Just had a look to see if the children are still whining about the same tired old subjects, like Lamaq always playing Elastica, and I’m not disappointed. As I proved conclusively a couple of months or so ago that that claim is bogus and clearly made by people who only listen once in a while, by checking Lamaq’s playlist over two months and saw he played Elastica exactly twice.
Just had a look to see if the children are still whining about the same tired old subjects, like Lamaq always playing Elastica, and I’m not disappointed. As I proved conclusively a couple of months or so ago that that claim is bogus and clearly made by people who only listen once in a while, by checking Lamaq’s playlist over two months and saw he played Elastica exactly twice
I used to really like Don Letts. Then I went to the cinema to see the remastered Ziggy and they showed the panel discussion beforehand, during which Letts and Suggs showed themselves to be utter cockwombles, albeit not as bad as Richard E Grant. I wasn’t particularly surprised about Suggs, and his appalling music hall cheeky chappie Radio 4 slots have confirmed his status, but I was disappointed in Letts. I’m just trying to forget I saw it and enjoy the stuff he plays.
Yey! for Riley & Coe switching to 9-11. That’s great news. I can’t figure if it’s because they’ve got bored of the guest artiste slot or bored of the moaning from listeners.
Either way I’m glad they’ve done something quickly. I can listen to more of the R&C show while washing up.
Opened the thread to see if it was an angry rant about how crap Bill Nighy was on Iggy Pop’s show.
JeeezusH ,if he wants to ‘do radio’ they need to have him catapulted into some dull,old duffer’s slot on R2.
I turned Bill Nighy on at the weekend. He was playing some godawful country & western. Turned out it was Taylor Swift! Never knew she sounded like that??
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Damn… excitedly opened the thread hoping it was news that Chris, the **** I mean the Hawk, Hawkins was moving on!
And for balance, I love Chris Hawkins.
Re The Bill Nye, Iggy stand-in; he does have a very different taste in music and not one I would have expected. Isn’t 6 Music all about hearing stuff you wouldn’t normally? I didn’t “like” it but it wasn’t objectionable on the whole. MAH played some Slipknot when I was WFH yesterday and that was ****in g **** but I’m happy it exists. I can close my ears for 3 minutes or turn off the radio for 2 hrs.
It’s like we’re all waiting for Elvis 2.0 to add some metaphorical sp5nk and kick out some jams.
I can’t help but wonder if the suicide rate amongst British males can, to some extent, be blamed on the relentlessly insipid playlist, promulgated by 6music. (Probably more to do with underage drinking).
Like most things vanilla, it’s difficult to object to their music. But in the past two decades, I’ve barely heard anything on 6music thats inspired me to pick up any musical instrument.
Something had to change, I wish they could have been braver in attempting to carve out a new section of the audience. It does all feel like a little bit of a compromise. I’m hopeful that the next round of changes help to make sense of everything.
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Just thought I’d let you know that Lamaq is back on 6 right now and playing songs from 1994
Yay! 😁
For balance. 😛
zippykona
But in the past two decades, I’ve barely heard anything on 6music that’s inspired me to pick up any musical instrument.
That’s because 6 only really like music made on a computer.
I don’t get you lot, music evolves, tastes change. Classics are classics and new stuff is introduced all the time. I like 6M because it doesn’t feature formulaic cr@p or heavily vocodered sh** and mixes the best of new artists with a decent dose of old stuff and is an incredibly broad church.
What would you like to hear on 6M? Is anyone making it? Would it make a decent 24hr radio station?
6music hasn’t inspired me to buy a band t-shirt, let alone pick up a musical instrument*
All the better stuff is shunted off to the early hours. Great if you’re living near the Pacific Ocean.
A lot of the problem with the BBC’s approach to music is that very few can actually play an instrument.
😂😂😂
That aside, you don’t need to play an instrument to appreciate music, but it helps.
Radcliffe, Lala, and cerys all dabbled to some extent. Now they seem to have lost the love for the throaty roar of a rickenbacker.
Yonks ago, the bbc made a multi-part tv documentary about the subdivisions within metal.
And then did nothing to promote the genre.
It would be nice for 6music to pick up that baton.
I doubt there’s anyone in that department with the cohonez.
(Craig Charles excepted, but he’d need to give the listeners several hours warning in advance)
6music seems like a closed shop. They’d never find someone within its ranks to front a metal show, 12-2pm on a Sunday for anyone at the skatepark.
