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well how about that.... just announced...
Lauren L sounding great and back... to replace MAH 10-1 slot
and Grimmo to stay in breakfast slot
MAH is taking 'a break' and returning late Spring somewhere on 6. Her announcement speech compared herself to David Bowie so probably won't endear herself to her detractors :))))
YES! (Edit - 50 seconds late)
Hobknobs is going from the mid morning slot!
Lauren is back but in MAH slot and Nick Grimshaw is staying in the morning slot.
I'm really happy about this. I love that MAH plays loads of pretentious guff and I love that there is a radio station that welcomes it, but I just don't think that mid morning is the time for it.
Hopefully when she comes back it'll be an evening slot 🙂
Her announcement speech compared herself to David Bowie so probably won’t endear herself to her detractors
Yeah, well more like she suggested he was a contemporary but yes, so MAH of her. Lolz.
I actually like MAH, just not her breathless new age talk. I mean she plays Sonic Youth a lot
I agree. I mean, she plays some wonderful music (Sonic Youth very much up there) but I find that mid-morning, on a building site, I get a bit self-conscious of my radio choice when we have an hour long session of whale noises 😉
No more Nils Frahm in the morning then. But overall I'm pleased, and it might stop me listening to quite as much James O'Brien which is probably a good idea.
Used to really like MAH but as I said a couple of pages earlier, she really is turning into a parody of herself.
Hopefully she will make a successful return to the Sunday morning coveted 02:00 to 04:00 slot.
Used to really like MAH but as I said a couple of pages earlier, she really is turning into a parody of herself.
I used to listen to her old Breezeblock and Experimental shows, they were fab. I hardly ever listen to the radio these days, but had her show on yesterday - she played so much great music I might make it a regular thing. She even gave me a shout out just before the news, cos I texted her 🙂
Ah, after reading a few posts up, sounds like I won't be making it a regular thing loLZ
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/radio-6-music-daytime-schedule
Nemone from next week until it starts proper.
Agree about MAH; as I've (probably) said in this thread already, her shows were unmissable way back in the day. I'm just not the biggest Nils Frahm fan, so it's been a bit hit and lots of miss for me. But when she's on form, it's really good. Hope the new slot works well.
Yay to Lauren being back though - her old band were on the TOTP repeats on BBC4 last Friday, so I was only thinking about her return then.
Plot twist: she takes Lamacq's slot lol
I quite like MAH too, but agree she has got something of a musical yogi master vibe, that shows a kind of slippage of humility. It needn't be an obscure slot as a means of putting her out to pasture. BUT - no need to lump her in with Liz Kershaw, who I thought was diabolical and couldn't wait for her to go!
Excellent news about the MAH/LaLa swap though I am disappointed that I won't get to listen to LaLa much as I'll be at work most of the time.
May take the opportunity to WFH tomorrow just because it's 90s day - should be fantastic.
90s day
again?
No more Nils Frahm in the morning then.
nor the blast of death metal that would have me running for the off switch. (though Idles does that for me too, so can happen throughout daytime)
Have to say I am happy. As someone who listened to Grimmy on R1, I've liked his R6 breakfast show; but also miss Lauren. I tend to turn the radio off by 11 as it is not mid-morning music for me.
Grimshaw has grown on me; he does play a wide selection of music. Let’s hope Hobbs never returns to daytime again.
desperatebicycle
90s day
Just one of the many reasons I no longer listen to radio
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90s radio day - Just one of the many reasons I no longer listen to radio
It's not like it suddenly turns into Absolute Radio with wall to wall Keane and Oasis.
It plays some absolute bangers across all styles of music.
90s radio day – Just one of the many reasons I no longer listen to radio
So you like nothing from what is regarded as the best decade of music since the 60s?
Yay to Lauren being back though – her old band were on the TOTP repeats on BBC4 last Friday, so I was only thinking about her return then.
There was a guess the connection round on Only Connect over Christmas, where I was quite proud of myself for correctly guessing the answer was Desert Island Discs presenters when the first clue was footage of Kenickie.
So you like nothing from what is regarded as the best decade of music since the 60s?
80s were the best decade of music since the 60s! 🙂
So you like nothing from what is regarded as the best decade of music since the 60s?
