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Adam Buxton announces 6music return

By | Published on Friday 12 March 2010

Adam Buxton has announced that he hopes to return to BBC 6music with a new solo show in the very near future, before being rejoined by Joe Cornish for their Saturday morning show later in the year. How could they possibly shut down a station that offers all that?

Of the new show, for which a pilot edition with special guest Julian Barratt from The Mighty Boosh will be recorded this very day, Buxton told CMU: “At the moment it’s called ‘Adam Buxton’s Big Mix Tape’ (can’t help doing the puns, sorry) and it’s supposed to be kind of like a compilation tape that I’ve made for the listeners with a different theme or mood each week. The pilot Mix Tape is called ‘Øddens’ and features some of my favourite weird but accessible music by both well known and less well known artists. The show is two hours so it’s divided into two sides with a guest joining me for an hour to add their own tracks and just talk generally about any other rubbish that comes up”.

Sounds delightful. But we couldn’t let him go (okay, I’m taking these quotes off the Adam & Joe BBC blog, but let’s just pretend for a moment) without getting him to talk about his recent appearance on Channel 4 News, where he challenged BBC Director General Mark Thompson to a fight over his proposed plan to shut 6music.

Buxton told us (wink): “I was called upon to say my part on ‘Channel 4 News’ though apart from inviting Mark ‘Tommo’ Thompson out for some punching I didn’t really say anything very useful. All the stirring and important stuff I’d been planning went out of the window as soon as I heard the man in my earpiece telling me we were live in five seconds. After that it was just a question of not weeping or swearing. I really meant to give Black Squadron a shout out but that was one of many things that got away from me on the night”.



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