BBC6 Radio - comment, discussion and moans
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
she crashes intros and outros like this is 90s radio 1. 'Check how perfect my timing is that I'll stop talking as soon as the vocal comes in'
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moonsi til
worked it out now!
Yep & I much prefer him & his music choices to Liz who to me just sounds so insincere. Liz is all ‘me me me’.
Spod
Well-Known Member
Totally her show this week was all about Springteen and the E Street Band. Not the worst music ever made but its a bit daytime Radio 2.
One of a long list of reasons to avoid Heart.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
She’s embarrassing. She’s just played Cream and not once but twice referred to “the genius drummer Jack Bruce”.
Know nothing fuckwit.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
I met her a couple of times over the years and she seemed decent in person. She did not mention her brother. Not a fan of her radio work.
I'd rather listen to Andy's documentaries on North Korea, if they're still on the BBC player, worth checking out.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Even I know that's Ginger Rogers
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
5 or 10 minutes of how Nick Clegg is a great bloke and was never truly hated, why the lib-dems were never unpopular and why it was right for them to go into an aggressive extreme-austerity coalition with the tories on the seriously unfunny shaun keaveny show just now. With his 'committed blairite' mate. Jesus, may get some music at some point in the next hour. I bet that'll be great as well.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Annoying? Yeah, sometimes (depending on the dj). But how is it elitist?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Safe, establishment-sanctioned playlist?
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Dunno. They play some shit that definitely isn't cool (and is more than a bit shit). Shed Seven? Noel Gallagher? But most of what they play is good. Yeah, Orang Utan there's a playlist, but there's still plenty of space for presenters to play what they like and loads of interesting music new and old.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
still pretty mainstream - lots of old, established artists
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Nothing wrong with that. I like to hear some familiar stuff. A lot of those established artists wouldn't be played on other stations now, and sometimes it's sessions or more obscure tracks.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I only want to hear new stuff (or old stuff I've not heard). If I want to hear old stuff, I'll play it myself.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
How do they know what you've heard or not? Anyway, keeps me and many other good people happy.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
they don't, which is why I only bother with the Freak Zone, on the rare occasions I remember to tune in. I'm more of a Rinse listener, though never listen to their shows live.
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
That's a fair point, but, for me, when they dig out something like a John Peel Slits session from 1978, it's pure joy, even if it is on you tube somewhere.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
I don't remember it being like that. Cerys played a wide range of sounds I'd not heard before. I discovered Nils Frahm thanks to Mary Anne Hobbs.
As for "safe, establishment-sanctioned" output, that's not entirely apt. 6 (along with Radio 3) play a decent amount of "world" music which is new to most ears. Worth searching out.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
This art is everywhere thing is doing my head in.
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
and, as if to prove Spod's point, R&M have just played Puppet Life, by Punishment of Luxury.
My main 6 music gripe is that since Bruce Dickinson left the network neither 6 nor Radio 2 offer anything for rock and metal fans. Yes I accept we are uncool,(mostly) white working class and (mostly) live outside London but we pay the licence fee too.
It's ironic that old skool Radio One used to provide 5 hours a week of such output (with Tommy Vance on Fridays and Alan Freeman on Saturdays) and the current BBC pretty much doesn't cater for us at all.
It's ironic that old skool Radio One used to provide 5 hours a week of such output (with Tommy Vance on Fridays and Alan Freeman on Saturdays) and the current BBC pretty much doesn't cater for us at all.
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hiraethified
So it's a race issue?
Oh absolutely not. I've got a good black friend who's a massive metal fan. But I'm sure even he'd admit he was in a minority.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Don't radio one still have some sort of rock show?
Yes they do, on a Sunday night. But it's very much aimed (as it should be) at younger metal fans. The average Maiden, or Sabbath, or GNR or Metallica fan is well outside the Radio One demographic these days!!!
Voley
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I've started listening more this year as I finally got a decent digital radio. It's got me listening to Kurt Vile, King Krule, Songhoy Blues, Courtney Barnett, Thundercat and Cherry Glazer amongst others. There is a mainstream playlist but there's room around it to hear other stuff. Iggy Pop's show nearly always throws up something great.
