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

6Music has made a little Zavid trail video

★♂ ZAAAAYVIIID! That @AdamBuxton's delightful @DavidBowieReal doc from 2013 will air on Sunday at 1pm https://t.co/H1Tm94d7jN #DavidBowie pic.twitter.com/1Buq3nlpHS

— BBC Radio 6 Music (@BBC6Music) January 6, 2017

As David Bowie's 70th birthday approaches, it inevitably brings the anniversary of his death too.

6Music have gone batshit crazy with their coverage including some odd scheduling of Adam's 2 hour documentary.

They've split it in two and will air part two in the middle of the night, with part one the following lunch time,(Sunday, 8th January) which works perfectly with the iPlayer

Countdown to Christmas with Adam and Joe Nostalgia: Jesus Day

This was the last show they did together so I've saved until the day of days. Stop plucking that bird and listen till your ears dribble. The catch in Adam's voice still wobbles me.

Countdown to Christmas with Adam and Joe Nostalgia Day Seven (Adam and Edith)

In 2012, Adam teamed up with Edith Bowman for a short series of shows leading up to the festive season. This show features the extra bit when Adam had to cover for the lateness of Liz Kershaw who was stranded on a train. I've saved Christmas 2009 until the day of all festive days.

Countdown to Christmas with Adam and Joe Nostalgia Day Six

If I'm honest, I started posting these shows a little prematurely. There weren't eight proper Christmas shows, so here's a full show (including music etc) aired on 31st Dec 2011 giving the best bits of their brief return earlier that year.

Countdown to Christmas with Adam and Joe Nostalgia Day Five

2008 was an exciting year for The Adam and Joe Radio Show featuring Joe with his shivery tingles and the amazing Video Wars. Garth Jennings covered for Joe's malingering and Video Wars was won by the delightful Chris Salt. At the end of the year (only not really because this is a pre-record) both Garth and Chris came back into the studio for the betweenies show. It also included Craig, the lovely Amber Gambler. It's a joyous show.

Countdown to Christmas with Adam and Joe Nostalgia Day Four

With their feet well and truly under the table and podcasts on the go, the silliness goes festive once again.

Countdown to Christmas with Adam and Joe Nostalgia Day Three

Adam and Joe came to 6Music with a most violent baptism of fire to cover for Shaun W Keaveny's holiday, and being required to turn up by 6:59 am every weekday for two weeks - INCLUDING a Bank Holiday. Those awful bankers. In a masertpiece of not-cocking-upedness, they secured a regular slot which started in October 2007 meaning they had to find a shack without the Castle ramparts to broadcast their festive show.

Adam Buxton in a West End theatre!

There are still two chances left to catch Adam's Kernel Panic show at the Duchess Theatre this week.

Tickets are available from the wonderful Invisible Dot emporium.

Adam and his bottom returned to a seat in the 6Music studio to discuss his shows and 2014 life with Shaun W Keaveny, a man who will always hold a fond place in my heart, not least because of his generosity in offering his morning slot to Adam and Joe for two weeks in 2007.



While he was in Western House, he also recorded this utterly pointless video, bless 'im.


If you're not able to get to London this week, there will be a few more opportunities in other parts of the country.

Check Adam's Events page and my silly calendar thing.  He'll also be appearing back in London for the Friends of the Earth "The Big Laugh".

Colin Greenwood's Sunday Service feat. Jonny & Buxty

Starting this week and for three weeks only, Colin Greenwood will be sitting in for the Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service show on 6Music at 4pm - not sure what day yet, bwah ha ha.

The BBC Media Centre posted this last Thursday but those lazy music pressters had to wait for yesterday's personal email before they ran with it*. This made me smile. If it was the tiniest, fartiest nugget of spurious film news, the blogosphere would have gone nuclear.



6Music started running their trailer on Monday morning and Shaun's followed the one during his show with some random waffle that I thought Id include here.


It started with this:

This sex pest loitering in a field = @AdamBuxton - I got to be an embarrassing fan boy with him for a few hours pic.twitter.com/SyvP6U2JaV
— Jonny Greenwood (@JnnyG) June 26, 2013

I presume these shows were recorded either in Oxfordshire or Norwich-shire.....I'm gonna say Oxfordshire.

*Seriously though. I liked the old days when entertainment news came out when the involved parties where good and ready. This was meant more as a dig at over-excited bloggers than the lovely music press.

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.