I thought I'd done my best All my life I can't get no rest Someone closed the door before Say I can't carry on no more
I hear them say, tomorrow's just another day I hear them say, it gets better every day I hear them say, tomorrow's just another day Tomorrow's just another day Listen love, try to take it in
It's down and down, there is no up I think that I've run out of luck I hear them say, tomorrow's just another day I hear them say, it gets better every day I hear them say, tomorrow's just another day Tomorrow's just another
Walking out over covered ground There's a chance if I move around I need a moment to reflect On the friendships I have wrecked Why is it time?
Don't I always try?
I hear them saying tomorrow's just another day I hear them saying it gets better every day I hear them saying tomorrow's just another day I hear them saying it gets better every day I hear them saying tomorrow's just another day I hear them saying tomorrow's just another day I hear them saying tomorrow's just another day I hear them saying tomorrow's just another day
I feel insane.
Tomorrow's just another day.
Tomorrow's just another day.
I feel insane.
Tomorrow's just another day.
I feel insane.
Good morning, this is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music.
It's a few minutes past seven.
Welcome to our last ever breakfast show.
That's true.
Whatever happens, we will never again wake up this early for two weeks on the trot.
It's true.
Even if there's some kind of crisis, even if like the world, even if they shift the days.
Man, if the big British castle needed us, we would.
That's true.
Don't you think you've got to serve the big British castle?
Yeah.
You know we're very lucky to have been given brief tenure here at the Big British Castle and at the end of today's show we're going to go back into our little hovel of muddy huts and carry on whittling pipes and baking pigeons or whatever we do normally.
Sieving mud.
Sieving mud for rocks that can be made into necklaces.
Smooth pebbles and sold in the market.
We'll thread it on the necklace and sell it in the market.
Thank you.
Please don't beat me.
Please don't beat me.
I will beat you.
Thank you.
So yeah, that's what today's got in store for me.
Do you know what?
I'm wondering... What has today got in store for you?
I'm saving pebbles.
Oh, pebbles.
Okay.
I'm wondering if my pass, because you know when you get here to the BBC, they give you like a lovely pass.
That's right.
And on the back of the past there's instructions for how to behave at the BBC.
Have you ever read your instructions?
No.
Have you seriously not?
No.
BBC values.
Trust is the foundation of the BBC.
We are independent, impartial and honest.
Says this on the back of every BBC past.
Audiences
are at the heart of everything we do.
We take pride in delivering quality and value for money.
Creativity is the lifeblood of our organization.
And it goes on for quite a long time.
My pass is an older pass.
What does yours say?
I've been working here at the castle for longer than you, Evan.
Mine says, this card is the property of the BBC.
And then found, please post to blah, blah, blah.
And then it has fire safety tips.
No values?
No, I don't need those values.
Oh no, you have.
You've got a little one at the bottom.
It says do not use lifts.
It just says do not use lifts.
That's a little bit of advice.
You see, that's because I was hired here as a lift maintenance worker.
And how long do you think these passes will allow us to switch through doors at the BBC?
I think at the end of the show today, they'll stop functioning.
They'll immediately stop.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's probably true.
So all our plans for invading other shows are gonna have to be, you know, shelved.
We'll tell you more about what we've got coming up in the show in just a second, but I think it's time for music, because that's what Six Music's all about after all.
Incidentally, you heard Madness with Tomorrow's Just Another Day kicking off the show, and now here's the Kaiser Chiefs with The Angry Mob.
How can you fix it with me?
It starts with just one and turns to two then three It's only cause you came here with your brothers too If you came here on your own you'd be dead Raise a glass until you raise a mist or two And get a shopping basket right round your head
We like who we like, we hate to, we hate but we're all so easily swayed We are the angry mob, we read the papers everyday We like who we like, we hate to, we hate but we're all so easily swayed
We like to, we hate to, we hate but we're also in this way We are the angry mob, we read the papers everyday We like to, we like to, we hate but we're also in this way We are the angry mob, we read the papers everyday We like to, we like to, we hate but we're also in this way We are the angry mob, we read the papers everyday We like to, we like to, we hate but we're also in this way
That's a bit of Kaiser Chiefs satire there and the angry mob, the real angry mob, will now be firmly put in their place by that song, I think.
You know what I mean?
There's a lot of Daily Mail readers out there who are gonna hear that song and think, wait a second, he's talking about me.
What have I been doing with my life?
An angry mob gets carried away.
That's true.
It can no longer see a situation in a calm and measured manner.
It's overexcited.
People start hyperventilating and they push things too far.
They push things over as well.
They end up ripping things apart and pushing them over.
That's true.
An angry mob is not a way to run a country.
No.
No.
Is that the lyrics of the song?
All that stuff you just said?
No.
It's just things I'm thinking.
That's amazing.
In my head.
Adam and I are using this breakfast show as a platform to get into politics.
That's true, actually, you know, because some people would imagine that mainly we're obsessed with trivial superficial things.
We're thinking if Tony B. Liar and Gordon Broon can do it, why can't, and what's his name?
Mr. Pooter?
David Cameron?
Why can't we do it?
We can do it.
Yeah.
If I tell you the bottom line, if David Cameron can do it, we can flipping do it.
I tell you the planks, my planks.
Do you want to know my planks?
Stop it.
There's the one of them.
The main one is stop it.
Stop.
That's my campaign.
That's my campaigning slogan.
Right.
Stop it.
Adam and Joe say stop it.
Yeah.
My, my, my next policy.
Yeah.
Put that back.
My third policy is shh.
Shh.
That's a good one.
That is a good one.
Yeah, that's it.
Those are our three prongs.
I've got one more prong.
Stop it.
Put that back and sit down and just sit down.
Yeah, just sit down because that'll solve a lot of problems.
Yeah, just sit down.
You get an unruly teenager and he's hell bent on on bashing and on blackblatting on blackblatting and bashing with his strap.
Exactly.
Or his gat or his gak.
I don't know what he's using.
And you say, hey, sit down.
And then he sits down and gives him a chance to think about what he's done.
Yeah, yeah.
That's all you need.
That's all you need.
Policies there, right there.
Now folks, it won't be a surprise to you after that little spiel there that BBC 6 Music has been shortlisted in the best radio station category at this year's Digital Music Awards.
They're the most important awards.
They're the most important awards in the world.
They're the ones everyone's heard of.
They're the Digital Music Oscars.
The D'Oscas.
The D'Oscas.
And the winner will be decided by you, the public.
The AKA the angry mob.
So to vote for 6music go to bbc.co.uk forward slash 6music and also don't forget while you're there to vote for either my track or Joe's track in today's
Band-aid face off says on the script that you were supposed to say also check out the Calvin Harris session for Anita Rani on Tuesday, but you cleverly switched it to our competition.
I was going to talk about Calvin Harris is a little final.
It's more important to vote in our competition.
Okay.
Yeah.
So right now, get on to BBC.co.uk forward slash six music, OK?
And while we're playing this next track by the marvelous Morcheeba, sort all that out.
Vote for six music for the Digital Music Awards and vote for myself or Joe for today's band aid.
Here's Morcheeba.
I'm heavy, so say your truth In blood, alive and well You push the buttons
The children learn to live within the
Zoom in, cut out, add sound Make a film, a sultry breeze Hung up, let down, to ground Forget the kill, it's part to his big kill Love, love, on the trigger hit me
More Cheeba?
Yeah, featuring Dom Jolly there on backing vocals with Trigger Hippie.
Why did you say Dom Jolly?
Because it sounds like Trigger Happy.
It's that simple.
It's that simple.
Darling in the morning, simple connections for simple DJs.
You want more Cheeba?
No, it's wrong to have more Cheeba.
You've got to have modest amounts of Cheeba, everything in moderation in life.
Absolutely, exactly.
A little bit of what you fancy does you good and helps you.
panties is that the end of that yeah that's actually the end of that aphorism this is adam and joe on bbc6 music a very good morning to you it's a friday morning uh friday the day that that doesn't really count you know yes you're working but not really you don't really have to
bother no you know you can work in us in a slapdash lackadaisical fashion while listening to the radio and like wearing brightly colored clothing and stuff like that and go home early you know really go go to the pub have a drink with your friends and then don't watch Big Brother tonight no why just just cuz just on principle yeah on principle
Yeah, go out and do something less boring instead.
Yeah, exactly.
Sitting at home watching TV.
Turn it off.
It's no good to me.
So do that.
And also, it's a lovely day in London town.
I don't know about that.
It's gonna be a cracker.
It's gonna be a good weekend, though, right?
I'm just making that up.
yeah it is there's nothing wrong with being positive yeah yeah even if it's wrong but listen we've got great stuff coming up in the show listeners we've got terrific music we've already had terrific music but in the rest of the hour we've got some smashing pumpkins some Jose Gonzalez is that how you say it yeah you say Jose Jose some modest mouse I'm looking forward to that some Beck
oh it's going to be great and of course we've got serial thriller coming up at eight and the most important aspect of the show is of course the uh climax of band-aid it was sean keithney's brilliant segment where he kind of got a new band and you had to choose whether to play them or not we've kind of hijacked it for our own ends adam and i have written a song each there's clips of each on the bbc6 music website go there listen to each clip vote for which is your favorite we're going to play the winner at the end of the show
And I think we'll play a clip a little later on as well, won't we?
Yeah, I'll give you a little on-air reminder.
It's European supermarket versus Jane's brain.
Two very different tracks.
One's rock, one's sort of Euro house and very different subjects.
How's the voting looking at the moment?
Jenny's just going to... Jenny's got to flag up the things.
Is that true?
Have I made a little comeback there?
He's made an enormous comeback.
He's 61% for Adam and 39% for Joe.
Is that true?
Are you sure?
But it was the other way around yesterday.
Yesterday Joe had 64%.
That's not very good because... Shall I tell you a secret, listeners?
What?
My track's 30 seconds long.
Have you been voting for yourself?
I assumed I was going to lose.
So I only did 30 seconds worth.
And then when, so earlier in the week our producer Lisa said, is it only 30 seconds?
I thought that was just a clip.
Could you like finish the song?
So I said, yeah, yeah, I'll finish it.
No problem.
But then I saw the voting yesterday and it was like 64% in European supermarkets favor.
I thought, oh, that's okay.
I'm not going to have to finish it then because it's never going to win.
So if Jane's brain wins today, I mean... We're all in trouble.
We might have to play European supermarket anyway, but that's not how it works.
Hey, the voting hasn't closed yet, right?
There's still a couple of hours of voting left.
Go to the BBC6 music website, listen to those two snatches and vote for the one.
What is your favourite?
Now here's some music.
This is Gossip with Jealous Girls.
You said you'd miss.
It's killing me.
I can't believe it's over.
You're not the enemy, but underneath.
You feel sad, believe and
You're not the enemy, but underneath You don't agree, take comfort that it's over There's an urgency
They can't take me No matter what the price They can't take me No matter what the price They can't take me No matter what the price They can't take me
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 going to happen.
If you would have heard the original track of that music, how did that came out to be what it came out to be?
Sounds like an excellent show.
This is Adam and Joe here on BBC6 Music.
Our last day covering for Sean Keveny.
He'll be back with you next week.
