Back to Breakfast
Scott and Chris began 2016 covering the Radio 1 Breakfast Show for Grimmy. After the strange working days between Christmas and New Year, Scott was pleased to find people back in the building and had made the effort to arrive in actual clothes rather than the pyjama-like outfits he had worn the previous week.
The programme attempted to replace talk of the “hardest Monday of the year” with positive messages from people beginning jobs, returning to university and travelling to work. Chris had no major resolution beyond giving up alcohol for January, while Scott rejected the idea that everybody needed to change something simply because the calendar had turned.
Sound of 2016
Annie Mac joined them to begin Radio 1’s daily countdown of the BBC Music Sound of 2016. The first name in fifth place was Mura Masa, the 19-year-old Guernsey producer whose real name was Alex Crossan. Asked to describe his music in five words, he offered “experimental electronic hip hop dance thing” and explained that hearing artists including James Blake had led him towards electronic music after earlier spells in metal and gospel bands.
Mura Masa was halfway through writing an album and described how important the internet had been when developing music away from a large local scene. Annie then revealed an unprecedented tie: WSTRN had received precisely the same number of votes. Akelle, Haile and Louis discussed growing up in west London, the success of “In2” and the album they were assembling, before “Got Love” joined Mura Masa’s “Love for That” as Radio 1’s shared Track of the Day.
A resolution from nowhere
Listener Gareth had no resolution, so Scott used an online personality quiz to choose one for him. Questions about Taylor Swift’s gang, One Direction’s hiatus and a selection of absurd diets somehow produced the instruction to join a running club. Neither Gareth nor Chris could explain the connection, but Gareth accepted the result of the show’s deliberately pointless research.
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