''Jammin was a musical comedy show on BBC Radio 2 in the United Kingdom. It was presented by

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, who also plays drums. In addition to Rowland, there were two regulars in the band, and two guests - usually one comedian and one musician. The two regulars were usually

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and Steve Brown. When Dave Catlin-Birch is on tour, he was usually replaced by Honka James Roby. Brown replaced original regular

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in 2003. Thus the show usually followed the format: *Introduction Song in which the regulars and guests are introduced. *Short interview with the guests, usually playing a snippet from one of their hits or a performance of the first song they ever wrote. This usually turns into an innuendo, and the performance is stopped by Rivron just before it becomes too explicit. *Feature from one of the regulars (ABBA/Beatles backwards / "Two Songs for the Price of One" / "Beatles per Minute"). *Bass Line: the bassist plays a bass line, and the other member of the band (except Rivron) try to guess from which song it comes. *Mixing Styles: One guest suggests a musical style, and other a singer/band, and styles are combined, e.g. ' Roll with It' by Oasis in the style of

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. The roles are then reversed, with the other guest performing. *Party Pieces Guests will perform their musical party piece, or they have to sing one of their well-known songs inserting words suggested by the rest of the band. *Audience: Members of the audience call out different words and the band have to try to think of songs that include the word, and play a sample of that song. *Concluding jam drawn from the last of the songs played from the feature above, or in earlier series, "they song we enjoyed playing most today", which could any song performed during the show. *The programme is punctuated by snippets from a song sung in varying styles (e.g. a cappella, Country and Western, Bob Dylan-esque) as announced at the end of the programme "Jammin' was brought to you in association with...." However, the Autumn 2006 series did not include this information.

Regulars

- host and drummer *

- keyboards and guitars *

- guitar *

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- bass and guitar * Steve Brown - piano and occasionally guitar * Guy Pratt - bass guitar

Guests

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*Christian Reilly * Kim Wilde *

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* Justin Edwards * Jim Diamond * James Robert Morrison * Robert Newman *

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* Jools Holland *

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* Ronnie Golden *

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* Phill Jupitus *

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*Rainer Hirsch *

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* Rich Hall *

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* Jackie Clune *

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* Tim Minchin

Writers

* Robin Ince * Kevin Day

External links

* {{BBC Radio 2 BBC Radio comedy programmes BBC Radio 2 programmes 2001 radio programme debuts 2008 radio programme endings