Scott had seriously underestimated Coldplay crowds
The show had been discussing what different gigs were like.
Some crowds obviously came with the risk of drinks being thrown.
Royal Blood?
Possible.
A heavy festival set?
Very possible.
Coldplay?
Scott assumed absolutely not.
Listener Liz immediately corrected him.
She had seen Coldplay at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland.
The rain itself was not the problem.
The additional “yellow rain” flying through the crowd was.
Liz described going home desperate for a shower because cups of urine had been thrown around the stadium.
Scott sounded genuinely shocked.
Coldplay had not been where he expected to hear that story.
Reopening clubs meant deciding which old traditions deserved to return
With clubs moving closer to reopening, Scott and Chris were imagining what the first nights back would be like.
There would be plenty of 18-year-olds who had never properly been clubbing because their birthdays had happened during restrictions.
The presenters decided reopening was a rare chance to reset nightclub culture.
Some things could come back exactly as they were.
Others perhaps did not need to.
The club photographer was put on trial
Scott and Chris had both spent years DJing in clubs.
They knew the photographer wandering the room could create some terrible pictures.
At the beginning of a night, a posed photograph might be fine.
At the end, people were sweaty, drunk and frequently doing something they did not want appearing on Facebook the next morning.
The pair suggested photographers could remain — but perhaps only with clearer consent or a red-carpet-style area where people actively chose to have a picture taken.
Listeners supplied examples of being caught kissing somebody in the background of somebody else’s photograph.
One former club photographer even joined the conversation.
The feature became less about banning a job and more about whether post-lockdown nightlife could return with slightly better etiquette.
Blow Your Own Trumpet continued celebrating normal life
Tuesday’s small victories returned.
Listeners brought achievements which would barely register to anybody else.
Scott and Chris gave them the same ceremonial trumpet as ever.
The feature felt particularly appropriate as ordinary activities gradually returned.
Things which would once have seemed trivial still felt worth celebrating after months of restrictions.
Real or No Real closed the show
The quiz included another round of Real or No Real.
As always, Scott and Chris had to decide whether strange-sounding claims were genuine.
After discovering urine really did fly at Coldplay concerts, their threshold for what counted as plausible had probably shifted.
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