Love for you if you were born in the 80s, the 80s I've got hugs for you if you were born in the 80s, the 80s I'll do things for you if you were born in the 80s, the 80s
I got love for you if you were born in the 80s, the 80s I've got hugs for you if you were born in the 80s, the 80s I'll do things for you if you were born in the 80s, the 80s
That was a long pause.
We'll edit that.
Hello, Happy New Year's Eve, listeners!
Happy New Year's Eve, listener Joe.
Thanks a lot.
Why don't we start when this man's left?
It's peculiar.
Thank you.
Happy New Year.
Thank you, man.
Man.
OK.
Good, good, good, good vibrations.
What are you doing?
Good, good, good.
I'm the Beach Boys.
Have you heard of me?
No.
Yes, I'm a popular band.
Oh, hang on a second.
I have.
You've got like the Nutty Lead Singer.
I am the nutty lead singer, yes, yes.
Good, good.
I've been in bed for five years.
Really?
Yeah, I'm giant.
I'm like a whale.
And I'm very depressed.
But I'm a genius.
Where's this going?
Umm... Nowhere.
I was thinking maybe a game we could play.
Oh yeah.
And I'd pretend to be different bands.
I mean that started off with an easy one because I sung the biggest hit there and I told you who I was.
Yeah.
Very early on.
But what do you think?
Is it a New Year's Eve game?
Are you drunk already?
A little bit.
Hello listeners.
This is Adam and Joe's BBC6 music.
It's New Year's Eve.
We're building up to the biggest party night of the year.
It's when I have a big party.
Well, that's actually when someone else has a big party.
I'm gonna belt.
I don't go.
I'm gonna belt.
Is that a problem?
No, go on.
Oh dear.
It's a bit much, isn't it, for New Year's Eve, but it is New Year's Eve.
Exactly.
Yeah.
The conventional rules have been thrown out of the window.
Excuse me, I'm so sorry, but that's a revolting thing to do.
Adam's out of
of the world.
Ten.
Ten in the evening.
In the evening.
At which point anybody with any sense will no longer be able to form any coherent thoughts.
Listen, in a way this is the best part of the whole New Year's Eve experience.
It's true isn't it?
It's the build-up to the chaos.
Yeah because from around 10 until midnight and certainly around the midnight hour it's no one has a good time really.
No it's a mixture of melancholy and kind of crazy sort of sinking ship
lunacy.
We'll talk more about that later on but right now I think we should play a lot of music.
We've got a lot of fun music lined up for you.
Joe and myself.
It's all upbeat.
Yeah.
No sad songs.
We've picked some really good stuff that we hope you're going to enjoy and right now we're going to continue as we mean to continue on.
That makes no sense but it's Devo here with Whip It.
For the crease that's not too long You must whip it When something's going wrong You must whip it Now whip it Into shape Shape it up Get straight Go forward Move ahead Try to detect it It's not too late To whip it
You must whip it.
You will never let it down.
Let you whip it.
Correct and whip Give it a pass and slam Step on a brick Break your mama's back When a problem comes along You must whip it If all the creases are too long You must whip it When something's going wrong You must whip it Now whip it Into shape Shape it up
Get straight, go forward Move ahead, try to detect it It's not too late to whip it Into shape, shape it up Get straight, go forward Move ahead, try to detect it It's not too late to whip it
Oh, that's Devo.
Fantastic.
With Whip It.
This is Adam and Joe here on New Year's Eve.
This is pretty much the end of 2007, so I hope you've made the most of it because it's almost over.
I haven't.
Have you not?
I don't think so.
Well, what did you want to do that you didn't do?
All sorts of things.
What am I going to do?
I'm going to have to do them now.
You've got five hours left.
Five hours to do all the things I wanted to do this year.
Yeah, but plus we've got to do the show.
Alright, well let's get the show out of the way first.
Alright then.
Listen, what I did, listeners, you know because we always like to prepare a great deal for these programs here on 6music, I went out and I bought a review of the year, a book from Bookshop
and it was reduced it was four pounds off because the year's almost over so they figure well no one's gonna be interested in the year anymore so it was a little bit of a bargain but I'm gonna be flipping through it throughout the show there we go it's a kind of yeah it's a review of the yearbook so it's got pages on on everything that happened in the year which gives us the opportunity to do one of those exciting talk about what happened in the year shows but you know looking at that book I already feel like I'm living in the past
It seems like a long time ago, some of this stuff.
Well, something about 2007 reminds me of 1987.
In what way?
I just think that in the future, I can just imagine us in the future looking back at that book and thinking, why were we interested in any of those things?
it feels like the past already do you know what i mean well it was a very recent past but the ancient past you've got a a lunatic kind of right-wing nut job in the white house like you did in the 80s uh you've got a power crazed thatcherite lunatic in the in the in the labor house these are just
just a piece of Joe Cornish, not the big British castle as a whole.
He's got a sort of man thatcher.
He left after a while.
I'm not being controversial.
He was very outspoken in his high regard for her polices.
Tony B. Lyre.
Tony Blurt, yeah.
Man thatch.
Man thatch, yeah.
The man thatch.
So there you go, I rest my case.
Did you shed a tear when Tony B. Lyre left the White House, the Brown House?
I didn't know.
I did not.
But that was one of the many momentous things that happened in the year.
And all through the show, we'll be going through the year, we've segmented it into themed portions, and we'll be discussing the highs.
of the year.
I've opened up a page here that's all about the big British castle and it's entitled auntie's bloomers.
It's got a picture of the Blue Peter set with socks on there.
It was a tricky year for the big British castle of course.
But we won't go into that.
It's okay now because we've arrived.
We've arrived.
We've solved all the problems.
We're going to fortify the whole castle.
No one's going to be able to get in now.
Everything's fine because we've got a defence plan.
You know what?
One of my favourite records of this year, one of my favourite singles of this year was one that we played when we took over from Sean W. Keveny on the breakfast rexrecho that was our first little bit of tenure here at Six Music and it's by Edwin Collins.
It's called You'll Never Know and we're going to play it right now.
Well, it's one of the comebacks of the year, isn't it, for Collins?
Absolutely.
In every way, so enjoy.
She saw right through me, she knew My heart was torn in two More than a little confused Am I here yesterday?
And even though I can't forget you My head won't let you
Edwin Collins with You'll Never Know My Love.
One of my favourite singles of the year.
This is Adam and Jo here on BBC6 Music.
Happy New Year's Eve everybody.
We hope you're drinking responsibly because let's not forget that 2007 has been the year when the government has decided to control various naughty things that the populace do such as smoking indoors, drinking irresponsibly.
Those are the only two things I can think of.
But fortress Britain fortress Britain it's time for the the people of Britain to pull their socks up stop messing about stop being silly Generally, and you know just just get in line a little bit more, but here's the thing one day folks you're gonna look back at 2007 and think we had it pretty good then we were we were still wandering around without ID cards and
We could go pretty much wherever we wanted without being security checked and tagged.
The police didn't wear gas masks, they didn't have those electric batons yet.
Exactly.
They didn't instigate the Judge Dredd program where police could issue death certificates on the streets.
Is that going to happen?
That is going to happen.
That's supposed to happen in 2000 AD so they're a bit late on that one.
Yeah it's happening next year I think.
Is it?
Also the new parking meters will kill you.
That kill you like in Blade Runner.
Exactly they'll kill you.
The other thing of course is that you know like these days people, grown up people might say to you, do you remember when you could smoke on the tube?
Do you remember when you could smoke on the bus?
In the cinemas?
Yeah, Adam and I remember that from our childhoods.
And it seems like a distant memory from a world gone mad.
That's right.
And now people will, in the future people will go, do you remember when you could smoke in restaurants?
Hey, they'll say, do you remember when you could smoke?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Do you remember when people used to be free to make up their own minds about the choices they made?
Thanks a lot Tony Blair.
But then of course you could come back with Tony Belaya, he was just protecting the people who were dying from passive smoking.
It's true.
Right?
We're covering all the different aspects of this debate.
All the different aspects.
It's a very good thing.
Quite skilfully I think.
These are all good things.
These are all very positive developments.
Very positive.
It's been a brilliant year for freedom.
all around the world.
Where do you get that from?
I don't know I'm just being positive.
Okay.
There have been a lot of very well thought out wars, brilliantly planned environmental interventions, you know it's good to see the world really pulling its socks up and you know taking on global warming in a united way.
You love pulling socks up don't you?
I just think everyone should pull their socks all the way up over their heads and then hop around like big boinging dancing socks.
So there we go, that's politics.
We've dealt with now from 2007, who knows what we're going to be dealing with next.
Here's a glimpse in the form of a, we can't tell you what's going to happen in the world next, but we're going to tell you a little something about what's going to happen on BBC 6 Music next.
Which is more important.
Yeah, with this trail.
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The best of the BBC Music Archive on 6.
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The man of the hour has an air of great power.
He plays for kids, hustling times in ghetto streets, trying to get over.
That's what he tried to do, y'all.
Taking all that we can take, dealing with the odds of fate, trying to get over.
Ask him his dream, what does it mean?
He wouldn't know.
It can't be like the rest.
It's the most you can miss.
But the time's running out, and there's no happiness.
Oh, say for Christ.
You're going to make your fortune buy and buy.
But if you lose, there's no questions why.
Curtis Mayfield there with Superfly this is Adam and Joe BBC6 music here on New Year's Eve our exciting pre New Year's Eve show show to take you up to 10 o'clock of course then at 10 o'clock we've got the Queens of noise and all sorts of insane party antics happening here on 6music so whatever you do stay tuned New Year's Eve New Year's Eve drinking all the way so what fun it is to drunk
until you're very drunk oh new year's eve new year's eve i hate it so much always in the wrong place oh new year's eve i love that song i'm so pleased you sung it oh it's new year's eve i don't like this song i hate this song oh it's new year's eve this is a bad song
I'm glad that song stopped.
I'm gonna release that next year.
Really?
There's something to look forward to.
Yeah.
Because, ooh, you know.
So what a year it's been, listeners, especially in the world of movies.
That's right, the glamorous world where anything can happen, where CGI effects rule the world, actors like Dame Judi Stench and Helen Mirrors do all the business with the wigs, and it's a brilliant time to go to the cinema.
It's all stench and mirrors.
In 2007, the cost of going to the cinema went up to £4,000.
No way!
Per Malteser.
That's too much.
£4,000 for each Malteser.
Each Malteser, not even a ticket.
Can you believe that?
How much is a ticket?
That sounds made up, doesn't it?
Isn't it?
How much is a ticket to the cinema?
A ticket costs £20,000.
That's too much.
It's too much, isn't it?
Unless you go in Peckham, where it costs 10 pence.
10p.
But you will be killed.
That's right, that's the downside.
So those are the two choices.
Alternatively, of course, there's the world of high-definition video, which arrived with a flash and a Waz in 2007.
And of course there was a terrible feud between Blu-ray and HD.
and all sorts of conspiracy theories.
Blu-ray, Ray Charles, Ray Davis, they all had a big fight.
That's right, against HD.
Helen Dickinson is the woman who invented that.
And anyway, what a year it's been for movies.
It's been a year of threequals.
Uh, Spider-Man 3.
Didn't like it.
Pirates of the Spider-Man 3.
Haven't seen it.
Harry Spider-Man 3.
Liked it.
And Spider-Shrek 3.
Uh, disappointing.
Disappointing.
And Ratatouille.
Liked it.
Liked it.
So I just said that I liked Harry Spider-Shrek.
You just made that up.
Also, Live 3.
No, Die Hard 4 was out as well.
300.
It's all the 3s.
