And now, it's Adam and Jo!
Hello and welcome to the Big British Castle!
It's time for Adam and Jo to broadcast on the radio!
There'll be some music and some random talking in between, and then...
There you go, that's Great DJ by Ting Tings.
This is Adam Buxton here on the radio.
Joe's away this week, listeners.
I'm sorry to tell you, he's in America.
I don't know if you've heard of it, it's huge.
It's a country across the sea and almost everything exciting comes from there.
And it's run by George Bush.
So, I don't know what else to say about that.
He's out there, he's doing, it's a very exciting movie business.
He asked me not to mention it.
It's very secret, but I'm going to say anyway.
Are you really?
Yeah, yeah.
He's gonna kill ya.
He's out there, he's working on a remake of Filofax.
Oh man.
With Jim Belushi.
And it's a kind of robot Jim Belushi they're using.
It's amazing.
And it's never been done before and Joe's out there, he's the point man on the whole project.
He's going to be very upset when he hears that I've blown the gaffe, but he'll be back with you next week and filling in for him.
Well, filling in is the wrong word.
He's just filling in his giant shoes.
That is the voice of Garth Jennings, ladies and gentlemen.
He's an old friend of myself and Joe's.
He's a film director.
He's actually got a film coming out very shortly, in fact.
That's not the reason he's here.
It's just a coincidence.
It is, genuinely.
But we should declare an interest and upfront and say that, you know, he's our friend and he also happens to be a film director.
I happen to be in his film that's coming out.
That's right.
Adam plays a teacher who gets some scissors stuck up his nose.
This is a film called Son of Rambo, which you directed.
We'll be talking a bit more about that later on.
And indeed, you know, talking to you about other stuff that you've done.
You and I have worked together before.
We did the Radiohead stuff last year on their webcast.
That's right.
That was good.
A few bits and pieces so we can talk about that.
And of course we've got our usual features.
Garth has provided a song for Song Wars this week.
We said last week that Song Wars was going to be about family members.
We had to write a song featuring a family member.
We didn't have to write a song but just, you know, compose, create some music featuring a family member, I think.
We'll unveil those in the next half an hour or so.
I'm sure they're pretty spectacular.
And, of course, we've got Text the Nation coming up later on.
You're welcome to text us and email us.
The email address is adamandjo.sixmusic.
at ec.co.uk forward sla- no, forward sla- Yeah.
Jude, our producer, was- See, I've already done what my wife told me not to do, which is just- I just keep laughing at the stuff you do, and then I sound ridiculous.
No, that's good, because Joe just sits there, usually he's very surly, and he just stares at me, never laughs at me, I say, and just makes me feel, you know, inadequate, so it's nice.
Well, I'm gonna try and reel it in a bit.
Alright then.
But you got a funny face.
I do have a ludicrous face, and I shaved my beard off as well this week, so now I can see my ridiculous face again.
It's a great disappointment to all concerned.
Anyway, let's play some more music now.
This is Darkpunk with digital love.
This is the Darkpunk with the digital love.
They're from France.
They're both from France, yes?
That's right.
This is true.
And they like digital love.
That would be dangerous though, wouldn't it?
I mean, it would hurt.
It would hurt that it would be an execution.
It would certainly need to take some kind of caution there.
And then there's all the viruses to worry about.
Good work.
He's already got it.
Oh, he could write for some kind of Frankie Boyle based panel joke.
Um, anyway, this is Adam and Garth here on BBC6 Music.
It's a stupid name, Garth.
It doesn't even sound right.
What's wrong with Garth?
Can you imagine calling your baby Garth?
Mmm, that's a good point.
It's weird, isn't it?
My mum's listening, I know, because she's bought a digital radio just...
for this experience.
I think he said- I think she said Garth.
Yeah, I think it was Garth.
No, she's still alive, my mum.
Okay, good.
And, um, and, uh, although she- I think I nearly killed her coming out.
I was a gigantic baby.
That's probably why Garth, actually.
Giant baby!
I'm gonna call him Garth.
That's good.
That's how my mum speaks.
That's right.
How heavy is she?
I mean, how heavy were you?
I can't speak now.
Um, I was about ten pounds, I think.
That's quite giant.
Yeah, that's big.
It's like a bowling ball.
Yeah.
Is she walking all right now?
Good, I'm glad you hear that.
This is revolting.
It's not even 9.15.
I'm going to be talking to Garth more specifically about his amazing career in the media.
He still is a director of Pop Videos.
and dirty commercials and movies and all kinds of exciting things.
You know, a quick overview of Kath and Jenny's career as part of Hammer and Tongues, the pop video geniuses.
They directed the video for Coffee and TV by Blur with the milk carton dancing around.
Other well-known Hammer and Tongues videos were the
Um, Supergrass one, for pumping on your stereo with the big puppets.
What would you say your other one that you're most proud of would be?
One of the ones that came out at the same sort of time that people liked was for Fat Boy Slim.
And it was for the track Right Here Right Now.
And it was the evolution of man from Amoeba to a big fat guy.
Right.
That went down well.
Yeah, I mean, that was one of those ones that looked like it must have taken ages and cost a lot of money.
It didn't cost that much money because it was all rubber fish and all the backgrounds were made with Nick, the producer's sister's holiday photos, or her trip round the world.
So we did an awful lot of shortcuts and actually Nick himself plays the Neanderthal man and the editor's flatmates, the guy at the, you know, toward the end, not the big fat guy.
And, um, if we're talking about any videos throughout the course of the show that you haven't seen folks, you can always check them out on YouTube.
I imagine they're all up there, aren't they?
Yeah, I think we put a link to our website on the Six Music website as well, and there's a little film gallery there, so you can go and have a look.
And most recently, of course, you did a clip for A-Punk.
Yeah.
By Vampire Weekend.
That hot band right now.
That's so hot right now.
And that's got like millions of hits on there.
I can't understand.
Well, I'm happy for them.
Yeah.
But it was made cheap as chips, you know, just one afternoon in its one take on a video camera.
But it was great fun.
We only did it because we really love the band and their music.
And yeah, one and a half million hits.
Did YouTube feature that one?
you know i think they did right right um i think yes i think they did and it's amazing what happens when they put you on the front page it's phenomenal isn't it your life changes yes yes suddenly weirdos come out of the woodwork yeah you get lots more bizarre messages yeah
What a stupid video I hate you!
You suck!
I'm gonna find you and kill you!
For making this video!
You suck!
The band sucks!
I have one which was great, which was when the revolution comes, Jennings will be first against the war.
Nice.
Nice!
Thanks for that, whoever you are.
Well, Mum, we'll be talking more about various bits and bobs that Garves has done in the future.
in the future of the show, that is, it's impossible to talk about what he's done in the future.
It's just not possible without, uh, some kind of time machine.
I can only guess.
Exactly.
But right now, here's a track that I've picked for you listeners, and, uh, this is Elvis Costello.
Are you an Elvis Costello fan?
Do you know it was one of my choices?
And they dropped my Elvis Costello one for yours, I think.
Which one did you go for?
I was going for I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea because that's got the best drums in the world on it.
I think this is from around about the same time, I think.
This is early Costello and this is hand in hand.
Oh, it's got this.
It's got this long, weird little... There's about 20 seconds of this at the top.
Oh dear.
But it's good, you know.
People can get a bit freaked out by that.
Yeah, they'll be alright.
Calm down.
Here he comes, Elvis.
Here he comes.
Elvis Costello with Hand in Hand.
I think that's on this year's model.
I'm just belching, Garth.
Can you feel?
Are you okay?
Adam's belching and I am feeling.
It's good.
It's all over now.
You handle that well, man.
That was terrible.
On both of our parts, really.
You're fine.
It's fine.
Okay.
I'm going to get good at this at the end.
I'm going to be doing that little talking over the end of records.
If you get good at it, then you're out.
Okay, there's no getting good on this show.
We were just saying that Elvis Costello would be one of the people that you would most like to sing like.
Oh, if I could sing like anyone, that would be my man.
Well, he's a good combination.
He's got the technique.
He's got like the chops, the actual vocal skills, you know?
He can actually hit the notes.
Yeah.
But he's also got that attitude and that... And then no one else sounds like him.
Yeah, exactly.
He's got the character in his voice as well as the technical skill.
And he does, like, high-end, shouty noises really well.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't want to go to jail today.
It's fun singing like him, exactly.
I can't do it.
That's why I'd like to borrow his voice.
Well, we're playing some Frank Black a bit later, and he's another person there.
It's fun.
It would be great to be able to sing like him, but it's impossible.
can't now listen we're gonna do a thing we've got a thing goth thought it would be fun to do a sort of breakfast egg cooking thing well it's only as a gift really I'm new here and I thought I should provide some kind of like little present for you all yeah and one of the things I found recently
I've rediscovered the boiled egg, the joys of a perfect boiled egg.
And this is via a celebrity chef, is that right?
I think it's in one of our cookbooks at home.
I was just cooking them and they were always coming out either like a sort of liquid or a rock-solid horrible thing that you could only make into a sandwich.
Yeah.
And then I discovered, I can't remember who it was now.
Is it Delia or Nigella?
It's probably Delia.
Because she did a whole thing with eggs, didn't she?
Anyway.
She's a woman.
Anyway, Delia's thing, and I thought what we should do, what you could do, if you really, if you like me, enjoy a nice boiled egg and you want it just perfect, because it's quite nice having that, and then it sets you up for the day, then everything's great.
What I'll do is, I'll give you the perfect timings.
All you have to do is get a pan of water on, get yourself an egg, maybe you need to run down the corn chop.
What sort of size of egg are we talking here?
Well, I always go large, because large.
Why go small?
They're not that big anyway.
