Its fine until lunchtime and then it is slow death
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
There is loads of good stuff on 6 music now, especially in the mornings.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link
Yes the terrible Kershaw seems to have gone, which means an extra hour for Gilles Peterson on a Saturday afternoon.
― fetter, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link
I only listen during the work day - as I say, decent in the morning but as soon as keaveny comes on it’s a bust
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
Worst thing I ever heard on it was that Maconie and some hippy pleb sidekick talking about "freaky music" show where they were trying to ruin stuff like Sun Ra.
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
You can’t ruin music by playing it luckily
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:09 (four years ago) link
If they just played it yeah
― calzino, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
nah it's true i avoid a lot of heartbreak by avoiding idiots who like things i like liking them wrongly
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
The reason keaveny is bad is that there is not enough playing of music in between his interminable charmless awfulness. Then lammo comes on and its music-focused again but the music is all bad
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
yeah, number 1 DJ crime is not shutting the fuck up, i listen to a lot of milquetoast classical on 3 just because the ratio is better
― A rat done bit my sister Nell with Biden on the nom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 31 March 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
Ravenscroft is sitting in for Keaveny at present, so 6 remains listenable for a while longer.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 15:04 (four years ago) link
So today they finally announced they are getting rid of Liz Kershaw, after 17 years.
Then it turned out she's just being moved to Sundays.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link
They also announced that The Blessed Madonna is getting a weekly 9pm to midnight Saturday show, straight after Craig Charles.https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2021/bbc-radio-6-music-chedule-changes/
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
They play way too much middling old school rap. I know the audience is prob 40 year olds but if they really want to 'diversify'the playlist, there are many other black artists/better rap records they can play.
― candyman, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 00:23 (three years ago) link
So many bad, complacent djs barely trying on this station.
― candyman, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
Actually idk what the point of 6 music plus anymore when you can listen to nts for instance.
― candyman, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 00:26 (three years ago) link
If my kitchen DBS radio could pick up NTS you would have a point, can't even get Radio 5 in there.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 10:44 (three years ago) link
Saturday afternoons just won't be the same without Liz reading out callers boasts about gigs they went to in 1991
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 11:17 (three years ago) link
just get the NTS app on your phone and get some earphones.
6 music seems to basically be like radio 2 for aged indie kids.
that said, i have occasionally been alerted to a few good things, but during the daytime, they could play so much better stuff than they do. and newer stuff. i dont need to hear stuff that is only seemingly being played for nostalgia. then again, i might not be the right audience as i rediscovered jazz fm this week, and found i like more music on there nowadays than on 6 music.
― candyman, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
no, I have decent radio player apps on my phone and good headphones but I also have a young family and walking round with headphones on wouldn't really go down well (anyway I listen to much less radio now as all my listening time is taken up with editing music for centuries of sound these days)I made a big post up there somewhere about which 6 music shows are good and which are very much not good, agreed that the station has a lot of indie schmindie rubbish and should be overhauled almost entirely, radio 3 is still easily the best bbc station, radio 1 has been surprisingly good the last few years though.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 12:52 (three years ago) link
cool, i will check out your recommendations.
i like lauren laverne as a presenter, but thats just cos she has a nice voice/manner.
i enjoy radio 1 on the whole, though it would be better with less george ezra.
― candyman, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 13:05 (three years ago) link
quite happy with LL's breakfast show, only thing I regularly hear now tbh, she did the first play of the new Laura Mvula this morning.
― Bastard Lakes (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 13:09 (three years ago) link
6 music seems to basically be like radio 2 for aged indie kids.they share a lot of staff and are produced from the same building
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 13:43 (three years ago) link
Now That's What I Call Sombre Music today on 6 music, radcliffe and maconie is just Radcliffe doing minimal links, on for 4 hours and playing the slowest, most miserable stuff in the catalogue.
― koogs, Saturday, 10 April 2021 06:25 (three years ago) link
This is kind of hilarious. It's pretty chill though, and always good to hear Big Thief's Mary.
― Computers I can live with, I even dried them in the oven (ledge), Saturday, 10 April 2021 07:13 (three years ago) link
Tried switching to the world service but it's all philip all the time there.
― Computers I can live with, I even dried them in the oven (ledge), Saturday, 10 April 2021 07:23 (three years ago) link
quite enjoyed the nils frahm, made a change from them prattling on about barm cakes.
― koogs, Saturday, 10 April 2021 10:07 (three years ago) link
A friend messaged last night to suggest that the misery-fest was if I was DJ-ing ...