It was all about 3s.
uh and also uh transformers 3 right that's not true that's just the first one but there will be a third one um but a lot of three equals uh some of them average and some of them poor you know you've got it these days you've got to you've got to celebrate the average otherwise where would you be
Exactly.
Exactly.
Back in Peckham.
Thought Park.
What was your favourite film this year?
My favourite?
Well that's hard to say.
Go on.
One of mine's not that hard.
Because I don't really have one.
Well my favourite film was David Fincher's Zodiac was one of them.
Oh yeah.
I enjoyed that very much indeed.
I even forgot about that one.
I'm looking forward to the director's cut coming early in 2008.
Well I'm looking forward to the sequel for that one.
Yeah, but we'll talk about forthcoming movies a bit later.
I also enjoyed Superbad.
That was great.
Which ties in with the song we just played, were it to be called Superbad rather than Superfly.
You know, Superbad, for the first time in a long time, I thought, what a great time to be a young person with these kind of movies.
It reminded me very much of the kind of things that we used to see when we were youngsters in the 80s.
Well, Judd Apatow is a similar age to us, so he's sort of recreating that John Hughes era but with a little more swearing and graphic references to lady parts.
But a lot more heart as well I thought, you know?
Like it's sort of, he's got his cake and he's eating it there and it's delicious cake because it's got all the filth and the naughtiness that young people love.
But there's also a real nice, you know, feeling to the whole thing, do you know what I mean?
Not creepy and yuppie like.
One of my favourite scenes of the year was probably Michael Cera and Jonah Hill declaring their love for each other at the end of Superbad.
I thought that was very sweet.
Anyway listen, it's time for a bit more music.
Oh no.
What's the matter?
Are we going to play the B-52s?
Yeah but not Love Shack.
I'm saying oh no because I just can't believe how good this is.
What's your problem with the B-52s?
Nothing.
Oh no.
I can't believe this is so good.
Hit it.
Here's the B-52s with 52 goals.
This is a peach.
I picked this one.
I'm going to beat Joe up in a second for not liking it and being faintly dismissive.
I love it.
you
That's the B-52s with 52 girls.
This is Adam and Joe here on New Year's Eve 2007.
We're with you for the next two and a half hours, but right now it's time for the news.
On digital radio.
And online.
BBC 6Music.
Relief as airport strike called off, fearing Kenya as riots claim more than 100 and Archbishop gives warning in New Year message.
6Music.
BBC News at 7.30, I'm Rachel Matthews.
Good news for travellers.
The first in a series of planned strikes at seven British airports has been called off tonight.
It's after a breakthrough in talks between union leaders and the airports-operated BAA.
The other strikes might be cancelled too, if the agreement is approved by shop stewards later this week.
A man's been arrested after a policewoman was shot during an armed robbery.
The gunman is still on the run.
PC Katie Johnson, a dog handler, was shot in the leg during the raid on a pub at Bamba Bridge near Preston this morning.
Lancashire police have described the incident as sickening and warned the public to be vigilant.
Scores of people have been killed in Kenya in violence which followed the announcement that President Kibaki has won the election there.
Opposition supporters say the vote was rigged.
The Foreign Office has urged British tourists not to travel to certain parts of Kenya, Nairobi and Mombasa unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Ivan Newman is a British tourist staying just south of Mombasa.
There doesn't seem to be much reveling for New Year's Eve at all.
The locals feel pretty tense and in fact the people who are working in the resort here have all gone home early tonight as they did last night because they're worried.
The woman from the West Midlands has been savaged by a rottweiler that got into a back garden through a hole in her fence.
The 26-year-old is being treated in hospital for deep cuts and crushed bones.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is following the Queen in broadcasting his New Year message on YouTube.
Dr. Rowan-Williams warns that a short-term exploitation of the Earth's resources has implications for everybody.
In a society where we think of so many things as disposable, where we expect to be constantly discarding last year's gadget and replacing it with this year's model, do we end up tempted to think of people and relationships as disposable?
That's the 6music news.
I'll be back with the latest news for you in an hour's time.
Hear any show, anytime you like.
At bbc.co.uk slash 6music.
All I wanted was a little fun Got a brain like bubblegum Blowing up my cranium Oh my god what have I done All I wanted was a little fun Got a brain like bubblegum
What have I done?
Do what I get.
All I wanted was a little fun.
Do what I get.
Got a green light bubblegum.
Do what I get.
Blowing up my cranium.
Do what I get.
Oh my God, what have I done?
Do what I get.
All I wanted was a little fun.
Do what I get.
Got a green light bubblegum.
Got a brain like bubblegum, do it again Blowing up my cranium, do it again Oh my god what have I done, do it again All I wanted was a little fun, do it again
The Chemical Brothers with Do It Again, they've done it again, released another smashing record.
That's nice man, you're already good at this radio thing.
Thanks a lot man, this is Adam and Joe on BBC6 music.
Happy New Year's Eve everybody, we're creeping closer to the all important moment.
If you're into rocks and stones and new age type things, then this is a very critical moment for you.
Chakras.
All your ley lines are intersecting, various planets are aligning.
Beams of light are shining through staffs of raw and illuminating the place where you should be digging early in the new year Mmm to find various grails or lost goblets strike big underground caverns The doors are preparing a swing open cats behaviors the behavior of cats Sorry, I'll rephrase that the behavior of cats is very important You should write it down and take it to a witch and she'll tell you what it means.
I
All that sort of thing.
It's all happening, is it?
It's all going off.
This is a very exciting period in every sphere of life.
You're absolutely sure?
Yeah.
I mean, we've done politics and films and cats.
We've got lots more.
What more do you want?
We were talking in the music there, just Joe and myself.
We were dancing around.
I tried to kiss Joe.
He backed away.
And then we had a little bit of an awkward moment.
But then after that, when the conversation got going again, we started talking about the stupidest argument that you've had all year.
That's true and that conversation was connected to our chatting about the year's movies because one of the stupidest arguments I had this year I very nearly fell out with a good friend of mine because he preferred Knocked Up to Superbad and I much preferred Superbad to Knocked Up.
Now Superbad didn't make such a dent did it really?
No.
No in the UK it was released concurrently with another film maybe even Stardust or something and it was buried by whimsical fantasy the swearing and boobs were overpowered by whimsical fantasy and it kind of died a death the two guys in it aren't as famous over here as they are over there.
Right.
Jonah and Seth I can call them by their first names because they're friends of mine.
Are they really?
Not really no but I have met them a couple of times.
Seth Brundle
Who's the guy, the young guy in it?
Who's the sort of... Michael Cera.
The slightly weedy guy?
Yeah, Michael Cera.
Michael Cera.
He's brilliant.
What's he been in before?
He has been in such films as... Michael Cera's story?
Juno.
Juno.
That's not out yet.
He's been in Arrested Development.
He played George Michael in Arrested Development.
That's his best known role.
Not the singer George Michael.
No, no, no.
They're in the joke.
Right.
But anyway, back to my argument.
Do you know that thing where you're very enthusiastic about a film, and by being enthusiastic when you're enthusing about it to someone, you can almost see them not liking it?
Even though they haven't seen it.
Because what's happening subtextually, if I may be so pretentious, is that one's claiming the film as one's own.
And the other person goes, it's like Joe's just licked that film all over.
Well you, I mean both of us, have had that as well.
We don't like being the recipients of something that's been overhyped if we haven't seen it.
No, I guess that, I guess that kind of thing happens in a marketing sense as well.
Between two friends, if a friend of yours infuses too much over an album or a film, it's like they've had a bite of the biscuit.
It's a bit of a turn off.
Or like they've, you know, you know.
Taking a little pop on it.
Little pop on it, yeah.
Had a little fiddle with it.
You don't want to bother with it.
You know, sloppy seconds.
That kind of thing.
Anyway, this happened with me and my friend and super bird.
Glad I said what?
Sloppy seconds.
Sloppy seconds is simply when you've taken a spoonful out of the dish of meringue.
That's where the phrase comes from.
And you've got meringue all over your face.
And you're the second to take the meringue and they've merely made a bit of a mess of it.
Not a meringue, a fondue or a blancmange.
Or a mousse.
A blanana.
A banana spit.
A blanana.
A blanana spit.
That's something else.
Move on.
Better play some music quickly.
No, no.
I want to hear the end of the argument.
So I was really enthusing about Superbad.
He went to see it.
He came back with kind of a long face and a slight look of disgust in his eye as if he thought less of me for liking it.
And then I sort of developed this idea that he was boring for not liking it because in my mind Knocked up is a fake subversive film.
It's supposed to be about you know About anarchic an anarchic guy who gets a woman pregnant, but actually it's a bit like a modern version of the Steve Martin film Parenthood They're both lovely films, but it's actually very conservative proposition.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, they always give everything up and settling down.
We're super bad is genuinely quite like subversive and anarchic I reckon and
about male friendships and stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
But you know, in saying this I've taken it onto the level of a basic schism of political and lifestyle views, fundamental ideological views.
Which, that's a fundamental idea.
New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve.
But do you know what I mean?
I do, yeah.
It became such a kind of heavy thing, it was more than disliking the film, it was like, I don't like you anymore.
Oh, that's horrible when that happens, man.
It's sort of, we couldn't help it.
Have you resolved it now?
Oh, completely, yeah.
Oh, good, I'm glad.
Incidentally, folks, if you haven't seen Superbad, you should.
It's amazing.
It's really a lovely film.
Yeah, I'm sure it'll do very well on DVD.
One to catch on DVD.
That's right.
Here's a track that I've chosen for you.
It's been played a lot everywhere, and especially on 6music.
But have I?
Nah, that was Chemical Brothers, I didn't choose that one.
Yeah, you chose the B-52s though.
Oh stop it Willie, you've got stuff coming up, we've both got six.
Oh I do actually, I've got a good one coming up.
Anyway, this is one of the albums of the year.
I'm not sure it was released this year though, was it?
It came out in 2006 and it was sort of re-released and did very well.
Some people write them off as a kind of Bruce Springsteen tribute act.
Sir, Bruce Springsteen tribute act.
I don't care because they're good.
This is the Hold Steady with Stuck Between Stations.
There are nights when I think that South Paradise was right Boys and girls in America There's such a sad time together Stuck in on each other after demonstrations Making sure they make up straight Crushing one another with colossal expectations Depending on discipline to sleep and wait She was a really cool kisser and she wasn't
She was a talented dancer, but she wasn't all that great of a girlfriend.
He likes the warm feeling when he's done with all the dehydration.
Most nights are crystal clear, but tonight it's like he's stuck between stations.
and they took a walk together and they ended up in Washington talking to the river.
He said, I surrounded myself with doctors and deep thinkers, but they had some soft bodies made for lousy lovers.
It was that night that we got the shot for him and could fly.
But he dimmed so he died.
He said, you're pretty good with words, but words won't save your life when they dimmed so he died.
He likes the warm feeling but he's tired of all the dehydration
We drink and we dry up and now we crumble into dust We get wet and we corrode and now we're covered up in rust We drink and we dry up and now we crumble into dust We get wet and we corrode and now we're covered up in rust
He likes the warm feeling, but he's tired of all the dehydration Mustache and crystal clear, but tonight it's like
says I saw Bruce Springsteen tribute band to me.
That was the whole steady.
We're stuck between stations.
You know, you'd have to be some kind of churl to not even get a little bit of pleasure out of that.
Come on.
Go on then.
What?
I got a little bit of pleasure out of that.
Yeah, that's very decent of you.
This is Adam and Jo BBC6 Music.
Happy New Year's Eve listeners.
We hope you're drinking moderately, being nice to everybody around you.
