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I really, really, really miss Shaun K.Decent music and intelligent humour.
And a nice interesting fella to boot.
Why did they replace him with the tedious Charles????
Didn't he leave of his own free will to explore other things?
I do miss SK but I like CC so it's evens for me.
My beef with 6, is playing music you can hear on 1 or 1 extra. They should be playing all kinds of stuff you don't hear anywhere else.
Thankfully Radio Caroline has lots of presenters supplying me with lots of new to me stuff.
This gentlemen on a Wednesday afternoon informs and entertains.
Really enjoyed Deb Grant in place of MAH today. Much better music choice for me.
Didn’t he leave of his own free will to explore other things?
No, he didn't. Far from it:
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/shaun-keaveny-discusses-leaving-bbc-6-music-and-new-podcast/
He's far too critical of the current Govt on social media to be on 6Music, is the short version.
Can thoroughly recommend his Daily Grind: https://www.radiox.co.uk/podcasts/shaun-keaveny-daily-grind-how-to-listen/
More random musings on 6music:
I think that radio one has more oomph than six.
6music hasn’t inspired me to buy a band t-shirt, let alone pick up a musical instrument*
All the better stuff is shunted off to the early hours. Great if you’re living near the Pacific Ocean.
A lot of the problem with the BBC’s approach to music is that very few can actually play an instrument.
😂😂😂
That aside, you don’t need to play an instrument to appreciate music, but it helps.
Radcliffe, Lala, and cerys all dabbled to some extent. Now they seem to have lost the love for the throaty roar of a rickenbacker.
Yonks ago, the bbc made a multi-part tv documentary about the subdivisions within metal.
And then did nothing to promote the genre.
It would be nice for 6music to pick up that baton.
I doubt there’s anyone in that department with the cohonez.
(Craig Charles excepted, but he’d need to give the listeners several hours warning in advance)
6music seems like a closed shop. They’d never find someone within its ranks to front a metal show, 12-2pm on a Sunday for anyone at the skatepark.
They’d be better off poaching someone from radio 3. At least they’d better grasp the musical theory, underpinning metal.
What’s wrong with the other metal shows (Johnny walker and Daniel p carter)?
By genre, ‘rock’ music makes up 25% of music sales. Doesn’t the genre deserve more credibility.
Si, why are Johnny walkers classic rock show and Daniel p carters rock show shunted away into the periphery of the night?
We no longer treat people of colour with that level of opprobrium.
It’s no way to combat discrimination when the bbc sets that kind of example.
For me, I’d rather be listening to sepultura and megadeth on a Sunday afternoon.
11 pm and all the skate parks will be shut.
Why not broadcast the sylosis, behemoth, gorgoroth on a Sunday afternoon?
Who the hell is going to bust any moves at the skatepark to the flaming lips?
* I did purchase a digital download of ‘Dutch mustard’ after hearing them on lalas show.
Saying that, listening to lalas and mah’s show, you could be forgiven for thinking that you’ve reached some trauma helpline, so emasculated is the music.
Do the bands have to undergo some kind of testicular trauma to make it onto their playlist?
i'd love a metal show on 6 although I doubt I'd care for it on a Sunday afternoon. And I don't see what skateparks have to do with it? Round my way, skateparks are full of 45 year old blokes in goretex watching little Suzie zoom around on her microscooter. Neither of whom look like metal fans. And no-one is listening to the radio.
A drone/doom/sludge show at like 11pm on a weeknight would suit me down to the ground though. Neurosis, Electric Wizard, stuff like that. Lovely.
Bring back Bruce Dickinson's Rock Show? A dedicated slot in the early hours would probably be the best to hope for. Time slots seem to be immaterial to the station controllers - they're assuming everyone listens via Sounds whenever they want. Listening to the wireless is for grandads.
Next thing they'll be making the station digital only to save costs...
For me, I’d rather be listening to sepultura and megadeth on a Sunday afternoon.
Why do we have to wind-back to old rock - there's some great new rock bands around at the minute, which are getting zero airplay.
