Nick Grimshaw kept things gentle on a misty Tuesday, leading listeners through his hour-long Cloudbusting playlist with requests pouring in from a packed bus in Hiroshima, a traffic jam on the M25 and a foggy M4 commute. The standout, though, was this week's dip into the archive: a 1970 Nationwide report by Michael Barrett following young anglers on the riverbank, complete with the deadpan line "a thousand boys and not a fish between them". Nick loved it, joking "Michael, please, we're trying here, we're only nine."
There were first plays too, with Nick premiering Pull Zip, a new collaboration between Tokyo artist Riz707 and Idles guitarist Lee Kiernan, plus new music from Fina, tipped by the New Music Fixed Daily team as an artist "having a little bit of a moment".
Handover chat with Lauren Laverne brought some gossip-adjacent silliness about Capri trousers before Nick flagged Johnny Marr joining Hugh Stevens' show for an hour-long special later that day to discuss his new album, and plugged Nemone's Journeys in Sound episode with Eels' Mark Everett, who apparently revealed why he should be called "The Muppet Man" – a mystery Nick left dangling. He also promised to track down what Ian McShane once told him about recording his spoken vocal on Slave to the Rhythm, after drawing a blank on air.
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