Hey, can I give you some practical advice, listeners?
And you too, Jo Cornish.
Have a glass of water right now.
Hydrate yourself.
Yeah, pull it back.
Just pull it back.
Pull it back for a couple of hours.
You can get going again a bit later in the night.
You won't regret it.
Then you'll be in good shape.
You'll feel less bad tomorrow morning.
Think about how you're going to feel tomorrow morning.
You know what?
We're assuming that everybody's in a kind of a crazy party mood.
But according to statistics that I've just formulated, during that song I made a thousand phone calls.
Did you?
And I've drawn up some percentages.
And apparently 63% of people really don't bother on New Year's Eve.
Right.
They're tired.
They're partied out.
They just have a bit of an early night.
Maybe a little drink with a close friend and just take it easy.
They might do some praying.
Maybe they don't agree.
Maybe they don't even drink.
You know they might just don't drink.
They might have a cup of cocoa.
This awful lump and cliche that everyone's getting drunk and making a mess of themselves is an awful lump and cliche.
It is an awful lump and cliche.
Look at the size of it.
And it's not backed up by those statistics that I recently made up.
You just invented.
But you know I usually just have quite a quiet time.
Yes, no, that's generally what I'll do.
I'll come back from church and I'll kneel down and I'll pray to a selection on your that shirt with the spikes on the inside.
That's right Yeah, pray to a selection of gods and then I will write Cadbury's gods
Yeah, I'll do some writing.
I'll write a couple of poems This is I'm not doing it tonight.
We're doing the show But this is what I would normally do on New Year's Eve, and then I'll have a half a glass of tea Really yes, and then after that I'll lie down on a person
Which way up will you be the wrong way round?
What do you mean?
Oh, I see with your feet on their head.
No my head on their feet your head on that's the same Who is this person
I can't tell you.
It doesn't matter.
Is it David Cameron?
It is David Cameron.
I think it is, isn't it?
You love David Cameron.
Okay, yeah, I'm saying this as if I've got something to move on to.
After this I want to chat a little bit about some more of the events of last year, especially, you know, Jay Goody and the Big Brother thing.
I think we should, you know, because obviously it's been talked about and dissected endlessly, but I really think the public need to hear our opinions on the subject.
So after this, which is our producer Jude's favorite single of the year.
Is that right, Jude?
Yes.
This is Of Montreal with Suffer for Fashion.
Thanks for watching!
Down together
There we go.
That was an abrupt ending.
It was a little abrupt there.
The band are called Off Montreal.
How very rude.
The song's called Suffer for Fashion.
It's our producer Jude's favourite record of the year.
She's obsessed with those people.
She loves that guy.
She cannot stop going on about them.
Favourite gig of the year she said as well.
On and on and on.
We'll talk about favourite gigs of the year in a second but first Joe Cornish, I don't know if you know this but there's been a massive race row.
What?
On the programme Big Brother.
That seems like a thousand years ago.
Doesn't it?
You know I wish it was.
Yeah.
Did you watch that show in the end?
The whole Jade thing?
Yeah, I watched the race route, but that that was it then I drew it I've drawn a line under Big Brother in in life in general.
Yeah, I wouldn't I I hereby promise What was this never watch it ever again?
What was your little epiphany there that?
Stops you just had enough you know if you eat one sort of food Like if you ate wagon wheels non-stop for a week.
Oh, you know you probably wouldn't be able to eat them again, right?
Well, you could do a documentary about it.
I love Morgan Spurlock.
There's another yet to talk about
Right.
Later.
Remind me about that.
Okay.
I'm writing it down in the minutes.
But you know, I'm just, I'm sick of it.
Absolutely sick of it.
And I think it's about time that channel dropped that show.
I think it's killing them.
But people like the show.
Only idiots.
No man, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa.
No, I, no insult to people, I'm not saying you're an out and out idiot if you watch Big Brother, but certainly for the time that you're watching Big Brother or talking about it, you are an idiot.
Now listen.
And I think the people that watch that are Heat magazine readers.
and I think I'm going for broke I just think that kind of things over I think it's yesterday's news I think it was brilliant about three years ago four years ago it felt new and exciting and interesting now it's time to move on but it's not just the novelty man I know what you're saying
There's times when you watch those things.
It's totally unedifying and you feel dragged down into the dirty dirty place, but Occasionally not so much with the whole shilpa Jade thing because it was a kind of insane Hysterical construct about her being racist.
She's mainly just daft not so much racist But the whole racism thing is out of control in lots of different ways anyway, but the previous year the whole Barrymore one and the George Galloway thing is
You couldn't have written that stuff, man.
That was like a play, an amazing play.
And sometimes you watch those things and it really is an incredible insight into what makes people human that you don't get anywhere else, really.
Yeah, you may be right.
I'm just saying personally, you know, from my point of view every day when all's said and done.
Sport.
Sport.
I think I've seen it all.
I've had enough.
You've had enough.
Oh my lordy.
Well listen, you've got your wishes because they're not going to hurt.
It's coming back in the blooming summer.
In fact, that's one of the nice things about the beginning of this year.
You don't have that terrible thing where you start the year, there's a sort of vacuum of boredom and there to fill it is blooming big brother.
It's not on this year.
I hate it.
They're not doing it.
Anyway, music time after that ranting.
It's a trail.
It's a trail time.
And it's all about Sgt.
Pepper.
I don't know what possibly could there be left to say about Sgt.
Pepper that hasn't been said.
We're going to find out right now.
BBC6 Music.
From the top ten.
In the legendary Abbey Road Studios, Oasis, Razorlight, Richard Ashcroft, Kannister Chiefs and many more, gather to recreate an album which recently turned 4C.
The Beatles' Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
You can't imagine it happening again.
One thing having an impact across the board.
What about just a single do?
The program, which originally aired on Radio 2 in the summer, features new material showing the recording techniques used before computers and digital equipment.
That does sound great.
This is Adam and Joel on BBC6 Music on our New Year's Eve show.
Here's a bit of hippity hoppity.
This is a classic from the vaults Eric B and Rakim.
Follow the leader.
Nice.
Follow me into a solo, get in the flow And you can picture like a photo, music makes mellow Maintains to make melodies for MCs Motivates to pranks, I'm everlasting I can go on for days and days with rhyme displays that engrave deepest x-rays I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, flip
Now that's a daily word, I can get iller than normal Kill any bomb but no alarm, rock, chemo, remain calm Self esteem, make me super superb and supreme Before a microphone's still out of me This was a tape, I wasn't supposed to break I was supposed to wait, but let's motivate I wanna see you keep following and swallowing
We're gonna make it right, ballin' Brothers tried, and others died to get the formula But I'ma let you sweat, you still ain't warm You a step away from frozen, stiff as if you're posin' Dig into my brain as the rhyme gets chosen So follow me, I want you thinkin' you were first Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe What could you say as the Earth gets further and further?
Wait, planets are smaller, bones are clay Astray until the Milky Way World's out of sight, far as the eye can see Not even a satellite, now stop and turn around and look As you stare in the darkness, you're not just twerp
So keep staring, soon you'll suddenly see a star You better follow and consist of all This is a lesson if you're guessing Lift your bow and hurry Hurry, step right up and keep following the leader
This is a lifetime mission, vision of prison.
Aight listen, in this journey you're the journal, I'm the journalist.
Am I eternal or an eternalist?
I'm about to flow long as I can possibly go.
Keep you moving cause the crowd says, so dance.
Cuts rip your pants, every beat on the flames, bleeding to death, call an ambulance.
Pull out my weapon and start to squeeze.
A magnum is a microphone, murder and emcees.
Let's pull, a rhyme for my record I wrote.
Yeah, don't, cause every time I stop it seems you're stuck Soon as you try to step off you're self-destruct I came to overcome before I'm gone By showing improvement and letting ours be born Then after that I'll live forever, you disagree?
You say never?
Then follow me, from century to century You remember me in history, not a mystery or a memory I come by nature, my razor nature Since you was tricked, I have to raise ya From the cradle to the grave, but remember
You're not a slave, those fools would have to be much more than that.
But we can see because our mind is trapped.
But I'm here to break away the chains, take away the pains, remake the brains, rebuild my name.
I guess nobody told you a little, now I'm dangerous.
It can't be mixed, diluted, it can't be changed, the switch.
Here's a lesson if you're guessing and following.
Hurry, hurry, step right up, keep following the leader.
Follow the leader, my kids.
A verified freestyle, lyrics of fury My third eye make me shine like jury You're just a better rapper, your rhyme's a minute made I'll be here when it fade and watch it flip like a renegade I can't wait to break and eliminate On every trade of a snake, so stay awake And follow and follow me cause the tempo's a trail The stage is a cave, the mic is a third rail I rock him, the fiend of a microphone I'm not him, so leave my mic alone Soon as the beat is felt, I'm ready to go So fasten your seatbelt, cause I'm about to flow No need to speak, slow down and let the leader lead Word to daddy
Indeed, the R's a roll of stone, so I'm rollin' Direction's told them the rhymes are stolen, stop buggin' A brother said, dig him, I never tell him He couldn't follow the leader long enough, so I drug him It's a danger zone, he should arrange his own Face it is basic, erase it, change the tone There's one R in the alphabet, it's a one letter word and it's about to get
More complex with one rhyme to the next Every beat be easy on the flex I been from stage to stage, followers tailgate Keep coming but you came too late, but I wait So back up, reboot, get a grip, come equipped You're the next contestant, clap your hands, you wanna trip The price is right, don't make a deal too soon How many notes get your name?
This tune Follow the leader, it's a title themed task Now you know you don't have to act Rappers rhythm and poetry cuts create sound effects You might catch up if you follow the records he wrecks Until then, keep eating and swallowing You better take a deep breath
Keep following the leader.
Keep following.
BBC Six.
Six music.
On digital.
Online.
BBC Six music.
A little dirt top and make it easy to move your feet.
I'm gonna add some bottom so that the dancers just won't hide.
Sly and the Family Stone with Dance to the Music here on BBC 6 Music.
It's New Year's Eve.
It's very exciting for everybody whether you're celebrating or not, isn't it?
Yeah, only about four more hours to go now.
Just less than four more hours until New Year's Eve, the big moment.
You might get to snog someone.
Really?
Yeah.
I haven't snogged somebody for years.
You might get to.
If you're in the right place at the right time, everyone will be kissing each other and you can just take advantage.
Wow.
You know, you just let it last a little bit too long, and bang, you're in there.
Because generally, that's the time of year where you could legitimately go for the mouth rather than the cheek.
Don't you think?
That sometimes happens.
Who?
What?
This is a disturbing scenario because, uh, this is, I'm glad I'm not going to be with you on New Year's Eve.
Listen, you're standing around, you're in a room, there's maybe four girls there, four blokes.
Just assume that everybody's paired off already, right?
Maybe married couples in their long, long relationships and things.
There's no singletons drifting around.
But you all know each other very well.
The clock strikes 12.
Everyone starts kissing each other.
But it's like you're really good friends.
You've known each other for years.
Some of the girls might think it's acceptable to go for a little kiss on the lips there.
Do you need to talk about your marriage?
Well, marriage is a wonderful thing and I enjoy being married more than almost anyone in the world.
But still, a little random kiss on the lips there at New Year's Eve might be nice.
Who are you thinking about?
Who are you thinking about?
My best friend!
No, my wife's best friend.
And her sister.
No, I'm not.
I'm not.
Wow, it's going to be fireworks for New Year's Eve at the Buxton household.
That's for sure.
Listen, she's going to be trying to get some snogging action off my more hunkier friends anyway, so it's all...