Not that I don't like it, I did like it... but I prefer to discover new stuff, like I did in the John Peel days and in those old MAH shows. I know it's not everyone's thing and most people love a bit of nostalgia.
Here's an amazing (though slightly irrelevant to this thread!) stat what I read the other day - more tracks were released per day last year than were released in the whole of 1989. It's my ambition to hear them all cos I've already heard the 1989 ones! (joking, I think!)
80s were the best decade of music since the 60s!
No way - the 70s were! 🙂
Aww, happy to see LL is coming back - she's great 🙂
Listened to day time 6 Music for many years because it was the best of a terrible bunch on the radio. Quit it a few years ago as it was getting so dire. Caveat, I would still listen to Radcliffe and Maconie if I’m in the car at the weekend as they are witty and interesting, maybe a bit of Iggy or Cerys, but weekdays no way. If I listen to Radio during the week it’s LBC, if I want music it’s Spotify.
Good news personally...ive been enjoying listening to nick g in the mornings to the extent i wasn't sure who i preferred so Lauren moving to mah's mid morning slot is win win
more tracks were released per day last year than were released in the whole of 1989
I guess that we were pretty much still vinyl or tapes in 89.
Releasing music has to be infinitely more accessible these days with no physical product needed.
Arguably too, electronic music and technology has allowed way more people on their own in their bedrooms to come up with stuff.
Not that I don’t like it, I did like it… but I prefer to discover new stuff, like I did in the John Peel days and in those old MAH shows
Well, in the John Peel days we didn't have many alternatives. If you take 6 music over a whole day, you'll hear tons of new stuff. Deb and Tom (John Peel's son) in the evening play pretty much all new stuff.
For me, it's great to hear someone else's take on such a great decade to remind me what great music there was then as well as now. Would I want the 90's every day? Hell no. That's where commercial radio comes in. But every now and then it's great. It's all music.
Here’s an amazing (though slightly irrelevant to this thread!) stat what I read the other day – more tracks were released per day last year than were released in the whole of 1989. It’s my ambition to hear them all cos I’ve already heard the 1989 ones! (joking, I think!)
That is a slightly terrifying stat
& that's The Raccoon's theme music - hell yeah.
& that’s The Raccoon’s theme music – hell yeah.
The end tune beats it!
The 90's was my era so no problem with that.
It's just that the 80/90/00's day format on 6 is getting a bit boring now, especially 90's day because let's face it, most days are 90's heavy on 6.
Oh and the only reason the 90's is touted as having the (2nd) best music is because all the most boring music jurnos were alive then 🙂
I don't think the thing about the 90s being such a pivotal time in music is just rose-tinted spectacles.
It was just incredibly innovative (fuelled by technology and drugs) and set the template for the decades to come in a lot of ways.
It's arguable that the 80s was the more influential decade overall, but yeah - R6M know their audience.
Does anyone have any intel on why Shirley Ellis - Soultime is an eternal playlist member on 6?
Does anyone have any intel on why Shirley Ellis – Soultime is an eternal playlist member on 6?
I haven't actually noticed it being played at all (I'm sure I will now)
Apparently you have to have heard a song more than 20 times on the radio to actually notice it at all mind
Just a heads up - so that people can moan - it's 00's day tomorrow on 6music...
I think the 90's for me was just the fact that there was so many styles of music, not invented but coming of age, dance music, hip hop, british style Brit Pop guitar music, US style grunge, trip-hop, metal, nothing new but just such a wide variety done well
If I never heard an indie track from the 00s again it'd be too soon.
Kind of interested in a few theories at the moment for why we just seem to regurgitating the 70s,80s,90s again and again in popular culture, there was always that to some extent but there was always a movement towards something more forward thinking, I'm kind of fed up forever hearing different versions of the same thing at the moment.
Hopefully when she comes back it’ll be an evening slot ?
By evening you mean 2am?
Love the 90's/naughties etc days. Gets them away from playing the same three artists on a loop all day (tongue in cheek, calm down....)
Had 6 on all day so far. Craig Charles currently... is it me, or has he gone Radio 2 on us? I'm 60 now, and even I regard his playlist as being old. REM, Stevie Wonder. So, so dull. They should farm him out.
