well how about that…. just announced…

Lauren L sounding great and back… to replace MAH 10-1 slot

and Grimmo to stay in breakfast slot

MAH is taking ‘a break’ and returning late Spring somewhere on 6.  Her announcement speech compared herself to David Bowie so probably won’t endear herself to her detractors :))))

… I actually like MAH, just not her breathless new age talk.  I mean she plays Sonic Youth a lot

but sounds like she’s being put out to pasture – like Liz Kershaw.  Although she is getting a new show but could be ‘off peak’

No more Nils Frahm in the morning then. But overall I’m pleased, and it might stop me listening to quite as much James O’Brien which is probably a good idea.

Used to really like MAH but as I said a couple of pages earlier, she really is turning into a parody of herself.

I used to listen to her old Breezeblock and Experimental shows, they were fab. I hardly ever listen to the radio these days, but had her show on yesterday – she played so much great music I might make it a regular thing. She even gave me a shout out just before the news, cos I texted her 🙂

Ah, after reading a few posts up, sounds like I won’t be making it a regular thing loLZ

I quite like MAH too, but agree she has got something of a musical yogi master vibe, that shows a kind of slippage of humility. It needn’t be an obscure slot as a means of putting her out to pasture. BUT – no need to lump her in with Liz Kershaw, who I thought was diabolical and couldn’t wait for her to go!

90s day

again?

Have to say I am happy. As someone who listened to Grimmy on R1, I’ve liked his R6 breakfast show; but also miss Lauren.  I tend to turn the radio off by 11 as it is not mid-morning music for me.

Grimshaw has grown on me; he does play a wide selection of music. Let’s hope Hobbs never returns to daytime again.

I’m happy with those changes and won’t miss MAH

90s radio day – Just one of the many reasons I no longer listen to radio

So you like nothing from what is regarded as the best decade of music since the 60s?

So you like nothing from what is regarded as the best decade of music since the 60s?

80s were the best decade of music since the 60s! 🙂

80s were the best decade of music since the 60s!

No way – the 70s were! 🙂

Listened to day time 6 Music for many years because it was the best of a terrible bunch on the radio. Quit it a few years ago as it was getting so dire.  Caveat, I would still listen to Radcliffe and Maconie if I’m in the car at the weekend as they are witty and interesting, maybe a bit of Iggy or Cerys, but weekdays no way. If I listen to Radio during the week it’s  LBC, if I want music it’s Spotify.

more tracks were released per day last year than were released in the whole of 1989

I guess that we were pretty much still vinyl or tapes in 89.

Releasing music has to be infinitely more accessible these days with no physical product needed.

Arguably too, electronic music and technology has allowed way more people on their own in their bedrooms to come up with stuff.

Not that I don’t like it, I did like it… but I prefer to discover new stuff, like I did in the John Peel days and in those old MAH shows

Well, in the John Peel days we didn’t have many alternatives. If you take 6 music over a whole day, you’ll hear tons of new stuff. Deb and Tom (John Peel’s son) in the evening play pretty much all new stuff.

For me, it’s great to hear someone else’s take on such a great decade to remind me what great music there was then as well as now. Would I want the 90’s every day? Hell no. That’s where commercial radio comes in. But every now and then it’s great. It’s all music.

& that’s The Raccoon’s theme music – hell yeah.

I don’t think the thing about the 90s being such a pivotal time in music is just rose-tinted spectacles.

It was just incredibly innovative (fuelled by technology and drugs) and set the template for the decades to come in a lot of ways.

It’s arguable that the 80s was the more influential decade overall, but yeah – R6M know their audience.

Does anyone have any intel on why Shirley Ellis – Soultime is an eternal playlist member on 6?

I haven’t actually noticed it being played at all (I’m sure I will now)

Apparently you have to have heard a song more than 20 times on the radio to actually notice it at all mind