BBC Radio 6 Music
From 10am-1pm every Saturday morning, Jon "plays some music and messes around in the gaps" alongside his friend and sidekick, David Whitehead, and producer Adam Hudson. The format of the show is similar to satirist Chris Morris' radio shows from the late 80s and early 90s. Heavily inspired themes include spoof news items, voiceovers and contributions from children, spoken words from various broadcasters and politicians cut up and re-edited into nonsense and a general subversive edginess very much in the Morris style.
Regular features include:
Special celebrity endorsement - every week Jon Holmes' show is endorsed by Andy Hurst impersonating a figure in the news, for example "Hello, I'm Robert Mugabe, and when I'm not killing white farmers or rigging elections I always listen to the Jon Holmes show on BBC 6Music".
The Old Gay Whistle Test - a homosexual pensioner whistles a tune for the listeners to guess.
Ken Bruce Master - Radio 2's PopMaster quiz is turned "arseaboutupside", so instead of listeners answering questions about pop stars, pop stars answer very stupid and surreal questions about Radio 2 presenter Ken Bruce.
DIY Tip - various rock stars share DIY advice. Recent examples include MeatLoaf on correctly potting bulbs and Mark Ronson on the best way to install a mortice lock.
Toddler Pops - a five year old child discusses politics with Holmes and then plays a xylophone tune for listeners to guess.
Band I Found On MySpace Or... - quiz in which various strange names are read out. They're either the name of 'a band I found on MySpace' or something else. The something else changes each week. Examples include 'Band I Found on MySpace' or 'type of spider' and 'Band I Found on MySpace' or 'Sex Toy'.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell On The Radio - callers must battle their way through 'a disused Russian submarine' and shoot whatever pops up as Holmes 'reads out' the action. The things that pop up are often very surreal and often tied to the week's news.
Twittersweet Symphony as the show broadcasts, a chosen song is tweeted in real time on the micro-blogging network Twitter. Holmes's followers thereby get a stream of song related jokes and comments that correspond to the song and its singer line per line as they're listening to the song. This often contains material that Holmes would probably not be allowed to get away with on the radio. It is referred to on the show, slightly sarcastically, as a "bonus inter-platform multifeature".
666 - in order to fulfill the station's remit for new music, at 6pm on 6Music on Saturday Jon raids another 6Music presenter's pigeon hole and plays a track from the 6th CD he pulls out.
Audible Lolly Stick - like on lolly sticks in the olden days when you had to "suck off" the lolly part to get the whole joke, Jon tells the setup to a joke on the show to which the punchline is only available on the podcast version of the programme.
Encyclopaedia Rocktanica a musical Wikipedia in which rock stars impart knowledge and information. For instance the Joey Tempest from Europe (band) explaining the ins and outs of gamma ray bursts.
Features are interspersed with various fake news items and re-edited audio in the style of Holmes own radio 4 show Listen Against. On air he is joined in the studio by David Whitehead oft referred to as "the BBC's idiot".
As of November 2009 a podcast of the show was made available by the BBC.
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