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I'm going to miss Tom Robinson on a Sunday evening, and replacing him with MAH is not my cup of tea
Given the choice of replacing feral cats fighting at 3am with MAH and I know what I'd choose
🤣
You're woken at 3am simultaneously by the radio blasting MAH and two foxes energetically yelling outside your window. Do you stay in bed listening to MAH, or walk into the garden to be closer to the screaming foxes?? 🤔
Do you stay in bed listening to MAH, or walk into the garden to be closer to the screaming foxes??
Are the foxes whispering about the latest Nils Frahm release "from the year 2025", in between barking?
If not, I'll sit in the garden.
bbc radio presenters flowchart
Are you getting too old to present a show on Radio 1?
yes
do you actually like music?
yes - we'll find a spot for you on 6 music and probably just shuffle some 50plus white men around
no - we'll find you a spot on Radio 2 (Scott) once we've shuffled some deadwood around unless you can get a better deal on XFM (Moyles)
It's probably time for 6Music Xtra or something.
Thanks. That's a real shame about Tom Ravenscroft. As disappointed as I was when they replaced Marc Riley's slot, I think they work really well together and enjoyed listening to them, even if there's often quite a lot of music I have little interest in. I'm not a huge fan of Nathan Shepherd, but I wouldn't actively turn off.
Now Playing is hit and miss, but we're always careful to switch off before the Freak Zone comes on. We'll just have to wind that forward a couple of hours.
Agree about the smart speaker thing. Presumably if you have one, you know how it works or how to find out? My oven doesn't give me instructions on how the microwave works.
The hidden gold in that press release, as a fully paid up Bon Iver fanboy, is the Justin Vernon artist in residence. Get in.
Now Playing is hit and miss, but we're always careful to switch off before the Freak Zone comes on. We'll just have to wind that forward a couple of hours.
Given it's now going to be Iggy Pops' Oddball Mutterings followed by MAH's Breathless Wonderings followed by Stuart Maconie's Tuneless Weirdathon, the radio will be switched off once Guy Garvey is done for the afternoon...
the radio will be switched off once Guy Garvey is done for the afternoon
If you haven't already nodded off listening to him 😉
I will miss Tom Robinson for sure. Music might be patchy but I feel like I've been with him since GLR in the 1990s (just like Gideon Coe) and his voice feels calming and reassuring.
I'm going to miss Tom Robinson on a Sunday evening, and replacing him with MAH is not my cup of tea I'm afraid
I hadnt heard about that. Another real big loss for R6. His show was one of the better ones, it is always on here on a Sunday, his old Saturday show was also good, I cant see why the Management need change, it must have been one of the most popular shows (Sunday), I certainly wont be listening to MAH, cant stand her voice.
His show was one of the better ones,
I liked him as a person, his politics and his music, but I could never get past his presentation style on that show "jumbo 6872 on twitter said" just grated. When other people did the same show they managed to make it less annoying to me.
Christ on a bike, she's getting another gig on there. For the love of God. She's a moonbeam of the very highest order, she should be directing spaceships into land not taking control of another show on there.
I'd rather have Nemone.
I'd rather have Nemone
Little know fact if you didn't know, she's a psychotherapist. She keeps it quiet though, you'd think she'd bang on about it a bit more with that on her résumé
Now Playing is hit and miss, but we're always careful to switch off before the Freak Zone comes on. We'll just have to wind that forward a couple of hours.
Given it's now going to be Iggy Pops' Oddball Mutterings followed by MAH's Breathless Wonderings followed by Stuart Maconie's Tuneless Weirdathon, the radio will be switched off once Guy Garvey is done for the afternoon...
Fair point. I'm not a big fan of Guy Garveyfromelbow and his endless name-dropping either, but he does play some interesting music, so worth suffering for.
His show was one of the better ones,
I liked him as a person, his politics and his music, but I could never get past his presentation style on that show "jumbo 6872 on twitter said" just grated. When other people did the same show they managed to make it less annoying to me.
My thoughts exactly. I hate to criticise Tom, but yeah, it does just grate sometimes.
Love Tom Robinson and am mostly meh about MAH so that's a huge disappointment but he's getting on so it may be his decision.
