Ed Sheeran was back at Big Weekend
The programme opened by revisiting one of Radio 1’s biggest Big Weekend returns.
The transcript repeatedly mishears Ed Sheeran as “Alan Titchmarsh”, but the context is unmistakable: Scott and Chris play *Shape of You* and *The A Team* and talk about Sheeran having done very few interviews for several years.
They were relieved he still sounded completely comfortable after time away.
Scott joked that if he stopped broadcasting for three or four years he would be terrified he had forgotten how to do it.
Ed, by contrast, had apparently returned without losing anything.
Easy Life hated their own Live Lounge before it had even begun
Sam and Murray from Easy Life joined immediately after their Live Lounge.
Scott asked the usual question:
How was it?
The answer was not the polished artist response he expected.
They thought it had been terrifying.
They believed there had been mistakes.
They had already gone onto Twitter looking for reviews and were asking Scott to say something nice publicly.
Scott pointed out this was the first time an act had arrived for the post-Live-Lounge chat and effectively announced that the performance had been bad.
The band were pleased to have done it.
They were simply brutally honest about how nervous they had been.
The Peaches review became an exercise in self-torture
Scott then did what he always does.
He made them listen back.
Easy Life had covered Justin Bieber’s Peaches.
Before the clip had even properly started, one of them shouted:
“Mistake.”
Then came another.
And another.
They complained about chords, vocals and little moments nobody listening at home would necessarily have noticed.
Scott and Chris kept trying to reassure them that the overall performance sounded good.
The band kept finding new things to criticise.
They also revealed they had wanted to cover Maroon 5 but had not been allowed to choose the particular track they had in mind.
Scott offered the highly unofficial alternative of letting them come back and serenade the show with Maroon 5 another time.
Rob finally got a job
Tuesday meant Blow Your Own Trumpet.
Listener Rob had spent around six weeks searching for work and writing cover letters.
He had finally been offered a job starting at 6am the following morning.
The new role was in a bakery.
Scott and Chris immediately produced every possible bread pun.
Rob said the relief was difficult to explain.
After weeks of applications, starting work felt like a reward.
The trumpet was fully deserved.
Glockenspiel covers made familiar hits difficult
Don’t Look It Up used cover versions performed on a glockenspiel — although listeners argued some of the clips sounded more like xylophones.
Songs which were obvious in their normal form suddenly became much harder once reduced to bright percussion notes.
Scott and Chris also played a round comparing celebrity followings with national populations, including Gareth Bale versus Wales and Olivia Rodrigo versus Sweden.
The whole quiz had the very specific Radio 1 energy of treating meaningless comparisons with complete seriousness.
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