People say it’s for middle aged people, as if that’s a bad thing.

There’s far too much emphasis on the age demographic IMO. It kind of makes sense for Radio 1 > 2 > 3/4. But I see the music 6 is playing as being ageless. People who listen to Radio 1 in their teens might mostly give up listening to chart stuff by the time they’re 30 and go and listen to Radio 2 (I’m sure the exceptions will shout me down here) but people who listen to alternative music of whatever genre (indie rock, punk, folk, reggae, whatever) largely continue listening to it throughout their lives. We don’t need to be bumped off to some other station to listen to Sting.

Lamaq rant: The latest britpop multi part podcast series with lamaq and whiley sounds interesting (as I was an avid listener of the evening session) but Jesus talk about lamaqs happy place. The guy is still living in 1995. Every time I catch his show it’s always elastica playing. Every time

Lamaq must have lobbied hard for that podcast series

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Interesting! Didn’t know that

I tuned in at 9pm last night and Albert Hammond Jr was playing his classical music collection for an hour I actually enjoyed it but I could just imagine the complaints about Marc Riley got moved for this?

I totally agree – the artist in residence thing just gets in teh way and devalues the Riley & Coe programme by shunting it passed a time I’m interested in hanging around for. AHJ has been quite interesting but I’m not sure I’m actually listening, even when doing the washing up with the radio on in the background, I couldn’t have told you why he was playing a classical collection last night.

Every time I catch his show it’s always elastica playing. Every time

Accidentally tuned in yesterday afternoon while shopping and he was playing a live Elastica gig….like, did anyone actually like them the first time around? Other than that Wire rip off from Trigger Happy TV, they’re just unbelievably forgettable. Poor Lamacq, I don’t think even Radio 2 would have him. Maybe Radio X, they seem to exclusively play Oasis, he’d fit in well.

NME 1 appears to be ad free today.

So worth a listen.

The David Sylvian: Spirit of Sylvian show still stands up there as the ultimate ‘this must be a pi**take, right’? moment. I like Japan, don’t get me wrong, but of all the artists out there? A total headscratcher for me.

You know the answer then: go listen to something else and stop bitching about it. It’s what I do.

Every time I catch his show it’s always elastica playing. Every time
Accidentally tuned in yesterday afternoon while shopping and he was playing a live Elastica gig….like, did anyone actually like them the first time around? Other than that Wire rip off from Trigger Happy TV, they’re just unbelievably forgettable. Poor Lamacq, I don’t think even Radio 2 would have him. Maybe Radio X, they seem to exclusively play Oasis, he’d fit in well.

Typical STW bullshit. I saw Elastica on their first tour, they had to repeat a couple of songs for their encore because they hadn’t had chance to write more new material, and they were excellent.

And as for “Every time I catch his show it’s always elastica playing. Every time”, what that does is prove, quite categorically, that you hardly ever listen to his show! I’ve just proved it, by the simple act of going onto BBC Sounds, tapping onto 6Music’s tab, and selecting each day’s show listing, going to Lamaq’s show, and looking at his playlist. I’ve gone right back to the beginning of July, skipping Saturday and Sunday, for obvious reasons.

Anyone care to guess how many times he played an Elastica track? You’re quite welcome to follow the same process, which will prove that over July, he played them twice! Once on Thursday 20th, which was part of the Britpop series, and I actually heard that while I was driving, and I had a wry smile to myself about the usual STW whinging, the other time was on the 4th.

Now kindly STFU!

As long as there’s still some Mongolian arse flute from the defining period in the late 30s.

6 Music gets a lot of stick, but Saturday mornings really are top notch! Radmac followed by Huey is as good as it gets radio-wise

All the 90’s rave stuff was excellent yesterday. I even tolerated The Hobnobs insipid wittering

I think you’ll find that 96% of Lamaq’s playlist is elastica and other britpop bangers . That’s a scientific fact

6 Music gets a lot of stick, but Saturday mornings really are top notch! Radmac followed by Huey is as good as it gets radio-wise

Agreed.

Just caught the end of Gid covering yesterday morning because we were in the car. Will probably listen back when I need a break from MAH, etc.

Thought that article was pretty good. He’s bang on about the themed days, they’re tedious and stupid.

Anyone else think Huey has been a bit shite lately? 5-10 years ago he’d play Faith no More into Joe Bataan into Talking Heads into Schooly D. These days he just seems to slap on a 1990s Party Hip Hop compilation and sod off for a cuppa

If only they could use this new focus and schedule to get Lemacq to **** off too.

Thank God.