Harry Styles, Scott’s fake-song apology and a birthday call for Diana Vickers
Scott opened by confessing to a particularly avoidable mistake. He had repeated an email claiming that Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know was a cover of an old Tinie Tempah song, leaving listeners to search the internet and even place bets on a song that did not exist.
The truth was that Frisky & Mannish had performed Gotye in the style of Tinie Tempah. Scott had read just enough of the message to reach the wrong conclusion, then had to apologise to both the duo and the listeners who had spent an evening looking for his imaginary South London original.
Chris’s new possible feature, Chris Talks to Men in the Toilets, was discussed after his recent encounter at an event. Scott liked the title much more than Chris liked the prospect of making it a regular part of his job, which was probably wise.
The team also tried to arrange a birthday message from Diana Vickers. Their repeated calls were treated as a proper production, even though Scott eventually accepted that having the real artist on the phone would be more convincing than a loosely organised substitute.
Harry Styles was the day’s guest, bringing One Direction’s world into the studio while the rest of the programme continued in its usual mixture of celebrity access and minor office confusion. It was a fittingly busy edition for a week in which Scott was still standing in on Breakfast.
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