There'll be some music and some random talking in between, and then eventually the whole thing will just end.
As Dusty Springfield with Son of a Preacher Man, this is Adam and Jo on BBC Six Music.
It's Saturday, the 27th of December.
We're squeezed, we're sandwiched between Christmas Day and the New Year, and this is our special sandwich show.
It's the day after Boxing Day.
What do you call that day?
Disappointment Day.
Yeah, Botox Day.
Botox Day.
I don't know.
But to further complicate things, listeners, we have to admit to you that we're not actually live in the studio.
What?
We are pre-recording this show.
We want to be upfront and clear about it.
We don't want any confusion.
No.
Because confusion costs lives.
And when people get confused about whether radio or TV shows are live or not.
When television lies.
People start dying.
It's true.
And we want to avoid that, especially on Disappointment Day, this special time of year.
So you're all probably feeling a little bit bloated, a bit disgusted with yourselves for watching those films that you watched there on Christmas Day.
What kind of films do you think people are watching on Christmas Day?
You know, people can watch a lot of filth on a Christmas Day.
Really?
Yeah.
Channel 5.
How much do you want to bet Channel 5?
Because we don't know just yet, because we're pre-recording this show exactly what's going to be on.
Do you think Channel 5 will put on the strongest erotic film ever broadcast on terrestrial television?
Almost, if anyone learns.
At lunchtime on Christmas Day.
Yeah.
That would be typical, wouldn't it?
It would be typical of Channel 5, surely.
If any broadcaster is going to do it, it's going to be 5.
And now on Channel 5?
Sandy crack.
It's a beach set, adult film.
They won't show that.
That sort of business has absolutely no business with Christmas, does it?
Can you get a Sandy Crack on Blu-ray?
Yes.
You wouldn't want to, though.
It's too detailed.
That's shocking.
So that's a nice family way of starting the show, isn't it, listeners?
Not really.
But you started it.
I know.
I finished it.
Partly my fault.
On the other hand, maybe you're doing, you know, maybe you're listening to this program after the 27th.
Maybe you're even listening to the show on New Year's Eve itself.
And we had our Christmas show before last week, of course.
This is more like a New Year's Eve celebration, right?
A celebration putting 2008 to bed and getting ready to welcome 2009.
Exactly, and we've got some special guests in the studio to help us.
Garth Jennings will be here, and so will Chris Salt, the salt man.
Assault on Precinct 13, Ready Salted Crisps is the man with the most nicknames in the country.
Some are salt.
It's a never-ending list of nicknames.
He'll be here, and we're going to be playing out the show this week as well with a song that was Megamix.
That's right.
We found a genius on the internet in the world of YouTube and we've invited him here.
He's come all the way from Newcastle.
That's all still to come.
And of course, great music, listeners.
Yes.
But before the great music, no, that's not true.
Here is some great music.
This is the Ting Tings with That's Not My Name.
That's one of the bands of the year.
The Ting Tings.
And this is brilliant.
One of the tracks of the year.
Here we go.
That's the Ting Tings with That's Not My Name.
One of the records of the year, right?
Absolutely, yeah.
That's the sound of... That's the sound of Young Britain created by a couple of people in their late twenties.
Have you got that record?
I do have that record.
I listened to the whole record once.
Is it good?
Yeah, it's pretty good.
It's like one of the... Well, it reminded me of the sort of thing that we, you know, the kind of thing that is fun to listen to, a bit of disposable pop that very much crystallizes a moment of your youthful musical life.
And for many people, it'll be the soundtrack of a wonderful year.
For me, it was an inconsequential piece of bottom fluff that I will never be bothered with again.
But it meant a huge amount to a lot of people who will one day be leading this great country of ours.
Now, listeners, you just heard the heartwarming giggle of Garth Jennings there, who's entered the studio.
Hello, Garth.
Hello, everybody.
Thanks for coming in.
Why, I can't just sound like a normal person.
It's fine to giggle, stupid giggles.
People love the giggles.
Man, it's nearly New Year, and you've got post-Christmas hysteria, that's what it is.
That's right.
And it's a fun time of year, and we're sandwiched, as we record this show, between two studios here at the Big British Castle, one of which contains beautiful pneumonia, and the other of which contains frightening Steve LaMac.
He's not frightening.
No, he's not.
He's lovely.
He's actually looking very healthy and good looking at the moment.
But we are also drawing in the studio.
What are you suggesting there?
I don't know.
Just try and move on.
Just ignore it.
Move on.
He just is like an indie vampire sometimes.
That's all I'm saying.
He spends a lot of time DJing and partying.
Not for rock too.
Eventually it takes a toll.
It takes its toll.
Anyway, in the studio right here though, we're also joined by another friend of the programme, Chris Salt, the winner of our Video Wars competition, who of course came to visit us just after he won the competition.
Chris, nice to see you again.
Hello again, yes.
How are you?
I'm fine, thanks.
How was your Christmas, even though it's not happened yet?
My Christmas was fantastic.
Yeah, yeah.
And I got lots of great presents.
Seriously though, what are you hoping to get, seeing as we are pre-recording this show?
More computer games.
Yeah.
I've already played a lot of computer games this year, but... Hey Chris, I've got an idea.
later in the show you and I we should do we should do a computer games round up because you and I I think we play a lot of similar games between us you probably got them covered yes mind games we did we never play mind games yeah no we're not clever enough that's my favorite video games that's what I play with my wife mind games
Sounds like a Peter Gabriel single.
Well, wasn't there a song called Mind Games?
That's John Lennon.
Yeah, he did a song called Mind Games.
There was someone else.
It was a rock song.
Mind Games!
If there wasn't, there should have been.
Listen, let's get into your free play, Adam.
What have you got for us?
Well, actually, Garth got me into this.
This was from the Portishead that they released, the long-awaited release from The Head, The Portises, and it's a lovely bit of a mellowness from that album called The Rip.
That is both grills and skills.
Portishead with The Rip from their third album that was released this year, of course, in June.
Seems such a long time ago now.
One of the enjoyable sounds of 2008.
That was the month when I had shingles.
Was it?
It'll always be shingles month for me.
I should have bought my shingles photos in again.
You could have reminisced.
That would have been scary.
What about the puss?
Oh, those were the buboes.
Night Games was the song I was thinking of, incidentally, not mind games, by Graham Bonnet, soft rock fans.
Night Games.
We are joined by Chris Salt, the winner of our Song Wars competition.
Now, in case you don't know listeners, Chris Salt won that competition, and he's a very accomplished, uh, animator.
And Chris, you did a fantastic Lego bit of animation for our competition earlier this year.
You won in the face of great competition.
There were like 250 entries or something.
Yeah, two hundred and fifty, and unprecedented number of entries.
Two thousand five hundred entries we got, Chris, and you won.
Congratulations.
So how has your life changed, I would imagine, out of all recognition?
Almost out of all recognition, yes.
What's actually happened is, since winning, and appearing on the show, two video production companies have approached me.
No, is that true?
It is true.
Both of them have said, we like what you've done,
And when we have an idea for something that's going to involve Lego, we'll get back in touch with you.
Which will only be a matter of time, surely.
Well, yeah.
I would imagine that you'd have the filthy advertising industry beating a path to your door.
I think that the weird thing about using Lego is that you actually have to get permission off Lego to use it.
Did I not read that Lego have failed to copyright their brick?
They failed to copyright the 4x2 brick.
Really?
But the little people and all the smiley faces and a load of the other stuff, they've still got the trademark on them.
You know, to me, that reflects a limited imagination on the part of the production companies, because your skills aren't purely LEGO-based, are they?
I mean, you could pretty much animate anything.
They're mostly LEGO-based.
Are they?
Really.
That's all I'm set up to animate.
I've got a space about a foot square on the desk where I do the animating.
It's all going to change, Chris.
It's all going to change.
Bigger and better things.
Bigger Lego men, bigger blocks, bigger tubs of blocks.
The sky's the limit.
Yeah, absolutely.
Man, that's good.
That's exciting.
You know, we were expecting sort of there to be no change in your life.
So two calls, that's pretty good.
Yeah.
Practically speaking, there has been no change.