And right now it's time for our first plunder of the John Peel Session archives.
And I've gone for a track by one of my favourite New Wave acts magazine.
They formed from the
sort of ashes, well not the ashes because they carried on, but Howard Devoto, lead singer of the magazine, used to be in the Buzzcocks and he was one of the founder members of the Buzzcocks but he left it after their first single came out, I think, and just went on because it was all, he didn't really like punk that very much, didn't he?
No, he wasn't impressed by the shouting and the spitting and that kind of behaviour, he was too cerebral for that sort of thing.
I'm similar.
And too perverse.
Yeah, you would have split off as well.
Perverse?
I'm not perverse.
No, but I'm too cerebral.
You are too cerebral.
That's why you'd never make a good punk rocker.
So Howard went on to form magazine, a fantastically snooty cerebral and occasionally quite pretentious band, but all in a good way.
Do you know what I mean?
Some of their albums are amazing.
Real Life is the one to check out if you're a magazine novice.
I can't remember if this track that they're going to play on the Peel Sessions is on Real Life or Secondhand Daylight but it's called Touch and Go.
Check out the mannered vocals on The Man.
I really like someone who maybe is not a great classical singer but just goes nutty with the voice, do you know what I'm saying?
Uses what he's got to the best effect.
Exactly.
Like Kevin Rowland for example.
A brilliant gymnast vocally.
And David Byrne also, you know, not a powerful singer but
very mannered and Celine Dion, Bette Midler, characteristic Streisand.
All good examples of what I'm talking about.
So check out Howard Devoto here singing with magazine.
This is called Touch and Go from 1978 John Peel session.
Adam's pick of the BBC archive.
In the corner of your eye I'm loitering with intent You can't tell me to move or kiss all of my money spent You're such a big girl's whole world isn't it?
You're asking me what I do as I'm not the finance of your lawsuit Can you tell me so?
Is that your war now?
Why must it be so?
Well, don't you go, oh wow!
Get in a Victoria party to all kinds of things In a manning and excuses, discovering new sins You take a thousand liberties with me A scientist applies for this kind of insanity, mercy
Then you tell me so, it's time to go for now.
Find us in the dough, we'll catch you go-o-ow.
A fistful of pavements, a million times.
Are there eyes between?
This can't end when it lets you Take your pleasure seriously You offered me a hand Are you trying to catch something?
I'll tell you what I want from me I'll tell you what I'll close me Then you tell me so We'll touch and go for now Why not say me so We'll touch and go
Great stuff.
That's magazine from their 1978 Peel Session.
That's a track called Touch and Go.
Incidentally, Howard Devoto's solo album Jerky Versions of the Dream is well worth checking out.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I'm just talking rubbish.
If you like kind of synthy pop music with a little arty edge to it.
Check it out.
It's one of my favorite albums ever.
Now, yeah, what?
Oh no, carry on, I was just saying now.
One of our, one of the few things sort of new we've done in the last couple of weeks has been our Text-A-Nation jingle.
Oh yeah.
We kind of invented the segment on the Monday that we started.
By Tuesday it had the jingle.
You came up with the name Text-A-Nation, didn't you Joe?
Yeah, it was a brilliant satire of Test-A-Nation.
Yeah, it was amazing and then I went home and I worked on the jingle.
For how long?
I worked on that jingle for half of an hour.
Half of an hour?
And then, by the next day, we received the news that it had become the nation's favourite feature.
I received that news from Adam, who received that news from his imagination, and we were able to announce it to the country.
Very exciting.
And now, in the days that have passed, the Text the Nation jingle has spread like a kind of a disgusting disease.
Around people's brains like a debilitating illness and we've had various emails requesting I mean for instance Here's one from Emma been loving the show over the past two weeks.
She puts the G on loving I'm unfairly making her sound like Davina McCall good been loving the show over the past two weeks My two boys have been singing the text the nation jingle.
How would you see it though?
Oh
How old are the boys?
If they're children, then I think we've got something to answer for.
If they're kind of surly, lackadaisical, late teenagers... It might have snapped them out of their torpor.
Yeah.
Then that's more acceptable, maybe.
Yeah, normally they come down, they're just monosyllabic and surly, and then suddenly they're coming down going, text the nation, text, text, text.
Anyway, more of this later.
We better go to some news because it's coming up to half past seven.
Here is the news with Callum and Adrian.
Digital radio.
Digital TV.
BBC 6 Music.
Memories of Diana 10 years on.
Madelaine parents sue newspaper and records to say it's the wettest summer ever.
And in 6 Music News, Bob Marley's family plan to sue Sony Music Store to close its doors and Sonic Youth hit the roundhouse.
BBC 6 Music.
Just gone 7.30, morning, I'm Callum May.
Ten years since Princess Diana died, there'll be a memorial service for her in London today.
The Queen, Princes William and Harry and people from politics and the charities Diana supported will all be there.
Lots of people were laying tributes at Kensington Palace last night.
She was an amazingly intelligent, fantastic woman who also managed to have an amazing private and public life.
Just to pay our respects really.
Ten years on and she's still not forgotten.
Madeline McCann's parents are starting legal action against a Portuguese newspaper which claimed they'd killed their daughter.
The four-year-old was last seen at the family's holiday apartment on the Algarve four months ago.
Earlier this month, police said Madeline may have died but stressed Kate and Jerry McCann were not suspects.
In other six music news this morning, Justice Secretary Jack Straw will meet prison officers leaders angry about their pay rises this morning.
Thousands of officers took illegal strike action on Wednesday.
The chairman of their union, the POA, Colin Moses, thinks Gordon Brown has to face reality.
The last two years we've had a blue inflation pay award.
What Mr. Brown wants to remember is when he places 81,000 people in prison,
He places them under the custody of my members who are being assaulted on average eight times a day.
Gordon Brown's calling for tough action to stop the fighting in Darfur.
The Prime Minister's written a joint newspaper article with the French President Nicolas Sarkozy calling for ceasefire.
200,000 people have died during four years of fighting in the region.
The former minister for Europe says we should all get to vote on whether Britain should sign the EU Reform Treaty.
Keith Vaz has written in The Sun saying there should be a referendum.
He reckons it's time to decide once and for all that Britain's place is at the heart of Europe.
This probably won't come as a surprise, but the latest figures suggest this summer will have been the wettest since records began in 1914.
The Met Office says the UK had nearly 14 inches of rain, beating the previous record set in 1956.
Today's weather, rain in Wales and northern Scotland, temperature 18 centigrade if you're lucky.
With the six music news, here's Adrienne Larkin.
BBC six music.
Universal could be facing a lawsuit soon.
The family of Bob Marley say they want to sue the massive recording label along with the telecommunications giant Verizon.
Both of the companies announced a deal this week to sell Marley ringtones.
The deal coincides with the 30th anniversary of the reggae legends Exodus album.
On some other six music news now, and it's been taught this week about a new Nokia music store that could rival iTunes.
But it's not looking good for competitors right now.
Sony has announced this morning that it couldn't compete with Apple and will be shutting its Kinect download music service.
And Sonic Youth played Camden's Roundhouse in London last night as part of the Don't Look Back season.
They play another sold out show tonight, where they'll give their classic album, Daydream Nation, a spin in its entirety.
We caught up with guitarist Lee Ronaldo, who says they're glad to be playing back in the UK.
been a while since we've been here you know I'm actually kind of happy we're here doing our own shows this summer rather than playing we've been playing a lot of the festivals elsewhere in Europe but it's kind of fun that we're here in the UK and we're doing our own shows
That's Six Music News, more at eight.
Six Music.
Joining us in the studio today, Tom Smith, front man with editors.
He'll be discussing the band's hectic summer and the already massively successful second album.
An end has a start.
Tom Smith and me, Steve LaMaggie, from four.
Six Music.
She said
Here we go!
Oh I want it fabulous!
I was in love with Bobby Dylan Because I'm in love with rock and roll
Alright let's get it on Alright let's get it started
Wow!
That's the Wiggles with Ready Steady Go.
That's like waking up and swigging half a bottle of whiskey.
Listening to that.
That's Generation X with Ready Steady Go.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6Music on our final breakfast show for our filling in session for Shaun W Keveny.
Our filling in session.
Mmm.
Nicely put thanks, man.
Yeah, I like a little filling in session Shawn Keaveney will be enjoying his last couple of lions this morning Lions.
Yes.
He loves to eat a lion lions.
Well, it's grotesque disgusting, isn't it?
I mean, that's them specially killed.
Yeah flown over his wife plucks them does she?
Yeah, it's quite a skilled job, especially getting the main out Jamie I saw Jamie Oliver cook some Lions once and
Really?
Yeah, a little lion, cheeky little lion.
And it's all right, just get his claws out.
Boosh, boosh, boosh, boosh.
Go at the claws.
Ooh, lovely cheeky lion.
Ooh, lovely cheeky.
That sounds just like Jamie Oliver.
It's a good impression, isn't it?
It's as if he's here.
Ooh, look, a lovely little bit of tail from the lion.
Ooh, lovely cheeky.
Fry it all up with a little bit of sauce.
Ooh, lovely cheeky.
But we've, yeah.
we've hijacked um sean keibney's uh special segment band-aid and we've kind of uh twisted it for our own use we've recorded a song each adam and me and we're asking you to vote for the one you want us to play at the end of the show up until close of business yesterday i was winning my song european supermarket he's been winning all week i've been winning all week i was feeling cocky and confident i thought i had it in the bag yeah but i was on the run
typical British public with a sudden 11th hour sway towards the underdog suddenly falling in behind Eddie the Eagle Edwards or Tim Henman or whatever sad sat no-hoper catches their pathetic imagination Henman's not a no-hoper he's just had a little Ron and Pat luck that's all and now he's giving up
What's wrong with that?
Suddenly the the seesaw has saucied the other way and Adam is suddenly inexplicably winning with his 30-second trap.
Shh don't tell and don't remind people about that I shouldn't have admitted it earlier on.
It's 60.44% place 39.56 that's literally the opposite of what it was yesterday.
Yeah I know but what a 30... What have you been doing overnight?
What a 30 seconds... Listen
I considered going home and voting for myself on all my various computers, but I didn't do it.
Didn't you?
I swear to you I didn't do it.
I think there's been a technical malfunction.
I didn't even... snafu.
So listen, listeners, it's amazingly important that you listen very carefully to these two clips of music.
Who's we gonna play first, Adams?
We're gonna play Adams first.
This is a song called, well why don't you explain the song.
This is a rock track, it's called Jane's Brain and it's a little speculation about the things that might happen inside a woman's brain.
It's condescending to women.
No, it's condescending, a little bit condescending to a woman, Jane.
Here's Jane's Brain.
She'd use her brain to think of things that she didn't have.
She'd think of cars and she'd think of fancy dresses and she'd think of big houses and she'd think of cars.
It only lasts for ten seconds longer than that.
Twenty!
And a lot of things are explained in those twenty seconds and it takes like there's a whole load of stereo vocal effects that come in and... Put it this way, I want to hear it.
Yeah.
But I don't want it to win.
No, I can understand.
I want me to win.
What's yours called?
Mine's called European Supermarket.
