We're inside a special area with great big walls so the weirdos and the hoolies can't get through to go to the loo.
A lot of bad language in that track there that was removed by the bad language police.
Quite right too.
For an artist called Jamie T. He doesn't have trouble with his T's.
No, he was not pronouncing any of his T's at the top there.
There's no T's in there.
He's annihilated all T's.
What's the dus... oh... Settle.
Settle, Jamie.
Settle is the word.
Hey listeners, welcome along.
We are coming to you, like most other shows from Six Music this weekend, live from a major music festival that happens in Somerset.
are called Glastonbury.
We should say who we are as well.
Yeah.
Because this is not our normal slot.
You're right.
Sorry to use the word slot, but it is now after the watershed.
So that's fair enough, isn't it?
My name is Adam Buxton.
My name is Joe Cornish.
Together we form a duo called Adam and Joe.
An amateur radio presenting duo.
Adam and Joe.
We won a competition to be on the radio.
We're really excited.
This is our first time.
Yeah, I'm very nervous.
You know what?
I am unusually excitable because there's a palpable atmosphere here.
I mean, it might be to do with the millions of people and the amazing bands and the flags and the fact that you've had two pair-siders.
Yeah, the fact that I've had half.
A cup of cider.
I've got a really low alcohol tolerance.
This is genuinely true.
That's true.
You're not a big boozer, are you?
I'm not a big boozer.
I had half a cup of cider.
He's absolutely out of control.
I've been on the moon for most of the afternoon.
He's gone totally mental.
Amazing.
But listen, folks, let me just paint a little aural picture for you right now.
There's a big orange sun, an Apocalypse Now style sun that is just dipping down behind the OB van.
Our outside broadcast van where we are currently sat is right next to the pyramid stage.
That's the big main stage here at Glastonbury.
The specials are just about to finish their set.
And in about 45 minutes, I think Neil Young will be on stage.
The specials have played a blinder.
They are sounding great.
Hit after hit.
Bang, bang, bang.
Body blow, body blow, body blow.
Ghost Town.
Do nothing.
Smash.
Rudy, a message to you.
Wallop.
And they are having a good time out there.
Having a good time.
he doesn't look absolutely perky the man what's his name again the lead singer of the specials uh terry terry terry special he's not like chuckling and telling jokes or anything like that we've had this discussion before we have and he's not like got a special chuckley persona for glastonbury but they are really playing yeah a good gig even the bbc security men were bobbing along they were
Tapping the gates there.
Yeah, and they're hardcore individuals.
They really are.
They don't take none.
No, and they were bopping along.
There were a couple of little children, I would say about five or six, and they were stood on some crates or something, and they knew every single moment of the special song.
They were like, they were miming to all the horns and stuff like that.
They must have a dope dad.
They are groovy, aren't they?
I mean, what kind of people are they going to turn into when they're 25?
Very good people.
Good people.
Yeah.
That's right.
They've been well raised.
Listen, we're going to play you a bit of music now, listeners.
This is from the Fleet Fox's performance earlier today.
And they're a band that sound really beautiful in an outdoor context.
You know, they're so earthy and organic and fair trade.
It's absolutely true.
And they sounded terrific.
This is them playing the beautiful... Are you going to say something?
Well, I was just going to say that we bumped into their guitar tech.
That was exciting, you know, because, I mean... Well, he rushed over.
He's a fan of the show and, you know, the poor old Fleet Foxes have suffered a lot of Stevenage, which is a catchphrase associated with this programme, if you're not a regular listener.
They've had our programme's catchphrase shouted at them at lots of their gigs.
We thought that the guitar tech might be upset or have a bone to pick with us, but on the contrary.
He was very pleased about it, and he said that the rest of the Fleet Foxes were fine, Mr Pecknold, and he said that... Well, I made him a little offer.
I said, look, if it ever gets too much for the Fleet Foxes, because he was saying they had one in Paris, they got Stephen in Paris.
It's happening internationally.
We said to them, if the Fleet Foxes ever get genuinely annoyed by it, we will issue a command to our listeners, to cease and desist.
But anyway, they're all off to see the Animal Collective playing, but we're going to play one of their tracks, as Joe said earlier on, and this one is... Yeah, it's all right, welcome, you're welcome.
