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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I’ve been listening to some shows, particularly the Friday/weekend slots, on BBC Sounds - it looks like they’re appealing to the younger demographic - people like me. So maybe it’s time to toodle off to Radio 2 or Scala or Magic FM in your bath chair
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
If you're the sort of age I think you are, I'd hardly describe you as the younger demographic.
IIRC I'm outside the age range 6 Music is trying to capture by a couple of years. 
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
Isn't it more that daytime radio is uniformly shit, like daytime TV? If I listen to 6 during the day I'll listen to one of the evening or weekend shows via the Sounds app (I'm doing this right now).
Mary Anne Hobbs has been a good champion for underground music over the years, not least the dubstep scene and the DMZ nights, many of which were in Brixton. whenever I hear her she still drops a fair amount of new underground stuff, though all the daytime crew have to play playlist stuff as well.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
She is a bit 'everything is amazing' sure but I still prefer her to the like of Radcliffe and Maconie and Keaveney - who I've nothing against as people, but their shows just grated on me.
editor
hiraethified
Err, except the DJs I've been complaining about aren't playing contemporary music - often it's bland shite like decades-old house music, smartarse. I actually would like to hear more new non-mainstream music.
Edit: I've just turned it back on they're playing a song from 1982.
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hiraethified
It didn't used to be. GLR radio used to be great.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It was a joke at both mine and editor ‘s experience - I think he’s maybe a decade older than me. But ten years is a long time in music.If you're the sort of age I think you are, I'd hardly describe you as the younger demographic.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I find a lot of stuff bland and noodly
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Fair enough, but I’ve seen the playlists - there’s a good mix of old and new, it’s just not to your taste
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Night time radio 3 is some the absolute best radio that there is. Night Tracks in the week, slow radio on a Monday night, unclassified on Thursday night, world routes on Friday night, Freeness late on a Sunday night. I don't really listen to any other radio.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Isn't that what Radio 6 is all about though? Oldies that ain't just pop/AOR?
If you want to hear new non-mainstream music, then broadcast radio won't be the place to find it.
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hiraethified
I dunno. Every time I turn it on in the daytime there seems to be some shit house music going on, and I thought there was already enough dance stations for that kind of stuff.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
For me Radio 6 is essentially the new radio 2
The Blessed Madonna was standing in for MAH this afternoon - looking at what she was playing it doesn't look bad for a daytime radio playlist. It's not smooth FM - she played Husker Du ffs.
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Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
So what is radio 2 then?
I don't think radio 2 ever played techno during the day...
I'm not up late so much, but I always enjoy the late night content when I am. Driving home the other week though they were playing this Boards of Canada remix of a Mike Patton tune on Night Tracks - there was something really incongruous about a song with the chorus treat her like a prostitute on radio 3...
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
So what is radio 2 then?
I don't think radio 2 ever played techno during the day...
Techno can be middle of the road as well
Hilldweller
Active Member
Wasn't the plan, when they were talking about getting rid of radio 6, to create a radio 2 extra in its place? I can't find any reference to that so.might be imagining it
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Not the sort of stuff MAH will often drop into her morning show.
People who were raving to techno and house in the early 90s are in their 40s & 50s now, it would be a bit weird if there was no dance music on a radio station aimed at middle aged music lovers.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I think for a sizeable majority of its target audience 6Music is viewed as pretty eclectic, which - for a national station - covers a fairly large range of eras, genres and tastes.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Radio 2 just doesn't position itself to appeal to old ravers though. I suspect they consider most dance music to be too niche and alienate a lot of their core listeners, and perhaps they're right too. The most dancey they usually get is Kylie or Sophie Ellis Bextor during the day.
I'm not sure there'll ever be a station that is all things to all people if you have broad tastes. At least that's why I'm always flicking around from one station to another.
I'm not sure there'll ever be a station that is all things to all people if you have broad tastes. At least that's why I'm always flicking around from one station to another.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Most techno these days is decidedly middle of the road plodding stuff.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
She plays a bit more house and disco than MAH and other day time presenters but the playlist keeps her more or less "on message".