Has Lego got in touch with you at all?
I'd be so impressed if I was Lego.
I'll just say, let's get that guy to make us a Lego advert.
They actually, this year, celebrated 30 years of the minifig, which is the little tiny people.
And for that, they commissioned three special animated films from three members of the Lego animation community.
Didn't ask me.
Didn't ask the king?
Didn't ask me.
What?
The animated Lego king.
Boy makes you sick, doesn't he?
A salt with a deadly crisp.
That's outrageous.
That's disgusting.
Yeah, I mean, someone didn't tell them that I'd been on this show or they hadn't heard about it or something.
Who's better than you, though?
Let's invade Denmark.
Let's smash them.
I've always wanted a reason, and I can't think of a better one.
Absolutely.
Let's get them.
Boycott Lego, invade Denmark.
Is it really 30 years since they introduced the little people?
Yeah.
It's 50 years since they actually started doing the bricks altogether.
Really?
I remember them introducing those little people.
Quite clearly, I thought it was a sellout.
because they weren't actually made of bricks.
Up until then, Lego used to make their people out of actual Lego bricks.
They had square heads and square hands.
It was a bit horrible.
I mean, it was dreadful.
All you'd do, you'd take the one-unit blocks and you'd put a couple of red ones there and a yellow one on top for the guy's head.
That was no fun for anyone.
Me and my brother had a whole Legoland in the basement.
Two big tables put together.
I owned half of it and he owned half of it.
We had a railway track that went round the whole thing, but there used to be territorial dispute.
I used to derail the train in my area.
I had the film studios in my half.
Yeah, which was just a big empty area.
Joe's half was in need of serious regeneration.
There's a lot of very corrupt officials in Joe's half.
We had national anthems for each half of our Legoland.
Seriously, my brothers was... What's that song called that goes... Oh, Popcorn.
Yeah, that was the national anthem for my brother's half of Legoland.
Unbeatable.
Surely, what was yours?
I can't even remember what mine was.
His was so good.
Yeah.
That's Lego news, ladies and gentlemen.
Shall we play some more music now?
What have we got?
Ooh, this is a treat.
Do you like the shins, Chris?
I've not actually heard anything about them, I don't think.
Outrageous.
You're an indie fan, aren't you?
I am.
I may have heard them, but just not known that it was them.
Are they too mainstream even for you?
Are you someone who listens to quite weird music?
Yeah, I'm quite out there musically.
Right.
Out there.
Mmm, the tuneful lady men.
That's what I like to call them.
The Shins with Phantom Lin.
Joe, you've had a problem with Phantom Hat in your time, haven't you?
I didn't have a problem.
It's a letter I wrote to the Fourteen Times.
It was a joke letter about wearing a tight hat, taking it off, and then being haunted by it.
That's right.
They never printed it.
Did they not?
No, I was really annoyed.
That's a shame, because you identified Phantom Hat, which is a real phenomenon.
It's a super natural condition, yeah.
You know Phantom Hat, right, Garth?
No.
You're wearing a tight hat, baseball cap, or maybe a little, uh, crumbly hat.
Oh, I'm with you.
And you take it off at the end of the day after a whole day of wearing the hat.
You, um, hat feels like it's still there.
Same for roller skates.
When you've been roller skating, you take them off and you still feel like you should be roller skating.
Weirdly, it's not actually, some people think it's just to do with the tightening of the skin and the kind of muscle memory of the skin.
It's not, it's actually to do with ghosts inside the clothes.
It's just amazing.
It's haunting your head.
This is Adam and John on BBC Six Music.
It's our special inter-festival show.
Nice.
We haven't thought of a proper name to describe the peculiar period, the no man's land between Christmas and New Year's.
What could it be called?
The Chasm of Sorrow.
Yes.
Thank you.
That's the new Bond film, isn't it?
We'll be back after the news.
But before the news, here's a bit of Q-Tip, the new single from his new album, The Renaissance.
This is Getting Up.
That was Q-Tip with Getting Up.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music.
It's time for the news.
That was MIA with Paper Planes.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music with our special inter-Christmas and New Year programme.
And we're joined in the studio by Video Wars winner Chris Salt and life winner Garth Jennings.
Life winner?
Yeah, you've just won generally in life.
I hear a winner.
I'm a winner.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
Wow.
I love that.
Thank you very much.
It's all right.
We're a couple of losers.
But it's really nice to have you here.
And before we were, while we were listening to the news and listening to a bit of Maya there, we were also chatting about Lego a bit more and about the rivalries that you sometimes get as youths.
Yeah, I was saying to Chris, we were talking about my Legoland that I used to have as a kid with my brother, and it used to be halved, I'd own half of it, he'd own the other half, and I was telling Chris that when we had arguments as children, we would take out our ire on each other by smashing up the respective halves of our Legoland's.
I would total my brother Felix's Lego area, the police station, the railway station, the hospital even!
Even the hospital!
Crushed!
Have you known, Mercy?
Important municipal buildings!
You're like the Joker!
Crushed I am and Chris you were you were telling us about a Lego base feud that you witnessed or were involved in I was present on the scene, but I wasn't involved in it direct and this is when you were a kid, right?
Yeah, it's when I was eight or nine I think some friends but two brothers as with your family shared a collection of Lego and We were sitting around building spaceships and buildings as you do a bit of a disagreement broke out over a windscreen and
Right, it's a valuable commodity.
It is indeed, yes, they're very rare.
One of the brothers got quite angry, went off, and came back with a penknife.
Shut up!
A tiny little one-inch penknife, but a penknife nonetheless, and he threatened the other brother and said, if you don't give me the windscreen, I'm gonna cut you.
Oh my lord, he's going to give him a little tracheotomy there just for the windscreen!
That's unbelievable, and they were eight as well, they were at the same age.
Yeah.
I hope the parents quickly stepped in, disarmed the child.
He didn't know what he was doing, and the situation was diffused, right?
The situation was diffused by the other brother breaking into tears.
Right, here we go.
That's the only way to fight knife crime.
Badly sick bricks.
He's sick bricks ruining our children's lives, turning them into maniacs.
man i can't remember i don't think we had that kind of disagreement me and my sister well it was different for me and my sister because you know i wasn't really interested in all uh barbie stuff you know there's no question my sister my sister was pretty brutal yeah yeah because i used to pose all my star wars figures in proper action scenes on my shelf so they weren't just standing there and uh you know they were on display they were
you know, engaged in battle or, you know, coming to meet Jabba.
So I'd really gone for it using bits of string and stuff.
And if I'd had a fight or an argument with my sister, all she had to do was put her arm out at 90 degrees and just walk the length of my shelf.
And that would pretty much reduce me to rubble.
No, that's horrible.
Yeah, but I probably deserved it.
But it really was a crushing blow when that lock came down.
You know what you should have done is glued them there just to freak her out.
Like one day she would try and knock them all down.
They're all glued into position.
See, if I could go back in time, I'd glue a lot of things down.
I was remembering that the other day.
For some reason, the sort of memory of how upset I used to get as a child came back into my head.
And this is connected to what we're talking about, feuds between children and how destructive and cruel you can be.
But I remember when I used to argue with my mum, and I used to tell her that I hated her.
And do you remember getting that angry as a child?
And it would just destroy your day.
Yeah.
And it would be like the world had ended.
It would be, you know, there would be a sort of post-apocalyptic feeling in your head.
And did you decide right there and then that no matter what they did later that afternoon, you were going to continue to hate them?
Yes.
And then they would specialise in somehow just making you laugh.
Yes.
And to this day, I still haven't spoken to her.
Because when I say something, I mean it.
I follow through.
So don't mess with me, all right?
I had this with my son the other day, though.
He got in a mood because his mother told him that it was time to go to bed and stop watching TV.
How dare she?
Right?
So he was all in a mood about it.
I just got back from work and I was like, hey, good to see you.
And he was in a mood with me, too.
I was like, I didn't switch the TV off.
That was your mum, although I fully support her eating it.
But listen, how about a hug for daddy?
There was no hug forthcoming.
Not only that, I was frozen out for the rest of the evening.
There was no kiss goodnight, no I love you daddy.
Nothing like that.
