six music today from to John Holmes from midday and now it's Adam and Joe
Sorry, sunshine, it doesn't matter
Do you reckon that they make them take a note?
That says that we are defenders Of any poser or professional Pretender around When did your list Replace the twist and turn like a fist Replace the kiss, don't contest
Let's have a game on a teddy picker Not big enough, can't have it quicker Already faking, you're getting thicker
Yeah, exactly.
All right.
So I hope that's taught you a lesson.
Sorry, Joe about the Teddy.
Teddy picker.
Sorry.
Did we pick that song to begin the show?
Because of the No, shush, Teddy.
Sure.
Dirty Teddy.
The bad Teddy, the evil Teddy.
It's just a zeitgeist-y coincidence.
Good morning, this is Adam and Joe.
Welcome to Saturday morning.
It's the beginning of December, it's the beginning of Krinkelmas, and they've covered all the studio in tinsels.
They've covered it quite badly in tinsels.
They haven't really made an effort.
It's like someone drunkenly staggered in.
It's like some kind of pathetic rehab centre.
And just coughed up some tinsel and it sort of landed like strands of flame on the wall.
We're going to improve it during the show.
Yeah, it's not really a good effort.
Do you favor tinsel at home?
Uh, I find tinsel a little bit brassy.
Well, it's a little tacky, isn't it?
Yeah.
Tinsel's the kind of thing when you're five that you think, that's good.
Look, it's so shiny, this tinsel's so shiny.
But then after that, when you're a grownup person, you've got your own home for the first time, you think, oh,
What am I going to do about the decorations?
And you get out the tinsel and you sit down and you think, no.
Yeah.
Do you know what you can't beat?
What?
Paper chains.
Paper chains?
Yeah.
You can't beat a paper chain.
They're kind of holistic.
Yeah.
They're green.
Are they?
Cause they can be recycled.
Uh, you have to lick each one with your own spittle.
Why are you licking the paper chains?
They're not going to stick together like that.
Just with your own.
They used to, didn't they?
They used to come with a little sticky gluey bit.
Oh, with a gluey bit.
Yeah, and you get all dizzy and slightly high from the glue.
So you're not just licking bits of ordinary paper.
I will if you want me to.
Yes, please.
Wow, what a show we've got for you folks coming up.
I'm looking at the computer screen right now, and just in the next few minutes,
We're going to be hearing amazing songs from talking heads.
I requested that talking head song.
I'm amazed it's being played.
It's a really good one from remain in light.
But it's it's not a talking head song that is played very often to my knowledge.
Kings of Leon.
What else is coming up music wise Joe Cornish.
We got some Jay Z. We got some bat for lashes.
We got the breeders.
We got the sham the baby shambles.
Oh, we got some back.
We've got some Aretha Franklin.
Ray some Bobby Womack.
Oh, we got some brilliant stuff coming up.
Plus of course We've got this week's song wars plus the results of last week's song wars plus test the nation Yeah, plus all sorts of what test it test the nation.
Yeah Yeah, yeah Phil is coming in Phil Schofield is coming in and Robinson's coming in and we're gonna test the nation's IQ With a series of boring questions, but before all that here's some more music cuz that's mainly what it's all about here on six music Right, here's lush
He now becomes a drinking king with my girlfriends on a Saturday night This guy says come and meet my girlfriend She's sitting in the corner looking rather uptight So I say hello and I try to be nice But I see he's feeling itchy Trying to play a song
Each other, girls, girls, please don't fight Forget the picture Hey you, the muscles and the long hair Telling me that women are superior to men Most guys just don't appreciate this You just try convincing me you're better than them So he talks for hours about his sensitive soul And his favorite subject is sex I don't even think you'd really wonder that if a Christ disguised
I lack a bit of flattery But I don't need your practice lines Your school lines, your mentality So save your breath for someone else And credit me with something more When it comes to you
Here comes the next one Blondie was weird me for a summer He flirted like a maniac but I wouldn't bite I'm weak and he was so persistent He only had to have me cause I put up a fight Oh God, the boy has a Chinese girl He likes to talk about himself all day and all night
He's just nice to himself and he's watching his reflection I'm a fuck up hero for adoring myself
You're just flattering your vanity But I don't need your practice lines Your school of traumatality So save your friends
Ooh, you're such a lady killer Always on the winner Thinking that you're in there Oh boy, you're such a lady killer Suiting for sexy mister Call it what you will Ooh, you're a fan You're such a lady killer I just bet you're still there Posing in the mirror Hey, you're such a lady killer But we know where it's coming from We know the score
so uh do you see those two boxer men on telly that are having a fight tonight adam oh yeah yeah the boxer men the really skinny one uh and the other one yeah i've heard about the boxer men only because um a friend of mine is excited about it really who's that uh danny richards oh really oh yeah he likes
He loves sport.
Well, listeners, you've probably seen it.
There's footage this morning of them weighing up in Vegas.
30,000 British people have taken cheap flights right over me and Adam's houses.
Is that a good sentence?
Yeah, that's a good one.
Yeah.
And it's been very noisy.
All the British hooligans, boxing hooligans, they're probably very well behaved, have gone to Vegas and the two men are going to box each other up.
later.
And this morning they were facing off.
And this involves pressing their bodies together.
Very closely.
Very closely.
Squaring off it is as well.
Is it called squaring off?
Well it's the same thing.
But they were pressing their bodies together so closely.
I'm sure their winkies touched.
Do you reckon?
I'm 100% positive.
And then their noses touched.
And then their lips touched.
No, they did.
You should see the footage.
Their lips touched.
And it's such a shame they didn't just go for it.
Have a little snog.
You know?
Because they looked like... They looked so heterosexual that they would probably murder.
You know?
I can't complete that sentence, but you know what I mean?
Yeah.
They would probably kick a television in if Alan Carr came on.
Oh, yes, I know.
Do you know what I mean?
I'm guessing.
That's probably not true, but from their, you know... It would confuse them too much.
I wish they'd just had a kiss.
yeah a snog or once it's interracial as well it's a black man and a white man which is lovely but that would have bought you know racist together yeah it just would have been brilliant I thought you said racists together no that would have been the opposite yeah if it had brought all the racists together yeah and if one of the guys had just maybe reached round cupped
cut the other one i must say there's not they have neither of them have got a lot in the buttock department no they wouldn't they're very flat-butted they work it all off um but by the time a lot of people listen to this people who listen on listen again they'll know who's won the big fight who's your money on uh hatton or what's the other one called ricky hatton donkey
No, I think he's called Donald.
Yeah, I'm guessing he's not called Donald.
Danny had all the names of the guys, he was like, you know, Mick the Hat Hatton and Donny Donkey Face Donald.
He's called Ricky.
Ricky Hatton, I think.
Ricky Hatton, yeah.
Anyway, exciting stuff.
Joe found all this out on Zoom magazine.
I didn't, I was watching the telly.
But it's exciting stuff for boxing fans and also for man fans.
Fans of men standing really close together.
Now, here's a track I teased this earlier on in the show about five minutes ago.
Do you remember in the good old days?
This is a Talking Heads track from I think what everyone agrees is their sort of high point, which was the album Remain in Light, an album, of course, which influenced Radiohead a great deal.
We heard Paranoid Android at the beginning of the show there.
And this is this is a long it's a slightly indulgently long track.
It's not as long as your leg.
I know, I know, but I'm just putting it in context.
People love a bit of context.
You're absolutely right, sorry.
You know, this is an indulgently long track to play for a free play, but I think it's worth it.
You know, it's a smash.
The Great Curve by Talking Heads.
This is, yeah, it's good.
Well, she is moving.
talking heads with the great curve if you haven't got that album remain in light then uh you should you should go and get it because it's good it's really good this is adam and joe here on so i was gonna say song wars we're on six music this is song wars it's time for song wars the war of the songs
Here's an email that's come in from Daniel Pate or Daniel Pate, I'm not entirely sure.
It says Adam and Joe, I'd like to vote for Adam's track mainly because of the girls with big knockers stroke ex glam rockers line.
Excellent stuff.
Also, you should stop being quite so gentlemanly about the whole affair.
All of this quotes, oh, you should have won, man.
Mine was bad.
No, mine was bad.
You deserved it, Stuff.
It's all well and good, but we want to hear some genuine competitive tension and anger between you guys about drama and excitement to the show.
And also, if the arguments got bad enough, could leave listeners speculating whether you will still be working together the next week and keep them tuning into the show.
Listen, who was that?
Daniel Pate.
Dan.
Dan Pate.
Dan Pate.
Listen, Dan.
I don't know if you used to listen to our old XFM show but there used to be a certain amount of tension when we started there and there is occasionally tension between us which spills over into the program but we're trying to keep it at bay and Song Wars is fraught enough with competitive stress as it is so we are really struggling to be gentlemanly about it because you can tell that underneath that false bonhomie there's a simmering bubbling cauldron of
We spend a ludicrous amount of time working on these pathetic songs each week, so we do get genuinely annoyed about it.
And I believe that Joe Cornish has unfairly won.
How many have I won now?
About four.
You've won four, I've won one.
Is it four two?
No, one, I've won.
It's five one.
Five one, is it?
Five one to Cornish.
Oh, for goodness sake.
I mean that genuinely Dan makes me furious and makes me think that... You thought you would think I would become arrogant but isn't it incredible how humble I remain?
Like I said the other day to Joe something about oh well you know it doesn't matter I mean it's obviously very few people vote and and Joe said that's just because you haven't won.
And he really meant it.
OK, so there we go.
Is that good enough for you, Daniel?
Here's the results.
So let's just remind people that last week we wrote songs about I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
Joe's was from the point of view of someone who didn't watch.
Mine was from the point of view of quite a big fan of the programme.
Joe was less confident about his
than I was, and he did quite a lot of explaining before he played his track, I seem to remember, which featured the- It's nice contextualizing.
Yeah, which featured the chant, what was it?
Iyakamu, Iyakamu, I do not watch it, I got better things to do.
Mine was a kind of funboy3 type song.
Mine was from the point of view of a guy who was chucked out first.
I was voted out first, remember?
It was fun.
Who can forget, but we can't play you clips because only the winner gets played.
Only the winner gets played, so let's hear it.
And here is the winner.
If Joe wins this week, it's a disgrace.
I've won.
Oh my goodness!
By 74%?
74%!
74 to 26.
You see, that just suggests to me that it's not about the music at all.
It's just a sort of personality vote.
And I don't know, they're voting for the tall one.
It's all, oh let's vote for the tall one.
So this is tricky for you, isn't it?
Is that 6-1?
So you now have to win six six in a row.
Well, no, because you have to win the next five.
I'll tell you what's happening now.
It's exactly like I'm a celebrity.
Get me out of here.
People fixate on voting for just one person, you know, like it was this time it was Janice did all the trials.
And now they're just thinking, oh, it's funny that Adam always loses.
Let's vote for Joe again.
That's what they're thinking, because it's not about the music, because frankly, my song was a little bit better than yours last week.
do you think a little bit some people agreed there was some emails that agreed but there were far more that disagreed listen uh let's have some real music to to clear the air what are we gonna do we're gonna play the winning song that's what i meant by real music let's have some real music to clear the air this is my song about i'm a celebrity get me out of here as adam says i've got to contextualize it because it's actually incomprehensible oh no i just did didn't i yes you know the chorus here it is
And deck in the jungle every flippin' year People eating spiders, I do not care I care more for the spiders than the celebrities, so it's shit off And you will leave, that is not true I'm very fond of Charis Matthews Am I in class when she's almost new?
Very nice, yeah
you will find they get treated by vets.
There's no disease, no celebrity gets seriously killed.
