BBC Radio Music 6 - Wasted Opportunity?

When is there going to be a music radio station that caters for the likes of me

The Reynolds Girls asked the very same question back in '88.

its not that bad.

lol anglophile

... in a song which was a devastating attack on the AOR-heavy Radio 1 that 6 Music seems, at least from the review in today's Guardian, to be a virtual recreation of. I mean if you're reduced to hiring Liz Kershaw you must be *really* desperate.

-- Robin Carmody, Friday, 15 March 2002 01:00 (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.christian-greeting-cards.com/ek5.jpg

^^^ Very reminiscent of a swastika that jogger.

Crispian Mills likes that jogger.

Re. the Simon Reynolds Girls and their heartfelt question of "Why is the DJ on my radio station always more than twice the age of me?" written by a lyricist who was more than twice the age of the Reynolds Girls - ah well, never mind...

I'm kind of fifty-fifty on Jacking and Fleetwood Macking nowadays.

I wonder if the Reynolds Girls ever met Yazz, who was namechecked (positively) in the song?

This song came too late to be parodied by the Shire Horses, a shame given its potential.

I remember seeing Pete Waterman interviewed on TV admitting that he'd "got it wrong" by working with the Reynolds Girls.

At the time the Reynolds Girls admitted in Smash Hits that they quite liked Fleetwood Mac.

Waterman originally intended the song for Mel and Kim but due to Mel's illness he couldn't record it with them.

However, as I'm sure I've mentioned on ILM before, I did play the song to a member of Fleetwood Mac who laughed out loud and loved it.

Can anyone explain to me how George Lamb got a radio show on 6music?

Or, indeed, how he got a radio show anywhere?

Becuase he's signed to John Gay Management, who as you may have noticed actually run Britain.

They obviously have the dirt on whoever runs 6music.

*Noel Gay.

Apparently Mr Lamb is "fit."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7238444.stm

Digital radio has proved a sort of Sinclair C5 for the noughties, really.

:(

I like it, tho.

I have a DAB radio but never use it. My dads old car had a DAB radio and it got played then.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/18/bbc.radio

6Music boss on why anyone who doesn't like George Lamb hates women.

I thought Douglas was still running R2.

Usual condescending misogynist attitude towards women of course, no less so for being uttered by a woman.

Maybe she should bring back Judi Spiers for two hours of cosy knitting and Kenny Rogers.

It's a bizarre idea though, that Lamb's sub-Tim Lovejoy routine is actually going to draw in more female listeners.

Maybe they ought to get a controller aged less than 65.

Make Lamacq controller. At least it'd be funny.

If unlistenable.

Watch out for the special three-hour retrospective on the Sect!

Thursday is SWERVEDRIVER DAY.

"And, errr, coming up later we have Frigid Vinegar and The Vandals in session"

Coming up at five minutes before the hour of...Jim Bob's Lost Budgie spot.

Lesley Douglas = the most despicable radio controller of the millenium

That's one in the eye for Lord Haw-Haw

Do you have a top 5 list marty?

PROPOSED DAILY MAIL SOLUTION

BBC Radio stations to REVERT to NORMAL CHARTERED STATUS

Radio 2 to return to STRICT STOUT HESSIAN DIET of DEREK JAMESON and RAY CONNIFF

All Radio 2 ROCK content to return to PROPER HOME of RADIO 1

Current RADIO 1 line-up to be PRIVATISED and sold off to HIGHEST BIDDER under exciting new BRAND NAME of RADIO ASBO

WESTWOOD to undergo PUBLIC CRUCIFIXION for warping minds of HITHERTO INNOCENT NOW FERAL YOUTH

Undervalued Conservative stalwart JOHN SPOCK REDWOOD to be installed as NEW ANDROID BBC CONTROLLER

dingbod that parody is more like Starry livejournal speak

Y'see, women like music on an emotional level. So, are more likely to switch over if Einsturzende Neubaten are being played.

Was Gideon Coe that great?

I listened a few times, but he didn't really register with me on an emotional level.

OE NOE! I IS TURNING INTO A WOMAN!!!

Lesley Dougiedonnelly's idea of music women like:
Dido
Beverley Craven
Barbara Dickson
Corinne Derek Bailey Jesse Rae
Gabrielle
Adele Duffy
Duffy Adele
Amy Winebar
Nickelback
Kate E Mellower
Kate E Turnstile
Kate E Gnash
Kate E Rusby
Elk E Brooks
Amy McMumble
Dorothy Squires
LEON

Gideon Coe is a standard middle aged bloke DJ you'd expect to find on 6music, but at least he isn't a blithering idiot like Lamb.

http://www.superberries.co.uk/graphics/content/features/george_lamb/main.jpg

"lol girls are thickies"

Oh god, so hateful.

Gideon Coe fails to fulfill 6Music standards of fit:

http://www.derrycity.gov.uk/onebigweekend/images/6-Music-Gideon-Coe-1.jpg

A good face for 6music!

How long before 6Music gets rid of the music content?

"Research has shown that the 'music' was putting women off listening to 6Music" announced Lesley Dougefresh at a press conference earlier today.

bring back ugliness as a requisite of radio presenting. the ladies loved the whispering cornflake.

How can a 40something woman whose music interests include Bruce Springsteen and Paul Weller know if George Lamb is Kosher when it comes to "Rave and dance" Rave? it's not 1992 !

