Adam Buxton and Garth Jennings, live from Glastonbury.
Yeah, they tried to make me go to rehab.
I said, no, no, no.
There's no way I'm going.
I'm not going to that rehab.
I'm not going to rehab.
That is the most rubbish rehab.
If it was a nicer rehab, I'd be up for it, but I'm not.
Hi, this is Adam Buxton.
And hello, I'm Garth Jennings.
It's still not Joe Cornish.
Still not Joe Cornish.
After I went on at length last weekend about how Joe is definitely going to be back with us for Glastonbury,
But, uh, Dr. Sexy didn't improve throughout the week.
In fact, if anything, he got a little bit worse.
Well, the good thing is, though, by having me in, it's just making people appreciate him even more.
So when he comes back next week, you'll all think, oh, there he is.
Yeah, he will be.
You know, people get complacent and they get used to him and then they take him for granted.
Now they're gonna remember why he's on the radio and I shouldn't be.
That's right.
Yep.
That's not true, though.
Anyway, Garth, you're a genius.
You're a broadcasting genius.
And you're gonna win several awards.
I got on a jingle.
I couldn't believe we were introduced.
I was on the jingle.
It was great, but no, Dr. Sexy will be back.
Even if he is moments from death, he will be back next week.
We'll rig up some kind of gurney for him with a microphone attached to it, and he'll be with you.
But Garth and myself are in a tiny van.
I mean, it's a big van, but it's a tiny little studio in the BBC.
Van here and we are looking out right now at the back of the pyramid stage at the legendary Glastonbury Festival.
It's very exciting being here and I've never been here before so it's doubly exciting for me.
This is Garth's first time at the festival.
I'm a voyager.
I've been here many times.
Joe and I came here in 2000 and 2002 to cover the festival for BBC 3 or BBC Choice as it was then in the old days.
Choice.
And we were, I've told the story before on our show but if you haven't heard listeners we were
were not exactly banned officially, but it was understood that we would never be invited back.
Why?
Because of something that Joe said about Rolf Harris.
Oh, on air.
Really?
Yeah, if you'd like to know exactly what he said, you can find out on my blog.
Okay.
I genuinely don't know what he said.
Yeah, I'll tell you.
It's bad.
If I say it again, then we'll be electrocuted.
And Rolf will withdraw his services from the BBC and their castle will crumble.
But folks, I'm going to be guiding Garth around the festival site later on.
Yesterday we spent a very enjoyable afternoon wandering around with a
take machine and recording little observations about the site and taking it all in for the first time for Garth.
Well, we actually recorded loads of stuff, but so much of it was interrupted by people going, AHHH!
Yeah.
Or just falling over and collapsing.
Just random rooms.
But that's okay, they were nice about it.
Yeah.
and we're going to tell you some stories and anecdotes about our time here as well and we haven't exactly worked out if we're going to do text the nation and if we did what it would be but we're going to play fast and loose because this is the festival right and it's all going to be a bit random of that monkey
It's all about improvising.
We've got some good music for you.
We've even got a couple of interviews.
We never do interviews on this show.
We've done interviews.
But we've torn up the rule book for this Glastonbury special.
And right now, here is an ideal opportunity to revisit the Song Wars songbook.
Of course, we have to resolve last week's Song Wars.
Garth and I did songs about being ill, and we'll find out which one of those you voted for.
Come on.
Vote Jennings, people.
But right now here is Song Wars, a track from a few weeks ago.
This was when we did songs about festivals, and this was my winning song about the kind of posher end of festivals.
And I would say there's parts of Glastonbury that are like this song, but on the whole, not so much.
But anyway, this is my festival song.
Enjoy!
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Cheers ears.
Load up the four by four, it's festival time We're stuffing the chill bag with nibbles and wine We're going to sleep inside a collapsible yard We've got a nurse in case anybody gets hurt
Festivals used to be awful, just crusties and weirdo groups.
There was nowhere to charge your mobile and nowhere nice for doing poops.
Now they're often in stately homes with global cuisine as ace.
And you can leave the kids in a really nice crash while you get off your face.
Hip hooray, it's time for festival fun.
We've got our hats and our sun.
In case there's some sun, but when it rains We've got our green welly boots And if we feel the love, we've got our birthday suits Look kids, that's Keith Allen That's Lily Allen's dad He's been coming since the fifties And apparently he's really mad And over there, that's Katie Moss That's right, that crazy drug is X Let's ask her if she'll join us for a boogie and some sex
Everybody over to the adverts stage, Moby's on, oh yes Then it's Groove Armada with the theme from M&S And then it's a bloke that I don't really know with a tooth for phone campaign And then it sucks with the Iceland song and Moby's on again We've got some chill bills, some whiz wiz and a gram of some stuff But I'm a little bit wild
a bit of rice, some jelly and a big ball of string.
And don't forget the baroque and the yoga mats too, because there's going to be healing and yoga to do.
And there's a bloke from Tibet who can teach us to breathe.
And after that, we'll see Moby then we'll probably leave.
Load up a four by four, it's festival time.
In case anybody gets hurt
Hey hey, festival time here at BBC Six Music.
This is Adam Buxton and Garth Jennings coming live from Glastonbury.
Good morning.
Good morning, and it's a nice morning as well.
Well, I say that.
There's no actual thunder and lightning.
That's the thing, it's a nice morning if it's not a downpour.
It's not too bad.
I mentioned Keith Allen in that song.
Yeah.
No sign of Allen at this festival so far anyone?
You spotted Allen?
He's usually here.
I don't know what he's doing.
There's probably a show at Forest Festival.
Where he is.
Good work.
Oh dear.
But I did see... Did you see any famous people yesterday wandering around?
No, not a sausage.
I got a smile from Katie Tunstall.
Did you really?
At least I think it was Katie Tunstall.
It might have been a tiny hobbit.
She's very small.
I've seen some hobbits, but I haven't seen Tunstall.
She's lovely though.
She's a beautiful little hobbit.
I always thought that it was the guitar that was giant.
It's not.
The guitar's normal sized.
Right.
She's a little tiny.
No, she's not that small.
But she smiled at me and also Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys.
You saw him?
Yeah, he was there with the guy from the rascals.
I was with you all day yesterday and I didn't see any of these people.
He didn't smile at me though, but he's good looking.
Anyway, listen, we're going to play you now the first of the links that we recorded yesterday when we were wandering around and I was introducing Garth to the wonderful world of Glastonbury via the BBC and we started off
in the luxurious BBC Catering Tent.
Now we are inside the BBC Catering Tent and I'm here with Gar.
What do you think Gar?
This is amazing.
I mean this is my first time to Glastonbury and I've always been told it's you know muddy and harsh and you know you eat a dirty little burger.
And I'm in a catering tent where I've just had a Thai Chicken Curry and Apricot Crumble.
Oooh.
Very, very, very nice.
And I've only just arrived, so I haven't actually seen the place yet.
But I'm looking forward to it.
And, you know, this is where all the big knobs hang out.
And Lauren Laverne, I don't think she would come under that category, but she's over there looking beautiful as ever with her young child and partner-stroke husband.
Yes, that's Lauren's child, not Lauren Child, the author of books with very annoying typefaces and type layout for parents out there.
They'll understand that.
But yeah, we're having our lunch in here and then we are off to trudge around what is currently quite a muddy site.
Are you well equipped Garth?
I've got some waterproof trousers on and a hat.
But the boots are, they're not welly boots, they're walking boots and I've got a feeling I'm not going to get very far in these.
Don't worry man, we can buy anything out there.
I mean there is literally a shop for every single thing that you could possibly imagine out there.
Well this is the thing, I couldn't believe it when I came in that the first thing I saw was a cash machine and people queuing for the cash machines.
It's like the leftovers of humanity.
It's like in Deep Impact, like I was telling you earlier, the end of Deep Impact and there's only a few survivors.
I reckon this is what it would look like.
Amazing.
It would look wicked.
And Morgan Freeman would be in the middle of it, just moshing, jumping about, going, this is wicked.
I'm having a wicked time.
That's how Morgan Freeman speaks.
Now, the problem that I'm going to have throughout the afternoon is my mic technique, because I've got a stick mic here, and I'm never very good at actually pointing it at the person who's speaking.
You know, I generally end up getting confused and going the wrong way.
So I'll point it at you when I'm speaking and vice versa.
You end up with like a long thing.
Uh, blank thing.
Well, I'll get better as well at knowing when you're going to throw it at me.
And I'll sort of, I'll, we'll get really good at this.
I just think it's going to be amazing.
People are going to see a progress, a hero progression throughout the show.
It's a learning curve.
