided not to and he died.
I thought that was the way the story was going to go.
And we've got here a sort of a fact sheet about you, Marion.
It says your favourite film is Billy Elliot.
Yeah, one of my favourites.
I like anything sort of musical theatre, musical comedy.
Now have you seen the stage production of Billy Elliot?
I haven't yet, no.
Oh you've got to see it.
Apparently it's amazing.
It's amazing.
I went to see it.
I thought I'm not going to like this.
Why?
Why did you go and see it?
Because my girlfriend's company did help do the publicity for it and we could get free tickets.
So I thought I'd go and see it.
I thought I'll walk out by the interval.
I won't like this.
Not at all.
It was amazing.
Shivers down my spine.
It was so exciting.
It's really really good.
You'd love it Marion.
Yeah, I'm sure I will.
And I get there eventually.
If this wasn't the BBC, we'd like a range for tickets for you to go and see it.
But it is the BBC.
We'd solicit.
But there's no soliciting.
Now what kind of music have you picked out for us this morning, Marian?
This morning I've chosen for you Arcade Fire's No Cars Go.
Oh yeah.
Now are you a big fan of the band?
Yeah, it's very different music.
We're going to see them in Cardiff in October, I believe.
Have you seen them before?
No.
It's quite an experience.
It's really sort of almost like a religious gathering.
It's amazing.
You'll really enjoy that.
That's a great track.
And what's the other one you've picked for us?
The other one is Burn My Shadow by Uncle.
Again, a very different band I'd never heard of before June.
And I couldn't wait to buy the album when it came out in July.
Who's getting you into all this crazy music, Marion?
Oh, my husband has a big part to play here.
OK, what's his name?
Andy.
Andy, shout out to Andy, maximum respect.
Nice choices, Marion.
We're going to start with the Uncle track, Burn My Shadow.
Thanks for calling, thanks for listening, Marion.
You're welcome.
Very nice to talk to you, have a great day, and here's Burn My Shadow by Uncle.
Thank you.
And I stand inside today At the edge of the future And my dreams all fade away
And burn my shadow away
But I see through and through and through and through And I see through and through and through And I see through and through and through And I see through and through and through And I see through and through and through And I see through and through and through And I see through and through and through And I see through and through and through And I see through and through and through
BBC six music Adam and Joe
No place, no chance, go Hey!
No cause, go Hey!
No cause, go Well, you know
A place where no spaceships go Now a place where no socks go Hey!
No cars go Hey!
No cars go
Between the click of a light and the start of a dream
Children, let's go
On Tuesday, Calvin Harris was live in the Six Music Hub.
Hi, I'm Calvin Harris.
and you can see the hub session video right now online bbc.co.uk slash six music performing in the six music hub online on demand yes this is adam and joe uh bbc six music the breakfast show before that you heard a great serial thriller courtesy of marion mardell thanks marion for my shadow by uncle and arcade fire with no cars go
I always feel a little embarrassed when I talk to people like nurses, you know what I'm saying?
It's like we're not good enough to talk to.
That's right.
Cause I'm above our kind of, you know, sink of trivial, our cathedral of ludicrousness.
Anyway, it was really nice to talk to you, Marion, and very much enjoyed those tracks.
She brought a bit of class to her show.
Lovely little booger.
Look at that.
Oh, beautiful nurse.
Lovely nurse.
Look at that nurse.
Bringing a bit of class.
Booger booger.
We're now removing it.
But shall we settle the whole Humphrey situation?
Yeah, yeah.
We were talking about the Humphrey campaign, a campaign by Unigate the Dairy that was on in the 70s in the days when they used to deliver little glass milk bottles to your doorstep every morning.
Probably still goes on in many parts of the country but certainly kind of stopped here in London unfortunately.
Before they discovered that milk was indigestible sewage.
They had a campaign to encourage kids to drink milk and we were a bit confused about the specifics of this campaign.
We knew there was something called a Humphrey.
We weren't sure whether it was the straw itself.
Adam was doubting that the actual straws existed.
Joe was going on about straws filled with strawberries.
Stripey straws filled with strawberry powder that you stirred into your drink.
I didn't remember that part of it.
I thought that the Humphrey element was just a sort of spectre saying what you better drink your milk quick children otherwise Humphrey's gonna come and steal it with his big long straw.
Well you know we were both slightly right because that's true.
I don't think that Humphrey was the straw itself.
Humphrey was the kind of off-screen spectre who kind of had a really long straw that he would extend into the frame of the advert.
Like Phil Spector?
Yeah.
and dip into the milk and steal the milk of either Rod Hall or Frank Muir or whoever was in the adverts and in fact thanks to the magic of YouTube you can see those adverts quite easily.
Yeah we just had a look at the Rod Hall and Emu one and it very clearly shows you that there are
strawberry powder filled straws that you can purchase.
10p, you get three straws.
Three for 10p.
Not bad.
My older brother, a couple of years older, he coveted his stripy straws to a ludicrous extent.
He kept them all.
He refused to drink them and open them.
He kept them all.
He thought they'd increase in value enormously as a kind of investment.
We were about like three and five at this point.
And so he hid them under a floorboard in his bedroom.
together with a sheet of Humphrey stickers that you got free from from the milkman yeah and I was so jealous of those straws right when he went out to play with friends I used to go round and open up his secret floorboard and look at them and consider stealing them just look at them you never actually nicked one maybe I did oh you did I might have and I remember they were there until he was about 17
So he did keep them for about 11 years.
They're probably still there.
And then one night had our strawberry milk party.
He snorted strawberry milk powder off her pop stars boobs.
Nice.
That's something that we can all look forward to if we get sufficiently successful.
Now here's one of your favourite bands Joe.
Yeah is it?
Oh yeah this is Ben Folds Five.
This is a great track.
This is Brick.
6 am, day after Christmas I throw some clothes on in the dark The smell of cold, car seat is freezing The world is sleeping, I am
Up the stairs to her apartment She is balled up on the couch Mom and Dad went down to Charlotte They're not home to find us now
Now that I've found someone I'm feeling more alone Than I ever have before She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
They call her name at 7.30 I pace around the parking lot And I walk down to buy her flowers And sell some gifts that I got Can't you see?
It's not me you're dying for And she's feeling more alone Than she ever has before She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly Off the coast and I'm heading nowhere She's a brick and I'm
As weeks went by, they showed that she was not fine They told me, son, it's time to tell the truth And she broke down, and I broke down Cause I was tired of lying
Driving back to her apartment for the night
She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly
Ben Folds 5 with Brick.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music.
Now on Monday Sean W Keeney is back and he's got a new feature that we'd like to encourage you to kind of get in touch about.
It's called Happy Days.
What were you thinking he'd had surgery?
I thought he had the third nipple.
Really?
Yeah, I thought you were going to talk about that.
No, that's a secret.
That's a secret feature.
His new feature is called Happy Days, and he wants you to let him know about a track that has got some kind of special meaning or memory attached to it.
You didn't even tell people how Happy Days was spelt.
With a Z, you're right, that is important.
It's spelt with a Z, because that distinguishes it from the entertaining program about the 50s.
Exactly.
So there you go.