And I got furious about it.
Because I said, listen, I haven't done anything wrong here.
What about some little chat?
I was looking forward to having a chat, finding out about your day.
There was nothing.
And he was digging his heels in.
The more and more he dug his heels in, the more I got angry about it.
It's a very important day.
The correct thing to have done, right, would have been to just walk away, let him get over it, and then deal with it the next day.
I decided to make a big deal out of it.
That's a good parenting thing, isn't it?
Wonderful, yeah.
Listen, this is exactly how to behave.
Go on, tell them that.
I thought a brilliant and clever thing as a parent to do would be to punish him for not talking to me.
So I got him out of bed, and I made him stand in a room until he was ready to be nice to me and talk to me.
And obviously that didn't work, because I thought that he would immediately crumble as soon as I started, you know, creating punishment scenarios and stuff.
But he didn't, so I had to follow through with the punishment scenario.
I couldn't just sort of say, you know, I'd put it on the table as a threat.
I couldn't just back off completely.
Put what on the table?
What, a knife?
Did you get a little knife?
No, I said, I, what I put, I said,
You've got to talk to me.
Otherwise, I'm gonna have to punish you and I don't want to do that I'm gonna make you stand next door in the scary room with the lights off.
Okay, and no one the punishment to stand in a dark room.
Yeah, is it really?
Yeah, really so that's quite a good punishment, isn't it?
It's terrifying.
Well, there you go.
I didn't want to do it Yeah, that was like the ultimate sanction.
Have you got that from a book or made it up made it up?
Just thought I don't want to stand in the dark room myself and a child of six would want to eat it
Well, obviously.
So I felt pretty bad after that.
I was like, I can't believe I'm actually going through with this.
This is grotesque.
I turned into the worst father in the entire world.
And I just had to follow through on every one of these threats.
And he ended up standing in the, on the room on his own, just cause he wouldn't talk to me.
It was quite a dark day.
And then eventually I went down and I reported to my wife, what I'd been doing.
And she said,
I was like,
I mean, he still wouldn't talk to me, obviously, but we made a couple of days later, but it was horrible.
It did.
It felt like I was the president of a evil corrupt democracy.
I think by the time people are listening to this radio station over the Christmas period, that's happened right over the country.
There's been lots of cases of parents losing control and going a bit too far.
Christmas tantrums.
Hosing them down in the garden, trying to keep them
If this wasn't a pre-record, our text donation would probably be your greatest Christmas tantrum.
Yeah.
But it is a pre-record, so it's not going to be that.
What a wonderful thought, though, to put it in the comments.
What a thought.
Here's a free choice from me.
This is a bit of sweet soul music all the way from 1996.
Do you remember 1996?
I do.
Yes, that was the year of Ringo's, Dilly Boppers, and Speed Skates.
Correct.
Uh, that's wrong, actually.
Sorry.
It was the year of Tony Blur and us getting on telly.
This is Tony, Tony, Tony with thinking of you.
That was Tony, Tony, Tony.
What, like T-O-N-I.
T-O-N-E.
With an accent.
T-O-N-Y, I'm never quite sure.
Yeah, that's right.
Or it might not be that at all.
They were a happening R&B band back in the MiG, MiG, in the mid-90s.
And you know what?
They're still happening now.
in my world.
Featuring Raphael Sadiq.
Yeah, he was one of the Tonnays.
You love him.
And we used to take the Mick out of the Tonnays.
Yes.
They were being called Tony, Tony, Tony.
But they turned into geniuses.
Yeah.
Well, they were geniuses, we just didn't realise.
Good times, good sounds, good morrow.
This is Adam and Jo here on BBC 6 Music, and this is our special pre-recorded Christmas Hinterland show.
Yeah, we're joined in the studio by two of the individuals.
This show holds most dear.
Two people we clasp to our bosom.
Margaret Thatcher and Ben Elton.
Welcome, both of you.
It's a real pleasure to have you here.
Garth Jennings.
Hello.
Pop video and film directing genius and friend of the program and also Chris Salt.
Hello.
The winner of our video awards competition this year and animated Lego genius.
I mean, that makes it sound as if you are yourself constructed from Lego.
So I apologise for that sloppy phraseology there.
What I meant to say was that he's good at animating Lego.
Yeah, good.
Well, you covered yourself well there.
Thank you very much.
Bye.
It's time to take a look back at 2008.
An amazing year, full of all sorts of things.
I mean, not only have there been events, but there's been music, and movies, and new cars, and food products, and it's been incredible, hasn't it?
Chris?
Salt.
It's been awesome, yes.
What was your cultural highlight of the year, Chris, just to put you on the spot there?
Pick one.
Oh.
Pick one!
Poor old Chris.
I really enjoyed.
Pick one!
Charlie Brooker's Dead Set.
Oh, there we go.
That's a good choice.
Very good choice.
What about, why don't we focus on movies for this link?
It's been an amazing year for movies.
What a summer it was.
Everything from Iron Man.
Do you remember Iron Man?
The big tin man stomping about the place.
Flapping around.
Then there was the big green man stomping around the place and flapping
Flapping around.
Which was the green man?
The hulk.
The hulk?
No one remembers the hulk.
I do.
How many more hulks are we going to have to endure before they finally get the message and just leave them alone?
But of course, the film of the year, the number one grossing film of the year, and possibly of all time, out-grossing Titanic, is The Dark Knight.
No.
No, I thought it was Mamma Mia.
Mamma Mia, surely.
Mamma Mia.
M-M-M-M-M-M-M-Mia.
Well, but I mean, you couldn't get two more extremely different films.
They are polar opposites in many ways, and I hope M-M-M-Mia was the highest-grossing film.
If it was The Dark Knight, I'm tempted to substitute the K-N with an S-H there, I would have been really depressed.
because I found The Dark Knight to be an absolutely miserable experience and it was one of a few films that came out this year that were just unrelentingly grim.
Did anyone see Wanted here?
I couldn't do that with Angelina Jolie.
Well, they curved the bullets.
They curved the bullets and Angelina Jolie just sort of pouts as his hair won't and looks sort of glacial and threatening.
Some facts have just come in.
Mamma Mia is not the top-grossing film of the year.
It was in the UK, I think.
What was it then?
That's the word.
The dark knight was the number one.
It goes dark knight at number one, iron man, Indiana Jones and the Christom of the blah blah blah, the Christom, the crystal of the blah blah blah, Hancock, Wall E, Kung Fu Panda Horton, here's a who, Sex and the City, Mama Mia and the Chronicles of Banania, Prince Caspian.
And they're all rubbish.
Hey, that's not fair.
No, not all of them.
Priscant and cock.
Here, just go through that list again and do a little pause.
Okay, at number one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, is the Chronicles of Benania of Prince Caspian.
Rubs.
That is rubbish, isn't it?
Absolute rubs.
I saw that the other day.
It's a stinker.
Mamma Mia, which is extraordinary.
Haven't seen it.
Can't wait.
That's on my Christmas list.
Supposed to be the only person in the room who's seen it.
Looks like it.
You people are mad.
Uh, Sex in the City is there at number- at number seven.
I heard that was two and a half hours long.
Two and a half hours of sheer pain.
Horton hears a who.
I like that.
It was alright, wasn't it?
I like the elephant.
It was nice to have a character that was just very nice for a change.
Mm-hmm.
That wasn't- that didn't have to learn anything.
Above that Kung Fu Panda, that was brilliant.
I didn't like that at all.
Oh, Garth Jennings, what are you talking about?
I didn't, man.
I really wanted to, because my children liked it, but I didn't like it.
You know, I just re-watched that and it's much better on the second viewing.
I'm not going to bother with that.
I'll just take your word for it.
Shall we have a record as we're midway through the chart?
Yeah, let's have a bit of music.
Now here's the Style Council with WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN.
Oh, he's absolutely furious there.
He's pushed all the walls over.
That was Paul Weller and the Style Council from 1985 with WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN.
Righteous indignation!
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music.
We're joined in the studio by Garth Jennings and Chris Salt.
Chris Salt is the world's top Lego animated filmmaker and Garth Jennings is the world's top pop video and filmmaker and Adam and Jo are the world's worst DJs.