They're classed in very learning curve.
Okay, so we'll check back with you later.
Yay!
Camper van Beethoven and take the skinheads bowling.
They've got a compilation out of some of their best moments.
I strongly recommend it if you're not familiar with the wonderful world of Camper van Beethoven.
Also, that just reminds me of your wedding, because Adam actually sang that at his wedding reception.
I did, but I changed some of the lyrics to make it sort of more emotional for my wife, and I regretted doing it.
I wake up sweating in the night, so I think, I don't remember that.
I just remember thinking, wow.
Listen, I throw the door open to the Lord.
Do it.
Let's get live.
Listen to this.
that's the sound of Glastonbury out there folks well it's actually a sound of a giant generator the sound of the BBC's generator but beyond it is I can see I can see birds flying over they look like sea birds picking over the corpses of some of the revellers that died what's great is that nothing gets wasted
here, right?
No, exactly.
It's all recycled.
If a little youth dies while watching Kings of Leon, then the birds eat the youth the next morning, and so is the cycle of life here at Glastonbury Festival.
That's the way it goes.
Ah, yes.
Now, speaking of live music, of course, there was some great music here in Glastonbury, and one of the heroes of the festival, I think thus far,
I mean, it's only been one day so far, but one of the standout bands yesterday were the editors.
The editors were great.
And they really tore the place up.
It looked like they were having one of those Glastonbury moments, don't you think?
Yeah.
It's a career-making show there.
I hope so.
Vampire Weekend were fantastic as well.
You missed Vampire Weekend.
I missed that.
I was still on the train.
They're playing again today.
They were brilliant.
I was wandering around out there.
and they were extraordinary.
They were great bands.
We're going to play some editors for you now.
This was recorded yesterday at Friday's Glastonbury Festival.
First of all, here's an enjoyable trail.
Not old enough.
You're 45.
45.
He's not 45, listeners.
He's 14.
This is Adam Buxton here with Garth Jennings.
Hello.
I'm standing in for Joe because he's still poorly.
He's still poorly.
He's poorly sure.
But he's going to be back with us next week, I promise you.
As I said before, even if he is moments from expiring, we'll drag him in and you can just hear him wheezing.
Yes.
That'll be good enough.
Now, yesterday,
was our first full day at Glastonbury.
Garth, you arrived yesterday.
I arrived the day before on the Thursday.
Right.
And that was not an enjoyable journey.
I mean, I have to tell you that the big British castle stumped up for a lovely first-class ticket for me on the train.
Nice.
And that bit was wicked.
Yeah, because I had that yesterday.
That was great because I got on the train finally after queuing for about an hour at Paddington with a lot of young people and I was feeling quite old and out of place and finally got on the train and it was like a train to an internment camp.
It was frightening and it was like the world was ending and we were all being evacuated.
As you said, deep impact.
It's got a lot of that about it, don't you think?
It was like the under 40s, all the waste trolls who'd been picked to go in the... You're the chosen ones, that's it.
You'll get to Glastonbury.
You'll be safe there.
And I just scraped in there, just under 40.
Hooray!
I'm on the train to the castle under the rocks.
But I got on the train and it was absolutely rammed and but I found a couple of seats free, right?
So I jump in a seat and I'm thinking brilliant.
So I do my trick over sticking my rucksack next to me on the other free seat.
Wow, no one's done that trick before.
It's genius.
It's a genius trick that I invented.
And then I... Are you trying to look big as well?
No, I pretended to be asleep.
I pretended to be asleep and leaned my head there and you know made myself look as grotesque as possible so that you wouldn't want to wake this guy up to ask for the seat right and it was all going well and the train started moving and I was like yes I've done it no one's sat next to me I'm the king and at that point this girl comes up taps me on the shoulder and
Excuse me, could you possibly move to the seat over there next to that man so me and my friend can sit together?
And I looked over at the seat she was pointing at and the bloke in the other seat was just this giant tool bag.
Okay, and he was talking louder than anyone in the whole train to the people in front of him Maybe he was trying to do what you were doing.
I don't know.
Well, it was working And he had successfully repelled absolutely everybody else, but he was spread all over that both seats And I just thought no, there's no way I can go and sit next to him.
I'm really tired I just said no, I'm sorry
I know.
I can't.
I'm sorry.
First of all, I said, have you looked everywhere?
You're awful.
I know.
And I just thought, this is the worst thing I've ever done.
And she just went, oh, right, OK.
And she went off.
And so then I went, I pretended to be asleep a little bit more, and her friends sort of sat down next to me.
A shame!
I know!
And I thought, this is no good, I'm not enjoying myself, I can't go to sleep.
So I just said, you know what?
Okay, you can sit next to your friend, okay?
And I just wandered off.
But then I found my first-class seat, I didn't realise I could sit there.
You're insane, I went straight to my first-class seat.
Well, because I missed my train, I didn't think my seat was up.
Even newspapers are on your seat, ready for you.
It was lovely.
Didn't get that.
So we finally arrived.
And it was great, and we'll tell you more about what happened when we arrived, because the scene at the other end at Castle Kerry was even more extraordinary than before.
But right now, Jude, are we going to have another little listen to our journey yesterday?
So this is when we actually got out into the site proper.
Me and Garth, this is our journey.
Right, now we are here in the sort of main drag that runs from the pyramid stage at Glastonbury.
It's a sort of muddy thoroughfare lined with shops and stalls that runs through to our destination which is the stone circle at the other end of the site.
Is that where we're going now, the stone circle?
We're going to head towards the stone circle and take a look at some of the fun things on the way.
Is there some druid action up in the stone?
There's druids, there's ladies.
I mean, it's very muddy now, so there'll be filthy ladies.
Filthy druid ladies.
That's right, it's the best kind of lady.
And along the way, Garth, I'm going to be telling you some amazing Glastonbury facts.
I like that.
Because you've never been before, right?
No, this is it.
It's my first time.
I've only been here for now for 10 minutes.
Yeah.
And it's great.
First impressions?
Everyone's very happy.
I just thought it would be a bit more sour-faced for some reason.
Nah.
But look, everyone's having a great time.
They don't mind the mud.
They love it.
At the moment, it's not raining too hard instead of drizzling.
That's fine.
It's a light dribble.
And it's funny how this would annoy me in London.
Yeah.
But out here, no one else cares.
You suddenly don't care yourself.
It's not a problem.
Not a problem.
No big problem.
What's the problem?
Get out of my face.
And you haven't had a drink yet or anything, have you?
No, neither have I. I mean, we're working for the Big British Castle.
If we did ingest any alcohol, I hope you know that we would be electrocuted.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's why I'm holding on to this rubber boot.
Yeah, because when you come in, when you're with the Big British Castle covering Glastonbury, they put a little chip in your brain, in your mind.
Yeah.
And if you have any alcohol, if you swear, and if you think in pure thoughts,
It seems extreme, doesn't it?
Especially at a big free festival, but that's what they have to do to maintain the standards of the castle.
A Disney world.
It's always a sinister undercurrent.
Exactly.
I'm sure I've said something wrong by saying that, but anyway.
Yes, other theme parks have sinister undercurrents as well.
Yes!
So, what do you reckon?
Are you tempted by any of these stalls?
I don't know where to start.
What's that?
Toilets.
Toilets?
Where are the toilets?
That's a good question.
The gentleman asking for the toilets.
My friend, we're standing in one of the world's biggest toilets.
You could go anywhere you want.
Is it a clean toilet?
A clean toilet?
I would say no.
What do you reckon?
Surely not.
Glastonbury's not famous for the cleanliness of its toilets.
What about nipping behind a tree?
As compared to tea in the park.
Is this better than tea in the park?
Oh yes.
Cleaner.
This is the mother of all festivals.
Excellent.
Well listen, good luck.
Hey, maybe a good place to find a toilet would be the WC Fields.
Anyway listen man, have a good day, take care, good luck with your wee wee expedition.
They were insane.
That's the first of a number of jokes I'll be making about the fields.
They were really really insane.
They were relatively together I thought.
We're gonna meet some madder people in that guard, let me tell you.
We'll be back with you in a bit, but now here's some music.
That's the mighty Ben Folds Five playing Kate.
They were on the other stage yesterday, Friday at Glastonbury, where we are coming live.
This is the BBC Six music, and now it's time for the news read by Harvey Cooke.
Oh yes, it certainly is all right.
That was Edward Collins with a girl like you.
You just turned into a DJ, right there.
All right.
Turned into fluff for a second there.
This is Adam Buxton here with Garth Jennings, who's filling in for Joe, who's still ill.
We should have played that Smith's track, shouldn't we?
But that's a missed opportunity.
