Rolling Interminable 6Music Daytime Canon

Stew's take

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/16/britain-is-a-dying-nation-in-need-of-new-curators

I quite like Lee's article, and it's nice to see public support for some good things, but I don't think his description of 6music or the role of those particular programmes is especially accurate.

cleeve hill represent

Jack Saunders' 'Glasto' presenting outfit was really something
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWHpH10UUAIsSlP.jpg

oh that guy

The Leys School, Cambridge

Board & Tuition (From September 2022)
YEAR 9 TO SIXTH FORM
Boarders £37,740 per year £12,580 per term
Home Boarders £28,395 per year £9,465 per term
Day Pupils £25,260 per year £8,420 per term

YEAR 7 AND 8
Boarders £27,525 per year £9,175 per term
Day Pupils £18,240 per year £6,080 per term

Yeah, that's the guy. Completely vile. He's not yet on 6music, to be fair, but as the host of "Radio 1's Indie Show", he'll be heading that way in the end.

Oh shit, I went to that school!

Ok, so you're presenting Glastonbury soon?

(gotta love threads you can find by searching for a single word, as long as you know that word...)

New to the playlist 🔁 Here's what we will be giving a spin this week, with new music from...

👉 @PJHarveyUK
👉 Gabriels
👉 @SaySheShe
👉 @jungle4eva
👉 + MORE

Listen on @bbcsounds: https://t.co/Bg9I3EPwkD pic.twitter.com/irumoO7M48

— BBC Radio 6 Music (@BBC6Music) June 19, 2023

Nitin Sawnhey hacking the playlist by working with that one bloke

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0ftp7pt

The Rise and Fall of Britpop

Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq document the rise and fall of Britpop. Celebrating Blur, Oasis, Pulp and more with fresh interviews and unheard personal archive.

yeah, listened to it. it is exactly what you would expect.

christ

Trenchant

This analogy from Steve Lamacq on Blur vs Oasis is 🤯

Listen to The Rise and Fall of Britpop now on @BBCSounds https://t.co/nSVCi3wavk pic.twitter.com/8xn5Kt3Kro

— BBC Radio 6 Music (@BBC6Music) July 13, 2023

Thank god for that

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/steve-lamacq-bbc-6-music-quit-b2403761.html

Best news I've read all week (probably). The one current 6 Music show above all others that I absolutely cannot bear listening to.

I wonder how his family feel about it

I like Huw Stephens!

"Today is Steve (Lamacq)'s final daily weekday programme after 20 years on 6 Music."

Only just discovered that 6 Music has been scrobbling to last.fm since 2004. Kind of great to see what their all-time most played tracks are etc.

https://www.last.fm/user/bbc6music

Can also see every bloody instance of them playing Debaser

https://www.last.fm/user/bbc6music/library/music/Pixies/_/Debaser?date_preset=ALL

one woman, no black artists in the top 20 (stevie wonder at 21)

i'm seeing css, pixies, elastica, portishead in the top 10 of "all time", all of which are female fronted. and curtis mayfield at number 4.

1 Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
CSS

2 Spinning Rock Boogie
Hank C. Burnette

3 Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division

4 Move On Up
Curtis Mayfield

5 Waking Up
Elastica

6 Debaser
Pixies

7 A-Punk
Vampire Weekend

8 Time to Pretend
MGMT

9 Kids
MGMT

10 Glory Box
Portishead

Spinning Rock Boogie seems like a bit of an outlier. Is that used on a feature or something?

Apparently Steve Lamacq's play-out tune

https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mb6music/NF14107994?thread=7347589

i'm seeing css, pixies, elastica, portishead in the top 10 of "all time", 

I was looking at artists, not artists of top tracks.

I looked at the last four years in case they got more woke - yeah it's a bit better.