If you've got a track that makes you feel really happy, got lovely memories attached to it, go to the Six Music website, click on the Happy Days link.
You have to fill in a brief form.
It'll ask for your National Insurance, insurance number, your income, you know, all sorts of personal details like that.
You'll be vetted by a team of BBC researchers.
Yeah.
And and if you're successful, you know, maybe you'll get a track played on the show and you'll get to speak to him on the phone and stuff.
It will be wicked.
we're joking we're joking of course not about the whole feature but it's very very easy to get on there and get your track yeah requested so check out the BBC6 music website and also of course you should be voting for our band-aid tracks more about that in a while but now here's a bit more music here's Jefferson Airplane with White Rabbit oh crazy drugs crazy
One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you
Go ask Alice When she's ten feet tall And if you go chasing rabbits And you know we're going to fall Tell them our hookah, smoking caterpillar
and she was just small.
When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go, and you just have some kind of mushroom, and your mind is
And the portion half fallen, the small be dead
Jefferson Airplane with White Rabbit, this is Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music, it's time for the news with Catherine and Lucy.
Teenage string driving figures reveals the Earth moved for Manchester and Celtic and Arsenal make today's Champions League draw.
And in 6music news, Ramone pays tribute to CBGB's founder Franz Ferdinand, keep it low key, and Patti Boyd on Amy Winehouse.
BBC 6 Music.
I am a walking advert, you know.
These scars won't just disappear, they'll always be here, and people always pick up on them.
And if they ask questions, I'm happy to tell them, you know.
Yes, it was my own fault, and I know I was stupid, but the thing I want you to understand is that you don't need to do it.
In other Six Music news, they may be back at work this morning after yesterday's surprise walkout, but the prison officer's row is far from over.
Their union's getting together with the government for negotiations tomorrow, although the Justice Ministry said the talks have been pencilled in before the walkout.
Colin Moses is the chairman of the POA.
He's critical of the government's attitude towards the union.
We could be held in contempt of court, but not for the first time.
Over the last two years, this government has taken this trade union to court more times than any other.
Surely that's the way we want to do industrial relations.
We want to do industrial relations in the court with the Labour government that is now running around with its begging bowl to trade unions.
I don't think so.
Detectives in Liverpool have released a teenager they've been questioning about the murder of 11-year-old Reece Jones, who was shot in a pub car park a week ago.
The 15-year-old boy was the 11th youngster to be questioned.
An earthquake's shaken Manchester city centre, the tremor measuring 2.4 on the Richter scale, hit at around quarter to six.
There are no reports of damage or casualties.
Workers should be allowed time to surf sites like Facebook.
That's what the TUC reckons.
It says it's unreasonable to try to stop staff having a life outside work and employers should allow people to go on the sites in their lunch hours.
Six music, sport, football and Arsenal and Celtic are through to the group stages of the Champions League.
Arsenal overcame Sparta Prague 3-0 at the Emirates Stadium.
while Celtic beat Spartak Moscow 4-3 on penalties after the match finished 1-all.
The draw for the group stages is being made in Monaco this afternoon.
And the weather a cloudy one with only a chance of a bit of sun later.
Some spots of rain around in northwest Scotland, highs in the late teens, early 20s.
6 Music News now, here's Lucy O'Doherty.
BBC 6 Music.
David Byrne, Patti Smith and Debbie Harry have all paid tribute to CBGB's founder Hilly Crystal.
The owner of the legendary New York punk club has died of cancer aged 75.
Crystal lost a bit of battle last year to stop the closure of CBGB's and the final gig will be held in the club in October.
Marky Ramone has also joined the tribute saying Hilly took a chance and gambled.
The gamble paid off for him and for us.
In other 6music news today, Franz Ferdinand have announced their only UK festival appearance this year as part of their low-key comeback.
During the Scottish tour next month, they'll play the Lupe Lu Festival in Ullapool on September the 22nd.
They'll join a line-up featuring the Saw Doctors, The Beast, Tiny Dancers and Paul the Tiger Tail.
And Amy Winehouse has unsurprisingly pulled out of her planned appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Meanwhile, the former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton, Patti Boyd, has stepped into the debate about how to help her.
She agrees with Amy's father Mitch, saying Amy has to sort out her problems herself.
What he said is absolutely right.
You have to allow people that have a problem an addiction problem.
to reach rock bottom and they have to make that decision for themselves.
You can't pick someone up and send them to a treatment centre because it's up to them to stop doing it.
That's 6 Music News.
Your next bulletin is at 9.
6 Music.
Reviewing the new releases around the Round Table this week, Charlie Simpson from Fightstar, Brian Obert from Silversun Pickups and singer, producer and songwriter extraordinaire, Stephen Duffy.
Join me, Steve LaMack, from 4 with Round Table, from 6.
6 Music.
The latest controversy in the Caribbean, ladies and gentlemen, undoubtedly and indubitably spells books.
D-O-O-P-S.
Searching in my mind, there's only two things I can find.
I have fun, desire, and guts to dance until you drop.
Let's dance until you drop
Folks, by definition, who is the one who's going to lose to anybody a chance?
And that's the bull-slop you know we're gonna use, because oops, he always blames and he always bames.
He's got no rap, so he's got to find friends, friends, all the pooches in a relationship, and the females take him for a good stingray.
See him coming five miles away, and for the hell of it, they make him roll the week's pay.
He thinks he's got class, they think he's an ass.
Behind his back, they got the last laugh.
Miss the final frontier.
Always the first to pick up the cheque, but still yet, you don't get no respect.
So zip up step, that boy saw.
Zip up step, girly-girly's rip him off.
Zip up step, with his arms open wide.
Zip up step, girls take him for a ride.
Switching to my mind, there's a lot to be learned.
I have wonders, I have a master, dance until you die.
with his arms open wide girls take a full ride
That's the gas I hear you drop
What if I don't want to?
But I'm using email.
Is that a problem?
it's yeah that's the jingle that set the nation on fire set the nation literally on fire and there's a big fire situation now and the police are trying to put out the fire using hey that's insensitive because there was a fire in one of the royal parks yesterday so how insensitive that's very
It is, of course, time for the nation's favourite feature.
It's Text the Nation, the important part of the show, where we ask you to respond to a special question.
We accept your texts on 64046.
And, of course, as the jingle made perfectly clear, we will accept emails as well.
To Adam and Joe, all one word, with A-N-D, not an ampersand, dot six, the number six, music at bbc.co.uk, the world's most complicated email address.
Now, today we are talking about times in your life when you thought you were so cool, when in fact you were absolutely nothing of the kind.
You were an idiot, yeah.
Maybe it was a time, say, five or ten years ago.
Maybe it was a time when you were a teenager, or when you were kind of a different kind of a person.
and you thought you were being the coolest person in the world but now in retrospect you realize with a sort of shiver of fear that you were a complete twas twas twasl twizzle now i reckon the holy grail of this text the nation would be to find someone who is up for admitting
that actually they did a little cool gaff really quite recently.
You know what I mean?
Right.
Because most of the ones that I can recall just initially are from my teenage years.
That's when you make most of your errors, your cool errors.
So let's give a couple of examples.
I used to go on holiday in Devon to a little town called Dulverton, a beautiful town.
