I only check this thread to see if Steve Lurpak has buggered off.

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Ah crap more Huw Stephens 😬 We need more and Gideon Coe 👍😁

FTFY 😉🙃

Is George Lamb back?
😉

Where will I go to listen to Elastica and stories about working for NME?

What bothers me about 6 Music, and I largely exempt Marconi and Lurpak from this, the holier than thou attitude – like 6 music invented actual non-mainstream music or something. There have been moments, Tom R playing Feed1 by autechre before he’d bothered listening to it being one. But it’s blanding itself into the shitbin. Marconi has played my stuff a couple of times, so he’s okay forever.

Obviously depends what’s about – they have nailed the flag very much to the “new music” mast since the schedule change and that is very much dependent on availability. Also depends what you like.  I’m probably a bit MOR compared to some and 10% of the stuff they play I find not to my taste but I’m kind of glad it’s there.

I’m in the disappointed about Lamacq camp – I really quite like him.

scuttlerFull Member
I only check this thread to see if Steve Lurpak has buggered off.

I’m similar but just waiting for that cretin Chris Hawkins to leave the early breakfast show.

rockbus

I’m similar but just waiting for that cretin Chris Hawkins to leave the early breakfast show.

I love Chris Hawkins so hopefully that balances that out.

Yes, names in songs is one of the greatest things on earth.

Hip hip Huw ray.

at last. Presumably he’ll find a home at some point on Absolute 90’s. Though his tastes might be a bit narrow for them.

Will say it again, my problem with the focus on ‘new music’ is that, well, ALL music is new music if you’ve never heard it before (much like ‘all music is world music’).  I’m sure I’ll have heard more new artists to me on some of Ezra Furman’s guest shows than on the new evening show which can end up with a lot of similar sounding productions sometimes. A long lost session that sounds noticeably different to the single release can be just as interesting as something just released.

Discovered this recently as a case in point

Goodnight sweet prince.👋

hightensionline
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Ha! I’ll give the first Elastica album a spin in memoriam later.

…and I’ll talk in an incredibly nasal monotonous voice about how I single-handedly discovered some indie band, and play a random selection of middling 90s tracks in honour of him finally leaving…

Between the Radio 2-esqe pop-lite and whiney rap that seems to be gaining airtime recently my 6 Music days may be numbered.

More and more often the radio starts up in the car and I wonder if the kids have re-tuned it to play a joke on me, but nope, it’s the playlist 😮

**** me you lot can moan.

The hour long artist playlist nonsense between 21:00-22:00 is just a huge mistake. Just give the extra hour to Riley & Coe for more live sets, and be done with the obvious advertising slot for the band/artist.

Agree completely with this. I think the artist is residence crap was on at midnight before which is where it belongs i.e. when it’s time for bed. An extra hour of Riley & Coe would be a much better use of airtime.

Bring back Keaveny to replace Captain Elastica.

I was interested to hear that Saturday nights have been moved around, with Don Letts taking the slot

I think he’s one of those that keep telling everyone a nickname that he wants to be called in the hope that everyone will eventually start calling him it.

Personally, I’ve never heard anyone refer to him as the Rebel Dread except himself 🤔😂