[Closed] 6Music new schedule

Disappointing news all round IMO.

That is one of the best press releases I've read in a long time, it truly sounds like it was written down the pub. top work!!

Happy to have Lauren on breakfast, don't tend to get the daytime stuff at work though. R&M on a saturday morning could mix well with a hang over

That sucks -  no RadMac in the afternoons!!! WTF!

Keaveny and Hobbs do nothing for me - bland, bland, bland.

I'll admit it - I'll miss Keaveny in the morning.  But the level of waffle and bollox in that press release is epic.

Agree Lauren will be easy on the ear at breakfast and weekend Radmac will be great but really will miss them in the afternoons (though i think the Keaveny and Everitt combo should be good).

I wish they'd give Lamaq's show to Tom Ravenscroft - he even makes Lamacq shitty features entertaining.

That sucks –  no RadMac in the afternoons!!! WTF!

Absolutely, moving to weekend breakfast which is a time I can't listen. No chance of me listening to Mary Anne Hobbs at any time of the day.

Just glad that I will now be able to listen to the radio at breakfast.

I gave up on Keaveny about 8 years ago after the 50th time of hearing each of his five jokes. Love Laverne, I'm i'm buried in a spreadsheet I'll often have her on in my earphones at work, will have to reconfigure the alexa alarm to start playing 6music when she moves to mornings.

Ahhhhh good old MAH - the plain white wall of contemporary music masquerading as meaningful

That's probably a bit mean, but she's never interested me in the same way as Laverne who is my favourite DJ, purely for her enthusiasm

That's really annoyed me.  RadMac are the finest programme on the network, why oh why have they moved it? , Hobbs..No!!! I don't want to hear your ramblings about free range, symbiotic, freshly synergised retro-contemporary, post-modern expressions of new beats. etc etc.

To misquote RadMac: "the station controller must be an idiot savant...without the savant bit"

Yeah RadMac easily the greatest loss there, they obviously are looking at retirement wind-down + have loads of other stuff on judging by the number of solo shows they do.

I was never a huge fan of Keavney, but sticking with him and letting the in jokes build up with you is key I think. Will still be listening all day, so will see how it goes.

Are they likely to acknowledge the invention of the sythesiser any time soon?

I find laverne quite irritating but not as irritating as SK who seems a bit past his sell by date, so perhaps it’s a marginal improvement

Just glad that I will now be able to listen to the radio at breakfast

this.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

No Radmac in the afternoons?!

Mary Anne Hobbs soppy, insipid wittering about 'taking you on a cosmic aural journey into the unknown' make me want to hacksaw my own ears off

Mary Anne Hobbs soppy, insipid wittering about ‘taking you on a cosmic aural journey into the unknown’ make me want to hacksaw my own ears off

On the bright side, this will make shaving your head considerably easier.

Silver linings and all that.

I like Keaveny but I shan’t miss that effing hill street blues jingle every morning.

But what happens when I need to wear sunglasses PP?

Well at least it's not Giles Peterson and his Peruvian nose-flute orchestra's and Angolan Bongo-metal

But what happens when I need to wear sunglasses PP?

Dunno what happened to Hobbs. Back in her Radio 1 days she spoke quite normally. Loved her shows. Even exchanged a few emails with her.

Now she has this fake wide-eyed swoony hushed sincerity going on, it really is quite unlistenable.

MAH drives me mad with her breathless wittering so I won't miss her on the weekends. I rarely get to listen to the late morning slot so it's a win for me.

RadMac will be sorely missed in the weekday afternoon slot. That is probably the show I listen to the most as it often coincides with driving home from site visits for work. It will be good to have them on in the mornings on the weekend though.

I hope SK can make the afternoon slot work. I find him a bit of a pain on the breakfast show but will give him a chance.

I like Maconie's quote in that BBC article:

“Ever since humanity first emerged from the primeval swamp and looked questioningly and fearfully towards the stars, a restless desire for change has been part of our DNA, and the scheduling of BBC radio programmes is no exception. I see the move of Radcliffe and Maconie to weekend mornings as part of the ceaseless turbine of progress that drives us all, somewhere between Elon Musk’s tiny submarines and landing on the moon. I am looking forward to it immensely.”

I wonder if he managed to keep a straight face while reeling that off?

More like this PP

Breathy, flighty...anyway...MAH

Count how many times she says anyway the next time she's on air.

And 'lifted' when referring to a release from a new album.

I'd never tire of slapping her in the face.

No Ravers? Give the people what they want!!!

