Scott chooses a David Hasselhoff duet for Edinburgh
With Edinburgh approaching, Scott turned his attention to one of the more surreal bookings on the Fun and Filth Cabaret bill: David Hasselhoff. The practical problem was choosing a song for them to perform together. Suggestions came in rapidly, but the team were especially amused that “Islands in the Stream” appeared to be the public’s preferred choice.
Scott treated the prospect of a Mills and Hoff duet with the seriousness of a major musical decision, while Beccy and Chris made sure the discussion became more ridiculous with every option. The point was not that the song had to make sense, but that it was now very real that Hasselhoff would be appearing in Edinburgh and Scott had somehow acquired a role in the performance.
The show also added to its growing catalogue of involuntary facial expressions. “Mascara Face” and “Sneeze Face” joined the list, giving the team a chance to act out the specific, unflattering looks everyone recognises but rarely names. It was the kind of tiny observation that Scott and Beccy could turn into a long-running office debate.
Dear Scott supplied more of the programme’s familiar listener dilemmas, while the team returned to the fact that Scott had never seen The Lion King. The admission was treated as a major cultural failing, with the others struggling to understand how he had avoided one of the biggest films of its era.
The overall mood was one of gleeful festival preparation. Edinburgh was no longer just an idea for the following week: there was a confirmed Hoff appearance, a potential duet and enough strange on-air detail to ensure that listeners knew the cabaret was unlikely to resemble a normal radio event.
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