Glastonbury Redux - Adam and Joe style

Glastonbury used to be a high spot in the Adam and Joe calender but they haven't broadcast from there since 2011. Happily, there are carefully curated archives, dotted around the net. Of course, Adam & Joe presented some telly stuff in the early noughties but we don't want to go back that far, do we?

The Shows:

The first Adam & Joe BBC 6 Music Glasto broadcast was supposed to be in 2008 but Joe went all sicky. Luckily, Garth was more than happy to hitch a ride with Adam and they made a lovely show, with Adam going the customary extra mile to include some special content. 

2009 was Adam and Joe's golden year at 6 Music. The station could hardly believe the sensation they'd unleashed. At Glastonbury, they gave them two evening shows (Sunset Shows) and two morning shows AND a couple of Glasto Gold pre-recorded introductions in the small hours.

Despite having left the station at the end of 2009, they returned to Glasto for three afternoon shows in 2010 and I've included the handover they did with Jarvis on the Sunday.

The 2011 Glasto shows marked the end of their brief return to the station, which began in April as Joe's first feature was being released.

I've put a playlist here of the edited shows (not the podcasts) in chronological order. The music (sadly), news and trails have been removed to better appease the copywright peeps.



In 2009 we had a wonky webcam giving us occasional still shots but in 2010 and 2011 they had moving images, much to the angst of our squadron leaders.




Some more 2010 snips can be found here, here and here.





Oh, all right then - here's a golden oldie

Adam and Joe's 20th Anniversary Live Chat - the fan videos

There's so much to say about this evening but I'm going to start by collecting the tiny epics that fans so lovingly made, in no particular order.


Chris Salt "Tiny Lego Cafe"


Moose Allain "Adam and Joe Dancers"

Jamie Lenman "The Queen"

Adam&Joe Tiny little Cafe from Ben charman on Vimeo.



Harry Dwyer "Classical Jungle"

Adam and Joe - Travellin' Tales Jingle from Matt Partridge on Vimeo.


Adam & Joe's Travellin' Tales from Steve Kirby on Vimeo.



Ferntree "Retro Text the Nation"




Made up Jokes from Tanya Scott on Vimeo.


ADAM & JOE 6 MUSIC JINGLE -- (OO SHWA, MY NIPPLES) from Michael Aubtin Madadi on Vimeo

SketchyMagpie "Masque of the Red Death"



Jesse Collett " HO HO NO MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY"





Nick Murray Willis - "Podcast Groove jingle"

and finally:

Adam and Joe - "My Nipples" jingle video from Ed Barrett on Vimeo.

The Illustrated Adam Buxton Podcast Ep 12

Finally, series one of The Adam Buxton Podcast is complete with an Adam and Joe style illustsration from Sally Grosart.

Cornballs disrespects my star present... pic.twitter.com/2VMhDN4uIW

— Adam Buxton (@AdamBuxton) December 25, 2015

The Illustrated Adam Buxton Podcast Ep 11

Illustration from Sally Grosart, once again and what a miracle it is.

The Illustrated Adam Buxton Podcast Ep 10

Adam revisited his conversation with Louis Theroux for the final pod in this series.

He's been playing around with his compression settings which is a risky thing to do at this time of year but you can read more about that on Adam's blog.

Fingers are firmly crossed in hopes of a pod (or two) with Joe on or around Christmas Day.

Thanks, once again to Sally Grosart's art.....


and here's the pod.

The Illustrated Adam Buxton Podcast Ep 8

Another wonderful pod has flobbed into the web and Sally has illustrated the heck out of it.

Adam and Joe question on Celebrity Eggheads #AdamAndJoe

At last, both teams seem to have heard of our secret heros and one of the Eggheads even knows a little bit about Joe's current status.

Thank you BBC iPlayer 31st December 2013.

.........and a very happy 2014 to you.

Cryptozoology #JoeCornish

Joe Cornish has always been an endearing idiot when it comes to cryptozoology.

He wrote a song about it and waffled it.

(available on iTunes)


If you want to watch some science, Channel 4 has a two part documentary that might interest you.

Joe Cornish Introduces Attack the Block this Wednesday

I know. I know. You don't get the tiniest whiff of his long shanks for months and then he pops up twice in one week. 

If you missed the chance to catch Joe's contribution to Ultra Culture's Great Teen Movie Debate on Saturday you can take solace in another couple of opportunities on Wednesday. You'll have to make the effort to get all the way to E3 but it'll be worth it. It's super easy on the buses and tube.

Danny Boyle has curated the Shuffle Festival. That's a clever word meaning he did the choosing and he chose Attack the Block as one of a very diverse selection of films.

They're showing them in and around the disused psychiatric hospital at St Clement's in Mile End Road, E3 4LH.

The full programme is here and you're going to kick yourself when you see what you've missed already.

This Wednesday, 14th August 2013, Attack the Block will be shown indoors at 7:00pm for the weather-phobes. If you've got a laissez-faire attitude and your plastic, pocket poncho handy, you could opt for the 8:30pm outdoor screening. Joe will introduce both of them.

There's an intrepid sense of make-do-and-mend about St Clement's. The indoor screening will have church hall style chairs, bean bags and benches. They'll be a few of those outdoors too plus a couple of pews and lots of lovely red deck chairs, so you can pretend you're Rhys Ifans while you're watching.

If you were to pitch up earlier, you could check out the variety of food and drink. There are performance pieces and video installations in one of the derelict buildings. I recommend the work of Susan Aldworth who's exhibiting two films that feel like a blend of early David Wilson & early Cyriak with a touch of The Drowned Man thrown in.

Danny Boyle really loved Joe's film.

There's a map of the area here. It's tiny but BIG.

I'm not sure what will be happening during the week but today there were bands, happy brains, bubbles & bingo.......but not just any bingo....it was 'Car Boot Disco Bingo' -  a description which could not be more efficient.
I realise it sounds awful but it's very popular and everyone taking part looked fit to burst with joy.

Keep your eyes open because apart from spotting a Joe Cornish  ........

.........................you might also notice an amenable Danny Boyle.

If you're thinking 'cor, that looks really leafy and green', 

there are even patches of wild flowers.

 

......and if you didn't believe me, here are Bubbles, a Brain plan of happy thoughts and a Band fronted by Lionel.

   

 You might also find a princess on a Bike........

....some Boots.....(well, mainly shoes)

.....and a mind Boggling maze of memories and wood.

David Bowie's Package from Adam Buxton #Bowie6Music

For just seven more days, you can enjoy Adam's wonderful doc-com-mentile-ry on the BBC iPlayer or Listen Again feature. The tracklisting is also on that page.

I believe Adam aims to put some nuggets on his Soundcloud so subscribe and imbibe.

You can buy the zine Adam referred to here.

Do check the rest of the 6Music site for all the other wonderful Bowie shows.

If you'd like to read Adam wittering on about Hunky Dory, this is the word to click.

In the spirit of balance, I asked Tom Robinson to play Joe's Bathtime for Bowie during his 'Now Playing' show that followed Adam's. Tom is a very lovely being and so he elegantly obliged.




You can buy a beautifully mastered version of Joe's song and countless* other warblings from Adam and Joe's Song Wars here.

 *In the sense that I can't be bothered to count them.

Stick at it, Joe #AdamAndJoe

This should have gone with yesterday's post, probably.
Every so often, the lore of the idiotholes leaks into mainstream broadcasting and is treated with the mystical protection that it deserves.
There's no point in having the most glorious secret in the world if you don't put measures in place to preserve it.

From 29th August 2009