Craig Charles currently… is it me, or has he gone Radio 2 on us? I’m 60 now, and even I regard his playlist as being old. REM, Stevie Wonder. So, so dull. They should farm him out
Listened to his show the other day, man it was awful. I wanted to catch the Daveed Diggs of clipping. interview, but it was like a rapper being interviewed by a pensioner "ooh you can wap weealy fast, dats good innit! Can you do it for me?" so embarrassing. MAH played Bronski Beat AND the Pet Shop Boys yesterday too. Radio 2 ? It's like bad local radio!
Desperatebicycle - it's not that bad yet. I can remember being in Weymouth, and listening in to their local radio. Desperate stuff!
"Join us in a month, when we will be playing Hotel California by the Eagles."
Sure, in my diary already.
But Charles ain't far off that. He is almost unlistenable.
Yep, I used to like listening to Craig a few years ago. Just lately I've found him really cringe worthy and tedious
So we have Grimmy on the breakfast show then LaLa from 10.
No more whale song infused techno on the building sites then.
I quite like Craig C - the occasional weird bit but overall I'll let it pass.
Thing I'm most disappointed about the new regime is the move to a 7am start for the breakfast show. I'm going to miss out on a 1/2 hr of the Hawk and he's great. I know there are some (on here) that don't like him but I'm not sure there's anyone that could please some of you.
Can't take too much of Craig these days, tends to get switched off as hes on so much...hardest working man in radio. Did you know he was in Red Dwarf? You might have heard him mention to what seems like every person he interviews... almost as much as Nemone reminding us shes a psychotherapist.
Another who likes Chris H though: i like the (faux) self depreciation and names in songs does give a chuckle some days...not overly chatty and an easy start to the day
Huzzah. I used to not dislike Nemone, but the last couple of weeks have been pretty bad. The music choices are really drab or incongruous, the droning chat about "my interview with blah" and so on. Really made me realise that Grimmers is a great breakfast show host!
is Robert De Niro blah?
You talkin to me? I don't see anyone else round here.
I quite like Craig C - the occasional weird bit but overall I'll let it pass.
Thing I'm most disappointed about the new regime is the move to a 7am start for the breakfast show. I'm going to miss out on a 1/2 hr of the Hawk and he's great. I know there are some (on here) that don't like him but I'm not sure there's anyone that could please some of you.
As you say, we're all different. The thing I'm most pleased about with the changes is that I wont be woken up by "The Hawk" (surely a warning sign when you give yourself a nickname....see also the rebel dread!) and have to listen him for 1/2 hour.
Much happier with Grimshaw who has been way better than I expected and on days when I now have to go into the office and get up at 6.30 I will be using a different station just for those days.
is Robert De Niro blah?
I'd say in principle no, but I had to change to a different station as it was tedious, so... yeah? 😆
I’d still like someone to suggest a radio station that has the wide variety of styles and types of music that 6Music has, ‘cos I’ve yet to find anything similar. There isn’t a single commercial station that plays anything other than the same tedious, repetitive garbage every single day! I include Planet Rock in that, because their range of bands played is very narrow indeed, and mind-numbingly boring.
I’d still like someone to suggest a radio station that has the wide variety of styles and types of music that 6Music has, ‘cos I’ve yet to find anything similar. There isn’t a single commercial station that plays anything other than the same tedious, repetitive garbage every single day! I include Planet Rock in that, because their range of bands played is very narrow indeed, and mind-numbingly boring.
Agreed. I would go as far as to say that if any one person likes everything on a given station, they're doing something wrong.
Count Zero ,try NME1 a huge variety of 6 type music. Radio Caroline also has a really varied playlist.
You have to find out which djs suit you. Some of them favour nordic symphonic metal then you get Johnny Reece on a Wednesday who plays decent stuff. Mark Dezzani plays really intelligent stuff . Steve Anthony plays new wave and 70s reggae amongst other stuff . Then you have Peter Anthony on Saturday afternoons who is a double denim legend .
First day of the new schedule today - as I stumbled into the kitchen first thing I wondered where the Hawk was; and then why cloudbusting was on at 7.30!
Honestly, it's changed my radio listening so far though, and meant I've just had 6Music from getting up til about 1pm, rather than frantically fumbling around at 1030 for something - anything - to listen to that isn't bleepy twiddly shouty nonsense.