― djh, Saturday, 10 April 2021 10:30 (three years ago) link
listening to the bit after i gave up and there's a huge slab of Spiritualized's glides and chimes before the 9:30 news as well, which I'm guessing Jason would've never thought would happen. now it's some maudlin version of Vapour Trail.
― koogs, Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:29 (three years ago) link
Radio 3 playing some pretty robust sounding music earlier, surprising.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 10 April 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
Think the Beeb are seriously overestimating who gives a shit about Prince Philip, less Record Store Day chat at least though
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 10 April 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
My local Co-Op has it's own radio station that usually plays 'Gimme Hope Joanna' and 'A Good Heart' on rotation was playing classical music today.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 10 April 2021 15:05 (three years ago) link
similar today by the look of things, 4 hours of Radcliffe this morning, 3 hours of Maconie in the freak zone slot.
― koogs, Sunday, 11 April 2021 05:25 (three years ago) link
Less chill out and back to the shout outs though.
― Computers I can live with, I even dried them in the oven (ledge), Sunday, 11 April 2021 09:15 (three years ago) link
yeah, i was basing that purely on the lengthened schedules (see posting time*). the actuality was much cheerier than yesterday.
(*does ilx use utc?)
― koogs, Sunday, 11 April 2021 09:48 (three years ago) link
(yeah, it's 10:49 but that's saying 9:49)
― koogs, Sunday, 11 April 2021 09:49 (three years ago) link
If it was sombre music only then I hope we got:early Current 93Diamanda Galassolo Michael GiraThrenody for the Victims of Hiroshima
― it's popol vu all over again (Matt #2), Sunday, 11 April 2021 10:20 (three years ago) link
"Now That's What I Call Sombre Music" was a quote from somewhere in the 80s but i can't remember where. Spitting Image on the death of some russian leader perhaps?
(and timezone's a preference that i can change, hurrah)
tracklists:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v2b4https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vjcn
Air appear to be the big winners. Fleet Foxes i notice too. some things played twice within 4 hours.
― koogs, Sunday, 11 April 2021 10:41 (three years ago) link
lots of instrumentals too
― koogs, Sunday, 11 April 2021 10:42 (three years ago) link
It's been nice to switch the radio on when cooking dinner on a Sunday night and not hear Amy Lamé.
― hamicle, Sunday, 11 April 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
If only she were terminable.
― Alba, Sunday, 11 April 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
Is it that time already?
― Mark G, Monday, 12 April 2021 07:10 (three years ago) link
Wtf is it gabba hour or something?
― I took drugs recently and why doesn't the UK? (ledge), Thursday, 29 April 2021 11:49 (two years ago) link
"Today 6 Music goes back to the 2010s"
nostalgia's not what it used to be.
(the 2010s were 2 years ago)
― koogs, Thursday, 29 April 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link
I never heard her 1Xtra show, but Jamz Supernova's recently launched Saturday afternoon 6Music show has become my favourite thing on the radio right now. It's guiding me through areas of music that were dauntingly unfamiliar to me before. A great addition to the Saturday line-up (as is The Blessed Madonna later on), and it makes perfect sense to schedule it just before Gilles Peterson.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 8 May 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
hope they rerun some classic jingles of Guy Garvey reminding everyone he's in Elbow
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 8 May 2021 14:41 (two years ago) link
I found jamz supernova a bit much for a saturday afternoon but I should probably be listening to magic or something instead.
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Saturday, 8 May 2021 16:42 (two years ago) link
I worked with Jamz when she was an aspiring assistant radio producer on other people’s shows and she was unfailingly friendly and polite - not qualities in surplus at most radio stations - she stood out
― One Of The Bad Guys (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
Yeah, that fits with her presenting style: natural, unforced, and communicating a clear love of the music she's chosen. A couple of weeks ago, she finished with a 30 minute Portuguese mix that maybe banged too hard for the time of day, but she dialled it back this week: there were a couple of times where she said "I'm just taking the tempo a little bit up", which helped you to acclimatise.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 8 May 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
fuck off, liz
#BritAwards2021 And the winners are(Except for @HAIMtheband - Congratulations!)People posing rather than playing musical instrumentsDua Lipa J HusLittle MixArlo ParksHarry StylesBillie EilishThe WeekndTaylor SwiftGrim future for kids in bands and for @UK_Music— Liz Kershaw (@LizKershawDJ) May 12, 2021
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link