It's one of life's great missed opportunities.
Now, we were saying before that we had a slightly torturous journey to Glastonbury.
After the luxury of the train, we arrived at Castle Carey, aka Castle Scary, which is the station that everyone arrives to if they're coming to Glastonbury.
Or you can get off at Westbury if you choose.
But Castle Carey is where you go if you're getting on the coaches, right?
If you've got your ticket,
It's a kind of a package deal.
You go to Castle Kerry, you get off the train and you wait for the coach.
Normally it would be very smooth.
Oh, it wasn't the other day though, because there was a fire just outside the Glastonbury Festival site.
So the whole place was just backed up.
There were trains bringing people in, but...
there was no one moving out of the train station.
So they were just jammed up there in massive queues.
It looked like the end of the world.
Have you seen Children of Men?
Yes.
It was very much like that.
Like that?
Yeah.
Oh dear.
Brilliant film if you haven't seen it by the way.
It is.
And it was like a cross between Children of Men, Schindler's List and The Hills Have Eyes.
It was just a cheerful combo.
It was appalling.
It was like the world had ended.
Or was in the process of ending.
Was it just you who felt this way?
Or was everyone else loving it?
Was it all part of the blitz spirit?
You know, the kind of glass to be, well hey, we're all having a... No.
There was no sing-alongs and cheery whoops of joy.
everyone was pretty annoyed i would say um... i mean you know it was nobody's fault exactly but it wasn't enjoyable so i went nice stood by the temporary car park to wait for my bbc buddies to come and pick me up of course they were caught up in the traffic as well so i had to stand there for quite a while a couple of hours whatever and a half
And I was accosted by this scary Hills Have I style man who was just in a really beaten up camper van with him and his scraggly looking mates.
Did he offer you a lift?
No, he just sort of came over with his plate of pasta that he just cooked on his weird fire and he came over and said...
I'll be watching you.
Why don't you come and join us?
Come and join us.
My name's Obi-Wan Kenobi.
He did not say that.
Yeah, he did.
I said, brilliant Obi-Wan Kenobi.
That's great.
It's good stuff.
No, I'm fine.
I'm going to stand here.
I'm just waiting for my friend.
Oh, you're going to stand there, are you?
You're not going to come over and join us.
Right.
Narrow people.
Narrow people.
And then he went off, swaggering off, going, narrow people!
Narrow people!
Narrow people!
And then these girls came along and they caught his eye.
And he's like, oh, ladies, come and join us.
Come and join us.
I'm Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Come and join us.
Sit down.
And they were like, no, thank you.
We're not insane.
And so then he went, ah, yes, narrow people.
Drippin' in Prada.
Drippin' in Prada.
That was his catchphrases.
Three catchphrases.
I'm Obi-Wan Kenobi, drippin' in Prada, and narrow people.
Those are great catchphrases.
They're burned into my brain now.
Two hours of fear that it was all going to turn nasty with Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Anyway, more of our Glastonbury stories coming up shortly.
We're going to reveal the result of last week's song wars after this next track.
And this is the Hold Steady.
And they're kind of exactly what festivals are all about, aren't they?
Loud rock and roll, good time, Bruce Springsteen-style fun, and this is Sequested in Memphis.
that song is it it's all about peanut in Memphis yeah and the question in Memphis exactly so it's a peanut in Memphis it's a question about baby son's coming out shaking Stevens is gonna be on stage here at Glastonbury in about 15 minutes you want me to pop out and have a look at him see how he's going I could always report back don't give him a shove yeah
He's going to be rocking the pyramid stage shortly.
I don't think we're planning on bringing you any live coverage of Shaky, but... No, I'll just tell you how it's going.
Yeah.
But listen, right now, it's time to resolve song wars.
From last week, Garth and I both created original songs about being ill, various different types of illnesses.
You did one about having hay fever.
Yep.
Because I have hay fever and I hate it.
How's it going?
It's brilliant here.
Not a bit at all.
It's all the rain.
Yeah.
Just keeps the pollen down.
It does.
It's genius.
And I did one about just having a cold which I'm glad to say is all cleared up now But Garth's song was like a little bit too good for my liking.
It was ludicrous and I thought it's very nice of you I feel a little bit insecure about it now because if you win, it's gonna make me look bad and it's annoying.
Oh yeah, but first we're going to do the jingle.
We're going to do a live jingle because this is Glastonbury.
We've got to do it live.
We've got a little country backing for you and we're going to do a live song for this jingle.
How are you feeling about this guy?
Quite nervous actually.
Let's go.
Song Wars, Song Wars Now the time has come for the Song Wars Two songs, one subject Can you fellas tell us which you like best?
Song Wars, Song Wars
That was nice!
The crowds are going mental out there, they love it.
Right, now here is the... Why did you make me do that?
That's for Obi-Wan Kenobi out there.
Here is the result.
Narrow people drippin' in Prada.
Okay.
And... Oh my... I've been massacred by Darth Jennings!
Wow!
I've won by 75%!
Garth wins by 75%.
Take my pain!
You know, it's not enough that Cornish regularly busts my arse.
You have to come in and humiliate me as well.
Well, I didn't mean to hurt you, but I'm delighted to have won the hour.
Wow, it's a proud moment for me.
I thought you were going to go into Jealous Guy there for a second.
What do you mean?
I didn't mean to hurt you.
I'm sorry that I made you cry.
Well, thank you for voting for me, whoever you are.
How we doing there, Judah?
We got some technicals.
Couple of technicals with Garth's track.
Oh, it's so good, though.
Well, don't worry.
If we can't hear your track immediately, then we'll play it shortly.
That's all right.
And we'll play some other... People are still recovering from our live jingle.
Okay, yes, yes.
Before we hear Garth's winning song, which is ludicrous, as I'm saying it, I can't believe that it's actually happened.
I'd be beaten at songwalls by an interloper.
But yes, before we hear Garth's winning song, let's hear another little excerpt from our trip around the Glastonbury Festival site yesterday.
How are we doing?
We're in the jazz world.
It's nice in the jazz world.
This is the world of jazz.
The common language here is jazz.
You can speak scat if you want to.
Scoop-a-doop-a-bop.
That's the kind of thing you have to say if you want to buy anything in jazz world.
Can I have a couple of double-a-double-a-dow-dow-dow fears, please?
Scoop-a-doop-a-bop-a-bop.
Could I please have a Scoop-a-boo?
That means...
Could I have Scooby Doo and do a poo?
Yes.
Basically Scooby Doo is like the god of jazz world.
And if you are Scooby Doo and you want to do a poo, then you have to go to the jazz world in order to make that happen.
Scooby Doo want to do a poo.
Anyway, so those mushrooms are kicking in my lovely.
We're in jazz world and it's nice here.
It's really good atmosphere isn't it?
It's really mellow.
Yeah.
I've got a feeling though, you know when you come somewhere and you think this is nice, this is really nice.
I think it could turn dark later in jazz world.
You reckon?
Yeah, it feels like it's at the moment, it's a very friendly place.
Everyone smiles at each other.
I think it could turn dark here.
Just like Jazz, it could turn on you.
Well, exactly.
Go on Miles Davis all over your arse.
It could be... Yes, I know exactly what you're saying.
I mean, it's 4.30 now here in Jazz World.
The rain has let up a little bit.
And there's a lot of people with children here.
I'm always amazed by people who bring their very young children to a festival.
Yeah, babies.
There's lots of babies.
Mother's pushing prams around last night when we got here.
And it was absolutely torrential, the rain was really cheating down.
But there was people pushing around their prams.
Yeah.
With the little babies there, what are they getting out of this?
Yeah, I don't know.
And then you have to put the ear defenders on them.
Yes, exactly.
Yeah.
Health and safety.
Health and safety.
For goodness sake, otherwise social services will be around.
I don't know, you see, the trouble is, I don't know how you get a kid to sleep out here.
No.
Our children are pretty, they sleep through police sirens and things like that, but...
I don't know if they'd make it through the jazz world tent.
No.
I mean, it beggars belief.
Would you bring your children to Glastonbury?
Um, I don't know yet.
I haven't, I've only been through these first few bits.
Right.
I think, I mean, we just saw a great big robotic dinosaur drive past.
Yes.
That alone would have been worth the trip for my lot.
Yeah.
That really was impressive.
And there was a man as well, he had constructed like a big tractor, but he put like an engine on it from a plane or something like that.
It was very much like Mad Man.
Exactly.
It is like, I mean it's all like Mad Max, isn't it?
You expect to see Tina Turner wandering through?
Yep.
Squawling.
Squailing.
Wailing.
Squawking.
But anyway, listen.