How many times do I have to see celebrities eating testes?
Try something new, please ITV.
Thanks a lot.
At least I'll watch it a lot less than you
This will cheer you up, Adam.
This is from Tom Dogart.
It's an email.
Dear Adam and Joe, my vote for Song Wars this week goes to Adam.
Simply for the verse of lyrical brilliance that is.
Excuse me, small belch.
It ended too fast the first time round.
Now I want another nibble on the cherry.
And when people see the real me, they're going to like me very.
you're reading it as if it's not brilliant he says i wouldn't be surprised if there's an iva novello in the post for you thank you well i deserve one honestly it's not that yours was bad or anything it's just that i think people are going for the cheap laughs in in some of your material and overlooking the more lyrical and emotional aspects of my
It's like that thing, you know that magic trick that Darren Brown does where you hold a coin in one fist and you can guess, if you guess the first one, people usually follow a pattern of which one they'll then guess and Darren does it brilliantly.
He can do it like for 10 or 11 or probably a million different guesses.
It's a bit like that, isn't it?
A little bit.
Can you predict kind of where the... Although that implies that there's nothing in it.
but it might just be that I'm the inferior songwriter.
That's where I was trying to get us to.
Anyway, we've got this week's Song Wars coming up later on in the program, but let's leave that alone for the time being.
And before the news, let's have a little bit of Kings of Leon, why not?
She said, call me now, baby, and I'd come up running She said, call me now, baby, and I'd come up running
If you'd call me now, baby, I'd call you
Be yourself, Lord, you know
Peace out, Lord, and all I'll be there laughing
This is Adam and Jo on BBC 6 Music, it's time for the news, read by Harvey Cook.
BBC News at 9.30, I'm Harvey Cook.
There are more revelations this morning in the story of the back from the dead canoeist John Darwin.
It's reported that he lived for three years at his family home in Hartlepool.
His wife, Ann, has told newspapers he lived in an adjoining bedsit and would join her when the coast was clear.
Mrs. Darwin's also quoted as saying that he faked a limp and wore a woollen hat so he wasn't recognized when he went out for walks.
Next on six, music three of the five British residents held at Guantanamo Bay are to be sent back to the UK.
A fourth will return to Saudi Arabia.
The Pentagon insists the men still pose a security threat, but the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith says he's not sure if they're dangerous.
assessing danger or not that we will have to deal with as we have to deal with other people in this country.
The principle is fundamental civil liberties.
You can't have people detained for years on end with no end in sight.
The major battles continuing in Afghanistan, British and Afghan troops are trying to take the only major town held by Taliban forces in Helmand province.
Now, do you know where Jesus was born when a study has found that many adults in Britain have very little knowledge about some of the basic facts of the Nativity story?
More than a quarter of people couldn't name Jesus' birthplace of Bethlehem.
Sport, tonight Britain's Ricky Hatton gets the chance to fight for the right to call himself the best fighter in the world.
He's taking on Floyd Mayweather.
Last night, more than 6,000 fans watched a weigh-in in Las Vegas.
Absolutely great.
They've never seen nothing like this before in America.
You couldn't get over it.
A lot of the curtain fans here making a lot of noise.
Me, we didn't have many fans at all to be quite honest.
in the Premier League.
Manchester United can close the gap on leaders Arsenal to just a point if they beat bottom club Derby at Old Trafford in the SPL.
Leaders Celtic play St Mirren and the weather well a pretty dismal day ahead.
Rain right now in Northern Ireland and Wales will spread across much of the UK during the day.
There could even be some snow in the Pennines and on higher ground in Scotland.
We're looking at highs in London of around 10 degrees, 8 in Leeds and 7 degrees in Belfast.
That's the BBC News, there's more at 10.30.
I'm Sean Keveny.
Join me for Monday's breakfast show when we'll be welcoming US singer-songwriter Don Kinnard.
Adam and Joe on 6music.
You have a hard time getting them, baby.
You're gone.
If I find something, get some.
Yeah, maybe I'm far.
What if I would say that I want it?
Feel it for a minute like a real thing Baby, I guess I already forgot What I thought I was saying But all I wanna do is get off Feel it, feel it
It's fine, punch them, get yourself, hey, c'mon, yeah, yeah, oh, don't get mad, baby, you're gone.
It's fine, punch them, get yourself, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Act like it or not, like a ball in a chain.
I wanna follow the same
Sorry, I was just amusing myself there.
Why?
I was just thinking like the Dandy Warhols, right?
I was thinking of other names for bands where you could slightly manglerize the name of an artist, right?
Because obviously that's Andy Warhol with a D at the beginning.
So I was thinking of the, I'll say this very quickly and then move on, the Vincent Van Cox.
Um, and then, uh, what other artists could you have?
I don't really know what you're thinking.
Well, you know what I'm saying?
Like, the idea for the Dandy Warhols is Andy Warhol with a D. Oh, I see what you mean, yeah.
Yeah.
So, like, uh, band names that are built out of slightly, um... Yeah, but just other artists.
There must be lots of other artists.
Almost like The Beatles.
Yes.
Just built out of a word, though.
Pueblo Picasso, writes Jude, our producer.
Are they a band?
No.
Pueblo.
Yeah, but you'd want something...
I don't know.
You'd want something a little bit more... Not that Dandy Warhols is a filthy name.
But anyway, I was just slightly amusing myself at the end of that song there.
I wish I'd never mentioned it now.
It's turned into a terrible, terrible episode in my life.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music.
Happy Saturday morning.
It's time to talk about an exciting new DVD event.
Ooh, yeah.
Fans of sci-fi, of 80s sci-fi are all in a tither this weekend because, like Adam and I, they will have been out and bought the new Blade Runner
DVD.
People have been waiting for it for years and years and years.
It's got a three and a half hour making of documentary.
It comes out in all sorts of different editions.
There's a two disc set.
There's a five disc set.
There's a steel briefcase.
I've got the briefcase.
Did you really buy the briefcase?
Yes I did.
you can when you go on holiday we're gonna pack your pants in it yes i carry it around with me everywhere have you really got the briefcase uh wait i'm talking about like no is it an actual briefcase yeah it's an actual oh no i've got i've got the metal box that opens from both sides yeah that opens from both sides why does it open from both sides
In case you want to... One side you can open it up... One side's for humans, the other side's for replicants.
No, one side you get the little... Lenticular.
Is that what it's called?
It's called a lenticular.
You get a free Blade Runner lenticular, it's set in perspex, you tilt it, and it looks like Deckard's pointing the gun!
lenticular and it's sat there in a little foamy cover thing and then the other side you get direct access to the DVDs so oh I see so one one lid is for lenticular access the other do you really think that's why I think it must
It means it can't be used for biscuits once you've eaten the DVDs.
It can't be used for storing biscuits because you might open the wrong top side and they might fall out.
It could have just been a mistake.
They could have just manufactured a wonky.
But it's a terrific thing and you know because it's the first weekend after its release a lot of people will be digging through those extras this weekend and if you haven't bought it and you're a fan of films then what are you thinking?
What are you thinking?
Gotta buy it.
If you're a fan of extras, oh my lord!
But I tell you what, there's a lot of stuff coming out at the moment before Christmas that is extras packed.
Well this week is an exciting week isn't it?
All the video games and DVDs that they've been storing up finally come into the shops.
Like Help!
The Beatles film is being re-released.
Re-released with lots of extras but the extras are getting the thumbs down on the internet.
Can we stick to Blade Runner?
Absolutely yeah but I was going to say the extras on Blade Runner are top notch so far.
Can I tell you my highlights because I've watched most of them and I would recommend that you do buy that tin because it's got that amazing documentary but it's also got a special thing you'll find tucked away on I think disc 4 and it's just called deleted scenes and outtakes.
that yeah but what it actually is is is 40 minutes it's kind of like another version of Blade Runner it's a whole narrative made out of dropped scenes right and also made out of all the rejected voice over that Harrison Ford did because famously they tried to rescue the narrative by getting Harrison Ford to do lots of super on the nose uh expositionary internal monologue
voiceover yeah does that make sense yeah exactly just because they felt that it was too confusing the whole thing and he just needed to really boldly say so he he he was contractually obliged to do this they stuck him in a voiceover booth and he had to say stuff like i wasn't sure whether she was a replicant or a human i wasn't sure whether i was a rep or a human yeah but what is human
Who knows?
Stuff like that.
Stuff that doesn't need to be said out loud.
Yeah.
So there's loads of that voiceover on this amazing 40 minute kind of weird bad version of Blade Runner.
Yeah, with goofy scenes in there.
There's one scene where he goes to visit, you know, the bloke at the beginning of the film who gets blasted by Leon?
Yeah, the Blade Runner who Harrison, who Deckard replaces.
in the office and you always assume watching the film as it exists that that guy just dies when he gets blasted by Leon but in the in the in this off-cut version he survives and he's in he's in a sort of little stasis chamber in a hospital thing that looks very much like a a set from Alien yeah like the hypersleep pod yeah and it's lit very similarly so it's it's weird to see Deckard wandering into this little scene from Alien almost and it's
quite a good bit when when when that guy realizes that Deckard has slept with Rachel he accuses her of making love he accuses him of making love to a fridge oh yeah get that line haven't got there yet yeah he says it in a slightly ruder way but the other so that's brilliant and the other thing to check out is they've got all the trims from every single take so they've got the little bits from before the director called action and after he called cut
from every single take and they've put a lot of it in the documentary and it shows Harrison Ford getting really angry with Sean Young who's very young and inexperienced and the best little clip is when they're having their love scene and Sean Young is kissing Harrison Ford and you know all men out there will sympathize with a moment when you're feeling sexy, you think you're sexy and then a woman laughs at you.
right and it can be really awful if a woman laughs when you think you're feeling seriously sexy at the wrong moment at the wrong moment and there's there's there's a bit where they're acting of course but there's a bit where Harrison's looking very sexy and uh and uh she's uh laughing at him yeah she just breaks out of her part and laughs at him he looks so angry
He looks furious.
He turns around.
I think he's furious partly because he just wants to get the take done, you know?
Yeah.
But also he's in the moment she's yanked him out.
And they've got some great little moments as well when they play you the sort of outtakes from his voiceover sessions as well from the various different voiceover sessions.
And he reads the line and then you hear him at the end of the line saying, this is weird.
This is rubbish.
What is this?
We're not going to use this, are we?
This is so strange.
And then the guy supervising the voiceover sessions sort of gets a bit shirty with him.
Did you say, did I hear you saying that you weren't gonna do this?
And he says, no, sir.
No, that's okay.
Carry on.
It's fantastic and we highly recommend it, but we should say there are other DVD box sets available in the shops.
He's good though, isn't he, Riddles?
He's the king.
Anyway, listen, music time.
Here's Ian Brown with Sister Rose.
The one that goes, she knows she rules the world Free that girl The one that goes, she knows she rules the world She said call me Sister Rose
Does she like me by the hand?
And so makes you the promised land Free that girl
Cause I can't roll up in your face like that of me She said call me sister Rose, I'm at war with all these fools
She said take me by the hand
I'm just like a rose, I'm beautiful And I can't compete you with my arms Don't speak so tight, cause I can't grow up And it aches like dynamite She said I'm just like a rose, I'm beautiful And I can't compete you with my arms Don't speak so tight, cause I can't grow up
Oh, he just suddenly popped out there.
What did?
Ian, he just suddenly popped out for some milk or something and left the song just hanging there.
Sister Rose, that was, folks.
You're really upset about that, aren't you, Joe?
Yeah, deeply.
Listen, you can text us on 64046 or email us, adamandjoe.sixmusicatbbc.co.uk, at any point during the show.
