Greg Calls Marcus Mumford!
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BBC Radio 1. Radio 1's All Day Breakfast. With Greg James. Hello and welcome to Wednesday's Radio 1 All Day Breakfast podcast. This is Greg James and we're back in, that there, London.

To do the podcast and the breakfast show today, we had the Sunday line-up for Big Weekend in Liverpool, which we'll get to in just a bit. We also had a really good quiz with Lana. We got you up to date with all the latest things. We had an amazingly fun round of work things, which we'll get to. And maybe we start... Let's start there. Let's start with work things. Callum Leslie! Hello! Work things, work things. Work things, work things. The dangerous one, maybe. It is, actually, yeah.

Passive aggressive laminated signs everywhere. There's a text there. That's a nice opener. Yeah, that's good. Sometimes printed by me if it's the kitchen. Oh, do you do that? Oh, yeah, of course. I remember that whole thing. I feel like things have got a little bit better in the kitchen, but really that hasn't made much of an impact. Do you know we had a tray here that used to have a keep calm and listen to news beat thing, you know that thing? Cool. I know. It's been around for years and years and years and it's gone missing.

In the kitchen. Wow. Who's stealing that? Well, that's my question. Who's left recently that wanted to be really sad about it? Yeah. So great work. Things are coming in on 03-700-100-100. Liberty. We'll start with Liberty. Driving to work in your Crocs and changing into your heels in the car park. Yeah. I can't relate to that one.

No, I don't think I've done that myself, but I can see why. Don't get me wrong, I understand it, Callum. Personally, I can't write, but I do understand the idea. I think I've had too much coffee this morning. It's all a bit literal.

I took the mickey out of my sister when she got... She's a bit older than me, so when she got her first grown-up job, she got a grown-up job in London. And it was very exciting. Oh, London! So she moved to London. And I said, what's your commute and stuff?

And she very seriously said to me, she went, well, actually, I walk across London Bridge, but I take my heels off and I wear trainers across London Bridge and I listen to Lose Yourself by Eminem. To get psyched up for a day at work. Next one. When you make a cup of tea, you offer to your colleague that sits next to you at the desk, perhaps. And next thing you know, is everyone's poking their head around the corner further down in the room.

going, oh, did someone offer to make a cup of tea, coffee? And you end up making it for six or seven people. Not ideal. Yeah, what's the optimum? Sort of three, isn't it? Three max, I'd say. Yeah, it can stretch up to 12 or 13 here sometimes as well. That's stupid. Yeah. That is stupid. You go, I'm not a waiter. Well, without a tree it is, Greg. Yeah, well. Yeah.

I think that is kind of a nightmare because everyone should be generous at work and be nice. But I think any more than four, are we saying, is probably too much. That's taking a lot of time out of your day. It is, isn't it? Next one. Trying to sound happy and polite in emails when you actually think the other person is an incompetent. There's a thing I love about walking around any office, and I think it is anywhere.

It's the weird hi you do to people. Oh, yeah, it's like a half nod. It's normally this noise. OK, ready? Hi. That's exactly what it is, isn't it? All we do is weird people just walk around offices going, Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. If we were to actually mic ourselves up and we just make that noise. Completely ridiculous. Hi. Hi.

Or if you walk past them again, sort of a minute later. Oh, hello again. What is that? Why do we all do that all the time? I don't know why. We don't need to, but we go, oh, doing laps, are we? Yeah. That one. That always happens here because it's sort of in a big circle. Same here. I think I said that yesterday to somebody. What is going on? We're just weird. We're just weird, awkward humans. Oh, doing laps again, are we? Oh, this one. This is the word. This makes me want to die on the spot.

Where you feel yourself about to say it. I've said it, people have said it to me, where they go, oh, following you. I know you! I do all these things. I know, we shouldn't. We should stop doing that. I do them, I'm guilty. Follow me, are you? Oh, that is so bad, isn't it? Imagine you just go, yes, I am. Yeah, I am. I am following you.

