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This thread reads like a lot of you whiny kids really need to embrace your inner Radio2 and be done with it, or maybe pick up the control pamphlet for your wireless set and look for another signal. 🙂 🙂
As I've been working from home lately so 6Music has been on constantly. S'aright. If I get sick of it I can put other music on - Peat & Diesel at the moment. Like was said further up there are other choices available.
I put up with the DJs waffling on because my other half likes commercial radio - less DJ drivel but loads more ads. And I'd rather not hear the ads!
Nope, you’re still completely missing the point 😂
I'm not!!! 😂 😂 😂
Great: Gilles Peterson; Tom Raverscroft; Iggy Pop (when he was on); Cillan Murphy (re-runs replacing Iggy); Nemone's electric ladyland; Cerys (actually superb); Gid Coe
OK: Craig Charles (ultimately a limited selection, daily was too much); that dude that comes on in the morning first thing; Lauren Laverne (a bit hit and miss); MAH (sometimes brilliant, i do like her too); Marc Riley, Stuart Maconie's Freakzone (sometimes!)
Awful: Lamacq, Liz Kershaw, Radmac talking about crips on a Saturday morning.
What about alternatives? I've been enjoying the following as online streaming services:
- Worldwide FM - massive selection of shows on Gilles Peterson's online radio show
(currently listening to "Global Roots Radio, a weekly dose of experimental, underground music from across all corners of the globe; with independent music and culture at the core.")
- Loads of random dance stuff on Soundcloud like BIS radio, Moxie, Bill Brewster, Subclub, Ninjatune, etc to infinity
- Rinse FM - including wonderful Andy Weatherall back catalogue
- Various ravey streaming things like United We Stream and the Carl Cox facebook channel.
Friend and i were having this conversation a few days ago..
Do you reckon Liz Kershaw knows about the skeletons in some radio bosses cupboard, how is she still allowed a show?
I like some of the music but Mary Ann Hobbs always sounds like she took too much acid in the 60s and hasn't come down yet "i am going to play you an aural landscape" no your playing a record!!
Did enjoy Craig Charles in week too, but best thing has been Sounds app and downloading the shows from 6Music and occasional radio1 show onto app and listening as and went i like instead of live.
What I don't get is people moaning about Lamaq always playing indie/britpop type stuff.
That's his thing. Just like Giles Peterson does "world music," Craig Charles does funk n soul, nemone does electronic, Laverne does twee, MAH does aural soundscapes that will make you cry, keaveney does the pixies, Huey does steely dan etc.
Try listening to Heart FM or capital for a day, you'll soon stop moaning.
Fontaines DC can bore off and all
They were on the Jools Holland thing a week or two ago.
They are the sons of the Sawdoctors who decided to form a heavy band but can’t quite get rid of the Sawdoctors’ sound, aren’t they?
(I may have made that up, but they really did make me think of Sawdoctors. I useta love them! I useta love them once, long long time ago. 😂 )
I like the Fontaines DC album, but live they were dull, the lead singer, the lead singer is a bit like Ian Curtis in that he nervously jerks on stage and says nothing at all, and they just played the songs exactly how they appear on album and no crowd interaction at all, but they may have just been a tuesday night in Norwich!
Baxter.
Loves you.
Just play some Blockheads.
and they just played the songs exactly how they appear on album and no crowd interaction at all, but they may have just been a tuesday night in Norwich!
nope, theyre always like that.....
Cerys get on my nerves because she makes out that she's an expert but she's really not, she talks complete guff. The others don't mind but I agree that Lurpack needs to be replaced permanently with Craig Charles, his afternoon was great (much better than the Funk n soul show which has run out of steam, too many bands on there sound like impersonation of funk played by sixth formers) 🙂
Awful: (…) Radmac talking about crips on a Saturday morning
Get in the sea!
MAH can be a bit over the top, but she gets a pass because I used to be in touch with her back in my music producer days and she's genuinely a really nice person.
Also the Breezeblock was sick.
Also the Breezeblock was sick.
Ah them were the days. She was wonderful back then..
Do you reckon Liz Kershaw knows about the skeletons in some radio bosses cupboard, how is she still allowed a show?
There was something published 10 or so years ago about sexual abuse (during the Jimmy Saville allegations/truths), and iirc, LK was just starting her show, allegedly, DLT came in, and put his hand up her top while she was on air. There were other allegations too. DLT was found guilty for other abuses.
Charlie Bones from 9-12, random stuff after that but usually good
Wetherall did a monthly slot there until he passed, worth digging through the Mixcloud archives for
Listen again is excellent - I'm currently listening to Cery's Blues Show from R2 Monday night. And once you've started looking, there's Huey's Saturday show, Cery's Sunday show, Don Letts etc etc.
Radio 2 is good in the evenings and Saturdays, but during the day it's a bit too much Rihanna-wannabes, Euro-disco-pop and the like.
Oh, and Idles are not bad - Danny Nedelko is one of the best tracks of last year. But honestly, can Lamacq not go half an hour without talking about them/ having them on his show/ banging on about it? I wouldn't mind the indie schtick if he had any more variation than Sleeper/ Idles/ Fontaines DC, or if he had any chat whatsoever. Weird that he still has a show
He's redeemed himself today with the De La Soul interview
He should be sent to the DJ care home after the show
I don’t think he’s that interesting and perhaps he needs turning out to pasture but I don’t find him as intolerable as everyone else appears to! Other than constantly going on about Idles and Fontaines DC...
or start your own radio station that features your own taste in music. ;o)
This chap did. https://radioparadise.com/player
Can we have ground rules here that involve it being banned to say anything bad about Marc Riley or Mark Radcliffe. sacrilege!
Cerys get on my nerves because she makes out that she’s an expert but she’s really not, she talks complete guff.
How do you know, what makes you the expert that you say she isn’t? How many albums and hit singles have you had with a band and solo? How long did you live and work in Nashville?
Show us your music industry credentials, I dare you.
its Cillian Murphy that makes me turn over immediately. Cant stand his insipid monotone ramblings about 'beautiful soundscapes'. Hughey Morgan....similar tool. Always remember him on never mind the buzzcocks having a paddy and walking off. classic awkward TV.
I quite like Lammac….but he does defiantly push the same few bands over and over. I guess they must have some sort of playlist of songs that they push as a station that get played every day for a couple of weeks at a time.
Wasn't he and few of the other DJs (nemone?) all working as NME / Melody Maker journos in the 80s and 90s?
Also, Cerys.....she can (as someone else said) get in the sea.
....and Fontianes DC. Gotta disagree with lots of you. Their album Dogrel is brilliant. probably lots of other stuff that has come after sounds like them because they are good and a fairly unique sound.
Likes -
Lauren
MAH
Huey
Cerys
CC
RadMac
Riley
GidCoe
The Hawk
Can live with Lamacq - only ones I'd turn over for are Keaveney or Kershaw. I think it's a voice thing - if the others are talking about something I'm not interested in, I can tune them out. Keaveney and Kershaw - not so much.