Up early and feeling a bit spaced out to head down to 6Music to sit in on the Adam and Joe show with my colleague Andrew Collings. This was quite a coup for us and a hopeful sign that we might be able to get more paid work as a team because of or in spite of our childish podcast. That it's taken over 4 days of talking crap to each other for free (mainly) in my attic to get to this point perhaps shows the value of hard work and perseverance or maybe pervaverance.
But there was an unspoken feeling that if we did well and didn't fuck it up and as long as I didn't talk about wanking over people's faces or having sex with animals, this might lead somewhere for us. But there was always a good chance that podcast Richard Herring might take over and turn the airwaves blue. At one point he did start talking to me inside my head saying "It'd be really funny if you called Andrew a cunt now," but I ignored him and waited til we were playing a record to call him a cunt. I got in a nyum nyum nyum and missed a golden opportunity to say cumpkin, but apart from that (oh and I did deliberately emphasise the cocks bit of Buzzcocks, but no one noticed, just like no one noticed when I regularly sang "Wanking" and "Fucking" during the crowning of the king in TMWRNJ) I kept it clean and mainly wholesome, but after waking up properly around about 10 o clock, managed to get a few flights of fancy going, whilst Collings was very professional and used his audio book voice and manned the controls. I did embarrassingly read out the name of the producer (the recipient) rather than the sender of an email in the first hour and called Boggins the dog Boggles (which is a better name) but otherwise managed to be sufficiently eloquent and it was lots of fun to be interacting with the people at home, via email, text and Twitter.
We read out from our diaries - though I had had a slightly upsetting time just before I went to bed when I couldn't find the diary I used in Headmaster's Son and was terrified that I'd lost it. When it wasn't in the box I thought I'd put it in, I turned the house upside down looking for it, before being just about to give up and then going back to the original box to find it lying right at the top in plain sight, like a ghost had stolen it and then replaced it at the last minute. We took some chances and picked random dates based on people's suggestions and there was lots of fun to be had from trumpet bathing and persistence in trying to get girls to like me. You can listen to the whole damn ball game for the rest of the week
on iPlayer, but there will be no podcast of the show.
Good to see they are using a picture of Andrew on his own for that. And also that Liz Kershaw back announced us by thanking "Andrew Collins and friend". Ah well, in the kingdom of 6Music, Andrew Collings is King. Out of me and him.
I think Collings enjoyed it too. He is clawing his way back on to the radio where he belongs and he is very good at it, so that is a result. Plus we got paid in more than biscuits, which made a change too.
Finally got to see the end of Season 3 of "The Wire" tonight and it's absolutely mind-blowing. Brilliant and genuinely surprising. If you haven't got into this series yet then you must give it a go. It shows you everything that television can be and is intelligent, demands your attention, but is amazingly entertaining.
