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She's absolutely brilliant live. I saw at Greenman in 2017 too, and she was incredible. Saw her again recently in Bristol, and she was good again. Never really listen to her at home though...
Peeps complaining about R6 music.....maybe listen to Radio 2 instead?
Peeps complaining about R6 music…..maybe listen to Radio 2 instead?
typical patronising comment. Not complaining about 6Music - which is ace - people are complaining about specific massively promoted tracks.
I've got a Coldplay album. Somewhere.
and the shouting 😛
I don't think any music is supposed to be for everyone. I cant think of any artist worth their salt that doesn't have a few "haterz".
I'm not a fan of KT but thats fine as most of the stuff i like would be considered dreadful by the vast majority of people.
and the shouting 😛
It is though innit. I guess it annoys me as it's just a rehash of so much before it and it's been done to death, and it's so prevalent just now. I love Six music as really it plays almost everything. Currently though, the kids who've just discovered that they can make money shouting are a bit heavily weighted.
I used to love a bit of Discharge. Pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs just kinda sound like a rubbish Discharge covers band 😂
See. Literally the almost same.
I like her, more in the vein of Sage Francis, B Dolan, Scroobius Pip than all that mumble rap (with a capital C) out there. I like hip-hop more on the poetry side myself
I'm so happy someone has just posted some Discharge on here. Made my day
Plus, the singer from pigs x 7 seems to be doing a very bad Rollins impression in that video.
Music that not everyone likes - whatever next? I do agree that their playlist sometimes seems limited, but if you're after variety and new stuff there is plenty on 6 music to satisfy that, Marc Riley and Gideon Coe both play some amazingly varied stuff, plus Cerys on Sundays, Iggy Pop - as long as you avoid Mary Anne Hobbs I think it's a pretty awesome station - although I do agree that shouty not very musical punky stuff is over played at the moment, between Sleaford Mods which I do think are overrated, Idles, Fontaine's DC, The Blinders and others it does get a bit much. Also Idles sound terrible live!
Also Idles sound terrible live!
I wasn't that fussed about Idles but went to see them live a couple of months ago and thought they were excellent. It was a great gig!
Sleaford Mods are truly amazing live though. We've seen them a few times and its a visceral experience in barely controlled anger watching Jason do his thing. If you're going to do shouty (and sweary) then do it like you mean it
I think Anna Meredith has replaced Kate on the R6 altar of mediocrity
I'm not too bothered by the altar of mediocrity, I just really can't listen to KT. And yeah MAH's 15 minute rerun from the weekend meant I detuned, came back a few minutes later, then started listening to something on Radio 4...
Sleaford Mods are OK in their way. Idles I'm kind of ambivalent to, same with David Bowie. OH listens to a load of 20 year old dance music mixed with modern incredibly bland mediocrity, but I can usually cope with that. At least we both agree on Kate Tempest!
Music that not everyone likes – whatever next?
It's not that I don't like it. It makes me cringe so badly. Some Fontaines DC makes me cringe a bit but this is like utter torture, and I find it really odd that other people react so differently to Kate Tempest, I genuinely find it hard to accept the difference of opinion, like the way that some people like coleslaw and mayonnaise.
If you don't like mayonnaise what do you do with your tins of tuna?
It’s not that I don’t like her (more ambivalent than anything else), I object to playing her track in the morning.
FFS I’m trying to drive to work. Hard enough without that depressive down beat monotonic poetry’ in my ear.
I like 6music, but turn that down. Road noise is more thought provoking at that time of day!
and I find it really odd that other people react so differently to Kate Tempest, I genuinely find it hard to accept the difference of opinion,
I find this a strange comment 🤷🏻♂️
People react very differently to many things in life, especially music & art.
I can’t stand Jazz, sometimes R6M gets a bit jazzy and I have to turn it off, but I can fully accept that others love it.
FWIW I listened to Kate’s live show on the way to work this morning, but then I really like her.
I also listened to Nadine Shah’s on the way home, which was also excellent.
Idles sound terrible live!
My mate thought that too. I think they appeal to the get-involved-and-experience-the-gig type, rather than standing around chin scratching.
Radio gets switched off when she comes on. Dreadful.
I think she's OK, which makes me weird since everybody else really seems to care one way or the other
What I DO care about is 6music's overly repetitive playlist; it's soooo bloody unimaginative, and from a station that supposedly espouses creativity in its coverage.
Actually it's worse than just 6music, 5 live has the most annoyingly repetitive set of jingles & trailers. The only way I can listen to either is in hour-long spells. Gah, BBC
middle aged white men in not liking this popular music shocker
I like her a lot. Also like Lady Marga who is equally marmitey. Listen to “Run for cover”.
I can't bring myself to listen to her 'music', but I presume it fits the 6music lefty agenda perfectly. No doubt she's a regular at XR events
I can’t bring myself to listen to her ‘music’, but I presume it fits the 6music lefty agenda perfectly. No doubt she’s a regular at XR events
yeah! and a vegan remoaner too, I'll bet!
It's elf and safefy gone mad! The loony left so called Politically Correct brigade!
My comment about Idles is based purely on hearing a live version of Danny Nedelko on 6 music - I realise that it's pretty shouty but it was horribly out of tune - I imagine that if you were there then it would be a lot better but the recorded version of the live gig sounded pretty rough......
I find her horribly depressing. I'd rather have a night out in Basingstoke instead.
Is she the new Streets.... No music as such, just talking over a track.
A big Meh from me.
