The Pete Tong game returns
Pete Tong was broadcasting from Miami during Radio 1’s international week, surrounded by DJs and producers whose names sounded increasingly difficult to distinguish from inventions. Scott and Chris revived their game in which some introductions came from Pete’s real programmes and others were assembled by editing unrelated words together.
“Socially Mediaing” was fake, although Pete’s delivery and the music beneath it made the name briefly plausible. CamelPhat sounded absurd but was genuine, as was Monkey Safari. Scott and Chris apologised in advance to dance-music specialists, knowing that their uncertainty would attract messages from listeners amazed by what they did not know.
Apparatus for a night out
The previous day’s binoculars and notebook prompted listeners to reveal the equipment carried by their friends. Suggestions included an emergency banana, breakfast bars eaten secretly at 2am, cocktail sausages wrapped in tissue, a fake engagement ring, a head massager and a torch used to recreate Take Me Out by shining it at strangers.
The most organised group hid a Call of Duty-inspired care package in town or placed it in the designated driver’s car. It contained mouthwash, plasters, water, energy bars, painkillers, phone numbers, a charger and Bear Grylls survival advice. Another friend brought a small shopping trolley for coats to avoid the cloakroom queue.
Bridge criticism and Emily
The video of Chris’s bridge speech looked less accomplished than it sounded on radio because he kept moving between notes on paper, his phone and his hand. A producer had also removed a risky section seconds before the live delivery, explaining some of the visible panic.
Listener Emily brought her dry humour to Real or No Real. A pub quiz team really had been banned for winning too often, Louis Walsh’s old Bebo interests included Cocoa Pops and colouring in, and Manchester City genuinely sold club-branded bras among its women’s nightwear. Emily scored nothing, then attracted enough affection for a former Eggheads winner to request a meeting.
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