Thanks for the text, incidentally, about
Artists whose names could be manglerized to make the names of pop bands.
We've had Damien Hirst.
Quite good.
Never mind the Jackson Pollocks.
Quite good.
That's quite good, isn't it?
That's an obvious one.
But brilliant.
It's too filthy.
Too dirty.
Listen, it's time to focus your attentions on a different text-based exercise because it's time for...
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 favourite feature, Text the Nation, where we ask you to text us!
And this week, the subject of the texting is sort of carried over from something we were talking about last week, which was things that make life worth living.
Last week we played a clip from the film Manhattan, where Woody Allen is making his personal list of the things that make life worth living.
And we are... what are you looking at me like that for?
Nothing.
Why are you doing a wonky look?
I'm not!
You did!
You can't just do a wonky look and then just like... I'll tell you during the next song.
Did I say like a part of the female anatomy or something?
No, no, no.
I'll tell you during the next song.
People are going to be thinking, what is it?
And then maybe I'll be able to explain once he's told you me, folks.
Look, you see, I'm completely confused now.
You speak.
So the subject of Text the Nation this week is little things in life that make you happy.
It's a Text the Nation designed to make everybody feel all warm and fuzzy and happy.
But listen, it's not just things that make you happy.
That's what it says on the website I noticed.
It's not just things that make you happy.
It's things that make life worth living.
Is that different?
It's slightly different.
Explain the difference.
Well, things that make you happy
being tickled you know what i mean yeah i don't know or you know it's slightly okay they need to be satisfying not just they don't they don't just cheer you up but they're kind of weirdly satisfying in a kind of cosmic way you mean yeah they kind of scratch a weird metaphysical itch that other things don't there's something of the existential happy to be alive exactly glad to be like okay fair enough yeah yeah jeepers
Okay, here we go.
Um, with some that have come in during the week.
Yeah, go on then.
Okay, this is from Peter Green.
He says, little things in life that make me happy.
He's got it wrong.
Number one, going to the cinema to watch a film and finding you have the cinema all to yourself.
That's a perfect one.
That's a very good one.
You can stretch your legs out over the seat in front.
You can eat smelly food.
Also feel a bit sad about the demise of the cinema.
Without fear of reprisals.
number two the feeling of putting your clothes on after you've been swimming that's a brilliant one getting dressed again you and you have you have a weird sort of raw feeling on your body and i don't know if i agree with that one i agree with that one i remember it from childhood going swimming at school and how wonderful it would be to leave the the pool again smelling of uh chlorine chlorine you got a shower you have a shower even if you shower though the chlorine's industrial strength usually i like it it's like getting wrapped up in a kind of duvet
Number three, letting out a huge burp after suffering from an extended period of car motion or alcohol-induced sickness.
That's true, that's a good one.
Nice bit of relief.
So just the release of internal wind.
Everyone likes that.
From the mouth area.
Nobody likes it from the bottom area.
It's nice if you're on your own though.
Going for a wee and not... Oh no, I can't read that one.
Five, knowing that Michael Winner likes to eat his pudding before he has his main course.
Is that true?
I don't think we agree with that one.
That's just ludicrous.
I'll tell you one that I thought of was, well, clean sheets.
That's an obvious one, isn't it?
Yeah, that was on my list.
Freshly changed.
Oh, yeah.
Freshly changed sheets.
Yeah, that's a smash.
And planes landing when your plane lands.
That's a good feeling, isn't it?
Everyone's happy then.
Yeah.
To the extent that some people start clapping, which is unnecessary.
Hey, Peter Green's fact number 10 is remembering the look on the guy's faces when I told them I was leaving Fleetwood Mac.
I think that's because I mentioned the fact that maybe he was from Fleetwood Mac last week.
Because he's a regular texter, Peter.
But listen, if you've got lists of those little metaphysical things, you know, those cosmic itches that certain things in life scratch, then email us at adamandjoe.sixmusicatbbc.co.uk or text on 64046.
They needn't be lists, they can just be one-off thoughts kind of thing.
Now I'm going to find out what the whole funny look was about.
And while I do that, this is one of your tracks, Joe.
Yes, it is.
This is another tribute to Riddles.
Sir Ridley Scott.
He's got a film in the cinemas.
I haven't seen it yet, but my dad saw it and said he loved it.
My dad loved it.
American Gangster.
My dad thought it was brilliant.
He thought it was much better than The Departed.
I didn't really like The Departed.
Two thumbs up from Mr Cornish.
Yeah, so I'm excited now about going to see American Gangster.
And this is from that, but it's an old one.
This is Bobby Womack with Across 110th Street.
you
I was the third brother goodbye Doing whatever I had to do to survive I'm not saying what I did was alright
Tryin' to break out of the ghetto with a day-to-day fight Bein' down so long, gettin' up didn't cost my mind I knew there was a better way of life and I was just trying to find You don't know what you do until you're put under pressure Force 110th Street is a hell of a tester Across 110th Street Pimps tryin' to catch a woman next week
Across a hundred and ten streets Pushes won't let the junket go clean Across a hundred and ten streets Woman tryin' to catch a trick on the street You betcha Across a hundred and ten streets You can find it all in the street
I got one more thing I'd like to talk to you about right now.
Hey, brother, there's a better way out.
Shorting that coat, shooting that dope, man, you caught me down.
Take my advice, if you believe or die, you got to be strong if you want to survive.
The family on the other side of town will catch hell.
Without a ghetto around In every city you'll find a thing, thing goin' down Call it the capital of every ghetto town Let me sing it!
Across a hundred and ten streets Just tryin' to catch a woman that's weak Across a hundred and ten streets Wishes won't let junkie go free
you can find it
Oh, look around you, look around you, look around you, look around you, yeah, yeah
There we go, Bobby Womack with Across 110th Street.
This is Adam and Joel on BBC 6 Music.
And that's a song that is kind of de rigueur for every 70s movie set in America.
Well, I remember it particularly from Jackie Brown.
I don't think I'd heard it used in a film before Jackie Brown, though.
Maybe you're right.
Well, it was used in the film Across 110th Street.
Of course, it's the title track.
So that film but of course Tarantino so can he isn't he wouldn't just use any old track?
Oh, absolutely You wouldn't use White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane for example Which has been used in every single film especially in a film with drug sequences and remember that film stoned the Stephen Wooley film about Brian Jones from the ruling stones and
I couldn't believe that he did a whole drug montage with White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane.
What's he thinking about?
Hey folks, incidentally, I found out what they were giggling about before.
And it was just because when I started speaking, I was adjusting my packet right through my jeans.
And so they started giggling about it.
And then Joe didn't feel it was appropriate to mention.
But it totally threw me off just because of a little packet jiggling.
Anyway, that's what it was all about.
Here's a session recorded for Gideon Co on the 3rd of May 2006 in the hub right here, right next door.
This is Primal Screen with Dolls.
I would describe the Music Week as a kind of forum for all the big name musicians and artists that you really want to get the backstage gossip from.
The thing I most enjoy about presenting the Music Week is that it does give you that triple A pass to go virtually anywhere.
For example, at the Electric Proms, going backstage after Mark Ronson's gig and meeting his mum.
I'm very proud I flew in for this.
I flew over New York for this and I thought, how can I not come?
This is a dream come true.
The Music Week with Julie Cullen and Matt Everett, tomorrow afternoon from 1.
And download the podcast anytime afterwards at bbc.co.uk slash 6music.
It's session for 6.
So you walk down the street holding hands with some mulligan.
Running shots, skin on a suit, a bright, pretty little purse Big brown flying saucer eyes I didn't talk to you then, you were kissing your friend I saw, it was a one-timer face I went home and took a shot, where the lady out there flies By junctioning, I knew we'd meet again
I want you, darling, I want you to go I want you, love, I want you so Come on, baby, let's have a good time Let's have a good time Let's have a good time Let's have a good time Sweet rock and roll
The search star all over town Christmas tunes hangin' around No one had ever seen a sugar guy keepin' followin' I head to St.
John's, some museums, bars and cups and Jesus items Prayin' the cathedral for the soul But then one waited when it's used to pass Saw you on the subway Goin' headed for the tunnel, meet the doll I press my face against the dash Took my body on a flash Like a motorcycle crash and smoke my skull
Don't want your diamonds Don't want your gold Don't want your love Don't want your soul Come on baby, let's have a good time Let's have a good time Let's have a good time Let's have a good time See you at the road
Here she comes now.
So there I was again walking in the pouring rain Wondering who, why, and where and what you were I had to listen to re-dreams Shiver sweats and screams Like an opiate withdrawal, only words Then one long hot summer night I took a motorcycle ride Saw you looking me and evil spreading fire from your eyes
Through the rockabilly queen, bout to kick-stomp your machine Like a fighter pilot flying off the war You had a tight black girl jacket, she's got a crossbow on her back Got fancy solos as she bends her baggy wife I said, I want you Tyler, don't want you to go I want you now baby, I want you so Come on baby, let's have a good time
Let's have a good time.
Let's have a good time.
Let's have a good time.
Sweet rock and roll.
Let's have a good time.
Good time.
Good time.
Good time.
Good time.
Good time.
Yeah, yeah.
Sweet, sweet, sweet rock and roll.
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See me comin' to town with my soul Stay down out of the world with my fingers Holdin' on to the devil I know All my troubles are hangin' your trigger Take your eyes and your mind from the road Shoot your mind, let me know you're aimin' Don't forget to pick up what you sow Talkin' trash to the garbage around you
I'm a perpetual rubbish, snakes and moles in the back of your room Handing out the confection of venom Heaven's dark, the poison you use Charmed the walls and the eyes are both getting blue Now I see it's a comfort to you I hammer my bones in the anvil of daylight
I won't give up, that goes to protect the way we toss a twist.
It's good in us, all we know, there's too much left to taste, that's bitter.
I won't give up, that goes to protect the way we toss a twist.
It's good in us, all we know, there's too much left to taste, that's bitter.
There you go.
That's E Pro by Beck.
Hey, this is Adam and Joe here on a Saturday morning.
Nearly Christmas.
It's nearly Christmas.
It's quite a revolting day outside here in London.
Hope it's nicer for you.
It's gonna be a dodgy weekend.
Apparently there's a big storm that's gonna rip across Britain tomorrow.
Not another one.
Yeah.
Is it the perfect storm with George Clooney?
Hopefully.
Oh, then it'll be honky.
Cos then it'll be so hunky!
Erm, are we gonna do... What are you finding about other genome projects there?
Erm, well this week I happened to see something on BBC television called the Richard Dimbleby Lecture.
I don't know whether any listeners stumbled upon it, but it's the sort of thing you don't get on telly anymore.
Has he got a fight?
No, it hasn't got fights.
Can you vote people out?
No, that's why it's surprising to find it on telly.
And I don't know if anybody saw it, but it was a sort of a big BBC event.
Is there dancing?
No, it was sponsored, sponsored it was kind of it's the Richard Dimbleby lecture.
So it's an important you know, he's a big guy in terms of the values of the BBC.
and every year obviously they have this important lecture where they ship a brilliant person in and all the BBC bigwigs have to turn up and listen to it and it gets broadcast it's obviously something that they've been trapped into doing because of some sort of remit or something right you know I'm sure they don't want it on
Yeah exactly but it's on at like 11 on a Tuesday and they had this guy called Dr J Craig Venter who was instrumental in mapping the human genome and he was giving a big speech about the future, about genetics and he was the most un-tally visually friendly guy I've ever seen.
He couldn't speak.
and he was using about four autocues and he was having trouble getting from one autocue to the next.
Do you know what I mean?