We're on a mission to find a lovely hippy tea room, so let's continue.
Let's go.
Hello, Scar speaking.
That's Humphrey Littleton playing our Bad Penny Blues.
I'm going to dedicate that to my mum who's listening and she loved that record.
So that sounded like Lady Madonna by the Beatles.
I think that was a big influence on Lady Madonna.
It gets quite well known actually.
You're the only guy, everyone out there in Glastonbury.
I didn't get the memo.
You didn't get that memo from the late Great Humpf.
There you go.
Now listen, we had a problem before that with the CD that we had Garth's winning Hay Fever song on.
Have you tried to sabotage it in some way now?
It was covered in mud.
You were just bitter, aren't you?
I wiped a large amount of mud on it just in case you won.
And it worked, but unfortunately the big British castle is such a technical powerhouse that we are linking up with London now, our studio in London, in Great Portland Street, and they are going to play Garth's winning Hay Fever song right now.
Ready, London?
I was wrong, couldn't open my eyes
That works for me And there's a problem to see Even though I'm sweeping the stars
That's my winning song, A Fever.
Thank you voting people for making me the winner.
75% in your face Adam Buxton.
What a pasting.
Anyway, there you go.
We are here live from Glastonbury.
We're going to play you a short trail and after that we're going to hear some exciting get cape, wear cape fly bird.
I just want to tell you very quickly before we go to that that we've got photographs
of our trip that will illustrate certain of our links.
You can go to bbc.co.uk, forward slash Glastonbury, forward slash 2008, forward slash 6 Music.
Did you get all that?
If you go to the 6 Music website, you'll be able to navigate to there and find some photographs of our time here at Glastonbury thus far.
But right now, trail, and then get, kick, wear, kick, fly!
Health and safety I got a little yellow coat on Don't do nothing stupid Or you'll be ejected
Oh, that's exhausting.
Absolutely exhausting.
That was pigeon detectives with take her out, take her back, take her down.
Take her back.
Take her back.
Put that outside.
Put her outside.
Pop her out.
Pop your top off.
Get that thing away from me.
Yeah, there you go.
Hey, this is Adam and Garth at Glastonbury.
Joe is still ill, I'm sorry to say, but I got a text from him the other day.
Actually, I didn't get a text.
He didn't text me.
He just ignores me.
But I saw Lauren Laverne got a text.
uh from him and uh apparently he's shaping up nicely so he should be back with us next weekend at the big british castle i'll be gone shaking steep we got the door to our studio our little teeny weeny studio here open the tractor bringing shaky has going past right now here he is yeah and we've got the uh we're in the big british castle compound
All the generators are out there, and we can see the back of the pyramid stage, which is the big main stage here at Glastonbury, where all the big acts perform, and yes, Shaken Stevens is going to be the first act of today out there, and well, very shortly, I think.
Yeah, but don't worry, we're not actually going to bring it, bring this recording.
We're not going to play any Shaky whatsoever, okay?
So don't worry about it, it's absolutely fine.
And I'm just joking, if you're a big Shakin' Stevens fan, I don't want to fight with a Shakin' Stevens fan, because I think maybe the Shakin' Stevens fans would be a little more tasty than the Aha fans, right?
Right, that's true.
Who I've previously gotten a ruck with on this program before.
Well, I'll go out and have a look when he's on, and I'll report back and tell you what it looks like out there.
I just bumped into Sam Delaney, very enjoyable broadcast.
I think he's doing a show for 5 Live, or someone like that.
And he told me they just interviewed Shaky and he was quite frightening.
He was frightening.
Shaky was frightening.
Really?
And he didn't enjoy their interviewing style.
And on the way out, Shaky said, you're a bunch of clowns.
Bunch of clowns?
Bunch of clowns.
Wow.
Shaky.
Because he's an old rock and rolling man.
And he could definitely dust you right up.
as he as he sang to you is a green door son of pasting exactly yeah this is pure conjecture i'm sure she's a lovely gentleman never hurt anyone no exactly
And I also just bumped into the young knives up there.
I saw them out there.
But you see, they recognise you.
They walked right past me.
I wanted to say hello.
They're brilliant, man.
They are brilliant.
But right now, we're going to play you some music.
And very shortly, we are going to play you the results of our time that we spent with Robin Hitchcock yesterday.
We're big fans of Robin on this programme.
And he came in and played a couple of songs for us and had a little bit of a chat before wandering off to play his set.
That's coming up shortly.
But first, here's Dizzy Rascal.
Well, we're down to about 45% of us.
The band I'm working with is the Psychedelic Trams.
So we have Terry Edwards and Colin Isobb, the horn section have made it.
Kimberly Roo, the guitarist, hasn't.
Nor has Morris Windsor, the drummer.
Paul Noble, the bass player, is here but is unable to connect.
Something that very seldom happens to bass players.
So he's in the doorway, really.
And the others have been frightened off.
Are they actually on site?
We're hoping that, yeah, I know they were very, very close when I last spoke to Morris, so hopefully we'll all be there to do the gig.
Well, I saw you getting out of the car when you arrived at the BBC compound and you all looked quite alarmed because you're dapper and you are clean as well.
There's not a speck of mud on you.
Well, I'm a slave to love.
Are you going to the, uh, that means presumably you'll be in the Avalon field later on with all the other, uh, late period rock music.
uh... sadly no i think we're gonna house our own little intimate reception after our gig and then probably most of back to town good one and i'm gonna introduce you on stage later on is that right you still want me to do that please yeah yeah if you could what kind of stuff you want embarrassing introduction or uh... very awkward one night i do both work
Your style veers between being intensely polite and almost insulting.
So I think you'll just do what works.
You'll know.
And you want less than half an hour or more than half an hour of me?
The gig or your introduction?
My introduction.
Well, I think you can go on as long as you like, but we have to play at the same time, so we might be overlapping.
Fair enough.
But we can just give you a channel and you can go through it.
Speaking of which, why don't we hear some music now?
What are you going to play for us?
This is the Museum of Sex.
Oh, that's my favorite museum.
You know, you're in there.
Yeah, that was great.
Robin Hitchcock and the psychedelic trans.
Well, some of them.
Thank you very much indeed, Robin.
And you survived the onslaught from the pyramid stage just kicking in halfway through.
That was the sound.
The same way that the humble shrew and the mouse survived, and possibly even the gopher, survived the ice age.
That's it.
Exactly the same survival.
It just kept rocking.
They just kept rocking but in a very very small way.
That's all documented in the film Ice Age, I believe.
Ice Age 2, the rocking shrew.
There's a whole scene with them having to deal with the Fratellis that was cut out in the final film.
Are the Fratellis really brothers?
Because that's what it means in Italian, doesn't it?
The Fratellis.
It does.
It does mean that.
I don't think they are.
I think they're brothers in stupidity.
That's the only bond they have.
I mean that in a nice way.
They're the kind of stupid guys you'd like to hang out with, rather than the ones that you fear.
We are here with Robin Hitchcock and some of the psychedelic trams who are playing in... Whereabouts are you playing?
In the Shangri-La tent.
in the Shangri-La.
Where is the Shangri-La tent?
I don't know.
We're hoping to find out.
That would be amazing.
If you found Shangri-La and played a gig, that would be the best day of your life, surely.
Well, it would, especially if we found Maurice and Kimberley with whom we are also playing, supposedly.
And indeed you.
What are you going to play for us now?
Now we're going to attempt to play Olay Tarantula.
Very good.
Fantastic.
Thank you very much indeed Robin.
Thank you Chaps.
Terry, thank you so much Colin.
Thank you.
Thanks Adam.
And I'm looking forward to seeing you in action tonight.
How long do you play forward a gig like this?
Depends how long the introduction is.
Five minutes, then.
I don't know, you know, in real time, probably only about 50 minutes, but that's, you know, longer than an LP should be.
Right.
If a CD gets to 50 minutes, that's really more than you need.
That's true, isn't it?
With today's attention span.
Classic length of CD for you, would you say?
Uh, a classic length of record for me is 38 minutes.
I agree with you.
I totally agree.
In a revolver, uh, Avalon, um, green by RPM.
The first doors album, the first doors album.
much be more than 30 minutes yeah strokes is this it is less than 30 minutes i think is it yeah all the best one 32 says jude 32 wow that's all you need and it's like raw power how long is that
It's all you need, okay?
I mean, if you're going any longer than that, it's a grotesque waste of resources and attention.
And also, I would say in film terms, anything more than an hour and a half.
90 minutes.
Golden rule.
That's the maximum length that anyone can take.
Unless you've made Lawrence of Arabia.
That's true.
Or the big sleep.
