24 Years at the Tap End
Chris Stark's mock autobiography, 24 Years at the Tap End, became one of the Scott Mills show's best-loved recurring features. Each instalment revealed another unlikely chapter from Chris's life, combining childhood memories, embarrassing stories and absurd anecdotes.
Chris gave Scott a waterproof body-grooming trimmer, Scott answered with a massage gun for Chris and his fiancée, and 24 Years at the Tap End revisited an old Watford Christmas night. [...]
Scott and Chris exchanged improvised Christmas gifts before Tap End returned to Chris's student house, where Chango disappeared from a Southampton night out and eventually slept beside boxes in a Staples car park. [...]
Jonnie Peacock discussed Rising Phoenix, Stoke Mandeville and his golden postbox while Tap End revisited Chris's Cub Scout badges, camps and unlikely Hyacinth Bucket performance. [...]
Eddie Hearn returned with Stormzy, Lil Wayne and AC/DC for a boxing-themed mix, while Tap End revealed Chris passed his test despite hitting the kerb and repeatedly unnerving the examiner. [...]
Robbie Williams talked lockdown songwriting, art and his enormous Los Angeles home while Chris remembered the youth football team whose centre-backs fought each other. [...]
Kevin wrote movingly about sexuality, bereavement and asking for help, before Chris Kamara chose his records and Tap End returned to a Hogmanay DJ set in Glasgow. [...]
Dion Dublin explained how renovating houses led him from Premier League football to Homes Under the Hammer, while Tap End returned to Chris turning 18 and dressing for London in school shoes. [...]
Wayne Lineker chose O Beach favourites while Tap End returned to the teenage BBC talent audition where Chris played Wonderwall, got locked in a toilet and met “Mavis”. [...]
Nathan Dawe chose club records from his residency years while Tap End revisited Chris's solo fishing lesson, a mistaken car-park signal and a suspicious smell inside Churchill's War Rooms. [...]
Lockdown break-ups moved onto Zoom, Joel Corry recreated the missing Ibiza summer with a club-heavy mix, and Tap End remembered Chris finally winning after 11 football defeats. [...]