Bangers
Bangers was a popular music game on Scott Mills's BBC Radio 1 afternoon show, where Scott and Chris Stark each championed a track and listeners decided which one deserved to be played. These articles revisit the musical battles, questionable choices and arguments that made the feature a favourite.
King Curtis removed Josh, Kay, Pete and Melissa to drag his WhatsApp group back from 19 members to the approved total of 15. [...]
Joanne objected when her ex’s new girlfriend used a kitten photograph of the cat Joanne had raised as her profile picture. [...]
Scott held Rosie, an 18-year-old Chilean rose tarantula, and even opened his eyes before asking Steve to take her back. [...]
Mel Giedroyc called Scott “Scotty” 11 of the 14 times she used his name during the two Eurovision semi-finals. [...]
King Curtis removed George and Tom live on air to reduce his increasingly competitive WhatsApp group to exactly 15 people. [...]
Chloë dismissed Seth’s sweater-jacket as a “swacket” before their childish insults moved into much stranger territory. [...]
Joe and Jake faced Chris together before leaving for Stockholm and a Eurovision audience of up to 200 million people. [...]
Scott and Chris tried to account for Radio 1’s missing DJs after Greg James appeared to have continued his weekend in Ibiza. [...]
Shoppers who were promised Justin Bieber accepted the life-sized cutout with so little disappointment that a queue formed for photographs. [...]
Holly Hagan, Marnie Simpson and Scotty T formed a three-person wall of water that left Chris facing the entire Geordie Shore team alone. [...]