He was trying to make his eye line look realistic as if he had learnt this stuff but in doing so he was switching from an autocue on the right of the auditorium to an autocue on the left of the auditorium but he was doing that mid-word.
That is why the
human genome is such an important that kind of thing yeah and then so that was quite interesting because you don't get a lot of that on telly and it immediately makes it quite compelling someone who's just really incapable gross incompetence yeah but yeah brilliant he was brilliant this is one of the most brilliant men in the world
Being clumsy and and and and on television and then watching this it kept cutting away to the audience because obviously just a locked off shot of this guy's He looks a bit like James Cameron to paint the picture That this locked off shot of this guy talking wasn't that interesting so they kept cutting away to the audience in the audience was everyone who mattered in the BBC and it was like watching a School assembly dick and Dom because depending on their different dick and Dom hadn't been invited, right?
But depending on their status within the BBC, there was a different level of interest.
Mark Thompson, the king of the big British castle, the head of the BBC was there.
He was quite literally leaning forward in his seat, leaning as close to this guy as he could, resting his chin on his fist with a look of rapt.
Like, I'm really absorbing all of this.
The BBC are going to go genetic.
We're somehow gonna put the BBC into people's genome g-zone.
Yeah, g-zone the BBC G It's a new genetic channel where we'll actually clone listeners And then I think um, I think David Bellamy was there looking It's a bit like the hello woman who reviews the films by leaning forward or back in her seat Yeah, there are a couple of BBC staffers who appeared to be asleep on each other's shoulders was Graham Norton there Norton wasn't there I don't know why he wasn't there
But and then Tony Robinson was there doing his best time team, you know, he was doing his best to look interested, but seemed to be sort of nodding off.
And then there were one or two people who were looking bored.
But when the camera came on to them, and they were aware that the camera was onto them, they started taking notes.
Yeah.
They suddenly started to look quite interested.
All that said and done though, what this guy was saying was quite optimistic for the future of the world.
Oh that's good.
Do you want me to go into it?
I like a little bit.
Can you give me a tiny slice of easily digestible optimism?
Disruptive technology.
If we're cynical that politicians aren't going to save the world from global warming and stuff, he's saying that someone will invent something that will just change the world.
And that's the idea
disruptive technology.
Exactly because if human beings are good for anything they're good at adapting right?
Yes so someone will invent a new type of fuel that will be so powerful that people will just have to use it.
You crazy fuel!
Yeah.
Okay now folks after this track we are going to launch Song Wars for this week.
Wow we've got some amazing stuff to play you but first here are the baby shambles.
You talk, you talk a good game I wish I could talk the same I know song is just a game I'm getting good at cheating right now You talk, I actually talk a good game Won't you teach me the same?
I'd love to explain, I'd like to show it in your hand And all about, oh well I know, I know, I know, I know and so and so
I just like getting landed, looking for a light Right behind you, our heart is... You talk, you talk a good game I wish I could talk a song, I know a song is just for the game I'm getting good at cheesing out dough You talk, remember Utah in the rain
Anna's little red shoes and some kid with the blues Gets right on your wig, you just couldn't embarrass ya I know, I know, I know, I know it's wrong And so, and so, and so, and so it's got to go And I never ever said it was clever I just like it so let it go Nothing looking for a life
Lie behind your eyes You talk, you talk a good game You talk, you talk a good game You talk, you talk a good game You talk, you talk a good game
Ever, ever said it was clever I just like getting level Looking for the light Beyond your eyes Better, heat drops, falls from heaven And I know I'll be forever Love, behind you
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So check it out.
It started out as a bit of light hearted fun and after six weeks it's turned into something horrible.
Is that what somebody texted in?
Listeners, resentment, a simmering bubbling cold.
No it's good man.
This is our fortune we're making here right.
We're gonna, folks, we've composed an original song every week for the last six weeks and one day we're gonna release all these and we're gonna make five pounds.
We gotta make, we gotta join PRS.
We're in PRS.
Are we?
Don't you get cheques?
Yeah, I get cheques for 15p from our football song every year.
Really?
God, you're getting all the money.
You've got to split it.
I want my six and a half p. So listen, the theme of this week's Song Wars was suggested by Nathan in South London.
and he sent this email on the 26th of November 2007, two minutes past four in the afternoon.
For this week's theme, what do you say to a film soundtrack?
I was thinking specifically fictional sequels but admittedly that's mainly because I'd like to hear your take on Teen Wolf 3.
But anything along that line, franchises that wouldn't really stand up to being resurrected, you know we haven't really done what he suggested.
No, we've gone basically for exit music for a film, like a closing film theme that never was, you know what I mean?
For films, the classic example being Men in Black, of course.
Here come the men in black.
Will Smith is the king of the exit music.
The classic example, what was the first song written specifically for the closing credits of a film that then became a hit?
There's a question for listeners.
I feel as if it was Back to the Future or something like that.
Was Ghostbusters pre-Back to the Future?
It was pretty bad.
So anything earlier than Ghostbusters?
If you can figure that one out, text 64046.
We're trying to be an interesting factoid.
Yeah, that would be an interesting factoid.
So basically, we have had to come up with songs for films that probably shouldn't should never have had them.
and quite rightly didn't, and sort of inappropriate films, you know, inappropriate music for films.
People immediately suggested things like Schindler's List, that kind of thing, because Schindler's List is the film that jumps to mind.
That is the most serious film of all time, isn't it?
Like if you want an example of a film that is not to be laughed at or taken lightly, people immediately think of Schindler's List as a film that's low on laughs.
Another good example would be, what was the one with Jodie Foster, the horrific rape one?
The Accused.
The Accused.
So we got these kind of suggestions through but we haven't gone quite there.
The Accused is a good example of, you know, a tricky clue to give someone this Christmas over a game of charades.
Yeah, that would be fun with your Nana acting out the accused.
But we haven't gone that direction.
You'll be glad to hear.
Who wants to start?
I think I started last week.
I want to go second.
Okay, you're getting into the whole psychology.
Yeah.
all right well this is uh my one and listeners we'd very much like you to vote for your favorite ones you text six four zero four six or email adam and joe dot six music at pbc.co.uk and vote for either my one or adam's uh here's my one this is for the film the shining ah and this was suggested by gp uh aka gyles pocklington who emailed us
so you have to and this is a kind of a kind of a joe cocker and jennifer warne's style you know they did the theme tune for uh for officer and a gentleman um so it's that kind of thing it's kind of rousing i had a bit of a cold during the week so i've had to go throaty on it
I went throaty as well.
I had the same sort of thing.
Yeah.
So picture this.
You're in the cinema.
Are you ready, Jude?
You're standing by.
You're in the cinema.
What's the last scene of The Shining?
He's all frozen in the maze and then it just cuts to black, doesn't it?
I think so.
Yeah, it's amazing.
It's good.
And so imagine that Jack Frost is all frosty and you've just been through, you know, two hours of traumatising spooky hotel ghost hell.
The credits start to roll and this kicks in.
The shining, the shining Everybody's got the shining You're shining, I'm shining
Everybody's got the shine In the Overlook Hotel He went to write a book but ended up going to hell His wife Wendy tried to calm him down But for her trouble nearly got an axe in her crown
Their son Danny had a special gift But how's it gonna help with all the blood in the lift?
Can't the little kid just play on his trike Without dead twin sisters giving him a fright, yeah!
The shining, the shining Everybody's got the shining, you're shining
Everybody's got the shine Look out now, Jack's out to destroy Cause all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy Jack thought he was in sexy lady heaven Now he's snogging a crone in room 237 Here comes Halloran to save the day But Jack chops him in two after he came all that way
That last verse there, that's nice and throaty there.
Doesn't make much sense, though, referring to the fact that everyone's got it on DVD.
You stepped out of the thing there a little bit.
I did.
I went meta, but...
That's for the restored edition of The Shining.
It's for the rerelease.
Right.
Yeah.
For a new audience.
That's interesting.
I really tried not to go meta on mine because the temptation was to mention the name of the actors and all that kind of stuff.
I tried to stay within the thing as if it would have been released.
And I went for, I was thinking about, here's some films I was thinking about doing a song for, uh, Jinderbein.
Right.
I haven't seen that one.
No one has.
That's quite a sort of fraught emotional drama.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, but that's the direction I was heading and I thought and because no one has really seen gender by I I stayed away from that one and I went for another film that I hadn't seen and maybe a nice choice listeners might not But I decided but I watched it, right?
So I started writing the song before I'd seen it and then I watched it the hours with Meryl Streep This is the Virginia Woolf film
Virginia Woolf film directed by Billy Elliot man exactly Stephen Daltrey yeah with Nicole Kidman with a with a plastic nose she won an Oscar I tried to watch it I switched it off after she the very first scene is her walking into a river and drowning exactly because that's what Virginia Woolf did you know what I enjoyed the film did you yeah it had kind of a emotional impact on me really and then I went
Really cuz I'd never read it before and I'm enjoying it.
So I kind of during the week turned into a sort of lady man And this film I hope you've seen it'll mean a lot more to you if you've seen it But I hope it'll have some resonance even if you haven't this is a kind of driving Power ballot no, it's not a power ballot.
It's it's it's more of a kind of house and
euro house type techno thing for the hours, check it out.
is writing Mrs. Dalloway.
It is about a woman's day making party plans.
A housewife in the fifties is reading Mrs. Dalloway.
A woman in the noughties is making party plans.
Three women with unwelcome obligations to the men in the lives that they feel they never chose.
All of them depressed and wishing they could just escape like Virginia Woolf with her wonky plastic nose.
I choose not the suffocating and aesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the capital.
That is my choice.
It was done for your resonance!
It was done out of love!
It was a tragedy that Virginia Will felt she had to drown herself Just because she was depressed and she was bisexual In those days both those subjects were not well understood Nowadays there's lithium and lots of bendy friends How will you fill up the hours of your lady life?
Will you serve pathetic men?
Will you be a wife?
I chose life.
Will you just read Grazia and bake your stupid cakes?
Does that really make you happy?
I think you deserve a lovely party.
Mrs. Talloway said you would buy the flowers yourself.
Sally, I think I'll buy the flowers myself.
What?
Wow.
Yeah.
That's got so many things.
Samples.
I know, I went with samples.
Harmonies.
Nice harmonies going on there.
Thanks a lot.
A German rap.
It's always good for a house tune to have like a serious German rap.
Who was the German rap?
Was it Snap?
had the german rapper yes uh i'm serious it's cancer that's right yeah because rhythm is a dancer yeah that one it was reminding me that that was extraordinary i've never seen the hours but i've read quite a bit of virginia wolf and that made me reconsider a lot of things yeah good i'm glad it's worth seeing the hours you know i was really dreading it
I don't need to see it now that I've heard that song so please listeners vote six four zero four six Adam or Joe or if you're listening to this on listen again you can vote via email Adam and Joe dot six six music at BBC dot co dot UK now here is a piece of great exit music by the legendary David Bowie this film this was for the film Falcon and the Snowman and it's sort of on just on the verge of being ludicrous this song for for the film the Falcon the Snowman don't you think
Yeah, but it's a terrific film and the soundtrack is by Pat Metheny.
Yeah, and this is I think Bowie and Pat Metheny.
That's right Yes, directed by John Schlesinger with Sean Penn Timothy Hutton It's a brilliant film and the route he goes down is to take a line from the film Where Timothy Hutton is complaining.
Hey, this wouldn't happen in America and the guard says this is not America And Bowie takes takes that line.
This is brilliant though.
This is like Bowie at his kind of pompous best.
Yeah Yeah, check it out
Lord, this is not America Love so fails to bloom the season Promise not to stay too long This is not America Lord, this is not the miracle There was a time
oh this could be
Welcome to the ground.