Well, and the thing was for ages that, you know, in the 70s it was all Salman Rushdie writing copy for those adverts saying go to work on an egg.
Was that Rushdie?
Yeah, Rushdie wrote those.
Oh, man.
And then for a while in the late 80s and the 90s, it was like, don't touch the eggs, they're deadly!
The eggs are deadly, you'll die immediately if you eat the eggs!
Well, I think we're safe now.
And now it's okay, I think.
It's all calmed down.
It's all come full circle with the eggs.
So if you want to take part in our perfect egg challenge.
Well, I just thought it would be nice, you know.
That's a good idea, man.
I'll be on the timer.
I've got a stopwatch here and I know exactly how to do it, but basically, how long have we got before?
Well, we'll do it in the next half hour.
So if you get yourself a pan of water on.
Yeah.
And an egg.
And if you're a kid, you know, make sure you get someone responsible helping you out with that.
Nice.
That was proper DJ stuff, wasn't it?
Me and Joe would never think of that.
I'd just sit straight in there.
And we'll make it together and it'll be a great start to your day.
That's good, man.
We're gonna win some kind of prize with this.
This is a classic radio.
Now, here's a trail.
Do you like trails, Garth?
Oh, man, I... What sort of length of trail is your favorite?
I'm looking here.
I'm reckoning a whole one minute of trails would really sort me out.
Well, you're insane.
We've only got a 30 second one.
You're gonna have to make do with that.
Okay, but it's a good one.
Okay.
Listen.
Yes, I do.
I understand exactly what you're saying.
Flavor Flav.
That was Public Enemy with Rebel Without a Pause.
Remember the first time you heard that, Garth?
Yeah.
It's quite an exciting moment, wasn't it?
And you thought... Well, actually, you know what?
I don't remember the first time I heard that, but I remember the first time I heard them.
And I thought, wow, that's all wrong.
That is all wrong, isn't it?
And I actually went to one of their gigs, and that was scary.
Genuinely scary, but then brilliant scary.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like having done something really scary, and then you've, wow, survived it, and then you think it was brilliant.
Did they have the guys with the Uzi's on stage?
Yeah, it was brilliant.
It was absolutely brilliant, but I remember feeling like, oh, I'm out of my indie depth here.
Yeah, yeah, the scary sounds.
Uh, now we are, um... Oh, are we gonna play this Frank Black track before the news?
Oh, I see.
Have you heard this one before?
I don't think so.
It's quite nutty.
It sounds a bit like Frank Black doing the Beastie Boys.
This is The Sayas by Frank... uh, Black Francis, I'm sorry.
Yeah, that's a peach, come on.
I like that a lot.
That's the say of Black Francis.
This is Adam and Joe with my friend Garth filling in for Joe this week here on BBC Six Music.
It's time for the news now read by Catherine Kratmel.
That's T-Rex.
There.
An exciting new band and that's called Twentieth Century Boy.
Hey, this is Adam and Joe here on BBC 6 Music.
Joe's away this week.
My friend Garth Jennings.
Hello.
Is here.
Hello Garth.
Hello Adam.
How you doing?
I'm standing in for big old Joe.
Giant Joe.
Giant Joe with his tiny feet?
He's got tiny little feet.
Yeah.
How do you... You're almost as tall as Joe though, aren't you?
No, Joe's about seven feet tall.
Oh wait, I'm six foot and he's about seven.
I thought I was just small.
No, well you're...
You're smallish, but he's gigantic.
He's like Jack the Pumpkin King from Nightmare Before Christmas.
I thought you were going to say Jack the Giant Killer.
Yeah?
No, he is like Jack Skellington.
Jack Skellington.
It's true, he is a little bit like Jack Skellington.
I Jack the Pumpkin King.
You sound like Daniel Day Lewis in The Guy with the Blood.
I'm Jack Skellington.
I've come a long way to be here tonight.
It is my son, H.W.
later on in the program I want to do a whole link where we just talk like Daniel Day Lewis and there will be blood okay I'm really excited I've got a couple of clips from the film that I loaded into the the machine the bananas film so we're gonna talk about it later on because you and I have got slightly different takes on that film well
Yeah, we'll fight that out later.
Anyway, we've got a little... Before we do our egg challenge, listeners, Garth is going to teach you how to cook the perfect boiled egg in just a second.
It was Delia Smith, we found out.
It was a Delia Smith deal.
Right.
We're just going to go through a couple of emails and texts that we've received.
Don't forget, of course, if you want to text us, the number is 64046.
64046 for texts.
And if you want to email us, it's Adam and Joe.
That's all one word and it's A-N-D, not ampersand.
dot six music at bbc dot co dot uk now first off someone was correcting me it wasn't salman rushdie who wrote go to work on an egg as a piece of ad copy it was fae weldon i think it was because you were thinking of salmonella and you saw salman rushdie and you put it all together and you're a tiny brain yeah that's uh entirely likely what famous copy did salman rushdie write then
Naughty but nice cream buns.
Cos he's filthy minded.
There you go, that's wild.
Dirty, dirty salmon.
I don't know if he's minded, but er, married, but er, for a long time he certainly always used to go out with very foxy women.
Yeah.
Anyway, there you go.
That's what the fatwad does for you, doesn't it?
Makes you sexy.
You've got a fatwad.
Oh, I love men with fatwads.
We've got a little... Oh dear, you see this?
I knew this would happen.
We've got an email here from someone who says, uh, first off, great to have you guys back on the radio talking silliness.
Thanks very much.
This is from Adam, Adam Richmond in London.
And, uh, he says, uh, I thought I'd email to share my strange love and obsession with Danny Dyer.
We were talking about Danny Dyer last week.
Oh, were you?
I missed that one.
Um, and just the fact that he's a humorous, uh, person.
And, uh, I'd love it if you read my homage to his life in film.
Uh, oh no, he's just sent me, he sent me a link to the homage in film.
There's no way I can say that on the radio.
I can read out the link with all the forward slashes and stuff.
I don't think.
People would be entertained by it, though.
Anyway, he says that he saw Son of Rambo.
That's your film, Garth, in case you forgot me.
How did he see it?
I don't know.
We've had some press screenings.
Maybe he's a media type.
He might be a media type.
Or someone as a tastemaker, they call them.
Right.
They say we've invited some tastemakers.
Is that what you call a buzz screening?
Yeah.
A buzz screening.
That's when you get people who are hip.
And no other people who are hip.
Or what about if they've had a hip replacement?
Oh, you'd get lots of those creaking in.
Yeah, they need a little more help.
Well, he thought the film was great.
And then he says he's got a little anecdote.
I want to share my crushingly awkward moment with a celebrity.
It was Adam Buxton.
I'm Adam Buxton.
It was about two years ago and Adam was doing some free shows in a bar in Clark and Well.
They weren't free.
You had to pay.
You see, that's him sneaking into my film as well.
You just sneaked in, yeah.
And he would get surprise celebrity guests along like Simon Pegg and Richard Ioweta.
This is a club I sort of do from time to time in a place called the Zeta, a trendy kind of restaurant hotel, our place in Clark and Well.
and I'd do some stand-up there every now and again and show my films and this guy came along and saw one he said it was the night the DVD kept breaking and Adam didn't look too happy he rolled with the punches and it was still really good but by the end of the night you could tell he wanted to curl up and die that's just a normal night that would
I was gonna say.
It's a regular night, UK.
That sounds like a hot night.
As he packed up his gear, me and my slightly inebriated pals tried to engage him in some light-hearted banter, but Adam wasn't amused.
The perceived failure of the evening weighed heavily on him.
He wanted nothing to do with us.
When I got home, I smashed up my Adam and Jo DVD.
Wow!
And cried myself to sleep.
Keep up the good work, Adam!
That's fantastic!
Thanks very much for that Adam.
And it's not easy to smash up a DVD.
No, it takes ages, it's dangerous as well.
So don't try it at home, especially not with an Adam and Jo DVD, for goodness sake.
Only six people have bought them anyway.
Now, after this, start boiling the water folks.
If you want to take part in our Create Your Perfect Boiled Egg thing.
It's gonna be so delicious and you'll thank me for it later.
So get your egg, a large egg we said, and obviously make sure it's not a bad egg, and you do that by putting it in the water.
No, don't put it in the water.
Yep, I'm saying before you boil the water, you put the egg in the water.
If it floats, it's no good.
Really?
If it sinks, it's fine.
Okay?
Okay.
That's how you tell if an egg is good or not.
It's a shame none of that rhymes, so it could be a nice, you know, if it... If someone could think of a way of saying that, that rhymes, email in.
Okay.
If it floats, it's no good.
Get rid of it, because it's got air in there.
Okay, but yeah, so you just need some boiling water and an egg now.
Yeah.
And then we're ready to go.
Get the water boiling.
After this track by REM, we will start boiling the eggs.
REM, that's their new one, Supernatural Super Serious, a title suggested apparently by Chris Martin of the Coldplay.
Really?
Apparently it was going to be called something else, maybe a line from the song elsewhere.
And Martin, in his kind of cocksure manner, said to Stipe at some celebrity backpacking session, You are insane, that's a terrible title, you should call it Supernatural Super Serious.
And Stipe said, Well I bowed to the will of Coldplay.
Clever, clever man.
So there you go.
I like it.
Strange connection isn't it?
You wouldn't think those guys would be hanging out with you.
It's a great song though.
I really like that.
It's very good.
Now it is time for you guys at home if you want to take part in this to create the perfect egg.
Yeah, have a really nice boiled egg to start your day.
So, if you've got your pan of water boiling away there, and you've got your egg ready to go, get a sort of tablespoon, because you're about to lower that egg into the pan.
