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
nothing to make you appreciate radcliffe and maconie more than when chris hawkins sits in... still, good practice for next year.
get well soon, mark
― koogs, Monday, 8 October 2018 12:12 (five years ago) link
radcliffe popped up on the show before christmas btw.
was looking to see when they started at the weekend, and found this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl65/2019/01/12
which currently says:
12 Jan 201907:00 OFF AIR Programmes will resume at 13:00
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
Sigh, I see Keshaw is on at 1300. Suspect only reason Liz Kershaw hasn’t been punted is so when Brexiteers moan about Gary Lineker, the Beeb can say, yes but we have Liz Kershaw.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 2 January 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
xp That is very strange indeed.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
Maybe should give them a call and see if they need anyone to cover the shift
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 16:49 (five years ago) link
Most likely this is yet another problem with the stupid Sounds app.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 2 January 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
koogs, it's updated now - https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl65/2019/01/12
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 3 January 2019 14:00 (five years ago) link
"Brave New Dawn", funny.
am currently catching up on stuff i didn't get a chance to listen to over christmas and podcasts, so am not missing it at all. next week might be different.
― koogs, Thursday, 3 January 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
The Liz Kershaw saga continues
When I sue this rag I will also include anyone who has abused me on here by swallowing their libellous misinterpretation of my comments this morning. Be warned https://t.co/J4QJKXs7v5— Liz Kershaw (@LizKershawDJ) January 18, 2019
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 18 January 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
lizbabe
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 January 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
Watch the video, it's a work of art, the look in the hosts' eyes as they try to make some sort of sense of what she just said, her doubling down on digging this ridiculous logic hole.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 18 January 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
I don't really look to 6music presenters for nuanced political commentary but she really does come across as remarkably dim.
― Matt DC, Friday, 18 January 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
saw one tweet that used the word 'loon' re this situation.been years since i had heard that word.
― mark e, Friday, 18 January 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
currently talking about new releases on Steve "Lammo" Lamacq's show: Rick Witter, Andy Bell and some bloke from Cud
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 14 November 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
they all like the new Wonder Stuff record, Rick Witter says that Miles Hunt "knows his way around a melody"
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 14 November 2019 18:24 (four years ago) link
Richard James "Rick" Witter (born 23 November 1972 in Stockport, Cheshire) is a singer, songwriter and frontman of the York-based Britpop band Shed Seven. He was educated at Huntington School, York. He used to buy his shopping at Tesco, Clifton Moor.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 14 November 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
On this occasion Miles Hunt knew the route around the melody a little too well.
― michaellambert, Thursday, 14 November 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link