And I've noticed that you're doing very little work today. Just walking around. When you work in an office and somebody steals your milk and it's like milk gate. Yeah, milk gate. Talking or knowing when to talk and not to talk in the toilet is tricky, isn't it? Yeah, walking into the toilet as someone's coming out. What do you say? The other day I actually said to someone, what are you doing? What are you up to? What are you up to? What are you up to? What have you been up to in there? I don't really want to know.

Said that in a different way. What have you been up to in there? Very accusatory. What on earth's been going on in here? That's a different question, isn't it? Oh, so bad. Carl! The worst thing is when your colleague's like two minutes late for work and you go, oh, afternoon. I found myself doing it the other day. I hate myself. I think it's right to hate yourself as well. I feel the same.

When someone... I used to do this to a producer I had on the Drive Time show, where if they went home early or something, I'd go, oh, half day closing. Yeah, a part-timer. Yeah, a part-timer's horrible, isn't it? We turn into weird people at work, don't we? Why are we so horrible? If your mate turns up at the pub three minutes after you were meant to be there, you're not going to start that. There's also always a person in the office...

but has, and it's not true about them, but they have the title of the person who's always on holiday. There's always a person in office. And they go, oh, and when they say, oh, I'm off next week, go, you're always off? Isn't Ian always on holiday? And it is, in this instance, it is Ian. It is, it's my good friend, Ian Challoner, who games the system more than anyone I know. I don't know how he does it.

he doesn't have more holiday than anyone else but he just does it so cleverly like Ian you're always on holiday and it winds him up so it makes everyone do it more so that's the thing and now there's several million people know about it so that's good yeah it's like the Jamie Lang thing though isn't it doesn't do Thursdays so that becomes a thing they're like oh he's on on a Friday he's gonna have to next week yeah doing his big marathon man challenge I know imagine he's like yeah I'll do it but I can't do Thursday or Friday no no no no you have to do the whole week mate that's the whole that's the whole thing

Next up. I am yet to work in any office where there hasn't been a laminated sign by the sink that says, please clean up after yourselves. The washing up fairy's gone on strike.

Yeah, that was me, the washing up fairy. It was. That was you, wasn't it? And I have a sense of humour failure about that and I do not find that funny. Beth! Beth! You can always tell it's a work night out because you'll have a woman in her 60s, an 18-year-old man in his 40s, the weirdest group that could only possibly be together unless they all work together. It's the Radio 1 schedule. Ben! Ben!

Hello! Hello, welcome to The Breakfast Show. What work thing would you like to add?

So my work thing is coming in on a Monday morning, realising your work bestie isn't there, and then coming to the horrible realisation they've gone on holiday and you have absolutely no one to gossip to for the entire week. Yes, that is sad. It's like when Callum's not on. Aww. I feel the same. No one to gossip with, no one to do, you know, I can't do my Scottish accent to anyone else. No. It's really sad. Yeah. Who is, shout out your work bestie, Ben. Sorry.

So my work bestie's Paul. The thing is, we work at a very small family-run hi-fi shop, so there's only five of us in total. And yeah, it's the gossip. It can't get around too far, otherwise I've got to talk to the people I'm gossiping about. Five is pretty small, isn't it? I was going to say, the other three feeling very left out suddenly. You're going to have a very tricky day at work today, Ben.

It's alright, I've got a bit off today. The other three are just going to be standing there, arms folded when you walk in. But if it makes you feel better, you're the guy that's always on holiday then. Well, the one benefit of it being a small company is I'm too important that they can't fire me. We're all too important that we can't fire each other. Wow!

Wow, you're all locked in. You all hate each other. Even if we don't like each other, we have to bear with it. Yeah, but it's sort of working. This is like a classic sort of boy band or like band activity. This is what happens. Like the bands are so successful, we'd be like, we all hate each other, but we're making millions, so we've got to stick together. Exactly.

Ben, thank you. We'll look forward to getting him back on next week when we do things that happen when you get fired. We'll do fired things. Jess, good morning. Good morning, Greg. What have you got for us then on work things today? When someone brings in a lovely packet of biscuits, leaves them on the side, doesn't open them, and you're patiently waiting all day for that person that brought them in to go open them so that you don't look rude opening someone else's packet of biscuits.