I certainly agree that it would be great to see them bringing in some specific shows that stretch beyond the 6 music playlist stuff (even though that's the music I probably prefer compared to metal - unless we can get a glam metal/hair band show!).
Without wishing to sound like the Radcliffe voiced ad.....The beauty of the BBC sounds app is that scheduling is now irrelevant - doesnt really matter if any specialist shows are scheduled for the earlier hours you can either stream and download whenever and where ever you want (be that the skate park or bed!).
I agree that it does seem to be under-represented as a genre but I also have no desire to hear it on a Sunday afternoon. Not sure when it should fit into the schedule but from what I know of it, it's not really my thing so better between midnight and 5.30 so it can be picked up on Sounds by those that are interested.
Surely there are metal stations that cover it if it does represent 25% of music sales? Is that not a better thing to listen to than 6M if that's your thing and the lack of it grates so much?
One idea for 6music, given how well they are represented with bona-fide music journalists would be a “reputations reassessed” (uncut magazine?) feature , where they’d devote 15 minutes critiquing some musicians output.
I don’t think that shunting the metal out to the wee small hours sends out a positive message.
We don’t need discrimination in this day.
Rock music makes up 25% of music sales.
How much is made up of the likes of carcass and cryptopsy? Who knows.
About the same percentage of music sales is made from pop music (mostly Beyoncé and Elton John).
Though, on my dab radio, 6music is described as ‘rock’ music.
That’s kind of wide of the mark.
It’s a trade’s description issue.
‘Pop’ music would be a more accurate station identifier.
They’re trying to oversell themselves.
Not to names-drop, but it reminds me of the spring of 1981.
A bloke from high school forwarded to us a cassette tape of his cousins band, “a punk/ metal hybrid”.
Sounded nothing remotely metal.
Turned out, his cousin played bass for these lads:
Had he not tried to oversell the band, they may have received a more appreciative listen.
But, I’m probably not alone in still clinging on to an unrealistic expectation of hearing behemoth or belphegor in the afternoon.
The music that Daniel p carter plays into the wee small hours would sound just as relevant on radio1’s daytime slots.
But playing it at 11pm, it’s doubtful whether anyone from his potential audience is awake at that time, and if so, their ears will need a rest.
Nothing against guy Garvey and his 12-2 slot (still a fan of his ‘cast of thousands’ album). Metal, in that time slot would be quite enervating on what is regarded as the start of the week.
Guys show would be better appreciated after two hours of sonic carnage.
Groundhog Day. It’s 4:56 on a Monday afternoon and that whiny bloke from the NME is coming in my ears. 🤷♂️
Metal, in that time slot would be quite enervating on what is regarded as the start of the week.
There’s always Planet Rock, for the, y’know, rock fans…
Groundhog Day. It’s 4:56 on a Monday afternoon and that whiny bloke from the NME is coming in my ears.
And some whiny bloke from that online biking forum is whining again…
Give it a rest, nobody cares.
For balance, I thought Lammo's show yesterday was pretty good.
Still not sure what the artist hour brings to the table, over than (even more than normal) blatant self-promotion.
Current 6M fave is Shadow of a Doubt by Sprints. What a tune.
It's great Lame-O is down to just one night a week. A lovely compromise, as it's obviously written in the BBC 6music runes that he shall broadcast.
Cerys's show is superb IMHO.
Yeah Lame-O is back albeit in reduced form. I liken it to braverman getting sacked by Truss then coming back to the same role under sunak. It's exactly the same, exactly the same . He's the wealdstone raider of indie rock
He’s the wealdstone raider of indie rock
🤣
I was subscribed via the BBC sounds app to the 6music indie forever playlist, it used to be a nice hour of music once a week, lightly curated. I think due to these changes its now an on air show so I get to listen to someone called Nathan go on about stuff and then hear when they've failed to edit out the news! I've given up on listening and unsubscribed.
Cerys’s show is superb IMHO.