And you thought it was so cool to go on holiday in Devon.
No.
Every summer they had a kind of a festival, a street party.
Yeah.
And I forget which summer it was, but it was the summer that Come On Eileen by Dex's Midnight Runners came out.
81.
And there was a disco in the street.
They played that track very loudly.
82.
And I danced like I'd never danced before.
Right.
Leaping around, doing amazing moves.
I was possessed by some kind of dancing spirit demon.
yeah and i danced so amazingly that a big space cleared in the street party there was like a radius of say 10 meters around me i was leaping around i was thinking wow my dancing amazing everybody's watching this is amazing everyone's looking at me
And I went over to my mum, mid-dance, I went, God, this is really fun, mum.
And she said, yes, you're a really good dancer, Joe.
You're dancing so stylish.
I remember her saying, I carried on dancing, it was incredible, cleared the whole dance floor.
Now, of course, I realised.
I realised I was just an idiot.
I was dancing like some kind of epileptic squid.
People had to back away just to keep themselves physically safe.
And God knows what they were saying about me in the crowd.
Yeah.
But you know, there's an example at the time.
I thought I was kind of John Travolta.
Now I realise I was in terrible, terrible social trouble.
I think that sounds sweet.
I bet your mum was digging it.
Or maybe I was really good.
Maybe.
Maybe the dancing was incredible.
Well, this is the thing.
There's always the chance with these things, you know, that actually it's sometimes it's just a natural impulse to be a little embarrassed of things you've done.
Actually, maybe we're onto something.
Give us your example, Adam.
Well, one thing I often think about is one of my many fashion faux pas.
In fact, a friend of mine the other day was looking through some photographs of me and we were looking through some old pics and stuff.
He was like, man, the clothes you used to wear.
And I was like, what do you mean?
He's like, well, you used to turn up in some pretty weird stuff.
And I just never, I never thought of myself like that at all.
I just always thought I was fairly normal, but I would do, I would occasionally wear sort of slightly stupid things.
Like I went through a phase of wearing a kind of very big high top Dr. Martin boots, very highly polished up with white socks, big thick white socks, which I would pull.
Well this wasn't that long ago either.
I would pull right up.
This was early twenties.
uh early 20s yeah this was uh about 15 years ago you know at school you used to sometimes dress like a kind of a rock priest rock priest quite a short rock priest yes you had a very long coat that made you sort of look a bit like a some kind of stop motion character that didn't have any feet yeah and then you'd wear a a collarless shirt with the top button done up
Hmm and well what I wanted to look like was David Byrne in stop making sense I thought that's that's what I'm like except instead of David Byrne You know I was the physical opposite of David Byrne.
I was short and squat yeah, and like Donald So I go around in my with my top button done up and I'd wear like a black jacket one of my dad's old black suit jackets and I think I'm exactly like David Byrne, and then I would start embellishing and
And one night I remember I went to the pub with a friend of mine.
There was a pub that would serve us even though we were underage.
And we went there and I thought, I'm going to make a splash in the pub tonight with a fashion idea.
And I got a load of safety pins and I made a chain out of the safety pins.
And I pinned one end of the chain to my left shoulder and then I pinned the other end to my right shoulder.
So it was just a kind of... You were like Colonel Clips.
Yes.
You were like the general of the stationery army.
Decorated for services to fashion.
And the guy at the pub who was like a big old bloke he just stared at me and then he laughed.
He just laughed to himself and he's like well you're prepared for any emergency aren't you.
So we're not specifically talking about fashion faux pas that would be too narrow we're just talking about times you thought you were the coolest person in the world but in retrospect you realise you were an idiot.
Text 64046 or email adamandjoe.sixmusicatbbc.co.uk.
Is it time for some editors?
It certainly is.
An end has a start.
But it's gonna rain again today There's a devil at your side With an angel on her way Someone hit the line At least there's more here to be seen When you caught my eye I saw everything
With hope in your hands, we'll never break
I won't disappoint you as you fall apart Some things should be simple, even an end has a start Someone hit the line, cause there's more here to be seen When you caught my eye, I saw everywhere I go
Standing on your own, that's how you'll leave With hope in your hands, let it breathe
That's how you live, with hope in your hands Never breathe, you'll lose everything
That's Editors with an end has a start.
Tom Smith, the lead singer of Editors, will be on Steve LaMax's show tomorrow from 4pm here on BBC6 Music.
That's exciting, isn't it?
It's good news for Editors fans, certainly.
Now, the breakfast single of the week this week is one that's been chosen by Joe Cornish.
Yes, it's King Creosote with You've No Clue Do You.
And yeah, we're going to play it right now.
No clue, do you?
Ask me for your rules of thought This one comes with an end
There's few good moves in there for some That even you avoid it With no smoke
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
The life of a scumbag That's that of man she has
Who could do you?
Who could do you?
Who could do you?
Who could do you?
Who could do you?
Who could do you?
Who could do you?
Who could do you?
Who could do you?
This scarlet doesn't bite us too much, it beats my heart.
Even clean, red, but green is envious of us now.
How does it feel to come from false pronouns in the strong?
This weekend SIX Music brings you The Record Producers The Producers Cut
First aired on Radio 2 over the bank holiday weekend, the program features new material looking in greater detail at the work of Holland, Dozier and Holland.
You'll hear the original multi-track recordings from some of their classic songs and a previously unheard version of Baby Love.
Berry Gordy rejects the original Baby Love.
He tells the Holland brothers, guys, it's not gonna happen.
If you would have heard the original track of that, you'd say, how did that came out to be what it came out to be?
the record producers the producers cut saturday night from 9 30 on bbc6 music sounds very good that show i'm gonna be listening to that one oh look it's my favorite ad that was just on the telly in the corner here in the studio it was the lone advert where the woman is filming her husband stroke boyfriend while he asks for a loan because that's something you know that's a memory that you want to keep always
Do you remember when we were so hard up, things were so bad that you had to ask for a loan?
Oh yeah.
They should pawn that camcorder for a start.
And he's having a good time and he's chuckling away and it's a really it's a fun afternoon you know.
Hey should we ask for a loan again because the last time we did it was a laugh.
Yeah go on let's let's ask for a loan then we'll get a takeaway and uh go to bed and make sweet love.
uh there you go anyway um we are testing texting the nation or asking the asking the nation to text us about times you thought you were being cool when in fact in retrospect it appears that you were nothing of the kind and we've got a few people who've been uh
Communicating with us, is that right, Joe?
Yeah, yeah, we've had some good texts.
Here's one from Bev in London.
This is a good one.
She says, in the swimming baths once, I started humming memories from cats.
Some kids gathered to hear.
So I began to sing out loud.
So he started with the humming.
Wait a second.
Some kids gathered to hear.
Listen to that humming.
There's a lady over there, she's humming.
We don't know whether she was a kid or an adult either.
We hope she was a kid.
But maybe she was an adult, fracture embarrassment.
The kids gather, and they're alone in the moonlight.
So I begun to sing out loud, then do arm gestures.
I thought I was a wonderful actress.
When I finished, the kids just drifted away, looking depressed, like they'd seen their future.
So she was an adult.
She is an adult.