It's all a bit of a disaster, isn't it, really?
No, it's lovely.
It's lovely.
It's like the 60s, the 70s, it's like the ice storm.
It's not like the ice storm.
I knew you were going to say that.
It's brilliant.
Yeah, we all pop the keys in the bowl there and then go off.
Of course, I'm just in a long-term relationship.
I'm too cowardly to get married because I just like to entertain the idea that anything's possible.
So in a way I'm living in more of a fantasy land than you are, if such a thing is possible.
Listeners, you've got a double slice of truth cake there.
Yeah, wow, that's lucky.
And there was some irony icing on top of it, but mainly it was the ingredients were truth.
I wonder what David Bowie's doing.
on New Year's Eve.
I wonder what David David David does.
He probably does something super-lattative.
I do something super-lattative on New Year's Eve.
With a little bit of theatricality.
With a little bit of theatricality.
And they probably, yes, and they probably do amazing charades, but charades for pieces of work.
at charades.
He can do the accused without making it filthy.
Exactly.
But they probably do like Jacques Brel songs and stuff.
It's true.
Is he still married to Iman?
Very much so.
Yes.
And he probably has Joey around.
Is it Zoe or is it Joey?
It's Joey these days.
It's Joey.
And Joey's around there, yes.
I've met him.
Iman's got many children.
When have you met Joey?
I met him in the video shop.
Don't you remember that story?
Yes, I do remember.
Tell it again.
Can't I can't remember what happened, but I didn't find out he was Bowie's son until after I'd spoken to him Oh my gosh.
He was telling me he would he made short films, right?
Yeah, can you imagine what kind of shot films?
Can you imagine what kind of short films?
my son makes
Here is some David Bowie anyway, it's a reason for this terrible impression fest.
This is David Bowie's song, what is called Moonay Daejeon.
Did you know he did this song by cutting up words and rearranging them on a board?
Cutting up words and rearranging them.
This sounds like someone else.
Here we go, here's some David Bowie.
Papa coming for you I'm a space invader
Unless you're a space-based ghost of my love Breathe out in a moon-aged daydream, oh yeah Don't fake it, baby Lie the real thing on me The Church of Mad Love Is such a holy place to be Make me, baby
Freak out in a moonache daydream, oh Keep your electric eye on me, babe Put your rake on to my head Rest your space face close to my heart Freak out in a moonache daydream, oh
you
David Bowie with Moonage Daydream.
And we are nearly entering the moon age.
2008.
2008.
What is the short term for 2000?
Oh no, we had the noughties didn't we?
I'm just talking rubbish.
Adam yes the noughties we're not out of the noughties yet there's no there's no shortism for the actual individual year is there no like what what shortisms have there been for any year let's not delay this let's not prolong this oh just pick up another subject go on bang you you forgot about hot fuzz in your movies of the year that's true hot fuzz hot fuzz for us is is more than a film it was sort of a way of life for a bit wasn't it Adam because Adam was in it of course and I did loads of um stuff behind the scenes and stuff
Where can people find your documentary Joe Cornish?
Actually only on the American versions of Hot Fuzz.
Right.
On the American DVD or the American 3 disc DVD is my documentary but of course I was writing a script with Edgar so I was with them when they toured America earlier this year.
Good times.
They were good times.
That was fun, man, and it was one of the most successful, certainly, homegrown movies of the year.
It was, it made about 20 grand in the UK, unfortunately beaten by the infinitely superior Mr. Bean's Holiday.
20 million, even.
20 million, I'm sorry.
I believe Mr. Bean made about 22 million.
That's right.
Which makes it too better than Hot Fuzz.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Have you seen either of those films?
You've seen Hot Fuzz, obviously?
I have seen Hot Fuzz.
Have you seen Mr. Bean's Holiday?
I haven't seen the holiday.
It's almost scandalous that it's more successful.
Well, there's a lesson there of some kind, isn't there?
It's for the little kids.
It's for the little kids.
The money's in the under tens.
And for the bean people.
And there are many bean people around.
Does bean people, the bean man, does he speak in English in this one?
Yes, he says bane.
Bone.
Bane.
Yeah, and he doesn't do any other talking.
He says can.
Can.
What?
Can.
Can?
Yeah, because he's trying to get to the Cannes Film Festival.
Oh, I see.
That's the plot.
So he says, Can.
He has trouble speaking.
It's the international language of humorous rubbery faces, though, isn't it?
That's why it's so popular, because it doesn't exclude anyone except, of course, comedy fans.
um but there's notes i mean you can be snobby about being you can be easy to be i'd like to tell you a good little prank to do what if we were still in the prank game yeah i'd dress you up as mr bean i'd hide a camera and i'd have you attempt to do some of the things mr bean does right
Make friends with a small boy he doesn't know.
You know, cause trouble in a restaurant with lobsters.
And see what the genuine public reaction would be.
Right.
I warrant it wouldn't be charm and mild amusement.
It would be... Arresting.
Police intervention.
Instant police intervention.
Notes on a Scandal was also a big UK-based hit or UK-produced hit.
You weren't such a fan of the Scandal notes, were you?
I thought it was a bit overcooked, over baked.
I enjoyed watching it.
I enjoy my films overcooked.
Well done.
I thought it was nice.
I mean it's mainly because I've got a fixation about Cake Blanket.
She's just blanket.
She's adorable.
She's adorable and some of course I was in a scene with her in that in hot fuss That's right, and I have acted together cake blanket was in hot fuzz if you don't know this already folks But she was disguised heavily.
You know she played Simon pegs girlfriend in the yeah She was a CSI officer so she had a mask on she was disguised, but the eyes gave it away She's got beautiful elvin eyes as featured in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
She's a
Oh, I would be very happy with some cake time.
Some New Year's Eve naughty action.
Right now, more music.
Would you like a disco classic Joe Cornish?
Oh yes please.
Here's Donna Summer then for you.
I'm Giorgio Moroder.
Welcome.
Thanks.
Hey Giorgio.
That's Donna Summer with I Feel Love.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music on New Year's Eve.
The most exciting night of the day.
It's the most exciting night.
Most exciting night of the day.
The most exciting night.
Which isn't saying much because of course there's only one night per day.
Of the day.
So it's going to be exciting isn't it?
Yes.
Now we were just talking in the break there about films again that we've seen this year.
Obviously we're going to be focusing heavily on the pop cultural aspect of the last year because that's what we tend to occupy ourselves with.
But Joe was talking about one of his favorite films, A Good Year, the Ridley Scott films.
Thanks for bringing it up.
Was that this year?
Yeah, it was.
And you know, listeners, I wouldn't say it's one of the best, you know, one of the non-ironically best films of the year.
But in terms of a sort of dazzling mess of, you know, it's almost like a good year.
You've sort of got to see it at the cinema.
I saw it at the Empire of Leicester Square.
Sitting two rows behind me was John Prescott.
I'll tell you that before looking very grumpy and the thing about it is it's like being invited to Provence for a couple of hours where you spend your time in the most incredible country house with the beautiful surroundings, a beautiful lady called Abby Cornish, no relation but a sexy young Australian lady and Russell Crowe making a complete tit of himself
And it's an awful, awful business, terrible story, embarrassing, cringe-making, awful series of disastrous scenes, but so beautifully rendered and so lovingly presented that it's sort of like, you know, a fantastic holiday with a mad uncle who leaves before you get bored of him.
It was so strange though that it was, you know, it's the team obviously that brought you Gladiator, Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe.
Obviously self-consciously trying something totally different.
Well you know the common factor with a lot of bad films made by good people is beautiful locations.
Often set in the Bahamas or Hawaii or you know you always know you're onto a stinker when they're set somewhere that's provided a lovely holiday for the crew.
yeah and you know they're having a better time behind the camera than they are in front and indeed that was the business with a Goodyear you know i think Ridley even shot it at his own house or something he made very little effort he would have just been drinking cognac with Russell and eyeing up Abby Cornish's baton having a wicked time yeah getting the shots in the can as quickly and efficiently as possible
And that sort of thing he works so hard riddles man.
He was in this year riddles.
He's a national treasure a good year He went straight on to American gangster while he was doing American gangster He was sorting out the new version of Blade Runner and doing that incredibly thorough and detailed stuff We were talking about the blade Runner special edition a few weeks ago on this program But I've been watching even more of it since then I mean It's the gift that keeps on giving that stuff if you're in any way fond of that film you must just get the full massive
200 disc set because it's got some incredible stuff but one bit did you check out the bit joe and they've because you know the new version of this film which ridley says will be the last the final cut of blade runner contains some little fixes uh digital fixes on a few of the effects that he was frustrated about riddle fix it and riddle fix it and one of the the riddles that riddle fixed was
A scene where Harrison Ford is talking to some snake dealer in a market kind of thing and the scene through a window Yeah, and and the lips were notoriously out of sync with the dialogue But he's so he's fixed that and here's how he fixed it They got Harrison Ford's son who is now the same age as Harrison would have been when he played the part of Deckard and
and they put him against a green screen and got him to loop the lines and lip sync them but it's amazing because although Harrison Ford's son looks a little bit like him, quite a lot like him obviously he's not an exact match but his lips, his mouth are exactly right and they put on the scar as well, Harrison Ford's scar.
Really, but it's all seen through a sort of dusty window isn't it?
Ob-fusked.
Can I say that word?
You can.
I like it when you say that word.
And they matched his lips in there and everything with the sun.
Wow.
You know, I didn't even notice that.
I was amazed that it was, you know, it worked and they were all talking proper but I didn't know they'd done that.
That's amazing.
Extraordinary business.
Here's a bit more music now.
I picked this one for you listeners.
This is a band, a sort of offshoot from one of my favourite bands Talking Heads and this is the TomTom Club with Genius of Love.
In heaven, with the maven of mutation.
Clinton's musicians such as Lucy Collins raise expectations to a new attention.
No one can sing quite like Smokey, Smokey Robinson.
Why should I miss him?
Why should I miss him?
How can you hold me in his warm arms?
We went insane when we took the cane.
Who needs to think when your feet just go?
Who needs to think when your feet just go?
Jane Brown!
Jane Brown!
There you go, Genius of Love, hope you enjoyed that one.
This is Adam and Jo here on New Year's Eve 2007.
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited, I can't believe it.
But right now, here is the news.
The news just doesn't stop just because it's New Year's Eve, right?
The news is happening all the time and here's more.
On digital radio and online, BBC 6Music.
Man arrested over Kevin Greening's death, relief as airport strike cooled off and it's the big countdown.
6Music.
BBC News at 8.30, I'm Rachel Matthew.
Scotland Yard has revealed tonight that a man has been arrested following the death of radio presenter Kevin Greening.
He's in his 50s and has been questioned on suspicion of possessing and intending to supply Class A drugs.
He was detained at a house in Wandsworth in South London, where 44-year-old Greening's body was discovered.
Police in Manchester have begun a murder inquiry tonight after three men turned up at a hospital with gunshot wounds.
One died at the hospital, a second is being treated for shotgun injuries, and the third had been grazed by a bullet.
The first of a series of New Year strikes by workers at seven UK airports has been called off.
A meeting will be held on Wednesday to decide whether two further strikes will go ahead.
The Foreign Office is advising British people not to travel to certain parts of Kenya.
120 people have died in rioting there.
Following the presidential election, which some say was rigged, Alison Rogers runs a high school in the western town of Kisumu.
I mean, every shock has been muted.
There are dead bodies on the street.
There are people finding them.
So it's a complete breakdown of law and order.
I mean, it feels like civil war at the moment.
