Nuggets on Periscope
Chris began the week by apologising for two late-night Periscope broadcasts after a DJ set. The live videos, called “Nuggets One” and “Nuggets Two”, had gone online at about 2am and appeared to consist largely of Chris eating chicken nuggets.
He had previously warned Sigma that broadcasting from dark clubs made bad Periscope content, but had ignored his own advice as soon as the combination of a night out, food and a phone became available. Scott enjoyed the fact that Chris had opened Monday’s show by apologising before anybody had even complained.
Fernando’s confusing return
Fernando returned to raise another delicate issue from Chris’s private life. Chris’s girlfriend’s sister was getting married and had asked him to DJ, but she also believed she could persuade Alan Titchmarsh to appear simply by tweeting him.
The attempt to keep everybody anonymous immediately failed. Fernando could not consistently explain whose sister was involved, Scott repeatedly lost track of the family relationships, and Chris eventually admitted the entire story himself. He liked the bride and wanted to help, but feared she genuinely expected Radio 1 to produce a major celebrity for the wedding.
Listeners began offering elaborate chains of contacts to Alan Titchmarsh, while others suggested medium-range pop stars who might be more attainable. Scott blamed Gary Barlow’s televised wedding appearances for making everybody believe a famous singer could be summoned by social media. The team agreed to keep looking, although inviting Fernando had made the situation considerably less discreet.
Chris becomes a poet
After spoken-word performers including George the Poet had become increasingly prominent, Chris decided he could join the movement. His subject was the moisturising cream E45, which had already appeared in Real or No Real.
The result treated an ordinary tube of cream with the seriousness of an underground performance. Scott admired Chris’s confidence more than his claim to a new artistic career, but the show had found another unlikely subject for his growing collection of songs and poems.
Huw Stephens gets new music
Huw Stephens joined Scott in a reversal of their usual relationship. Instead of Huw introducing Scott to an unfamiliar artist, Scott offered him some supposedly essential new music.
Greg James also played Real or No Real, completing a Monday in which Radio 1’s normal roles had been repeatedly rearranged: Scott became Huw’s music expert, Chris became a poet and Fernando became a remarkably ineffective disguise.
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