Rolling Interminable 6Music Daytime Canon

Craig Charles every day? Are there not other non-celeb presenters they can use?

I turned the radio on today at work for the first time in a while and heard him talking about how it was his last show, it was so nice to change the station knowing I might never have to hear the unbearable cunt again

Oh noes!

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BBC should give up and launch Radio 2indie instead, it's all we deserve.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010xy0

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wearing a Lego Feet t-shirt...

Good ol' Lammo's still there isn't he? xp

Lammo is helping to stem the tide but not good enough to soothe Kev’s great replacement anxieties

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001330q

there's a new music and it's called indie

Indie’s not dead

look where else will i go for my florence & the machine seguing into the kooks fix

is Top Shop still going?

I believe it now only exists as a tickbox in the filter menu of Asos. I've tried ticking that box so many times but does it ever play me The Killers seguing into Laura Marling? does it fuck

that indie programme is a subset of indie i don't really care for, based on the track listings for the two shows currently aired. i guess i am not the target audience (by about 20 years). i think i own about 3 from each, the early 80s bits.

i should start listening to the good 'introducing' bits again (but skip lamacq's one), might help with my 'i don't know what's new and good' problem.

6Music are doing "Nineties Day" on Thursday, how will anyone tell the difference etc.

it was 80s day this week. the three things i heard (radcliffe and maconie) were 'money's too tight to mention' and 'nothing going on but the rent'

(and something from Heaven Up Here)

Got stuck on the motorway over christmas with only 6Music to listen to - a Steve Lamacq playlist thing very like the one above. Just all horrible shouty "indie" bollocks with choruses that go OI! OI! OI!. Who thought "Nellie the Elephant" by the Toy Dolls would prove so influential?

there's a new music and it's called indie

Enjoyed that reference on a cold Monday morning..

Rolling Interminable 6Music Daytime Canon

what a difference 18 months makes (ie none)

(I'm sure that's a reference to something, maybe a spitting image sketch about the death of a Russian leader, but the original post is the only got on the entire internet. which probably means I've spelt it wrong)

only hit

They're just played some pretty upbeat Fela (Nigeria 70, not Coffin for Head of State unfortunately).

more tv than radio, but i thought after Philip the decision was to not go so full-on with the cancellations but i guess this is also a much larger thing (and things are actively happening today). who'd've thought you could say so much about someone who's basically had the same job for 70 years?

(I'm finding it easy enough to avoid tbh)

I thought it was more "ok let's stop now, it's not like it's the queen is it?"

Schedule Change News 🗞

From Monday the 5th of June we’ll be launching two brand new shows on 6 Music.

— BBC Radio 6 Music (@BBC6Music) April 4, 2023

Bad developments in the 6music schedule.

The station is going to drive a lot of people away. Maybe it will also attract new people.

Attracting new people with a Marc Riley and Gideon Coe show?

No, attracting new people by giving more time to the other presenters and less to the older ones.

Usual complaints on that thread about Craig Charles which translates to "too much black music"

this is long overdue IMO, between them Riley and Coe had 5hrs every weekday evening to play a steady diet of indie rock

It feels like the ultimate end for the last couple of reshuffles is to turn 6 into a sort of 1Xtra with a hint of Radio 2.

My main evidence for the prosecution is Craig Charles on 6 days a week. A show that is so derivative it is rehashing its own features

— Paul Dengel (@PaulDengel2) April 4, 2023

Craig Charles belongs on 1Extra not 6 music.

I would love to see far less indie & rock however and a lot more electronic music.

— Mikey Bee (@Lord_Melchie) April 4, 2023

Not a massive fan, but Riley's show accounts for the majority of sessions on 6music, expect this is a factor here.

Craig Charles is fine IMO but belongs on Radio 2, along with about 50% of the 6music DJs. 50% of existing Radio 2 DJs can be relocated to the bin.

or greatest hits radio or w/e

Neil S: I am not personally interested in Riley and have no desire to listen to him. I would broadly agree that he has focused a lot on "indie rock". I would be happy for Riley to disappear, though many listeners would disagree.

On the other hand, the statement that Coe has played "a steady diet of indie rock" gives the impression that you have not heard his programme.

One of the bad things about the new schedule is that people who like Coe's eclectic programme will now have to hear Riley in that slot 3 nights a week. The quota of "indie rock" in those hours is likely to increase.

Right now

R3 > R1Extra > R1 >>>>> R4 > 6Music >>>>>>>> R5 >>>>>> R2

I think it's fair to characterise Coe's show as focussing on indie rock broadly construed, even though he might play some soul, reggae and rock 'n roll. John Peel it is not, or maybe John Peel with the inconvenient rough edges sanded off (happy hardcore, grindcore, techno etc. etc.)

R4Extra my favourite station!

4Extra is like I can listen to those shows on demand whenever I want to

“I just want white music please”

Craig Charles show is superb and not anything like what would he played on 1Extra which is generally rap/hip-hop/grime/drill - a totally different genre

— Curtis (@171494949494a) April 4, 2023

6 music listeners are honestly the blandest people on earth. Craig Charles' show is one of a handful of shows on there that doesn't make me want to cry with boredom. pic.twitter.com/3nOGUJ0wYl

— Pariah Carey (@misslucyp) April 4, 2023

Ravenscroft classic nepo baby, I didn’t make the connection with the name at first & wondered why this completely unengaging posh bloke had a career in broadcasting (I prob assumed he had been in some shitty indie band as is usually the case) and it wasn’t till quite a bit later I heard a trailer where he was like “come explore my family mansion as I play records from my dad John peel’s collection” & I was like ohhhh lmao

His voice (Tom R) is bad for radio and I don't find anything good about him.

I don't think it is good that he is being promoted more and more as key voice of 6music.

Gilles Peterson on a Saturday afternoon still manages to be fresh and enthusiastic. The other week when they were all broadcasting from Salford and had obv. been told to give the shows a local slant, he announced one track as "by one of THE ALL TIME GREAT Manchester bands....KALIMA!" and it made me laugh bcs which other DJ on the staion would even put Kalima in their top 20 Mcr acts?

He did a great tribute to Simon Booth last week which had Sade calling in.

Yeah Peterson is always a good time imo.

I've never felt old enough to enjoy Peterson.

there's always that feeling that he's been into everything for years before you even heard of it, but I think he's been DJing since he was about 15.

Part of me just thinks fuck this boring endless struggle that every media outlet has to bring in new, younger audiences while not pissing off existing ones. Give up. Just let your station's audience be a cohort that gets older and older, liking things just the way they are. Keep Steve Lamacq till he's 80. Bring back Liz Kershaw. For the younger listeners, launch a new station and let the old one decline into ossified irrelevance till its last listener is in the grave.

cannot even for rhetorical purposes allow the possibility of liz kershaw being on the radio sorry

I agree with alba actually.

in general yeah it sounds good, set up a load of stations for different people and let them age with the audience. right now for example there is almost nowhere to hear 60s music on the BBC. you know, that obscure decade nobody cares for or remembers any more.

Which is odd as the oldies stations growing up concentrated on the 50s & 60s then eventually added the 70s then the 50s was dropped and the 80s added..