A policewoman will spend the New Year recovering from gunshot wounds after being hit in the leg by 12 pellets during an armed robbery at a pub in Lancashire.
One man has been arrested, another escaped.
And 350,000 people have begun gathering in central London for New Year, where there will be a 10-minute firework display on the stroke of midnight.
We've been speaking to the two men in charge of tonight's pyrotechnics, Christophe Bertornu and Jim Donald.
We try to take the best piece from Barcelona, from Italy, some from China, some from Japan, to show happiness, to have a fantastic live party.
We have a central barge and two lateral barges, as well as the live pyrotechnics on the eye, which obviously will be going off at midnight.
It's meeting news, more in an hour's time.
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This is Adam and Jo on BBC6Music.
A very happy New Year's Eve to everybody.
Hey, I'd just like to wish everyone who listens to our show and everybody who listens to 6Music a very happy birthday.
What were you talking about?
No I meant a very happy new year.
Oh right that makes a bit more sense.
So we've been talking about movies in 2007 and of course there's lots of exciting movies to look forward to in 2008.
I'm gonna just list some of them to wet your movie tight.
Indiana Jones 4.
Is that coming out next year?
Yeah it's March is it or May I think it's May.
That's gotta be rubbish.
No, surely.
Surely rubbish.
Come on, anything with Harrison.
Who's the young protagonist?
Shia LaBeouf.
It's LaBeouf.
Could the police have a slice of LaBeouf?
Oh, this is delicious.
Is he in there, is he?
Yeah, it's him.
The blanket's in there.
Catherine Blanket.
Cake Blanket.
Is in there.
Ray Winstones is in there.
Oh my gosh.
And Harrison Bort.
Please tell me Ray Winstones is not doing his American accent.
I will slay your monster.
I will slay your monster.
No, I don't think he is.
The Sex and the City movie, that's something for ladies to look forward to.
Oh no.
Yeah, that's not going to be any good, is it?
No.
By no means.
The Happening, M. Night Shyamalama Ram's new film The Happening.
What's the twist?
Well, the twist is that it isn't.
It's got no twist.
No, it just isn't.
I can't tell you what is because that would be giving it away.
What?
The Happening's about when plants take revenge on humanity.
Oh, Dave, the Trifods.
A little like Day of the Trifods.
Hellboy 2.
Hellboy 2.
Speed Racer.
Is Hellboy 2 the same director?
Yeah, it's Guillermo Del Toro.
Oh, well that'll be interesting.
He made Pan's Labyrinth, you know, he's a good one.
Speed Racer by the Waka Waka Waka Waka Waka Wakowski Brothers.
The Wachowski Brothers.
Yeah.
What speed racer is that?
Is that the cartoon?
Yep, yep.
It's a kind of hyperkinetic live-action digital multicoloured fake fest.
That does not sound appealing.
Get smart with Steve Carell.
That wasn't a big show for British people.
Not over here but it was over in America.
The Smurfs movie.
Oh you're joking.
I'm not joking.
Are you joking?
No, a three-dimensional CG rendered Smurf movie.
Your kids will be loving that.
They pretty much won't.
I'm sure they won't.
Oh lord.
Sweeney Todd starring Johnny Depp with Sweeney.
The demon barber of where?
Of Sweeney Todd the barber.
I tell the tale of Sweeney Todd he served a dark and a hungry god.
He used to love that.
I love Sweeney Todd I'm really looking forward to that.
I don't think it's entirely the Sonderheim musical but it's a few Sonderheim songs and then some new ones.
Johnny Depp singing, what she called Claire Barnet.
Debbie O. Maggs?
Yeah.
What's he called?
Philip Phyllis O. Potato Sack?
I have no idea who you're talking about.
None.
Tim Burton's wife.
Oh!
Helena Bonham Carter.
Yeah.
Janine Potato Sack.
Janine Potato Sack.
She's in it doing the East End accent.
Don't do it, Sweeney!
Don't slice his throat for the pies!
You have us in the nick!
It's Russell Brand.
That kind of thing.
Yeah, he should be in it.
Having modelled himself on Edward Scissorhands, of course.
He's kind of like a weird one.
And it's directed by Burton, is it?
Burton, yeah.
Burton's menswear.
Harold and Coomar 2.
Harold and Coomar 2.
Thank goodness, the wait is over.
Rambo 4?
No.
Yeah, get with it.
Stallone is back again.
It's very good.
The trailer for Rambo 4 is very good.
What's the premise?
The premise is he's living in the jungle.
Some kind of liberal do-gooders pass through his jungle camp to try and rescue somebody from some band of gorillas.
Right.
Don't do it.
You will die.
And they ignore him and they go in and they try and rescue them and Rambo has to go in and save them.
And in the trailer he kills about 50 people.
Does he?
He slashes their heads off.
Not do-gooders though, he's not killing do-gooders does he?
No, he's killing the baddies.
Right.
Cloverfield.
What's Cloverfield?
AKA monstrous.
It's about a big creature that stamps all over New York and it knocks the head off the Statue of Liberty.
That's a strange title for a film.
Yeah, J.J.
Abraham's produced.
You're very out of touch Adam.
I'm very out of touch.
It's all the rage on the internet.
Cloverfield.
Cloverfield?
Yeah.
There's a trailer.
Oh the twist is it's all shot from Handicam.
It's like a sort of high budget Blair Witch but instead of a witch it's like New York yuppies at a party when a massive monster invades New York.
Oooh.
That's supposed to be quite good.
People are very excited about that.
Narnia 2?
The Chronicles of Banania.
Oh my lord.
The new one from Pixar, Wall-E.
It kinda looks a bit like Short Circuit all over again.
Very excited about that.
Had a trailer for that before Ratatouille.
I was very excited.
Remake of Footloose.
No.
Yeah, they're remaking Footloose.
Who's in that?
Don't know.
Bond 22, new Bond film.
Bond 22.
I'm up for that.
We like Craig Charles.
He's reinvented the role of Bond.
The funky Bond bunker.
Yeah.
Iron Man.
Iron man that's gonna be good good good cast who's directing that that's directed by Jon Favreau no yeah who done the brilliant what was it called the house in space yeah elf and that's a theory yeah where it's called the Dark Knight the new Batman film oh yeah directed by Christopher Nolan that's great with Christopher Bale Timothy Bale yeah yeah yeah what's he called John Bale
John Bale Christian Bale.
Oh, you know what I saw Michael Keaton is in that Nicholson and Prince doing the song oh great You know I saw that Christian Bale film rescue dawn the other day Yeah, it's a bit of a disappointment easily if you've seen the original documentary little Dita needs to fly oh Which is the actual guy right talking you through his story in the actual locations.
It's a bit nuts though I was I was a bit like hey if you don't know what we're talking about don't worry don't worry
Yeah, if you do then that would have been a bit interesting That's it for film news for the time being now here is an exciting new sound for you Joe This is a man a Frenchman.
He's from France and he has harnessed the power of the Synthesizer motorboat the motorboat synthesizer.
Does he have a motorboat?
Yes, he does.
He's got three motorboat and he makes a record using computers and the robot called
Johnny Faith and that's who he used for this one.
It's called Equinox 5 and it is made by Jean-Michel Jarre.
Enjoy.
Here's the thunder.
Can you hear the thunder?
Shush, shush.
Can you hear the thunder?
Oh.
Yes, yeah, that's it to what the music will sound like in the future Wow, when was that when was that recorded?
It is not yet recorded.
It's made it is being made in the future.
It was back by There's a man I have him he goes forward in the future.
He steals music and he sends it back to me motorboat motorboat motorboat
That was Jean-Michel Jarre, this is Anox 5 on BBC 6 Music where drawing ever closer to a brand new year and it's time for many people to make a clean start.
Young offenders, people who've been in trouble with the law
People who've just had a frightful time.
Amy Winehouse.
Yeah.
Pete Doherty.
Karl Barratt.
No, actually he's fine, isn't he?
But Amy Winehouse's dirty spouse.
Right.
The dirty spouse of Amy Winehouse.
It's time for British sportsmen to make a fresh start.
Because Adam and I know nothing about sport.
No.
But there's one thing I do know.
2007 was a disastrous year.
Was it?
England have been knocked out of almost all major, what's the word they use?
Sports.
Sports.
Next year.
And you know it's disturbing for me because I like to do my shopping when major sporting events are happening because the shops are empty.
That's true.
And all the sportbillies are going to be all over the place next year with nothing to do.
Right.
Like, you know, confused people.
Oh yes.
I didn't know.
I thought England had won some cricket earlier on, didn't they?
Last year.
Wasn't that the year before?
It might have been the year before.
I thought everyone was celebrating for a bit.
Oh, because they thought they were going to do well in the rugby, didn't they?
Yeah, that's the thing, you know?
English sports fan, just don't get fan, there's only one of you, don't get so excited.
Right.
Because it's that very excitement that ruins it.
Yeah, the Henman factor they call it.
Yeah.
Yeah, if we just assumed we're going to lose, then we might win.
As soon as you hear pundits getting excited about Britain's chances, you know it's hopeless.
That's why we have to celebrate people like Eddie the Eagle.
You're very dismissive of that though, aren't you?
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
The cult of the loser.
The cult of the underdog.
Anyway, that's our sports section for sports fans.
We do one a year.
That's this year's and we'll do another one at the end of next year.
Sports news.
Now we're going to move this.
This is just going to be a short link for you folks, okay?
Because we want to keep the party happening.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Are you going to be dancing with anyone at the party tonight, Joe?
Well, you know, tonight I'm going to be at the Royal Festival Hall, seeing the super furry animals, and they're going to take over the whole place with all sorts of bits and bobs.
And yeah, hopefully, who knows?
Are you more excited about them?
I'm planning to get rekt.
Are you?
Yeah.
Is it going to be the bobs or the bits that are going to get you most excited?
I intend to bob the bits.
Right.
And will you dance?
Do you dance?
I can't remember if you dance or not.
I dance, yeah I dance.
I'm a big fella though.
I'm like a kind of a squid spinning on a stick.
What sort of, if you could compare your dancing style to a well known dance type person, who would that be?
It would probably be Jamiroquai.
Would it be?
Yeah.
If he'd had a son with Mr Tickle, and I would be that son, and if he was dancing, but couldn't.
That would be it.
I'm like a kind of midget Sean Ryder.
No, I'm not saying you're short, but people of average average height are Lucky because they can dance badly, but no one will see them if you're tall.
Yeah, there's no hiding
Right, I just shuffle from foot to foot.
I do the sort of best thing except without the maracas.
And I'll be doing it to this song right now first.
Here's a little blast from the end of the 80s.
My gosh, it's amazing to think this is the end of the 80s.
There you go.
Fool's Gold by The Stone Roses.
Let's go!
There ain't no place like this
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It's Adam and Joel on BBC6 Music celebrating the year 2007 the year that's behind us the year that's gone.
An exciting year for us because it's when we started here on BBC6 Music quite late in the year wasn't it?
It was yeah it was very late in a way that this year's been a kind of warm-up for us and we're just getting into our stride towards the end of next year we're really going to be in our stride.
I think we will have boiled off by the end of next year.
You reckon?
Yeah we'll have a kind of a a peak for a weekend possibly midsummer when everyone's on holiday.
Yeah.
No one will hear it by then and it'll go downhill right or one of us will have been fired We would have put our foots in it somehow Said something either foots.
Yeah.
Hmm feats the feats will be put in the it and Maybe something very very racist or something really Disgusting you'll say yeah, both of us probably or maybe just something disgusting like really sexy
Really, they're so arousing.
Yeah.
It'll be bad.
It'll be bad.