And Adam's going to talk for one minute, because I just want to do a first initial boiling for one minute.
That is key to this secret of successful boiled eggs.
And so you should be poised with your utensil to remove the egg.
No, no, no, it stays in there.
Oh, it stays in there, yeah.
So what happens at the end of the minute?
I'll tell you at the end of the minute.
Yeah, I'm so excited.
Okay, so you ready Adam?
And folks at home we're going to put the egg in in five seconds.
I'm going to give you some, in this minute I'm going to give you some info from the Canadian Partnership of Consumer Food Safety Education.
I'm going to give you some Q&A's from their website about eggs and egg safety.
And then I'll just cut in and tell you when to stop at.
Okay.
Okay folks, so lower your egg into the pan now.
My mom taught me to put hard-boiled eggs taken out of the shell and put in water and add a dash of salt.
She never asked me how long for and she has died.
Do you know?
Thanks.
That's a question.
Sent on this website.
All my regrets to your mother.
The hard-boiled eggs should be kept in the refrigerator.
Under this condition, they will keep for a week.
Question.
When you put eggs in water, how can you tell if they are good or not?
When an egg floats, it means that it is an old egg.
We covered that.
Another question.
I forgot and left four eggs at room temperature and water overnight.
Can these be hard-boiled, refrigerated, and eaten?
Thank you?
No, discard the eggs immediately.
Once left at room temperature, the danger zone temperature, for more than two hours, pathogenic microorganisms, will be created and no amount of cooking will be able to kill the bacteria or toxins that have developed in that time.
How are we doing for time?
Ready and okay now what I want you to do is leave the egg in the pan there but just turn the heat off and if you can just put a lid find an old pan lid pop it on top of the saucepan see that the heat's off now and you're just covering that pan for a perfect egg
And we're gonna cover it for how long?
Well, it's a... Am I gonna tell him, or am I just gonna... just say, take it off now?
Oh, okay, so you just keep that situation and let you know.
Right, we're gonna play some music, and then when it's time to do something else to the egg, Garth will let you know.
Yeah.
Now, here's a... Did you choose this, Garth?
Oh, yeah, this is Jonathan Richmond, Egyptian reggae.
It's one of my favourite tracks, and it's also in Son of Rambo.
It's one of the great things about making a film, you can put things in that you really love.
And you know what though, the Dirty Admen have used this for a... Yeah, I was a bit cross about that, because I thought, this is great, it's not around anymore and it's so lovely.
And then the Weetabix people, wasn't it?
Something like that.
But anyway, ignore them, it's much better in our film.
And yes, it's in Son of Rambo, but I love it and I'm really happy to be able to play it in full.
It's a smash.
Jonathan Richmond with Egyptian Reggae.
It's, uh, after this next track, your eggs are pretty much gonna be ready, but don't do anything until we tell you to, okay?
Yes.
Stand by, people.
Eggs are nearly ready.
Here's, uh, Vampire Weekend.
brilliant vampire weekend basically if you're boiling your egg get it out now get your spoon in there lift it out hopefully you thought about getting an egg cup ready so pop it on your egg cup and it should be perfect just that perfect oh that's how you know what you could do listener friends is take a picture of the egg
Yeah.
You know, once you've got the top of the egg off there, whatever technique you use to do that, take a picture of the consistency of the egg, and we'd very much like to see it.
You can text it to us, 64046, or you can email it to us, adamandjo.6music, at bbc.co.uk.
You know, it'll be fun for us to see and we'll put, if we get any good pics there, we'll stick them on the website.
But the main thing is that you enjoy it and it sorts you out for the rest of the day.
Oh no, that's not the main thing.
Oh it is, no.
No, the main thing is the website.
Okay.
No, but I was also, I realised we've sort of missed out the fact that really, you needed a bit of toast with that.
But people know, people can do things on their own, right?
I don't know.
Maybe they can't.
Well, there's going to be a lot of people stood there with just a boiled egg and no soldiers.
And if they start making the toast, the egg is still cooking itself, of course, isn't it?
Yeah.
Oh, man.
We should have said.
I should have said.
I should have said it in that two-minute gap.
You were doing all your chat.
This is the kind of thing that can bring the big British castle to its knees.
No mention was made of toast preparations, and I was left with a boiled egg and nothing to dip.
You'll be alright.
I hope you enjoy it.
Anyway, that's the egg thing, right?
There you go, that's the egg thing.
Yeah, let us know how it went for you.
And that was A Punk with Vampire Weekend.
We said before, that's one of the songs that Garth, our guest today, filling in for Joe Garth Jennings, has directed a video for which you can see online right now.
And it's got millions and millions of hits.
I say millions.
One and a half million.
Which is not too shabby.
That's good for them.
And it's brilliant for a video that cost almost nothing.
Right.
And only took a few hours to do.
I think we were done by tea time.
We shot it on your video camera actually.
That's right.
And what was the process?
It was one of the... You played it really, really slow.
Yeah, we re-recorded the song so it was at this sort of speed.
Right.
And then when you speed it back up to the original speed of the track, everything's moving really fast.
There's nothing genius about that, but it just means you can get an awful lot done in a short amount of time.
So how long did it actually take to film the one shot?
Oh, it's a two minute, ten second long song.
Yeah.
And I think it takes about nine and a half minutes to shoot the slow version.
Oh.
And how and did you do everything in one day like choreography and everything?
Yeah.
So you just sort of worked it out?
They turned up about 11, had a cup of coffee.
We went through it a few times.
They worked out a little routine in the middle with the drums.
And then, um, and then I was on the snow machine and then Nick was on, we were moving drums in and out and all that sort of stuff.
And, uh, and that was it really.
We just did it about five or six times before, I mean, they get very tired on the drums back there.
Um, and then, uh, that was it.
Right.
And, and it was finished that day.
You know, we could give it to them to take home.
Were they happy with it?
Yeah, they were really happy with it.
What if they liked the, uh, uh, vampires?
They're actually very nice.
And, um, the lead singer has got incredible, like, you know, star skin.
Mm-hmm.
He's got, he's one of those people, he can't stop looking, he's got like a porcelain face.
really unblemished yes totally unblemished wow they're really good as well how old are they then six i don't know they're very young yeah and they've got that thick that thing when when you talk to bands individually individual members it's all great but when you get talked to a band on on on mass yeah uh they tend to be quite they go on a celebrity yeah they're just like look at you and you feel like a real idiot especially when you're saying okay and this is when the snow machine comes on and they're looking at you like right
But then when you get them on their own, they're like, oh, I'm really excited.
I remember you saying Hot Chip were a little surly with you as well.
No, they weren't surly.
Were they not?
No, they were great.
Yeah.
No, blur were quite surly.
Oh, blur.
Well, it wasn't actually blur, blur were good, but I think Damon was a bit surly.
Yeah.
But then he was fine afterwards.
I think it's really annoying to make videos.
Bands really don't genuinely- They don't really relish the process, do they?
No, I don't blame them really.
It's sort of annoying.
You have to get up really early, you're there for ages.
We mess about putting the lights up and all that stuff.
Yeah.
Um, so you got a little bit cross.
But then he was happy with the final result.
Yeah.
But no, the hot chip, I love those hot chip people.
They're doing so well now.
They're so hot right now.
The chips are so hot.
These chips are too hot!
It's time for a trail now.
It says a Radiohead Trail.
I don't know what this is about.
Let's find out.
Oh no, here it is.
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That's Gnaal's with the Barclays and Run.
This is Adam and Jo here on BBC Six Music, The Adam and Jo Show.
My friend Garth Jennings is filling in for Jo who is in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave as well.
That's where all the brave people live.
We just got a text in from James and it says, hello chaps, James from Silver Sun here.
That's our name drop sound there.
Love the show.
Actually he's written Love Dashow because he's from the hood apparently.
He always was a hip guy.
He says just eating my egg.
Ask Garth how it feels to never have done anything as good as the three videos that he did for us.
I love that band.
Must be a constant source of annoyance to him.
You know, I'm, I'm not familiar with Silver Sun, what's the, what's the album to get?
Well you know what, that's where Nigel Godrich, erm, that's one of his first projection things, I think.
But Silver Sun were brilliant.
We were just big fans of them and approached them, er, in order to, you know, try and sort of do videos for them.
And they let us.
And, and they were brilliant because they were up for anything.
I think we did, we did one in an art school where they were the, where they were the life models, erm, and everyone was painting them.
Ah, and we did one in our kitchen with lots of bugs coming towards them.
What's the best Silverstone album to get then if you're a beginner?
Oh, what was the first one?
Called My Brain's Gone, but just type in Silver Sun on Amazon and get yourself one of those.
It's really, really brilliant.
Golden Skin was my favourite song they did, and that was my favourite video we made.
It was like a Trisha rip-off that goes mental.
And weirdly enough, I'm pretty sure there's a character in it who plays Wolf Boy, who comes on and he's got a facial hair problem, and I'm pretty sure it's that guy who's the big comedian now, who's outrageous and wears winkle pickers.
Oh... With the bookie-bookie out.
Oh, Russell Brand!
It's Russell Brand before he was famous.
Oh, in that video?
We dressed him up as a werewolf.
I'm pretty sure it's Russell.
In golden skin?
She's got golden skin.
Yeah.
Hey, that's a good fact.
I think it's a fact.
Fun fact.
Um, I was imagining, when you said, who's the big guy?
I was imagining some big giant fat guy.
That would be a new type of celebrity, though.
A big fat version of Russell Brand.
Yeah.
Well, there's a gap in the market there.
Yeah, exactly.
Winkle pickers, but massive.
That would be really, because people are going to get tired of the kind of Jack Skellington thin boy look, aren't they?
