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.
Chris tried to make polite conversation with Sandra Mills while Scott packed his shorts with ice cubes. [...]
Matt planned to perform from a boat off Sandbanks, waving behind the decks while people on the beach believed David Guetta had arrived. [...]
Grant needed a crash course after his girlfriend's constant “yes”, “Bamboleo” and other Scott Mills phrases left him completely excluded. [...]
The rules were simple: call a strangely named business, ask what it did and try not to laugh when its name was repeated. [...]
Cardboard glasses printed with Chris's open eyes were meant to disguise naps but instead produced what listeners called nightmare fuel. [...]
A café repeatedly told Chris it did not sell cheeky potatoes as his elaborate explanations became progressively less connected to food. [...]
Jake Roche denied that he was getting married after his father Shane Richie offered Scott a free band for the supposed wedding. [...]
Chris shook hands with Radio 1 colleagues, sniffed his fingers and applied sanitiser while Scott filmed an experiment nobody had properly planned. [...]
A listener's mother handed over her phone and calmly asked to be removed, leaving the rest of the family staring at “Mum has left the group”. [...]
Colin Furze unveiled a vacuum cleaner designed to suck up leftovers, cook them and pour the resulting “Hoover soup” into a bowl. [...]