It's kind of a euro house track about going shopping when you're on holiday in Europe and the phantasmagoria that is a European supermarket.
Shall we hear it?
You were using all the box of tricks there, weren't you?
I'm using GarageBand.
Yeah, yeah.
Crazy vocals and all that.
I like it, though.
That's European supermarkets.
So, you know, go to the website, BBC6Music, click on Adam's track or Joe's track.
You can hear those little samples for yourself.
And have a good long think, because, you know, this is the last thing we're going to play on the show.
it's gonna leave either either a good or bad taste in people's mouth it's gonna resonate down the ages so it's an important choice exactly now here's some proper music this is the white stripes with you don't know what love is
In some respects I suspect you've got a respectable side When pushed and pulled in pressure, you sail on and hide But it's for someone else's benefit, not for what you wanna do Until I realize that you've realized I'm gonna say these words to you
You don't know what love is You do as you're told Just as a child a ten-mile act But you're far too old You're not hopeless or helpless And I hate to sound cold But you don't know what love is You just do as you're told
I see a man can't help but win any problems in their eyes But in his mind there can be no sin if you're never gonna sign this You just keep on repeating all those empty I love you's Until you say you deserve better I'm gonna lay right into you
Just as a child a ten-night act But you're far too old You're not hopeless or helpless And I hear the sound of cold But you don't know what love is No, you don't know what love is No, you don't know what love is
You just do as you're told
We're not an intimidating environment.
We welcome people of all musical tastes and creams.
Basically the idea is this, I bring in records that I like, I play them to you, I hope that you like them.
You suggest records in return that I may like, I play them back at you.
It's extraordinary to think about George Foreman being quite as big a star as he was, you know, because he was quite an old-looking guy.
Just playing, I think, the same tune and just saying different words, normally at window cleaners or the like.
And this alone was enough to make him the national superstar.
They were simpler times.
They were so old.
All those days on 6 Music are discussing George Foreman.
I'm BBC 6 Music.
The brilliant Stephen Merchant there on BBC 6 Music.
That's a really good show.
You should listen to that.
It's a peach.
Yeah.
Now, it's time for my archive session track, Joe's archive session track.
And this is kind of going out to anybody who's about to get married.
Oh, yeah.
Is it?
It's a warning.
Wet, wet, wet.
No, it's a warning.
What is it?
From the fun boy three.
it's a song called tunnel of love oh yeah and it's a bit of a depressing choice for our final show here on friday but i remember this coming out in 1983 when i was a kid and you know being quite shocked by it that's right the trial separation worked and ended up
in a divorce case exactly it's sort of like an episode of some grim soap opera yeah um and it's quite a chilling song and you know it may be why i so far in life haven't got married yeah well the the line the killer line is you gave up your friends for a new way of life and ended up as ex-husband and wife you've lost everything so this is a sobering song this is from the 16th of january 1983 the fun boy 3 with tunnel of love
Joe's pick of the BBC archive.
Altered cases, broken noses, altered faces.
My ego altered, altered egos.
Wherever I go, so does me go.
Walk through the fields where the flowers are growing.
Carvage your names on the first tree.
Get down on your knees in the tunnel of love You fall in people's And think of yourselves as really good friends But you know how it always ends In the tunnel of love
So you get engaged and have a party Only seventeen when the wedding bells chime Got a room with a few and a kid on the way Hope you make it to the church
And things get any better in the tunnel of love You fall in people's And think of yourselves as really good friends But you know how it always ends In the tunnel of love
You gave up your friends for a new way of life
And both ended up as ex-husband And why there were twenty two catches Quickly struck your matches And threw away your life In the tunnel of blood You fell in deep first And thought of yourselves As really good friends But you know how it had to end In the tunnel
The irony yeah there we go the fun boy 3 with the tunnel of love a bit of gloomy flamenco there And you know I take back everything I said about marriage I think it's a wonderful a wonderful thing and if anybody I'm just thinking somebody out there might be getting married right and maybe they Heard me saying that and listen to that track and suddenly thought what am I doing?
It's unlikely.
It's pretty.
It's pretty it doesn't but just in case doesn't hold its cards close to its chest does it?
It's pretty well.
Yeah marriage.
Yeah, but Is Terry Hall married?
I don't know, I don't know.
I know he hangs out with Nick Hayward quite a bit.
Does he really?
Nick Hayward.
Yeah.
He's a musical genius.
He is.
They're both musical geniuses.
We did a little bit of filming with Nick Hayward ages ago, 10 years ago, over 10 years ago for our TV show.
I think they both struggle with gloom.
Yeah.
They have gloom struggles.
Well a lot of very talented people do don't they?
I do.
Yeah do you?
I struggle with the gloom.
No you don't.
But Nick Hayward last time we saw him he was pumped up like an action man.
Yeah he's a muscle man.
He's a muscle guy.
He's hunkatronic.
Because... He's hench.
Right.
He used to be... He used to be what's hench?
You know that's a real word?
No.
You thought you made that word up didn't you?
I thought I did yeah.
Actually it's a word young people use for like being buff yeah.
Hinch since when?
Since a few years I think I'm guessing but at least five years or so four or five years.
They may have got it off me then.
I think they might have.
They might have got it I should have copyrighted it but what was I going to say oh yes no I read I've been reading a brilliant book all about the post-punk scene and it's called Rip It Up and Start Again by a journalist called Simon Reynolds
and it's all about the period 1978 to 1984 which he identifies as being a kind of golden era in really creative different revolutionary music in between punk and the end of punk and the beginning of the kind of Stock, Aitken and Waterman pop money making years, you know what I mean?
Which I regard as a brilliant innovative era.
What, the Stock, Aitken and Waterman years?
Yeah.
I mean that's for me when things start picking up.
That's Joe Cornish's golden age.
But I think he, yeah, exactly.
Roadblock.
Ooh.
I did like that.
Roadblock.
But anyway, in this brilliant book, which I really strongly recommend, called Rip It Up and Start Again, it's got loads of little anecdotes and stories about all these amazing bands.
And I think he says that Terry Hall had been dumped very shortly before he wrote that song Tunnel of Love.
And he was very bitter about it.
And maybe,
That was influenced by it.
You know, it was sounds like that could be true.
Yeah Yeah, so it's not like a definitive statement on marriage, but let's cheer ourselves up with a little bit of Jose Gonzalez with down the line Okay
I'll save problems down the line I know that I'm blind Don't wash the dirt off of your hands Doing the same mistake twice Making the same mistake twice
I'll be so caught up It's not about compromise I see problems down the line I know that I might I see darkness down the line
Doing the same mistake twice Making the same mistake twice Come on over Don't be so caught up It's all about love and life
Don't let the darkness eat you Don't let the darkness eat you Don't let the darkness eat you Don't let the darkness eat you
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Destroyer of the reason
Where you are
Yeah, that was the Smashing Pumpkins with That's The Way My Love Is and before that you heard Jose Gonzalez with Down The Line.
Is it racist to say...
yes it is racist isn't it i was just checking because i said that before as like you know saying his name in a funny way that i thought hang on that's racist it is it's racialistic i'm really sorry to uh Jorge and any of his fans or any people that i may have offended with that racialistic slur
You know, that Jorge track was a little bit depressing as well.
He was repeating the line, don't let the darkness eat you up, over and over again.
I like it when the darkness eats me up.
Do you?
A little bit.
Really?
Yeah, should we have some news?
Yeah, the news is read by Callum and Adrian.
Thanks very much, it's 8 o'clock.
Royals, celebrities and politicians will attend a thanksgiving service for Diana, Princess of Wales later.
It's 10 years since she was killed in a car crash in Paris.
The parents of Madeleine McCann are suing a Portuguese newspaper which claimed they'd killed their daughter.
Madeleine disappeared from her family's holiday flat on the Algarve four months ago.
The former Europe Minister Keith Vaz has joined those calling for a referendum on the new EU treaty.
He says the time's come for voters to decide that Britain's place is at the heart of Europe.
And Jack Straw's holding talks with prison officers who downed keys earlier this week.
They say pay will be on the agenda, but the government says the talks were planned before the illegal strike.
The weather, rain in Wales and Northern Scotland, highs of 18.
Now with six music news, here's Adrian Larkin.
Our top story this hour, Bob Marley's family are planning to sue Universal.
They're unhappy.
The recording giant is using his songs to create mobile ringtones.
They also claim the iconic pop star's name, likeness and image is being used without permission.
More on that in our next Bulletin at 8.30.
BBC.
Six.
Music.
BBC 6 Music, closer to the music that matters.
Oh my gosh, that's Candy Payne with one more chance.
She's got so many things going on in there.
She's got the tubular bells and the psychedelic sounding guitars and the strings in there, you know, and it sounds wonderful.
Now, this is Adam and Joe here on Six Music covering for Sean Keveny, and it's time now for our serial thriller.
This is the part of the show when we speak to one of our listeners, they pick a couple of tracks for us, and it enables myself and Joe just to go on a little breakfast mission.
Now, I've got to be honest with you folks.
We were supposed to talk to a lady named Pauline today, but she she's not returning our calls.
Yeah, we've tried her number.
It just goes straight through the voicemail.
So Pauline, I really hope you're OK.
I'm sure she's fine.
She's probably just in bed.
But wow, you're missing out.
OK, Pauline, you could have been on the line with me and Joe.
It's not going to happen, though.
Luckily, we do have someone on the line, a journalist, I believe named Simon Boston.
Simon, are you there?
Hello Adam, hi.
Hi Simon, where are you calling from today?
I'm calling from Helsinki actually, Adam.
I'm doing a piece for the free city newspaper, City AM.
City AM.
A piece on European fish quotas.
So I'm actually in a hotel in Helsinki.
Are you?
It's freezing.
I'm freezing my cobblers off.
I bet you are in Helsinki.
Yeah, it's weird because Joe just stepped out actually for a second.
He went to the Lavi and strange, you sound similar.
He's my, of the two of you, he's my favourite.
Is he?
Joe, he's the taller, good looking one.
Have you been enjoying the show this week, Simon?
Well, I wanted to say I haven't, no.
I do think a lot of what you two prattle on about is Pure Isle and schoolboyish humour.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm very much looking forward to Keebney's return.
And to be honest, I hope you leave as soon as possible.
okay well I'm sorry too much yeah and you don't play enough music you know six music not six chit chat yeah and you'd be more suited to radio one maybe I think your humour is sloppy and silly and there's very little financial information in the show if you've got to keep in touch with the stock market like I do then honestly how am I supposed to
With content like yours.
Yeah, you know then as that moves very fast their point and You seem to be incapable of delivering any sort of statistical financial information.
Yeah, good point.
Thanks Simon Now what can I ask you?
What's your favorite film?
My favorite film is Filofax with Jim Belushi.
How's this?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why do you like that one?
Sorry, it's very cold because of the Filofax
Yeah, do you really?
And what's your favorite band, Simon Boston?
My favorite band is an American band called Phylofax.
Okay, is it?
Yeah, right.
And what have you picked for us today?
Music wise, Simon Boston?
I'd like it possible to choose a song by Modest Mouse called Float On.
Yeah, do you really like Modest Mouse?
Not particularly.
I buy most of my CDs at car boot sales.
