Nick Grimshaw kicked off National Poetry Day with a cheeky poem about his own early starts before diving into another brilliant round of House Music, the weekly feature where listeners send in everyday sounds that mimic pop hits. The best of the bunch came from Rob in Manchester, whose dog’s collar tracker beeps “exactly like the opening bar of Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer” when switched off, prompting Nick to dig out an old story about seeing the famously surreal video as a kid at “my anti-pattern uncle Dave’s house.” Charlie in Hull’s car parking sensors apparently play The Undertones’ You’ve Got My Number, while Sophie in Ghana swore her mum’s computer shutdown sound is “Embrace’s Glorious Day.”
Elsewhere, Nick and the team got to hear Fontaine’s D.C.’s brand new single Tongue live on air for the first time, ahead of their album Dopamine Chamber out 16 October, alongside fresh tracks from Perfume Genius and Princess Nokia. The hour of Cloudbusting returned too, with shout-outs flying in from as far as Edinburgh, Barcelona and Falmouth.
There was also a nod to the day’s Way with Words celebrations, with Nick playing Kate Bush’s Waking the Witch to tee up Craig Charles’s new poem about Liverpool’s music scene, airing live from 1pm. Lauren Laverne popped in before her handover to confirm she’ll be taping that night’s Celebrity Traitors launch rather than missing a second of it, joking about her “Pinterest board” tracking the celebrities’ outfits.
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