Year 2002 Special!

About this show

The 2002 special opened with Nixxi back in the studio, hyper on marshmallows and turning the box from an early Easter egg into an Art Attack-style photo frame for Graeme Fenwick. Kev and Nixxi then raided 2002 for the night's music, digging through Four Strings, DJ Shog, Dee Dee, Humpenberg, Matt Darey, DJ Alligator and plenty of records they were rather less convinced deserved another airing. Earth Hour arrived mid-show, so the studio lights went out and Kev and Nixxi attempted to carry on in near darkness using their computer screens and an iPhone as illumination. Inevitably Kev struggled to see the buttons, Nixxi accused him of secretly putting a light back on because he was scared of the dark, and saving the planet briefly became considerably less important than actually keeping the show on air. Listeners joined the 2002 nostalgia through Interact and requests, with Shawn listening from America and reacting to some of the stranger records. A debate about ridiculously fast rappers ended with Kev attempting Busta Rhymes at speed, while Simon phoned in and was dragged into the usual abuse about Nixxi's eating habits. Later, Kev and Nixxi let the listeners into something normally done before the show: auditioning a promotional CD that had arrived in the post. They sampled tracks from singer and pianist David and asked the audience whether any of it deserved a place on the playlist. The night also included the usual Kev-versus-Nixxi quiz before the pair returned to squeezing as much good, bad and gloriously dated 2002 music as possible into the rest of the show.

The five regular SmeggHeads questions ended level, so Alex asked where he had gone on holiday in 2002 and gave the hint 'L'. Nixxi answered Lanzarote and won the tie-break, leaving the running score at Nixxi 14, Kev 10.