Yeah.
And I think big fat version of that goth look is where it is next, probably.
I've just been told that album was just called Silver Sun.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah.
That's all it needed to be.
The eponymous debut.
We've got another email here on the subject of our eggs.
Someone, Bill from Derby in the United Kingdom, is saying, Hi guys, wrong, wrong, thrice, wrong.
The secret is that you put the eggs in the water while it's cold.
You bring them to the boil and start timing the eggs from when the water starts boiling.
He's got exclamation points all over the place.
Yeah, he's crossed.
And that's okay.
Oh, sorry, you've got a bit more to do.
He says, well, he says, you put your eggs in the boiling water and they crack and strange alienate ectoplasm starts leaking out.
You'll have Delia around ranting and raving at you guys.
Well, I think that's the other way.
There's always more than one way to do these things.
More than one way to boil an egg.
Yeah, I just thought we'd go for the more exciting way.
Yeah.
And, you know, hopefully you're all happy out there eating a nice little egg.
Don't think we've received any pictures of the results yet, but... Well, probably people were just sitting down to enjoy them.
Yeah, but I'd rather they put us first and send us pictures of the eggs.
Selfish listeners.
After this next track, which I've chosen for you listeners, we are going to unveil our Song Wars songs for you.
Both Garth and I have created Song Wars, Joe.
has skipped off to America the week that he had to write a Song Wars song.
So he's having four weeks off Song Wars duties, because we won't do one next week.
He'll regret it when he hears what we've got.
Yeah, exactly.
We're going to be playing you the results of our efforts after this track.
This is Johnny Polonsky.
Do you know Johnny Polonsky, Garth?
This is probably one of those artists... Put it on a compilation.
Yeah, yeah.
Frank Black produced this years ago, like at the end of the 90s, I think.
And his album, Hi, My Name's Johnny, is actually pretty good.
That's a good title.
Yeah.
And this is a track from there.
Hope you enjoy.
This is called Half Mind.
Johnny Polonsky there with Half Mind.
Nice long sort of coda there at the end.
I like a nice long coda.
Yeah.
Do you not?
I like that one.
Hey, this is Adam Buxton.
I'm here with Garth Jennings.
And this is BBC Six Music.
And it's time for...
It's time for song wars, the war of the songs A couple of tunes by a couple of prongs Which will you vote for?
Which one is the best?
We're putting our songs to the listener test So check it out
Song Wars, and they're kind of epics today.
They're pretty long, these songs.
What's yours?
A couple of minutes?
Two minutes and five seconds.
Yeah, almost exactly the same as mine.
And this week, our brief was to create songs, pieces of music featuring family members.
Yeah.
Okay, now we are going to toss a coin for who goes first.
You're really doing this?
I always thought you would fake something like that.
Okay.
Can't fake anything at the castle, boy!
You've not been reading the news for the last year.
And yet summarily beheaded for even a coin toss fake, uh, incident thing.
Oh, uh, I didn't- You've looked at it!
You didn't call it.
Okay.
It's cheating.
Here you go, Jude.
You do it.
Yeah, okay.
Uh, heads.
Heads I start.
Heads you start.
Oh, right!
Right, we're going to play Garth's first.
Now explain to us what this song is and who's in it.
Well, I should say, first of all, that it's not a song I've written.
I've slightly cheated because I didn't have much time.
You guys, you've got all the time in the world.
It's a little lazy around there.
Um, I've, uh, uh, got the help of my grandma, uh, Joan Rebecca Phoebe Graham, who's 87 now.
She only had a birthday a couple of weeks ago.
Um, and, um, she's from Wales.
We call her Joni, and she's doing a version of Elton John's I'm Still Standing.
and which is kind of appropriate because it's a miracle she's still standing the amount of cigarettes that one has smoked in her life.
Uh, but she belts it out and, um, we've tried to do it in a sort of swing band kind of style.
Mm-hmm.
All on garage band like to it.
Yeah.
Um, and it's a sort of two minute version of that track.
So there's no intro.
It's just full on Joni giving it some.
Let's hear it.
Okay.
You could never know what it's like Your blood's like winter freezes just like ice And there's a colon you like that shines from you You wind up like the wreck you hide Even in that mask you use And if you think the school could never win Well look at me, I'm coming back again I'm gonna taste your blood in a simple way And if you're eating your wine, still standing You just fade away
Don't you know I'm still standing Better than I ever did Looking like a true survivor Feeling like a little kid I'm still standing After all this time Taking off the pieces of my life without you On my mind I'm still standing Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah Once I never could hope to win Started down the road, leaving me again The threats you made were meant to cut me down And if a laugh was just a circus You'd be a clown by now Don't you know that I'm still standing Better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid I'm still standing, after all this time Picking off the pieces of my life without you on my mind I'm still standing, yeah yeah yeah
Wow, that's extraordinary stuff there.
That is Joan Graham, all the way from Stanisley, age 87.
Hope she won't mind us saying her age there.
Oh, I think once you get to that age, it's just... It doesn't matter that much.
I'm very proud of that.
That's great, man.
She did that enough, recorded it in her front room on my laptop.
Yeah.
And was she familiar with the track already?
No, I think she'd heard it before.
Yeah.
She's quite musical.
She picks up a tune quite quickly, but it's impossible to sing.
Yeah.
Um, and so she does it in a kind of shouty rant, which works really well and she really went for it.
You can see her there with her Benson and Hedges in one hand and a microphone in the other going, once and ever could hope to win.
Mike Elton John himself.
Yes, absolutely.
Yeah, I would imagine yeah now here's my track this one features my dad or also known as bad dad of course if if listeners ever Used to watch the Adam and Joe show which me and Joe used to do on Channel four years ago ten years ago Then you would have seen my dad.
He was our youth correspondent on there So he was always one of the favorites.
Yeah
And he used to review videos as well for us.
And I'm just remembering now what he said about the Blur video, about Song 2.
Anyway, I won't get sidetracked.
He loathed it, basically.
So this is a rap.
This is a Bad Dad rap.
And I won't say any more about it.
Let's check it out.
I'm bad, dad.
I am the badder dadder.
I was mad before.
Now you've made me even madder.
There's a hole in the roof.
And I haven't got my ladder.
Could you borrow this?
I've failed to give it back.
B-triple-A-D-D-A-D, I'm the head of the mother-loving Buxton family.
Children got a problem, they bring it to me.
I don't solve it, but I'm fairly sympathetic.
I've worked many years at the Sunday Telegraph.
They called me travel editor.
It really was a loss.
I travelled the world, from the North to the South, and it paid for my children's education.
Now my children are fully grown I live on the down in a house on my own I drink mid wine like coke you wrote And I listen to a little bit of rap
tidy up the room and fall, get your hair cut, when are you going to get a decent job?
For goodness sakes, past the call was the end.
Yo yo yo yo, whose yo yo is this?
I watch TV from time to time, but most of what I see is a mother-loving crime.
Nye Jello Lawson, that woman is fine, but Ewan McGregor is appalling.
Russell Brown, he's a loathsome creep.
Davina McCoy, she makes me weep.
Simon Sharma, stick him on the heap and don't get me started on Kavinsky.
Don't push me, cause I'm close to the hedge and I'm carrying quite a lot.
Now you've made me even madder, there's a hole in the Bruce, and I haven't got my magic, but you borrowed it and failed to give it back.
I dislike fear in a Bruce, it's very difficult to say why.
That's fantastic.
There you go.
That's bad dad.
And, uh, funnily enough, he's almost the same age as your gran.
Yeah.
I think maybe a few years shy, but, uh, he's pretty much up there.
He's in, he's an octogen area.
That was wonderful.
That was good, wasn't it?
And, um, little face.
he was he wasn't sure about some of the rhythms there he had different lyrical suggestions i had to uh you know because we went through it he wrote some of the stuff himself his breath technique is wicked it is wicked he is a wicked rapper man he's well respected as a rapper
Anyway, so those are the two, um, say again?
Vote, yes.
You have to vote for which one you, uh, prefer.
Only on email, please!
Only email votes.
No text votes?
No.
Not this week.
So just email votes for Song Wars, and you can vote right throughout the week, um, by emailing adamandjo.sixmusic at vbc.co.uk.
And that means, uh, you know, you can,
Vote even if you're listening to the Listen Again service that we have throughout the week after this live show goes out on Saturday mornings.
So that's Song Wars for this week.
We'll remind you of those songs later on in the programme, but here's some real music for you now.
If this is Does It Offend You?
Yeah!
We are rock stars!
That's We Are Rockstars by Does It Offend You?
Yeah.
You're listening to BBC Six Music.
Hi, I'm Adam Buxton.
Who are you?
I'm Garth Jennings.
I'm not Joe Cornish.
Garth's filling in for Joe.
Joe's away this week.
He'll be back with you next week though listeners, but it's an absolute pleasure to have my old friend Garth.
It's brilliant for me because I get the whole Saturday morning off.
That's right.
And I just sit here drinking tea and listening to your record.
And then later on, what are you doing later on today?
I think it's Horton Hears a Who with the kids.
Horton Hears a Who.
Yep.
I'm up for that one.
Yeah.
That sounds good.
And then what is it next weekend?
It's Spiderwick Chronicles.
Yeah, you're right.
Yeah.
Hey, let's, um, uh, do some emails and stuff here.
We've had a few messages come in on the subject of eggs and stuff, but someone sent you a message about your, your gran.
Yeah.
I got a really good one here from Graham Jilkes.
It says, morning guys, Garth cheated in song wars.
That wasn't his grandmother.
It was Marianne faithful.
I think that's,
It is true.
It was Marianne Faithful.
Your grandmother is Marianne Faithful.
Yes.