That sounded extraordinarily similar to the CD, didn't it?
I sound like girls.
Do you think?
I think they sound like beautiful girly men.
And they are.
Girly, girly men.
That was the Speak Foxes with Mikonos.
That's what you want, though.
From a live experience, I want it to sound as similar to the record as possible.
Because the record's the thing you fall in love with, right?
I like it when bands play their tracks much faster.
Do you know?
Do you?
And a bit more ragged.
James Brown style.
Beat goes out of sync.
Twice as fast.
I like medleys.
Do you?
Do you like it when they reggae them up?
I love that.
You might get some of that with Neil Young later on.
Does he reggae stuff up?
I don't know if he reggae stuff up, but he's disrespectful with his back catalogue.
With his catalogue.
People are concerned.
We've heard one or two people chatting about this round the site.
They're worried or, you know, they're trying to figure out whether Neil Young will play classics.
Is he going to go for the hits or is he going to go for the obscure message set?
You never can tell, can you?
It depends on what kind of a mood he's in.
He might start proselytising and doing the political, hardcore set, you know?
Sometimes he does.
He can't finish a song.
Mm-hmm, you know his endings go on forever.
Yes, Phil's he loves very long guitar solos That's good though.
It's good to toy with the fans keeps them coming back.
Is it?
Yeah It's a marketing ploy.
That's what it is.
He's coming out with his marketing man.
He loves to talk He has long marketing he keeps them coming back all he's interested in is maximizing revenue He loves to would you say it's also true that he loves to disappoint the fans that also keeps them coming back loves that
Hey, listeners, if you've never heard Adam and I before, we're not serious about any of this stuff, at least I am not.
No, we're not equipped with any actual facts, except I've got a number of extraordinary facts about Glastonbury for you right now in a similar vein.
Are you ready for these?
I don't think I am, but do it anyway.
All right, here's with the Glastonbury facts jingle.
What have you got?
Prepare to receive Glastonbury fact.
Here it comes now.
Right.
Now, you were just about to ask me where I got these facts from, right?
Yeah, I might withdraw that question and let's just have the facts and I'll make my own judgement.
Alright, I'll tell you where I got them in a second.
Here's Glastonbury fact number one.
Did you know that the photograph of the Pope, seen on the popular T-shirt, I like the Pope, the Pope smokes dope, was taken in the healing field in Glastonbury in 1983?
That was the year that the festival headliners were Laura Branigan and Jimmy the Hoover.
I did not know that.
Did you not know?
I didn't know that.
Are you going to ask me where I got these facts now?
No, I'm not going to ask you.
All right, you asked me later on then.
I know where you got them from.
Did you know that a typical Glastonbury produces enough mud to fill 12 large fields at a music festival?
That's unbelievable, isn't it?
I didn't know that, but I could have worked it out for myself.
I mean, that's 12 large fields.
That's unbelievable.
It's less surprising than the Pope one.
I mean, that's a real, both from the blue.
I was surprised.
Yeah.
When I read that one.
That's really remixed my head.
Can that really be true?
Well, it must be.
I like the Pope, the Pope smokes dope.
That was actually taken in the Healyfield.
Is that really true?
How about this?
The specials, who played tonight, who are playing as we speak in the pyramid stage, the specials only agreed to play the festival this year after being promised that the film Ghost Town, starring Ricky Gervais, would be dismantled and all the parts buried in lead-lined caskets shaped like tailione.
I mean, that seems unbelievable, doesn't it?
It does seem unbelievable.
How do you dismantle a film?
Wow, this is the thing.
Are you sure that's not just a typo?
I mean, you'd have to go back and de-shoot it.
You'd have to go back and de-shoot, and this is what they're having to do.
You'd have to stage all the scenes again, backwards.
You'd have to run the film, the negative, re-expose it and blanket.
You have to ask Ricky Gervais to stand down.
You have to ask all the people that saw the film, never to speak of it again.
What a huge sacrifice, because that's a really good film.
Well, you know, it's a fun romantic comedy, but it was the only way that they could get them to do the slot on the pyramid stage.
Wow.
What brilliant facts.
I found them, but I'll tell you where I got them.
I found them.
In a toilet?
In a toilet.
