Who listened to the Radio 1 Roadshow? Were you any good at Bits and Pieces and Smiley Miley's Mileage Game? I was always really good at the former, and crap at the latter...
― MarkH, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
snap. i tried to get on once, but i was too little -- maybe 10 at the
time. got 8 1/2 (bits'n'pieces) cos of "ELO and Olivia Neutron Bomb"
(never forgotten it since of course).
― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I only *saw* it once...from a bus when I was on holiday aged nine.
It was in Torquay and Tony Blackburn was the DJ (must have been close
to his swansong for the station). When Peter Powell DJ'd a bucket of
water was always thrown over the person who was worst at Bits and
Pieces and one one occasion he said "Let's hope it's a girl in a T-
shirt".
― MarkH, Monday, 22 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
What I want to know is, what year did it finally come to an end? The
last time I listened to it was when Jurassic Park had just come out
and Steve Wright was hosting. He had two guys dressed up as
Velociraptors with buckets of "DNA" and as Steve said, "People have
been saying it's just a load of baked beans in milk, but that's a
vicious lie."
― MarkH, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
They still have roadshow style things, but there are no fake wet T-
shirt style games (or so it seems from the radio). it sounds more
like a roving cd:uk sort of an affair. then there was mark and lard's
classic from the tea room in robin hood's bay. wish i had THAT on
tape too!
― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
The prize for winning anything was always a bag of Radio 1 Goodies,
whatever
they were, I'm guessing T-shirts, car stickers, pens
etc.
Tell me about One Big Sunday.
― MarkH, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Last summer of the roadshows in their old form was 1999.
One Big Sunday goes out on Sunday afternoons at 2pm: live broadcasts
from town / city centre parks, rather than tinpot old beaches, hosted
by Cox, Theakston, Whiley et al and full of the current R1 branding,
a world away from wet T-shirt contests. Last year they also had One
Big Belly, with Chris Moyles going to some of the more traditional
roadshow venues (high/lowlight: the fat boy slagging off Ted Rogers
as though he was inherently on a higher level than the Dusty Binman:
BOLLOCKS he is) but thankfully that didn't last.
Strangest roadshow concepts: the week-long treasure hunts they had in
the mid-80s, full of ridiculously arcane cryptic clues and lots of
jaunty patronising of locals ("Ah, it's Nottingham, so you must know
about Robin Hood" - Matthew Bannister, 1997). Anyone for The Road to
Wigan Pier?
I have to admit though that I've never been to a roadshow despite
coming from one of the recurring venues myself. The 1997
documentary "Six Go Mad In Somerset", however, is a fascinating
evocation of a certain segment of British society.
― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)