So it won't actually be rude or explicit, but it'll be just such a sort of sexy thought.
Like what I said about the moose earlier.
I think we may have done that with the moose.
You're also talking about Blade Runner.
Joe was saying it that way after we were talking about Blade Runner.
Hey, no, no, no, no.
During this song, think about how you might phrase that in a clean way.
This is an obscure nugget from the past.
It's by a group called The Mob.
This is a great track.
It's called I Dig Everything About You.
Baby, I need your sweet, sweet lovin' Baby, ooh baby Whenever I'm feelin' down And my mind is under the weather Whenever I'm on the ground I need someone to get me together
I did everything about you And I wanna say that I can't live without you Hey baby, you know I'm gonna stay Baby, I need your sweet lovin' Baby, ooh baby Baby, I need your sweet, sweet lovin'
Ooh, baby I know that I've hurt your feelings I've lied and I've even been untrue Now that my conscience needs some healing
You walk so nice and you talk so nice And you're just too much for me and that's why I've got to tell you that
That's the mob with I Dig Everything About You.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 Music on New Year's Eve.
Just to fill you in, in case you were wondering, folks, it wasn't that dirty what we were talking about before about Blade Runner.
Joe was just saying he wouldn't mind getting involved in a little sandwich between Sean Young and Harrison Ford in their tryst there.
There's a deleted dirty scene on the Blade Runner special edition DVD and yeah I just like it.
Little replicant sandwich.
Yeah exactly.
Hey one of the funniest bits not to dwell on this Blade Runner thing but one of the funniest outtakes on that DVD is all the different endings.
Obviously they had a big problem with the ending the studio didn't like it being downbeat.
That's right.
So they shot this thing with with Deckard and what she called.
Rachel is the robot.
Yeah, Rachel in their little hover car, their little spinner, zipping off into the lovely countryside.
Going for a dirty week.
Going for a dirty, well kind of getting away.
Yeah.
And they've got all sorts of alternative exchanges between them.
And the worst one, because of course one of the most famous kind of unresolved things is, is he a replicant?
Right.
So this ending that they didn't use kind of gives it away.
She turns to him and goes, I guess we're made for each other.
That's right.
And then they give each other a very long, pregnant pause, just in case you don't get the resonance of that statement.
Made for by a robot-making man.
Yes.
Anyway, that's enough Blade Runner stuff.
Let's keep the music flowing, shall we?
Keep the music flowing!
What have we got now, Joe Cornish?
We've got Ike and Tina Turner Corner with River Deep, Mountain High.
When I was a little girl, I had a bragger.
Only, darling, I never wronged.
Now I love you just the way I love that bragger.
But only now my love has grown.
And it gets stronger!
Did you have a puppy that always followed you around?
Well, I'm full of this faithful love that's nothing.
No, I'll never let you down, cause it don't.
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Darling, you got to let me know Should I stay or should I go?
If you say that you are mine I'll be here till the end of time So, you got to let me know Should I stay or should I go?
It's always tease, tease, tease
You're happy when I'm on my knees One day is fine, the next is black So if you want me off your back Well come on and let me know Should I stay or should I go?
Should I stay or should I go now?
Should I stay or should I go now?
So come on, let me know These indecisions bugging me If you don't want me, set me free Exactly whom I'm supposed to be Don't you know which clothes even fit me?
Come on and let me know Should I cool it or should I blow?
Should I stay or should I go now?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble And if I stay it will be double So you gotta let me know
Should I commit or should I blow?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble Or if I stay it will be double So you gotta let me know Should I stay or should I go?
That's the clash should I stay or should I go that was the point at which a lot of clash fans were beginning to think I don't know you know.
I just don't know and then it was on that commercial the jeans commercial remember that yeah, and then everyone else died thinking or just I don't know I just don't know But I always liked it thought it was quite good quite wicked
Hey this is Adam and Joe here.
Three hours, less than three hours to go.
Oh my gosh.
Before the bongs start belling.
The big bongs.
And the bong gets passed around and then Terry Wogan explodes and all the dust starts falling down from the shelves and fireworks go off.
Fireworks are one of the best aspects of New Year.
Are they having like a big display in London town this year?
Yes they are having a big display on the Thames.
That's nice.
It's Dezambard French man.
It is the dead French fireworks.
It's the amazing French guy what did the, I might be talking out of my lower hole, but the guy that did the amazing Sydney Millennium ones, I think he's a French fellow and he's doing them on the Thames and I
from my vantage point of the Royal Festival Hall will have an extraordinarily good view.
I thought you were going to say, I am setting them off and giving a short speech and now Joe Cornish from Six Musics Adam and Joe radio show will set off the fireworks after this short speech.
Go!
London London London I I Jojo Cornish command you all to dance!
That'll be it.
That's the fireworks going off.
Yeah brilliant stuff there what a brilliant fantasy if only that could happen.
Yeah.
Not only I, but everyone would be really happy.
They would be amazed.
Yeah.
Oh, it's never got better than Joe Cornish.
Are you going to talk about something proper?
Well, I was going to talk about the social networking phenomenon Facebook, of course, which... One of the major phenomenons of the year gone.
Yeah, absolutely.
About to have gone.
You're not a Facebook person, are you?
No, I'm a Myspace person, and that's something that happened to me this year.
I got a Myspace space page.
Yeah.
Yeah.
www.myspace.com forward slash Joe Cornish.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I've got about 1,200 friends.
You've got a lot of friends on there.
It's not very many, comparatively speaking.
That's good man.
Those bands that are low in the charts that have 50,000.
No.
Well that's just madness though.
All it is is like a sort of online flyer when you get to that many.
You know, it's just a way of telling them our new single's coming out and that's about it isn't it?
Yeah, that's true.
I love my friends.
I know them all by name.
Do you?
Munty, Splotch, Mr Tibbs, The Funtles, Crunchbucket, Wendy, Nancy Face, Tibbs.
And do you all get together and have little parties every now and again?
No.
You and your MySpace friends?
No.
I got a very rewarding message though the other day, somebody was asking me questions, somebody else posted,
Oh, you know, don't imagine that Joe Cornish actually reads this.
He's very successful and busy.
He's probably got a PA that just posts on it for him.
Yeah, that's really what happens.
That's really what happens.
Do you have a PA?
A baked PA.
What?
What does that mean?
I don't know.
But
I don't really have that many friends on Facebook because I always assumed the whole point of Facebook was to make it an accurate representation of how your friend network is constructed.
And in fact, one of the enjoyable applications that you can get.
Do you know about this whole thing?
You can add applications.
One of the nice applications you can get is a sort of graphic representation of how all your friends are connected.
And it's really an enjoyable, interesting little look at the sort of degrees of separation that connect all the people you know.
It's really fun.
say, oh wow look at him he knows like the head of Channel 4 knows my friend over there he can't be such a bad guy and all this kind of thing.
But I keep my friends down to admit so like if you don't know me and you apply for friend status on my Facebook account don't be offended if I just don't get back in touch with you because I don't want to snub you by saying refuse.
You talk to me?
Yeah.
I don't want to snub you by saying no, because that seems too harsh.
I'm flattered by the fact that you might want to be my friend, so why would I rebuke you so roughly?
But I'm not going to say yes, because I don't know you and that's not the point of the thing, right?
Right.
So I only have a couple of hundred friends on there.
Do you know what excites me about my Facebook page?
What?
I've got a massive list of people wanting to be my friends.
So this is Facebook or MySpace?
Facebook.
Facebook, right?
I ignore them.
You ignore them.
I must have about
49 friend requests I've got well over 350 have you really yeah, and I'm just ignore them I'm not gonna say 49.
I meant 49,000 did you I meant?
50,000 Yeah, but that's what I'm at, but I go through them every now and again just to make sure I'm not missing anyone cuz you do like some of them slip through the net there, but then I just think what a
Am I doing because I don't have any salient information on my Facebook page is only one Goofy picture of me or maybe two or something never respond to any pokes if someone sends me a bottle of beer or whatever I just don't do anything about it if someone bites me as a vampire.
I just ignore them I was very depressed to find that one of my friends and this was someone who was a fan of the Adam and Joe show and
got in touch, and I let her through the net this time.
How does she repay me?
Couple of weeks later, she sends me one of the most disgustingly grotesque sort of Fear Factor circulars, if you don't reprint this, this'll happen kind of thing.
And it was a really horrible one, all about like, I'm a nine year old girl dying of cancer, do you want me to die if you don't send this to... And it was like, what?
Why are you sending me that?
That's a slap right back in my face there for letting you into my little gang.
Lesson learned.
Yeah.
So anyway, don't forget- How long will this last though?
Do you think in a couple of years time we'll all still have these uh, these sights?
It'll well, it'll mutate won't it somehow.
Do you think?
Yeah.
But no, I'm sure it's here to stay for a little while because it's a good enjoyable way of wasting your time.
But folks, if you want to be my Facebook friend, don't worry about it too much, just go to my website.
Adam-Buckston.co.uk, that's what it's all about.
It's not about the prodding and the free beers and the vampire bites.
Now, more music!
Here's one that I chose for you folks, this is Them, featuring Van Morrison as it says prominently on the CD, just in case you're worried about who Them are.
But this is from his old R&B days starting out in Belfast.
Was it Belfast?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And this is a cover of a Bobby Blue Bland rhythm blues classic, Turn On Your Love Light by them.
You broke my heart and took it darling and tore it apart You left me sitting by the fire crying You said your love for me was dying And I'm begging you baby, baby please
Gotta change, change
Yes, thank you.
That's delightful.
Then featuring Van Morrison with Turn On Your Love Light.
Hey, this is Adam and Joe here.
This is the last hour of our show, but don't forget that the Queens of Noise are coming up to take you from 10 o'clock until the midnight hour here on New Year's Eve.
Wonder what Van Morrison is doing on New Year's Eve.
Ah, that's a good question.
Drinking quite heavily.
Does he still drink Van Morrison?
Getting quite grumpy.
Hard to believe that he still drinks.
Having an argument probably in some kind of fly blown pub somewhere in Ireland.
Like Mickey Rourke in Barfly.
Yeah.
Or Shane McGowan in that documentary about Shane McGowan.
Do you remember when he was in the pub there and he started singing?
Where's the pub?
Where's the pub?
Ah, I love that.
Love that Shane.
So of course we've had a brilliant idea for this show which is to look back at the year's activities.
I thought of that one.
Yeah, no one else is doing it.
And of course 2007 was the year, spoiler alert, that Harry Potter died.
Of course everybody bought the new Harry Potter book.
He died?
And discovered that he died.
Shut up.
That Ron Weasley beat him to death.
Right.
With a crockle stick.
A crockle bat.
A crockle bat.
Yeah.
Because he was jealous of the fact that Harry Potter had had full sexual intercourse with... Dumbledore.
Dumbledore.
Yeah.
So, and what a shock, I mean loads of kids
loved that series of books and what happened but they opened the back of the book and the last line was to a bloody pulp.
The only thing left recognisable was the scar on his crushed head.
Of course 2007 was also the year when Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe
uh presented his sausage to the nation on stage in the nation's theater critics to the nation's theater critics in equus that was this year wasn't it yeah and i remember going to a dinner party you know we can be a little bit a little bit risque at this time of the evening can't we i remember going to a to a dinner party and some friends of mine had had seen equus and being an idiot all i wanted to know was about what's as potter's one dimensions of the wand and you know what the man said very satisfyingly it was it was a gay couple
And man number one in the gay couple turned to me and said it's a Sorry, I've had a slight mucus problem.
I'm trying to remember exactly what he said He said It's it's a grower not a shower.
He said it's a bobber a bobber a bobber.