Re Tom Ravenscroft - that is a shame but sounds again like it is his choice. I do listen to the show a lot as R6M is just on in the kitchen most of the time but I'm not a fan of a lot of the stuff they play. I guess that's the problem with a show that only plays new music - most of the time a huge portion of it is crap and curating it gets hard. At least I get to hear things I wouldn't normally do. I would rather havea more rounded programme in that slot though.
I just want them to put every copy of that stay with me stay with me tripe in the bin
I do love the Freak Zone, but my god he makes it hard sometimes!
<sits down to dinner>
Stuart Maconie: Here's a great meloodic psych-rock tune
<nice>
Stuart Maconie: Our featured album this week is WEEWAAWEEWAA: a wonderful compilation of field recordings of East German car alarms, painstakingly record and curated in the late 1980s. Re-released this month, it amounts to 3 hours of really remarkable listening. Here's the breathtaking centrepiece; Trabi. The harmonic overtones towards the end as the battery runs down really are something to behold. It's a challenging work, to be sure, but one that undoubtedly rewards the committed listener.
<sigh>
I just want them to put every copy of that stay with me stay with me tripe in the bin
Nah, I think it’s ace, 👍
meanwhile Im happy to see getdown services being played a lot,
Has anyone tried listening to MAH's Now Playing replacement?
I did give the first one a go but between some biographical sh*** about moving to London, living in a squat (or something), having to use public loos, some link to Iggy and the god awful noise - I turned off.
I thought I'd give it a fair go but it was just the worst bits of the MAH mid week slot writ large.
It isn't Sunday listening to my mind and as above, I think the radio will go off after GuyGarveyfromElbow. I might stick around for the Ig as he plays some decent stuff occasionally but it's a bit of a write off for a Sunday evening now. Shame.
Has anyone tried listening to MAH's Now Playing replacement?
Fortunately I've so far managed to avoid it.
With 6 Music being the self proclaimed 'home of Glastonbury' and the beeb repeatedly telling us not to worry if we haven't got a ticket, because their coverage will be as a good as being there - why do some of the live recordings sound like they were recorded on a phone from the back of the crowd?
True, compared to the live sessions 6 Music puts out they aren't the best.
I still yearn for the '94-95 Channel 4 coverage. It was so much better than the Beeb have managed over the last 30 years.
Can anyone explain what's happened to Craig Charles (I think I may have mentioned him previously in the thread)? I used to like his show, but I now find his presenting quite irritating at best.
Thing is, I can't put my finger on what I liked about him before that I don't now, or what I dislike about him now that I didn't before.
Maybe he's not changed?
Maybe it's not him, it's me?
Which of his shows did you previously like?
I always loved his House Party (R2, Saturday nights) and obviously still listen religiously to the Funk & Soul show - but even that doesn't have quite the magic that it felt like it did, and I even slightly prefer when Maconie's standing in.
Honestly, I've wondered if the 6-day a week grind is just a bit much to keep the enthusiasm going. You could tell he loved doing his Saturday shows, but doing 5 scripted/ playlisted shows each week would be enough to sap the magic from anything I guess.
Another one I enjoy is Huey on Saturday mornings; his is another show I think really benefits from him having the week to curate it
Honestly, I've wondered if the 6-day a week grind is just a bit much to keep the enthusiasm going.
Also the presenter is the only voice you hear but the 'show' is a team production - His production team(s) aren't working six days a week - the people behind his weekday shows and weekend slots will be different people putting together different packages for different briefs.
Can anyone explain what's happened to Craig Charles (I think I may have mentioned him previously in the thread)? I used to like his show, but I now find his presenting quite irritating at best.
...same for me - hardly listen to 6 Music now.
Yeah, I think I must just have fond memories of the odd weekend show - as has been pointed out, the weekly rinse and repeat is probably a contributor
Another one I enjoy is Huey on Saturday mornings; his is another show I think really benefits from him having the week to curate it
I like Huey's show too. But why does he feel the need to comission a weekly medley megamix bollocks from DJ Bobafatt? They're awful? What incriminating images does Bobafatt have of Huey that he gets such a prime chunk of airtime??
The really annoying thing is, I've heard Bobafatt's radio shows a few times on Soho Radio and they're actually really good. It's just that he seems to have been ordered to do a tribute to Jive Bunny every week for Huey.
The next two weeks are going to be pretty well unlistenable for me, courtesy of Worthy Farm.
Great songs played badly.
...and dribbled over relentlessly through radio, DAB, TV and online by otherwise fairly sensible presenters...