That'll do it.
But there's chances of doing that statistically a very small amount.
It's so true.
Robin, thank you so much for joining us.
It's a pleasure.
Thanks, Adam, and thanks, Garth.
Vampire weekend.
They sounded fantastic.
And in many ways, this is vampire weekend, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
The weekend of the vampires, they're one of the kings of Glastonbury, and that's just from one day.
I mean, who knows what's going to happen today.
Today's Jay-Z day though, isn't it?
It's Jay-Z night.
I think it's Jay-Z night.
I just think that's going to be brilliant.
I wish I was here for that.
I just want to hear him do 99 problems.
Yes.
That's such a brilliant track.
Steve LaMaca was chatting to Steve yesterday in the BBC Compound.
With so many famous friends.
Me and Lamo.
I got finished with Zane Lowe.
Finished with Zane and then I moved on to Steve.
China design for a little bit and then I thought, there's Lamma, I'm going to go and chat to Lamma.
I said, oh there's Lauren Laverne over there, I'll chat with you later Lauren, I'm just going to steal a Mac and then I'll come over and chat to you Lauren Laverne, okay?
That's how it went, you just rack them up don't you?
But Steve was saying that the
Vampire Weekend, they had the biggest crowd at the other stage, which is like the other big, you've got the pyramid stage where all the massive heavy hitters play, and then you've got the other stage where the kind of indie massive heavy hitters.
Next year's pyramid stage, people.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And Vampire Weekend pulled the biggest crowd that Lamo's ever seen there, and it was fantastic.
But right now, here is another little nugget from our wanderings yesterday.
This is me and Garth wondering about the Glastonbury Festival site yesterday.
We're here in the green fields, and we're standing next to the Garana Company, their natural herb stimulant tent.
And I'm amazed that Garana is still going.
Are people still favoring that as a stimulant?
A stimulant, all the rage, right?
It's like all those drinks to give you energy.
Right, what's your favorite stimulant?
I don't actually like them at all.
I don't like the fizzy ones.
I like a nice, strong cup of coffee.
You like a nice, strong... I'm an old-fashioned kind of guy.
I love my caffeine.
I like it muddy.
Not fizzy.
So you're not going to go and get a guarana smoothie or whatever they're offering there?
No, look at the state of them.
They're tripping off their sizes.
They do look quite Australian.
They look very Australian.
Extremely Australian looking.
As we get closer to the stone circle,
the predominance of ladies who look as if they were once in hazy-fantasy increases.
And to me, that's a good thing.
That's a great thing.
You know when we talk about the Mighty Boosh look earlier?
Yeah.
I think it's more of a ting tings look.
Ting tings.
Guys wearing plastic shades that look like they've been stolen from a petrol station.
That looks a bit like Hot Chip as well, I associate that with.
Hot Chip, yeah.
What's the name?
Brains.
Is it?
No, not Brains, but Parker.
Who's the guy that boffin' in Thunderbirds?
I think it's Brains.
Is it Brains?
Yeah.
Parker's the driver in Thunderbirds.
Parker's in Nogallaga.
Nogallaga.
Yeah.
So yes, it's all looking good.
Let's continue.
We still haven't found a place for Garth to have a delicious coffee, and I'm sure we'll crack it somewhere around here in the green fields.
Let's continue our mission.
Let's keep going.
So for the time being, here's some more great music.
How was Panic at the Disco with Don't Panic Mr. Mannering?
And that's just something they've stolen from the Brits, isn't it?
They're American people.
Panic at the Disco.
I always think of them as being called Panichi at the Disco as well, because they've got the exclamation mark after the word panic, which to me looks like another eye.
Benice at the disco?
Well, it's just like someone with a kind of ciabatta in there or something, just having a little munch in the middle of the floor.
That's what I always think of when I hear that band, someone having a little munch in the middle of the floor.
It sounds kind of revolting.
So I thought I'd repeat it.
Now, I'm very pleased to say that we've been joined by the young knives.
They were wandering around outside.
So I went out there and kind of grinned at them girlishly and admitted to them that I'm a very big fan and so is Garth in fact and we got them in here and they're going to play a track for us.
How are you doing guys?
Good.
You played last night, is that correct?
Yes, we played Q stage and John Peel and it was brilliant.
Excellent.
So two sets you did?
So far.
Wow, are you going to do another one today?
Yeah, we're just touring ourselves to the entire festival, like everyone is I think.
Quite right.
and you're very clean because you're always a dapper unit you know you're always well turned out you have your suits and your ties it's a business you know it's a business we have cards we hand that to people and let me introduce you to our listeners Henry is on guitar hello
House of Lords.
Tom, aka House of Lords, is on bass and vocals.
You're all on vocals, really.
You're a vocal powerhouse.
And Ollie is here on drums and bongos.
How are you doing?
Now, what are you going to play for us, chaps?
Well, we're going to do an acoustic version of Turntail, our Smash 150 top single.
Yeah, I mean, that is a lovely song.
I'm not connected in any meaningful way with the charts.
Me neither.
Because I'm too old.
So I didn't even realise it had been out as a single.
It doesn't surprise me, though.
It was one of my favourite tracks from your fantastic album, Super Abundance.
Now we're closing the door to the studio because I believe Shakin' Stevens!
Stevens!
Just coming!
Sorry, I like that joke.
Stevens!
Behind the green door.
Where is he?
So he's just about to come on stage, Shakin' Stevens!
But right now, here, live for you, from BBC Six Music, are The Young Knives with Turntail.
That was great.
I had to rearrange the solo, sounded like a banjo solo.
Nicely rearranged though on the spot.
And it was quite good, it sort of fits in, in a way with the Young Mike sound.
Thanks man, you know what I mean?
That completely worked.
What's that song about?
Do you like, I imagine like most bands you don't really like being artists.
It's like asking an artist.
Most bands there aren't really any really good reasons behind it.
But that sounds like a sort of,
all kinds of issues in there.
It's overtly political and ecological and apocalyptic and I mean... You said it.
Yeah.
Have you ever seen that film Armistad?
Yes, based on that.
It's based on that.
As I suspected, I turned to my wife the other day in the car and said, you know, darling, I'm pretty sure this is about Armistad.
She said, I bet you're right.
And I'm glad to find out that I was.
Is Steve Ernst out on the stage yet?
No, he's not there.
He's got to be out there any second, surely.
But listen, young knives, thank you so much for joining us.
Thanks for having us.
That was lovely.
That was great.
As Jonathan Ross says, what a lovely sound you guys have.
Thanks very much.
Great voices.
Yeah.
Thank you very much and have a great day.
Enjoy the rest of the festival.
Thank you.
This is BBC 6 music live from the Glastonbury Festival.
Now that was Cheeky Cheeky and the Nosebleeds.
And they're a real band.
We didn't just make that up.
That was called Slow Kids and they were headlining at the introducing stage.
They've got all kinds of crazy stages and all kinds of crazy fields, as we discovered yesterday when we were on our wonder.
And then this is, broadly speaking, one of my made-up Glastonbury fact sections.
And I even have a jingle for these sections, Glastonbury facts.
Let's play the jingle jingle.
Prepare to receive Glastonbury fact.
Here comes now.
There you go.
That's another brilliant jingle.
That's another brilliant jingle.
We should make another jingle for your jingles.
That's a good idea.
Here comes another brilliant jingle.
Some people hate jingles.
Some people, I guess the thing with jingles is like funny phrases.
You start off doing them ironically.
as a parody of how annoying jingles can be and then you get shingles and then you get shingles and then you turn into a jingle jingle guy who just does a lot of jingles and you're back to square one but there you go uh so let's let's see how we got on again yesterday it's another little nugget from our wonders
Yes, time for another Glastonbury fact here.
This is for you mainly, Garth.
Right.
Because you've never been here before.
I'm new here.
But as you now understand, the whole site is divided up into various different fields.
Right.
It's got the green fields and the healing fields, the Avalon fields, which is where all the Roxy music fans, late period Roxy music fans hang out.
That's good.
I wonder where they were.
Yeah, they're all there.
They're having cocktails.
They're there.
That's nice.
And they're going, ooh.
That's what they do.
When you get close to the Avalon Fields, you start hearing... And the chink of martini glasses.
And I believe somewhere there are killing fields as well.
And they're run by a guy called Paul Pothead.
And that's where they take the bans.
When they do badly, they take them to the killing fields and they execute them.
Yeah, I think they might have just tapped to the feeling.
The feeling of being escorted there now by Paul Pothead.
Take them to the killing fields.
And he's going to execute the feeling.
Unless Sophie Ellis-Bekster pleads successfully for Clementson.
