So this poor boy takes over from an eight-year legend, and everyone reviews him on day one? Not us. We at least waited until Tuesday.
Listened In is 2ZY’s air-check blog. Every week, we listen to a random 20 minute sample of a station or programme in the news.
WHO The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw
WHAT BBC Radio 1
WHEN 25 September 2012
0804
ID: The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw.
Maroon 5/Payphone. With random Klaxon FX. A bit Partridge for a show that loves music?
0808
ID: The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw
Porter Robinson/Language
0811
Nick back-announces. Good Morning Everybody. Now it’s time for something very exciting.
(Thunderbirds countdown kicks in.)
“The cameras are going live. Hi come and see us. See all our lovely faces in the Radio 1 studio. Early starts have got to us. Wonder at the faces of me, Matt Fincham (who’s wearing tinted moisturiser). Ian and Fiona are here too. And our first ever guest live in the studio is … Louis Smith.”
ID: The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Nick Grimshaw (and bed, which dies very quickly.)
It’s a big day, a live guest in the studio.
What time did he wake up? Louis sleeps in a hat. So needed to check his hair. “A fireman’s hat? A trilby?,” asks Nick. No, it’s a small beanie. They talk about baseball hats and how Nick has a massive head.
Louis is awful in the mornings, he tells us, and only got to London at 0130 from Manchester, where he was at the launch of *GRATUITOUS PLUG ALERT* the new Fifa 2013 game. A few celebs and footballers had a tournament. Nick is rubbish at footy games. “The last game I enjoyed was Sonic the Hedgehog in about 1983.”
Nick was worried about Louis being in Manchester and tweeting the night before. He worried the team had accidentally booked Louie Spence, not Louis Smith.
Then becomes a discussion about the first two days of the show, and getting up early. Talk about training for the Olympics. The bed has come back, but very low level. There’s another gag about making Louis change into a leotard on the camera. “I would have brought an extra sock,” he tells us.
“A lot of people are texting in saying you went to the same school as them”, says Nick without mentioning which school. They chat about schooldays. PE. Trampolining. Fencing. 35 kids waiting for two outfits. “The only fencing we did in our school was jumping over them.” says Louis, who says he had ADHD.
Stream of conciousness stuff. “Fincham stop pointing at me! The cameras haven’t been working before but they are now. LOL … Direct people to watch at the Radio 1 Website. Watch on the Radio 1 website. Shall we have a little record on?” Then a text solicit, for questions for Louis. Let’s bed bubble up. Then carries on talking to him some more.
0819
PSY/Gangnam Style
Crashes the end. “I’ve not heard that before, I don’t know how it ended!”
Again, asks for people to watch on the webcam. “I’m wearing lycra for all the lucky viewers.” The bed creeps in again, as Nick talks about wanting to do a workout with Louis on cam.