Bamboleo Wednesday
Every Wednesday on Scott Mills and Chris Stark's Radio 1 show, the Gipsy Kings classic Bamboleo became the soundtrack to a few minutes of gloriously pointless chat between the pair. These articles collect the nonsense, the running jokes and the moments it got out of hand.
Nick Jonas revealed that a moving-day helper discovered a cupboard containing more travel pillows than he had ever seen. [...]
Shoppers accepted hurried photographs with Chris before being denied questions and told that no more meeting or greeting would take place. [...]
Chris declared the footbridge an eighth wonder of the world before Rod opened the curtains and revealed Scott’s permanent plaque. [...]
Rihanna and Drake’s “Work” appeared without warning, sending people running through the Radio 1 offices before Scott played it repeatedly. [...]
The bridge connecting the northbound and southbound sides of Fleet Services became the permanent Scott Mills Bridge. [...]
Listener Tom secured a place among the National Television Awards seat fillers and agreed to perform a secret signal if he appeared on camera. [...]
A man on the treadmill refused even to lick Chris’s cake despite increasingly desperate attempts to break his New Year resolve. [...]
Chris proved that Scott repeatedly said “fantastic” in an increasingly grand voice throughout his Eddie Redmayne interview. [...]
Felicia transformed “the boys of the NYPD choir” into “da boooys of da N-W-P-D choir” as Chris learned to sing like Shane MacGowan. [...]
Listeners were told that Taylor Swift, Sia and MNEK could improve cheap Chinese food, although several meals went cold while the experiment was arranged. [...]