Also, Bleepy Twiddly Shouty Nonsense playing Malahide Castle 25th May, support from That Unlistenable Noise; tickets available from all good ticket outlets
Had to laugh at Cerys talking about having Nick Grim... Er, Shire? (She actually said that) on to talk about his new show. Clearly had no idea who he was. He's only been on 6Music for 6 months and radio 1 for about 20 years.
That Unlistenable Noise
Their second album was absolute rubbish
I like NickG breakfast, it feels like a good fit for him
Cerys gets on my nerves because she makes out that she is an authority but she's just reading from the script and once she starts deviating she talks complete tosh
I like Nick G just a little annoyed that they've started him at 7am and nicked a 1/2hr of Chris Hawkins show - the bit I listen to and enjoy. Names in songs, wheel of lies and lots of self depreciation.
I keep catching bits of what I think are presenters talking about more schedule changes, including Marc Riley tonight. Can any more attentive listeners enlighten me?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/bbc-radio-6-music-announces-spring-and-summer-programming
Return of the MAH, once again.
I will miss Tom,but I like Deb .
Nathan Shepherd should be a good match.
Oh that's a shame Tom is going. I enjoy the bantz of him and Deb Grant and will always approve of someone who uses the term, rad.
Wonder what he's up to? 🤔
Wonder what he's up to? 🤔
I rarely listen to the show, I’m normally doing other stuff, but I sometimes catch a few minutes while I’m driving from archery to whichever of the two pubs I go to are open, and I caught the end of a track, then Deb reading out various listeners messages, and she said something about Tom retiring. He’s been at 6Music for 13 years, and I guess he wants to have more time working on archiving his dads massive record collection.
Not just 6, but Radio 2 as well. The constant telling us to tell our smart speaker something is starting to grate, it's every second breath.
Yes, I know it's trivial, but still...
talking about more schedule changes, including Marc Riley tonight. Can any more attentive listeners enlighten me?
For Riley and Coe, there are some slight changes, whcih you wont hardly notice, currently Gid has to go to Manchester each week, this is changing, in that they will dual present 2 weeks, Marc will do a full week solo (4 shows), then Gid will do a week solo. I presume Gid has sorted it so that he can present from home/London studio, hence he only has to be in Manchester for 8 nights in 4 weeks rather than 16.
That sounds like a really good chance for them to do their own thing, so fingers crossed it works.
I'm still yearning for the old schedule though.
I heard Riley explaining that and wondered if there's a bit of cost-saving going on.
Possibly same with Tom R leaving.
I don't want to be mean about him, but his voice grates on me a bit and I'll be happy to hear Deb solo.
Hopefully you like Nathan Shepherd; he's taking over the seat from Tom Ravenscroft.
Not sure if I've heard him enough to remember. Would have been interesting to try Deb with Emily Pilbeam maybe?
I will miss Tom,but I like Deb .
NMF is a time we often have the radio on but I'm still not convinced it's the best format. There's is 'old classic' music from re-issues but I've always thought the same people doing a non-playlist show without the restriction that it must all be new would be better. I'm going to miss Tom - only discovered his Friday shows a few years back (that wasn't a time we ever had the radio on) and started listening to it on catch up.
From another news source "New ventures, foreign travels and being around to do the school run beckons.". He's only 45, I'm surprised he's leaving radio.
Very disappointed to hear Ravenscroft is leaving, he's responsible for more of my music collection than anyone else.
If Nathan Shepherd is the bloke who does the indie forever show on either Friday or Saturday night then that really twists the knife as I can't stand him.
If Nathan Shepherd is the bloke who does the indie forever show
Ah right, yes it is him. I've only heard a little as I usually turn it over straight away.
"No, I don't want indie forever, thank you very much."
Not just 6, but Radio 2 as well. The constant telling us to tell our smart speaker something is starting to grate, it's every second breath.
In a similar vein, every 5 minutes with an ad for a new podcast, "dive deep into the seedy world of how socks are made"
Note to the BBC: quantity of output does not replace quality
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 mean, I'm as big a fan of experiential immersive soundscapes as anyone, but whilst I'm cooking a Sunday roast it's nice to listen to stuff that has, you know, a tune...
If Nathan Shepherd is the bloke who does the indie forever show on either Friday or Saturday night then that really twists the knife as I can't stand him.
I stopped listening to Indie Forever when he came along
