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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
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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...
Sounds like Huey is leaving his Saturday show - not a great loss as he stopped doing it live some time ago
I'm not the biggest fan of his Noo Yoicker schtick, but the music on his show is probably the best on R6M to my ears.
Any word on the replacement?
Yeah i generally like his tastes in music although I'll be glad to see the back of those awful megamixes he commissioned from Dj Boba Fat every bloody week.
Really enjoyed Gideon having the evening show to himself last week. Just like the old days...
Shame about Huey, I'm not a huge fan of this style, but the music's good.
Is George Lamb coming back?
Hopefully they'll get rid of two old men and their crisps next
Hopefully they'll get rid of two old men and their crisps next
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i'll have you know i won the teatime theme time 2 weeks ago....
I'm joining the pile-on; Team RadMac for the win.
i'll have you know i won the teatime theme time 2 weeks ago....
Very well done. Every time I ever hear that, by the middle of the first tune I've completely forgotten I'm supposed to be linking the 3 songs that they play. 🙄
Very well done. Every time I ever hear that, by the middle of the first tune I've completely forgotten I'm supposed to be linking the 3 songs that they play.
i was so sure id won it a few months back. *saddo alert* i always have the email ready to send, just needing an answer typing in then boom off it goes with an early guess.
so, few weeks ago, i guessed right within a few seconds, i was sure id won it, but not even a mention! two weeks ago, bob dylan came on as the first song and i sent the email off within a few seconds with an answer of 'characters in the magic roundabout'. you can imagine my excitement when 'brian' protheroe and 'florence' and the machine were the next songs 😀
sure enough, i was read out as the winner.
I remember finding 6M one Sunday morning, first two songs straight off the bat were pearl jam and dinosaur jnr. That was years ago.
Last week I picked my mum up from the supermarket market and on the way there not a tune played just a one man smashy and nicey tribute. Deezers algorithms are my new music finder, flawed as that is.
sag to hear Huey going.
Looks like Deb Grant is taking over Huey's slot. Still xmas specials today with Beastie Boys for 2 hours then an extra hour for Jamz, but Deb from next week.
Works for me - I enjoy her presentation but still think the New Music Fix show is too restrictive a format - a mix of new an old music is always going to be more varied and *some* familiarity is a more comfortable listen.
Works for me - I enjoy her presentation but still think the New Music Fix show is too restrictive a format - a mix of new an old music is always going to be more varied and *some* familiarity is a more comfortable listen.
+1
I don't dislike most of the stuff but a more mixed format generally works better in the regular slots - NMF feels a bit forced.
I miss Huey already, he had a good mix of genres and I liked his style. Jingles were good too - I will miss "Hey Huey, play something"
Love a bit of Deb Grant so not a bad replacement.
sag to hear Huey going.
Ah shame, but not wholly surprising. His shows have been pre-records for at least 2 years now, right(?), and I have wondered how much longer he'd bother. Shame though, there was usually a good hour or so of great tracks I'd not heard before in his show
Huey is going to be back on Virgin
https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/huey-morgan-virgin-radio-bbc-alex-james-sunday-times-b1264866.html
Unless Virgin Radio has changed a *lot*, I'm not sure he'll find it better than the BBC for "limitations". But interesting that they've also got Ana Matronic and Alex James - not that they're great DJs as such, but obviously Virgin's on a push to snap up bigger names
Unless Virgin Radio has changed a *lot*, I'm not sure he'll find it better than the BBC for "limitations".
Did he have to play some stuff from the playlist or not? I remember him introducing stuff as 'heres something from the playlist' and being very clear that he didn't rate but don't know if that was recent. Big chunks of his show certainly aren't. And he's a long history of bad mouthing other presenters on the station - I seem to remember some 'beef' with Lauren Laverne and other DJs after he didn't get an award years ago.
I don't think he's what you'd call a 'team player'.
My guess is that one 3 hour show a week isn't enough income and he wanted more hours.
he's a long history of bad mouthing other presenters on the station - I seem to remember some 'beef' with Lauren Laverne and other DJs after he didn't get an award years ago.
I don't think he's what you'd call a 'team player'.
No, he's a bit of a mardy bum really. I remember the Lauren thing too. Just don't let him near your mugs.
What a tool. Handled very well by the presenters.
Interesting start to the Saturday morning Deb Grant show, 30 seconds of dead air then starting in the middle of All Along The Watchtower. Should make the Hueyistas happy.. Seems she's not phoning the show in unlike her predecessor.
No, he's a bit of a mardy bum really. I remember the Lauren thing too. Just don't let him near your mugs.
What a knob Morgan is. Although the presenters are bloody dire which probably didn't help his mood.