Tag: Big Weekend
The final Friday Extra Show returned to Big Weekend Norwich in 2015, where Chris secretly turned Scott into “Mr Salamander” and phoned local businesses pretending Taylor Swift needed bowling shoes and Olly Murs required emergency waxing. [...]
Max’s mum Sarah read from a 1998 Budapest journal explaining how she discovered she was ovulating, called Simon on his way to the airport and ordered him home instead of letting him fly to Prague. [...]
Listeners relived the days of paying several pounds for tiny phone versions of pop hits, Bamboleo received a polyphonic makeover and one employee discovered his boss was sending dirty messages from the company Instagram. [...]
Scott and Chris returned from Eurovision week, processed Watford’s FA Cup defeat and the UK’s Eurovision result, then imagined Chris managing Middlesbrough with Scott as his suspiciously gentle assistant. [...]
Liverpool’s comeback stunned Radio 1, an actress replaced Chris on Bangers, Bastille heard another ukulele cover and HRVY faced the new game Fan or Animal. [...]
Taylor said she would happily lose the UK number one to Stormzy, Scott mistakenly told her twice that he would see her at Big Weekend and Morgan learned he was conceived during a camping trip. [...]
Chris’s Friday Extra Show replayed the cockerel naming, heard Welsh listeners judge Scott’s national anthem and gave Kelly’s footstool conception the extended treatment. [...]
Scott continued learning Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, Katherine Ryan got soaked in Innuendo Bingo and Mary’s cockerel was finally named Jeffrey after Harriet nominated her cheating father. [...]
Scott unveiled Chris’s strangely formal guide to Middlesbrough, pushed Rag’n’Bone Man through an emotional new version of Giant and welcomed Emily Atack for Innuendo Bingo. [...]
Sigrid tried to identify songs before Shazam could, winning on George Ezra and Calvin Harris but losing on Adele and Stormzy before Radio 1 persuaded her into Don’t Stop Believin’. [...]