*I don`t win things very often, so I feel like celibrating! You can leave if you like. I won`t be offended :)
Question- what does "I wish it could be Christmas Every Day" by Wizard, and a tin of Fox`s Speciality have in comon?
Answer- the Mark and Lard show, on BBC Radio 1!
Huh?
OK, I`ll explain. On Friday February 8th 2002, I was at home getting on with work for one of my web sites, and listening to the radio in the background. As was usual for that time in my life, it was BBC Radio 1, and in particular, the Mark & Lard show which used to be on between 1 and 3PM weekdays. They had this feature called the Cheezilly Cheerful Chart Challenge where they gave a topical story at the start of the show and invited the listeners to suggest appropriate records, compiling a mostly made-up chart of the top ten results at the end, Slam Dunkin` the results down to number 1. Just an excuse to play some good records as the top 3 got played in full, even if usually one of them was a less-than-great playlist track (it was no secret that the duo didn`t like most of the playlist tracks they were forced by the Playlist Clerk to play). The winner was the person who suggested the number-1 record first. This particular day, the story was about some bloke who kept his Christmas decorations up all year round as he liked it or something. Immediately, sub-consciously, I fired up the e-mithers and shot one in the direction of M&L in a matter of seconds, with the only suggestion it could ever have been. "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" by Roy Wood`s Wizard. Only the second or third time I`d ever bothered entering. So the show went on as it did, chock full of quality items and "At least four great records per show - Guaranteed" as the ever present Kylie would promise. I carried on with whatever I was doing, not really paying attention.....then came the CCCC countdown.
Would you adam-and-believe it, if I wasn`t the suggestor of the number 1 record, and there it was in February, Christmas records being played again! Honestly, it gets earlier and earlier every year. Wohoo!
Oh yeah - the prizes. Well, option 1, you could have a family bag of Revels. Aah, the Russian Roulette of chocolate coated confectionary products. Hmmm, never know when you`ll get the horrid Coffee one so that choice was quickly dismissed. Option 2 was a tin of biscuits. Mmmm, biscuits. I like biscuits. Not bad. And the prize which you`re supposed to pick - option 3 - £25 worth of CD tokens. Ohhh-hoh-ho, that`s a lot o` cash! Only I don`t really buy CDs, didn`t then and still don`t. Doubtful I`d use them, you can`t buy anything other than CDs with CD tokens, so the biscuits it was. Hey, whatever I chose, it was free, so what`s not to like? Michelle in their office was probably a bit surprised when I wrote back to her congratulatory e-mither choosing the biscuit option. Wonder how many other people chose the biscuits over the years?
A couple of weeks later, this big evelope arrived. Inside was:
I promptly stuffed my face with the contents of the tin in all their chocolaty-biscuity goodness. Tasty! Good choice Michelle. And I still have the signed postcard, typically of course, Mark signed in normal pen but Lard, he`s bonkers-barmy he is, signed in a big chunky red felt tip. Wonder if it`s worth owt?
Well, that was three years ago. The biscuit tin is still around being used to store all kinds of exciting things, Mark & Lard parted ways after being dropped by Radio 1 and now host their own excellent shows on BBCs Radio 2 and Radio 6 Music, and I stopped listening to Radio 1, having grown ever tired of the incessant UK Garage and dance music. Nowadays I`m a Tog and listen to Radio 2. Mark R has read out one of my e-mithers early on in the history of his show, I think it was about the Toyota Prius they were discussing. I havn`t managed to get on the Crucial 3 but that`s cos I havn`t tried. And I havn`t e-mithered in to "the artist formerly known as Lard" Marc Riley`s shows yet, but still enjoy them.
It`s all good....musshnnt gwwrumble! No idea what I`m talking about? BBC Radio 1 | BBC Radio 2 | BBC 6 Music | BiggedyBong and also hit Google to search for "Mark and Lard" for the history of the Biggest Show.
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Question- what does "I wish it could be Christmas Every Day" by Wizard, and a tin of Fox`s Speciality have in comon?
Answer- the Mark and Lard show, on BBC Radio 1!
Huh?
OK, I`ll explain. On Friday February 8th 2002, I was at home getting on with work for one of my web sites, and listening to the radio in the background. As was usual for that time in my life, it was BBC Radio 1, and in particular, the Mark & Lard show which used to be on between 1 and 3PM weekdays. They had this feature called the Cheezilly Cheerful Chart Challenge where they gave a topical story at the start of the show and invited the listeners to suggest appropriate records, compiling a mostly made-up chart of the top ten results at the end, Slam Dunkin` the results down to number 1. Just an excuse to play some good records as the top 3 got played in full, even if usually one of them was a less-than-great playlist track (it was no secret that the duo didn`t like most of the playlist tracks they were forced by the Playlist Clerk to play). The winner was the person who suggested the number-1 record first. This particular day, the story was about some bloke who kept his Christmas decorations up all year round as he liked it or something. Immediately, sub-consciously, I fired up the e-mithers and shot one in the direction of M&L in a matter of seconds, with the only suggestion it could ever have been. "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" by Roy Wood`s Wizard. Only the second or third time I`d ever bothered entering. So the show went on as it did, chock full of quality items and "At least four great records per show - Guaranteed" as the ever present Kylie would promise. I carried on with whatever I was doing, not really paying attention.....then came the CCCC countdown.
Would you adam-and-believe it, if I wasn`t the suggestor of the number 1 record, and there it was in February, Christmas records being played again! Honestly, it gets earlier and earlier every year. Wohoo!
Oh yeah - the prizes. Well, option 1, you could have a family bag of Revels. Aah, the Russian Roulette of chocolate coated confectionary products. Hmmm, never know when you`ll get the horrid Coffee one so that choice was quickly dismissed. Option 2 was a tin of biscuits. Mmmm, biscuits. I like biscuits. Not bad. And the prize which you`re supposed to pick - option 3 - £25 worth of CD tokens. Ohhh-hoh-ho, that`s a lot o` cash! Only I don`t really buy CDs, didn`t then and still don`t. Doubtful I`d use them, you can`t buy anything other than CDs with CD tokens, so the biscuits it was. Hey, whatever I chose, it was free, so what`s not to like? Michelle in their office was probably a bit surprised when I wrote back to her congratulatory e-mither choosing the biscuit option. Wonder how many other people chose the biscuits over the years?
A couple of weeks later, this big evelope arrived. Inside was:
I promptly stuffed my face with the contents of the tin in all their chocolaty-biscuity goodness. Tasty! Good choice Michelle. And I still have the signed postcard, typically of course, Mark signed in normal pen but Lard, he`s bonkers-barmy he is, signed in a big chunky red felt tip. Wonder if it`s worth owt?
Well, that was three years ago. The biscuit tin is still around being used to store all kinds of exciting things, Mark & Lard parted ways after being dropped by Radio 1 and now host their own excellent shows on BBCs Radio 2 and Radio 6 Music, and I stopped listening to Radio 1, having grown ever tired of the incessant UK Garage and dance music. Nowadays I`m a Tog and listen to Radio 2. Mark R has read out one of my e-mithers early on in the history of his show, I think it was about the Toyota Prius they were discussing. I havn`t managed to get on the Crucial 3 but that`s cos I havn`t tried. And I havn`t e-mithered in to "the artist formerly known as Lard" Marc Riley`s shows yet, but still enjoy them.
It`s all good....musshnnt gwwrumble! No idea what I`m talking about? BBC Radio 1 | BBC Radio 2 | BBC 6 Music | BiggedyBong and also hit Google to search for "Mark and Lard" for the history of the Biggest Show.
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