But it was a nice toilet.
It was one of the BBC toilets.
Listen, let's have some more music while we absorb that.
Is this going to be the Maccabees?
Here's the Maccabees with Love You More.
This was recorded earlier on today from the other stage here at Glastonbury, 2009.
Wow, that's the Maccabees with Love You More.
I like the way we're getting a tiny bit of the onstage banter at the end of each live record.
Yeah, you've got to have some banter.
But that was kind of incomprehensible.
He just said... That's enough, isn't it?
Yeah, that's fine.
That's all he needs.
That was live from the other stage earlier on today at the Glastonbury Festival, 2009.
We're very pleased to be joined in our tiny outside broadcast cubicle by Murray Lachlan Young.
Have I pronounced your name correctly there?
Absolutely correctly.
Thanks very much.
Now, Murray, you were kind of up and coming when we were teenagers reading Sky Magazine and seeing your handsome face in kind of luch poses in the late 80s.
I still try and keep the old luch pose up.
You're looking good, man, if you don't mind what I'm saying.
Thanks very much.
You have been pickled in Aspic or something.
Well, let's not talk about that.
That's just because I was thinking that like you were a candidate for early burnout, but you failed to burn out Well, I know I did burn out.
Did you yeah, that's probably why I'm still looking so fabulous Yeah, I burnt out and then went and lived in a wood for five years.
Did you which would yeah?
Um, it was in Sussex.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah the the Priory wood
It was kind of my own little priory.
Well, man, you've come out of it looking wonderful and I'm very pleased to say still producing poetry.
Yeah, they've been really milking you for poetry so far, haven't they?
Are you six music sort of resident poet for the Glastonbury Weekend?
Is that right?
That's me, for sure.
Yeah, yeah.
And they've been pumping you for poetry at the rate of four a day.
Can most poets turn stuff out at that rate?
Well, I wouldn't like to comment on other people.
John Hegley couldn't handle it.
Do you think you're compromising your creative integrity at all by being asked to, you know, like a sort of over-milked heifer?
I don't know where I'm going with this.
It's a beautiful image.
You wrote your own poetry.
No, you're like a sort of poetry war correspondent though, aren't you?
I think it's creatively just having that sort of weight is actually good for me because I need to have some sort of deadlines, but it's frying day before day.
And you've chosen a particular subject for your poem that you're going to read to us now?
Are you going to read it now?
Yeah, let's have time before the news.
And then we'll deconstruct it afterwards.
Are you comfortable with that?
You can try.
I've been telling it all over the place.
I've got a B in A-level English literature.
Have you ever written a poem, Joe?
I've got an S level.
Yeah, probably.
Have you?
In the past.
Yeah, sure I have.
Because it's a funny thing writing serious poetry.
Is it?
Well, no, it's weird.
I tell you, just before you read your poem, Murray, because it's a strange thing.
Like, do you ever spontaneously tell poems and recite poems when you're around at people's houses and stuff?
Do people, presumably people ask you to do that a lot?
Well, back in the time when you were talking about, I would do it for sure, because I was on the hustle to get people to listen to me and make friends and influence people, but now I try and avoid it at all costs.
I went through a period of trying to avoid it at all costs, but now I think I'm in my sort of...
The ego situation is is calm.
Yeah.
So people say would you give us a poem?
No, no, I couldn't possibly do that.
It's a bit, you know, so yeah, so I say yeah, sure.
Yeah, but people tend not to ask too much.
And do people do you get the other thing when people recite poems to you their favorite poems?
Oh, yes.
Yes.
Yes that happens on a very regular basis.
I find that weird.
Someone started reciting Dr Seuss, Oh The Places You'll Go, which is a wonderful book.
Oh, I love Dr Seuss.
But the guy knew it off by heart and he recited the whole flipping thing.
I thought he was going to quote a couple of lines.
Ten minutes later, we're all sat there nodding and smiling and going, yes, we've read it.
How was it for you?
It was odd.
Everybody knows one poem though, don't you think?
Yeah.
Everybody's got to know one poem.
Which is your one that you know?
Oh, an English Airman... Oh, man, I can't remember it.
I've gone blank.
I would say you don't know it, then.
W.B.
Yates.
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above.