That's good stuff man, almost as good as the music that Bowie did for Labyrinth.
Got to, got to get me out of here.
Underground.
That's a smash that one.
Dance, baby, dance.
That's when he's juggling the babies.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music.
We're coming up to midway through our exciting Saturday morning show.
We're here with you till noon.
All sorts of stuff going on.
We're asking you to vote for Song Wars.
We're asking you to send us your list of things that make life worth living.
What else are we asking them?
Well, later on, we're going to ask them to start sending in stuff to help us do our Christmas pre records.
But we'll tell you about that a bit later.
You know, just to facilitate a little holiday time for myself, Joe and our respective families and loved ones.
We're going to pre record a couple of the shows that we're doing around Christmas time.
we want to be transparent about that we wouldn't like to lie to you there's serious penalties for lying here at the big British castle immediate electrocution of all bodily parts that kind of thing so you know full transparency is what we're advocating I'm just rambling did you notice that's good I like it
um now here's a track that we were going to play last week i selected for you and the computer sort of uh did a giant boo on the track and refused to play it so i hope that's not going to happen this week it's a lovely song from the atlantic uh vaults is it from the atlanta yes it is yes it's uh laverne baker with saved
I used to smoke I used to drink I used to smoke drink And there's the hoochie coo I used to smoke and drink Smoke and drink and there's the hoochie coo Oh yeah But now I'm standing on this corner Praying for me and you That's why I'm saved I'm saved People let me tell you about a kingdom come You know I'm saved
I used to cuss, I used to cuss, I used to cuss, and boogie all night long I used to cuss and cuss, cuss and cuss and boogie all night long
let me tell you
I used to lie, I used to cheat I used to lie, cheat and step on people's feet I used to lie and cheat, lie and cheat and step on people's feet
People, let me tell you about a kingdom commune.
I'm saved.
I'm saved.
I cannot preach until you're deaf and dumb.
I'm in that soul-saving army beating on that big bass drum.
There you go, that's Laverne Baker with a little, uh, ironical semi-religious, uh, fun about forswearing vices.
Good for the time of year, of course.
But now it's time for the news, read by Harvey Cook with music news from Ellie Davis.
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Missing Man's Wife Spills the Beans, Guantanamo Brits to Come Home, and Countdown to Hatton Mayweather Showdown.
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There's a new twist in the story of the Kanoist who came back from the dead.
It's being reported that John Darwin, who was presumed drowned five years ago, lived for three years at his family home near Hartlepool.
After he disappeared, his wife, Anne, who's thought to be in Miami, has been speaking to journalists.
Our reporter, James Alexander, has been following the story.
She says he faked his death to escape the debts he'd run up.
He eventually moved back home, hiding in a next-door bedsit whenever friends or family visited.
That included the couple's two sons.
Bizarrely, their father was hiding next door when they returned from the inquest into his presumed death.
Next on 6 Music, the Conservatives want to know if three British residents, due to be released from Guantanamo Bay, will be regarded as security risk when they arrive back in the UK.
The men are to be freed following talks between London and Washington.
British and Afghan forces are continuing their major assault on the only major Afghan town held by the Taliban.
A British spokesman says the troops are making steady progress.
The government and doctors say office Christmas parties are putting women at risk of sexual assault and placing A&E departments under incredible pressure.
The home office says there's a clear link between women drinking too much and their risk of being attacked.
A major credit card scam hit an entire village in Leicestershire.
At least a hundred people living in Houghton-on-the-Hills say cash has been withdrawn from their accounts.
They'd all used a card machine at the local shop and petrol station.
Sport and the eyes of the boxing world will be on Las Vegas in the early hours of tomorrow morning as Britain's Ricky Hatton takes on Floyd Mayweather in a world title fight.
Thousands of Ricky's fans have made the journey over to the US.
The Mirror's boxing correspondent David Anderson says he stands a good chance.
Ricky's style is perfect for Floyd.
Floyd won't like Ricky's high energy, in your face, hunting them down in that ring, putting the pressure on all the time.
And if Ricky gets in close and uses some of those famous body shots of his, it could be goodnight Floyd.
In the Premier League, the bottom club, Derby have a tough match this afternoon.
They're playing Manchester United at Old Trafford now with six music news.
Ellie Davis.
Six music news.
Tributes have been coming in from all over the world for German avant-garde composer Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, who died last night aged 79.
6musics Ruth Barnes has the details.
Stockhausen was one of Germany's most important and controversial post-war composers.
His electronic compositions were a radical departure from musical tradition and incorporated influences as varied as the visual arts, the acoustics of a particular concert hall or psychology.
Musicians who cited him as an influence include John Lennon, Frank Zappa and David Bowie.
He's also credited with having influenced techno.
Stockhausen is survived by six children from two marriages.
In other six music news this week, the big story has been the Grammy nominations.
Amy Winehouse received six, second only to Kanye West's eight.
Mark Ronson is nominated too.
He said immediately phoned Amy when he found out.
I spoke to Amy, and I said, hey, do you hear we got nominated for a bunch of, well, you got nominated for a bunch of Grammys, I got nominated for a few, and she said, yeah, yeah, it's good.
And I was like, well, you gonna come to LA?
She was like, yeah, yeah, so hopefully she'll get in, because I want to throw a nice party with Amy.
And there's going to be a new book of unseen Clash lyrics, cartoons and other memorabilia.
Speaking in an exclusive interview in The Independent today, Jo Strummer's wife Lucinda Mellor says she's found bags and bags of cigarette papers, napkins and receipts full of the late singer's ideas and doodles.
It's to be compiled with the help of Damien Hirst but isn't going to be available any time soon as she says she doesn't want to rush it.
That's 6 Music News, we're back at 11.30.
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Being seduced By the greedy hands of politics And half-truths The beaten generation The beaten generation Reared on a diet Of prejudice and misinformation The beaten generation The beaten generation Open your eyes
and your imagination.
When we are sedated by the gasoline fumes and hypnotized by the satellites, isn't you believing what is good and what is right?
You may be worshipping the temples of man, or lost in the prisons of religion, but can you still walk back to happiness when you've nowhere left to
The beaten generation, the beaten generation Reared on a dice of prejudice and misinformation The beaten generation, the beaten generation Open your eyes, open your imagination
They send in the special police To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace They make the bridge sit ill upon their tongues And they tell us justice is being done And freedom lives in the barrels of a war gun The beaten generation
The beaten generation Open your eyes, open your imagination
Text the nation!
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Text the nation!
What if I don't want to?
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This is Adam and Joel on BBC6 music.
It's time for Text the Nation, the nation's favourite feature.
This is where the government provide us with a kind of a survey question that they need answered because there's some new policy hinged around it.
And we ask you and you tell us, then we deliver the results to Gordon Brown.
Puts them in the bin and ignores them.
Yeah, right.
Thanks a lot, government.
Represent the people, I don't think so.
Democracy, what happened to that?
Right.
Fortress Britain.
What?
I don't know.
Those aren't anyone's opinions really.
Here's a good one.
We got to kind of whittle this down because the subject is it's not just things that make you happy in a kind of loose and broad way.
It's kind of things that are weirdly satisfying but you know cost nothing and just sort of happen suddenly.
Is that right?
You know sort of it's hard to pin down.
It is hard to pin down.
But here's one that illustrates it brilliantly.
This has come in from hey guess who it's coming from?
Gordon Brown.
Daniel Pate.
Daniel Pate.
Dan Pate again sorry making that awful joke about your name Daniel over and over again.
He says hi Adam and Joe it makes me happy when the windows startup chime happens to be in the same key as the song I'm listening to.
Yeah that is nice.
That opens a whole can of lovely worms about just serendipitous musical or rhythmical things like I love it when I'm in the car and listening to music and the tick of the indicator
fits with the rhythm of the record.
It can also happen with the windscreen wipers.
They often sort of fall in and out of rhythm.
But for those several bars where they're in perfect synchronicity with the music, oh, that's exactly what we're talking about.
It's good, and sometimes when you're listening to a track on your headphones, you're outside, and sirens or something will invade, and they're in tune, or they sound like a good sample.
You know what I mean?
Like, that's a good siren.
Yeah, good siren.
Here's one from Dave Clough.
he says, he's written a whole list, but the one that stands out for me here is the last five minutes of work before a long holiday.
Even when you were at school and it was sort of five minutes before the end of a lesson, there'd be a sort of unspoken atmosphere, a kind of mutual consciousness that didn't really matter, this five minutes.
And it's even possible to do quite good work in that time as well, do you know what I mean?
Because you're sort of liberated from any feeling of kind of obligation.
Yeah, because there's very much light near the end of the tunnel.
But yeah, you're right.
If it's sort of 10 minutes, if you've got to, you know, get to a particular time, a set time on a clock when you'll suddenly be freed from work or school or something, it can be that yeah, the minutes leading up to that can be really nice.
Yeah.
Extra nice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah?
Say yeah more.
Yeah.
Here's another good one from Andrew Cox.
He says finding clothes in your wardrobe that you really like but you'd forgotten existed.
That's a good one.
I'll tell you the other version of that is if you're living with someone sometimes your partner
just nix your clothes and they sort of secrete them in their cupboard and they forget that they were there so it's like an extra level of lost clothocity and sometimes for whatever reason you find them and you think oh man I thought they were way gone and then yeah you find that your girlfriend's been using your favorite baggy t-shirt for the last 15 years or whatever for going to the gym I don't know what that's good that was a very kind of everyman situation my girlfriend's using my baggy t-shirt and going to the gym
Something out of a deodorant advert.
I was trying to make myself look heterosexual.
Well done.
Olivia Chan says, she sends us a list as well, and one of her good ones is getting the hang of a foreign transport system and almost feeling like a local.
I really like that as well.
If you're on holiday in a foreign country and you find yourself behaving as if you live there, you know, nobody's pointing at you or noticing you.
You're putting the tickets in the
subway gates in the right way yeah that can feel pretty cool that is good like the the time you return to a city like paris or something and you think yeah i know exactly where i'm going uh-huh not a problem for me hello bonjour paris it's me again hello your friend i don't know what i'm talking about here's one from karen
Yeah, what do you reckon the translation is on that?
Brakeleur.
That's how you pronounce it.
Brakeleur.
She says, one of the things that makes her feel very satisfied is her cat snoring brackets, it's more of a sort of a squeak.
Now my cat does that as well.
Yeah.
And it's very moving.
It's sort of...
It's such a the cat doesn't know it's making the noise.
It's not like a proud or you know, cats are usually quite mannered and and you know, considered about everything they do.
Yeah, not when they snore.
It's a stupid noise makes the cat sound like some sort of squeaky toy from Hamleys, which is exactly what you want from a from a hoity toity cat.
quite right that's nice let's have some more of these in a second but first here is we didn't choose this did we this is just that I'm not I'm not like I'm not like dissing the track it's the wonderful Jay-Z with rock boys brackets and the winner is
Thanks to the duffle bag, the brown paper bag.
The Nike shoe box for holding all this cash.
Boys in blue who agreed before the badge.
The first pusher who ever made the stash.
The rock boys in the building tonight.
Oh, what a feeling I'm feeling like.
Thanks to the lanes, bad name, thanks to a little
Thanks to all the hustlers and most importantly you, the customer.
The rock boys in the building tonight.
Oh what a feeling I'm feeling.
Bigger than figure more Cause they forgot to account what I did with the fraud
Red Porsches, Red Portraits Rick, you dare come near the fortress?