Anything that's under 50p I'll go for.
It just saves a lot of money.
And modest mouse is something I got in a car boot sale in Beckenham in Kent.
It was 20 pence and I quite like it.
And what about the next track?
The next track I'd like you to play some Beck.
I'd like to hear the new pollution.
Are you a big Beck fan?
Not particularly, no.
Why don't you introduce our first track from the serial thriller today?
And thank you very much indeed for talking to us, Simon Boston.
This is Simon Boston.
This is Modest Mouse with Float On.
Cheers.
Bye.
Thanks, Simon.
Well, he just drove off, sometimes life's okay I ran my mouth off a bit too much Oh, what did I say?
Well, you just laughed it off, it was all okay We're all thrown on the case And we're lost, loved
Good news, we'll work his way to all them plans
Well, we'll float on good news is on the way.
You will all float on nothing.
You will all float on nothing.
Alright, alright, and we'll all float on, alright Don't worry, we'll all float on Alright, alright, and we'll all float on, alright
If things end up a bit too heavy
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She's got a cigarette army charm She's got the lily white cavity clasers She's got a carburetor tied to the moon Pink eyes looking to the fruit of the ages She's a lonely little girl
Hey, she can talk to the mangling strangers She can sleep with a fiery ball Throw her troubles through the dying embers
She's alone in the middle of the ocean She's got a paradise camouflage Like a whip crack sending me shivers She's a poor girl stripping my lotion Riding low with a drunken business
Inside Sport brings you the sporting stars that matter, getting closer to the players.
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I mean, I still enjoy a night out.
I've not turned into an absolute geek.
In-depth stories behind the action.
He said, John, I got a bit of good news.
I'm going to make you my England captain.
And for once in my life, I was just speechless.
This is the show that gets to the heart of the biggest names in sport.
England, heavy squad of players who can win the World Cup.
We didn't do it.
And I'm extremely sorry about that.
So what will the big names reveal in the new series?
Join Gabby Logan for more Inside Sport.
Monday night at 5 past 11 on BBC One.
I like that guy's voice.
Do you think he talks like that always?
Yes I do.
Can I have some oranges?
Sounds like a very hunky lady.
I'm going inside sport now.
All the way inside.
Bye.
Oh it's nice.
Hey, when Sean Keeney comes back on Monday, which some of you might be happy to hear about, he's got a brand new segment.
It's called Happy Days with a Zed.
And the idea is that you get in touch with him and ask him to play a track that brings back special memories for you, that evokes a happy moment.
So if you go to the BBC6 music website, you'll see a little link called Happy Days.
And Sean will be keen for you to click on that and nominate a track and maybe put in there a little story as well about what it means to you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Hey, I've got a conspiracy theory.
Sorry, I dropped it off.
Do you want to hear my conspiracy theory?
Yeah, what, what?
Okay, this is, I'm actually quite excited about this conspiracy theory.
Is it a real one or is it?
Yeah, no, it's a real one.
Come on then.
Do you remember in the paper a couple of days ago, there was a very old woman who got to her 100th birthday
And she had, uh, this photo was in every single newspaper on Wednesday, I think.
And the spin on the story was that she smoked tab.
She smoked all her life from the age of seven to 100.
And the photo, the same photo appeared in all the newspapers.
And it was of her birthday candles, which were three candles, a one, a zero and a zero.
And the candles were a light and she was lighting a fag off the number one.
What a lovely way to celebrate your birthday.
So I was thinking this is a bit weird this this like strange photos appeared in all the papers like I was thinking who supplied that photo to the papers.
and then is it a coincidence that the following day the government announced the special new shocking photo horror photos they were gonna put on cigarettes right and the next day all the papers had copies of these photos that they're gonna put on cigarette packets to put you off smoking one of a man with a huge tumor on his neck
Another of open-heart surgery.
Another of a man in a gas mask.
It's all bad.
It's all bad.
It's a good conspiracy theory, don't you think?
Yeah, that's probably true.
I think the photo of the old lady... Because that's the most bro-smoking photo you could possibly have.
That's right.
I had the old lady celebrating her birthday by lighting a fag off the cake candles.
Yeah, it certainly cheered me up a little bit.
It cheered you up?
Because I have the occasional.
The occasional tab smoker must have felt very happy.
Yeah.
And then when I saw the horror photos the next day, I'm sure I thought back to that.
I thought, oh, that looks horrible.
But what about the old lady?
She's fine!
Some reporter out there needs to... So what do you say?
Are you doubting the veracity of the actual story?
I'm saying that a vast percentage of stuff that you see in newspapers and magazines these days actually has a kind of secret agenda behind it.
I'm sure, I'm sure that's true.
I don't doubt that that story was placed there to counteract the... It's mostly to do with marketing, right?
Yeah.
I don't doubt that the story was placed there to counteract the negative associations of all the horror photos.
it was a preemptive strike by the smoking industry but do you reckon even that the old lady was not a sincere 100 year old tab smoker she's a real person yeah i think yeah but being exploited by the tobacco lobby imagine if we went undercover and found out that she wasn't actually she'd never smoked a tab in her life and she was just a model she'd had one put in her hand yeah
What a scandal that would be.
What a scandal.
It's a scandal.
Maybe the Pigeon Detectives could look into it.
Let's set the Pigeon Detectives onto it.
Go Pigeon Detectives!
He's not sure what he should do.
She's 17, he's 22.
Is that too much of a difference?
So instead, look what he's done He's found a girl who's 31 He's had too much of a difference She's got everything he wants She's got everything he needs
She's got a mate who says, behave, you're not too bad But twice your age does that really make any difference He's had a few, we've all been there just 17 But he don't care, I don't think he knows the difference Cos she's got everything he wants She's got everything he needs
every day
I know he feels a fool, I saw her on the bus to school, should that really make any difference?
What would a dad say if he knew she's on her knees?
He's 22, I don't think he'd like the difference, does that really make any difference?
She's got everything she wants
That's taken back by pigeon detectives.
They're the ones with the two stags butting their horns on them.
They're not stags.
What are they?
Are they stags or are they kudos?
I assumed they were stags because their whole raison d'etre, the pigeon detectives, as far as I can tell, is kind of laddish fighting behaviour and being dirty.
Yeah, there's a lot of elk-like creatures on music posters at the moment.
There's one with a big kudu on it, you know?
A kudu's a kind of an African creature with curly horns.
Uh-huh.
Well, there's Interpol.
That's Interpol.
The kudu is on Interpol.
Right.
Yeah.
And it's being taken down by some tigers, isn't it?
Yeah, I think so.
That's right, a tiger attacking a kudu.
Yeah, very noble creature, the kudu.
Do you know a lot about the kudu then?
I do know a certain amount about the kudu.
I have a kudu head in my house.
No you don't.
My grandpa shot it years and years and years ago.
Well, he's dead now, but he shot it like... He was shot by a kudu.
No, the kudu didn't shoot him.
They can't hold guns, they haven't got fingers.
Can they not?
shot it when that sort of thing was acceptable right years and years ago and he was so ashamed of what he did right he became a vegetarian and he kept the kudu head so he could sort of apologize to it did he yeah well every morning sorry yeah sorry mate
sorry about the uh shooting head yeah but we recently had it restored because it was a bit kind of it was getting a bit old did you put a little voice box in it so it could say hello it's all right mate every time you said sorry we actually we actually uh had it reanimated did you by wizards we went to uh king's cross by dreamworks we went to the harry potter platform we managed to run into the pillar we got through yes we went to hogwarts
You know where this is heading don't you?
Yes, yes I do.
Anyway, go on say it.
They went, Cudium Restoriatus.
And it came back to life.
And now it lives in my kitchen and it does big kudu pops all over the floor.
That's a good story man.
Now, will you tell us about... what?
Go on.
You had something else to say.
You were going to say Harry Potter, weren't you?
No, I wasn't.
Okay then.
Now, tell us about the... Harry Potter.
Harry Potter.
Here we go.
What's the name of this feature again?
This is called the Rebel Playlist.
There you go.
It's a feature from Steve LaMax Show.
Check out Steve LaMax page on the 6Music website or listen from 4pm Monday to Friday for details of this week's Rebel Playlist vote.
I think the Rebel Playlist is a kind of
Rebel playlist yeah the normal playlist is a bays orders right it's very disciplined subservient this playlist doesn't give up a potato about anything that's right it's stuff that you wouldn't find on the exit sorry on the six music playlist normally that's my first lip come I haven't done that and what's the track that we're going to play this is gallows within the belly of a shark from the
Wish me luck to you, convince you to travel too
Anybody, I'm a shark So I can help you out, so I can help
yeah boy what a frightful business that was gallows within the belly of a shark i like that i enjoy shouting music the belly of a whale isn't good enough for them it was good enough for jonah but as far as gallows are from the bible yeah but as far as gallows are concerned uh being in the belly of a whale is for wussies they've got in the belly of a shark exactly
And there's teeth on the inside of this one.
Is that true?
No.
Having said that, it's not that impressive to be in the belly of a shark.
You might have just been in your Spongebob Squarepants swimming trunks on a lilo, maybe with an inflatable duck's head.
Right.
Listening to Buck's Fizz.
Right.
Suddenly you're consumed by a shark.
Well this is the thing.
If you're in the belly of a whale like Jonah or many of the other people who've been in whales.
Who else has been in a whale?
Uh, Kelly Jones from the stereophonics.
Yeah, the guy from the cider advert.
Doesn't he end up in the belly of a whale?
Do you remember that advert?
Yeah.
Man, there's a load of people.
Pinocchio.
That's true.
Well done.
With Geppetto.
Does Geppetto go in there too?
Yeah, he ends up in the whale.
Does he?
Yeah, they have to tickle its... Most people at some point or another have been in the belly of a whale.
They have to tickle the whale's uvula.
I've been in the belly of a whale.
Have you?
Yeah.
I've been in the belly of an architect.
Really?
Yeah it was amazing.
Was it?
What was it like in the belly of a whale?
Uh it's stinky.
Yeah.
But it was the only way I could afford to get to Calais.
Exactly.
It's cheaper than the hovercraft.
Well that brings us very neatly to news time and it's read by by two of our favorite news readers Callum and Adrian.
Digital Radio Digital TV BBC Six Music Tributes to Diana ten years on, Madeline parents to Sue newspaper and Hairy Hopefuls head for a seaside showdown.
And in Six Music news, Bob Marley's family plan to sue the latest on Amy Winehouse and things get hot in London.
BBC Six Music.
It's 8.30, I'm Callum May.
Morning, the floral tributes are building up, ten years to the day since Princess Diana died.
I respect, really.
Ten years on, and she's still not forgotten.
She was an amazingly intelligent, fantastic woman.
William and Harry will join the Windsors and the Spencers for a Thanksgiving service for Diana in London later.
Peter Hunt's the BBC royal correspondent.
Ten years on, they are both young army officers, and this, in tandem with the concert we had on July 1st, is their attempt to seize control of their mother's memory and to honour her.
Dodie Fire died along with Diana that night in Paris.
Michael Cole's a spokesman for his dad, Mohamed.
I wish them well.
Mohamed's daughter, Camilla, is going to represent the family.
She will do so beautifully.