We've also got some messages, some mnemonics for how to tell if your egg is good or not.
Here's one from Paul and it says, If the yolk in the crispy coating is found afloat, do what me thinks and find one that sinks.
that underneath he says rubbish thanks Paul no appreciate that though cheers Paul Andy sends one in here's my egg rhyme he says if it floats it's time for bins if it sinks it's time for dins yeah
Did he write rubbish underneath that as well?
He failed to write rubbish.
No, I don't think that's rubbish.
It's not rubbish.
It's not pretty good.
It's rubbish.
Andy says, thanks though Andy, and he says, P.S.
I'm convinced that Garth is just Joe putting on a slightly different voice.
There's no fooling me.
You're just trying to sex up the show by pretending Joe's a big hotshot film director.
Yeah, he'll be a big hotshot film director in no time.
Don't worry now.
Here's a final egg mnemonic It says if it floats to the top your guts may rot if it sinks to the bottom.
They'll be less rotten They'll be less rotten.
They'll be less rotten would have worked just as well.
Yeah
That's from Tom in Canterbury.
Quite good, though, I think, Tom.
Cheers for that, and thanks for all those egg mnemonics.
Now, it is almost time for the news.
Do you enjoy news, Garth?
What's your favourite kind of news?
Ooh, I like exciting news.
Do you?
I like good news.
Yeah, good news is my favourite, but exciting good news you can't beat.
Right.
Well, let's see if there's any exciting good news in the news right now, which is Red, I believe, by Catherine Kratnall.
Question Mark and the Mysterians with 96 Tears.
It's possible to track that song down fairly easily, but not so easy to find other stuff by Question Mark and the Mysterians.
I wouldn't know.
That's very much your kind of thing.
I really love that song.
That's a smash.
I even like the Stranglers version of that song.
It's a brilliant version.
You know, it's not bad.
They stay pretty faithful to it.
Hey, you're listening to Six Music.
My name's Adam Buxton.
Joe's away this week.
My friend Garth Jennings is filling in for him.
Hello.
A couple of texts just before we get into text the nation.
These are texts just about other stuff, mainly about eggs, actually.
And other things, though.
Axe, AKS, writes, Hi Adam and Garth, can you read out my text?
Because Joe never does.
Love Axe.
Well, that was a good one.
That's the main reason people text, I find, is just to say, hi, I'm texting.
What's weird is like they do that on the Steve Wright Sunday Love Choms.
Oh, yeah.
People leave messages and they say, could you say hello to my wife?
Because she's brilliant.
I love her very much.
Well, that's a proper message.
And they never actually do.
He never says hello on their behalf, but they always, they don't say it themselves.
Right, right.
They're always asking Steve to say it.
And the implication is that Steve's saying... No.
Yeah.
No.
Overruled.
Yeah.
And what we had a couple of... Oh yeah, we've got a nice picture of an egg here.
Thanks very much.
Who's this from, Tobias?
My egg was delicious.
Yeah.
I think this is maybe from Tobias's wife, because it says, my husband was disappointed with the quality of the egg white.
Oh!
Well, that's a little bit, erm... But she was happy with it.
There were people that were, and I must admit that I'd forgotten that some people have electric cookers.
Right.
I've got the old-fashioned old gas thing, and if you leave your pan on the electric one, it's still pretty hot.
Sorry about that, electric people.
But, I mean, they must have got the... the idea was to kill the heat so they could have just removed the pan.
Yeah, but I'd said, trust in me.
Trust in me and I will lead you.
And they did and I didn't lead very well.
It's a grotesque mockery of the thing made.
Okay, I think it's time for... Oh!
Text-a-nation!
Text, text, text!
Text-a-nation!
What if I don't want to?
Text-a-nation!
But I'm using email!
Is that a problem?
It doesn't matter, text!
It's the nation's favorite feature.
This must be exciting for you, Garth, to be part of the nation's favorite feature.
This is what it's all about.
This is the feature.
It's a brand new kind of innovation in radio.
We talk about a thing and then we ask you to send us messages about that thing.
That's what Texas Nation is basically about.
And this is inspired this week by the fact that I had a little brain memory wave about a service that was popular when I was a child, around about 10 years old, so 1981, 82 maybe.
And it was called Dial-A-Disc.
Don't know if you remember this, listeners, but you would dial 160 on your old BT phone, and you could choose to listen to any chart single that you wanted to down your crappy phone line.
Yes!
Wow!
In those days, there was no warning before you listen to the song.
I think I'm right in saying there was no warning about the cost that would be incurred.
Right.
Because, of course, there was a cost.
As far as I was concerned, being a young 10-year-old, having never bought a single from a shop before, and the whole idea was a little scary, going out, buying, investing in pop music.
What's next?
You know, probably crack.
But you would dial 1-6-0, and you'd listen to the song, and it would be like,
orchestral maneuvers in the dark!
This is amazing!
I want to hear souvenir by OMD again!"
So you would listen to that, and tears for fears, I remember listening to Mad World over and over again, thinking, this is brilliant!
Obviously I can't buy the single, that would be too scary, I'd have to go to WH Smiths and pay 99p for it.
So instead I'll just listen to it over and over on Dyladisk, till my dad found out, it was about 50p a call.
Gee whiz.
It was something like that.
It was really steep.
And I don't know if there was a scandal about it or not, but basically loads of children like myself who were just having a laugh.
I mean, there was the novelty factor as well, you know, of hearing music down the phone.
It seemed incredibly futuristic.
You could have it when you wanted it.
Yeah.
It seemed outrageous.
So it was a brilliant way, a brilliant way of getting kids to pay money for music in those days.
And now, of course, with the music industry and turmoil,
That's what that's the holy grail.
That's what everyone's trying to force the kids to do is part with their money But how that's the question when music is so freely available online and and from illegal file sharing sites How do you get the kids to part with their money in a way that is similar in brilliance to dial a disk?
You know what I mean?
Yeah, so that's what we want you to text in about listeners We want your ideas about how the music industry can earn a few quid from the kids
Have you got any ideas there, Garth?
Well, I was thinking you've got to kind of turn music into stuff.
You've got to make it part of something else.
Right.
Like people have got their ringtones now.
Yeah.
And I got given, I think by Joni actually, a cake knife.
This is your grandma.
My grandma, yes.
A cake knife that plays different songs depending on the occasion you're using the cake knife for.
Sounds like a nightmare.
Yeah.
I love my grandma very much, but it was a shocker.
And yeah, so you could press a birthday one and I was just thinking, you know, you just have utensils like a bottle opener or something that plays, you know, suitable party hits as you, as you unscrewing your thing.
And then I thought about my ice cream vans and instead of them just playing those old weird records that go
that they would just play the hits and you could go up and buy the hits they were playing.
Well, that would be a nightmare.
You're just trying to sanction vans blaring out.
Well, but that's what it's like around my way anyway.
Is it?
Yeah, not ice cream vans, but just like the cars going, you know, you just, you kind of like getting them anyway.
So I figure, hey, that guy could pull over and sell that track.
Exactly.
What about going a different route, getting some of those guys with those columns?
What about getting them just to sell ice cream?
Yeah, that would be great.
What do you want?
I want a ice cream.
I can't hear you.
You look like we're there.
So that's a good idea.
Here's an idea I had.
And I think this is a go.
I mean, I can see this being implemented by the end of the month.
supermarket stereo trolleys.
Yeah.
I don't know why I'm saying that.
You plug in your... So you get your trolley right in some branches of Sainsbury's or whatever you have to put a quid in anyway to release the trolley.
Then there's another slot to the left of that where you put another quid in and you have access to the music library contained within the handle of your shopping trolley.
and then you plug in your own headphones if you're squeamish about using other people's headphones or you can use one of the headphones provided in the shop I don't know how you would do that but you would so you plug in your headphones and then you could select from a library of music
while you shop.
Now, the obvious thing, the obvious thing to say against that is, well, you know, what's to stop you bringing your own MP3 player if you want to listen to music and that's not the point.
The whole thing about these goofy music innovations is that it's just the novelty of the thing.
Yes.
That gets people to part with their money.
When you were phoning in to dial a disc, you know, you were getting super crappy quality on these songs.
There was nothing great about listening to it.
It was just fun to listen to it down the phone, as opposed to on your stereo.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
They could also, like, use the fact that you're plugged into headphones and say, hey, how you doing?
Exactly.
Look at the fish today.
That's right.
It's pretty fresh.
Sorry to interrupt your Luther Vandross record, but we've got some salmon that's good.
Exactly.
I see you are enjoying Hot Chip.
Have you checked out Frozen Chips on Isle of Fine?
Awful kind of links to the songs you like.
Exactly.
I'm sure we could come up with those as well, but that's another thing.
You enjoy Duffy?
Which, maybe you might be interested in this?
Ketchup.
I didn't know why Duffy would have anything to do with ketchup.
That didn't work.
But anyway, you get the idea.
So, we want to hear your suggestions for new gimmicks the record industry can use to boost their revenue, alright?
That's Text the Nation this week.
Get texting right now, 64046, or you can email us adamandjo.6music at bbc.co.uk.
It's time for some British Sea Power here on BBC 6 Music.
Express yourself, that's Charles Wright there with the, what's the name of the whole, oh yeah, the 103rd Street Rhythm Band.
What's 103rd Street Rhythm Band?
That's Easy Ease's uncle, isn't it?
I have no idea.
You're the pop guy, you've got to know this stuff.
I think it's, I think maybe it was his uncle Charles Wright.
Right.
I'm sure one of our listeners can correct me if I'm wrong.
And thanks very much for all your texts and emails for Texanation this week.
We'll be reading some of those out shortly.