There's not enough biscuits knocking around this place, let me tell you that. That does not happen here. This is unrelatable to us, I think. So what's the etiquette? Do you ever just open them or do you sort of go, for God's sake, can we open the biscuits, please? I walk past them a couple of times and kind of eye them up and kind of look around to see if anyone's looking. And if no one's looking, then maybe I open them. But most of the time, most of the time I wait for the person that's brought them in to open them and then everyone kind of

Yeah, runs for it. Immense power the biscuit bringer has. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Control the mood of the office. They do. They're the puppet masters all day. The good thing when you start really early is that you can kind of come up with, well, I've been here since four, so it's really lunchtime for me, and ask if you can be the person that starts that. What's the Newsbeat biscuit situation? We're pretty good at biscuits and sweets, I have to say. Yeah, there's always a little stash going on. Not really, but there's always somebody sticking something on the ends of the desks. Okay. Sounds awful.

Well, you know, popping it down. Making it sound worse. Jess, we'll let you go. This has descended into chaos. Have a great rest of the day. Enjoy your biscuits today. Bye. Thank you, bye. Good fun. Good fun. And now, let's do some big weekend line-up stuff, including a chat with our headliners. Good one, right? Good one. Sunday headliners.

At Radio 1's Big Weekend in Liverpool will be Mumford & Sons. Abi's excited. I came last year to Big Weekend in Luton and I didn't think it could have got any better than that line-up last year. But how wrong was I? Yeah, Claire in Liverpool just shouted, oh my God, when I said the words Mumford & Sons.

Let's call him. Let's call Marcus. Oh, God. Hello. Marcus, it's Greg. Hi, mate. Good to hear your voice. Well, it's been a long time since we've heard New Month of music, but we're very excited that Rushmere's coming and we've played the song loads on the radio already. It's feeling good. Are you feeling all good? The boys are happy? Everyone's really happy. It's all feeling joyful.

Does look joyful. Really joyful. All the little pop-ups you've been doing. You did one in New York, did one in London. You're doing a few gigs here and there, all leading up to the album coming out very soon. But it's the first record since 2018. You must be more than ready to get going on the road again.

It feels like we're back at the beginning again, you know, which is what we wanted it to feel like, just playing gigs every night and all over the place and saying yes to anything we can do and singing in rooms with people. And that's basically the basics of what we do. And I'm so pleased you're doing Big Weekend again. So third time headlining, you're going to be in Liverpool. It's going to be wicked.

It's been a long love affair between Radio 1 and me and your band, and it feels right to come back to a big weekend and headline it again. That weekend in Liverpool, it's actually going to be carnage because it looks like they're going to win the league that weekend. It's going to be Radio 1's big weekend. Sun's going to be out, hopefully. A very happy crowd as well. That's the moment of Sun's happy place, isn't it? But half the crowd really sad. So what do you do?

Well, I don't think you play Never Walk Alone. That's the first thing. It's a very tricky decision, that, isn't it, from a band's point of view? I don't think you can do that. Because also, Liverpool fans didn't get the opportunity to celebrate last time properly because it was COVID, right? That's true. Yes, it was a COVID win. So they've been storing up a lot of their party juice. Last time we played in Liverpool was like 2019. I think it was the...

morning after they won the Champions League and we were in Liverpool the morning of the Champions League parade. I got to see Robbie Fowler drinking Becks off the back of the big tall bus and I thought he looked like an absolute legend. But the parade went right past the venue where we were playing. So it feels very exciting to have you back and it feels like the

the break has been good for you? You've all been doing lots of various things and writing and making things and just having a bit of life, I guess. Has that been helpful to you? So what's been most helpful, I think, has just been storing up songs and then feeling like we waited until we were ready to start putting them out.

You know, we're road addicts. So once we start, it's hard to come off the road. I think we're announcing some shows today. Okay. Not right now. Not right now. But today. Let's focus on Big Weekend for now. But it's great that you're back and doing big shows and festivals. And that's what we want from Mumford & Sons. Because it's been nice to see you sort of popping up on things over the last couple of years. We've covered... One of the things I remember very fondly from recently was when you...

made a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, which I really enjoyed because you were clearly so excited and giddy. Was that when my wife was hosting? It was when your wife was hosting, yeah. That was fun. And also, we recently saw you playing poker with Timothee Chalamet. Yeah, it was bizarre, although I lost all of my chips firsthand to Kevin Hart, who got really lucky and then was very loud about it and was quite annoying about it. But that was it.