This apple sauce is from the apple orchard This kind of talk is only reserved for the bosses Which means I get it from the crown Which means you get it when I'm around Rich, black bar mitzvahs Mozart, it's a celebration behind I wish for you a hundred years of success, but it's my time Cheers, toast to crime, number one detail
There we go, Jay-Z with Rock Poison, the winner is... That's also from the film American Gangster.
Is it?
Yeah, we're kind of overloading on American Gangster stuff.
Is that a new song?
It's a new song, yeah.
It's Jay-Z's comeback album.
His previous album was kind of... I think it was called The Blueprint.
It was kind of slightly critically dismissed.
But this one's supposed to be better.
And it is better.
I'd like to know what that sample is.
It sounds like some kind of marching band.
Or a kind of mariachi band or something.
Is it a sample I wonder?
I do not know.
It does sound too good to be invented by Jay-Z.
By Jay-Z?
Who is a very talented man?
Of course he is.
He's one of the richest men in the world, isn't he?
Is that true?
Yeah.
He is joining it.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, I'm just saying.
It's a little fact.
Yeah.
I mean, he's lucky.
He's lucky.
Well done.
He's lucky.
Well done, Jay-Z.
Do you sometimes really, like, when do you most wish you just had a lot of money?
You know, like, every now and again, you sort of think, it suddenly hits you like,
Man, I wish I had like a million quid.
You don't have to answer that.
Well, yeah, I kind of live near to the flight path.
I'd like to move away from all the planes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But you know, like sometimes when they tell you what the rollover is on the lottery, and usually you don't really focus on it, but every now and again, you actually entertain the idea of winning that amount of money and just how, I mean, this is a very banal sentiment, but how much your life would change and everything, you know what I mean?
Now I'm going to stop talking.
Do we have any more texts there for Text the Nation about things that make life worth living?
We do, yes.
We've got lots of brilliant ones.
One thing I was thinking was, and this is another slightly banal one, but a glass of water, sometimes a cold glass of water when you really need it,
is the best drink you could possibly have ever, do you know what I mean?
And similarly, and I was very pleased to read an article about this the other day, cold beer after a bit of physical exertion hits the spot and scientifically there's a reason for it because something about beer rehydrates you in a way that no other drink does.
Obviously if you drink too much beer then the alcohol dehydrates you, it's a diuretic,
But a lovely cold beer after a long bit of jogging or cycling particularly, you know, is great.
Hits the absolute spot.
That's why that scene in Ice Cold Analysis is so good, you know, and they used it for Heineken for a long time.
Here's a good one from Ellie that's come in via text.
She says, brushing your teeth when you're at a festival.
Oh, that's a good one.
Brushing your teeth generally is a much underrated pick me up.
Don't just do it in the morning or the evening.
Do it in the middle of the day.
Do you brush your tongue?
Sometimes.
Yeah.
I've stopped doing that now that I use an electric.
I've noticed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is my tongue very furry?
I'm going to rectify that during the week with some scraping.
Yeah.
Let's have a bit more music.
This is element Joe on BBC six music.
What is it now?
Oh, it's time for the blue tones.
Yeah.
This is called thank you.
Not today.
You, with an empty page and a quiet rage Feel the doubters creeping in Reach for the South wall fair, but it isn't there
The whole facade is wearing thin Are the cracks about to show?
If they were, how would you know?
Should you try and soldier on?
If the appetite is gone and is lying to yourself
Did you fix your ways?
Is it just a phase?
Well that's not so hard to believe There are rumors in the room There are harbingers of doom Said you've done a carol act Said you're never coming back But we won't lose any sleep Cause talk is cheap
today.
There are sinners in the room.
There are harbingers of doom.
So you've done a caribac.
So you're never coming back.
And we won't lose any sleep.
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There's a girl that wants to stop Thinking about having a couple of kids
She wants to live in a place that has a number and a name
Funnel of eyes and anger Before the courage is gone She really loves him Priscilla She really loves him Priscilla She really loves him I tell you She really loves him Priscilla She really loves him Priscilla She really loves him I tell you
To live life outside the world To break the cross that bears her name
The highway needs something better than running away She really loves him, I'll tell you
She really loves him, Priscilla She really loves him, Priscilla She really loves him, I tell you Go away, clean up your heart, babe
you
that flashes with Priscilla have you seen the video for that yeah it's great it's good isn't it Dougal Wilson yeah he did a bit of work on my BBC pilot Dougal Wilson nice and he won an MTV award for that I think best video yeah it's a great video worth checking out on YouTube well worth checking out also she's attractive she's got it all locked down there she's got new sounds as well she's
It's called a new sound.
She's made something that sounds a bit new.
She's different.
She's like Alexa Chung with music skills.
Really?
In my mind, you know what I mean?
Yeah, Alexa Chung's attractive.
She's attractive, but she hasn't got the music skills.
She hasn't.
Who's she going out with?
I don't know.
I thought she was going out with a guy from the Arctic Monkeys.
I thought that was just a rumor and a lie.
I want her to go out with me.
And because she doesn't, I don't like her.
And I find her presenting style on that program annoying.
She's a good presenter.
If she went out with me, I'd like it.
Anyway, all respect to Alex Turner though.
He's a lucky man, but he's got the chops.
You see, he can write a tune.
You say I can't write a tune?
Well, I don't know if Alexa Chung listens to Song Wars, but I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be impressed by either of them.
I think we should get her in here and I'm gonna play it really loudly so it vibrates her bits.
Now I was watching TV.
What's the matter with that?
There's nothing rude about that.
It's a little bit rude.
I mean, her ears.
It's nice though.
Carry on talking.
Nice image.
I was watching TV earlier this week.
I don't know if you've ever seen TV Joe.
It's like a magic box in the corner of a room.
You can use it as a light.
But as well as providing illumination, it also has what they call progroms on it.
And one of the progroms that I watched this week in the afternoon was called Food Poker.
Now this is a real show.
It's not like an invented show.
it's real and many of our listeners might be familiar with it especially if they're unemployed or in prison but food poker is a BBC show here's a little synopsis for you it's a BBC tea time television program I'm reading from Wikipedia here which fuses traditional culinary skills with poker
The show involves chefs being dealt two food cards and then they can use up to three ingredients from five or more shared ingredient cards.
The chefs then decide in secret what dish they will prepare and then choose either to pitch their idea or fold if they believe they can cook anything with the available ingredients.
Those who pitch their ideas must do so to the food poker panel, which consists of seven food experts.
The panel then vote using poker chips for the two dishes they wish to see prepared.
There are three rounds, the savory cook-off, the sweet cook-off, and the final showcase cook-off.
And you watched this?
I watched it.
How was it?
very good there's a surprise wasn't that good and I just it sounds like you'd waste a lot of food yeah do they waste food do they just throw the food away if they if they I don't know poker terminology but if they decide not to play the hand scrimmage scratch they just waste the food I don't know surely not the big British this on this is be a big bridge now yes yes yes yes yes yes
License payers money.
And presumably the profoundly cynical idea behind this show is just the fusion of two successful genres in the most bald possible way.
Like why dress it up when you might shed a few poker or food fans, you know what I mean?
So they're mixing ready steady crack with late night poker.
Late night poker.
uh because you know a lot of people like poker a lot of people like food shows let's do a program with both and we'll call it food poker is that the voice of the commission that's the guy who commissioned really yeah what's wrong with him he's a he's a monster he's an actual monster yes from monsters incorporated yes it does nice frightening is scary really it's very scary yeah wow and here's some of the programs he's commissioned dance surgery
Don't yes, how does that work um?
Subsurgence they're doing operation, and they're dancing and people vote for them So they dance while they operate yes like it.
How clean is your child?
Because people like programs about children and cleaning so you have to clean some children, and then they learn that they'll watch it and
that sounds quite good a dragon's house of tiny gardeners says a dragon who owns a house with tiny gardeners no sorry it's like dragon's den with gardening and some of them are small so what actual like pixies or just short some some of them are children some of them are pixies
and a gardener.
Sounds quite good as well.
You have to vote for it.
You should write the next Shrek film.
I am.
And voice it.
I've finished it.
It's coming out next week.
How long did it take you?
Ten minutes.
It's the best one yet.
It's coming out next week.
I hear some music.
BBC 6 Music This is a brand new problem A problem without any clues If you know the clues It's easy to get through But you look confused And you don't know what to do It's hard to get an answer If you haven't
If the least you can do is show some restraint then the most you can do is get carried away I can see that you look confused and you don't know what
The best thing you can do is get lost on the way Lost on the way
You wanna make a guess?
You should know it's not a game Cause you'll never get another chance to make a guess again This is a brand new problem A problem without any clues If you know the clues It's easy to get through But you look confused
If you wanna make a guess, they should know it's not a game Never get another chance to make a guess again If you want it out, tell me what you find 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!
time now to wrap up the nation's favorite feature before the jingle there you heard the future heads with decent days and nights and uh joe cornish do you have any uh i'm in i'm in shock are you i've just read a text that's voting for your song in song wars it says adam exclamation mark joe's was rubbish this week oh anyway the shining ends with that weird black and white picture and the moonlight with the stars and you song which was better
Have Very Cruel.
That is a little bit cruel.
Who so cowardly didn't even put his or her name.
Oh no.
Have Very Cruel.
Have Very Cruel.
Nice one.
Thanks man.
Incidentally, I'd just like to say, uh, Sebastian, could you make us a cup of tea please?
Sebastian?
Because we got an email from a nice chap called Sebastian.
He's listening in Germany, was it?
Or is he Dutch?
I can't remember.
He's an artist.
Haven't you got the mail there?
Yeah, but it's under a thing.
Here we go, I found it.
He's an artist, yeah.
He's Dutch, he's living in Berlin.
Ah, there you go.
This is exotic already.
And he listens to the show while he's at work in his studio.
What kind of art does he make?
He's called Sebastian with two A's at the end.
Sebastian Schleicher.
Schleicher.
Schleicher?
Sorry man, sorry I'm not pronouncing your name properly.
That's good, he sounds good.
So listen, hi Sebastian.
Hi, how you doing?
Can I get some tea?
Can you make us a little bit of tea?
So Text the Nation this week is all about things that sort of satisfy you in a kind of profound way and that are for free in the world in life.
We've had some very good ones already but let's wrap it up with a with a final little review of some we've had in via text.
Here's a pretty good one.
The sound of rain when you're in bed.
that's true and wind strong wind as well as long as there's no threat of immediate death or destruction but there's all there's something about wind that's so strong that you think that the windows might yes buffeting yes a kind of because here in england we don't i mean it's becoming less and less true because of what al gore's done but um thanks very much al gore
We don't generally get extreme weather like what the Americans do with their typhoon shelters.
We get a lot of hurricanes there, you know.
There's over about 100 or so every year in the UK.
It's true, but it's unusual when they destroy a heist.
It is unusual, yeah.
So one can sit in a house in Britain, and this is of course not true if you're living in a coastal area.
Or, in fact, I think I should backpedal on this whole thing.
Oh, don't offend the people in coastal areas, or the Pennines!
All the listeners in the Pennines!
We've got a lot of storms around here.
They do, they do, and weather is much more of a serious concern for a lot of people who live outside major cities.
But if you're smug enough to live in a major city, and there's weather, you don't usually get affected by it.
No.
And it can be quite exciting.
It's one of the advantages of living in a city with protection of other people there.
Yeah, in the middle of streets and stuff.
