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.
Jason said the same shop-made Christmas tape played so relentlessly that he walked out of his seasonal job and never returned. [...]
“Nine-volt batteries” earned one of the loudest reactions as Scott challenged a fresh line of listeners to remember neglected objects and celebrities. [...]
An anonymous former barista admitted that staff sometimes misspelled customers’ names deliberately because the resulting photographs promoted the shop online. [...]
A pair of women’s underwear appeared in Scott’s makeshift karaoke room after Halloween, but none of his guests volunteered to claim them. [...]
Scott banned everybody outside Wolverhampton from the programme, forcing Bamboleo listeners across Britain to invent local addresses. [...]
Ed Sheeran arrived without warning, entered a rotary dairy dating game and was auctioned in a livestock pen. [...]
Amy Schumer explained why Trainwreck reverses the usual romantic-comedy roles and how Jennifer Lawrence gatecrashed her friends’ holiday. [...]
Chris asked Scott to identify what had changed about him, forcing Scott to inspect his face without knowing the right answer. [...]
Shelley hung up after learning that Scott had secretly trained legs with another woman at a different gym. [...]
Alex Gaskarth called from Hollywood, removed his clothes and performed an All Time Low shower medley live on Radio 1. [...]