Poor Marc.
I think his show would be better off, rescheduled to 8am.
(I’ve always harboured the suspicion that our biological clocks are on pacific time)☺️
Props to him for playing the doom metal (pigs*7).
The rest of his show increasingly became a bit twee.
It’s nice to play some sweet and wistful tracks, but it seems like the rest of the station was trying to overdo it with daytime tracklists that would be unthreatening to a female audience.
A lot of the male vocals tracks sounded like tiny Tim.
I’d rather Marc just got back to playing more psych pop: baba naga, Porsche majeure, etc.
The main problem with 6music is that they’re still reeling from having their tenure up for debate, back in 2010?
There’s a lot of very safe listening choices, borne out pension-fright.
I’d still like to hear an extreme metal slot, between 12-2pm on a Sunday. If only to break up the monotony of near constant pop music.
Realistically, the beeb should do more to promote other genres, such as folk and jazz.
Maybe they need their own channels?
If I was a uk jazz/ folk/ metal musician, I’d be fuming at the lack of support to promote my music on the radio.
Gilles Peterson/ Jamie cullum and Mark Radcliffe do a great job, but we need more to get uk bands on a global stage.
That’s my two cents.