Let's play Rushmere and we'll let you go and we'll get on with the rest of the announcements for Big Weekend. We're so, so happy that Mumford & Sons... Greg, we love you, man. Thank you so much. We're so excited about Big Weekend. It's going to be wicked. All right. And Marcus, we'll see you and the boys in Liverpool in May. We'll speak to you soon. Hey, thanks very much. So Mumford & Sons head on to Sunday and that is pretty much complete. What else? Let's do the quiz and here comes Lana. Good morning.

Let's do yesterday's quiz. I was just asking you, because you are all from the University of Leeds, the Leeds student radio station called LSR. And I was asking you, as that song was playing, what your favourite song of the minute is to play on your show. And you replied with... The Cure. Anything The Cure is where it's at for me. Great.

Great that you're having a discovery of the cure on student radio. And actually, do you know what? That Fontaine's DC song is very cure-y. Very, very much like that. So welcome, Lana. Tell us about your week this week. Have you enjoyed listening to Amy and Jodie doing the quiz? I really have. I think I'm not going to be as good as Amy, but I think I'll get there with the pop culture references that Jodie kind of missed out on yesterday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is it. So you're, hang on, you're 20 tomorrow, are you?

I am, yeah, I am. Well, happy birthday for tomorrow. Very wise, by the way, not to get up early on your birthday and you decided to do the quiz today. That's smart. And also, has Amy got the same birthday as you? Yeah, we both have the same birthday, weirdly. This is a great week. So we've got the team who do the Leeds Student Radio Breakfast Show together on a Friday morning, all on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show this week doing yesterday's quiz. It's been a good week. 12 points on Monday from Amy, 10 points yesterday from Jodie, Lana...

I think you've got an opportunity here to get in the lead and maybe come back on Friday for the final. And then you can play one of your favourite songs on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. That's how it will work. So, are you ready for your questions? I am beyond ready. Beyond ready is what we like. Do we have some dingers? We're good to go.

90 seconds on the clock. Ten or more to get in with a shout and get into the final. Here we go with question number one. We announced the Saturday line-up for Big Weekend in Liverpool yesterday, but what singer of People Watching and 17 Going Under is headlining the main stage? Sun Fender. Yes! Which pop star sang her recent song Abracadabra live on The Howard Stern Show? Lady Gaga. Correct. It was Champion Day at Cheltenham Festival. What animals were racing there? Was it horses or mice?

Uh, horses? It was horses. Which, although, let's stop the clock because we don't know for sure that the mice might be doing their own little race alongside. We don't know that. Have you checked, Susanna? That's true. That's very true. I didn't look into that, guys. That's okay. Just for next time. I feel terrible. No, we're doing an investigation. There might be some little mice doing their own sort of extra thing. Those meeses at the Reese's. Could be.

Anyway, let's start the clock again. And this is the next question. Which Scottish DJ, known for tracks like Bounce and Summer, has teased more of his song Smoke the Pain Away? Oh, I have no idea. Big Scottish DJ. One of the most famous DJs in the world. Just the name of the big famous DJ who's Scottish, who's tall and handsome and...

It's got a huge hit. It's a big song with Rihanna. I have no... I'm not a clue. It's Calvin Harris. Haggis, the pygmy hippo at Edinburgh Zoo, moved into her outdoor habitat. Make the noise like a hippo who's very happy to be let outside. Good. Two points for that. Liverpool played Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Champions League, but who won last night? Liverpool? No, PSG won. It was Jodie Comer's birthday, but in which TV show did she play the assassin Villanelle?