Okay, right.
Yeah.
Yeah here here Yeah, I don't think I know why he's talking.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I
Harry Potter's wand but of course a very tricky year there for Harry Potter fans it being the end of the the series of books I personally gave up halfway through the second one yes all the stuff we said before is true not necessarily accurate and not meant to reflect badly on us or anybody or anybody yeah because we'd like to but there we go Harry Potter fans can still be excited about lots lots more films that start well then get boring
She will keep the franchise going.
She's inventing a new franchise.
Is she?
Harriet Potter.
Yeah, Harry Potter's sister.
No.
Yeah.
You're being silly now, aren't you?
Yeah.
Oh, I just never know.
Hope you know that would be a good way to go, wouldn't it?
Lady Wizards.
Lady Wizards.
She's got Lady Wizards in the Potter franchise.
What are you talking about?
Here's one of the bands that I saw live this year.
Very early on, I went to see the Arcade Fire playing in the
St.
John's Chapel in Smith Square.
Somewhere like that.
Yeah, in London.
You know, in Westminster.
Do you remember Smith Square?
Conservative Party headquarters round there.
I'm always there campaigning, trying to get people to vote Conservative.
um and the arcade fire played a gig in the little church there and i went along with julian barrett a little name dropping for you from the mighty boosh and rich falcher and we were all grooving around at the front what a gig it was the arcade fire here's a track from their first album though this is neighborhood number three power out
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Eden Rumbles.
Love that song.
Before that you heard the Arcade Fire and I was saying that was one of my favourite gigs of the year.
Did you have any favourite gig going experiences from 2007 Joe Cornish?
I mean, I'm not a massive giggo myself.
I think I only saw about three or four, but they were all pretty good.
I saw Cornelius, I think, at the Festival Hall.
That was very good.
Who else did I see?
I saw lots of people at Green Man.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, that might be it.
I didn't go to any festivals this year.
to think a bit harder.
I'll think a bit harder during the next record.
I went to see Spoon at the Borderline.
You know, I bang on about Spoon a lot.
They're one of my favorite bands.
But oh my gosh, it was the best gig ever.
It was just incredible.
The first time I've been to the Borderline, if you haven't been folks, it's a little venue kind of Tex-Mex bar with a teeny weeny stage right in the center of town in London.
And it's just great.
And of course, with somewhere that small, it's only about 300 people you can squeeze in there.
The sound is really, really good and fantastic atmosphere, totally comfortable and nice, good crowd.
Spoon were playing a Blinder and that was one of the best evenings I've ever had in my life.
And then we all went out afterwards and had a drink together.
Because it turned out the guy I was with, my friend there that night, one of the people in the band recognized him as being in another band, and he came across and said, hey, you're the guy from the band.
And I tagged along on their coattails, but wow, it was good fun, man.
I had a great time.
And the other best gig I saw this year was in Nimes in France.
I was out there on my holidays, and playing at that time were the Arctic Monkeys.
They were playing in the sort of Roman Colosseum thing there.
in neem so we went along to see them and they were playing a double header with the arcade fire so it was arcade fire and the arctic monkeys the arctic monkeys slightly wiped the floor with the arcade fire it has to be said but uh it was amazing in this big open air amphitheater best gig of my life that one was totally converted to the monkeys as well hang on which one was the best one
One was the best night of your life.
Yeah.
The other one was the best gig of your life.
I'm confused.
They all melded into a big, amazing gig pot.
Hey listen, here's some music from the olden times.
Crosby, Stills and Nash.
This is quite a little known track, but it's a great one.
This is called Marrakesh Express.
to the sunset in your eyes Traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies Ducks and pigs and chickens call Animal carpet wall to wall American ladies five foot tall and blue Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of night
To get away, to see what we could find Hope the days that lie ahead Bring us back to where they've led Listen up to what's been said to you Don't you know we're riding On the Marrakesh Express Don't you know we're riding On the Marrakesh Express They're taking me to Marrakesh On board there
I've been saving all my money just to take you there I smell the garden in your hair Take the train to Casablanca, room and style
Flowing smoke rings from the corners of my mouth My mouth full of cups hanging in the air Charming cobras in the square Stripes your leathers we can wear at home Oh, let me hear you now Would you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express?
Would you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express?
They're taking me to Marrakesh Would you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express?
But you know we're riding on the Marrakesh Express They're digging me to Marrakesh, oh oh oh
you
Crosby, Stills and Nash with the Marrakesh Express.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC6 music.
Coming up to sort of the final segment of our New Year's Eve show.
What's the service like on the Marrakesh Express?
It's very erratic.
Is it?
Yeah.
Are you allowed to use your mobile on there or is it a quiet express?
No mobiles, no.
No, it's all very retro.
Right, right, right.
Yeah.
Thanks for asking.
What kind of sandwiches have they got there?
Uh, I don't know what sandwiches.
No pork.
No pork.
That's a shame.
I was looking forward to a ham and egg.
No sausages, mate.
Sandwiches on the Marrakesh Express.
So another big event of 2007.
I know you're not much of a video gamer, Adam, but it was of course the year that Halo 3 came out.
Oh great.
Yeah, Master Chief, he's a man in a green outfit and a helmet.
Goes around shooting grunts and jumping around and stuff.
Yeah.
A very popular game.
It made 170 million dollars in 24 hours.
wow so it's the highest grossing in terms of speed the fastest and highest grossing pop cultural product ever oh my lord halo 3 halo 3 is it um like spears invaders it is like well kind of yeah it is in fact because the basic geometric dynamics of uh video games are kind of the same you know it's still
Attempting to shoot things before they shoot you right, but the perspectives changed a little yeah Yeah, and the you know the realism of the surroundings has changed a bit right since then now when you see adverts for video games in the olden days it Used to remind you that what you were seeing was not actually representative of the gameplay I might have a fancy CG title sequence, but once you started playing it would be a footage
not in game yeah but now it doesn't say that so much it now it says it actually is a representation of the game footage in game in game yeah because it is wickle-wockles all over the area you know as a I'm a big movie fan as you know in fact trying to think about gigs that I've been to most of my big big events this year have been amazing trips to to films and stuff but like Beowulf
Yeah, that was a good one But why you know one of the most exciting things or one of the most kind of weird things is that video games?
I've almost got better than films really yeah, I find myself sitting in cinemas with my thumbs twitching right wanting to control things how many hours of 2007 were spent in front of your Playbox, you know not many yeah, I did play Halo 3 through have you got the Wii Wii I've got a Wii Wii yeah Nick Frost gave me his Wii Wii
Oh, that's nice and frosty.
It is nice.
And are you playing any sports on there?
I played it for a bit, I'll put it away.
Really?
Why, what's the problem?
Lack of games, Adam.
Lack of games.
Not enough games on the Wii, but Christmas is looking good for Wii owners.
But you know, generally I try to moderate my video game usage.
It's like recreational drugs, which of course one shouldn't use at all.
No, never.
But were one too, you just, you know, once or twice a year.
Exactly.
Yeah?
Ooh.
It's time for the news now.
Are you ready for the news?
I can't handle any more news.
I can't handle the truth.
Alright?
If you want lies, you just want made up news.
Yeah, I would love some made up news.
Okay, here's the news for Adam.
Here's the news for Adam Buxton.
Everything's fine.
Yeah.
Everywhere.
How about rabbits?
Are they getting on okay?
Rabbits are all jumping around.
Thank goodness.
Now here's the real news.
Now.
Oh no.
On digital radio.
And online.
BBC 6Music.
Man arrested over radio presenter's death, airports strike off and Britain's cities packed with revellers.
BBC News at 9.30, I'm Rachel Matthews.
A man has been arrested following the unexplained death of radio presenter Kevin Greening.
The man's in his 50s and has been questioned on suspicion of possessing and intending to supply Class A drugs.
He was detained at a house in Wandsworth in South London where 44-year-old Greening's body was discovered at the weekend.
Police in Manchester have begun a murder inquiry after three men turned up at a hospital with gunshot wounds.
One died there, a second is being treated for gunshot injuries and the third has been grazed by a bullet.
The first in a series of New Year strikes by workers at seven UK airports has been called off today.
A meeting will be held on Wednesday to decide whether two further strikes shall go ahead.
Police in Lancashire are searching for a gunman who shot and injured a policewoman in an attempted armed robbery at a pub near Preston.
PC Katie Johnson, who's 29, had 12 shotgun pellets removed from her leg.
The Foreign Office is advising British people not to travel to certain parts of Kenya.
120 people have died in rioting following the presidential election there, which some say was rigged.
Other news on 6music tonight.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has slammed what he calls our culture of waste and disposability.
In his New Year message, Dr Rowan Williams asks if human relationships have become disposable too.
And thousands of people have already gathered by the Thames in London and around Princes Street in Edinburgh for New Year celebrations.
Sydney was of course one of the first cities to welcome in 2008 in spectacular style with a massive fireworks display watched by more than a million people lining the harbour.
Here's how that happened.
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Girl, you really got me going.
You got me so I don't know what I'm doing now.
You got me numb You got me so I can't sleep at night
That's the Kinks with You Really Got Me.
Hey, this is Adam and Joe here on BBC Six Music, the home of the BBC and the home of music and the number six.
We are in our last half hour here.
It's, you know, oh my goodness, only half hour left of our show.
And then it's the Queens of Noise coming up for two hours and to take you to midnight.
What?
The three hour, what?
Yeah, that was a disaster, that whole thing.
Hey, there you go, that's The Ginks with You Really Got Me.
This is Adam and Jo here on BBC6 Music.
This is the last half hour of our show.
And then after that, the Queens of Noise will be here to take you through to midnight and beyond.
Now, we were talking about television there while the music was playing a little bit, and we were grooving around to the music, yeah?
We're not just ignoring the music, we were grooving and jumping about and talking about television at the same time.
What were your TV highlights this year, Joe Cornish?
Well, I enjoyed Flight of the Conchords.
Yeah.
I've sort of fallen out of love with telly this year a bit, Adam, I'm afraid.
Oh, dear.
But the only thing I found myself watching was To the Man of Bowen.
To the Living Television, which is a reality series about
Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowens family moving to the country I don't know what happened I happened to catch it one week then I pressed series record and since then it's become sort of like eating I don't know processed cheese or something or a big chocolate you know mousse a big chocolate mousse a big chocolate man yeah my girlfriend and I are quite obsessed with that and but yeah Flight of the Conchords I like I like their songs a great deal
They could speed it up a bit.
They could speed the whole thing up a bit.
Oh, come on.
No, I'm being pedantic.
It's good, man.
But it's that school of comedy where everything's fed out very slowly, which we should do more of.
In fact, we probably do it anyway, don't we?
Not to say that what we're doing now could be described as comedy, but when we do proper stuff, you know.
you know yes yeah anyway fight the concords brilliant highly recommend it what else was good uh armstrong and miller that was a very good that was like a return to old school uh proper solid british sketch comedy exactly not too catchphrasey properly thought out nice and posh really nicely produced well written yeah they're hilarious man that was some that was some of the very good i saw uh what else was good there was i felt like there was a lot of good stuff on this year
I'm trying to think of it now, though.
Oh yeah, Peter Serafinowicz's show I very much enjoyed.
That was good.
Well, I enjoyed the jungle show, you know.
But things like Doctor Who and Life on Mars, which were the biggest stories on TV in a way.
Never really grabbed me.
I must say That much have you ever watched life on Mars?
No, I'm told it's amazing everyone says amazing.
It's really really good I spent most of my time watching American stuff on DVD You know like the wire and all that sort of yes, which I really dug with a massive great shovel and
And also I got sucked into, you know, still dragging on with things like, um, the Mystery Island program, Lost.