What a combination.
And we're just going through the the hit films of the year and there's been a lot of disdain dealt out.
Nobody likes any of them so far.
Well you started off by saying it's been a classic year for movies.
I couldn't disagree more.
I would say that it's been one of the worst years for yucky, horrible, I disagree.
I think you're very spoilt because listen to this top five pure solid gold quality in at number five was Wall E. I like that.
Well that was good wasn't it?
But it wasn't vintage Pixar though.
It was a little bit
Why wasn't it, though?
I still can't work it out.
I loved it, but I didn't think it.
Because it's so brilliant until they get to the spaceship.
Yes.
When it's just the two robots, like a silent movie in the big post-apocalyptic rubbish tip.
That is amazing, isn't it?
It's like the greatest film ever made.
Yeah.
And it has a timelessness and a universality, because there's no talking and there's nothing contemporary.
It's like watching a Buster Keaton film or something.
But then when it gets all directly satirical on the spaceship with the fact that it becomes more prosaic,
I agree with you.
But still brilliant.
I agree with you, don't I?
They're treated like gods when a new Pixar film comes out.
Do you read the press?
They kind of go insane over Pixar films, don't they?
Saying they're like, you know, the most incredible art form, you know what I'm trying to say?
I feel your pain.
With these words?
Because they quite rightly say that we are living in a kind of animation golden age, you know, when people will look back at that string of Pixar hits and they will think, wow, we had it pretty good in them days.
Because there's only so long that the studio can carry on churning out that little quality.
Journalists berate.
They use Pixar as a hit to stick other filmmakers with.
A hit to stick?
A stick to hit.
There you go.
What are the filmmakers with?
You know what I mean?
Because they're storytelling prowess.
Yes, exactly.
Why can't all films have stories this good?
Yeah, I agree.
You agree?
That's the end of my rant.
Above that is Hancock with Will Smith, which I thought was an old stinky pile of old... Doggy plops.
Yeah.
Starts very good, personally, but then goes off the boil.
Right.
This is just turning into me being boring about films.
Indiana Jones, though, that was a triumphant return to full for the swashbuckling Tomb Raider, wasn't it?
That was two hours of CG dog plops on a scale.
I loved it.
That, Garth Jennings, has never been seen before in the movies.
I have to admit, it's the first time there have been so many of my friends that so didn't like a film that I couldn't go and see it.
and one of my friends who's so tolerant of rubbish actually left halfway through it and he's never done that in his life so I thought I can't so it's going to be on my things to watch over Christmas and I think it's going to be brilliant because my expectations are so low now.
I'm just going to be wowed.
Salty the salt man.
Jones.
I haven't seen it and I haven't seen it because I've heard that it is dog blocks.
Yeah you're all mad it's amazing.
You're not a big dog blocks fan.
Number two I love dog blocks.
Get it?
It's wicked.
But yeah, Iron Man at number two, The Dark Knight at number one, the biggest grossing film of the year.
Well, Iron Man was the best of the batch for me as far as the ludicrous films go, you know?
I thought that was pretty okay.
Yeah.
The Dark Knight, I wanted to like for a while, but it was just nonsense.
And then when Two-Face turned up, I just thought this is the most grotesque film I've ever seen.
It's horrible.
It's for young people to get over their fear of terrorism, though, that film.
Uh, so that's the movie he's done with.
Is he, you know, in the Oscar, do you think?
Uh, Ledger's.
Ledger's.
He's legend.
Yes, probably.
You reckon?
Yeah.
Isn't Quantum of Solace in there?
Didn't that make billions of dollars?
It's done very well, but it probably didn't make the end-of-year list.
Oh, because it's too late.
Because it's still playing.
Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Personally I hope for better things.
Joe Films Cornish, any exciting top tips for 2009?
No.
Nothing at all?
No.
There'll be some good ones and some bad ones.
Some animated ones, some live action ones.
I was going to say I bought a radio the other day in Selfridges and I've worked out a good credit crunch thing which is if you want to see any of those films, go into one of the department stores where they're playing them all and you can watch all the big films because they use them as demonstration films.
And if you run out of food, try looking through bins.
Never know what you'd find in there.
That would be another of God's.
Well, the Buxton family are going to do.
We're going to rifle through some bins, get a little bit of popcorn.
Stand outside Dixon's.
Yeah.
And watch The Incredible Hulk in silence.
In silence, yeah.
In times.
Here's a slice of solid gold soul from Aretha Franklin.
This is Baby I Love You.
Aretha Franklin there with Baby I Love You.
This is Adam and Joe here on BBC Six Music.
Welcome to another of our festive slightly ramshackle shows, which we are pre-recording.
It's not actually live, but it's going out in that strange chasm between Christmas and the New Year, which is always a curious time.
Do you like that time of year?
I love that time of year, especially when I'm joined by close friends.
As we are right now, Garth Jennings and Chris Salt, both good pals of the show, thank you Garth, and they have agreed to do something above and beyond the call of any sort of duty.
They are going to partake in a regular feature of this show that goes by the name of...
And of course, later on in the show, we have listener Craig Moore, who's going to be doing a bit of mixing, live mixing, on his computer and decks to some of our Song Wars tracks.
But today we have for you Song Wars tracks created by Garth and Salty the Saltman.
Now, we asked you both to do this, and you both very generously agreed, but one of you may have more practice in song-making than the other, right?
Garth Jennings, you've filled in for me quite a lot this year.
Yes, yeah.
For which, thank you very much.
Oh, it was a pleasure, actually.
I enjoyed it.
And you did Song Wars songs as well, that mostly crushed Adam's efforts.
Well, no, he beat me on the first one.
Did he?
But the second two, I killed him.
You killed him, right.
But what I'm saying is you're experienced with this, and you like to write silly songs anyway, generally, as part of your day-to-day mental health.
It keeps me off the streets and level.
It keeps you off the smackity-crack.
You've got, whereas... Yeah, you've got actual musical skills, don't you?
I think you can play the piano.
Well, we don't want to suggest that Chris doesn't have these skills, but what I was getting at is, Chris, it's less called for in your daily life to compose, sing and perform music.
That would be correct, yes.
You're mainly an animator.
You're mainly in the visual medium.
You don't necessarily compose and write.
Do you play any instruments?
We're going to find out in a minute that I have an instrument, but I can't actually play it very well.
Welcome to the show.
So, well, we'll go into further explanations of that, further contextualizations when we get to the actual song, but let's flip a coin now to see who will go first in this very special guest star song wars.
The songs are both, before I flip the coin, the songs are both festive, right?
Yeah.
Okay, I'm flipping the coin right now.
And this is for Who Goes First.
Chris, why don't you call it?
Heads.
Heads To Go First.
Tails it is.
Garth, you're going first.
Do I need to sort of announce?
Introduce your song, introduce it.
This is a recording
of, uh, a very nauseating nativity play.
You know the kind of things you have to go and see your kids in.
And this is what the children are all singing this year in the nativity plays.
In a stable far away A baby boy lay snoozing Mother Mary by his side Joseph had gone boozing Suddenly the baby woke When him walked two more strangers Carrying a radio They sang this by his manger wheel Our Adam and Jo Our gift
Is a radio show a mix of tunes and chat to fill your ears with joy?
Wow!
So you've gone down the extreme flattery route, the Christmas flattery route.
Well, originally I didn't know this was going to be Song Wars and I was told, bring in a song as sort of a gift, the gift of music.
You don't need to make any excuses.
That is the truth in your song.
That was terrific.
And that was you singing, was it Garth?
No, that was Tiny Children.
No, it was me.
I tried to get my son on to sing it, but he couldn't really hold it together.
You know what you should have done?
Made him stand in a dark room.
That would have stood for the whole problem now.
That's where I went, right?
It's been too damn nice.
That was great, Garth.
So Chris, how are you feeling now?
How are you feeling during that?
I'm in trouble.
Really?
Give us a little peek into what's happening in your brain there.
I don't have a Mac for a start.
I'm a PC person.
We should point out that we mostly do these tunes on garage bands.
You use garage bands?
Yeah, although that was just my piano.
Right, there you go.