I just hope it goes extraordinarily well because a memorial service is a time to think the best of people, to remember what was good about life.
In other six music news this morning, Madeleine McCann's parents are suing a Portuguese newspaper which claimed they killed their daughter.
Police in the Algarve have said the four-year-old may be dead, but Kate and Gerry McCann are not suspects.
Police hunting the killer of 11-year-old Reece Jones have appealed to a mystery caller to get back in touch with them.
The witness left a message on the Crimestoppers hotline,
reporting seeing a man on a mobile phone around the time reese was shot dead jack straws holding talks with the prison officers association later they're furious about their pay deal and took illegal strike action earlier this week the government says the talks were planned before the strike
The biggest event in the facial hair calendar takes place in Brighton this weekend.
250 men from 15 countries are waxing and trimming in preparation for the World Beard and Moustache Championships.
Steve Parsons is one of the organisers.
He's got a moustache.
At the last World Championships in Berlin, one of the competitors there in the freestyle category actually styled his beard in the shape of the Brandenburg Gate, with horses and flags and everything.
So we're looking forward to seeing what he does in Brighton.
The weather wet in Wales and Northern Scotland, dry elsewhere, temperatures pushing 18.
Adrian Larkin's got the six music news.
BBC Six Music.
Universal could be facing a lawsuit soon.
Bob Marley's family have issued a statement this morning saying the singer's name and image is being used without permission.
It follows a deal between Universal and a telecommunications giant to sell Mali ringtones.
In other 6music news, we've been trying to find out whether the hot favourite to win this year's Mercury Music Prize will actually show up at the bash next week.
Nothing official yet, but Amy Winehouse is still hiding out in her hotel in the Caribbean after paparazzi photographers managed to get shots of her sunning herself in St Lucia.
US reporter Heather Alexander is on the island.
A couple of days ago, Amy and Hubby Blake were on the beach kissing and snorkeling.
Now it's hotel room confinement.
It's after a photographer sneaked up on them in a boat.
As he stood up to snap them, hotel staff leapt in their own boat and chased him away.
Now local police have been enlisted to watch the resort.
Amy hasn't been seen out since.
And the temperature was raised in London last night as Canada's Hot Hot Heat played their last UK date.
The band released a new album, Happiness, on Monday.
Two of the tracks on it are produced by Green Day.
Music producer Rob Cavallo, here's guitarist Luke.
I don't think we ever really worried about it coming out sounding like Green Day or My Chemical Romance.
I mean we probably couldn't sound that way if we tried, you know, so.
Because we're kind of more of a garage-y kind of dance.
group.
We thought getting like a stadium rock producer and combining it with the hot hot heat sound would actually be quite interesting.
That's Six Music News.
Check our website for more stories.
Your next bulletin's at nine.
Six.
As the build-up to the 2007 nationwide Mercury Music Prize kicks off, we get the skinny on the awards process from our alternative music panel, including former nominee Ty.
And as the world asks, will she or won't she turn up for the award?
Amy Winehouse's former manager gives us an insight into the troubled star.
That's the Music Week with me, Julie Cullen and Imran Akhmed.
Sunday from 1.
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Just where you're blowing Getting to where you should be going Don't let them get you down Making you feel guilty about Glory will bring you riches
You deserve it now Climbing forever trying To find your way out of the wild, wild woods
No justice If only yourself That you can trust in And I say, hi, hi Mid-afternoon Oh, people fly by And the traffic's blue, blue, glory Just where you're blowing
Day by day your world fades away Waiting to feel all the dreams that stay
Gonna rain will bring you riches All the good things you deserve now And I say I'll be forever trying You're gonna find your way out of the wild, wild woods
Textination!
Text!
Text!
Text!
Textination!
What if I don't want to?
Textination!
But I'm using emails.
Is that a problem?
It doesn't matter!
Text!
It's time for Text the Nation, the fav... the... oh dear.
The nation's favourite feature.
Yeah.
We should put that jingle up on the Six Music website, shouldn't we?
And then people could download it and use it as a text sound.
Yeah.
Maybe it'll become the new national anthem.
Maybe the Queen will hear it.
We could charge for it.
You know, we never charge for these things, man.
We should charge a lot for it.
This is why we are struggling this, you know... Struggling what?
Struggling minstrels.
Struggling, full stop.
Yeah.
We should charge maybe 50 pounds 50 pounds people are down easily pay for that Well a couple would and you'd make more money out of a couple of stupid people Than you would if you charged a little that's right sensible people make 100 pounds That's how shops like Harrods operate right from stupid people who are willing to say really rich idiots
Yeah.
That's just our opinion, of course.
Yeah, that's not true, actually.
Not the views of the big British castle.
Last time I went to Harrods, I walked past Mohamed Al-Fayed.
Did you?
Yeah, it was like going to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and meeting Willy Wonka.
Well, you know, Al-Fayed was shopping in the King's Road the other day when I happened to be down there.
And there was a huge crowd of people gathered around outside the shop.
There was cops holding people back.
Really?
Traffic was stopping.
I was like, who's in there for goodness sake?
Cameron Diaz?
And it was, no, it's Al Fayed.
I was amazed.
Anyway, it's text the nation time and this is the part of the show where we ask you to text us and we read them out.
It's as simple as that.
It's really that simple.
But there's one added complexity, the text need to be on a particular theme and the theme today is disastrous parties.
Party disasters, disastrous parties and you know everyone has got surely at least one story of a party disaster.
Parties are supposed to be a brilliant time when everyone's having fun and stuff, especially birthday parties or a party for a special occasion, but more often than not, they turn into a disaster.
And this is any kind of party, as you mentioned, you know, birthday party, it could be like a child's birthday party, it could be a celebration for your 80-year-old father or whatever.
It doesn't have to be like a raucous teen party.
It could be any sort of party anecdote or disastrous story.
Now, what are your ones that spring to mind, Joe Cornish?
Well, the key party in my memory is one that my brother had when he was about maybe 16 or 15.
When you would have been how old?
When I would have been about 12 or 13, sort of thing.
Right, proto-party.
That was a very early one.
It was a proto-party.
My brother decided he would boost his popularity at school by having a big party.
Yeah, good move.
Now, it still happens these days, but kind of school parties always get out of control, don't they?
Difficult move at 16, I would say.
Because you don't know when to stop inviting people.
And the whole invitation thing can snowball, word gets out.
Before you know it, the entire school is heading to your little house on a Saturday night, you know?
And not so much because they care about hanging out with you.
Because they want to destroy your house.
They pretty much just want somewhere to destroy.
So this kind of happened to my brother.
My parents went away for the weekend and suddenly on a Saturday night hundreds of drunk kind of old, they seem to me old, old people came piling into my house.
I had the option to go and stay with a friend but I was frightened about my bedroom.
I thought they might invade my bedroom and touch each other in peculiar ways on my bed.
Yeah.
So I thought I'd stay home and defend my bedroom.
Right, barricade yourself in there.
Barricade myself in.
And I did.
Yeah.
And I felt violated.
I felt as if a hundred horrible stinking burglars had broken in to my sacrosanct palace of self-ness.
Yeah.
My mummy and daddy.
Your fortress of solitude.
And they were behaving like out-of-control Vikings.
They pulled the sink away from the wall in a pink bathroom.
Did they?
They did.
They spilled wine on the wall of the sitting room.
Mommy and Daddy!
Daddy painted that wall and some brutish man
spilled red wine on it.
Then what did they eat?
Anyway, so I was very grumpy and I decided well I'll go and try and join him.
So I went down and I tried to tell jokes at the party to an older girl and she liked it.
She was very drunk.
I think she sort of fancied me in a kind of a cute sort of pet sort of way and she tried to impress me by driving me around the block in her car.
What?
She was very drunk.
This is a recipe for total disaster.
She was wavering from the right to the left
trying to impress me with her drunken driving skills.
That's terrifying.
I was very glad to be alive when we got back.
And the end of this story is, that traumatised me so much I went back up to my room, locked the door, there's like horrible noise coming up from the room below, and I hid under my desk, and I wrote on my desk in felt pen, I hate parties.
I will never have one in my life.
I wrote in green felt pen.
So there you go.
Have you got a similar story?
I'll tell you my party disaster stories in just a second.
But we'd like to hear from you.
What's the deets, Joe?
The what?
That's what the kids say, isn't it?
The deets are 64046 to text and email adamandjoe.sixmusicatbbc.co.uk.
That is the deets.
And this is the song, the builder's song, all about the stuff you use.
It's a catalyst.
It's a kind of catalyst.
I forget what it does.
This is Cajun Dance Party.
Remember to make it last Increase the time it takes to paint and build the moss
Let's remember not to turn on the straight to a row We can see through the haze of nasty glaze So now let's travel positive before we're through the night
Amylase will dry up the plaster You're the catalyst that makes things faster Amylase will dry up the plaster
BBC 6 music.
Sean Keeney.
More than a thousand seats at the new Wembley Stadium have been ripped out because their colour faded in the sun.
Of all the fates that can befall a travelling football supporter, a faded plastic seat is by far the worst.
To see the complaint, let her know.
I just watched my team receive a six-nil drabbing at the hands of Chelsea, making my 12-hour round trip utterly pointless.
But what really put the tin hat on it was when I noticed that the plastic seat I was being repeatedly hit over the head with by a rival fan was slightly faded.
Sean Keeney.
A breakfast.
There you go, Shaun Keaveney back with you next week and this is Adam and Joe here filling in for him.
We've had a wonderful time for the last couple of weeks.
Yeah, into the last 77 minutes of our fill-in tenure here at BBC 6 Music.
We've had a great time by the way.
We'll say proper thank yous at the end of the show but we've loved doing it.
Yeah, it's been very good.
Thanks a lot for all your messages and texts and we are asking you to keep those texts and messages coming in right now.
Because we're right in the middle of our feature text donation.
And today, I'll stop doing that voice.
We are asking you to tell us about party disasters you've had.
We've already got quite a witty, I'm starting that voice again, text in from someone called John.
Was it called John?
No, James in Fulham.
James in Fulham has texted us in saying, the Tory party.
That's pretty disastrous.
Thanks very much for that one, James.
I'll pass it on to Mock the Week.
I liked that one.
I can use that one.
I liked it very much.
True.
Okay.
Now, we were talking about, Joe was reminiscing further about that little party nightmare that he had there and basically saying that ever since that time, you know, he's not really enjoyed parties very much per se.
And I agree, you know, parties are overrated.
The older you get, the more you realize one thing that's better than a party is not going to a party.
You know, sorry to interrupt your business, but it might be interesting for you to note that Adam and I have known each other since we were 13.
And we pretty much made a tactical decision aged what, 14 or 15?
That we didn't really like big parties.
New.
And that our preferred social gathering was about six carefully vetted close friends.
Well also that fact, coupled with the fact that we didn't know any girls, made it
quite uh sort of uh you know the best idea for us for a friday night was six of us would go around to our mate's house sometimes it was our our we wouldn't call him a mate though no we call him those days yeah a friend uh uh a chum and um one of our chums had a lovely big house in uh fulham somewhere
It was a really posh man and his parents were away.
Do you remember this for a weekend?
And so we ran that, went around there.