But that's one of the nice things because you can fantasize that you've got a house in the country and you're living out in the middle of nowhere and your windows are being
but to broaden it to everyone who lives anywhere the sound of rain generally uh when you're inside whether it be a tent or a car especially a tent i'd say yeah or a house uh can be lovely well it can be if it's exciting if it's like a i think particularly a tent because then it's an occasion anyway you've gone camping and everything's a bit weird but generally the sound of rain is pretty depressing if it's a sunday or whatever and you're stuffed you can't go outside that came in from catherine in edinburgh and also from an anonymous person oh
uh who is anonymous uh there we go yeah um maybe it's anonymous nina person from what are they called the sweaters what about putting on brand new socks after cutting your toenails that's a very odd one very peculiar brand new socks after cutting your toenails yeah i know what i know what he or she means cluckus that comes from in cramlington in
Is that a real person in a real place?
Surely not.
Nobody knows.
Anyway, you know, to be perfectly honest, I was looking through these texts, I selected all the good ones, and then I pressed the wrong button and lost all the selections.
Never mind.
So maybe we'll come back to it.
Yeah.
But then again, maybe we won't.
So we can call that the end of textination unless we discover any real genius ones.
Later on in this, our final hour, we will be reminding you of this week's Song Wars, our exit music for films that never were.
But right now, here is... Who's this?
It's Thomas Tantrum.
Who's Thomas Tantrum?
It's Thomas Tantrum.
It's the latest thing.
They're an all-female group from Southampton.
It's their second single.
This is called Shake It, Shake It.
I keep on seeing People as a way out If you've got good hair or not But I just wanna be good at it But I can't do it And you can't do it And we can't do it So we all say I wanna talk
But I wanna talk though I wanna talk But I wanna talk though I wanna talk though I wanna talk But I wanna talk Shake it, shake it Oh, that's such a nice dress I love what you've done with your hair It's so exciting But I just wanna be good at it But I can't do it And you can't do it And we can't do it So we all say I wanna talk
She's so crazy Oh
I just wanna be good at it, but I can't do it, and you can't do it, and we can't
That's some toddlers who've done a song.
It was Thomas Tantrum with Shake It, Shake It, a brand new song from an all-female group from Southampton.
That's their second single.
Good stuff.
You know, the kids are going to enjoy that.
And by kids, I do mean under five.
It's all about shouty girls, shouty young girls.
I wanna talk!
Girls talking.
I'm not sure about it when girls in songs kind of shout speak, do you know what I'm saying?
It's a real thing that happens in a lot of... That's kind of what, sort of Nina from 99 Luftballoons?
Uh huh.
Can we think of any other women that do kind of spoken singing?
well there's a few sort of indie bands that do it uh what is it life without buildings uh they they would do a lot of shout singing and um uh what are the precursors to that record elastica of course that's a good example yeah 64046 if you can think of the the music that's kind of led up to that kind of thing thomas tantrum
Extraordinary business.
I thought it was like a new little kid's character.
Do you know what I mean?
It could be.
Maybe it is.
Maybe it's like a preschool cartoon about Postman Patton.
Who's the guy who runs the underground?
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Oh, this will mean nothing to anyone who's not a parent, maybe.
But he's there's a character and he works in the underground.
It's pretty desperate stuff.
And he's a train driver, but on an underground train, which is the least glamorous train driving job you could ever hope for, presumably.
but they're they're mining the seam of people who drive all kinds of trains and they've ended up the logical conclusion with a guy who runs he drives a train on the underground but rather than being a kind of surly chap which you might expect from someone doing that kind of job he's cheery and good for toddlers
thing.
Someone will remind us.
Will you text in?
Now here's a track that I've chosen for you listeners, hope you enjoy this.
Might be a little bit too annoying, like this is two sort of slightly annoying songs in quick succession, but I hope you enjoy it.
It's from one of the best albums of the year.
I'm sure it's making everybody's list of top albums this year.
I'm talking about the album Mirrored by the band Battles, who are from the America.
And this track is called Atlas.
And.
There you go.
Wow, it's sort of Return to Oz music.
It's good stuff, man.
Gnomes and skipping girls.
That's Battles with Atlas.
This is Adam and Joe here on Six Music.
We've got a couple of factual inaccuracies that we stumbled into that we'd like to clear up right now.
Have we?
Oh yeah, we were saying there that Thomas Tantrum, the band before that Battles track, were an all-female group from Southampton, but somebody has texted in to say, no I've lost it now, oh yeah here we go, to say hello boys, my mate Dave is in Thomas Tantrum and I'm pretty sure he's not a girl, from Lizzie in rain-sucky Southampton.
Well, Lizzie, you know, you should look very closely at Dave.
Yeah.
Because the big British castle has told us that it is an all girl band.
It says here on my notes.
And they just wouldn't say something that was inaccurate.
It just wouldn't happen.
So there's a good chance that Dave has got some issues that he needs to check.
Everybody's lying these days.
Look at the canoe people.
And all that business.
The canoe man, what is he thinking?
It's all the rage to do elaborate deceit.
The thing about the canoe man, because at first you think, oh, that's kind of fun.
The thing about Keanu is that he and folks were talking about the chap who went missing five years ago and then turned up recently.
And it turns out that he's been like, just
Hiding.
Hiding.
And at first you think, that sounds fun because it's everyone's fantasy at some stage to pretend they've died and then just carry on and see how their life unfolds.
Yeah, everyone thinks about it, don't they?
And this guy was trying to escape from death.
And there's all sorts of reasons why you would like to reinvent your life in an anonymous way.
But it goes creepy when his sons are back at the house after the inquest into his death and he's hiding in the next room, unbeknownst to them.
That's a bit demented, isn't it?
Yes, it is.
Some people have also texted in other shouty lady bands, lots of people saying Biss of course.
Claire in Kingston saying that Lily Allen's responsible for all the terrible shouty girl talk songs.
She's got a nice singing voice.
She doesn't do too much shouting.
She does.
Nico being mentioned as well by Robin Brighton.
Lots more biz.
Kim, of course, in Sonic Youth, says David in Ealing.
Lena Lovage, says Robin Birmingham.
Yeah.
The Slits, Toya, Hazel O'Connor as well.
Operator, please.
I don't know, operator please.
Are they a band or have I just misread that text?
It's so hard to tell these days.
And Bearsuit as well.
Someone emailed about Bearsuit the other day.
I went and bought their album.
Very much enjoyed it but they do a bit of lady shouting in there as well.
It's a fantastic, enjoyable genre and Thomas Tantrum have added to it marvellously.
Hey Adam, who's your sports personality of the year?
I'm very glad you asked me that because I would have to say Pele.
Let's have a trail.
Every dropkick
and putt for every debut and every comeback for every defeat and every victory this is their night join the teams, coaches and individuals for a night of awards and celebration the BBC Sports Personality of the Year is tomorrow night from 7 on BBC One and BBC Radio 5 Live
Six Music Appeal Sessions
Lonesome gambling, that woman will lead to heartbreaks Take the word of one who played and lost it all I played it cool, I delved the heartache
That woman's gonna tear your soul apart That woman's gonna wreck your head That woman's gonna leave you sad, so sad Oh, so sad Oh, so sad
Your life depends on what you are losing You're still refusing to believe in fate or chance You don't know now, but it's the wrong card you're choosing That deck you're using, it's stacked against romance
That woman's gonna leave you
That woman's gonna tear your soul apart That woman's gonna wreck your head That woman's gonna leave you sad, so sad
That was Thin Lizzy with That Woman's Gonna Break Your Heart, recorded for John Peel on Radio 1 on the 1st of August 1977.
Now it's time for the news and the music news read by Harvey Cook and Ellie Davis.
And in Six Music News, Brian Eno pays tribute, new lawyer for Spector and Duke Spirit's album delayed.
Six Music.
Big scenes at 11.30, I'm Harvey Cook.
So the wife of the canoeist who disappeared for five years but then turned up alive has been telling all to reporters.
Anne Darwin claims her husband John appeared on the doorstep of their family home near Hartlepool nearly a year after he was presumed drowned.
She says he then hid in the adjoining bed-sit, going in and out of their house through a connecting door.
Four of the five British residents being held at Guantanamo Bay are to be released.
Three of them are expected to come back here to the UK.
A fourth will go to Saudi Arabia.
The former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith welcomes the move.
You can't have people detained for years on end with no end in sight on the basis of the philosophy the US uses.
And I also think it's hugely counterproductive.
I think Guantanamo has been a recruiting sergeant for terrorism.
Next on 6, Music Police in Northampton have launched a murder inquiry after a man was beaten up in the street and then driven to hospital by two men in his own car.
It happened last night in the Kettering Road area of the town.
The Bank of Scotland is reducing by 10 days the amount of time people have to clear their credit card bills before being charged interest.
It'll affect people with NatWest and Mint cards.
Talks between striking screenwriters and Hollywood producers have broken down.
The dispute now in its fifth week has shut down dozens of US TV shows.
Sports, tonight Britain's Ricky Hatton gets the chance to fight for the right to call himself the best fighter in the world.
He's looking on Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas.
Boxing journalist Steve Buntz thinks it's going to be a great fight.
There is something about this fight.
There's something about the contrast between these two boxes outside the ropes and inside the ropes.
And there's a buzz here.
You can't deny it.
You've heard all the hat and charm.
You've seen all of the British fans.
This is something very special.
To the Premier League now, Manchester United can close the gap on leaders Arsenal to just one point.
If they beat bottom club Derby at Old Trafford, Arsenal are at Middlesbrough.
Tomorrow in the SPL, leaders Celtic play St Mirren.
Now with Six Music News, Ali Davis.
Six Music News.
Brian Eno has been paying tribute to the influential German composer Karl-Heinz Stockhausen who passed away last night aged 79.
He was known as a pioneer of electronic composition and is cited as an influence by the likes of Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd and John Lennon.
Eno explains why he's so important to pop music.
It's not party music and it's not easy listening, but he never intended it to be.
And I think one of the things about Stockhausen was that he was very disciplined and rigorous, very much part of the European classical tradition, and in fact had a very, very interesting group of students who went on to change the face of popular music, not classical music so much.
In other 6music news, it looks like Phil Spector has found a new lawyer.
Doron Vineberg has agreed to represent the Wall of Sound producer but says he won't be ready for the re-trial until September next year.
This will be exactly a year after the first trial ended in a hung jury.
And the Duke Spirit have delayed the release of their second album to tie into the record's American release.
Neptune is finished and ready to go but won't be out until the end of February.
The band suffered massive delays for the release of their debut album but singer Lila Moss says this time the decision's been made for a much
better reason.
It's by no means sort of the delaying tactics that might have happened before on major labels where they worry about who else's records out and kind of naff things like that.
We're actually just in the process of signing our American deal and I think we'd all like everything to kind of come out at the same time.
You're chatting to me like we connect But I don't even know if we're still friends It's so confusing Understanding you is making me not want to do The things that I know I should do But I trip fast and then I lose And I hate looking like a fool I just want your
The lights are on and someone's home But I'm not sure if they're alone There's someone else inside my head Living there to fill me with dread This paranoia is distressing And I spend most of my nights guessing Are we not, are we together?
Will this make our lives much better?
I'm not in love I just wanna be in touch
I'm the girl that he likes my most
Live in the Six Music Hub on Monday, Malcolm Middleton.
And on Wednesday, Jack Penate.
Malcolm Middleton on Monday morning and Jack Penate on Wednesday, both with George Lamb after 11.30.
The Hub, the home of live music on Six Music.
Adam and Joe on 6Music.
I'm just looking, just looking for a way around.
It disappears, there's no more, further out of the water.
I just
I'm just looking for a faith, waiting to be followed It disappears this way, further out of water I'm just looking for a way
Who will win the song wars today?
Perhaps it will be Adam.
Or it could be Joe.
Be the one.
You'll be the one who decides.
By texting or repailing.
When you hear the clips.
Well, that was in the old days when we used to play clips.
That's Swedish.
Is it?