They’d be better off poaching someone from radio 3. At least they’d better grasp the musical theory, underpinning metal.
What’s wrong with the other metal shows (Johnny walker and Daniel p carter)?
By genre, ‘rock’ music makes up 25% of music sales. Doesn’t the genre deserve more credibility.
Si, why are Johnny walkers classic rock show and Daniel p carters rock show shunted away into the periphery of the night?
We no longer treat people of colour with that level of opprobrium.
It’s no way to combat discrimination when the bbc sets that kind of example.
For me, I’d rather be listening to sepultura and megadeth on a Sunday afternoon.
11 pm and all the skate parks will be shut.
Why not broadcast the sylosis, behemoth, gorgoroth on a Sunday afternoon?
Who the hell is going to bust any moves at the skatepark to the flaming lips?
* I did purchase a digital download of ‘Dutch mustard’ after hearing them on lalas show.
Saying that, listening to lalas and mah’s show, you could be forgiven for thinking that you’ve reached some trauma helpline, so emasculated is the music.
Do the bands have to undergo some kind of testicular trauma to make it onto their playlist?
i’d love a metal show on 6 although I doubt I’d care for it on a Sunday afternoon. And I don’t see what skateparks have to do with it? Round my way, skateparks are full of 45 year old blokes in goretex watching little Suzie zoom around on her microscooter. Neither of whom look like metal fans. And no-one is listening to the radio.
A drone/doom/sludge show at like 11pm on a weeknight would suit me down to the ground though. Neurosis, Electric Wizard, stuff like that. Lovely.
Bring back Bruce Dickinson’s Rock Show? A dedicated slot in the early hours would probably be the best to hope for. Time slots seem to be immaterial to the station controllers – they’re assuming everyone listens via Sounds whenever they want. Listening to the wireless is for grandads.
Next thing they’ll be making the station digital only to save costs…
I certainly agree that it would be great to see them bringing in some specific shows that stretch beyond the 6 music playlist stuff (even though that’s the music I probably prefer compared to metal – unless we can get a glam metal/hair band show!).
Without wishing to sound like the Radcliffe voiced ad…..The beauty of the BBC sounds app is that scheduling is now irrelevant – doesnt really matter if any specialist shows are scheduled for the earlier hours you can either stream and download whenever and where ever you want (be that the skate park or bed!).
I agree that it does seem to be under-represented as a genre but I also have no desire to hear it on a Sunday afternoon. Not sure when it should fit into the schedule but from what I know of it, it’s not really my thing so better between midnight and 5.30 so it can be picked up on Sounds by those that are interested.
Surely there are metal stations that cover it if it does represent 25% of music sales? Is that not a better thing to listen to than 6M if that’s your thing and the lack of it grates so much?
One idea for 6music, given how well they are represented with bona-fide music journalists would be a “reputations reassessed” (uncut magazine?) feature , where they’d devote 15 minutes critiquing some musicians output.
I don’t think that shunting the metal out to the wee small hours sends out a positive message.
We don’t need discrimination in this day.
Rock music makes up 25% of music sales.
How much is made up of the likes of carcass and cryptopsy? Who knows.
About the same percentage of music sales is made from pop music (mostly Beyoncé and Elton John).
Though, on my dab radio, 6music is described as ‘rock’ music.
That’s kind of wide of the mark.
It’s a trade’s description issue.
‘Pop’ music would be a more accurate station identifier.
They’re trying to oversell themselves.
Not to names-drop, but it reminds me of the spring of 1981.
A bloke from high school forwarded to us a cassette tape of his cousins band, “a punk/ metal hybrid”.
Sounded nothing remotely metal.
Turned out, his cousin played bass for these lads:
Had he not tried to oversell the band, they may have received a more appreciative listen.
But, I’m probably not alone in still clinging on to an unrealistic expectation of hearing behemoth or belphegor in the afternoon.
The music that Daniel p carter plays into the wee small hours would sound just as relevant on radio1’s daytime slots.
But playing it at 11pm, it’s doubtful whether anyone from his potential audience is awake at that time, and if so, their ears will need a rest.
Nothing against guy Garvey and his 12-2 slot (still a fan of his ‘cast of thousands’ album). Metal, in that time slot would be quite enervating on what is regarded as the start of the week.
Guys show would be better appreciated after two hours of sonic carnage.
