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.
Radio 1 played the final 75 seconds of Mistletoe and Wine after complaints, Scott prepared his Strictly crab for Greg James’s young-carers party and Chris rescued the team night out with a 55-year-old belly dancer. [...]
Lewis Capaldi had to decide whether comments including “it was so much fun to film” and “it’s insane to watch him grow so big so quickly” came from his own videos or adult films, while listeners revealed inventive ways strangers had given them phone numbers. [...]
Chris returned as impossibly knowledgeable fan Steve, Charli XCX became increasingly suspicious and local news introduced Elvis the ASBO parrot before Radio 1 discovered a full-production Michael Jackson tribute by One Pound Fish Man. [...]
Jack & Jack played 10 Seconds To, while listeners transformed their genuine fears into absurd “sexy” Halloween costumes including sexy buttons, sexy daddy long legs and a sexy undercooked pasty. [...]
Scott and Chris carried out market research for their possible fragrance and discovered listeners associated the programme with smells including new tennis balls, while old Zante friend BJ unexpectedly appeared on television. [...]
Freya Ridings was instructed to sing Lost Without You with more literal emotional meaning, while Scott wondered whether only sufficiently posh listeners could actually hear parts of the session. [...]
Olly insisted he did not deliberately seduce people through eye contact, while S Club followed through on Radio 1’s request and added the forbidden “up” to Reach on stage. [...]
Scott and Chris continued preparing first-time flyer Nicole for Amsterdam with a mixture of useful reassurance and completely fake etiquette, including dressing smartly, applauding the landing and saluting cabin crew. [...]
The Cuffing Queen continued her 38-date countdown, listeners shared terrible dating advice from their dads and Chris admitted he had completely misunderstood the phrase “going Dutch”. [...]
Devon listener Kate revealed she had squeezed in 38 dating-app dates during cuffing season, including seven dates in seven days, before finally meeting her boyfriend on date number 38. [...]