I rejoice when he sits in for Steve Lemacqs, it's surely time for him to be put out to pasture. Count how many times he references his time at the NME or Elastica on a near daily basis. His 'features' are progressing into the banal. This week had important things you've forgotten, for fox sake take him away. No more! He's had a good innings.

My new schedule;

Monday to Friday

5am-7.30am Chris Hawkins (from 5am-7am)
7.30am-10.30am Lauren Laverne (moving from 10am-1pm)
10.30am-1pm Mark and Lard (from 7am-10am, Saturday and Sunday)
1pm-4pm Shaun Keaveny (moving from 7am-10am)

4pm-7pm Ravenscroft

I'd rather listen to road noise than whoever it is on weekday mornings just now.

Edit: That'll be Shaun Keaveny then. What a waste of a salary.

That is one of the best press releases I’ve read in a long time, it truly sounds like it was written down the pub. top work!!

Only Radcliffe and Maconie's bit.

You can imagine the email exchange between the press office and RadMac

"Can we have a line from you on the programme changes to put on the release?"

"Do we have to?"

"Yes please.."

"Ever since humanity first emerged from the primeval swamp and looked questioningly and fearfully towards the stars..."

"<Sigh>"

Middle aged men in “don’t like change” shocker.

We've just acquired a DAB radio in the van for the first time and tried switching from Chris Evans on Radio 2 to Sean Keaveny on 6.  Bloody hell, he doesn't half mumble.  With the engine noise, he's pretty much unlistenable, even if we crank it up to eleven!

The loss of RadMac is the worst news, though 🙁

Shame we still have to listen to Cerys talking obllocks on the weekend.. however keeping Gilles Petersen is good, I'm one of the listeners who likes what he plays !! yes binners we do exist 🙂

thank heavens Keaveny is finally off the breakfast slot 🙂

I don't mind some GP

At times Cerys sounds so Welsh it's painful. Perhaps her and MAH could co present between 2-5am weekdays?

Cerys is actually one of my go to's for weekend mornings getting sorted, just enough background to be good and interviews some really interesting and varied people.

Guess it's the problem with having such a diverse audience 🙂

Personally I'm disappointed they missed the opportunity to bring back George Lamb 😀

Keavney's humour is slow I like it - I also like that others don't get it.

LL is good but I like humour in the morning not sure she has that - good taste in music though.

MAH - small doses but not 5 days a week!

Lamaq needs to go - he's one of the "old school" radio dj's - "So I was walking down the street yesterday and tripped over a bin...Ha Ha...why don't you message in with your hilarious bin stories?" it's just so obviously forced and scripted and I can't stand it when they get listeners to phone in. I really don't care about Gareth the Graphic designer from Aldershot and the first gig he went to FFS!

More than that Lama;cq, I really dont think UK indie  from the second half of the 90’s was the high point of rock and pop culture. It was a fairly dull period for music and it was 20 years ago. More interesting stuff happened before and after. I dont care about what happened when you were on the Evening Session on Radio1, i dont and didn’t care about any of the bands on your record label in the 90’s.  I’ve no interest in football the interminable “World Cup of” features are dull as hell.

Does anyone else on 6Music spend so much time talking about the things they did in the past?

I hope SK does well away from the breakfast slot after so long. I’m certain the BBC think we want jokes and hilarity in the morning, just look at how lame Craig Charles sounds when he does the slot and has to force jokes and morning bullshit.

Its like going away for the weekend with mates, don’t try and be funny in the morning, in fact don’t even speak, just play music and let me get my mental shit together.

Edit- I see Elizabeth Alker still doesn’t have her own show, which is a shame. Hers is a voice I could listen to for ever.

Mark Radcliffe really didn't sound happy about the changes

That person on Saturdays 1-3pm - get rid.....

Surely there's got to be someone, somewhere with more relevance....

No more frantic, ignored-for-lesser-suggestion weekday Chain call-ins for me now 🙁

rats

well, this is probably the only chance i'll get to invite Lauren Laverne into my bedroom without Mrs Doris kicking my arse so I suppose it will do.

Are they likely to acknowledge the invention of the sythesiser any time soon?

Nemone talks about and plays nothing else. Her obsession with ‘breaks and beats’ drives me nuts.

Or hadn’t you noticed her wittering on about every half hour or so?

At times Cerys sounds so Welsh it’s painful.

😳 Say what now? She’s bloody Welsh, she speaks Welsh and sings in Welsh, so what accent would you have her use? Next you’ll be complaining about Billy Connolly sounding Scottish!

#rollseyes

Colour me disappointed

Glad that Gideon Coe remains the same time.  After RadMac he's the next fave show for me.

