Grimmy opens a shopping centre and finds the worst seduction songs
Nick Grimshaw was covering for Scott and sounded slightly disorientated by the earlier slot, having normally finished his own Radio 1 show at midnight. A night out with Greg James at Florence + the Machine’s album listening party had only added to the confusion: it was presented as a party, but everyone was expected to sit quietly and listen to an album.
His day then became even stranger when he was booked to help open a huge shopping centre in east London. Grimmy expected at least to be allowed near the ceremonial scissors, but Boris Johnson took charge of the ribbon-cutting. Pixie Geldof and Nicole Scherzinger were also on the guest list, making it a line-up Grimmy admitted felt more like a random celebrity dream than a normal Tuesday morning.
Nicole’s performance was impressive, complete with an escalator entrance, dancing and pyrotechnics. The only drawback, according to Grimmy, was that the effects gave off an unmistakably unpleasant eggy smell. It was the perfect detail to puncture the glamour of the occasion, and he returned to Radio 1 exhausted but very pleased to have seen it.
The show then asked for listeners’ worst possible “bad seduction songs”, the tracks that would immediately ruin any romantic atmosphere if an MP3 player was on shuffle. Suggestions ranged from Shania Twain and the Pizza Hut song to The Chef’s Chocolate Salty Balls and a Timmy Mallett remix of “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini”.
Grimmy also played The Comments Game with a listener, using real, vicious online comments as clues to a celebrity story. The feature was intentionally difficult, especially once the commenters began attacking one another rather than the people in the article. It was a lively cover show, built from a surreal early-morning booking, a very silly music question and the glorious chaos of internet gossip.
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