We were really excited.
Is this your story now?
Yeah.
Your party disaster.
Cause we had the run of the place.
Yeah.
And uh, we were, we were well over excited.
So we thought, okay, what we should do is dress up.
even though it's just six boys in a room.
Well hang on a second, wasn't it Halloween?
No.
Are you sure?
Yeah, there was one on Halloween we did dress up but another time we just dressed up because it was Friday and we were going to have a little party.
What did we dress up in?
So we dressed up in, we raided the cupboard in the guy's house and we dressed up in his parents clothes.
We put his dad's suit jackets on.
There's photographs of all this, I might try and put some up on my website one day.
And there's a photograph of me
with no shirt on, but just a jacket on, and a Stetson hat, and one of the guy's, one of the bloke's father's ties tied round my head, and I'm, and you're wearing more or less, you're wearing a dinner jacket, you've also got no shirt on, but you've got a bow tie, and a white dinner jacket.
Like a very thin Chippendale.
We both look like the gayest little boys ever in the world.
I think we were.
Yeah.
And we had a wonderful time at these things.
That's the one award we've won in our career.
That's right.
The gayest little boys ever.
Yeah.
Award.
We used to have a blast, man.
And anyway, we had a great time.
It was a perfect party, you know?
That's not a disaster, though, is it?
It ended up in disaster.
OK.
Because, you know, we were having a couple of drinkies.
We'd seen the film Betty Blue, and in that film, they do this thing called instant margaritas or something.
And basically, you do it like the ingredients of a margarita in a shot glass, and then you add a little bit of fizzy lemonade or whatever at the last moment.
And then you slam it.
They're sort of tequila slammers, I guess.
fizzy and so we were doing these and we were getting pretty tooty then things got out of hand and we started grooving around to maybe the house martins or something like that and then someone uh shoved someone i think wasn't it you and louis the room maybe yeah and louis shoved me and i went backwards onto the glass table valuable glass the valuable glass table in in the room of this really posh house
The table smashed didn't it?
Yeah it smashed into a million pieces and after that we were just like okay this is bad this is really bad and it was like the yellow pages advert because the parents were coming back the next day early the next day early flight and and we were all pretty mashed and we couldn't figure out what we're gonna do about this it was it was really bad and it ended badly ended pretty badly because the it was irreparable there was no way we're gonna get it fixed so no more parties around at his place
Anyway, we want to hear more about your party disasters in just a second.
Keep texting us and emailing us.
But right now, here's a classic from a little band called The Beatles.
I'm looking through you.
Where did you go?
I thought I knew you.
What did I know?
You don't sound different, but you have changed I'm looking through you, you're not the same Your lips are moving, I cannot hear Your voice is soothing, but the words aren't clear You don't sound different, I've learned the game
I'm looking through you, your love's the same Why tell you why did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing all the night You're thinking of me, the same old way
You were above me, but not today The only difference is you're down there I'm looking through you and you're nowhere Why tell me why did you not treat me right?
Love has a nasty habit of disappearing all the night I'm looking through you, where did you go?
I thought I knew you, what did I know?
You don't look different but you have changed I'm looking through you, you're not the same
They're pretty good, aren't they?
The Beatles with I'm Looking Through You.
This is Adam and Joe here on Six Music.
You know, can I say something controversial?
Oh, go on then.
I've never really got into the Beatles.
Well, you think they're overrated, do you?
No, I don't have any opinion, really.
I like the ones that are famous.
What's your problem?
They're just overplayed.
You think, well, there's nothing for me here.
Hmm, kind of.
Yeah.
Is that wrong?
That is wrong.
I kind of feel as if I'm saving them up for later in life.
Maybe.
Yeah.
Well they're not overplayed anyway because you can't license Beatles tracks.
They're not played that much actually.
No.
Generally, like they don't turn up on commercials.
One day I'll get heavily into them.
They're wicked man.
They're really good.
So I hear, so I hear.
Yeah.
We've been asking you to text in your party disasters.
Fantastic nights of jubilation that turn into hideous nights of traumatisation.
The text number is 64046.
The email is adamandjoe.sixmusic.bbc.co.uk.
Are you ready for some, Adam?
Hit me.
OK, here we go.
Once at Halloween.
This is from Pops in Kent.
Pops?
Pops?
Pops!
Once at Halloween I had a party and only one friend made a costume.
She was so upset she slammed a hot pizza into my face like a mud pie.
Whoa.
It's okay I'm not scarred.
She was upset because she just felt humiliated she was the only one dressed up.
Yeah why would she be upset?
That's the reason I just said that.
It's strange isn't it but that doesn't sound like a satisfactory reason to me.
No there was something else going on surely.
That sounds like a bad one.
Strange pops.
Here's another one.
This is from somebody anonymous.
We once ripped out the fence and burnt it with five litres of lawnmower fuel and aerosols after a family barbecue.
Oh my lord.
My dad told us off in his PJs and we laughed drunk.
Sounds like a nightmare.
That's just from some awful Asbo family somewhere.
Yeah, that's right.
Sony blurs Britain for you there.
Britain's worst family.
Thanks for that text though.
Keep them coming in.
Here's Edward Collins right now with You'll Never Know.
I was torn in two More than a little confused Am I her yesterday snooze?
it won't let you
The Fantastic Edwin Collins with You'll Never Know.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 music.
It's time for the news read by Callum and Adrian.
Thanks very much, it's nine o'clock.
In the past half hour Merseyside Police say they've arrested four more people in connection with the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones.
They're two men aged 20 and 24 and two boys who are 17 and 16.
They're all from Liverpool.
The tenth anniversary of the death of Princess Diana is being marked in London and Paris.
The Queen and other royals will be at a memorial service at the Guards Chapel near Buckingham Palace.
The parents of Madeleine McCann are suing a Portuguese newspaper for libel because of a front-page story claiming they'd killed their daughter.
Kate and Gerry McCann say the article's completely untrue.
Teachers unions say there's a severe shortage of people who want to be head teachers in primary schools.
The Association of School and College Leaders is warning the problem's likely to get worse.
The weather dry in England and Northern Ireland, raining in Scotland and Wales, temperatures 18-ish.
Adrian Larkin's got the six music news.
On top story this hour, Universal could be facing a lawsuit soon.
The family of Bob Marley say the singer's image and his name is being used without permission.
It follows a deal struck between the music giant and a mobile company to sell ringtones.
More on that in our next bulletin at 9.30.
Closer to the music that matters.
Do it.
Do it.
All right.
Do it.
Do it.
All right.
Do it.
Do it.
All right.
Do it.
Do it.
All right.
You got it now.
Won't you act like you ain't heard a thing?
Who called you to play the picture?
Do it.
Some will dream.
I see that lady again.
BBC 6 Music.
Adam and Joe.
I thought I was smart, I thought I was right I thought it better not to fight I thought there was a virtue in always being cool So it came time to fight I thought I'll just step aside And that the time will prove you right
If it's not now then tell me when would be the time She would stand up and be a man
Cause I'm a man, not a boy And there are things you can't avoid You have to face them When you're not prepared to face them If I could, I would But you're with him, I'd do no good I should have fought him, but instead I led him Let him take it, let him suck it down
Right in your eyes
Text the nation!
Text!
Text!
Text!
Text the nation!
What if I don't want to?
Text the nation!
But I'm using email.
Is that a problem?
It doesn't matter!
Text!
It's the nation's favorite feature.
Text the nation here on 6music.
This is Adam and Joe, and we are asking you to email us or text us about party disasters you've had.
Things that have gone wrong or whole parties that have just turned out to be a complete nightmare.
And Joe, you've got a couple of messages there.
Yeah, I've set my microphone a bit too high.
You know what you can do?
What?
It'll make a noise.
Move it down.
There we go.
Ahem, dear Adam and Joe, this is an email from Sam.
The worst party of my life was a few years ago.
It was the beginning of the last year of school, and one of the cool gang at school was having a huge birthday party.
Watch out for the cool gang!
I went with my friend, got extremely drunk extremely quickly, and started throwing up.
For some reason, even though I was outside when I started throwing up, I ran inside to find a bathroom, but they were all being used, so I ran into a bedroom and threw up on the bed.
Then I passed out.
Presumably in the vomit good times something I added a bit of color When I woke up I was surrounded by chavs listening to jungle music and telling each other to quote take off his pants What I was in a state of torpor.
Oh, this is a bloke.
Yeah.
Well, yeah Sam, we don't know.
Oh
I was in a state of torpor and couldn't move for a few minutes.
I just had to lie there paralyzed, enduring the terror of being violated.
Eventually, I managed to get up and I found that I was covered in shaving foam and toothpaste and hair.
I felt around my head and realized that my ponytail, I had long hair at the time, had been cut off.
Both my eyebrows had been shaved.
Running downstairs I found my friend Max who explained that the cutting had been done by my then best friend in front of almost everybody at the party while I was unconscious.
That's the kind of behaviour that parties create you.
Throughout this I still had toothpaste caked into my face and was in a zombie-like state of incoherence.
Max and I got a taxi home.
I can still remember the horror on my dad's face the next morning when he saw me standing before him.
Your poor dad.
The nightmare lived on for the whole year in school, as so many people had been present.
Oh man, that is horrific.
Sam, that's terrible.
That's a good one as well because I've seldom heard the story from the other person's point of view.
Yeah, magazines like Loaded used to be full of pictures of people who'd done that to one another, but there is beautifully expressed the suffering from the other side of the fence, the flip side of the coin.
Thank you very much indeed for that one Sam keep keep those texts and emails coming in on the subject of party disasters stroke nightmares time for my free choice now this is my last free choice of our stint and I can't resist playing another track from spoons amazing album gaga gaga gaga this one is called don't you ever dig it
Bet you got it all planned right Bet you never worry, never even feel a fright Bet you got it all planned right Never fit to worry, never even feel a fright Single sleeps are all and I know you don't really matter Five years by your side, so I know you really don't matter
I said don't ever, cause it's gonna keep them hangin' around.
Never eat them.
I said don't ever, cause it's gonna keep them hangin' around.
Bet you never think it's right.
Bet you think you have to, but it doesn't feel right.
Bet you never think it's right.
Paddles gettin' big with the lovers and we love you not Vaggies goin' by, everyone is stayin' all that time But thought you'll never be found I said don't ever, because I'm gonna keep on hangin' on
I should go never because it's gone
She's coming
That's Spoon with Don't You Ever from their album Gah Gah Gah Gah Gah, which is an embarrassment of riches.
I strongly recommend it.
That's good, that track.
In fact, I preferred it to the one you played all last week.
Yeah, well, the underdog we played last week as our single breakfast single of the week.
And it's the underdog is less typical of the album as a whole.
I would say that track is more typical.
Now it's time for the breakfast single of the week.
This is your one, isn't it?
Can't we have some more party disasters first?
Yeah, let's have a couple more.
OK, we're asking you to text in your party disasters in our text the nation feature.
Things that have gone hideously wrong are nights that are supposed to be brilliantly right.
That's good, wasn't it?
Yeah, very nice.
Here's one from Becky, whose email, I won't give out the full email, but it's Becky at Wax Worlds.
Is that some kind of fantastic wax museum, do you think?