Those who I fight, I do not hate.
Those who I guard, I do not love.
My country is... Oh, man.
You know, that's not bad, is it?
No, that was good.
I used to know the whole thing.
Under pressure, I could come out with the whole thing.
I only know This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin, but that's got the F-bomb in it, so I can't say that.
They flip you up, your mum and dad.
But listen.
Murray, would you please do us the honour of reading the poem that you have composed for this occasion?
The Sunset Poem, the final piece of the day.
And this is it, okay.
The setting summer sun returns and thoughts of mad monsoon may fade.
Collective thanks must turn in humble praise to you, a rubber welly boot.
Oh, stalwart of the muddy field, protector of the glass-dove foot for honesty, grooviness, and keeping it real.
Oh, the flip-flop is fine, but you are divine.
You give such an option to tweak and refine.
You come in a deluge of colorful colors and patterns and petals and proud polka dots.
You stand like a rock at the base of a look.
You're practical, so it can suddenly sexy, and girls just seem to absolutely go crazy about you.
Sexy?
A welly boot?
Why, I hear you cry, because it's simple, you see.
Because out of the boot comes the shape of the calf.
And on to the calf goes the long woolly sock, and the long woolly sock goes up to the curve of the knee, and the curve of the knee meets the curve of the thigh, and the curve of the thigh can go ever so high, till it meets with the edge of the frayed miniskirt.
But that's not the point.
The point is, the point I'm trying to make is, I dare say that soon your work now will be done, and we, fingers crossed, may return to basking sung kissed in the summer sun.
And even then, people will cling to you in silver, pink, and deep metallic green, so thank you, quiet, cultural, cossing icon.
Thank you for just being you.
Thank you for keeping us dry, O Wellie Boot, as we drift on the raft of this Glastonbury dream.
Thank you very much, Murray.
That should be etched on the hillside at Glastonbury, you know, because the Wellie Boot is, that should be the symbol of the festival.
But you're right about the Wellie Boot and the way it sets off the lower leg.
and it provides a sort of animalistic stance, sort of gives you a touch of the centaur.
Do you know what I mean?
There's something fetishistic going on.
There is, isn't it?
There is, yes.
I prefer a thigh boot myself, as you can see.
Well, we should let you know, listeners, that Murray is wearing the most extraordinary waders, I'd call them.
They go up to the centre of the thigh and, frankly, they're overly sexy.
Wait till you see the gold-lamb they thong.
They can't wait.
I will wait.
I'm waiting.
It's like having Lord Byron in multi-fatted waders, isn't it?
Folks, thank you so much, Marie.
Yeah, that was brilliant.
Marie, well done.
That's Neil Young with Harvest Moon.
He's coming on stage here at Glastonbury in about 20 minutes.
That's when he's scheduled.
You know, I can play that tune pretty well.
You can, can't you, Juan String?
I forgot about that.
I've got a Neil Young chord book.
I can't read music, but you know those books where they just do the dots?
Sure.
And you put your fingers where the dots are.
Tabs, yeah.
Yeah.
I sing it along and then you can do the strummy bit and then you go... You're quite good at the voice as well.
Well, you just have to do sort of calm it, don't you?
Go on, you do yours.
I couldn't possibly do it.
It would be too moving for the listeners.
It really would.
You'd be in tears.
If I had half a cup of cider, I could only just hold it together as it is.
It'll start weeping.
Give me a guitar, maybe I'll do it at some other point on the weekend.
That's a promise.
Joe said that we were going to go completely up, because we're doing a show tomorrow, right, listeners?
We're on from 11 until 2 tomorrow morning on 6 Music, and then we're on again for the same show that we're doing tonight, tomorrow.
Yeah, this is called our Sunset Show.
Yeah, we do Sunset every day.
That's the deal.
We're Sunset guys.
And so our plan tomorrow is to go completely mental after the...
After the three-hour show.
Yeah, after the three-hour show, right?
Because we've got jobs to do.
We've got to go and do the red button coverage.
It's very exciting for me and Joe.
We've never been on TV before.
And they are offering us, not proper TV, but the red button.
And the red button's a big part of most people's lives.
Definitely.
Everyone's finger is always hovering over the red button when you've got your remote there.
I wonder what's on the red button?