Bev.
Wow, that's brave of you to confess.
Bev.
That's just a pseudonym.
It's actually from Elaine Page.
From Bez.
That's extraordinary.
That's exactly the kind of thing we're looking for.
wow here's another one from robin birmingham at a school disco i sang the song under the boardwalk as an homage to the bruce willis version yes popular at the time for extra coolness i asked to be introduced as bruno nice
As it came from the awful return of Bruno album by Bruce, I thought it would make me popular with the girls.
Good idea.
Wow, I bet you wish you had that on video instead of all your loan applications.
Who's that from?
That's from Rob in Birmingham.
That's excellent Rob.
And here are some more sort of smaller ones.
James in Rochester reminding us of the existence of global hyper color t-shirts.
Mmm.
They were big like in the early 90s when raving and all that business was popular.
That's right.
And they were kind of heat sensitive, heat reactive.
I think they probably still exist.
Yeah.
But when your body heated up, they changed colour in a sort of psychedelic way.
That's right.
But unfortunately what would happen is
it would just mean you'd get big purple emanations from your armpits and then you'd sweat a lot so you'd get one kind of wave of colour that was just sweaty blackness and then a kind of a mildewy, creamy yellow radiating from that.
Yeah, they were a bad idea.
That was around the time of Magic Eye paintings as well, wasn't it?
Yeah, maybe a little earlier.
I don't know.
Maybe you're right.
Yeah, maybe you're right.
Here's another one from Steven Staines.
This is a contemporary story.
A teacher friend of mine tried to get in with the kids by referring to the well-known rapper 50%.
Nice!
His cred really went up.
If he was a maths teacher that would actually be quite a good way to teach maths.
Yeah, yeah.
Well if he was the leader of the Tory party that would be a legitimate way of...
So keep them coming in text your stories of when you thought you were really cool but in retrospect you were the exact opposite text 64046 or email Adam and Joe dot six music at BBC.co.uk.
Joe here's a song from Manson and this may be shocking to you but it's about a stripper vicar.
I was born here so I went to see the big devil Before I could confess, he just confessed to be a stripper
We are a being, yeah Should I press on and report it to the problem?
I'll weather action, egging on to the professional If I love them, then they'll call it plastic scasm But the only thing the stripper finger wears is plastic trousers Baby, this is a premium I'll be busy Baby, this is a premium
He gets away with it!
Do you believe it's not a follow-up letter?
Drop a light about the fate of our forbidden power.
Buried tragically, his term on Earth is ended.
Paddling, gagging, bounding, stalking sets us free.
And while the vicar's daughter may be
Quite right.
Manson there exposing the scandalous ease with which strippers can get away with vicaring or indeed vicars can get away with strippering.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 music.
It's time for the news with Catherine and Lucy.
Digital radio.
Digital TV.
BBC 6 Music.
Top stories at nine, I'm Catherine Cracknell.
One in five teenagers are driving while drunkless according to a survey of more than 3,000 17 to 18 year olds.
A third said they'd been in a car with a driver who'd been drinking or taken drugs.
A 15-year-old boy arrested over the murder of Rhys Jones has been released on police bail.
He's the 11th teenager to be questioned about the shooting a week ago.
Thousands of prison officers are back at work after yesterday's unofficial strike over pay.
Talks between the union and Justice Secretary Jack Straw are taking place tomorrow.
And Manchester's been hit by a small earthquake.
The tremor, measuring 2.4 on the Richter scale, was felt in the city centre just before six.
No one was hurt.
And the weather dry, but not much chance of seeing the sun until later, maybe.
Some spots of rain around in northwest Scotland, highs in the late teens, early 20s.
Lucy O'Doherty is here now with the six music news.
Our top story this hour, artists whose careers were launched at the legendary New York club CBGBs have been paying tribute to its founder.
Hilly Crystal has died of lung cancer at the age of 75.
More on that in our next bulletin at 9.30.
BBC.
Six.
Music.
BBC 6 Music.
Closer to the music that matters.
I won't be able to know you're gonna do something
Come on, buddy
call me the tumblin'
BBC6 Music.
Adam and Joe.
I knew I had him at my match, but every moment we get snatched.
I don't know why I got so attached.
It's my responsibility to get on the 10th of May, but to walk away, I have no progressive taste.
He walks away.
The sun goes down.
He takes the day, but I'm grown.
And in your way, in this blue shade,
We could have never had it all
You have to hit a wall, so this is never to fall, withdrawal Even if I stop wanting you, that perspective push is true I'll be some next man's other woman, so I cannot play myself again I should just be my own best friend I put myself in the head with a stupid man He walks away
The sun goes down.
He takes the day, but I'm gone.
And in your way, in this blue shade, my tears lie on their own.
So we are here to meet the shadows come, the sky above.
The sun goes down, he takes the day.
But I don't know, it ain't your break.
In this blue shade, my heart tears dry on their own.
I wish I could say no regrets and almost a no day.
Cause that kiss goes by the sunset.
So we are history, the shadow covers me The sky above a blend, only lovers see He walks away, the sun goes down He takes the day, but I won't And in your way, my blue shade, my tears
The sun goes down, he takes me, but I am grown And in your way, my teeth shave, my teeth dry on their own He walks away, the sun goes down, he takes me, but I'm grown And in your way, my teeth shave, my teeth dry
Ah, so ironical, man.
It's like a big irony cake with irony icing and like a big ironical candle on the top of it.
We're playing that Amy Winehouse track as a public service.
Of course, you're not allowed to buy her records anymore.
It'll only encourage her to spend the money on bad things.
So we're letting you hear the music for free in order to keep you happy and her safe.
That's true, exactly.
BBC working for Britain there.
This is Adam and Jo on 6Music on The Breakfast Show filling in for Shaun W Keeney.
It's our penultimate show.
Tomorrow will be our last show.
It's going to be a big show.
It's going to be like Christmas Day tomorrow.
It's going to be amazing.
Friday, it's going to be like Cracker Jack mixed in with the premiere of Star Wars and a big rock and roll show with the Arctic Monkeys playing and David Bowie as a support act.
Yeah, David Bowie cleaning up cleaning up.
And at the end of tomorrow, you will hear played in full, the winner of the band aid musical face off between myself and Joe, we urge you to go to the six music website now, BBC music, a BBC, you know, just go find her six music, we just type in six music, you'll find it.
And you can vote for the track by Joe or myself on that website there.
And Joe is, at the moment, in the lead, folks.
Despite the fact that his effort rests entirely on the attractive sound of one little synth stab.
I can't believe you keep saying this.
It's so rude.
It's true.
And insulting.
I know.
I'm just playing dirty because I'm so far behind.
You are playing dirty.
It'll, you know, it won't work.
I know, it's not gonna work.
You'll regret it.
I know.
These people weren't sympathised with such an evil man.
That's true, isn't it?
Listen, you can listen to samples from both the tracks on the 6music website and you can make an informed decision without relying to the canton bile of a jealous loser.
The canton bile of a jealous loser.
That's a type of medieval song structure, isn't it, Canton Boyle?
Anyway, you join us in the middle of Text the Nation.
It's our special feature where we ask you to text us and we read them out.