So I'm not kind of, I don't have a lot of sexy noises to make and turn into songs.
Right.
So I used the guitar that I won last year for making a Lego film.
I performed, wrote, composed a song entirely from scratch, all my own work.
Yeah.
And it's not very good.
Oh, I said it is.
What's it called, Chris?
It's called the Merry Christmas song.
Oh, here we go.
Ho Ho Merry Merry Christmas Ho Ho Ho Christmas Ho Ho Ho Merry Merry Christmas Ho Ho Ho Christmas I've got a gift The gift is for Christmas I've got the card
I've got the cake.
The cake is for Christmas.
I've got the care.
Roll.
Ho, ho, ho.
Merry, merry Christmas.
Ho, ho, ho.
Christmas.
When the trees decorated, everyone's breath is baited.
When the stockings are filled up, that's the end of the builder.
When we're opening presents, opening presents is pleasant.
Actuaries are not included.
If you haven't got some in the kids are going to get all moody.
Ho, ho, ho.
Merry, Merry Christmas.
Ho, ho, ho.
Christmas!
Ho, ho, ho.
Merry, Merry Christmas.
Ho, ho, ho.
Christmas.
Here we go.
T-A-G-S-N-O-W-M-A-N-I-S-H-A-V-I-N-G-A-F-L.
Why, there's snow and he's having a fly.
Ho, ho, ho.
Merry, Merry Christmas.
Ho, ho, ho.
Christmas.
Ho ho ho Merry, Merry Christmas Ho ho ho Christmas
A lot of fade going for the fade going for the fade.
Now Chris considering we have forced you to come to London to join in the show and we forced you to write a song and all because you supposedly won a competition which actually in fact has opened a massive sluice gate of hassle and trouble on your own.
And I bet you're wishing you never even entered now.
Considering all that, what a heroic effort.
Thank you very much.
Congratulations.
I thought it was fantastic.
Can you imagine if, like, people didn't know what this show was about and they just turned on the radio?
It's brilliant.
It's lo-fi genius.
Man, that is amazing.
Are you familiar with the term outsider art?
Yes.
Well, I think you've created a new kind of art form that's slightly outside the outsider art category.
Outside toilet art.
I don't agree with the meaning and that's not true.
No, no, no.
Absolutely not.
That was good, man.
That was good.
And I'm right in thinking that you based it on football track mode.
No, no, no.
Why would you think that?
It might have been an inspiration.
It was brilliant, man.
And so, did you learn to play the guitar after you won it in this Lego making prize?
Did you notice I'm before or after you recorded the song during?
There's a guy on YouTube, just in Sandico, his name is, who does tutorial videos for learning to play guitar.
And he had a competition to make a video about guitars.
And at the time I was learning, and I entered the competition and I won.
So I've got a nice guitar, a nice amp and everything.
And then I kind of stopped learning.
I don't know if that came through at all.
No, you stopped at precisely the correct time.
And what I liked about that was the sound of the buzz of the amp.
You know, when you do stuff in GarageBand, you don't get a lot of those old-school analogue sounds that really take you to the time and place where it was recorded.
They do have a button for it.
Do they?
Well, it's not the same if it's synthesised.
I could really imagine you sitting there thinking, oh, God, why do I have to do this?
I wish I'd never won that bloody competition!
I'm glad that comes through.
So there we go listeners, those are the two songs that are fighting.
You can vote only by email, as this is a pre-record, but send your votes, either Chris or Garth, to Adamandjo.6musicatbbc.co.uk.
That's the email address.
Vote either Chris or Garth, and the winner will get nothing at all.
Which is the final cherry on the hateful cake.
It's called Enterprise, but you both.
But thank you both of you for going to those efforts.
That was ridiculously nice of you.
This is Adam and Joe on BBC Six Music.
Now it's time for the news.
Breckena there from In Rainbows, the wonderful Radiohead album, which feels like a part of 2008, because that's when it entered the consciousness in a big way, I suppose.
But of course, it came out at the end of 2007.
That's a fun fact.
What?
Pardon my hammock.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music.
We're joined in the studio by Garth Jennings and Chris Salt for our special inter-Christmas-stroke New Year show.
Now, Christmas time is a time for chocolates.
Is that not true?
And it's a time for a guilt-free eating of chocolates.
Yeah, that's absolutely right.
Because of this, the shops do giant tins at very economical prices.
And personally, because my birthday comes very near Christmas, every year since I've been able to chew toffee, I've had a big tin of chalks.
There's always a decision to be made of which brand to go for, right?
The kings of the Christmas chalks are Roses and Quality Street.
Yeah.
Would you not say historically?
I would think, I always think of roses as the ITV to the quality street.
Slightly more mass market.
Yeah.
And quality street, because of the use of the word quality and the fact that the packaging usually has a haughty man.
Old, the English, Dickensian figure, yeah.
Exactly, walking along the street.
Right.
That makes them seem Garcia to you.
Walking along the quality street.
The street of quality.
Yeah.
But there's also, now there's celebrations.
have muscled in.
And these are miniature versions of your newsagent suites, aren't they?
Well, of course they do them at petrol stations as well, which is the best place to, you know, everyone's on their way to Nands and they can pick up a box.
Did you just go...
That was the noise of my mic stand.
But I've noticed a worrying thing has happened with roses this year.
Right.
Do you know the toffee barrels?
Yeah.
Usually most people, when they eat roses or Quality Street, there'll be a couple of flavours they don't like.
And by a few days after Christmas, there'll be just those left in the tin.
In Quality Street, it is the blue ones.
What are they?
Are they crack now?
Oh, I love those!
I dislike with a vengeance the anything with a rose-rosy cream with a strawberry cream and listen listen I'll go further
I will go further.
I will say that six months after the sweets are out of date and the orange and the strawberry creams have become crystalline, I like them all.
Oh my God.
You're a freak.
But my point, you know the caramel barrels?
Yeah.
They're barrels and they're actually, the chocolate they come in is shaped like a little barrel, as if it's been freighted here in a tiny little chocolate container and loaded up by tiny little toffee beds.
Chocolate stevedores.
One of the things, they come in foil that's flush to the chocolate, therefore exaggerating the exciting barrel shape beneath.
This year, no more.
They're just in normal twists.
Wait a second, this is the Quality Street barrels, right?
Roses, I'm talking about, mate.
I thought Quality Street had that as well.
They used to have a toffee barrel with a little... Quality Street have the coins.
No, they have the toffee coins, that's their key, that's their US... USC.
No, but wait a second.
What does that even mean, USC?
Chocky.
The quality street used to have the toffee barrel with what looked like a cigar wrap around the side, right?
Yes, that's true, the sort of sausage.
Yeah.
No, no, that was like a finger of toffee.
No, no, no, no.
Those are the two chocolates that Quality Street only have.
You're talking that it's kind of a caramel podium rather than a barrel.
But it had caramel podium.
It was wrapped, it was silver, it was golden foil and it was wrapped in a little, it had like a cardboard thing, a paper.
It's like the shape of a rollo.
Exactly right.
But that was a quality street thing, right?
Yeah.
So what are you talking about?
There's one in roses as well.
There's a toffee barrel in roses.
Yes, there is.
They certainly used to be.
Unless I've got my facts wrong.
And now?
That would be a first.
And they are no longer wrapping them in foil.
What are they wrapping them in?
Just normal sort of twisty paper.
Oh.
Is that a point of your story?
Yes!
To me, it's a massive upset on the scale of Obama becoming the president, which isn't cause and upset, it's a very positive thing.
But my god, they've changed the foil.
When do the Sony nominations come out?
We're gonna be showered with them apparently.
There's gonna be a Sony shower.
And we're gonna be in it.
So, are you finished?
Oh, this is classic.
Check this out.
It's classic, man.
Oh, no.
This is so classic.
PM.
Look at that.
It's classic.
Hey, welcome back, listeners.
Adam and Joe here on 6 Music.
This is a pre-recorded show.
It's not live.
I don't want you to start thinking it's live, phoning in, wasting your money, sending us emails that you expect an immediate response to, because that isn't going to happen.
There's no way that it's physically possible with the way that time travel is progressing at the moment.
