Live Lounge
The Live Lounge is BBC Radio 1's home of live sessions, where artists play their own songs and a cover. Here are all the Live Lounge moments we've written up from Scott Mills' time on Radio 1 and beyond.
Dave Bayley reviewed Glass Animals' Live Lounge cover of Lorde, showered the backing singers with praise and admitted he never gives himself more than five — while Chris apparently registered a humanly impossible temperature of 55°C. [...]
Radio 1's Chris Stark finally spoke to his climate-change namesake, while Matt and Louise's garlic crusher and car-seat covers correctly gave them away as lovers. [...]
Mimi Webb enthusiastically reviewed her slowed-down Live Lounge cover of Stay, while Andy and Beth correctly read as lovers and listeners in their 20s challenged Scott's armpit-fart age limit. [...]
Rag'n'Bone Man critiqued his Live Lounge cover of Griff, Mariah Carey broke the Christmas seal 100 days early and Rebel Wilson discovered her “superfan” Steve was actually Chris Stark. [...]
Scott compared men's V-neck T-shirts with kitten heels, while listeners added microwave disasters, mattress mistakes and paper plates to the university survival guide. [...]
Chris squeezed back into the pants Tom Daley knitted him during Lolathon, while Scott wondered whether lockdown had transformed garden centres into Britain's replacement for the traditional department store. [...]
Chris's barbecue obsession became a potential TV format, Animal Tennis made another listener choose between grunts and animals, and the Who Game dug up Flappy Bird-era memories. [...]
Listener Will tried to sing Olivia Rodrigo after shouting through England's win, while Hannah revealed a segway crash caused internal bleeding in an extremely unfortunate place. [...]
Griff immediately picked apart her first one-take Live Lounge, while a football-song roulette wheel denied an England fan Vindaloo and the quiz uncovered a real Glasgow pub called The Muscular Arms. [...]
Cattle genetics adviser Robin returned with the promised bull catalogue, letting Scott and Chris browse breeding statistics and treat farm matchmaking like a particularly serious dating app. [...]