It's something no other show does.
We invented it.
We invented this.
And it's exciting.
So we've been asking you today to text us in with stories about when you thought you were super cool but in the end were actually a super fool.
Super fool.
I just remembered that I used to I had a number of makeup decisions that I made.
Yeah, you went through a phase.
This was even posed.
Well, I guess let's start this from the beginning.
I mean, everyone, when they're a teenager and their skin goes funny, considers using makeup if they're a man, because there are those clear products that
basically are sort of medicated makeup.
If you're going to put that on your spots, why not go the whole hog and slap on some foundation, some eyeliner, some lippy and a wig.
I didn't do foundation and lippy and a wig.
I was going too far for comic effect.
But I did do the other ones because my mum one day handed me her cover up stick, you know.
That's what I was talking about, medicated foundation
But it wasn't medicated foundation, it was just foundation foundation.
And she said, there you go, this is a little trick that us women use when we're looking a bit rough and just cover up that spot with this, you'll be sorted.
And then I thought, this is amazing, it's a miracle cure.
And so I nicked it.
I nicked it off her and then I started experimenting with all the other things you could do with the cover up stick.
What else can you do with this?
The first thing I did was use it as lippy.
What to try and eradicate your mouth to make my lips look kind of white and blanched Like as if I was a sort of robot man well at school Yeah, or on a night out on a night out generally really and then I would and then I wouldn't do that I would embellish I don't know because there was something sometimes you see it.
It's a look.
You know your lips are all I suppose It's a kind of a Gary Newman type thing exactly yeah Yeah, like a Newman or I know what you mean, and I put a little bit of eyeliner on there
as well because i thought maybe i looked like the guy from uh clockwork orange yeah it's amazing how it's amazing how important it is to look really futuristic when you're learning but maths yeah and i'd stand there on the platform at earl's court station and i would think genuinely to myself i'm pretty cool and i imagine that a lot of people are looking at me right now and thinking look at that kind of robot androgyne i tell you i tell you one thing that a lot of people probably did
is when they were kids and when you were running along the pavement, did you ever make that tactical decision to like instead of running with your fists clenched, you'd think, wow, if I extend my palms into like blades, I bet you I'll be more aerodynamic.
I'll run a bit faster.
I used to think I could run so fast that people were looking at me and suspecting I was bionic.
Yeah, well, you are partly bionic.
It's true.
Yeah.
Now, Joe, it's time for your free choice.
sorry bionic not easy it's time for your free choice and you've picked a french man is it french man i like it's a french man la musique de france uh it's called you can blame it on anybody it's by a band called phoenix and while you listen to this imagine the lead singer making love to sapphire coppola because that's what he does that's what he does for a living bye bye bye
Falling down, I couldn't notice
I'm dreaming right along.
Feeling all this giving up the fight.
You can make it on.
With a little care and a little practice
Love is evil.
On Tuesday, Calvin Harris was live in the Six Music Hub.
Hi, I'm Calvin Harris.
and you can see the hub session video right now online bbc.co.uk slash six music performing in the six music hub online on demand i like that phoenix track there joe what was it there was loads of people in the back i was just thinking maybe i should have played their previous single the backing singers going
You know, they don't, they just get thick people to do their backing vocals.
You know, Aphex Twin, that window liquor single was very similar.
It had similar kind of breathy, but he made a sort of advantage of doing it all wonkles.
Anyway, that's just a sort of Phoenix taste to their previous single was a bit better than that one.
Their last album was very good.
Yeah, they are good.
They're called Phoenix, they're from France.
They're from France, they like ladies, what is the problem?
What is the problem?
It's a big problem!
I like ladies!
So what?
Why is it so bad?
Can we have the textination jingle?
Just to clear the air?
I like ladies!
Why is it a big problem all of a sudden that I like women?
Textination!
Text!
Text!
Text!
Textination!
What if I don't want to?
Textination!
But I'm using email.
Is that a problem?
It doesn't matter!
Text!
Yes, it's time for Text the Nation, the feature when we ask you to text us in about things.
Here are some texts we've got.
The theme today is moments when you thought you were super cool but in retrospect you realise you were an idiot.
Here's one from Sam in the Wirral.
When I was about 10, I went through a slightly obsessive phase of eating bread in one go.
That is, folding the bread, then stuffing each piece into my mouth and chewing.
One day, a slightly older, significantly cooler boy saw me doing this and thought it was the most amazing thing he'd ever seen.
For about two years following, I had older boys coming to me asking to eat pieces of bread they bought me.
What, so they were bringing him bits of bread?
Yeah, hey, I hear you eat bread in a cool way.
Here's a piece, show us, demonstrate.
At the time I thought it was because I was so hip, but with hindsight I feel I was the centre of a warped bread fetish.
Maybe they were just taking the mickey out of you.
Exactly, hey bread freak.
It does sound quite cool actually, I'm picturing it.
Wow.
He folds it up into a ball and then he shoves it into his mouth.
I mean, I used to do bread balls.
I used to pull the crust off and then do a squidgy ball from there.
I think it's just the en suithance of just eating a whole bit of bread.
I mean, only a man could do that kind of thing.
That's true.
Only a powerful man.
It's like when I first went to New York.
and first had like a New York pizza.
I remember my American friend, he took a slice of the pizza and he folded it in half and just shoved it in his mouth like a big sandwich.
Like a calzone.
Yeah, I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
It's a similar kind of thing, isn't it?
Do you still eat your pizza that way ever since?
Yeah, I like to.
It gives me a bit of a thrill.
Well, you don't ball it up in one piece and shove it in your mouth in one go like bread boy though, do you?
Yes, I don't.
No, I don't.
Here's another one.
Thanks that was Sam in Wirral, that's very good.
We're not going to read that one out.
Hang on a second.
Here's one from Gil Kelsall.
I think that's right or Jill, I'm not sure.
Now of Reading.
Picture the scene... A rather rotund, incredibly short 11 year old riding around the mean streets of Hull on a second-hand burgundy shopper bicycle
with a back pedal brake with a basket on the front in said basket there is an enormous stereo the ones where the batteries are the girth of a small child's thigh blasting out at some considerable volume is give it up by casey and the sunshine yeah that was me it was 1984 i thought this was cool i was sorely mistaken i don't think he was mistaken no he sounded very cool
No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
I think that sounds perfectly cool.
It sounds like the opening sequence to some Spielberg, you know, suburban Spielberg.
Absolutely.
It's romantic, man.
You know, one time I just remembered this with the bread freak there thinking that I was the coolest because I was watching Top of the Pops in the school common room one time.
it was on ice to go to a boarding school and the highlight of Thursday evenings was being allowed to watch Top of the Pops and Ultravox's Vienna was at number two in the charts held off the top spot by Joel Dolce.
Rightly so.
Shut up in your face.
And the video for Vienna was amazing as you'll recall it was like a cinematic masterpiece.
We were describing it yesterday I believe.
Were we?
Yeah in relation to the editor's music.
Oh yes yes like exactly.
uh long coats and gray skies yeah and i was doing the drumming i was doing air drumming
like just drumming in the air with my hands.
That's cool.
And I was watching the screen, but I was very much aware that some people were watching me.