But this time next year, it will be possible.
They're developing some very exciting stuff over at MIT, some personal time travelling units that should be on the market by Christmas 2009.
And that brings me to my next point.
just a sniff which was predictions predictions for 2009 who would like to make a prediction let's start with fashion last year we made a few fashion predictions right and I would like to talk about the world of fashion because obviously it's gripped the fashion world right now the fashion world is gripped by fashion
by fashion.
Actually, I was gonna be more specific about it.
I was gonna say that it is gripped by the fashion of, uh, around about 20 years ago.
I mean, young children, you were talking about this earlier on, Joe, and, uh, before we started recording, you were talking about the fact that people just walking around in the street, teens, young teens, they look exactly like the absurd Poppin' J's of 1984.
And they're just... Can only mean that this year, 2009, what'll come back?
But ASEED.
ASEED House.
That was the next thing after that 80s kind of bomber jacket and tight jeans and trilby hat kind of a thing.
It's not going to die out though.
There's another year at least of that stuff, don't you reckon?
No, but things move so fast.
People want to be so hit and cool, they'll be jumping on the ASEED or Happy Mondays, Manchester style.
Baggy is all going to go baggy.
It's got to, hasn't it?
Right.
Those floppy haircuts.
It's all going to come round.
Centre partings.
Yeah.
Like Ant and Dec or Jan Duncan.
Right.
Thanks very much indeed.
Well, as far as predicting what's going to happen in the rest of this programme goes, I can tell you listeners that we will be joined by Craig Moore.
He is from Newcastle.
Newcastle is a place in the United Kingdom.
It's in the north
of the United Kingdom.
Sting is the king of Newcastle.
He reigns there with a fist of jelly.
But we'll continue with some more music.
Here is Madness, recorded in 1982 on David Kidd Jensen's Radio 1 show, playing tomorrow is just another day.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music, our special inter-Christmas and New Year show.
We're joined in the studio by Garth Jennings and Christopher Salt, Lord Christopher Salt's winner of the Video Wars competition, and also Adam Buxton.
Winner of no competitions.
A digital radio DJ from Norfolk.
Do you know what?
Hi, thanks very much.
You know what?
I'm just thinking, I don't think I've ever won a competition.
Can that be right?
You must have won some kind of competition.
I don't think I ever did.
Well, do you want to have a little think about that for a while?
A bit depressing.
Now, of course, I can't be depressed because any moment now it's going to be New Year's Eve, the happiest time of the year, when you get to go to parties.
Now, the problem with New Year's Eve is that it comes a lot too close to Christmas.
Yeah.
You're just all partied out and then society tells you you've got to have another amazing time.
Human beings just aren't built to have that much of an amazing time in that shorter period of time.
So usually it turns into something of an anticlimax or more often than not a misery fest.
Yeah.
How was your New Year's Eve last year?
Oh, man.
I think it would just involve going to the South Bank and watching the fireworks, maybe.
Right.
And then coming home and going to bed.
Well, I heard they were good, though.
People that went to the South Bank liked the fireworks.
It's a sort of low-key way to do it.
You just wander out on foot to your nearest gathering of people.
You can do it in any city or town in the UK, your nearest drunken rabble, and you just stand amongst them for 10 minutes and have a drink out of a plastic cup, then go home and go to bed.
Pick any pockets?
You pick a couple of pockets.
You've got to pick a couple of pockets.
You have a fight.
You know, you push an old woman over, maybe.
Sure.
Wander down the middle of the street, just shouting Happy New Year to random strangers.
I imagine you do a lot of mooning.
Me, I do a lot of mooning.
Yes, I do.
Because you love to moon.
And you know the thing that struck me about your girlfriend the first time I met her was that she does too.
We love to moon, we're like a couple of moons.
And that's the thing that you have in common, that's what drew you together originally, wasn't it?
Was the mooning.
That's nice.
I got the norovirus last New Year's Eve, so I wasn't able to do any mooning.
What's the norovirus?
Don't you remember the norovirus?
Norovirus, I don't.
2007's classic norovirus, it was a bit of food poisoning, stroke flu, that struck down half the country.
The UK ground to a halt because everybody had the norovirus.
It was an epidemic.
I got it off some friends who came to stay.
Now, I tell you what happened.
I just remembered.
My wife, she took our children to go over and play with some other kids just before Christmas.
And they were all norovirus-ed up.
And the mum hadn't even said anything.
Like, usually you would warn visitors, right?
You would say, especially if there's children involved, you would say, they got a bit of a cold, you may not want to come round.
No such warning was forthcoming.
And we immediately got the norovirus in our house.
And then one by one, we all fell.
And the night of, well, New Year's Eve afternoon, I started feeling a bit rough.
And by the time our guests turned up for our
Great New Year's Eve party!
I was in bed vomiting out my guts.
It was awful.
That's a fun story.
So what about this year?
What's everyone planning to do?
Garth, what have you got planned for your New Year's Eve?
I like going to bed really early.
Really?
You just call the whole thing off?
I like New Year's Day.
I like it.
I like getting up on New Year's Day and sort of going out for a nice walk or something.
But I really hate the night.
The whole, let's have fun.
It's all going to change.
I hate that.
Do your family agree with you?
They often do something.
I don't know.
Just remain curmudgeonly and stay indoors.
Yeah, yeah.
Telly, even Jules is Hootenay.
You hate Jules is Hootenay?
I can't deal with it.
No, I don't like it.
My mum loves it.
Hootenay?
She was devastated to find out they recorded two weeks in advance.
Really?
She was furious that I told her Santa Claus.
Anyway, the period to celebrate pixies has gone by in New Year's Eve, hasn't it?
Absolutely.
So we can't have the jazz pixie jumping around.
The Hootenanny, and there's also Wogan used to have the Hogmanay, didn't he?
Was it Wogan that did the Hogmanay?
I think so.
Yeah.
How about you Chris, what kind of things do you do on New Year's Eve?
I actually do enjoy the Houtenay.
Glad you used the correct name for it there.
It's important to get things right.
Someone's got a brain in this studio.
Houtenay.
Yeah, usually just have a bottle of wine, stay at home.
Yeah.
And just watch Jules prancing and sob.
And sob.
And cry and cry.
That's the best way to celebrate easy.
That's what we do around our gap as well.
Except we get friends around to do it with us as well.
There should be a holiday that's just forced misery.
Enough forced jubilation.
That should be just a national moan and cry day.
Don't you think?
That's what life is deciding.
Every other day is.
Right.
Well, a good cry doesn't do you any harm.
I mean, it's quite nice, isn't it?
Crying day would be good.
Really?
How would you provoke the tears?
That's a good point.
Mama Mia.
Battery farming documentaries.
You just have a misery fest.
Uh-huh.
Yeah?
Is everyone up for this then?
I'm up for that.
I'm with you, Joe.
What day of the week shall we make it?
Oh, that would have to be Monday.
A Monday?
Yeah.
That's true, a whole Monday.
Whole Monday, you're thinking, oh.
I'd put it on Saturday, because that would be more depressing.
Yeah.
Yeah, we could make it like a regular radio show even.
9-12.
Do it on BBC 6, please.
Good idea.
Shall we lift the mood of the nation by playing a little bit of music right now?
Absolutely.
We're going to have Sam and Dave.
This is Soul Sister Brown Sugar.
So that was Sam and Dave there with Soul Sister Brown Sugar.
This is Adam and Joe here on BBC Six Music.
I've got a free play for you right now, listeners.
This is from the Breeders' album Mountain Battles that came out this year.
I found it very difficult to pick out a favourite album this year, though, and when I was asked to do so for another 6 Music feature, I actually found it impossible.
I was gonna go for Oracular Spectacular by MGMT, but Namone bagged that one.
Namone.
But also, I've been worrying this year in general, just before we play the Breeders, that maybe my ability to appreciate new music is as gone.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Like, because I've reached a certain age, my brain is so saturated with affection for the tunes of my youth, you know what I mean?
That there's just no room for new music to get its hooks into me in the same way.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
You're kind of full up.
Yeah.
No more room.
I know what you're talking about.
Do you think that's rubbish?
I don't think it's rubbish.