Sort of looking forward to seeing that come back.
But Heroes 2?
I felt like a jerk.
I felt like a jerk for watching season one of that.
When that one came back, that was stinking the whole room out.
I got out of the Heroes box.
Really?
Yeah.
And then, uh, what was the other one that was similar to that?
Prison Break.
Very disappointing series three, I thought.
prison break he he had trouble didn't he he got in trouble with the with the law the man in that i'll tell you about that during the next song in real life in real life yeah and heroes the creator of heroes admitted that they'd uh... they'd uh... messed up the second series so there was a big piece in america magazine with him uh... kind of you know accounting for his what's the phrase for his sins what's the phrase atoning atoning that's right for the since they've done in the first half of season two saying that they've messed it all up and and
Pledging to recover too little too late mate.
Sorry But what though that how does the writers strike affect all this stuff because I notice prison break has gone on hiatus now Yeah, well no one's allowed to write.
Yeah, well you what we can't be sure they might have resolved it bite it by tonight who knows yeah, but as of recording this transmission It's unresolved.
It's unlikely to get resolved over Christmas because everyone goes home and stuffs their turkeys yeah and stuff and
But it's looking a little bit bleak.
Oh my lord.
But anyway, I'd love to have a pre-prepared list of TV highlights to look forward to but I don't.
For next year.
I've got nothing.
I've got absolutely nothing.
I know there's going to be a new series of Flight of the Conchords, so I'm looking forward to that because that's an absolute smash.
And hey, my show's gonna be on on BBC3 in January.
Me, Box, the pilot, and who knows, it might even get commissioned.
Wow, that's exciting.
So all that to look forward to.
Let's play some more.
Yeah, some Pet Shop Boys.
This is called West End Girls.
You might have heard it.
It's a kind of depressing song about being alone and gay in Soho in the mid-80s and hanging around outside shops.
And you know what?
It links cleverly with what we were just talking about, because Flight of the Conchords did a brilliant parody of it in one of their early shows in series one.
Here it is, the Pet Shop Boys.
West End Girls.
Sometimes you're better off dead There's a gun in your hand that's pointing at your head You think you're mad, too unstable Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables in a restaurant In a West End town Call the police, there's a mad man around Running down underground to a dive bar In a West End town In a West End town, the dead end world With the East End boys and Western girls In a West End town, the dead end world
The East End Boys and West End Girls West End Girls Too many shadows whispering voices faces on purses Too many choices if, when, why, what How much have you
Western town, a dead end world The East End Boys and Western girls Western girls Western girls
Western girls Western town, a dead end world East end wars Western girls Western girls You got a heart of glass or a heart of stone Just you wait till I get to you home We've got no future, we've got no past Here today Built to last in every city and every nation
Eastern boys, Western girls
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I think you were saying we tie balloons on this steel willow I doubt he was saying that he was I'm telling anyone else uses that word will or I'm time balloons on this deal willow that was folds with balloons this Adam and Joe on BBC six music coming into the last little segment of our show here and of course from 10 o'clock you can listen to the Queens of noise playing all kinds of exciting they're having like a big party and they've got we haven't been invited we've been told to stay away been told to get out of it because I have been
invited.
Have you?
Yeah but you haven't.
Oh no.
Because we're not sexy enough apparently.
Or I'm not sexy enough.
Joe's being allowed in.
You've figured it out.
Yeah but they'll be playing all sorts of exciting party music and all sorts of crazy probably chit chat and talking.
And bands are going to be playing live.
It's going to be all over, exploding all over the shop.
All sprinkly.
From ten till midnight and then of course at midnight everything changes
What happens?
The world changes.
It's a new year.
All genetic material in all living beings and tissues renews itself.
Snakes shed their skin.
You know, all that kind of thing goes on.
It's a brand new world.
And here's what I'm going to tell you right now.
I'm getting my life together.
Really?
Yeah.
You're going to start afresh?
I'm going to absolutely start.
What are your New Year's resolutions?
I'm going to get incredibly fit and very tall within a week of the New Year starting and also I'm going to stop torturing people.
Right.
Because it's just wrong to get information out of them like that.
I'm not going to do it anymore.
Not even if I really want to know stuff.
I'm not going to do that.
What about you?
my new year's resolutions yeah oh man uh i don't know what i'm gonna do i i really don't know i'm gonna also my new year's resolution is gonna be over 300 dpi really yeah quite high that's high resolution yeah because i'm sick of just everything being a little blurry i'm going 1080p are you really yeah maybe not 1080i right
Not 720.
No?
Or 450.
That's a really... I'm going full high definition.
That's the brilliant resolution.
Yeah, thanks man.
You'll be able to see every detail.
You'll be able to see the blackheads on my nose.
Oh wow.
And the hairs on my ears.
Yeah.
That's exciting.
You know I was just remembering earlier on I popped out to the lobby there just during the Pet Shop Boys track.
and had a little reverie about previous New Years.
And I remembered one terrible one.
You weren't there actually.
I was staying with some friends in a big house in Scotland and it was a big party there.
And it was in the olden days when we were doing the Adam and Joe show.
It was our first series.
And we did like a weird little sort of pilot series with just four episodes in it to begin with.
And the fourth episode went out on New Year's Eve, 1997 I think.
and six 96 was it yeah but the first episode of the Adam Joe show it was December 96 right there you go yeah and so went out on New Year's Eve 97 and it was going out like it didn't end at midnight but it was I think on 11 o'clock or something on channel 4 basically I forced everyone at this party to
to sit down and watch the show as it went out live because I was so excited about it you know I mean I was amazed that we had a show on TV at all but I made everyone sit down and watch it so basically the whole party ground to a halt and they didn't it didn't really dig it so it was very embarrassing and I had one of the worst new years of my life great story
We're gonna play a bit more music now.
Yeah, this is this is a smash.
You know again I was talking about was it the clash people sort of worrying about them selling out when they did should I stay or should I go?
This is around the time that the doors were losing it as far as doors fans were concerned But again, I always had a soft spot for this one.
This is from the album soft parade I believe and it's a track called touch me by the doors and
Come on, come on, come on, come on, now touch me, babe Can't you see that I am not afraid?
What was that promise that you made?
Why won't you tell me what she said?
What was that promise that you made?
Now I'm gonna love you
Till the heavens stop the rain I'm gonna love you Till the stars fall from the sky For you and I
Come on, come on, come on, come on, now touch me, babe Can't you see that I am not afraid?
What was that promise that you made?
Why won't you tell me what she said?
What was that promise that you made?
I'm gonna love you till the heavens stop the rain I'm gonna love you till the stars fall from the sky For you and I I'm gonna love you till the heavens stop the rain
The stars sky
you
There you go.
That's The Doors with Touch Me.
Hey, this is Adam and Joe here on 6music.
That's almost it.
Well, that's pretty much it for us here on New Year's Eve.
Stay tuned for the Queens of Noise.
They're coming up for three hours of madness and mayhem to take you through midnight and into 2008.
But that's pretty much it.
We're going to be back in the new year, of course.
I mean, next weekend even.
We'll be with you folks.
So don't despair, OK?
And of course, you might be listening again to this show.
It might not actually be New Year's Eve for you at all.
Imagine that.
It's confusing, isn't it?
There's no such thing as time anymore, what with the internet.
They've got rid of time.
There's no such thing as kind of, you know, the social gelling of media.
Now it's disparate, it's schismed.
Everybody listens to it at different times.
Exactly.
No, you'll never have that moment when... Get used to it.
It's part of the future.
28 million people all sat round their teles warming their hands to David Jason falling through a bar or whatever it was on Only Fools and Horses.
It'll never happen again.
I think it's not true actually because that thing, Cramford, is it called Cramford?
Right.
Millions of people are watching that.
That's got the biggest ratings in the world.
It's sort of comfort, Victorian comfort food.
Yeah.
And you know what?
Millions of people listen to this.
No.
No, you're right they don't.
So this has been Adam and Jo.
Thanks very much for listening.
You know the record we're going to play out with is a kind of a hippity hoppity record by Common.
and you know things have been a tiny bit solipsistic on the show this week because we haven't had our usual features so we've done more than our fair share of annoying name dropping and that sort of thing and I would go into a spiel about why this song means things to me but I'm not going to but I like it anyway and it's one of the big hits of the summer
Go on, you can go into your spiel.
It's New Year's Eve.
Oh, it just reminds me of driving around Los Angeles.
With Miss Daisy.
With Miss Daisy, yeah.
My white elderly charge.
Yeah.
Who is racist but, you know, in a way that's sweet and sort of anachronistic so I don't really mind.
And they're making a film about it.
Really?
In the past.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Who's going to play you?
Brad Pitt?
Not, Morgan Freeman would be better I think.
No, he's not good looking enough.
Isn't he?
It's Brad Pitt.
Okay.
Playing me.
Good, I can't wait for that.
Yeah, it's exciting isn't it?
Is that coming out this year?
It's tipped for Oscar success.
Right.
Yeah.
And they should, oh, here's what they should call it.
Hmm.
Jojo's drive machine.
Yeah.
You think?
Yeah.
I think they should call it that.
Or Driving Miss Daisy.
Yeah.
No, Jojo's Drive Machine.
Jojo's Drive Machine.
Is that it then?
That's pretty much it.
Well, Happy New Year listeners.
Thanks a lot for bearing with us if you have for the last three hours.
And we'll see you over the other side of the new year.
Yeah, listen, have a fantastic evening.
I hope it all goes well for you, whether it's New Year's Eve or whenever you listen to this show.
And thanks so much for listening to us in general here on 6Music.
We can't wait to be back with you in 2008.
Yeah, here's our last record.
This is by Common.
This is called The People.
Love you, bye!
Bye!
Yeah, it's for the people.
This is street radio for unsung hero.
Riding in the rego, trying to stay legal.
My daughter found Nemo, I found the new primo.
Yeah, you know how we do.
We do it for the people and the struggle of the brothers and the folks.
The lovers of the dope.
Experiments to discover hope, scuffle for notes.
The rougher I wrote times was harder.
If a rock started to the voice of a model, why white folk focus on dogs and yoga?
The people on the low end trying to baller,
Lyrics are like liquor for the fallen soldier From the bounce to the house, it's all our culture Every day we hustlin', tryna get them customers Lawy ain't trustin' them, thick broads we lustin' them Sick and tired of punchin' it, I look on the bus at them When I see them strugglin', I think how I'm touchin' them
This is street radio for unsung hero Ridin' in the rego, tryin' to stay legal My daughter found Nemo, I found the new primo Yeah, you know how we do, we do it for the people The people said that I was sharp on TV at the Grammys Though they tryin' to India, I read me Got backstage and I bumped into Stevie Said no matter what, the people
People gon' see me, can't leave rap alone The streets need me, hunger in they eyes Is what seem to feed me, inside peace Mixed with beef seem to breed me Nobody believe, till I believe me Now I'm on the rise, doing business with my guys Visions realize, music affecting lives A gift from the skies, to be recognized I'm keeping my eyes on the people, that's the prize
This is street radio for unsung hero Ridin' in the rego, tryin' to stay legal My daughter found limo, I found the new primo Yeah, you know how we do, we do it for the people From Inglewood to a single hood at Botswana I see the ennui, my nigga, yours is my drama Standin' in front of the judge with no honor My rocks ignite them
Like Obama, the karma of the streets is needs and takes.
Sometimes we find peace in beats and breaks.
With the bang in the back so the seats can shake.
Rebel Cadillac music for the people's sake.
The people.