Do you know what I mean?
So I was thinking and it was like, I was completely wrapped and I was right on the beat with my air drumming.
And this guy, one of the seniors was watching me and he was stood by the TV and he went, look at this guy, look at this guy down here doing this drumming.
He's amazing.
Look at him.
And I just thought, wow, I'm the coolest.
What I'm leaving out of this story is that he was the biggest dork in the whole school, this guy.
Well, that's okay.
You didn't want any props from this bloke.
Now, Joe, it's time to get into the gravel pit.
Oh, this is fantastic.
The music's been quite good this morning.
We've had Boops by Sly and Robbie.
Yesterday we had Tribe Called Quest.
Now we've got some Woo.
This is the Wu-Tang Clan with gravel pit.
Hot, hollering horse from the land of the lost Behold the pale horse, or cooked Follow me Wu-Tang gotta be The best thing since thoughts and Clark Wallabies African killer these black watch On your radio blowing out your watch From Park Hill to House of Haunted Hill Every time you walk by your back get a chill Let's build, we want to talk about skill I spit like a semi-automatic to the grill Elbow grease and elbow room Baby play me baby fall down go boom Party people gather round, count down to apocalypse
I'm the dude with the golden arms.
And I'm a hot nigga.
Pass the blunt.
Michael, don't front.
You had it for a minute, but it seemed like a month.
Now I'm choking, smoking, hoping.
I don't croak in from overdosing.
Dosing.
Hey, kid.
Watch me back the aisle.
When the map got you open.
Oh, let's ride.
Can't stand shit that cost you much.
Can't stand gently, they cost you much.
Can't want to get up, you can't get touched.
Can't want to stick up, you can't get stopped.
I'm the one that caused the bluff when your boy tried to act tough.
Remember what old dirty said.
All my gravity All this dirt and unraveling Same as the city that I traveled All this regret if you can't have me Eat with the English, extinguish styles, extremist Forehead beamers run wild as the kid with the gold cup Step out like what?
What's poppin' in yachts?
Don't go blastin', shay-shay, chocolates, short-tay Wrist tellin' mocks, Rocko's all day, 1960's shit, I'm Goldie
That fight motherfucker, don't hold me The world's greatest Las Vegas haters, rocks Skin painted on my face, look ageless Perfect combos, those bang out condos Jet from Hamo, extra bongos Bankrolls, stankos and plainclothes Chains those bangos, same old, same old Check out my gravity All this dirt and unravel My hands and feet and I travel
There we go Step to my groove, move like this When we shoot the gift, of course it's ruthless Grab the mic with no excuses, intersect Grab the text and do this Executing, shaking all sets And now I'm breaking all hex, I'm taking all bets Move on bets, who won't the drum next?
You won't stink, we got the bigger bank Bigger shank too, fill your tanks Still the same kill for real, body cranks Fly, do or die, fry the bait, admire the grades On fire with a heart of hate
We hit em with the hot grits On the go, check the flow, singin' Wu Don't Rock
Stop quick, hold the gossip Stop sweating my pockets, I hear the hockey Check out my gravity All this dirty unraveling Take it to sea without traffic No one is so great if you can't catch me You don't have to move, I'm old and you just can't be as strange
Adam and Joe's on six music.
Every time I think of you I get a shot right through into a bolt of blue It's no problem of mine but it's a problem I find Living a life that I can't leave behind
There's no sense in telling me The wisdom of a fool won't set you free But that's the way that it goes And it's what nobody knows And every day my confusion grows Every time I see you falling I get down on my knees and pray I'm waiting for that final moment you
Say the words that I can't say I feel fine and I feel good
I feel like I never should Whenever I get this way I just don't know what to say Why can't we be ourselves Like we were yesterday I'm not sure what this could mean I don't think you're what you seem I do admit to myself That if I hurt someone else Then I'll never see Just what we're meant to be
Every time I see you falling I get down on my knees and pray I'm waiting for that final moment You say the words that I can't say Every time I see you falling
I'll get down on my knees and pray.
I'm waiting for that final moment you say the words that I can't say.
That is Frente with Bizarre Love Triangle.
What a lovely little sound that was.
I was waiting for it to kick in though.
It wasn't going to.
No, it never did.
They do not do the kicking.
I don't like to kick in.
I don't like it.
This is Adam and Joel on BBC6 Music, just coming up to 9.30, the last half hour of our show, and tomorrow it's the final show.
All sorts of special things happening, including the unveiling of the winner of the Band Aid competition, Adam and my sort of songs we've written going up against each other.
So that'll be exciting, and as it's our final show tomorrow, listeners, you can wear what you want.
yeah exactly no need to wear your adam and joe breakfast show uniforms uh you can come in in mufti and what's more you can bring in some games if you like uh well that's one of our texts has suggested uh who was it it was um in in his i double nes in his in this i don't in this uh from from why stop moving it jenny i've lost it now i had it a second you've screwed stop it
Where is it?
Now I've lost it.
Yeah, there we go, in Teddington.
Good morning, Adam and Jo.
As tomorrow's your last show on 6music, can we bring a toy from home?
Yes, you can.
You can?
You can, yeah, absolutely.
As long as it's clearly marked with your name on the underside.
Now, pretty much we're going to wrap up, I think, Text-A-Nation.
With another couple of quickies?
Yeah.
Here's a quickie.
No!
Lisa says no, we've got to go to the news right now.
We'll wrap it up after the news.
Here is the news with Catherine and Lucy.
Digital radio.
Digital TV.
BBC 6 music.
Number of drink driving teens revealed.
Eleventh teenager released in Reese Murder Probe and Manchester Shakes.
And in 6music news, Blondie on CBGB's founder, Fion's bizarre Mercury's analogy and another Pope's Christmas tour.
BBC 6 music.
I'm Catherine Cracknell.
One in five teenagers admits they drive after having a drink.
That's according to a poll out this morning.
Of the 3,000 questioned by an insurance company and a road safety charity, one in 14 admitted to driving after taking drugs.
Chief Constable Meredith Hughes is the ACPO spokesman on road policing.
I don't think we know whether it's worse than it was 10 or 20 years ago, but the problem is it hasn't improved.
And this is chilling, compelling evidence that we need to do something, I think, not about testing and enforcing the law specifically.
I think that's important.
But we need to change attitudes in young drivers before they ever get behind the wheel of a car.
In other SixMusic News, Merseyside police have released a 15-year-old on bail after he was questioned about the murder of Rhys Jones.
A week on since the shooting, detectives have made another appeal for a key witness to get back in touch.
They say he called last Saturday at around 11.20 at night.
The Earth's moved in Manchester.
Quite literally, the city centre was hit by an earthquake just before six this morning.
It measured 2.4 on the Richter scale and isn't reported to have done any damage.
Workers should be allowed to go on social networking sites like Facebook at work.
That's what the TUC reckons.
They say employers shouldn't be unrealistic enough to expect staff not to have a life outside work and workers should be allowed to serve the websites during their lunch breaks.
The Stephen Alambritus of the Federation of Small Businesses doesn't agree.
It can eat into the working practice, into the working day and I must stress this resentment of some staff who are not into Facebook and others who are and that can breed resentment and sell industrial relations.
six music sport football and David Beckham could be sidelined for four to six weeks.