Can we not watch the news?
Hey, there's been some good red button stuff.
That's stuff to do with the Amado Inuchi stuff that was on the red button.
That's true, wasn't it?
Good Stuart Lee interviews after... Yeah, there's often good little nuggets on the red button.
Hey, I don't know if you thought I was being ironic or not, because I wasn't.
The red button's amazing, and we're doing some red button coverage tomorrow, and we are taping a little segment where I'm going to read out some jokes that our listeners have sent in.
Made up jokes, right?
And I'm going to be reading them out at the cabaret tent at 4.30 here at Glastonbury tomorrow afternoon.
I think we're coming on just after Kevin Elden.
I mean, he's amazing Kevin Elden.
Tough act to follow.
Very tough act to follow.
And then after that, I think maybe Jeremy Hardy comes on.
God knows what Jeremy Hardy is going to make of my...
the made-up joke set that I've got planned.
So that's our afternoon, but then we're going to go totally nuts and then we have to do our sunset show tomorrow evening.
So Joe will be so emotional by then.
Fat Guy Goes Nutsoid.
It's one of my favourite films.
What's Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid?
I don't really know.
It's just a film title that I see every now and then.
Just make it up.
No, it's real.
Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid.
Look it up.
I've always wondered what happens in it.
I mean, I guess a Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid.
Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid.
That's on my must-see list now.
Sounds good, doesn't it?
So what I'm basically building up to is saying that maybe tomorrow on The Sunset Show we can find a guitar and you can do your Neil Young.
what uh yeah on the show yeah yeah sure maybe that's a promise it's gonna be bad for everybody obviously it's gonna be bad like really sincerely it'll be so funny something i do in private to my girlfriend with the guitar
You know, hiding my bits.
I'm naked at the time.
Sure.
Of course you are.
Or you're just wearing your wolf pants.
It's part of my seduction routine.
But that would be amazing.
I would love it if you did it so sincerely.
If you were so... Okay, you're on.
...tired.
That would be brilliant.
You are on.
And then you could make me do something sincerely.
I wanted to be all about me.
All right.
We'll just be about you, that's fine.
You're not allowed to do anything.
Well, we should listen out and see if Neil Young plays Harvest Moon tonight, because he may just mess around with it completely.
He may get me on.
He might be listening to this.
Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, I was listening.
Ladies and gentlemen, I was listening to a program earlier on this evening on six music.
Boy wait, we should agree being fat person.
It puts the lotion in the basket.
And Joe Cornish was on there.
He was saying you can play Hari's moon.
I'm going to get him on to play for you ladies and gentlemen.
Can you imagine the response in the crowd?
A portal ocean in a basket.
That's what it's going to be like when Neil Young comes on.
Music time right now, ladies and gentlemen.
Here is a track that was recorded earlier on today at Glastonbury.
It's Regina Spectre, and this is called Fidelity.
I'm pretty sure they're not taking good care of themselves.
Well, that's hardly the point of being here.
They're just out there rolling around in their own fill.
Abuse yourself with moderation, as far as I can tell.
We went for a wonder earlier on, today, listeners.
I arrived this afternoon because I was filming the sitcom yesterday.
Joe, you got here yesterday, right?
I did.
I was here last night.
So you were here for the deluge?
I was.
There was a massive thunderstorm.
In fact, I was
kind of being patched through live to Radcliffe and McConnie's show on Radio 2.
And I was in a little outside broadcast box.
And just as I was about to go on, lightning struck the box.
And I think all the electrics went down right across the BBC momentarily.
Every time they patched me through, there was another fizzle.
It was really quite scary.
I think Joe Wiley very nearly got a hit.
One of her earrings.
talking about.
I don't know I'm just fantasizing yeah but it was scary and exciting and uh it's probably um Andrew Collins no not Collins and Maconey it's uh Maconey and Radcliffe yeah it's probably uh Stuart Maconey just thinking oh we don't have to have Joe Cornish do we yeah trying to trying to slice me off coming off get the lightning on
But I had a good one around yesterday on my own.
Where did you go?
I went all over the shop, to one end of the shop and the other, and it was a little bit emptier than it is today, yesterday.
Yeah.
I met a couple of fans of this show.
Oh, really?