SK I’m guessing he is off to do more radio 4 etc meh

LL has really grown on me, but the move means I miss half of her show which is sad

MAH well it could be good, let’s see

SLM is a 80s/90s 6th form common room. Usually turn off until Riley comes on,.... which brings us to his inevitable successor and full inherited round circle ............

...... More Ravenscroft please

Next you’ll be complaining about Billy Connolly sounding Scottish!

No danger of that given he's sounded like an affected **** since the mid 90's

#rolls bogie

Cannot believe they're moving Rad Mac. I found 6 music because I loved their R2 evening show. They were perfect for the afternoon. Even my wife who only listens to Heart FM (the shame 😀) was completely shocked. Load of bollocks.

Don't knock Cerys, she's lovely and the ideal lazy Sunday morning listening.

As a recent newcomer to the station, I have this to say: it's almost all electronica, synth bullshit.  Electronica lead humbug. I had such high hopes after the whole Dublin music festival thing involving interviews with all sorts of interesting sorts and very good music.  Been downhill since then.

I don't listen much in the daytime but I wish they played more evening music.

Merak

#rolls bogie

😂😂 Wonderful!!

Strange to move RadMac from the afternoon. MAH I could really do without, I would have loved to have more of Tom Ravenscroft, still it is always by miles going to be the best music station around regardless.

Or hadn’t you noticed her wittering on about every half hour or so?

Nah, I was only joking. I’ve just got a hatred of Djs, so can’t listen to the radio at all. Did listen to Tom R’s best of the year after seeing this thread and he had some good stuff (and some shite old indie sounding dreariness). Good that they’ve discovered the marvellous Sudan Archives. Only a year later than me, but better late than never eh? 😉

Rolls bogie

😆 excellent!

Cerys is good love her Welsh accent yet the one show presenter Welsh accent is like tinfoil on teeth, Geoff from the Pete and Geoff virgin show now on 5live, unusual choice for bbc as he is funny but could be close to the edge sometimes

NTS Is worth a shot for anyone looking to abandon, and is pretty open to new sounds, most of it's non DJ led chat wise, varied music, no news (frekin hate the constant interruption of the same not really news but we have to tell you this every hour all day BBC thing)

Plus monthly slots by Wetherall, David Holmes, Trevor Jackson. Autechre just did a month of guest mixes, gets a bit grime/urban for me at some times but it's my usual go to at any time of any day.

WFMU is also pretty great, and varied.

Giles Petersons Worldwide station is pretty good if your into his sounds.

Put radmac back on radio 2 evenings. That show was brilliant. Just right . Still I see it being great on a weekend morning and what I'll tune into now.

is Marc Riley OK?

don't care about the rest.

Yes!

is Marc Riley OK?

Good God, would they take his microphone away from his bloody evening interviews. It's pretty much the only thing that makes me switch the radio off. I'll be enjoying my dinner and then next minute

WHAT WAS THE FIRST GIG YOU EVER WENT TOOo

GTFO.

Good God, would they take his microphone away from his bloody evening interviews. It’s pretty much the only thing that makes me switch the radio off. I’ll be enjoying my dinner and then next minute

you don't get the reference of what he's taking the piss out of then.

I'd been hoping for a schedule change for years, only so Steve Lamacq could get moved to the late night shift where I wouldn't have to listen to his god-awful segments and terrible attempts at listener engagement (this week it was "tell us about your stories of when you forgot to take something on holiday") Can't believe he's survived the re-jig.

I used to really enjoy Keaveny and co, but in the last year their entire content seems to be based on the long-running joke that they don't have any content, which got wearisome a long time ago. Hope the move to the afternoon gives them some new energy.

MAH - Complete crap.

LL - lovely, in every possible way 🙂

The Freak Show isn't moving, good. Mr Maconie is a very nice man, this week especially.

Saturdays will still be unbearable from 9 (when I shall switch over to Danny Baker) until Giles Peterson at 3.

I can't believe that wretched Liz Kershaw has survived the changes,  Reading this thread, I'm not alone in this view,

I'm mostly pro the changes. Not everything is ideal for me (why should it be?) but I do like the fact that they're breaking up the WALL OF MIDDLE-AGED WHITE GUY on weekdays that only had LL as punctuation from 7am to midnight. A bit of a change in tone throughout the day will be most welcome.