I think as well, when you get on a bit, you can associate every new record with the sound of an old record, right?
Right.
That area of your musical taste has probably been covered already by another band.
Do you know what I mean?
I think I do.
But it hasn't happened for me because I'm so young.
Yeah.
And I sort of, I've got a, you know, a pulse with the vibe of the street.
Well, you always listen to all the latest sounds when you're skateboarding and tagging, don't you?
Exactly.
When I'm around town skateboarding and tagging, I do listen to the latest sounds on my MP3 player.
My wife has stopped me from tagging.
Has she?
Yeah, she says it's bad.
It's a bad influence on the children.
That's ridiculous.
So I'm not allowed to tag and I'm not allowed to skateboard over 15 miles an hour.
Well, to be honest, man, I've given up on the tagging and the skateboarding.
Yeah, what I like to do is go to Camden, in really skinny jeans and winkle pickers and a trolley hat and a donkey jacket, get really drunk, listen to some kind of raucous band, and then at about three in the morning just wander through Camden, staggering around, vomiting on bus stops, shouting things.
It's brilliant, you should try it.
I am gonna try.
The important thing is to lean against a sexy girl.
Yeah.
And then both to just giggle and fall over.
Hey, that sounds wicked.
It's brilliant.
You should try it.
Everyone's doing it in Camden on Saturday night.
I feel like I've been wasting my time tagging and skateboarding.
Tagging and skateboarding is yesterday.
Wow, you heard it here first.
So back to the free play.
This is the Breeders and a very enjoyable mellow track that's got nothing to do with tagging and skateboarding and it's called Night of Joy.
It is the voice of the big, great, dear castle.
It is the top of the apple that's wonderful.
I got so bored with the last hour and year.
That was Cake with the Distance.
You're listening to Adam and Jo here on BBC6 Music.
This show is pre-recorded.
It is not live.
I don't want you to think that it's live, because that would be a lie.
That would be terrible.
And don't forget, if you've only just tuned in, we did Song Wars earlier with our special guest songwriters, Chris Salt, the Video Wars winner, and Garth Jennings, the pop and film director.
They both pop director.
You're director of pop.
I'll have a go.
they both wrote songs for us and you can hear them by going to our website at bbc.co.uk forward slash six music clicking on the link and you can hear both those songs and then you can vote for them by going to adamandjo.sixmusic at bbc.co.uk and don't forget later in the show just before the end we have Guy who's going to do a live mix of some of the Song Wars songs Craig Moore that'll be at approximately sort of 10 minutes before the end of the show
Oh, it's exciting.
All that to come, so don't go away.
But right now, it's time for some more music.
And this is... Yeah, this is Sigur Ross with Ini, Mer, Singur, Vitale, Singur.
Which translates as, within mere lunatic sings.
That was Supergrass with Richard III.
This is Adam and Jo on BBC6 Music, joined in the studio by Chris Salt, the Video Wars winner, and Garth Jennings, a director of many Supergrass videos.
Many?
One, two?
Two.
I've done two of them.
Give us some insider scoop on the grass.
on the grass.
Well, they're the loveliest people in the world, which is really boring to say, isn't it?
Something dirty.
All the bands we've ever worked with, they're the nicest.
Something scandalous.
Uh, scandalous when we did the last video we did for them was we shot in Florida at a mermaid
theatre where they do real underwater mermaid stuff, and then we did a- we were trying to save the underwater mermaid theatre by doing a little concert that night.
What's the name of the track?
It's called Low C. Oh yeah.
And it's a lovely track, and so we had a little sort of fundraising event where the Supergrass played at a local bar in Florida.
Well, everybody got so drunk and crazy that, and filthy, and the trouble is I've got it all on video because I was filming it obviously for the video.
They interfered with the mermaids?
No, the mermaids, I don't know, I think the mermaids wanted to touch the grass.
Stay off the grass, mermaids.
Keep your feet off, no that doesn't work, does it?
Keep your flints off, yes.
I just think super grass are very very attractive people and to mermaids they were super attractive.
But luckily the grass was strong.
And somewhere in the Jennings, Hammer and Tongues vaults, you've still got all that footage.
You should release that stuff.
They did.
The mother of all gigs in this tiny bar.
And I filmed the whole thing and it's absolutely fantastic.
It really was amazing.
I couldn't believe I was standing right next to the Secret Mermaid gig.
Yeah, the Secret Mermaid gig.
Wow.
Coming up, we've got Craig Moore, who is a DJ who's going to do a live song wars mix for us.
So stay tuned for that.
But first, here's a bit more music.
Now, I'm just unwrapping here a bit of a sandwich.
Well, it's delicious.
Look, it says on the box.
Oh, so it is.
My mistake.
It's delicious.
That's actually the brand name.
It's delicious.
It must be.
And it features roast chicken and stuffing.
Those are Christmas-y elements, right?
And I haven't had a roast chicken and stuffing sandwich.
I used to be a big fan of the roast chicken and the stuffing in the sandwich combo.
But I was put off it when I received a bout of fairly hefty food poisoning after a trip to see Sunshine with Hugh Joe Cornish and Edgar Wright, the film director.
And I mentioned this on my blog a while back, but I was sat next to Edgar and I was really starving and...
So I brought in a chicken stuffing sandwich, which I was going to sneakily chomp during the film.
But as soon as I took it out, I regretted it because it's it smelled very strongly, right?
Can't believe you did that.
I mean, it wafted around the cinema and I could see Edgar shifting with irritated discomfort next to me thinking
What is Adam Buxton doing, eating a chicken and stuffing sandwich during sunshine?
This is outrageous.
He's the worst kind of cinema attendee.
So by way of some kind of punishment, I got terrible food poisoning off this thing as soon as I, like, during the film,
I started kind of belching and feeling very uncomfortable.
Where was it purchased from this sandwich?
I can't tell you.
It would reflect badly.
Was it a major high street sandwich?
It was a major chain.
It wasn't just like a garage or a nose agent.
No, it was one of the major supermarket chains that has a metro branch, right?
And so I purchased it from there and I got wicked food poisoning off it.
By the time I got home, I was already, I had the shivers and everything and went to bed and there's nothing worse than a bit of food poisoning to lay you low, right?
And do you find that once you've got food poisoning off a certain food type, you will never return to that kind of food again ever, right?
Is that just me or is that you as well?
I know what you mean.
Yeah, it has happened to me.
I had the same thing with sun-dried tomatoes.
Mmm.
But I'm back on them.
Are you back on them?
It only lasted about 6 months, 7 months.
Right.
Then I got back on them.
Well I think, when did Sunshine come out?
It was a couple of years ago now, wasn't it?
Yeah.
I haven't had a chicken and stuffing sandwich since then.
And I just thought I would do it.
Are you doing it out of, you know, are you looking forward to it?
Are you doing it to get yourself back on track?
I'm just seeing how it feels.
But this is the first one you've eaten since then.
Yeah, I'm taking a bite.
You're gonna do this.
I can't believe you're gonna do it.
As well, it's on the radio.
Live on pre-record.
I mean, this is an amazing piece of radio, isn't it?
This is incredible.
What could the results be?
It could be instant puke.
Instant vomitorium.
The minute it touches your tongue, it could trigger an instant puke response.
A retch response, because that's probably not very much to puke.
I'd vomit on Chris Salt.
Salty would be so grossed out, he'd vomit on Garth.
Garth would vomit and try and stop it, but it would blow through his fingers and out of his nostrils, all over our producer.
It's like that bidding stand by me, the, uh, the vomiter thumb.
Ben, Ben would immediately vomit on the controls.
There's a sort of person who will be, who want to vomit even if you talk about vomiting.
Right, right.
There's a word for it, isn't there?
Ectophobe or something weird.
Uh-huh.
Where if you even hear someone else retch, it causes you to retch.
Oh, I understand that, though.
I think we don't- doesn't everyone get that when they hear- they sort of pull that face themselves?
It's like, ooh.
There was some great retching on Nine of Celebrity with Joe Swash there this year.
It was great.
Anyway, listen, I'm gonna take a bite.
You ready?
Yeah.
Here we go.
I wouldn't normally eat seven, no I don't.