We're asking you to text in about how you would revolutionize, well, save the ailing music industry, you know?
How are you going to get the kids to part with their dough for music, basically?
That's what everyone... Gimmicks.
That's the holy grail.
That's what we need now.
Yeah.
Now Garth, my guest this week, we don't have, we've never had guests.
Me and Joe, as long as we've been on the radio, we've never ever had guests.
But you are filling in for Joe this week because he's away in America.
And as well as being an old friend of ours, you're a film director.
I am.
Well done.
I'm having a go.
Well done.
Giving it a shot.
And you have a film coming out very shortly.
It comes out on April the 4th.
Right.
Here in the UK.
And it's called Son of Rambo.
And Rambo is about R-A-M-B-O-W.
Yeah, we put a W on the end just so it wouldn't upset anyone.
And it's just pure coincidence that it's coming out merely a month or something after... Unbelievable.
Well, I started writing this eight years ago.
Yeah.
And at that time, Rambo was over.
And our little film is based on First Blood.
When I was a kid, I saw First Blood when I shouldn't have done.
I was a bit too young for it.
But it blew our minds.
My friends and I. And we started making our own home movie versions of First Blood.
Yeah.
And they're fantastically awful and brilliant.
So little home movies.
And so we've written a whole movie about two little kids making their sequel to Rambo in the early 80s.
Set in the early 80s.
And it's a sort of very sweet, very silly coming of age
movie with lots of action and adventure thrown in.
So the premise is sort of autobiographical but the things that happened to them, none of that happened to you though, right?
No, I started off being based on my own experiences and then I realised I'd had far too good a time and there was no conflict whatsoever.
So we started and we wanted to turn it into a proper movie.
So yeah, that's what we did.
That's why it took so long.
But you got the film made fairly quickly though, didn't you in the end?
Yeah, well, it took ages to get the money, but then once we got it, it was 40 days to shoot, 4 weeks to cut, and our first screening was a week after we finished, completed the film, which was at the Sundance Film Festival.
And that was bizarre because, you know, no one had seen it, and the first time anyone saw it was there.
It was an amazing, phenomenal response.
Yeah, because it's a sweet sort of unassuming film.
I hope you don't think I'm kind of damning it with fake praise by saying that, you know.
But yet there was this overwhelming response in Sundance, wasn't there?
It was nuts, and no one could have predicted it.
We were terrified about showing it, because we'd lost sight of it as well.
When you watch a film loads and loads and loads of times, you begin not to sort of feel anything toward it, and you say, oh no, it's not working anymore.
So then you put it in front of 1,200 people and you're terrified and then about 10 minutes in something happens with the tennis ball, you'll see it in a few weeks time, um, where they got a really big reaction.
And then from then on it was just, you've got them.
by the bits and yeah and it was amazing it was unbelievable because it went from this film that no one wanted to finance to a bidding war that night and by five o'clock the next morning they'd been bidding all through the night Paramount Vantage bought it yeah and they were we were in a little chalet and I'd gone to bed thinking this won't happen and when I woke up they were still downstairs signing the contract
It's like entourage.
It was crazy.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's amazing.
It's genuinely, that is a true story and we could never have predicted it.
And you had, I remember you saying, was Bono in one of the screenings?
He came to that screening.
I don't know Bono.
Yeah.
He just happened to be in Sundance and he walked past us and then went in and sat down.
We're like, what's Bono doing here?
He's just around and suddenly everyone's like, oh.
Oh, nice!
I did it.
I didn't.
It's not my friend.
I wasn't really drunk.
I introduced the name drop for you then.
Good.
Okay, I feel absolved.
But the... Yeah, and then afterwards, I was summoned.
Yeah.
For a little critique.
And he loved it.
There's things he pointed out, loads of things he loved about it.
One of them was the fact that there's a guide dog for the blind thing.
One of those yellow golden retrievers that used to be outside supermarkets.
He's like, I've forgotten about those.
I've totally forgotten about those little guide dogs.
He made them sound like a leprechaun.
He said hello.
He jumped out of a little tux.
Would you like a Guinness?
Yes.
You look your charms.
You look at you.
You're all being there with your face.
No, he was, he was, I'm taking the Mickey out of him.
He was really, genuinely sweet.
I bet.
We were on such a high because it worked.
That was the main thing.
We didn't think we were going to sell it, but he was very, very sweet to us.
How fantastic.
Oh, lovely.
so and the posters are up all around town you're starting to go up they put up big posters yeah yeah it's very exciting you're on the culture show next week oh I think it's next week I think is the culture show goes out tonight isn't it I think no it's not tonight it's it's in a week or two I know but it goes out on Saturdays it does yes
So next weekend you'll be on there and you get a grilling from Camode, right?
He had a little go, but I get to kill him.
The bequiffed film lunatic.
He loved Son of Rambo, but he was talking about another film I made which he didn't like quite so much.
There you go.
You'll have to watch The Culture Show next weekend to find out about that little on-screen spat with Camode.
And this is one of the tracks you've chosen for us right now.
This is on the soundtrack, is that right, of Son of Rambo?
It is, yeah.
It plays out at the end of the film and although it's kind of a classic, it's one that we just couldn't resist being the ending of our movie.
It's the cure That's a new group.
They're called the Rolling Stones They're gonna be big from the phrase a rolling stone gathers no moss and they refuse to gather moss and that's their thing that's their gimmick and the lead singers called Mick Jagger and They're gonna be big apparently that one's called start me up You're listening to Adam and Joe here on BBC six music Joe's away.
My friend Garth Jennings is filling in hello there And we're gonna catch up on some text the nation business right now.
Here's the jingle
Text the nation!
Text!
Text the nation!
What if I don't want to?
Text the nation!
But I'm using email.
Is that a problem?
It doesn't matter!
Text!
And we are asking you to text in ideas to save the music industry.
Ways, gimmicks to make the kids part with their cash for music.
Have you got anything there, Guy?
Well, I've got a good one here.
It says pop videos at the bottom of a pint glass in pubs.
Ten pence extra.
Great for lonely or boring people.
That's a good one.
Christian, very bored and lonely in London Field.
See, I think it's a very important thing to link some of those bad habits with music.
You know, we're not saying this is necessarily right.
And for example, my idea for having the musical trolleys in supermarkets, in a way you could look at it as being sort of a nightmare because it's cutting people off even more from the world around them.
But then if you're making money off it and it's saving the record industry, that's the most important thing.
I think so here's another idea that's not necessarily to be encouraged on a moral way alco pop music Okay, as well as choosing what flavor of fizzy kid booze you're gonna do your binging on Your little weekend binge drinking session for an extra quid
You can choose what song the bottle plays, right?
And the bottle has little speakers in the label, right?
So it's a slightly thicker label, but they're terrible speakers.
I mean, they sound awful, right?
So you could barely hear it.
I mean, it would be really dreadful, but you listen to Duffy while you're having your alco pop coming out through these tinny little speakers.
And again, you see, it's the novelty that excites the children.
And so while they're getting blasted on the Alka Plops, they can't believe that Duffy's actually coming out of the bottle.
Yeah, that would be incredible.
It would be amazing.
A bottle of Duffy.
Exactly.
Isn't that a Homer Simpson drink?
That's right, Duffy beer.
Yeah.
Sweet Duffy.
Delicious Duffy.
Here's another one from Matt.
Matt says, how about trainers with mp3s?
If you can add wheels, lights, and the ability to inflate, then why not mp3s?
It'll be annoying, but so are most things these days.
Well, it'd be good because then you could walk in time with it.
You could have, like, ultra-vox Vienna.
That's right.
You could have a great walker.
and you could style your walk to that like really good or really good stompy tracks that's right oh we're going up the hill we've got to go up the hill folks we'll need to fast track daft punk yeah that would annoy anyone
message here from Jamie R. He says, My brother has a toothbrush that plays Queen's We Will Rock You, powered by the kinetic energy of the tooth brushing process.
It's exactly the right length for a healthy brush, which is excellent.
I think this idea could be implemented in a number of other bathroom products such as combs or toilet paper.
Good thinking on the toilet paper there.
The extractor fan could play music to drown out the horrible sound of its whirring suck, to making the bathroom time relaxing again.
Many thanks for your time.
You're welcome, Jamie.
Thanks for your message.
There's loads of things you could do in the bathroom, certainly.
I mean, the Japanese have a thing because they're so embarrassed by toilet sounds that the sound of a toilet flushing plays out like musak in many Japanese public toilets.
But, you know, they're missing a trick.
Surely they could just have music.
Don't you think?
Just a bit louder.
Actual music to cover the sound.
Or you could just have the sound of someone making those noises you make to cover it yourself.
Oh, I see.
Not like... No, no.
Because you're trying to hide that.
Or the actual sound of things going on.
Where you sort of go... You know, so you could just have that play.
Or record it.
Just save you doing it.
That's demented.
Allian sub 6 says...
says, ooh, here's another one.
I just, she writes ooh at the beginning, that's why I read that out.
Ooh, another one.
Wardrobes that play music to get you in the mood for whatever you're dressing for.
That's a brilliant idea.
Yeah.
So you're getting, you know, Saturday night, you're getting changed.
Well, that is Saturday night by Wickfield, isn't it?
Right.
So that would be one of your options, you know, and you load, you load up the track, whatever's appropriate to where you're going, if you're going to some
You know young person young person's golf golf club.
Yeah and person's golf club.
Yeah, then you can put your Your music in that ding or a funeral you could have anything's right?
I mean, I've got to put my clothes on but I don't want to feel happy about this.
That's right
Something dour?
Stick on a little bit of Radiohead there or some early cure.
That'll get you in the mood for wherever you're going.
That's a very good idea.
Thanks for that, Ali and Sussex.
