Liverpool’s comeback had changed the mood
The show began by calling listener Peter in Liverpool, who had spoken to Radio 1 the previous day about the near-impossible task facing his team.
Overnight, Liverpool had produced the extraordinary result Peter hoped for.
He sounded exhausted and delighted.
Scott admitted he had become caught up in the football despite not normally following it with Chris’s level of commitment.
Listeners across Merseyside were already discussing travel plans for Madrid.
One of Scott’s contacts had been asked about spare rooms almost immediately.
The game had barely finished before accommodation became the next problem.
Chris was replaced by an actress
Chris was away filming.
Rather than simply run Bangers without him, Scott hired an actress to play Chris.
The script contained enough basic Chris characteristics to make the joke work.
Watford.
A couple of beers.
Weekend football.
The programme insisted listeners would barely notice the difference.
Chris’s actual song choice had still been supplied, so his fictional replacement could compete.
Scott was amused by how little information was apparently required to construct a recognisable radio version of his co-presenter.
Layla played Bastille on the ukulele again
Bastille had released “Joy”, which meant an old Radio 1 tradition returned.
Whenever Dan Smith arrived with a new Bastille song, the show made him listen to a ukulele version.
The tradition began years earlier when Layla, then a teenage fan, performed a Bastille cover on Radio 1.
Layla later became an intern at the station.
Now she was back with a new arrangement.
Scott joked that the entire internship had simply been a very long plan to get closer to Bastille.
Dan listened to the cover and took the whole thing with the familiar good humour.
HRVY played Fan or Animal
Then HRVY came into the studio.
Scott knew HRVY had an extremely enthusiastic young fanbase.
That created the new game:
HRVY Fan or Animal?
Scott played a selection of screams.
Some came from fans reacting to HRVY.
Others came from animals.
HRVY had to decide which was which.
Foxes provided especially convincing material because the mating calls already sounded like somebody screaming outside a house.
A goat was easier.
A human fan could be surprisingly difficult.
HRVY did well enough for the game to work, although Scott openly admitted it was probably a one-off concept.
Scott’s Big Weekend mistake followed him
HRVY was genuinely booked to play Radio 1’s Big Weekend.
That allowed him to mention Scott’s Taylor Swift error.
News that Scott had accidentally told Taylor she was playing Middlesbrough had already travelled.
Scott asked HRVY to confirm, very clearly, that he really was on the bill.
After last week, nobody was taking the lineup for granted.
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