Or just the country's biggest candle shop?
or a big kind of ear cleaning laboratory a giant sort of earwax factory who can tell but here's her party disaster hi adam hi joe my party nightmare story happened when we were at uni there was a house party and of course a bonfire in the back garden
Now I've got to interrupt the text or the email at that point.
Parties where people sort of start impromptu bonfires.
I'd say that's that's bad isn't it?
Instantly bad.
It's instantly bad when people start piling stuff up in their garden and setting light to it.
That's Lord of the Flies behavior.
No good can come of that.
That's like tribal sort of stuff.
Exactly because it gets primal at that point you know.
Mix of a bonfire and booze that's disaster.
You just don't want fire around.
Anyway as the fire started to die down we were picking up anything to hand and chucking it on.
Oh, what?
Nice.
It wasn't funny, but we couldn't stop laughing.
So they must have been wooden crutches as well, not those kind of metal NHS ones.
Here's one from Ricky Toner.
It's a good surname.
It sounds like it could be one of those Simpsons names, you know?
Yeah.
Does it spell any... What, is it an anagram or something?
No, Ricky, if you say it in a different way, does it mean something?
Like Topsy Kretz?
Yeah.
I don't think so.
Okay.
Party disaster.
At a crazy party, when NWA came on the stereo with a siren noise in the background, our friend thought it was a police bust and jumped out a first story window, then disappeared into a dark field.
Whoa.
He missed the rest of the party, which was great.
I'm glad it ended like that.
I thought it was going to say he jumped out of a first story window, broke his legs, never walked again.
No, he was just a very guilty man who'd done something wrong.
He heard the siren on the record and scarpered.
That's OK then.
Here's one from Chris from Newcastle.
I once had a student party in which a piano was dragged from a friend's house, then smashed to bits and burned in our front garden.
What?
You see, this is why parties are so wrong.
People are so desperate to have fun that they realise they're not going to have any like touchy feely fun.
So they decide the only way they can have fun is by destroying things.
That's right.
A piano, such a beautiful machine.
Yeah, yeah.
So intricate, capable of making such lovely sounds beaten to death by brutish troglodytes.
Well this is the thing is that at that age, especially when you're a teenager, the main thing on your mind is pants and trousers.
Yeah.
You know, you would like to see some pants and trousers being taken off, so you go there.
Of course the mixture of booze and high expectations is not conducive to romantic behaviour a lot of the time.
No.
Do you know what I mean?
So the best you can get is a fumble that you'll probably regret the next day, and the very worst you get is... I've never regretted a fumble.
Is totally destructive behaviour and people going completely mental.
So here's the end of this text.
They've got the piano, they've dragged it into the garden.
We thought the neighbours might ring the police but instead they bought their toddler out to watch.
Well they're happy about it in the end.
Blur's Britain.
Thanks very much Tony Blur.
So breakfast single of the week Joe, this is your one.
Yeah we've been playing this all week.
This is the terrific King Creosote with a track called... What's it called?
You've no clue do you.
You've no clue do you.
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
As with all your rules of thumb This one comes with an end There's few good moves in there for some
With no small success No clue to you No clue to you No clue to you No clue to you No clue to you
Library led pipe, Professor Plumb There's yet another wrong end Watch real close, where others mark their cross Right that peak, the interest
The life of a scumbag That's that of my child No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
No clue, do you?
Mustard as the seeds of water A hundred crudities Yes, his peacock is already feather and sky A hundred crudities Yes, his wife is no longer scared of his flowers A hundred crudities Yes, his scarlet is a virus to a ruddy beetle
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 going to 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 BBC6Music.
This is BBC6Music, this is Adam and Joe.
The last 37 minutes of our final fill-in breakfast show, filling in here for Shaun Keaveny.
Coming up pretty soon we've got the result of, what's it called, Band Aid.
Adam and I, we wrote a song each.
You've been logging onto the website and voting for which one you want to hear via a little sample of each on the website.
Up until yesterday I was winning, my Euro track European supermarket was winning, but overnight something strange has happened which I'm sure has something to do with Adam breaking into the big British castle and messing with the electronics of the computer and his trackers leapt into the lead.
Yeah, it's quite a significant lead now as well.
But might the runner-up get played as well?
Yeah, the runner up will get played, but the runner up doesn't get the sort of the king spot at the very, very end of the show.
The kyudos.
I love kyudos.
Could I have another slice of kyudos, please?
Mm hmm.
Tasty.
Hmm.
OK, we're still in the middle of text the nation the the most.
Yeah, you know, I'm going to say it's a it's a good one.
You know, it's the feature and all that in it.
And we've had another text.
Adam, this is from Nico in Duscheldorf.
Oh, hello, Nico.
Hello, Nico.
I had a party when I was 16.
Far too many people came.
They were all crowding outside and climbing through the windows in a Night of the Living Dead style.
That's nice.
I had to lock all the windows and doors but then got so drunk that I lost the keys.
Now that, it's not finished, I'm just pausing in the middle there for a bit of editorial.
That's an interesting point because, of course, parties, if you have your own party, you're expected to control it.
Right.
But also have fun, which is utterly contradictory.
Yeah.
So you get slowly drunk, and this is one of the main problems with parties, and you become unable to control your own environment.
That's right.
Because you're so wazzocked.
Stumbling around.
Is that the correct word?
Yes, that is the correct term.
I had to lock all the doors and windows but then got so drunk that I lost the keys.
Some of them climbed the drain pipe and came in through the tiniest toilet window you can imagine.
It's like a horror film.
It is a horror film.
The problem is they broke the toilet.
First I knew of it was when filthy water started pouring through the kitchen ceiling.
Oh no!
Nico!
When everyone finally started leaving, the only way out was through my bedroom window.
My older cousin arrived to discover the scene.
Her punishment for me was to make me cut the lawn with scissors.
That's poetic.
That sounds nightmarish.
You know, when you're in that state as well, at the end of the night, you're already starting to get a little bit hung over.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
And the house stinks of cigs and everywhere is just a mess.
And you've got a major plumbing problem on your hands.
You know what I
your plumbing problem and it's coming through the ceiling and especially if it's revolting filthy toilet water or whatever your brain is reeling you're just thinking i what am i gonna do because i don't know plumbing yeah and oh it's a terrible business and you know what these are quite retro stories i think parties have got even worse even more because of myspace and texting and
Like, imagine how many people used to come in our day when you had to actually pick up the phone to communicate with somebody.
Now, you post your party on MySpace, and by the next morning, it's like a crazy episode of Sexy E4 Sitcom Skins.
That's what it's like, isn't it?
Girls, boys, who cares?
Skins.
Oh, we've got the muse.
The muse?
Here is the muse.
No, the news is coming up soon, but first, here's a lovely track from Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.
This is Egyptian Reggae.
you
Very good indeed.
That's Jonathan Richman with Egyptian reggae.
Hey, this is Adam and Joe.
We're on six music covering for Sean Keveny.
It's our last day.
Only only half an hour left of the program.
A moment ago, Adam made a false declaration that the news was coming up and it scared the news readers.
Yeah.
You might think that they're hardened battle scarred types reading all the terrible news every day, but no, they're like timid little sweet mice.
Because it's not like Radio 4, there's no pips you know, so we just have to sort of approximate that the news is going to come up on the half hour.
Well now you're just making excuses for your misannouncement.
Well no I was teasing the news.
They've sent us an email saying you scared us, we thought we were on air.
Yeah sorry guys, well very soon you will be on air.
In fact right now because here is the BBC6 music news read by Callum and Adrian.
Digital Radio.
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Rhys detectives make more arrests, remembering Diana after 10 years and Texans find massive spider web.
And in 6Music News, Bob Marley's family plan to sue 50 Cent for MOBO awards and why he and my boss quit.
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It's 9.30, I'm Callum May.
Merseyside Police have arrested four more people in connection with the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones.
They're two men aged 20 and 24, and two boys who are 17 and 16, all from Liverpool.
Reporter Andy Ball's in the city for six months.
The arrests, they say, are so far made on information received from callers and very, very consistent information regarding to names and other information from people, because this has been the big request from police over the past few days.
We need more information.
Ten years since Princess Diana died, there'll be a memorial service for her in London today.
The Queen, Princes William and Harry and people from politics and the charities Diane has supported will all be there.
In other six music news, Justice Secretary Jack Straw will meet prison officers' leaders angry about their pay rises this morning.
Thousands of officers took illegal strike action on Wednesday.
David Hanson's the prison's minister.
This year's settlement, I'm afraid, is fixed.
So to have a strike action about this year's settlement and to try to reopen this year's settlement is not really realistic.
The parents of Madeleine McCann are suing a Portuguese newspaper which claimed they killed their daughter.
Portuguese police say the McCanns have never been suspects.
A 23-year-old woman's been raped in a phone box in Greater Manchester.
The attack took place in Urmston.
Police are hunting a white man in his 20s with a cleft lip.
The latest figures suggest this summer will have been the wettest since records began in 1914.
The Met Office says the UK had nearly 14 inches of rain, beating the previous record set in 1956.
A spider's web measuring twice the size of a football pitch has been found in Texas.
It's not just the work of one giant spider, millions of small ones have joined forces to spin it.
Park rangers there say it's a freak of nature.
The weather, rain in Scotland and Wales, cloudy but dry in England and Northern Ireland, temperatures about 18-ish.
With the six music news, here's Adrian Larkin.
BBC 6Music.
Bob Marley's family say they want to sue Universal Music after it struck a deal with a mobile phone giant to sell ringtones of the singer.
They claim the reggae legend's image and name is being used without permission.
Now in 2003 50 Cent picked up three mobile awards for best single, best album and best video.
Now the rapper will be performing at The Bash which is taking place next month at the O2 Arena.
The problem of illegal downloading is making headlines again.
Earlier in the week we told you that EMI's boss Eric Nicolai quit after falling sales and profit warnings.
Now private equity firm TerraFirma, who've taken over the record label, have replaced him with one of their own.
Chris Cook is from CMU,
The record industry would argue that one of the reasons why EMI and many of their competitors have been struggling so much is because CD sales on a global level certainly have been declining significantly and they would argue that a lot of that was down to the growth of illegal downloading particularly online.
And glad to be back in the UK, that from Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ronaldo.
It's been a while since we've been here.
I'm actually kind of happy we're here doing our own shows this summer.
The band took to the Camden Roundhouse in London last night and they play another sold out show later.
They'll be playing classic album Daydream in full.
Here's Lee again.
It was a record that topped a lot of critics end of the year lists and stuff.
So it was really the record more than the ones before it that absolutely put us on the map.
That's 6 Music News, your next bulletins at 10.30.
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Joining us in the studio today, Tom Smith, front man with editors.
He'll be discussing the band's hectic summer and the already massively successful second album.
An end has a start.
Tom Smith and me, Steve LaMack, from 4.
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Square the faces of the sky A Harold Robin paper bag Servers drop their boards and dry And everybody wants a hat
Pulling muscles from a shell.
Pulling muscles from a shell.
Shrinking in the sea so cold, time is leading.