Keep those ideas coming in for Text the Nation.
We want to save the record industry and your gimmicks will help do that.
After this next track, I think we should do the whole link as Daniel Day Lewis in There Will Be Blood.
Okay.
Okay, but right now here's Black Keys with Strange Times.
That's the Black Keys with Strange Times.
I was thinking, we can't, if we do the whole Lincoln Stanley Lewis people go mental.
Yeah.
We should, we should explain that, um, we were talking about There Will Be Blood, the Paul Thomas Anderson film that won all their MOSCOS.
And, uh, Garth saw it a while back.
I only just saw it.
And I was really knocked out by it.
I just, I wasn't against it.
Yeah.
I just have never seen anything quite so bananas.
I mean, it's nuts.
I didn't know what was going on toward the end there.
Yeah.
It's extraordinary.
My thesis is that it's a comedy.
Yeah, but that's... I think you've got it wrong.
I don't think they were going for comedy there.
Do you not?
No.
I think it's called There Will Be Blood.
Yeah.
Because it's pretty damn serious.
Serious.
No, I don't believe you.
It's not like...
No, no, it's not like Benny Hill, but it's, it's, it's very funny.
I mean, I, I'm sure it's intentionally funny.
And he gives an amazing performance.
Daniel's a little, there's no question about it.
He deserves his statue.
This is why I found it so confusing because everything was amazing about it, but I just didn't.
I was thinking, what is, who's the guy with the thing then?
Who's the brother?
And then why is he doing that?
Yeah.
Why is he hurting that man?
He's got a twin.
You what?
Yeah, yeah.
We're not giving anything away, by the way, if you haven't seen it.
No, no, you're right.
But it is an amazing performance.
I mean, whether you like Paul Tom Sanderson or not or whatever, it's you gotta see it.
I mean, boy.
And there are moments that I just, I cannot believe that they were not going for something comedic.
And the last line of the film, which I won't give away,
But, uh, there's an extraordinary scene, an amazingly climactic scene in this film.
And then when, when, uh... Don't give it away.
No, I can't, can I?
But it's funny, it's a funny line and I think it's played for laughs.
And I think a lot of the lines there are played for laughs.
Really?
I'm sure.
Do you not reckon?
I don't think so.
What about our favourite lines there?
I've loaded a few of our favourite lines into the, um, computer.
Because this is it, even though I thought it was bananas, I cannot stop thinking about him and try and impersonate him.
Yeah.
Because he's so Australian.
Yeah, how do you do?
You basically talk like this, don't you?
I mean, he's American.
I have a long way to be here tonight with my son, H.W.
H.W.
It's almost like Agent Smith from The Matrix, you know?
Yes, you have to take a big breath before you start talking.
That's the key, I think.
Yeah.
Start with that.
There's a great scene towards the end where he's trying to explain the process of
Drilling for oil and nicking the oil from someone else's kind of plot.
Yeah, you know and starts talking about the milkshake if Imagine you have a milkshake.
I have a straw and I put my straw And I drink your milkshake, let's hear him actually doing it I drink your milkshake
I drink it up!
It's like they're always through.
It is shaking with rage as you sing it.
I drink your milkshake.
I'd like a t-shirt with that on it.
I think they're going for that in America because it's become a catchphrase over there.
I'm sure.
They're the Paramount guys put out flyers with I drink your milkshake and then when you open it up it says I drink it all up and there was a voucher I'm not kidding you there was a voucher for their smoothies at the local um I'm not kidding this is a genuine publicity thing because people just running around going I drink your milkshake I drink it up
You could see that happening in cafeterias and at schools.
Yeah, exactly.
What are you doing?
I'm drinking your milkshake, you boy!
And then, of course, the scene that they show on all the TV programs and all the awards ceremonies is certainly an amazing scene.
It's when Daniel Day Lewis' character, Daniel Plainview, is being humiliated in church by this preacher man that he's trying to negotiate with to drill for oil on the land that he owns.
in return for the right to be able to drill.
He has to basically say whatever this preacher man makes him say, even though he's not a religious person, you know.
And so he's basically made to say all these dreadful things, including, I've abandoned my boy!
Say it louder.
I've abandoned my boy!
And he ends up just yelling it.
I've abandoned my boy!
Let's have a quick listen to that clip.
I've abandoned my child!
I've abandoned my boy!
My boy!
It's a good scene, though.
That one's not played for laughs.
I reckon the milkshake one is, definitely.
Do you know what, though?
In that scene, I think there is a laugh toward the end where it feels like he's kind of spun it back to his own way.
Yes, yes.
It's like, I've said it now.
Now I'm coming for you.
You know what I mean?
It's kind of quite funny.
Let me get out of here!
Yes, I'm done now.
I'm done now.
It's amazing and then then there's a there's a very chilling scene as well when he is having a meeting with this Big oil company who want to buy his operation off him and he's basically saying I won't there's no way I'm gonna sell to you and He eventually just starts randomly threatening this guy because he thinks that he's being insulted by this bloke This guy is casting aspersions on the way he's raised his child doesn't need to say hey Daniel You know if we give you this is buy this off you you'll have loads of money for your family exactly
just sets him off yeah because he's feeling guilty about the fact that he's and then he it culminates with him with him just threatening this guy we got a clip of that one night I'm gonna come to you inside of your house where
Whatever you're sleeping on, I'm gonna cut your throat.
I'm gonna cut your throat.
That's nice, isn't it?
Yeah.
Lovely little nut there.
The guy says, well, what did you say?
It's brilliant scene because the guy responds in a way that you really would in that situation.
You know, it's not all kind of lyrical.
His responses are just like, wait, wait, wait, what are you saying?
What are you talking about?
Hang on a sec, yeah.
It's mental.
That's the thing, though.
You've got to see that film now.
It is worth seeing, but I still think bonkers.
Yeah, I mean, it's nuts.
But the thing is, with Oscar films, sometimes you go and see them and you think, I've never been so bored in my life.
Oh, no, you won't be bored.
You will not be bored.
I mean, it is just fantastic.
Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead as well provides this extraordinarily unsettling score.
Yeah, because for loads of time, there's not actually anything happening.
Yeah.
And it's going... But it's exciting, though.
I mean, I was never bored for a second.
No, but that's what I mean.
You're just thinking, oh, mate, it's like music that someone's going to die soon, and then they don't.
And you've been on the edge of your seat for 10 minutes.
Yeah.
Wow.
But it's fun.
I defy you not to spend quite a long time talking like Daniel Day Lewis.
I like my egg properly boiled.
What are we watching?
I don't like this program on television.
Turn it over.
I want to watch Saturday Night Takeaway.
I love Ant and Dec.
I drink their milkshake.
I drink it up.
Anyway, highly recommended.
Here's a track that I've chosen for you listeners.
This is an old one from the Cocktoe Twins.
Do you remember this one?
Oh, I bought this on cassette single.
Yeah, this one from one of their most successful albums, Heaven or Las Vegas, and it's called Ice Blink Luck.
That's The Caesars with Jerk It Out.
That was recorded for 6 Music for a special session at Maida Vale on the 17th of April 2003.
Back in the good old days, you're listening to BBC 6 Music.
I'm Adam Buxton.
Who are you?
I'm Garth Jennings.
I'm not Joe.
No, you're not Joe.
You're filling in for Joe.
He's away at the moment.
In Los Angeles, he'll be back next week.
Don't forget, of course, folks, if you're a fan of the show, if you've missed anything, you can always listen again online.
You go to the BBC 6 Music website and you'll find
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You just sort of type in Adam and Joe, listen again and you'll find it like that.
Or of course, you can always listen to our excellent podcast.
I got in a bit of trouble because we did an interview for broadcast magazine.
It's a sort of industry mag.
Talking about the fact that Joe and myself might be doing some new podcasts or kind of an, or maybe an album even for iTunes.
of new spoken word stuff.
Anyway, in the course of that, I sort of said how much I enjoyed doing specially recorded sessions, non-live sessions, and then editing down the stuff.
I said, you know, sometimes it's a more enjoyable process than doing the live podcast.
You maybe get better stuff anyway.
It came out all wrong, and the way it was written up in broadcast made it look as if I was dissing the
You were like, you were saying, I hate doing this show.
No, I hate basically saying, oh, I hate the BBC podcasts.
What we do would be much better.
And that's not the case at all.
Listeners, our podcasts are great and we hope you're downloading them and enjoying them.
And we very much appreciate all the hard work that goes into creating them.
That's done by our team here at Jude, our producer and Claire.
So for goodness sake, you know, don't if you read broadcast.
Don't.
All of you.
Stop it.
Put it down.
No, it's nice of broadcast to, you know, be talking about what we're doing, but... Yeah.
Love in the podcasts and don't think any different, so check them out right now.
It's time for the news, ladies and gentlemen, read by Catherine Cracknell.
It's time for Song Wars.
The War of the Songs.
A couple of Tunes by a couple of Proms, so check it out.
Yes, that's right.
It's Song Wars time, and this week, our songs feature members of our family.
Garth has recorded a version of I'm Still Standing by Elton John, featuring his gran.
Joni.
Joni, yeah.
And I have done a song with my dad, Nigel Buxton, aka Bad Dad, which is a kind of rap.
And this is longer than usual, so let's just get on and play them.
You went first last time, so I'll go first this time.
This is my Bad Dad rap.
I'm bad, Dad.
I am the better dadder.
I was mad before.
Now you've made me even madder.
There's a hole in the roof.
And I haven't got my madder.
Could you borrow it and fail to give it back?
B-triple-A-D-D-A-D, I'm the head of the mother-loving Buxton family.
Children got a problem, they bring it to me.