He thinks he has a ligament strain after injuring his right knee in LA Galaxy's Superleager match against Pachuca.
And the weather dry but overcast if we're lucky we might see the sun later on.
Some patches of rain around in northwest Scotland highs in the late teens or early 20s.
Six music news now here's Lucy O'Doherty.
BBC six music.
CBGB's was the launchpad for the likes of the Ramones, Talking Heads and Blondie and they've all been paying tribute to the club's founder.
Hilly Crystal has died of lung cancer at the age of 75.
Last year Hilly lost a long battle to save the club from closure and Patti Smith will play the final gig there in October.
She's written a poem in tribute to him on her website and Debbie Harry has released a statement saying, I'm very sorry that Hilly is gone.
He was a big help to Blondie and to the New York music scene for many years.
His club has become part of New York law and rock and roll history.
In another 6music news this morning, the countdown is on to next week's Mercury Music Prize, with the winner due to be announced on Tuesday.
Fionn Regan is one of the artists in the running for his critically acclaimed album The End of History, which was mixed by Simon Raymond of the Cocteau Twins.
We caught up with him if we saw an in-store at Virgin Megastore last night, and he told us rather cryptically what he makes of the competition this year.
I think it's a well-decked hall.
You know, when you walk into someone's hallway and it looks alright, you don't make any comments about the poor interior.
Just walk in and say, yeah, it looks alright, so you keep it to yourself.
And the Pobes have announced their fifth festive tour this Christmas.
It kicks off on December the 11th at the Glasgow Academy with support from the Holloways.
Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning at 9am.
That's Six Music News.
Your next bulletin is at 10.30.
Six Music.
Reviewing the new releases around the Roundtable this week, Charlie Simpson from Fightstar, Brian O'Bertz from Silver Sun Pickups, and singer, producer, and songwriter extraordinaire, Stephen Duffy.
Join me, Steve LaMack, from 4 with Roundtable from 6.
Six Music.
With me a year to the day Three hundred and sixty Five days watching media game We used to talk about girls who play guitars We used to talk about plans in tiny bars In the gaps
Between words are the things that really intrigue me It's the gasps and the sighs that say more about what's inside you We used to come up on a high horse every time We used to talk about boys with missing spines It's her life and her life is ours
And never stop at a possible minute in time The path of excess just led to boredom You've lived your life with your mouth wide open It's her life and her life is worth living
Don't you know how much that hurts You could pretend and I wouldn't know I could be who you wanted in the dark She goes how she gets drunk She gets up She goes how she gets in She goes how she gets drunk She gets up She goes how she gets in It's her life and her life is worth living It's her life Never struggled just to pass her one minute
It's worth living We used to talk about girls who play guitar
Maximo part with girls who play guitars.
This is Adam and Joe here on BBC six music covering for Sean Keveny for the rest of today and there's only 20 minutes left of that for our show and then we'll be back with you tomorrow and that's it.
Sean's back next week.
You'll be glad to hear if Sean's your man.
Joe Cornish, have you got a couple more texts to wrap up our textination?
Yeah, we've got a couple more.
Here's one from Kerry.
Of course, listeners, we've been asking you to get in touch with us with moments in which you thought you were cool, but actually, in retrospect, realize you were a fool.
Here's one from Kerry.
This is quite an interesting one.
After finding out I needed glasses at 12, I persuaded my mum to let me get tinted lenses to fool people into thinking I was wearing sunglasses.
Shades, nice.
Now, I remember kids at school who did that.
Yeah, they got prescription shades, but they were a little bit too cool.
Yeah.
Just functional.
So they were tinted.
I used to think they were just partially sighted.
It used to give them a kind of a Mr Magoo feel.
Sometimes people, I remember someone turning up with aviator shades.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
Didn't Omar Fadli turn up with aviator shades one time?
Very probably.
And when he was asked to take them off by the teacher, he'd go, no, because they're actually prescription lenses.
Quite a crafty tactic.
Yeah, I actually did think that was cool.
You know, sunglasses are a funny thing because every time you put them on, I mean, they're great in a way, because obviously they fulfill a useful purpose.
but useful function even but you do think you're cool when you're wearing them though don't you a little bit of you is they make you mysterious yeah who could no one can see your eyes who knows what you're thinking those are the eyes of the window to the soul and you shut that window because you've got no soul because you're too cool too cool to have a soul you've seen too much killing and too many wars you know you've lived too much
Yeah.
And, um, I've seen a couple of pictures.
I mean, you know, maybe it's just cause I'm getting a bit older now, but the pictures of me from last summer wearing my shades.
No, I don't look cool anymore.
Really?
Yeah.
I still look cool.
Like this year I suddenly thought, Oh,
No, I don't look cool in shades!
You know what I mean?
Anyone can look cool in shades.
This year it wasn't working.
Really?
Oh man, I felt so ancient.
I have developed a thing where I just don't care anymore.
Have you?
I lost my shades, I had to buy some at short notice, so I bought this really ugly pair.
And the brand is Animal, and they've got the word Animal in gold along the side of the sticks, you know.
And they're horrible.
They're really pinched.
They make me look like some kind of giant insect.
And I just don't care anymore.
I used to have a pair of shades.
Actually this was one time I did think I was cool and I clearly wasn't.
Do you remember those circular shades Thomas Dolby used to wear?
Lennon shades.
Lennon shades right.
But in the early 80s there would be an extra pair of shades.
That's right.
That would flip down.
You can still get those.
I bet you can get those in.
It's the kind of thing the Pet Shop boys might have worn.
Flick the top layer down.
Flick the top layer down.
Yeah.
Now here is Uros Charles, we've been, oh Eiros, oh we had the Eiros.
We don't know how to say his name still.
Eiros, Eiros, Eiros.
Okay, take your pick of how you want to pronounce his name.
This is exciting because his new album, The Miracle Inn, is the album of the day here on 6music so tracks will be being played from it all day.
And it's a wonderful album, this track is called Horse Riding.
Riding on horses, oh yeah, and a girl
Good boy now, ooh yeah I go to church on a Sunday, ooh yeah But it's since she came riding, mmm yeah With my mind that's been a wandering, ooh yeah
Now I can't cope with the fact that She's still at the horse ride
That's brilliant.
Brilliant.
Oh, that is wicked stuff, man.
That is Eros Childs, Eros Childs, whatever, with a track called Horse Riding from his new album Miracle In.
And that album is out this week and available for you to purchase in the record shops.
And it's going to be played, tracks from it all day.
Does that make sense as a sentence?
And it's going to be played, tracks from it all day, sixth music on it in it.
That is good enough.
Yeah.
No one goes to record shops and buys things man.
What are you talking about?
Yeah they do.
Physical?
No.
Us old people do.
No one does the physical.
Us old people still love to go into shops and wander around and look at things and touch them.
But do you actually do the physical purchasing?
Yeah, I do actually.
Are you?
I thought you were a doctor online?
No, I like to own an album.
Right.
Especially if it's someone like Eros Aros Oroz Childs.
Yeah.
Yeah?
Because he has... He's got lovely sleeve designs.