You wish you had a motorboat To pose around the hoverboard When the sun goes up to bed You look it up behind the car
Pulling muscles from a shell Pulling muscles from a shell
Two fat ladies window-shopped Something for the man of peace If a bingo on the night To pan up her sweet little niece Ghost drivers stand about Looking at a noble man About the boy who's gone away Down to next door's caravan
Pulling muscles from a shell Pulling muscles from a shell
Squeeze with pulling muscles from a shell this is Adam and Joe here on six music now I think we should probably wrap up text the nation right now, which is our favorite feature We hate it the nation love it though and demand it continues We had a strange text in from somebody called Tim.
We've been asking for kind of party disasters I don't know these these don't seem like disasters to me come on
Shall I read it?
I held a small gathering for the boozy boys, that's myself and Ian and his brother Neil.
Chaos ensued when Neil drank too many cans of carling and went to the toilet and was nearly sick.
So he wasn't actually sick, he was nearly sick.
The text continues, the havoc didn't end there.
Was that havoc?
Being nearly sick?
Neil later trod on my copy of Who's Next, which had been misplaced on the floor.
Don't worry though, the disc itself was in the player and not scratched.
It was one cracked CD case too many though, and we haven't drunk or spoken since.
Whoa, who's that from Neil?
Tim.
Tim, Tim, Tim Sands.
He's like got a tight reign on his life.
Going around Tim Sands is like walking on eggshells.
It really is.
Walking on Who CD sleeves.
Give him a call, I think maybe it's time to bury the hatchet.
What a party though!
I've nearly been sick!
I think I've trodden over one of your CDs!
I like punk music, I hate the world and the system.
To demonstrate it, everybody watch closely, I'm going to stamp on a CD case.
But take the CD.
Take the CD up.
It's okay the CD is fine.
Mike's fallen over in the corridor.
Who said bum?
Get out of my house.
Thanks for your... That sounds like our kind of party.
Yeah, I like that party.
It's time for the album of the day.
The album of the day here on 6music is Public Enemy's new album.
Now, Adam and I are kind of obsessed with Public Enemy and the way they title their albums.
Early in their career they had some quite clever titles, but then their album titling started to go wrong.
We think about the time that they released the album Apocalypse 91, The Enemy Strikes Back.
Oh yeah.
That's when it started just getting a bit cumbersome.
Then they released the album
Muse Sicken Our Mess Age.
This funny technique of like taking a phrase and splitting it into separate words and trying to make it mean two things.
You know that was a reasonable one.
Muse Sicken Our Mess Age.
What does that actually mean?
The muse is sick because of the messiness of the age.
Okay.
Then they released one in 2005 called New Whirl Odor.
Yeah.
Like New World Order, you see, but no, it's a New World Order.
What?
That's like a stinky ballroom dancer.
I know, it just makes you think of like- It does a twirl and like emanates a bit of a stench.
Toilet fresheners or whatever, you know, like toilet doc or whatever.
Do you think?
And the new album is called, uh, what is it called?
Oh yes, here we go.
Check it out.
The new album by Public Enemy is called How to Sell Soul to Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul.
I mean, you don't need to go into that, because if they're soulless, yeah, that's the nature of having sold your soul, is being soulless.
So you don't need to spell it out, Professor Griff.
Is he still in public enemy, Professor Griff?
I think he was chucked out, wasn't he, for being too radical?
He was a bit antisemitic, I think.
Sorry, that's hardly being too radical, being antisemitic.
He was just a bad, nasty man.
Yeah, I think he said sorry, though.
Maybe they took him back, anyway.
But Public Enemy, talented band and this is, they've been around 20 years, no no 20 years ago was It Takes a Nation of Millions to hold us back.
Yeah they have been around 20 years.
And this song, Eve of Destruction is a cover of Barry Maguire's 1965 protest song and you can hear more tracks from this album throughout the day here on 6music.
Here's Public Enemy, Eve of Destruction.
In the 60's float, violence is flaring, bullets is low, all up for kill, but not for vote.
You don't believe in war, what's that gun you're talking about?
You're in jail with my hands, bodies float, you tell me.
Over, over, over.
We're on the eve of the sea
Look up, come on, don't you understand?
Trying to save, and can't you feel the fear that I'm feeling today?
Feel the fire in the bushes, there's no running away There'll be no one to save, with the world in the grave
I don't believe with all the ills
Oh man, feels like a ragged lady.
I'm sitting here just contemplating.
I can't trust the truth.
It knows the regulations.
And for citizens of past legislations.
Marches alone can't break integration.
The human respect is disintegrating.
This isn't frustrating and you tell me over and over and over again my friends I don't believe that all for evil is trust
is behind us.
We change to somewhere out of balance.
I unite you here for four days in space.
But when you return, it's the same old place.
You can become the drums, become the drums, and cry in disgrace.
You can bury your dread.
Don't leave a trace.
It's your next door neighbor.
But don't forget to say grace in youth.
Over, over, over again, my friend.
I don't believe we're all for ease of destruction.
BBC 6 Music.
Sunday Afternoons on 6.
We're not an intimidating environment.
We welcome people of all musical tastes and queens.
Basically the idea is this, I bring in records that I like, I play them to you, I hope that you like them.
You suggest records in return that I may like, I play them back at you.
It's extraordinary to think about George for me being quite as big a star as he was, you know, because he was quite an odd looking guy.
Just playing, I think, the same tune and just saying different words.
Normally at window cleaners or the like.
And this alone was enough to make him a national superstar.
More simpler times.
Those names on 6music are discussing George Foreman.
The Stephen Merchant.
Sunday Afternoons from 3.
I'm BBC 6music.
There you go.
Stephen Merchant's show coming up on Sunday on six music between three and five.
Now, it's we've closed devoting on Band Aid.
Yeah.
The exciting part of the show that we sort of hijacked from Sean Keaveney, but we changed it from being a young, unsigned band to being two tracks specially authored by Adam and I. It was my sort of Euro house track European Supermarket versus Adam's track Jane's Brain.
Are we are we going to unveil the winner right now?
no we're not we're gonna tease it a little bit more um but there's a clue i'm angry i'm not just upset i'm i'm actually angry he's genuinely i don't mind
you know, were it the case that I hadn't won, I wouldn't mind.
It's just the fact that life seems to make, you know, it seems to torture me.
It makes me think I've done something good right until the last minute.
Then it punches me in the face.
Listen, it's happened again today and I've got psychological problems and this just might be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Who can vouch for the whims of the public?
Might be the day to do the thing I've always tried to stop myself from doing.
What's that?
Going to the gym?
yeah start exercising um anyway we're going to reveal the amazing result of band-aid in a second but first it's time for my free play now i've got a confession to make when we first started doing this show i just dragged a whole lot of tunes um out of my computer onto a cd that i'd like to hear on the radio a couple of them i might have accidentally dragged over
You know, by a mistake.
I might have been a bit slapdash.
This isn't one of those though.
This is a track I love.
It's either by the Jimmy Carter Bunch or the Jimmy Carter Bunch, we're not sure.
It's called It's Just Begun.
I love this.
Let's hear it.
Into something Gonna make you move
Peace will come, this world will rest What we have together next
Is that the God?
Is that the God?
Is that the God?
Nice accidental choice.
That's good, man.
It can't be the Jimmy Carter bunch.
It's the Jimmy Carter bunch.
Yeah, I've just begun.
Famously sampled in a lot of very good hip hop, including the Jungle Brothers.
There you go.
So good accidental choice there.
Yeah.
Now, of course, it is time in the last seven minutes of the show for us to announce the winner of Band Aid.
Yeah.
For this week.
We don't have a drum roll or anything like that.
No, but here is the result in a golden envelope.
Let's open the envelope.
That's the envelope opening isn't it?
The winner with 60% against 40%
is Adam with Jane's Brain.
Thank you very much.
Thank you listeners.
I feel as if you've made the right choice on the one hand but then on the other hand I feel a little bit guilty.
Yeah listen to these tracks listeners and then you know think about yourselves, think about your lives, think about the criteria you use for making not just this decision but all decisions in your life.
Come on.
The clip was pretty powerful stuff, but we're not going to hear my song first because it's the winning track.
So here's the losing track.
This is a song I wrote.
My name is Joe Cornish.
I wrote it about, you know, what it's like to go shopping in Europe in a supermarket.
I don't know why I bothered, but here it is.
European supermarkets.
Gonna be hot.
What the heck was going on in the chorus there?
That was European supermarkets.
You're going to be hearing that a lot in Ibiza.
You know, on European dance floors, in the kind of gay house scene.
That's going to be really big.
That was the losing track.
um ladies and gentlemen in band aid this well that was very good man i really liked that one thanks man um so if that was the losing track how good can how good can the good track be well you know my i've always liked short songs you know great balls of fire by jerry lewis how long was that that was about one minute uh 40 seconds right so over three times the length of yours maybe
How long was that around one minute 20 seconds three times the length of yours Okay, so mine is more of it it's almost like a jingle mine, but I believe that great rock music shouldn't outstay its welcome and Hey, what are you implying?
About European supermarkets.
Well, it's not really rock track though yours.
That's true Mine is in the tradition of the Ramones something like that.
It's very brief and punchy and explosive Let's just hear it.
Shall we this is called Jane's brain
Oh yeah, her name was Jane.
She had a brain and it lived in her head.
She'd use her brain to think of things that she didn't have.
She'd think of cars and she'd think of fancy dresses and she'd think of big houses and she'd think of cars.
She liked cars very much indeed.
If she had one she would drive around and go shopping.
She'd use the car to put her shopping inside and then she'd drive back to her house and to pack her shopping that she needed.
both shopping related songs yeah you know what Adam I'm gonna give you European supermarket and maybe you could put it up on your website hey I will do so you know anybody who liked it the 40% of intelligent listeners yeah refined listeners can download it and enjoy it yeah you can find my website at Adam- Buxton.co.uk
In fact, if you've enjoyed our tenure here at BBC6 Music and want to find out more about our silly burblings, then just pop our names into the internet and you can follow a sort of digital bread trail that'll lead you to all sorts of audio visual nuggets.
And if you were infuriated and disgusted by our tenure here, we apologise humbly, but it's over now, don't worry about it.
Sean Keeney will be back.
on Monday morning.
We'd very much like to thank our producer Lisa and Jenny, our lovely lady assistant.
And Millie.
And Millie, yeah, who've been a great support.
Thanks very much for listening everybody for the last couple of weeks.
And what's the name of the little chap in the jellyfish suit?
Oh yeah, quickly Phil.
And we, you know, we want to really, I'm filling really well aren't I?
We really want to thank you for all your messages and texts and everything, but we just got a really lovely one from a little chap who was sent us a picture of him in a jellyfish suit.
It's gone, it's gone.
oh he's got thanks to the parents of the little boy in the jellyfish suit I think his name is Harvey Harvey there you go thanks a lot cheers for listening Harvey we'll see you soon yeah thanks for having us bye
Say you to me, you're a bird with an eye for anything shiny Searching the land for a hero of a man You say I need more than my fair share of attention But I think you know, that just isn't so underneath
I felt the fire of a burning question Tearing me apart right from the very start And now I see that it don't take a trick of the light to excite me So strong, so long, you will see
If you're ready
And now I see From a handful of names and a thousand faces One light burning free of sleep