Friendly Fires reviewed their own Live Lounge
Live Lounge Month continued with Friendly Fires, who covered Meduza’s “Piece of Your Heart”.
Scott and Chris loved the performance.
They also became obsessed with one tiny moment before part of the song began.
There was a count-in, then a pause.
“One sec.”
“Hang on.”
Another attempt.
Nothing about it was actually disastrous.
The ordinary studio hesitation simply sounded funny once isolated and replayed repeatedly.
Friendly Fires later joined the show and good-naturedly reviewed their own Live Lounge.
Scott stressed that the joke was never about the quality of the performance.
It was about how much they enjoyed hearing the tiny bit of uncertainty around it.
Holding hands was weird if you thought about it
The programme then over-analysed one of the most normal romantic gestures.
Why did people hold hands?
Why hands rather than shoulders, elbows or feet?
Scott admitted he did not do it especially often.
The more the pair tried to explain the mechanics, the stranger it sounded.
Listeners defended it as comforting and intimate.
Scott accepted that.
He still thought many everyday behaviours became absurd when described literally.
Anne-Marie returned after Superfan Steve
Anne-Marie joined and immediately remembered the Superfan Steve prank from an earlier appearance.
By now she had seen later versions involving Cheryl and Rylan and genuinely loved the feature.
Scott suggested Anne-Marie could one day become a female equivalent of Steve.
Possible names such as Sharon, Pat and Peggy were floated.
The idea was not developed much further.
Anne-Marie had another Radio 1 game to survive first.
Music Video or Adult Video
Scott read comments taken either from Anne-Marie’s music videos or from adult-video websites.
Anne-Marie had to decide where each one came from.
The comments were selected precisely because they could plausibly belong to either.
One complained that a video was supposedly set around an aircraft but a car alarm could be heard at around 3:10.
Anne-Marie guessed adult video.
Correct.
Other comments focused on appearance, performance and oddly specific moments which could have been written beneath completely ordinary pop videos.
The game turned the comment section into a piece of detective work Anne-Marie was not always equipped to solve.
Driving-test failures became group therapy
The show was also collecting terrible driving-test stories.
People who had failed multiple times were encouraged to hear from others who had done worse.
One caller had failed enough times to make somebody approaching a fourth attempt feel significantly better.
Another story from the week involved a candidate splashing two older women after driving through a puddle, then having to continue the rest of the test knowing they had almost certainly failed.
Scott called it the drive of shame.
Then came the banana
Listener Sam had failed his first driving test.
His mum knew somebody who gave him an unusual piece of advice before the next attempt.
Eat a banana before the test.
Sam did.
He passed.
He was completely convinced the banana had made the difference.
Scott and Chris instantly promoted coincidence into a theory.
Anybody with a driving test coming up should eat a banana first.
Guaranteed pass.
They asked listeners to test it properly.
What started as one caller’s superstition would become one of September’s longest-running stories.
Funny Business found Crabby Dicks
Tuesday still meant Funny Business.
One real company was Crabby Dicks, a bar in North Devon.
The person answering explained that it was more relaxed during the week and became livelier upstairs on Fridays.
Its slogan was effectively:
“Crabby Dicks, itching for a good night out.”
Scott and Chris had once again found a business whose own branding did almost all of the work for them.
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