Rowetta surprised Scott in the Live Lounge
Scott and Chris returned after the Bank Holiday with Blossoms in the Live Lounge, but the part Scott had not expected was the appearance of Rowetta.
Scott knew the Happy Mondays singer from years earlier and immediately went in for a hug when he saw her. Blossoms were rather less warm towards him, which Scott blamed on the number of times he had joked around their songs on the programme.
Rowetta joined the band for the Live Lounge performance, giving Scott an unexpected reunion before the show had really got going.
Scott and Chris tried to sabotage Radio 1’s trailers
The pair had also become fed up with hearing old clips of themselves suddenly dropped into Radio 1 trails without knowing what was coming.
Their solution was to record a batch of deliberately ridiculous new lines which producers could use instead.
They supplied out-of-context phrases about cornflakes, suspicious smells and food tasting like prawns, with the entire point being that future listeners would hear apparently inexplicable quotes attached to Scott and Chris.
Rather than complain about the trail system, they had decided to make the material worse themselves.
Mark’s first message sounded like a Victorian letter
The main feature asked couples to dig out the very first message they had ever sent each other.
Producer Mark volunteered his own relationship.
He and Emma had first crossed paths backstage at a Blur gig in Hyde Park. They did not immediately begin dating, and around three years passed before Mark finally contacted her on Facebook.
They were not even Facebook friends.
His opening message began: “Hello Emma. Now, before you hideously freak out, you most probably have absolutely no idea who I am.”
Mark then tried to explain the distant chain of mutual friends connecting them, described himself as a “befuddled drunk” from their earlier meeting and asked whether she might like to go for a drink.
He even suggested that a mutual friend could “tout my merits” if Emma needed reassurance.
Scott and Chris could not believe how formal it sounded.
Emma’s response was barely less businesslike. She called it “a blast from the past” and offered the 29th or 30th as possible dates, as though the pair were arranging a meeting rather than a first date.
They chose 29 November.
Within half an hour of meeting, they had already arranged a second date.
Seven years later they were married, making the painfully formal Facebook exchange one of the stronger arguments for keeping old messages.
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