https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/6-music-announces-schedule-changes
Not sure about this. I find MAH more than a little wearing and I'm going to miss RadMac in the afternoons.
but no change to Steve Lamacq - what dirt does he have on the station controller?
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