Ooh, I am not sure. It was a show called Killing Eve. Which former traitor and Liverpool local was on The Breakfast Show yesterday to help me give away some big weekend tickets? Was it Mina? It was Mina. Which singer of Espresso said she was sick like a dog before her show in Glasgow? Sabrina Carpenter. Correct. It was National Proposal Day. Yes. No, hang on. National Promposal Day. If you were going to ask me to go to the prom, what would you say?

Please go to the prom with me. Two points for that. Ice Spice teased new music in a video she posted standing in front of which famous Parisian monument? The Eiffel Tower. Correct. And that is the end of your quiz. Lana, pretty good. A couple of... I think I did okay. You did okay. You did okay. There was...

Yeah, I was surprised at the Calvin Harris one because I thought I felt like you could get there. The hippo was great, though. The pygmy hippo was really good. That was the highlight of the proceedings, I think. And after all that, you got 10 points. So you're on a level with Jodie from yesterday. And it's all on me to see how it goes for the final on Friday. So have a great birthday tomorrow, Lana. Maybe speak to you again on Friday. But if I don't, enjoy your breakfast show on Friday morning. We're all going to try and tune in, by the way.

Oh, amazing. Yeah, somehow. That'll be great. We're going to try and crash the servers at LSR to see if we can get as many people listening as possible. We'll get you some record listening figures for Friday morning. Oh, that'll be insane. Have a great birthday and thanks for being on the quiz. We'll go again tomorrow with another one. Thank you, bye. Have a good one, Lana. Cheers.

Good energy from the whole quiz team this week. We go again with another quizzer tomorrow. And now let's get you up to date with all the latest things. All the latest things. Let's get you up to date with everything. And we start with Calvin Harris, who has been teasing new music with...

With him singing again. I love when Calvin, I've said this many times before, I love it when Calvin sings. Feel so close, my way. We played Acceptable in the 80s earlier today. Sounded great. This is the clip he's posted. The track is called Smoke the Pain Away. Everyone thought, oh, he's gone country. It's Noah Khan. But then last night he posted another clip. Which indicates there is a drop.

But it reminded us of something, and it reminded us a little bit of the Disney Robin Hood. Reminiscing this and that and having such a good time Oodle-lolly, oodle-lolly, golly, what a day I sparkle like sun in June Roll up and wait for you

Never ever thinking there was danger in the water. They were drinking, they just guzzled it down. Never dreaming that a scheming sheriff and his posse was watching them and gathering around.

I can't wait for the full version this Friday. That is going to be on and we'll play it, obviously play it on the Radio Unbreakable show Friday morning. Next up, let's have some Gaga, shall we? She's been talking about her new album Mayhem. What's it all about, Gaga? I would say that the album Mayhem is like one long crazy night. Great. Sounds good. And the meaning? This album is a series of gothic dreams that are made into a celebration.

The most Gaga answer ever. And here's the acoustic version from the Howard Stern show. Oh, very haunting. Like a Victorian ghost.

And finally, one of our favourites, Joe, was chatting all about his favourite things in New York. He was asked about his favourite food spots. What are your favourite restaurants in New York? Tasty hand-pulled noodles. It's like Szechuan. Yeah, he loves noodles, but...

He's already covered that when he was on The Breakfast Show. I feel like if I had a tonkatsu right before I went on stage, that would be a horrible idea. I'd have to wear the correct pants, nothing too tight. Because I invited him for ramen. He was then asked about his favourite places to go dancing and what he's listening to. What's the best place to go dancing?

I guess Night Moves. You said you're an LCD sound system fan. That's a great spot. What is the best LCD sound system song? Recently, Someone Great. Yeah, which is also what we talked about. I'm listening to a lot of LCD sound systems. Should we play some LCD sound system? Please. Someone Great. Play that song. Should we play it? Oh, I love that song. I think it's the problem with the internet.

Everyone sees all the interviews all the time. Does that make my interview less special? Radio One Breakfast. With Greg James. Yeah, probably does. And there is the podcast. That's the show from today. And I'll be back with you tomorrow. What are we going to do tomorrow?

Tomorrow, we've got Jesse, the wonderful Goatman, back. Oh, yeah, Jesse the Goatman's back on for another guessing game with the goats. OK, all of that, plus all the other fun as well. Have a great day. Goodbye.