Fantasy football required an album-cover recreation
Chris’s fantasy-football WhatsApp group had a punishment or reward for whoever scored the most points.
That week’s winner had to recreate an iconic album cover using their own face or body.
Chris won.
The chosen album was The Strokes’ Is This It.
The famous artwork shows a close-up of a bare hip and bottom with a black glove resting across it.
There was no obvious way to recreate that safely in a workplace.
Scott and Chris found one anyway.
They went to a Radio 1 toilet.
Scott became photographer and risk manager
The pair took a series of pictures trying to reproduce the pose without accidentally creating something far more revealing than the original.
Chris was understandably nervous about Scott holding the camera.
One slightly wrong angle and the photograph would move well beyond an album-cover parody.
Afterwards Chris got access to Scott’s phone, removed the unused pictures and kept control of the chosen version.
Scott responded by printing the image out.
If he could not upload the file, he could at least post a photograph of himself holding the printout.
The people demanded the cheek
Scott asked Instagram whether there was enough demand to release the recreation.
The messages flooded in.
Do it.
Immediately.
We demand it.
Listeners sent voice notes asking to see the picture.
Chris kept arguing it had been created only for the fantasy-football group.
Scott saw a public-interest case.
Eventually Chris gave permission.
The printout version could go online.
The episode title followed naturally:
We Demand The Cheek.
Celebrity riders became the next investigation
The programme then asked listeners who book artists and DJs to reveal the strange things which appear on riders.
A rider is the list of food, drinks, equipment and backstage requirements sent to a venue before an artist arrives.
One promoter described an up-and-coming act requesting several packets of M&M’s with all the green ones removed.
Scott initially thought this was ridiculous.
Then came the classic explanation.
An oddly specific request can function as a test.
If the promoter has noticed and followed that tiny detail, they have probably also read the important technical and safety requirements buried in the same document.
Bangers went deeper into forgotten dance music
Scott had recently started choosing increasingly old or obscure dance tracks on Bangers.
The day’s caller was riding around in a delivery van with her boyfriend simply to keep him company for an entire working day.
Scott and Chris tried to relieve the boredom with music which the caller had barely heard before.
The feature was becoming a test of whether increasingly niche club records could still win.
Bardcore closed the quiz
Don’t Look It Up returned to modern songs recreated in medieval style.
The programme had spent the day recreating a 2001 album cover, discussing backstage folklore and transforming current music into pseudo-medieval arrangements.
Nothing was allowed to remain in its original form.
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