Who had a made up joke for us.
Good one.
They came and kind of got hold of me and said, look, we've made up this joke.
His name was David Churchward.
She was called Gemma Watts.
And their joke was just awful.
I mean, it was really awful.
And it took ages to say it.
Yeah.
And it was just really disappointing.
And you had to stand there smiling all the time?
No, as soon as she said the last word of the joke, I just turned and walked away.
Did you?
Yeah, but in a comic way, you know?
Then I came back again.
It's so awful, I'm not gonna say it to you.
Are you not even gonna say it?
What, do you?
I mean, it is, it's really bad.
Come on!
Do I have to?
to say it.
You've got to say it now.
What is it about radio?
Do I?
Why can't we just move on?
Because listeners won't know.
It's the empty box syndrome, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
Even if it's worthless, you still have to know what it is.
You still have to have a little peek inside.
That's how Deal On No Deal works.
That's right.
OK, she said, Gemma said, what film is this?
Hello.
All right.
And the answer is the horse whisperer.
Now they thought they'd made that up.
I quote, we feel we made this up on Wednesday in traffic, waiting to come down.
How could you think you've made that up?
Hello, all right.
I would have done it a bit more like that.
Yeah.
See, that's very funny.
Do you think?
Excuse me.
I was wondering if I could borrow a Tempe for a cup of tea.
I mean, they knew it wasn't very good, but I was shocked that they thought they'd made it up.
We've got better jokes than that for the comedy tent tomorrow night.
I saw a dance troupe performing a satirical ballet about second homeownership in Cornwall.
No.
Yeah.
How was that?
Very good.
Was it?
Yeah, it was good.
It was really taking the Mickey out of those second homeowners and there was a small local crowd finding it very funny.
Yeah, I bet.
Second homeowners.
Thank God someone's finally stuck it to that lot.
I saw Arthur Smith in the cabaret tent doing some very off-colour material for a family audience.
What time was he on?
4.30.
And he was using all kinds of swear words with sexual innuendo?
It was talking about onanism.
Onanism.
And autoeroticism.
For a family crowd.
For a family crowd.
That's not on, surely.
Some families stood up and left.
Did they?
Well, it was a bit too much too soon for the younger kids.
Smith, you lunatic.
He's provoking a lot of difficult questions.
He's on the straight and narrow now.
I thought he was a family man.
What's he thinking about?
I'm doing an afternoon gig at, what was it, Latitude Festival or something.
Really?
Keep it clean.
I've specially tailored the set so that it won't offend families.
That's the way to do it.
Because that's no good!
Or is it expected if you bring your family... Or is it expected... Or is it expected... Or is it expected... Oh, I've forgotten the question now.
Well, exactly.
Now look what you made me do.
Now look what you've done.
Or is it expected... Oh dear.
Or is it expected that if you bring your family to something like this, then that's gonna happen, right?
And that's what I'm asking.
I don't know, yes.
Yes, no, maybe.
Listen, we've got some music coming up for you.
This is an exciting hot new band, right?
She always just pointing at bits of paper.
Yeah, I was getting ready, getting the next thing lined up.
This is a new band.
You know about this, Adam.
This is a couple of members of Supergrass.
This was like a surprise performance.
Oh, yes.
And they called themselves Hot Rats.
And we bumped into Nigel Godrich earlier on, Radiohead's producer.
And he has done some work with Supergrass in the past.
You know, he's friendly with all those Oxford chaps.
You can embarrass him now.
No, I don't think so.
He was just saying, why are they called themselves Hot Rats?
But I said, well, it's presumably after the Frank Zapper album.
Yeah, and that was a revelation.
He seemed not to know that.
And he was like, oh, right.
Anyway, so I'm excited to hear this.
They played a mystery gig, right?
Yeah, this is live from the park stage earlier.
This is Hot Rats with Lovecat.
That's Gaz and Danny from Supergrass masquerading as the Love Rats there, playing a cover of The Cure's The Love Cats and making it sound amazing.
I called them the Love Rats, didn't I?
No, they're the Hot Rats playing the Love Cats.
Yeah.
Hey, this has been Adam and Joe from the Glastonbury Festival.
Thanks for listening.
Stay tuned.
Take care.
Bye.
Bye.