Garage shout-outs
Scott and Chris recorded old-school garage shout-outs for Skream’s history of bass music. They exaggerated the close-microphone pirate-radio style, inserted Nokia message tones and attempted to rhyme genuine listener names with records.
Chris treated the invitation as evidence that two daytime presenters had gained credibility alongside Annie Mac, Pete Tong and Skream. Scott admitted he had mainly copied the DJ heard in his local convenience store, including the distorted voice and unnecessary mobile number.
Strangers read terrible text messages
The pair tested a new street game. Each sent the other an embarrassing message, then the recipient approached a stranger and claimed to have forgotten his glasses. The stranger had to read the unseen message aloud.
Scott heard that he had tried to unbutton somebody’s shirt with his teeth after they had passed out. Another passer-by informed him that a partner had been seeing Travis for six months, while somebody else read that the milkman had caused a breakup and the victim’s bags were in the shed.
The strangers offered sympathy before withdrawing from the increasingly awkward encounter. Scott had needed ten minutes to approach anybody at all, and both presenters agreed that involving an innocent reader made the messages considerably worse.
Celebrity Hunter lands in the schedule
Chris had been told late on Thursday that his television programme would air at 22:00 the following Monday. Channel 4 had dropped a scheduled benefits debate and inserted the film immediately after Benefits Street. Even its name, The Celebrity Hunter: Two Chairs, One Chat, had only been decided that morning.
The programme grew from the viral Mila Kunis interview. Chris and his friends created a list of people he wanted to meet, ranging from international stars such as Colin Farrell and Johnny Knoxville to figures remembered from teenage magazines. Derek Acorah also appeared.
Chris had known the project existed but expected a longer lead time. He moved from excitement to panic while Scott repeatedly stressed that the announcement was genuine. An hour earlier he had simply been the man making garage noises; by the afternoon he was replacing a national television debate.
Does Taylor Swift cry every night?
Scott returned to Taylor Swift’s concert and the emotional moment when she appeared to cry at the piano. He had been moved too, but later wondered whether the tear arrived during every performance at exactly the same point.
Listeners who attended other London dates confirmed similar emotion. Scott knew that concerts contained planned speeches and repeated staging, but felt uneasy about discovering that what seemed spontaneous might form part of the nightly show.
Danny Howard’s Access All Areas Real or No Real established that Alan Shearer really napped in the BBC’s mother-and-baby room before broadcasts. A trailer involving B.Traits and a rollercoaster was not cancelled because she was too short, Jo Whiley had not received a haircut during her live 1999 Brit Awards show, and Phil Taggart really had belonged to an Omagh breakdancing crew whose members later won European and world titles.
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