Fun and Filth prepares to return to Edinburgh
Listener Mary had appeared as an extra in Jedward’s “Bad Behaviour” video after responding to a Twitter request. A director asked her to jump onto the twins during a bedroom scene, and she landed on them with enough force to flatten them before rolling around on the floor. The sequence was cut, leaving Mary visible for less than half a second despite spending six or seven hours at the shoot.
Scott announced that the team would return to the Edinburgh Festival during the week beginning 13 August for a second year of the Fun and Filth Cabaret. He described the festival’s mixture of famous performers, unknown acts, unlikely venues and variable quality, while Beccy remembered being surprised by how much she had enjoyed the previous year. Listener feedback had delivered one particularly clear request for the new run: more filth.
A best-bits montage revisited Russell Kane turning listeners’ inappropriate stories into a performance, improvised music built from random words, James Morrison singing real magazine headlines and the parade of comedians, musicians, magicians and cabaret acts that had appeared. Scott and Grimmy would host again, with Beccy overseeing health and safety while the team considered knife throwing and a burlesque act whose crucial detail could not be described on air.
In Dear Scott, one listener had bought a handbag displaying Mischa Barton’s face after misunderstanding a friend’s request for a bag from the actress’s fashion range. Another asked for help recovering KT Tunstall’s musical proposal from a 2007 Radio 1 Christmas programme. The archive team found the recording, allowing Charlotte to use the song at her wedding after a five-year engagement.
Scott’s zip-up top caused concern because he had worn nothing underneath it, while his new relaxation habit involved listening to an internet station playing spa music around the house. He imagined replacing his usual club set with ambient music, candles and an audience lying calmly on the floor. Grimmy later faced Chris in a celebrity-tweet edition of Oh, What’s Occurring?, identifying posts from figures including Phillip Schofield, Davina McCall, Miranda Hart, Conor Maynard, Jedward and Florence Welch.
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