Before that you heard The Breeders with Divine Hammer.
It's time for our second visit to Song Wars.
This is for people that didn't have the misfortune to hear these songs in the first hour of the show.
They were probably out Christmas shopping.
Or early morning Christmas shopping.
Exactly, or maybe the other way around.
Now people who were listening have gone Christmas shopping.
Some people have come back.
Who knows?
Who can tell?
I'm really down on my song.
Why?
Because everyone hates it.
I thought you never got freaked out by the texts and emails.
I'm not freaked out.
You are.
You're obviously rattled.
I'm not rattled.
Look at him, he's rattled.
I just don't think it's very good.
He's rattling away.
I think somebody texted in very kindly and said that's worthy of Weird Al Yankovic and to me that was an insult.
He's a genius.
Well he is but at the same time he goes for very obvious
tropes can i say tropes but that's uh that's your genius too joe to take the obvious that's everyday the very very obvious i don't want every day and turn it into something slightly chucklesome i want what's more than genius uh super genius super genius okay mega genius here's my one then uh the song was this week is uh exit songs for films that didn't have them you know the song that you hear over the closing credits of a movie uh here's my one it's for the film the shining a few people have quite rightly pointed out that the final shot of the shining is that
track into the photo of all the old staff and Jack Nicholson's amongst them so imagine if you were looking at that the film's ending the closing credit starts and you hear this the shining the shining everybody's got the shining you're shining i'm shining
Everybody's got the shot In the Overlook Hotel He went to write a book but ended up going to hell His wife Wendy tried to calm him down But for her trouble nearly got an axe in her crown
Their son Danny had a special gift But how's it gonna help with all the blood in the lift?
Can't the little kid just play on his trike Without dead twin sisters giving him up fright, yeah!
The shining, the shining Everybody's got the shining, you're shining
Everybody's got the shine Look out now, Jack's out to destroy Cause all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy Jack thought he was in sexy lady heaven Now he's snogging a crone in room 237 Here comes Halloran to save the day But Jack chops him in two after he came all that way
Danny gets a note from his invisible charm.
It says, red rom, red rom, red rom, red rom, red rom.
Oh they've watched it on the TV.
He's rattled, he's rattled.
I am rattled, I just think man I know, I know when I've been defeated.
All it took was one email rattled.
Hey Joe!
There you go.
So my song this week is based around the film The Hours.
Joe just threw a biro at me.
It's based around the film The Hours.
Come on, man.
I really like your shiny one.
I've got an umbrella that's like a gun.
Oh, no.
And I'm going to hold it right next to Adam's face.
It's bad luck to fire up an umbrella in the indoor land.
So anyway, here's my song about The Hours.
Dearest, I feel certain that I'm going mad again.
Virginia Woolf is writing Mrs. Dalloway It is about a woman's day making party plans A housewife in the fifties is reading Mrs. Dalloway A woman in the noughties is making party plans Three women with unwelcome obligations to the men In the lives that they feel they never chose
All of them depressed and wishing they could just escape like Virginia Woolf with her wonky plastic nose.
I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the cat.
That is my choice.
It was done for your resonance!
It was done out of love!
It was a tragedy that Virginia Will felt she had to drown herself Just because she was depressed and she was bisexual In those days both those subjects were not well understood Nowadays there's lithium and lots of bendy friends How will you fill up the hours of your lady life?
Will you serve pathetic men?
Will you be a wife?
I choose life.
Will you just regret Sia and bake your stupid cakes?
Does that really make you happy?
I think you deserve a lovely party.
Mrs. Dalloway said you were by the flowers herself.
Sally, I think I'm by the flowers myself.
Wow, that's got so many things I like about, you know, songs, tie-in songs.
I like the repeated sample with different effects on it.
Yeah.
I like the mention of Grazio magazine.
Thanks a lot.
The stupidest magazine in the world.
It is.
It's my opinion, not the BBC's.
I tend to agree.
I like the pronunciation of the word stupid as stoppid.
Stoppid.
That would be a good textination thing.
Words whose pronunciation you can mangle to make them more satisfying to say.
It's what parents sometimes say.
Don't be so stupid.
And I also like the idea... Does she have a lovely party?
Well it's all about this woman organizing a lovely party and you know Mrs. Dalloway that is.
Yeah.
I've never read Mrs. Dalloway.
I'm a fan of Orlando.
And I'm a big fan of the waves.
Never read that to the lighthouse.
Remember, we were forced to read at school, man.
That was hard going.
But you know, I feel as if now I've got some degree of maturity, I can go back to these books that upset me and freaked me out when I was at school.
So I didn't understand them.
And maybe I'll get another chance.
But in case you're wondering, I'm not down on people making cakes.
There's a little motif in the film The Hours about how pathetic it is for Julianne Moore's character to be a kind of domestic slave making a cake for her husband because it's his birthday.
What a pathetic thing for a woman to do, make a cake for a man.
And so I just was reacting to that.
It's good, man.
Look, the texts have gone crazy.
Keep texting 64046.
Or if you're listening to this file, listen again.
Adamandjoe.6musicatpbc.co.uk.
Hey, we should tell listeners who are keen on the show.
People who are less keen on the show won't be so interested.
What about keen?
Keen, very keen on the show.
Yeah.
that we will be doing a podcast of it that hopefully will start early in the new year but it'll be a kind of one of those cookie cutter ones that the BBC do very very well where they just lift the music out of the show and put the talky bits together.
They have them up there on iTunes for Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross and stuff.
We'll be starting one of those early in the new year.
And we'll also though to make matters more complicated and exciting be adding to the whole thing with
a show a kind of podcast that we put together which will be a digest of some of the best bits but it'll be less frequent it'll be like once every two weeks or yeah that's a longer term project yeah but it will happen at the beginning of next year and it'll it'll have new bits and stuff and things that were too rude for broadcast so all sorts of podcast activities in the new year there's something to look forward to there's something to look forward to now did you choose this one joe this track what is it
Bit of Kid Creole?
Oh yes.
This is fantastic.
This is a new band called Kid Creole and the Coconuts and this is the latest thing that the kids are listening to.
This is called Stool Pigeon.
He's an old ex-con that's been away Now he's back, no one's safe
If you want to squeal at the FBI We can make a deal, make it worth your while So we told it all and in return We got a credit card and a thunderbird And the maximum security Even after plastic surgery So go on and squeal at the FBI We can make a deal, make it worth your while
Now he's back, no one's safe School vision, ha-cha-cha-cha After all the talk, then they wired him And he took a walk with his crooked friends And they joked about the good old days And he recorded it on a reel of tape He caught the mug who did the forgery And a baby in charge of larceny So the FBI, they rewarded him Cause they like a guy who will stab a friend
If you want a squeeze in the FBI We can make a deal, make it worth your while So he told it all, and in return He got a credit card and a thunderbird He got a spanking new identity And a condo down in Miami He bought a plane, a boat, and jewelry But he couldn't buy any company There's a gentleman that's going wrong Turning the joint upside down, stool vision
There we go, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, a funk band from America.
You'll be hearing a lot about them in the past.
August Darnell is the name of Kid Creole, isn't it?
I ran across him once in the foyer of what was then the Warner West End in London's Leicester Square.
It's now called The View.
And I went up to him and shook his hand and said, thank you for the music.
Yeah, good one.
Did you actually say those words?
He said, get off me!
Get off me!
I did say those words, yeah.
Thank you for the music.
Yeah, he seemed to like it.
Of course he liked it.
So this is the last seven minutes of this week's Adam and Jo radio show thing here on BBC6 Music.
Just a bit of caretaking, some stuff we'd like you to help us with for next week's show.
Next week's Song Wars, we're going to do Christmas songs.
Yeah.
We'd love you to suggest particular angles on Christmas or a particular aspect of Christmas that you feel isn't covered by the standard Christmas song.
and we'll be recording them sometime after Wednesday this week.
So if you're listening again or listening now, text in those suggestions, in fact email them adamandjoe.6music.pbc.co.uk in the next couple of days and we'll endeavour to make your ideas come into tragic musical death.
Also this week we're going to be pre-recording a couple of shows that will be played out over the Christmas period.
So we'd like your help for one of those shows for a subject for Text the Nation.
And we've thought of a stupidest lie that I ever told or stupid lies that you've told in general.
Yeah a lie you've told to get yourself out of a situation or maybe to make yourself look good or to attract someone or or something that has kind of backfired enormously on you.
These are usually lies you would have told when you were little or littler than what you are now.
Yeah, it would be great if the lie you told had had catastrophic consequences that we can take away.
No, not depressing ones.
Here's one I told in order to endear myself to the sister of one of my friends when I was about 14.
I was on holiday with them.
I told her.
that I had a heart problem.
Because I told her that I only had a few years to live because I had a slightly weak heart.
I thought that would make her more likely to get off with me.
Slightly weak mind, more like.
It worked.
Did it?
No!
I did get off with her.
And had you revealed to her by that point that it was not actually true that you had a heart condition?
No, I don't think she actually cared.
That was the terrible thing.
I don't think it had that much impact.
That's such a weird lie.
It's a terrible lie to tell.
It is.
It's kind of you know like um tempting fate a bit.
Yeah.
But I feel I was 14 so that was that's all right isn't it?
All kinds of trouble you do you fantasize in that morbid way when you're that age don't you?
Wouldn't it be glamorous if I was fatally ill?
You don't really have any conception of your own mortality at that age.
That's true.
Anyway a lie that I told that springs to mind similar things it's often about your physical makeup isn't it?
I told a lot of people that I was bionic.
How old were you then?
I must have, I was young, you know, I was 10, 9 maybe, very young.
And being bionic was the thing at that age.
Maybe it still is, I don't know.
That chick from EastEnders is the bionic woman.
Yeah.
That's coming to bore people very soon.
But yeah, I told people that my left arm was bionic.
It was very specific.
I said that I'd been in a car accident and only part of my... What did you do to prove it?
Well, that was the thing.
It came down to a sort of bionic off with another guy who said that he had bionic julies.
And we went off to the labs to demonstrate to each other how our bionics worked, and at that point the whole thing unraveled.
Sounds very homoerotic.
It was a little bit.
Bionic arm plus bionic julies equals a bionic good time.
I really thought he had bionic julies as well.
I was dead disappointed.
Why would he have bionic julies?
Well, I don't know.
He made it sound plausible.
He said they were removable.
I thought that would be wicked.
Well send your peculiar lies that you've told to us, adamandjoe.sixmusicatbbc.co.uk.
One more thing about Thomas Tantrum, didn't we discover some new things about them?
Oh yeah, now we're given a list of the songs we're playing every week here at the Big British Castle.
and it's you know done by medieval scribes it's all in gold pen and all that business uh but it was wrong this week uh it told us that thomas tantrum was an all-girl band they're not there's apparently a lady singer and the rest of them are blokes and they're not from south hampton at all are they oh we don't know about that but no one's contested that bit but somebody one of the scribes in in in the castle will be um put yeah put in the what are they called stocks in the stocks in the stock house and
Hey thanks to everybody who's texted and emailed this week we really couldn't do the show without you.
Yeah we appreciate it.
Even though we will be in a couple of weeks.
No we still need their help for that.
True true.
Liz Kershaw is coming up enjoy your week we'll see you next week love you bye.
Bye.
You're pretty, oh so pretty Why waste your time just sitting Here, release me to the dark, bitch Do nothing, eat your chocolates Drink your wine, she won't let you Make your way across hell
Go home with her one more time and you
Tell your mother, even she's surprised that this is How you want to spend your nights indoors You never call too often What's up?
Have you forgotten?
What's eating you is a mystery But go home with her one more time and dream