I also think radi0 6 seems to have a very small playlist and the same artists seem to be repeated ad nauseum, throughout the day.
Have you ever tried listening to Radio 1, 2, or every commercial radio station in the U.K.?
I, for one, just cannot understand the adoration heaped onto the Manics, for example, or Oasis, or a whole bunch of artists that 6Music plays, but their hit-rate of stuff I like is far above any other radio station, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
There’s always going to be things that just don’t appeal, and that’s good, because the same will be true for everyone else! What I’ve never, ever done, regardless of how much I dislike a song/tune/whatever, is turn off or turn over, because I can’t be arsed, and because I might miss something that really has me going ‘wow’!
Going back to Kate T, I like her, I saw her at Greenman and she blew me away, she just doesn’t let up, and I felt exhausted at the end of the set, in a good way.
I really must get some of her records, and check out some of her writings, too.
I think she’s great. Let them eat chaos is an album based around the stories of several people who can’t sleep so I like the way the tracks are related to each other and the subject’s experiences within. Europe is Lost seems to sum up modern life very succinctly.
Peeps complaining about R6 music…..maybe listen to Radio 2 instead?
Radio 6 is Radio 2 for the somewhat up themselves.
Old and in the way.
I've been lucky enough to see KT a few times now, always been very impressed, but the two times i saw her purely spoken word were just incredible.
Once late night in the RumBar at Glastonbury. 45-60 mins of uninterrupted poetry, linked stuff from her back catalogue.
the other time was in a small side tent/bar at the downs in bristol. she did the whole of Let Them Eat Chaos before it was released. one of the best things i've seen.
Old and in the way.
That too 🤙
Fwiw I feel relieved when I learn an act I wonder if I should bother listening to but feel no enthusiasm to so (Tempest, Krule) is a Brit School alumnum. My loss no doubt on the altar of some sort of authenticity.
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Kate Tempest vs Sleaford Mods
both my cuppa tea... not only did I see kate a few weeks ago, I'm off to see sleaford mods on saturday. im sure there will be many locals who are there but cant understand what he's saying / singing!
I also think radi0 6 seems to have a very small playlist and the same artists seem to be repeated ad nauseum, throughout the day.
+1 I noticed this when listening in the weekdays, soon got bored of the same old same new just on account of the groundhog day effect. OTOH, evenings and weekends are almost like a different station and lots more interesting IIRC.
OP - different ppl like different artists/music, so why overthink this? I enjoy some music and do not enjoy some other music. Whether music is ‘popular’, derided, lauded, or whatnot not does not really affect my enjoyment or otherwise. I suppose if you heard a constant stream of comments about some music you really like being ‘shit’ and ‘pretentious’ or ‘emperor’s new clothes’ or wotnot you might begin to doubt your own judgment, yet...people also say a lot of negative shit and psychological projection is often a powerful if unrecognised force to inspire the (usually negative) critic. I tend now to only enthuse about what I like and let others like what they like without my projecting in their earholes (Had a short stint 20 years ago of going from active to inactive musician, then to hyperactive music critic. Bored myself* in the end, which helped me understand the glazed expressions I’d been getting from friends 🤭)
*Talking of which, What did I just say? 😴 Zzzzzzzzz...
Just turned on the radio and she is on again! cool!
Radio 6 is Radio 2 for the somewhat up themselves.
There is a lot of truth in this, but I can acknowledge it because I am knowingly up myself
She's on again.... arrrgh!!!
whats with all the mediocre 1st person rap on 6? I quite like rap but the stuff they are playing is dull and derivative. oh and camden can just **** off.
Radio 6 is Radio 2 for the somewhat up themselves.
If thats how you choose to refer to my innate cultural superiority, then thats your call
Philistine! 😉
When they splash a load of money on Camden, or Glasto etc. they get their moneys worth by repeating it endlessly for months
Agree with a lot above. R6 is my station of choice but it can get repetitive, (the playlist is available online to look at). Some of the "DJs" need putting out to pasture - Hobbs, Lamacq etc.
Agree with a lot above. R6 is my station of choice but it can get repetitive, (the playlist is available online to look at). Some of the “DJs” need putting out to pasture – Hobbs, Lamacq etc.
I don't mind older DJs - even if they are the same people that were on R1 in my yoof. But the fact Lamacq and his overly cheery radio persona/beds/jingles/features come on just when I'm getting tired and grumpy at the end of the day does my head in.
edit - as I listen online at work, I'm just going to avoid listening live I think. Apart from repetitive news bulletins it's not a big deal.
Radio 6 is Radio 2 for the somewhat up themselves.
There is a lot of truth in this, but I can acknowledge it because I am knowingly up myself
How do you think I feel? I'm too knowingly up myself for Radio 6, never mind the straightforward and let's face it more professionally delivered pleasures of Radio 2.
You could just follow the 6 Music Bot on twitter, then you could moan about what they play without even listening to it?
Looks like you missed Kate, played her 44 minutes ago, duh!
Radio 2 is for people who were into top 40 pop music 30 years ago and then nothing new ever since. Now it's comforting to have it repeated back to them by softly spoken geriatrics so they can reminisce about school discos and family holidays to Blackpool.
I only rently got into 6 Music but Unholy Elixir is the one track that consistently leads me to retune. Hoping it will dropp off the playlist soon.
If anyone can listen to Mary Anne Hobgoblin (Mark and Lard reference) for more than a few minutes, they are probably not the sort of person I'd gel with
I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t find MAH incredibly annoying. Not sure how she ended up where she is.