I love SK and I'm gutted he's moving, but can understand the criticism. He's the anti Chris Evans with actual good music so you can expect the playlist but with deep soul, funk and some qotsa and the cure. Perfect for the morning and Matt Everett is sound, despite his hatred for hendrix

I can only listen to 6music at drive time now but have no time for lamaq, although he's a genuinely nice bloke. You can always expect some shit britpop a la echobelly dropped in with the playlist. And his features and call ins are excreble. I enjoyed the session with idles recently

Worst though is Liz Kershaw, how did she get the gig? She doesn't even have a music pedigree to fall back on. She's always getting stuff wrong as well. Just terrible

I agree, I think ravenscroft should get a regular slot as you can tell he loves his music and I find him easy on the ear

you don’t get the reference of what he’s taking the piss out of then

At least there is some purpose to it then!

Are you willing to educate me or shall I continue to listen and suffer, knowing that my ears are not worthy to experience the aural circlejerk that is 6Music?

/edit - sorry, i forgot this 😉

Hurrah! Huey dodged the chop!

How Huey, Liz Kershaw and Golum survived this 're-shuffle' astounds me.

So Huey's safe?? Phew - only good news in this shambles. RadMac will be great at the weekends, but then they were great every afternoon! WTF am I going to listen to in the afternoons now? Can't stand SK and the other afternoon option on Radio 2 doesn't bear thinking about!!

SK has irritated me slighlty recenlty,  but Matt Everret really rips my knitting.  He's 6Music's equivalent to Richard Hammond and needs a good dousing in vagisol.

The afternoon show will be interesting.  it's being pitched as more of a RadMac style joint presenter gig than 'joining me for music news' as Matt was in the mornings and it could have quite a different feel to the morning show.

Worst though is Liz Kershaw, how did she get the gig? She doesn’t even have a music pedigree to fall back on. She’s always getting stuff wrong as well.

She is bloody awful! My favourite was the time she interviewed Nile Rodgers:

Liz: So Nile, tell us more about er, Studio 57

Nile: It was Studio 54!  Dude!  How can you get that wrong?

Liz: Well, I weren't there, were I?

Nile: .... hnggh..... phhhwwww....... whatever

Nemone is great. I love her. Never listen to the show though. I get a lot of shit for that.

As a recent newcomer to the station, I have this to say: it’s almost all electronica, synth bullshit.  Electronica lead humbug. I had such high hopes after the whole Dublin music festival thing involving interviews with all sorts of interesting sorts and very good music.  Been downhill since then.

Ah, I guess you’ve managed to only hear Nemone and Giles Peterson then. Nemone is obsessed with EDM, and will try to shove as much in as possible even when she’s doing someone else’s show. Still, could be worse, it could be the soulless, moribund wasteland that is Radio 1/Heart/Kiss FM that people at work listen to, and which are indistinguishable from each other, except that Radio 1 doesn’t have adverts on it.

Of course there’s going to be some electronic stuff on there, there’s loads about, I even like some of it. I particularly like the Underworld/ Iggy Pop collaboration, they’re playing at the mo’.

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No escape from MAH at the moment - she is covering for Gideon Coe this week - they are really pushing her, but I find the 'I need to let you know..' affectation bloody annoying.

For me shame to see both Keaveny and Mary Anne Hobbs moving to slots where I'll no longer be able to listen to them live

Can't really call what the Lauren Laverne and Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie's new slots will be like as I rarely get to listen to them

Agree about Liz Kershaw - can't stand listening to her - one of the rare occasions I switch to Radio 2 instead

As a recent newcomer to the station, I have this to say: it’s almost all electronica, synth bullshit.

guess you’ve managed to only hear Nemone and Giles Peterson then.

Giles Peterson is certainly nowhere near all electronica - maybe you should try listening to him...

One sentence from MAH is enough to get intensly annoyed at her condescending/faux expert/faux sexy tones.

Giles Peterson is certainly nowhere near all electronica

Long term fan of Gilles - he has an enormously broad music taste, comparable to John Peel, but coming starting from a Jazz base rather than rock.  He'll happily play folk - you'll hear bits of Nick Drake, all sorts of stuff.  His slightly annoying current trail says he comes in each week with a big box of records and freestyles the show like a DJ set.  That means it can be really variable depending on what mood he's in - sometimes there will be a load of trad jazz, sometimes electronica, sometimes a lot of modern soul (which isn't my thing but all the rest works for me and you'll always hear something new and interesting).

My new schedule;

Monday to Friday

5am-7.30am Chris Hawkins (from 5am-7am)
7.30am-10.30am Lauren Laverne (moving from 10am-1pm)
10.30am-1pm Mark and Lard (from 7am-10am, Saturday and Sunday)
1pm-4pm Shaun Keaveny (moving from 7am-10am)

4pm-7pm Ravenscroft

I don't know how to break this to you but Mark and Lard haven't done a radio show together for nearly 15 years...