In which case they might survive.
We've been hanging out too long by the stone circle man.
You might see them later on at the Avalon field presided over by Lake period Brian Ferry of course.
Where should we go now?
Oh, we need another field to go to.
I tell you what, I like this one though, just because you're at the top and you can see everything.
Yeah.
Perhaps this is the field of expertise.
I've got to get out before I carry on making.
Or you just want to get out of your system right now.
Uh, somebody see fields, that's where people go for a wee.
That's good.
Gracie Fields.
That's where people go to sing songs about the wall.
But you could also have a place where you get your eyes tested and that could just be the field of vision.
Nice.
See, I'm working with you here.
You're totally on top of it.
Come on.
You know, it's almost six.
We haven't even had a drink.
We're thinking of fantastic new fields.
We're indestructible.
And meanwhile, there's bodies everywhere.
I mean, there are just bodies as far as you can see.
They're all like crawling.
Screaming.
Somebody has put something in the Heineken.
It's bad.
Hi, Nick.
We'll be back with you shortly.
Right now, here's some more great music.
A little free play for you there, listeners.
I chose that one for you.
That was The Little Ones.
I thought that was terrific.
With Morning Tide.
That's a perfect record.
I mean, that's a smash.
It's got hooky...
catchy bits and the proper chorus that takes you flying them.
The album comes out sometime in July and I got sent that by their PR people and enjoyed it hugely.
I mean, that is a smash.
It's such a great feeling when you listen to a whole album and you think, oh, this is good.
And then it just gets better and better and you just think, oh, brilliant.
In total contrast to that, Shaken Stevens has just kicked off on the... Stevens!
He's on the main.
Shut up!
What's he singing there?
What is that?
Oh, he's doing some of his new ones.
The crowd have gone back to their tents.
Imagine, I mean, it's only, what is it?
It's still fairly early, 11, that's fair enough, isn't it?
It's time to get up.
Well, I don't know about that.
But imagine being woken up by Shaky, oh my lordy.
Hey, this is Adam Buxton and... Ugh, Garth Jennings standing in for Joe Cornish, who's got the shingles.
And it's our great pleasure to be here at the Glastonbury Festival live for BBC 6 Music.
We've got another hour here with you guys, so stick with us right now.
A little bit of a jingle, bit of a trial, and then some more great music.
Yeah, is that a big problem?
That was the ting tings, there's a little abrupt ending there.
Yeah, we weren't ready, were we?
No, I mean, songs with abrupt endings should have a big sticker on them.
Sometimes they do, don't they?
No, maybe we should just be a little more on our own.
What are you talking about?
Blame the other person!
This is BBC Six Music live from Glastonbury and we're having a lovely time.
Shaky's out there.
He started his set, Shaking Stevens, with a new number.
I mean, what kind of... I was joking when I said I think it's his new material.
It's new material.
I'm sure he's talking about love and sort of like politics and stuff.
Yeah.
Shaky, what's he doing talking about politics?
No, don't do that.
Green Door, just hitting with Green Door and Wo Wo Julie.
Yeah.
That's all they want.
I mean, what do you do if you're an artist like Shaky and you wake up one morning and you think I've got to do my bit?
You know, I've got a political... I'm not Shaky anymore.
I'm solid.
I've got to shake things up.
I'm sturdy, Stevens.
Right.
And then it all goes wonky and you've got to write some new political songs and no one wants to listen.
Yeah.
Just play Green Door!
He's like, no, I'm angry about stuff.
I'm furious.
I'm furious, Stevens.
And I'm gonna communicate my message with bad rock and roll.
Now, Garth, you've picked a track for us right now, haven't you?
Yeah, well, it's just a bit... I thought that before I came down, the weather report was for high winds, that media was getting excited by the idea of tents blowing away rather than being sucked away by water.
So I thought I'd choose this one.
It's called The Wind by Cat Stevens.
Ooh.
Hello, that's Cat Stevens.
The beautiful sound of Cat Stevens.
I love that song.
That's great.
Well, he'd be right at home in one of the mellow fields out here in Glastonbury, wouldn't he?
Yeah, up at the top of the hill, looking out over the world.
We went, we took a walk right through the main drag yesterday, myself and Garth.
I was showing Garth the sights for the very first time, a Glastonbury virgin.
I have enjoyed it, I have to say.
It's lovely, isn't it?
It's brilliant.
I mean, as you were saying, when you watch it on TV sometimes, I often think, oh, I'm glad I'm not there.
I always think that.
But it is actually, I mean, we say that, of course, from the lovely walls of the big British castle.
No, but once we were out there, it was terrific yesterday.
It was nice, although it was nice to know that we were actually not sleeping in tents at the end of the evening.
Yeah, that's true.
I forgot about that.
Yeah, you know, it's a little bit of a factor.
But still, I mean, there's a good atmosphere out there.
I would say that it's people are really digging it out there and the weather is being decent, you know, it's not.
It's going to burn off.
I've said it before, but it's all going to burn off.
It's all going to burn off.
Anyway, we took a nice walk, and we ended up at the little stone circle, which is a kind of miniature stone edge up there.
And there's a campfire, and everyone's sitting around.
And there's a giant sculpture of a wooden sculpture of a dragon or something.
And we found this guy.
playing and his name is Lewis Floyd Henry and he was just a bloke and he's like a busker bloke but he was making a good noise.
But can I just explain he had he was doing all this himself what you're about to hear he had a little tiny kick drum a child's kick drum and snare didn't he yeah well I do it operating this with his feet I think well this is us when we discovered him so we maybe we set the scene I can't remember but here we are.
Now we are in the stone circle, or very near the stone circle, by a large carved wooden dragon.
That is amazing.
That is a brilliant dragon.
Yeah.
And beneath the dragon is a man who's playing some blues, and he's sat there, he's playing the guitar, and he's got a tiny, like a child's drum kit that he is operating himself with his foot.
And he's very good.
He's excellent.
He's brilliant.
Let's go and have a listen.
Yeah, come on.
There you go, that's the sound of Lewis Floyd Henry, who we just found busking around in the stone circle here at Glastonbury yesterday.
And he was great, man.
He was like a little one-man white stripes there.
I was a bit embarrassed about how excited I was on that recording.
Oh, well it was!
Oh, it's brilliant!
When you're in the zone out there, you sort of get a bit carried away.
Yeah.
Embarrassed.
We've discovered a man!
But isn't it exciting?
We've found him mad!
We've discovered him!
We've found him!
We've found him past!
He's our man!
Because he was a good looking guy as well, you know.
Yeah, he looked like a little Jimi Hendrix.
He did, yeah.
Like Jimi Hendrix was a little pie hat.
No, he's a skinny guy, he's wearing me.
And he was sat there and he was really playing away.
And those were all his original compositions he told me as well, which is impressive.
Well done, Lewis!
We've found him!
He's out!
Anyway, right now we're going to play you a little trail and after that we're going to be hearing from the Fratellis.
They played yesterday here at Glastonbury.
We're not actually going to play a live track, are we?
Oh it is!
A live bit of Fratellis for you coming up here on Six Music.
That's quite alright, you're welcome.
That was the Fratellis with Whistle for the Choir.
That was live from Glastonbury.
They played that yesterday.
So technically not live.
Live on tape, I believe they call it.
And that song threatened to sort of break into Merry Christmas everybody.
That's true.
Here it is, Merry Christmas, you know.
Which is no bad thing.
Couple of short announcements before we go into our next track.
I was wondering around yesterday when I was watching
Vampire Weekend and there was a few people there in the crowd who listened to this show and they said hello, a couple of them said Stephen!
And there was also, I found myself standing right next to this guy who had just made a video for our Video Wars competition.
And if you don't know, we are asking you guys to go onto the BBC Six Music website and pick one of two tracks from our Song Wars library to make a video for.
It can be any kind of video as elaborate as you want.
If you get your entries in by the end of July, then you'll be eligible to win an amazing prize, which is to come and hang out with us in the studio.
Someone's actually sent one to my office.
Have they?
Yeah.
I think they're trying all avenues.
Was it any good?
I haven't seen it yet.
Well the one, I'd actually watched the one by the guy I was stood next to.
How weird is that?
That is strange.
I found myself just standing there in this enormous crowd for Vampire Weekend.
He said, oh I just made a video for your video wars competition.
It's the one with me and my mate.
We're dressed in kind of butchers outfits in the kitchen.
It's a really good one and I'd watched it that morning on YouTube.
bizarre so anyway keep your videos coming in we're really enjoying watching all of them there's been a fantastic response and also I might be singing a few song wars songs at a gig I'm doing next Friday at the BFI this is just a gig of some of my stuff as well as some guest comedians coming along so if you do want to come along check out my
website for details, but yes, next Friday, 4th of July at the BFI.
