[Closed] 6music-anyone else losing the faith?

At least they seem to have escaped the current obsession with live music.

Is there anything more pointless than listening to a radio broadcast of a recording of someone singing as flat as a pancake?

I thought Marc Riley's show is really rather good, I heard lots of new music I wouldn't have heard anyway....Wampire for one. But then I like guitar music and I don't want to hear hip-hop....its all about taste...

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You must listen to it A LOT!
Last time I listened, I heard Mumford & Sons, The Specials, The Smiths and (I may have mentioned this before) a ten minute news story about Bros reforming. Nothing else remotely memorable.

It does seem to have got more 'safe'.

They got a load of new listeners after the threat of closure didn't they? I bet some management twonk saw their new listening figures and decided 'ok guys we've got to broaden our output to cater to this new wider audience' - thus losing part of why they started listening in the first place.

Radio 6 always playing in my house apart from Edith Bowman, very annoying IMO.

Gilles Peterson, Jarvis Cocker and Maconies Freak Zone my faves... Got it playing through iTunes too (goto internet/radio/alternative rock).

Lovely stuff

Tom Ravenscroft has big shoes to fill so is worth a listen, he makes mistakes but so did his dad and we all loved him.

I thought Marc Riley's show is really rather good... But then I like guitar music and I don't want to hear hip-hop....its all about taste...

Cheers,
Jamie

At least they seem to have escaped the current obsession with live music.

Cheers,
Jamie

Gotta stick up for MA Hobbs, she is prone to drivel as has been pointed out, but she plays great tunes and has a real love for the music, unlike bowman and keaveny. Hang in there for the tunes and actually I have now become to enjoy the drivel. The week she sat in on breakfast weekdays was glorious, meant I didn't have to switch over to Humphreys ranting on R4.

[i]Wow, everyday's a school day- after reading that I got on Wikipedia. Doesn't alter the fact that I really don't like his voice tho'![/i]

You didn't know JP was his dad? I vividly remember the night John announced to the world he'd named his boy Thomas James Dalglish Peel 🙂

So what music does MAH "love" these days? I always thought MAH loved rock... then drum'n'bass... then dubstep... I think she "loves" whatever it's her job to play. I'm pretty sure she was the one I heard play Mumford & Sons on 6..

Just when did Steve Lamacq turn into Golem?

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You didn't know JP was his dad? I vividly remember the night John announced to the world he'd named his boy Thomas James Dalglish Peel

Cheers,
Jamie

Steve Lamacq's show is getting a bit tired.

Its so much better on days when Steve isn't around, the fill in a week or so ago was great.

Its so much better on days when Steve isn't around, the fill in a week or so ago was great.

Cheers,
Jamie

Bumpity - bump, I'm kind of liking Radcliffe and Maconie again as they played my Tea Time Theme Time yesterday. Problem is, I'm listneing to it now and i can't for the life of me remember what the hell the theme is, I don't even recognise this song....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03k2grp (skip to 2hrs 40 or so for Tea Time Theme Time)

It was a crime when BBC "saved" it from the axe, can I have my portion of the licence fee back for it please

Actually since this thread started, I've been iplaying Craig Charles and Gilles Peterson every week without fail.
Definitely worth a good portion of my licence fee.