Chris arrived with two phones
Chris appeared to be carrying two mobiles.
One was his.
The other belonged to a complete stranger.
He had found it on the train while travelling to Radio 1 the previous day.
Rather than immediately leave it behind, Chris waited around the platform for around 10 or 15 minutes, expecting somebody to come running back as soon as they realised what had happened.
Nobody did.
So he took the phone with him, intending to answer when the owner rang and arrange its return.
That did not happen either.
Nobody seemed to be looking for it
Chris could not unlock the phone, so he had no simple way of discovering who owned it.
What confused him was the complete lack of incoming calls.
When Scott had previously lost a phone in a taxi, he had spent the next day repeatedly ringing it and trying to locate it.
Chris expected the same thing here.
Instead, the lost phone sat almost completely silent.
He wondered why the owner had not used a location service or asked somebody else to call it.
One notification did appear with a message asking whether something could be moved to three o’clock, but it was not enough to identify the person.
Chris used the programme to appeal directly to the owner.
If somebody listening had lost a phone on the relevant train, he had it and wanted to give it back.
Otherwise, he would have to hand it in through the proper lost-property route.
Until then, he was wandering around Broadcasting House looking strangely like a man with a separate work and personal mobile.
Chris became emotional about The Streets
The Streets were back performing, and for Chris that was a far bigger deal than an ordinary live session.
He had grown up loving Mike Skinner’s music and associated it with particular parts of his life.
Hearing The Streets live again at the BBC brought a strong wave of nostalgia.
Scott had noticed how much the performance meant to him.
Chris said the music still had the energy he remembered rather than feeling like a flat revival of something from the past.
The return felt personal because so many songs were tied to memories.
The conversation became less about reviewing a gig and more about the peculiar way an artist can instantly reconnect somebody with a previous version of their life.
Beychella still was not settled
The Beyoncé argument from Tuesday had survived into Wednesday.
Chris maintained that playing two Coachella weekends created an opportunity to change parts of the show.
Scott still thought the criticism was unfair.
A production on that scale involved choreography, musicians, staging and timing which had all been built with extraordinary precision.
Scott was not willing to accept “do a different one next week” as a reasonable expectation simply because Beyoncé made the finished performance look effortless.
They had agreed to disagree.
Neither sounded particularly persuaded by the other.
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