It is a good point about how much children's radio used to be on Radio 5, and how this was all sadly shelved.
A case for Inspector Carmody.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 1 March 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
Radcliffe has a verbal tic that once you've noticed is very hard to ignore. Sort or "er-ber-ber" or "air-bear-bear", between words.
― mahb, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Lamacq played my mate's band yesterday. I'm dead chuffed for him but at the same time can't stand Lamacq and wish one of the other DJs had played him.
Anyway mandatory plug!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK5GGsX6kzg
― carrotless, turnip-pocketed (fionnland), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
6music still seems to play Noel Gallagher's single on every daytime programme.
I feel that we have surely got the point and heard this enough by now.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 10:49 (six years ago) link
right now: Radcliffe & Maconie starting their programme with Shed Seven.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:03 (six years ago) link
The crucial coveted keynote-sounding opening track slot.
'Going for Gold'.
Oh for gods sake!
ah, that's the reason I don't listen on the daytime.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
6music should shed shed 7's music
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link
6music should shed shed 7's music six
Now it's a palindrome.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 14:06 (six years ago) link
the trick is to use iplayer and listen 15 minutes behind so you can skip over the crap (assuming they play 15 minutes of crap per show, like anything by the manics)
i have a nice bookmarklet that lets me skip 60 seconds (and back 15 seconds) easily.
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
Why on earth would anyone choose to iPlayer this particular show?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
iPlayer etc etc
― as the crows around me grows (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
I think I tend to agree that it is more of a live experience.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
But koogs' account of his listening practice is quite cogent.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
i am listening 'not quite' live, via iplayer because it's easier than a radio in the office. am currently 52 minutes behind live. thurston moore has just expressed an interest in joining the ramblers.
― koogs, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
What, as in "She's only a poor little sparrow" ?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
Yes, I heard that also. Maconie was surprised to be asked about it.
I have now not heard Noel Gallagher's single on 6music for at least two days.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 15 March 2018 12:16 (six years ago) link
I try to recall it, but all I can generate is "We live in a beautiful world" by Coldplay..
― Mark G, Thursday, 15 March 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
It feels like it is designed to be played over a montage at the end of the next World Cup.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 15 March 2018 12:25 (six years ago) link
That Jade Fox track being played by Giles Peterson is delish.
― carrotless, turnip-pocketed (fionnland), Saturday, 24 March 2018 16:40 (six years ago) link
Gilles*
― carrotless, turnip-pocketed (fionnland), Saturday, 24 March 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
Lot of shit-talking in this thread, not all of which I agree with, but any station that gives Laurie Anderson a platform during prime time is alright with me.
I wish they could just drop the playlist and Album Of The Day stuff though. Seems to try and foster a uniformity across the station which is not needed.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 10:37 (six years ago) link
They've just gone from that interminable MSP single to a 10 minute Kamazi Washington track, which is kind of 6Music all over. A slightly schizoid need to occasionally go a bit "out there" while also being too cautious of alienating fans of mainstream indie shite.
― Brainless Addlepated Timid Muddleheaded Awful No-Account (Pheeel), Wednesday, 11 April 2018 10:48 (six years ago) link
that Bishop Nehru track they keep playing, Rooftops, is just someone talking, badly, over a record.
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
javascript:(function(){embeddedMedia.players.forEach(player => player.currentTime(player.currentTime()+60));})();
^ handy skip-a-minute iplayer radio bookmarklet
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
ooh!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
(not my work. doesn't work in firefox.)
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:32 (six years ago) link
Big news.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45127611
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/6-music-announces-schedule-changes
― the pinefox, Thursday, 9 August 2018 11:40 (five years ago) link
I hate that Shaun bloke who does the breakfast show at the moment.good riddance.
― mark e, Thursday, 9 August 2018 12:17 (five years ago) link
however, it does mean I can't pop 6music on in the afternoon as I have done from time to time.
― mark e, Thursday, 9 August 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
Yes, he is appalling, unbearable. So I don't welcome his move to afternoon. 10:30-4 weekdays will be off limits for me after this.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 9 August 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
I only listen at the weekends and will miss Mary Anne Hobbs' music, if not her presenting style.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 August 2018 12:52 (five years ago) link
Exactly the same people in a slightly different order is indeed huge news.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 August 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
this is a calamity.
maybe MAH will go all Breezeblock in her new position. maybe i'll start iplayering more weekend stuff that i never hear.
― koogs, Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
I think within the context of actually listening to the radio, if one happens to listen to this station, it is a big change, because to me radio isn't like film or the way many people now watch TV - on demand, in their own time, etc -- it is one thing that still, for many of us, happens live and in the order that's provided, because it's a convenience, a background.
So the fact that LL is no longer on 10-1, the fact that the afternoon is off limits, etc, will have a real effect on my days, one way or another.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 9 August 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
We had the all day rave thing on in the office and and I just kept wondering how long it would be before someone finally cracked and played the Stone Roses. Obviously it was Lamacq but they made it all the way to 5.30.
Extremely obvious that only Lauren Laverne has engaged with any dance music made after 1998.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
the bore of the roses
― calzino, Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
so there was no mary anne hobbs show re the rave thing ? would have thought she would have been top of the list to be honest.
― mark e, Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
She is only on at the weekend right now isn't she?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
I caught the end of S*** K****** this morning and he had an interview with someone from the early days of Ibiza which led to some really good music.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
top 30 rave-era tracks :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5ZF19S8FTX9WJcnr5j9JF3x/30-tracks-that-shaped-dance-music-over-the-last-30-years
xpost : no idea, but still, she should have been involved given her involvement/enthusiasm with the genre.
― mark e, Thursday, 23 August 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
Mary Anne Hobbs and Chris Coco have the absolute worst speaking mannerisms. I enjoy the music they both play, but their announcing style makes me irrationally angry.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:37 (five years ago) link
agreed.MAH vs the whispering bob harris thing is insanely off putting.
― mark e, Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
Gonna need some explanation as to what the housemartins are doing on a playlist about style icons.
― Winner of the 2018 Great British Bae *cough* (ledge), Sunday, 16 September 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
Explanation is that you are listening to Now Playing @6music and it's always this bad
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 16 September 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
Housemartins = pioneers of normcore/dadcore
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/91/238604903_23e39c38a0_z.jpg?zz=1
― soref, Sunday, 16 September 2018 19:33 (five years ago) link
not sure one can be a pioneer of what is literally normal but ok.
― Winner of the 2018 Great British Bae *cough* (ledge), Sunday, 16 September 2018 20:37 (five years ago) link
I feel like the Housemartins didn't just look normal, though, they had a self-consciously normal *look*
― soref, Sunday, 16 September 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
Enjoying a lot of Alice Coltrane earlier.
― kraudive, Sunday, 16 September 2018 21:37 (five years ago) link