The Daily Tonic: Tartan Carpets

Poor Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Throughout the corona quarantine, she’s been keeping spirits high by live-streaming a series of mini-concerts from her home called Kitchen Disco.

Yesterday, she had an extra special edition of it lined up because it was her birthday – so she got all dressed up in a glittery outfit, drew up a setlist of her disco hits and was all set to celebrate with fans.

So a heartfelt middle finger to Facebook who pissed all over the party by muting the livestream just moments after it began, citing copyright infringement.

Of her own songs.

You’ve been sending in so many fun stories these last few days that we’re building up a bit of a backlog. So we’re going to forego a proper question today and instead ask you to propose some questions you think we should be asking your fellow Popbitches. Is there anything you’re curious to know?

Today’s Question: What questions should we be asking you?

Send in suggestions of things we can ask you to hello@popbitch.com and we’ll reward the best with some Popbitch goodies.

C writes:
“My friend went home with a guy and in the middle of the night he went to the toilet where the walls were absolutely covered in photos of celebrities. When he had finished in the bathroom he went out onto the landing to see a portly middle-aged man in huge pants standing there.

“Both screamed, and my friend ran back to the bedroom of the chap. Who turned out to be the lodger of Christopher Biggins.”

AB writes:
“I once met Paul Young at the height of his fame in the 80s in the music dept in Harrods. I went over to him armed with a pen to get an autograph for my sister, but was beaten to his side by a group of Japanese teen girl tourists. I thought I was going to hear them all fawning over him but, as I got closer, it became obvious they had no idea who he was and were asking him in very broken English where they could buy Beatles records.

“Paul was nonplussed by not being recognised and duly explained that they should head over to Our Price or HMV on Oxford Street.”

my-john-thomas writes:
“In the early 90s I had a summer job in Liberty on Regent Street, working in the furnishing fabric department. I spent a fun couple of hours one afternoon serving Paula Yates who wanted the boldest, brightest prints in the store.

“She pulled out a series of fabrics with huge fruit and vegetables on – strawberries, apples, tomatoes etc. I asked whether they were for upholstery or curtains. She just laughed. ‘Oh no, these are being made into dresses’.

“Sure enough, a few weeks later she turned up on TV and in the papers wearing said fabric.”

You’ll have the gist of this by now. Here’s ten songs hamfistedly thumped up into a two minute mix. You just have to figure out which songs they are and who was responsible for singing them.

You get a point for the artist, and a point for the song title.

[Play it here]

Chico the Sloth got a tour of the Texas State Aquarium
[Watch on YouTube]

If you want to see Sophie EB’s birthday Kitchen Disco, it made it to Instagram
[Watch it here]

If you want more audio rounds to play, our archive has 25 of them now
[Daily Tonic Music Quizzes]

And if things get extremely desperate, you can currently stream a concert performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar, starring Mel C and Chris Moyles…
[Heaven help you]