I don't solve it, but I'm fairly sympathetic.
I've worked many years at the Sunday Telegram.
They called me travel editor.
It really was a laugh.
I travelled the world, from the North to the South, and it paid for my children's education.
Now my children are fully grown I live on the down in a house on my own I drink bed wine like coke you roll and I listen to a little bit of vodka
Tidy up a wooden floor, get your hair cut, when are you going to get a decent job?
For goodness sake, past the court was here.
Yo yo yo yo, whose yo yo is this?
I watch TV from time to time, but most of what I see is a mother-loving crime.
Nye Jello Lawson, that woman is fine, but Ewan McGregor is appalling.
Russell Brown, he's a loathsome creep.
Davina McCoy, she makes me weep.
Simon Shama, stick him on the heat and don't get me started on Kupinski.
Don't push me cos I'm close to the hedge and I'm carrying quite a lot of
I was mad before, now you've made me even mad, it's a whole new groove.
I dislike Fiona Bruce.
It's really difficult to say why.
I think that is fantastic.
He explained to me about Fiona Bruce afterwards and his problem with Fiona Bruce is that he thinks she acts out the news too much.
He likes his news to be delivered more dispassionately, you know?
I can understand that.
She throws herself into all the stories too much for my dad.
So now let's listen to yours, Garth.
Okay, should I explain it?
Yeah, quick.
Okay, this is Joni, my grandma, and I didn't have time to really write a song, so really, you're kind of the winner by default.
Well done.
But I've got to give credit to my grandma here, because she does a belting version of I'm Still Standing by Elton John.
Let's hear that.
You could never know what it's like Your blood's like winter freezes just like ice And there's a cold only light that shines from you You wind up like the wreck You hide the people in that mask you use And if you think the school could never win Well look at me, I'm coming back again I've got a taste of love in a simple way And if you need to know why I'm still standing You just fade away
Don't you know, I'm still standing Better than my every ticket Looking like a true survivor Feeling like a little kid I'm still standing After all this time Picking up the pieces of my life without you On my mind I'm still standing Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah Once I never could hope to win Started down the road, leaving me again The threats you made were meant to cut me down And if a laugh was just a circus You'd be a clown by now Don't you know that I'm still standing Better than I ever did
Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid I'm still standing, after all this time, picking up the pieces of my life without you on my mind I'm still standing, yeah, yeah, yeah
That's Joni.
Joni Gray and my grandma.
Joni Mitchell.
That's great.
I'm still standing.
That's Garth's tune there.
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Joni.
Okay.
Come on, Joni.
Uh, we are going to conclude Text-A-Nation after this next track, but here's Elbow for you with the boons of you!
Text-a-nation!
Text, text, text!
Text-a-nation!
What if I don't want to?
Text-a-nation!
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It doesn't matter, text!
Text-a-nation time!
Before that you heard Elbow with the bones of you.
Now we've got a lot of text to get through here.
Thank you very much to everybody who's emailed us and texted today.
Sorry if I didn't read out your message as usual.
Joe's usually on top of the emails and texts.
He does a pretty good job
Are you saying I should have been doing that?
Well, no, there's no way that you could have done.
It's a mountain of paper that keeps coming in here.
Absolutely.
It's all recycled though, don't worry about it.
We're not killing the planet with your texts and emails.
Here's one from Jefferson in London.
This is on the subject, of course, of ways, gimmicks that the record industry can use to get money out of people for music.
How about a microwave that plays pop songs while you're waiting for your microchips to cook?
Most meals take about three minutes, which is the same time as most pop songs.
I'm surprised no one's invented this already.
That's a good one.
It's a good little bit of thinking there, Jefferson, because especially, you know, while they turn round, that is a genius idea, and you could buy little chips, it could update.
Yeah, and you could have songs that fit certain lengths of cooking.
That's right, for... So like Song 2 is a good two minutes, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah.
That's for quick stuff, like you're reheating your porridge or something.
Exactly.
But then if you've got a baked potato there, you can have a bit of prog.
Yeah, you could have like paranoid android.
Yeah.
And then your whole lasagna is ready.
Awesome orbital, which would be nice as well while you're watching the potato rotating exactly.
That's a good music video.
The Rotato.
That is a good idea.
Just watching something turn around.
Do you carry a little notebook around for jotting these ideas down in?
I should.
I do carry a notebook around, but I don't come up with that.
I haven't come up with many ideas.
Stick that one in the notebook.
That's going in.
Come on, the microwave.
Tating food.
Because it's always good to have a little one-shot idea that you can do for no money.
Yeah, that's always, yeah, have them in the bank.
Exactly.
Nice.
All I've ever done.
Right, here's one from Derek in Lancaster, musical bubblegum.
Yeah.
And he is funny enough, I had a similar idea, I was thinking musical chewing gum.
And he hasn't quite worked out the logistics, neither have I. But basically the chewing releases a chemical that picks up certain radio frequencies, right?
That play the selected singles into your head.
I mean, this is a ridiculous idea.
Right.
In a way.
But you could have it so that it's a special chemical.
Yeah.
That actually allows you for a minute to sing like that person.
Well, that would be better.
alters it alters uses the DNA of the original singing it drips down into your throat alters your throat yes and then you can sing like a guy that you like you can say i'm going to drink i drink your milkshake you know like helium that's what i'm thinking of you know when you get a balloon and you go
And it changes your voice for a little bit.
Yeah.
You could income that changes you to sound like Elvis Costello.
Well, in Mission Impossible 3, they have the little voice changing thing, don't they?
That's it.
When Tom Cruise dresses up as Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Yeah, be your favourite record.
That's right.
Thanks very much for that one, Derek, in Lancaster.
Jonathan in Leeds says, Hi, Joe, in the other bloke.
That's me.
That's a little bit rude there, Jonathan, he's Garth.
uh... joe how about using pelican crossings he says i actually had this idea as well instead of the beat beat beat when the lights change it could play a tune right cost a nominal fee to cross the road uh... you know maybe you're playing eric he calls him eric claptrap uh... crossroads or walk don't walk for uh... from rat trap hahaha he says of course you have walked this way uh... play on dmc that would be good while you're crossing the road here's a good idea from axe
Um, music idea.
Books that play music as you read them.
Yeah?
Like a film soundtrack.
And it encourages reading as well.
That's a good idea.
We've got to encourage people to read.
Exactly.
Because reading's really good.
Because now Harry Potter's finished, no one's reading anymore.
Is that true?
Yeah.
I don't know, I'm just saying that.
Well, people are depressed, aren't they?
They're seeking counselling because there's a big Potter-shaped hole in their lives.
But they're doing a good thing.
They're splitting up the last film, the last book, into two films.
So they're stretching it out for us.
That's a good idea.
How many films have we got to go then?
17, I think.
17 or 18, excellent.
Here's one from Geraldine.
I'm not going to get through all these now.
Here's one from Geraldine.
She was talking about the whole thing of Dial-A-Disc, which sparked off this whole thing.
We've got a clip from the original Dial-A-Disc, what it used to sound like when you would phone up this thing.
And this must be from the late 70s, because they're talking about the band Middle of the Road there.
Have a listen.
The Dial-A-Disc service is available
It's very muddy.
Ah, the comforting sound of the 70s.
Won't be selecting that.
Wow, there you go, that's what it sounded like when you used to phone up.
And that was kind of the most streetwise voice that you could acceptably have on a public service like that, I think.
That would have been exciting if you were a kid, though.
In them days, yes, absolutely.
Well, Geraldine says, I was in so much trouble with my dad for excessive teenage phone use that my dad put a special lock on the phone dial.
I remember those locks.
Yeah, you could get those, couldn't you?
And because I was constantly doing dial-a-disc,
And my abiding memory was dancing around the phone in the hall to the tide is high by Blondie at least 20 times.
Thanks very much for that Geraldine.
Now we might have a couple more of these just before we say goodbye, but right now here's the final of our free choices.
This one from Garth.
Oh, yeah.
This is, um, I Just Can't Get Enough by Depeche Mode, and it's from our, from the soundtrack of Son of Rambo.
Remind us again when Rambo comes out?
Son of Rambo comes out April the 4th, and you must go, because I think you'll enjoy it.
And you'll see this song being used in a really rather peculiar way in a sixth form common room.
That's right.
When everyone's getting a bit nuts on space dust.
And I'm one of the teachers in the actual, uh, teacher's common room, of course.
Yep.
Blink and you'll miss me.
Not for there for very long, but long enough.
Yeah, you can see it's me.
I want a heavy beer and have a listen to this.
This is the best mode.
The mighty depression mode.
I think they were never as good again.
Surely this was my favorite.
This is the best stuff.
I mean, it's hard to beat that whatever band you are really.
And that's featured, of course, in, uh, San Rambo.
Yeah.
I'm so excited about that.
Go and see it.
Finally.
Yes.
Thanks very much to Tom Rogers for sending through that clip of Dial-A-Disc that we played there before.
Really appreciate that, Tom.
And thanks very much to everybody who texted and emailed us today.
We had loads of texts and emails, and I'm very sorry if I didn't read out yours, but we really do appreciate it.
We've got loads of good ones, especially for Text-A-Nation.
and don't forget of course that you can listen again to this show throughout the week and you can download the podcast as well throughout the week but you have to be quick because it vanishes at the end of the week and next Sunday it will be replaced by podcast number nine okay the best thing is just to subscribe and then they flop into your box
That's the sound they make as they flock, isn't it?
Yeah, every week automatically.
Liz Kershaw is coming up.
Thank you so much to my guest presenter, Garth Jennings.
Thank you for having me.
It's been brilliant fun.
And Joe will be back with you next week.
Have a good week.
Take care.
Love you.
Bye.