I'm doing it for the radio.
Talk us through it, how does it feel?
It looks revolting.
It's delicious.
Chicken and mayo.
It's delicious.
So this is anti-climatic, man.
Are you aware of that?
Well... Yeah.
It could be though, this could be a time bomb.
At any point in the show it could just come back up.
Yeah, because it could go bad, you never know.
I was going to pretend to vomit, but then I thought this is the big British castle and you can't do that.
Can't lie.
Can't lie about it.
So instead, the, uh, it's just fine.
Yeah, I'm just enjoying it.
So at the end of the day, we're left with the sound of you eating a sandwich.
When all is said and done, all the niceties are stripped away.
Oh dear.
Middle-aged man eats chicken sandwich.
What kind of a Christmas is this?
It's a credit crunch Christmas, that's what it is.
Should we have some more music?
Yeah, I think we'd better.
No, let's not have music.
Let's just listen to the sandwich.
Give us a bit more, man.
Give us a bit more.
This is Adam and Joel on BBC6 Music.
It's time for the news.
Right now, coming up after a bit of Dexi's Midnight Runners, which we're going to play shortly, we have the final guest in the studio for this special pre-recorded inter-Christmas and New Year's Eve show, and his name is Craig Moore.
Yeah, he's a guy that I discovered while ego surfing, right?
Putting the Adam and Jo into Google and seeing what comes up part of my procrastination routine.
And he had off his own back done a couple of live mixes of the Song Wars songs.
He'd done a mix where he'd mixed Flight of the Concords into our songs, and then he'd done another pure Song Wars one.
So we gave him a call and asked him to come into the studio for this show and do a live Song Wars mashup.
Jam type thing.
So that is coming up after Dexi's Midnight Runners with Dance Stance.
Right now, we have been joined in the studio towards the end of our special pre-New Year's Eve show by a very special guest and his name is Craig, Craig Moore.
How are you doing Craig?
I'm fine, thank you.
Craig, you're the fruits of my ego surfing.
Yeah, everyone knows I like to sit at my computer and search my own name and Adam's name, see what pops up.
I do it pretty much all day, every day.
And one of the things that popped up was a YouTube video of you doing a mix of
Our Song Wars songs, first of all with some Flight of the Concord songs, it's very exciting for Flight of the Concord, that must have been, and then you did a couple more mixes, didn't you, of our Song Wars songs, accompanied by a kind of video of you, but your face is hidden because you're wearing a mysterious hat.
True.
And it's a sort of a top shot, so we can't see your face.
But what we can see are these two turntables, the mixing machine, and you're going hell for leather!
Mashing and smashing the tracks together.
And is that a real live mix that you're doing there on that YouTube video?
Basically, I'll do two, three, four, five gores and then pick the best one.
Yeah.
And that's the convention, isn't it?
Because there's a lot of DJing videos on YouTube, and generally, the person's face would be, like, not featured.
Yeah.
Really?
That's right, isn't it?
Kind of, yeah.
Not just shy.
Well, basically the camera angle was quite bad for someone with a big forehead and receding hairline, so I just put the hat on.
Nonsense.
Are you a DJ by profession or?
No, it's just a hobby, really.
What do you do to earn a living?
I'm an AV technician at the University of Sunderland.
Are you a good one?
He's in charge of all the stuff at the University of Sunderland.
Everyone wants to get on the right side of the AV card.
I know, otherwise you can't get your widgets and sprockets and stuff.
Excuse me Craig, can I borrow the projector please?
I've got an installation I want to do.
Please Craig, please!
What do you say to that Craig?
Erm, yeah.
Thanks very much, Craig!
What if he's recently done some graffiti in the bogs?
That's rude about you.
I'll probably pass him on to his states.
That's more their area.
Really?
A state?
Really?
What does estates mean?
They're just people that look after the buildings and stuff.
Right, OK, that's very good, very democratic.
Now, do you want to get mixing for us, Craig?
Are you ready to mix?
This is happening for Rio and live.
We've got two turntables here.
And what other equipment have you got with you there, Craig?
It's basically, it's called Siroto Scratch Live, which I use.
Siroto Scratch Live.
Yes, similarly.
Right.
So you've got a laptop with the MP3s in it, and those are controlled by two genuine finally turntables that have got timecode in them that controls the MP3s, right?
Basically, yeah, it's just got a bit of software in the laptop which you can control via the turntables.
Modern life's amazing, isn't it, Joe?
Isn't it?
Alright Craig, go for it.
Thank you.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, here is Craig Moore doing a live mix of Adam and Joe's Song Wars.
Songs to the listener test, so check it out Song for...
Through the map the Caribbean Through the map the Caribbean Through the map the Caribbean Through the map the Caribbean Through the map the Caribbean Through the map the Caribbean
Now I'm sitting at the bus door My head is full of tissue My body's full of tissue
I wish I could have a lion bar But I cannot afford it And it would make me sporty All over my body That's just another one of the complicated problems I'm gonna put into my next wicked song, darling
If this song was a bank It would fold to be frank And this tune was a man He would sleep in a van If this beat
They say that was thrown together If this beat
and began
Oh not Garrosh, Oh not Garrosh, Oh not Garrosh, Oh not Garrosh, Oh not Garrosh, Oh not Garrosh, Oh not Garrosh, Oh not Garrosh, Oh not Garrosh, Oh not Garrosh,
Christmas, shoppin' at the Oh-Nah garage!
Yes!
Man that was amazing Wow and midway through that Garth entered having exited earlier.
He came back in right come up to the mic amazing I was very much impressed to hear my own little track in there.
Thank you.
I'm honored I've never sounded so funky in my life.
Yeah, that was great Craig.
Thank you so much.
Were you happy with that?
seemed okay good man thank you so much for coming in we really appreciate it thanks for inviting me and have a wonderful new year have you got any special new year's parties to go to this year no can you remember sorry to put you on the spot but what's the worst new year you ever had don't much it seemed to be honest with you I can't say anyone stands out in particular
Yeah, are you a New Year fan or anti-New Year?
Probably anti-New Year together.
Everyone is anti-New.
No one really likes New Year.
No sane person would stand up and say, you know what's my favourite time of the year?
New Year.
That's a great celebration.
Listen Craig, thank you so much for coming in.
Thank you.
Yeah, thank you Craig.
That was fantastic.
And are you going to be DJing at any parties over the festive period?
You know, do you get kind of paid to DJ ever?
No, I don't actually.
No?
Well, may that change?
And can you be sure only ever to play our music?
I'll be sure.
Cheerio Craig, thank you very much.
Thanks Craig.
There we go, that was a Tribe Called Quest with Jazz.
It's very nearly the end of the show, in fact it is the end of the show, so we should say thank you to our special guests.
Chris Salt, the winner of Video Wars, who's been dragged ignominiously back into the studio to basically sit here and watch us perform a fairly chaotic programme.
Have you been impressed by proceedings at all, Chris?
It's been interesting to see how the pre-record differs from the live show.
Right, what will you say to your friends when you get back and they go, oh hey, did you have a good time?
What will you say that you wouldn't necessarily say to our faces?
Let's drop, let's let that curtain fall and have a glimpse behind it.
I still... Can we guess?
Even though you drag me in here and make me do horrible things, I do still enjoy it.
Hey!
Thanks, Chris.
That's not what he'll say to his friends.
They'll say, God, it was chaotic.
And thank you very much indeed for, you know, contributing to the whole experience of the programme for your video once again, which was one of the highlights for us of 2008.
I really hope, you have to let us know that if your video company, production company jobs come through, right?
Yeah.
And if you're... Because we'll take a cut, we want a percentage.
And thanks as well to Garth Jennings, who joined us in the studio for this show.
Thanks Garth.
Thanks for having me.
It's been an absolute pleasure and just we should remind listeners that Garth and Chris performed Song Wars songs that can be heard on the website and you can vote for your favourite at AdamandJoe.6musicatbbc.co.uk.
So thank you very much indeed listeners for sticking with this programme throughout 2008.
We wish you all the very best for the new year.
We can't wait to be back with you here at the Big British Castle.
Thanks for listening.
Take care of yourselves.
Bye.