And there's me thinking it's the worst thing on the radio & it rushes me out the door on a Sunday
I'm the same i can't stand cerys' show as she'll randomly bust out some 1920's rag time , and I'm out. Although I love Giles Peterson's which similarly has some haterz
I'm not always a massive fan of what Cerys plays on her show, but I'm very glad that it exists.
I actually enjoy cerys’s show, and I’ve been a fan of Giles since 2003.
(I’ve still got a recording of his ‘swell session’ Swedish bloke, featuring the epifani barbers and a rag-time version of 50cents ‘in the club’). Joyous
Alyx Holcombe seems to be where it’s at, metal wise.
As great as her show is, it needs a slot 11-2pm on a Sunday in 6music to showcase metal.
It wouldn’t hurt to feature more from the ‘big four’ (Metallica, megadeth, testament, anthrax), as well as sepultura and the more instrumental leaning bands.
Metal, at 12-2pm on a Sunday, on 6music?
It may shock 6music to discover that, on a planetary level, not everyone incarnates in their human form at a low energy level.
Check out Dr. Michael Newtons “Journey of souls” for a more detailed elaboration.
I’m sure that the late Dr. Newton would prescribe lots of thrash metal for the more advanced souls/ maniacs
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kayak23
I’m not always a massive fan of what Cerys plays on her show, but I’m very glad that it exists.
+1
Maybe, 50 years from now, Cerys co, will discover metal and discuss it with the hushed and reverential tones that Harvard academics gave to ‘ethnic’ music in the 1930’s.
Who knows?
From bobbins to biggedy biggedy bong - it's a Mark & Lard reunion!
Stop... carry on!
Why is it always Dairylea?
Absolute quality!
It wouldn’t hurt to feature more from the ‘big four’ (Metallica, megadeth, testament, anthrax
not everyone wants to listen to the past though, bring on the new music!
Or whatever the modern equivalent is.
(Without having to stay up into the wee small hours or faff about on bbc sounds).
My main gripe with 6music is that they barely get out of first gear.
That's often the case, yep. Although Mary Anne Hobbs did slip some Orecus in earlier.
Radcliffe in for Laverne this morning.
A mixed response I’m sure but will always be a win here.
I like Lauren Laverne, but there's not enough Radcliffe on 6.
Can't think of anyone better to present, in his words, the "contractually obliged cloudbusting slogan" 😄
I actually enjoy cerys’s show, and I’ve been a fan of Giles since 2003.
latecomer - 1987 for me - he was still on Radio London then I seem to remember.
hightensionline
From bobbins to biggedy biggedy bong – it’s a Mark & Lard reunion!Stop… carry on!
When?
I heard it mentioned on the breakfast show this morning but it was a bit lacking in detail (none).
Think I almost cried at the last show, they were so ingrained in my life at that time - can't believe that was 20 years ago.
Listen to yesterday's Craig Charles show, Speeder. They were both on talking about their time together and announced that they are doing a tour about it all. Very funny as usual.
'its a mystery' from the old mark and lard show was my favourite
'whhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooo?'
'mushn't grumble '
I still can't get my head round them playing the full version of 'whole lotta love' and 'marquee moon' on Radio 1 breakfast show
marquee moon
😅
Was that intentional?
@Speeder - https://markandlard.com/
Like the day Neil Armstrong stepped on to the moon (if you were born then, if not, skip this bit) or when Alan Bradley got run over by a Blackpool tram on Coronation Street (ditto) – everybody can remember where they were on that fateful day in Radio 1 history. Listening to the radio. Obviously.
Now, following high level negotiations after a chance meeting between Fat Harry White and Scoff Cruddle at a Bedford Rascal Enthusiasts rally, Mark and Marc have been coaxed back to wrestle once again on the sheepskin rug of light entertainment.
Since when was it acceptable to pay happy hardcore on 6music? I like to think I have a pretty broad taste in music, but, just make it stop.
Is this what being middle aged feels like?
thenorthwind
Since when was it acceptable to pay happy hardcore on 6music? I like to think I have a pretty broad taste in music, but, just make it stop.Is this what being middle aged feels like?
It's a broad church. What was it that so offended?
Yes