Nice little bit of packaging.
And it means that if my computer crashes or goes corrupt, I'll still have a backup.
Absolutely, good thinking job.
Absolutely good thinking.
Do you like the Inspiral carpets?
No.
Okay, well you're going to enjoy this one then.
This is a classic from the carpets.
I'll be off to the loo.
This is how it feels.
Bye.
Kids don't know what's wrong with mum She can't see, they can't see Putting it down to another bad day Daddy don't know what he's done Kids don't know what's wrong with mum So this is how it feels to be lonely
This is how it feels to be small This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all There's a funeral end of town
Some guy from the top estate Seems they found him under a train And yet he had it all on a plate So this is how it feels to be lonely This is how it feels to be small This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all
Husband don't know what he's done Kids don't know what's wrong with Mom She can't see, they can't see Putting it down to another bad day So this is how it feels to be lonely This is how it feels to be lonely
This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all So this is how it feels to be lonely This is how it feels to be small This is how it feels when your word means nothing at all
This weekend SIX Music brings you The Record Producers The Producers Cut
First aired on Radio 2 over the bank holiday weekend, the program features new material looking in greater detail at the work of Holland, Dozier and Holland.
You'll hear the original multi-track recordings from some of their classic songs and a previously unheard version of Baby Love.
Barry Gordy rejects the original Baby Love.
He tells the Holland brothers, guys, it's not gonna happen.
If you would have heard the original track of that, you'd say, how did that came out to be what it came out to be?
The record producers, the producers cut Saturday night from 9.30 on BBC six music.
That's more like a torture than a trail now.
When are they going to tell us what the original baby love sounded like?
Oh, you got to listen to the show to find out.
They're haranguing us repeatedly about that.
This is Adam and Joe here on six music.
Anita Rani's coming up shortly in around about a quarter of an hour.
And she's got the band Architecture in Helsinki from Melbourne, Australia, actually playing live in the heart
Yeah, we can just about see the corner of the hub from our studio here and there's all kinds of thrilling looking people setting up amazing equipment.
You're saying, Adam, that that band are a bit like the Talking Heads or that kind of thing?
Well, no, not exactly, but they've got like sort of, you know, what's it called?
Tom Tom Club era Talking Heads, that kind of thing.
You can hear some little elements of that in their music, but that
pins it down too specifically they're really good band you should check them out and they'll be playing live in the hub on Anita Rani's show now it's time for my free choice today this is Bob Dylan with a track from an album called another side of Bob Dylan and it's a it's called Spanish Harlem incident it's pretty stripped down you'll enjoy it amazing lyrics in this one and even though it was late 60s or whatever it sounds amazingly contemporary I'll be the judge of that you stick it on enjoy
Dipstick out the hands of Harlem Cannot hold you to its heat Your temperature is too hot for taming Your flaming feet are burning up the street
I am homeless, come and take me To the reach of your rattling drums Let me know babe, all about my fortune Down along my restless pond
gypsy gal you got me swallowed i have fallen far beneath your pearly eyes so fast and slashing and your flashing diamond teeth the night is pitch black come and make my pale face fit into place
Oh babe, I'm nearly drowning If it's you my lifeline strays
I've been wondering all about me Ever since I've seen you there On the cliffs of your wildcat charms I'm riding I know I'm around you but I don't know where You have slayed me You have made me I've got to laugh half ways off my heels
me so I can know if I'm real
Bob Dylan there, that was Adam's free choice.
A Spanish Harlem incident.
That was amazingly stripped down and it had amazing vocals.
It was good man and the lyrics from that, you can't beat those.
That's what I meant, lyrics.
On the crest of your wildcat charms I'm riding.
He's the king.
I don't think there's any point in really saying that Bob Dylan's no good, do you know what I mean?
Fair enough if you don't like him, if he's not your cup of tea.
But every now and again you meet people and say, Bob Dylan, what a phony, he's totally overrated.
It's just not true man, he's wicked.
My parents used to have some Bob Dylan singles.
They also used to have some Dylan Thomas poetry being read on seven inch.
So anything Dylan based.
I got very confused.
I used to think Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan.
They were both poets.
They were both weird and kind of foreign sounding.
That's why Dylan chose the name.
I used to get very confused.
Is it really?
Yeah.
There you go.
He reveled in the confusion.
Now, it's time for a bit of music.
We almost have to say goodbye to you.
Anita Rani's coming up very shortly.
As I said, Architecture and Helsinki playing live in the hub in her show.
But right now here's a bit more music from Digitalism.
This is a track called Idealistic and there's a lot of frightening futuristic sounds in this so watch out.
that you are
I'm such a wuss Yeah
Yeah!
music of the future can only be listened to by robots yeah it's like in the terminator when the world's been blasted by the machines this is the kind that's the sort of what are you saying jenny what's she called in the terminator she's not called jenny linda what's she called
Jenny is is Sara Sara Sara Jenny that's because I've been listening to that song by tongue that goes Jenny Jenny someone out there will understand that Jenny well that's pretty much it for our show today ladies and gentlemen thank you so much for listening we've really appreciated it yeah thanks to everyone who's texted and and sorry to interrupt you there I was talking absolutely
to talk my own rubbish thanks to everyone who's emailed and texted and listened it's our final show for a little filling in session tomorrow and don't forget we'll be unveiling the winner of the band-aid competition but first you have to vote for the winner okay you have to go on to the six music website
locate the page, the Adam and Joe page there, and you'll be able to choose either my track, Jane's Brain, or Joe's track, European Supermarket.
You can listen to little snippets of each, the tips of both of those musical icebergs, and decide which iceberg you'd like unveiled towards the end of the show tomorrow.
It's gonna be an amazing show tomorrow.
Please vote for my iceberg.
I'm not saying make me win, just so it's not totally humiliating.
You know what we might do tomorrow?
What?
Prepare something.
Yeah.
Just as it's the last show.
How about that?
Really?
Yeah.
Sort of think of something before we come into the studio.
Yep.
Hmm.
That's interesting.
Okay, we won't.
Alright.
So we'll see you tomorrow morning from 7am till 10.
Thanks for listening.
Stick around for Anita Rani with Architecture in Helsinki playing in the Hub.
Have a wonderful day.
Bye.
Bye.
Hanging round downtown by myself and I had so much time to sit and think about myself and then there she was
Like double cherry pie, yet there she was Like disco super flyin' I smell sex and candy hair Who's that loungin' in my chair?
Who's that castin' deep via stairs in my direction?
Mama, this surely is a dream, yeah Yeah, mama, this surely is a dream, yeah Hangin' round
Downtown by myself and I've had too much caffeine And I was thinking about myself and there she was In platform double suede, yeah there she was Like disco lemonade
I smell sex in Canada, yeah Who's that lounging in my chair?
Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?
Mama, this shawlick is a dream, yeah Yeah, mama, this shawlick is a dream
Yeah, mama, this surely is a dream, yeah I smell sex and candy, yeah Who's that lounging in my chair?
Who's that castin' deep via stairs in my direction?
Mama, this surely is a dream to you.
Yeah, mama, this surely is a dream.
Yeah, mama, this surely is a dream.
Yeah.
Yeah, mama, this must be my dream.