Easily remembered.
4th of July, BFI.
So yes, do come along.
I helped there by... It's called the Out of Focus Group.
Are you coming Gar?
I've definitely, I've already booked my tickets.
Fantastic.
I want to let you down fella.
Yeah, good one.
Now, we are going to be chatting with C6 Steve.
He came along and he was a lovely man.
He was brilliant yesterday.
I didn't know what to expect.
I knew nothing of C6 Steve.
No, I know very little as well.
Except that name, and it conjures up all kinds of things, but not the guy that walked through the door.
I mean, I've got a nice dad that I'm perfectly happy with, but if anything happened to him, I would be very pleased if C6 Steve would be my dad.
Well, especially when you hear the tales he has to tell.
Yeah, that's coming up.
I'll chat with C6 Steve, which we recorded yesterday shortly, but first, here are the black kids with Hurricane Jean.
We are sat here in our unbelievably small studio with C6 Steve.
Hello C- uh, hello- That was like a tongue twister!
I'm nervous as I'm on camera.
Have you ever been on a radio before?
No, very seldom.
And I've regretted every single time that I have.
Oh yes, all good.
I should say that Steve, I'm one of the world's worst interviewers.
Oh good, we're gonna be doing good.
exit is normally myself and joe who i uh... would be presenting the program with if he wasn't ill with shingles we just set to sit there and talk to each other we just talk nonsense and play record so to have someone else going to our world or it's thrown you hasn't it's very little that he's had to put his hat on just to keep it together but you you're smiling if you don't mind i don't know how my foot hurts so bad that i i i'm i'm happy about everything other than my foot steve what did you do to your foot don't need to tell you please if you don't mind
I was trying to climb, you know, one of them big cast iron rod iron fences with spikes.
I'm very familiar with that.
So the top has all the spikes.
I went to this recording studio and I drove in and the gates locked on me.
And I got like this phobia about me and locked in, having been locked in plenty enough in my life.
Anyway, they had spikes on the top and spikes in the middle.
I said, oh, there's no problem because I knew the combination.
So I go climbing over the fence.
And I got almost to the top and I grabbed onto this bricks that was on the side and it came off my hand and slid down the fence and the foot went down and out on the other spot and I'm pale myself.
Was that, did it go right through?
You could see it pushing through the top.
Are you being serious?
Was it seriously poking out the top?
It didn't go through the skin, but it went all the way to the top.
Oh my goodness.
And it like, that big, the big spike, the spike was this big and then when it was like, oh, like that, but it was clean.
So that happened like five days ago.
None of us.
I can't even.
I can't even.
You should be in a hospital.
Yeah, I was going to say, what are you doing at Glastonbury?
I heard it was going to be mud here.
Yes!
Honestly, it would be a depressing coder to the film that's being made about you.
We've got a small documentary film crew in here with us.
If a year hence, that was it.
You've got Gangrene, End of C6 Steve, and it all started on that fateful day, and here we are chatting.
I have to press myself.
You sell a lot of records when you pass on.
through the master plan and it sort of fits in in a way it's the kind of thing that it's the kind of injury you would expect no not it's not is it not I'm not supposed to be climbing over no fences no more have you played at Glastonbury before yeah I played here last year four times
I heard you've still got the wellies, right, for last year.
Yeah.
I found them in the back of the van, because the van has not, and they got the mud still on them.
They're covered in mud.
I mean, not thick, but just, you know, discolored with the mud.
So I need to break them out now if I keep going like this, and so we can get some new mud.
And what kind of stuff are you, I mean obviously you play your own stuff, do you ever do any covers in your set?
No, not too much.
You know if I'm playing in a bar or something like that, sometimes I'll play like an old Sun House tune or you know some Fred McDowell, you know an old Delta thing.
But one day I realized you know if I keep playing other people's songs, I'm going to be dead and I won't have ever played my own song.
So it seems kind of time to get on to money here.
So you're not tempted by the kind of ironic Glastonbury cover, maybe Ting Ting's track or something?
Who's they?
Well, that's the question that everybody's asking.
Or who's the other one?
Hadouken!
No, I'm not too tempted, because I had that... no.
No, good.
Quite right.
Quite right, I won't say.
And do you go around and see any of the other bands playing when you're at a thing like this?
Last year, you know, I didn't get 50 yards past the back of here.
I tried to go out a few times, you know, how the mud was.
Absolutely.
And I would go and then get stuck in the mud, and then people would come up and want to get pictures.
So that was all good, and then I would forget where I had been going.
So then I'd come back and sit back here again and go,
Then I get an idea, oh, I'm going to go to the other stage.
I'd go out and I'd get like 30 feet and then everyone would come over, which was real nice.
And my boots was coming off in the mud.
And so the only thing I ever saw was who was playing on this stage.
Yeah.
But this year I want to see something, but now I can't walk.
This is the thing, man, when you're in the sanctuary of the Big British Castle, the BBC, it's a place you shouldn't leave.
It's dangerous out there.
That's why the Big British Castle has erected fortified fences around itself and a complicated system of passes, which keeps troublemakers out and keeps us safe and warm inside here.
Can I have a job?
Absolutely.
Yeah, I like that restaurant y'all have over there too.
This was the only, this was, I think last year this was the last place that got flooded with mud.
I come here Sunday night and it was even mud in that studio where we did the TV show.
I said, oh, this, if this is mud in here, we know we in trouble.
We got the best food on the BBC.
Oh yeah, this is going good.
finally steve i just want to ask you uh... it's sort of all this is a question i imagine you get asked a lot but uh... it's all kind of gone crazy in the c-6 steve universe in the last couple of years um... does it feel like that to you or does it feel like a kind of normal progression of a career and so on no i feel like i went crazy yeah cuz like one minute there was nothing happening yeah i couldn't get arrested that's not probably true and uh... have you changed have you become a really obnoxious person now?
I'm trying, but I'm such a nice guy to begin with, but I know there's people you can learn from, so I'm gonna try to find them.
Has anyone come out of the woodwork in your past and started asking you for money?
No, no.
They probably think, they probably know I owe so much.
You know, actually everyone has been so nice to me, it's just, and I don't know, like in England, you know, the people here have just like, like I've said it before, but they just like open their arms to me, and it's just little,
It's something else.
And everywhere I go up on the street, no one ever comes up to me and goes, hey, who do you think you are?
They're all just so nice.
So I think it's just like a miracle.
Well, my theory is that it's because you look like a cross between Father Christmas and Fred Durst.
Who's Fred Durst?
He's the guy from Limp Bizkit.
Rolly, rolly, rolly, rolly, roll.
Oh yeah.
And you've got a little hip-hop twang to your delivery when you're speaking as well.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Has that ever been said to you before?
Oh yeah, all the hip-hop people copying me, you see.
That's where it comes from.
Hip-hop come from.
I could see someone sampling you though, do you know what I mean?
Or a lot of collaborations.
Some people have asked me that, but I didn't know that I just heard this from you just now.
Well, I'm not insane, am I Garth?
No, I agree with that.
The hip-hop cadences in there, do you mind if I say cadences?
I do actually, I don't like you saying that.
I'll never say it again.
Please don't say that.
I'll never do it.
Is he the English corrector?
Yeah, I like the idea that I'm just here for grammar.
No, you can't say grammar with Garth.
Especially not me.
Grammar and etiquette.
he's the etiquette observer for the pcc this is it steve's people have asked if an etiquette observer could stand in for the interview he gets very easily upset if protocol is breached especially if someone talked bad english you know i can't stand that you know exactly well uh... steve thank you so much for coming and chatting to us my pleasure we're on it it's so nice to meet you and uh... you know it's if joe was here uh... he would be saying i'm sure that it's so nice to to uh...
I'm disastrous at wrapping things up.
So nice to meet you, Steve.
Thank you so much for coming to chat to us.
Have a fantastic time at Glastonbury and we'll see you soon, I hope.
I appreciate you guys.
Thank you for having me.
Thank you.
Cheers.
Take care.
with Forget Myself and his harmonies on there are sounding very super furry animals, aren't they?
I like that.
I mean, that's a good thing, absolutely.
Yeah, it's not a bad thing.
Hey, this is Adam Buxton.
And me, Garth Jennings.
See how I'm getting used to that, throwing it over to me?
Yeah, because I'm sitting in for Joe Cornish, who's still very poorly with the shingles.
He's probably listening, in fact.
Oh, yes, he's back now, isn't he?
Hey, Dr. Sexy, how you doing?
And maybe, hey, if he's even listening right now, perhaps he could give us a shout or something.
Send us a text.
I don't know what.
What number would he call Jude?
Well, he can text us on 6406.
No, 64046.
Ah, you have to add the extra four.
That's clever.
So when you say read the number, you mean actually read all the digits of the number out?
Oh, now I see.
Not just random digits.
Just follow my lead, sir.
OK.
All right.
I'm getting tired and confused as I let Glastonbury.
64046 is the number for texts.
And of course, don't forget that we have a wealth
of picture excitement available on the BBC six music website bbc.co.uk forward slash glastonbury will take you to all those pictures there you can see some of our pictures they may be pictures of the blue the blues guy that we played you earlier on um the sort of busking man he's worth looking at actually he's a handsome man he's a good looking man
good-looking guy Robin Hitchcock and pictures of us just wandering around generally and many many other pictures as well that have been taken of some of their main acts and Judeo producer assures us they're extraordinary so well worth a look go and check those out immediately we'll be playing you a few more chunks from our wonderings yesterday very shortly but first here's some more music now this is oh incidentally I should say thank you so much to C6 Steve Santa Man he was lovely and he came in and opened it
the track we played by C6 Steve was called Things Go Up and yeah man he hobbled I mean you don't want a foot injury at the best of times but a spike through the bottom of the foot and then coming to Glastonbury and he was saying later on as well it's gonna go nasty that he he kept on getting told off by his wife because he'd been jumping the freight trains again you've been jumping the freight train Steve said my wife got real angry with me because I was jumping on the freight trains
And I mean, that's a good thing to get in trouble.
If you're gonna get in trouble from your wife, then I think it should be for jumping on freight trains.
What was quite funny was that the camera crew filming him making a documentary about him were all excited to say, Steve's gonna take us on the trains.
Yes, that's right.
We're gonna jump on the train with Steve.
We're gonna jump in on the freight train.
They don't talk like that, but it's just, you know, in translation, making it entertaining.
I've added a silly voice.
One of them did.
One of them talked like that.
And now we're making a documentary about C-60 which says we can jump on the freight train with him.
We're going to take these boys on a train.
That would be great, wouldn't it?
I just get in trouble for hogging the remote.
But I've got to start jumping on freight trains.
Now, here's some more music.
This is, I've completely forgotten what this is now.
MGMT with electric field.
They're so hot right now.
MGMT with electric field.
They were playing here at Glastonbury yesterday.
They're so hot right now.
They're attractive.
And they're going to be talking to Lauren Laverne on her BBC Six music show.
This afternoon from 4 you can hear that.
Well worth catching.
I wonder if they were well behaved with Laverne.
Because we were saying last week on the show they can be a little angular as interviewees apparently.
Yeah, that's the young band thing though, isn't it?
Exactly.
They can behave like tods apparently.
But maybe, I imagine that Lauren would have charmed them into submission.
Yeah.
because she's a genius like that, so you can hear the results of her encounter with MGMT from 4 p.m.
this afternoon on 6 Music.
Right now, here's another little chunk, I think maybe the final little burst of our trip around Glastonbury, and this was in a kind of hippie-ish enclave somewhere in the green fields yesterday.
So we're on our way to the Avalon fields right now, and we've come through a very nice kind of upmarket.
How would you describe this area?
It's like an upmarket hippie commune.
Exactly.
Hippies, and I like it because it's all good vibes.
Yeah.
Well, you know, this is... You can say vibes these days.
Of course, it's not all vibes.
This is exactly the kind of place I was thinking of when I did my festival song, you know, which maybe we'll play in in a second.
And there's a lot of 4x4s and stuff around here.
They're a little bit beaten up, it's not particularly swish around here.
But there's a lot of yurts and four-wheel drive cars and nice tents and really nice little mellow areas.
And there was, what was the name of that band we just saw over there in the caff?
They would call someone like Peace and Unity or something.
Division and Unity.
A bit of Hazel O'Connor-esque, I thought.
Yeah, and they were singing about it.
They were doing some pretty cunning stuff about George Bush there.
If I was George Bush and I was wondering through here, I would have to sit down and do some hard thinking.
Seriously hard thinking.
After listening to a couple of Division and Unity songs.
I was going to say, are they accusing them of actually being a fundamentalist?
Yes.
And actually being part of Elkhai?
He is actually, they're song was saying he's actually a Salah Bilal.
He is actually a Salah.
He's actually him.
Well that would explain a lot of things.
It's making it so much easier as well.
It certainly would.
At least we know where he is now.
Thank goodness for Division of Unity.
CD is on sale currently at Glastonbury.
So yeah, it's nice around here.
You know, I could, I could spend some time here.
This is great.
This is exactly what I was after when I was coming down for my first glass dough experience.
Everywhere smells of wood, smoke.
It's really nice that smell.
Makes you feel safe.
Absolutely.
And one thing that's caught my eye in this area is a big tent that says magic hat sauna and private shower.
And it's all sort of closed up, I don't know if this is an area, well I guess it's closed up because it's got the sauna inside.
No, yeah, look, I can see through the window.
There is a naked person inside there and the windows are kind of frosted, it's like frosted plastic.
I have to tell you, that looks like something from a horror film at the bottom of a killer's car.
It really does.
It's sort of the way it's put together is a little bit too spooky for me to want to go in there.
Yeah, it looks, I don't know if you've ever seen the film Altered States, but it looks like a metal isolation tank with a kind of canvas tent draped around the sides.
But with these, you can see little naked figures moving about from there.
What kind of scene?
I can see he's a naked man.
And what kind of scene is in there in the sauna though?
Because it's so muddy around here, you would think the sauna would instantly become like a mud pool.
Well, yeah.
Wouldn't it?
But maybe that's a good thing.
Maybe it's like a hot mud sauna.
Because mud is a beauty-inducing, enhancing thing.
Well, it's good for you, certainly.
It's got many beatific properties.
That's the right word.
Are we all right?
Is everyone still there?
Okay, we better continue our journey to Avalon.
Come on, let's go to Avalon.
Very nice.
That was the eels, wasn't it Garth?
Eels and last stop, this town.
That was one of Garth's choices for you folks.
You did a video for that, did you not?
That was one of the first things we did where it went really well.
Yeah.
It was a very odd video, because it was... The idea is that the lead singer takes out some of his DNA and injects it into a carrot, and the carrot slowly becomes a little him.
Post-Jurassic Park, that was, was it?
I think it might have been, I don't know.
Must have been inspired by... Maybe it was, there's talking melons.
And, um... I love talking melons.
Oh, my favourite kind of melon.
But, uh, yeah, that was a... And I really like that song, and I love that band, and it was a real... That was one of those great jobs where you get to do what you want, and it works out.
I imagine they'd be a good Glastonbury band, don't you think?
I think they'd be fantastic.
I'm sure they must have played before.
They've got many personas, though.
Sometimes they go acoustic, sometimes they have, like, a string section, sometimes... If they were really rocking, they'd kill here.
They'd be brilliant.
They actually kill people.
They really do, they hurt people.
I mean, that's going too far, I think.
Maybe, but at least it gets a good, big reaction.
Exactly.
Shall we have a lovely trail?
It's time for another Glastonbury fact.
There's the jingle.
Did you know that when the festival is on each year, the average IQ of the rest of the UK rises by 36%?
That is phenomenal.
That's true.
That's amazing.
I mean, when I say true, I mean it's not by any means true, yeah.
But it's good truth.
It's like the opposite of true.
That's the kind of truth I like.
Made up truth.
Bad truth.
Bad truth.
That's the Libertines, and Peter Ocketty's prowling around somewhere, isn't he?
And Amy Winehouse, oh my goodness.
Whole place is gonna go up in flames.
This is Adam and Garth here.
We're pretty much signing off now.
Yeah, thanks for having us.
Thank you so much for listening.
We'll be back next weekend, of course, with Dr. Sexy, I hope, and he'll be all well.
Don't forget to check out the Glastonbury Gallery at the BBC Six Music website.
Stay tuned for Liz Kershaw.
Maybe I'll see you on 4th of July at the BFI.
Check out my website for details.
Adam Buxton, you know, just type in Adam Buxton, you'll find it.
Thank you very much indeed for listening and I hope you have a fantastic time if you're still here at Glastonbury.
Don't forget to watch the BBC coverage, of course, if you're at home.
It's, um, peerless.
It's unparalleled throughout the world, uh, apparently.
The Big British Castle, you can't beat it with a stick.
You can try, but it won't do you any good.
Uh, we're gonna wrap up right now with the Kings of Leon last night's headliners, and this is Fans.
Cheerio!