"If you heard George talking about rave and dance there is a passion. It's less intellectual an approach to music but it's still about passion and love of music at its heart." (Lesley Douglas)

George Lamb - when does his mid morning show reflect "rave and dance" expertise?

This woman is digging deeper and deeper and making an utter fool of herself.

none that i've seen, or that i can remember, and i haven't seen it since idk when. totally admit i'm *liable* not to like any of them, being a grouchy so-and-so.

i used to like morley more than i do now. will self is bound to have been on it, and i like him. iirc hari kunzru is p dece on these things.

xpost

as for presenters -- well, no-one is as bad as KW. other than mark lawson i can't think of any other presenters.

Kirsty presenting Newsnight Review has all come across as sheer megalomania to me

the bbc execs hear the word culture and reach for their devolver

oh snap

other than mark lawson i can't think of any other presenters.

Martha Kearney. I like Martha.

They move the show to Glasgow (*cringe*) and, next thing you know, up pops Pat Kane

martha kearney must have been presenting it since i stopped watching. yeah, she's fine, on the radio so i guess is probably ok?

which would suggest they use 6 to 20 times as much electricity as the fm equivalent. which is pretty bad in this day and age.

― koogs, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 9:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fm has an advantage over all other bands (dab, SW, MW, etc.) because there is useful energy in fm radio waves. you can actually make an fm radio without _any_ power source. the only reason wind up battery/wind-up powered fm radios exist at all is because ones without power are a bit too quiet.

p.s. 6music sucks.

on the radiator with a stupid ear piece iirc

Is Paulin on Newsnight Review still ever? He had a sense of panto that made it bearable - sighs, eye-rolling, silly pauses. Comedy intellectual on TV arts prog his true metier.

Turned into a self parody. But, yes, great in his prime. Germaine's always good for a laugh.

I like when Hari Kunzru is on much more than I like Johann Hari, but apart from Sarah Churchwell most of the women are a bit stilted.

id like newsnight review more if they had something covering the arts that was less pompous/middle class/for guardian readers. something like def II again would be nice. something for people that dont want to see fucking mark lawson or KW or ekow eshun or kwame or fucking morley AGAIN AND AGAIN.

something like def II again would be nice

i can only dimly remember this but have to applaud the sentiment

my tastes arent high brow enough

ok i just signed this -
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/invite/BBCcuts

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/04/bbc-tim-davie-6-music

BBC director of music and audio parrots Mark Thompson's line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0zNDhhPkSk&feature=player_embedded

i know this is a thread about 6 music and no one on here prob has ever listened to asian network but god, this piece is stupid -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/07/asian-network-6-music-closure?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments

wheres the fucking CIF piece about how its a good thing 6 music is going?

Bloody hell

^^^ Solid argument for closure right there

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8580343.stm

The BBC says it plans to make "fewer things better" .....

.. please yerselves..

Ugh

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/3/29/1269859328539/Fans-of-Father-Ted-protes-007.jpg

they appear to be tittering. which is appropriate.

I like THIS Guy's extra peace arm.

indie kuato

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8699519.stm

George Lamb quits.

...

Well, I did not know he was Larry Lamb's son. So that's something.

RIP Big Man. Heaven needed a twat.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/05/bbc-6-music-saved

BOOOOOOOOOOO

congrats to white people everywhere

shut up

Jesus I thought we were in the austerity years

They should look at merging the Asian programming. Just for fun, like.

FFS, HM, many people who bothered to complete a consultation response were in favour of keeping both stations, and said so. Hands up if you could be arsed to fill one of them out; if not please quit grandstanding.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21294894

Male artists dominate a listeners' poll to find BBC Radio 6 Music's top 100 tracks of the past 10 years.

Coldplay top the list with their 2003 track Clocks, ahead of Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor and Elbow's One Day Like This.

More than 100,000 votes were cast in the poll which looks back over the 10 years since the station began in 2002.

"It's a good result for Coldplay, who were clearly one of the biggest bands of the decade," said DJ Steve Lamacq.

"But you can see the breadth of 6 Music's tastes in the rest of the top 10, including some bands who we've championed and who've broken through commercially like Elbow, and some brilliant groups who remain out there on the margins of pop like British Sea Power and The National."

Speaking on 6 Music, Coldplay's Will Champion said he was "totally blown away" by topping the poll.

"This is extraordinary. We've been listening to 6 Music since it started and I feel like our band's career and this station have grown up in parallel. This top 10 is amazing - what an amazing 10 years of music," he said.

Champion said that topping the chart was all the more surprising as "we all said not bad for a song that hasn't got a chorus".

"When I first heard it, Chris played the riff and I said 'that's a good intro what about the rest of the song?'

"I was scratching my head trying to find something that would fill a little gap in the record."

He added: "This was a first successful attempt at writing a song where the melodic hook was the key to a song rather than a big chorus. Our manager said it would never be a hit and here we are."

More than one million tracks have been played across the network since the station began in March 2002.

6 Music's presenters, producers and staff compiled the list of 100 tracks from the past decade taken from the station's playlist, then asked listeners to vote for them in order of preference.

Voting took place from 7 - 25 January on the station's website. Listeners were limited to one vote each.

Bloodbuzz Ohio by The National and The Killers' Mr Brightside complete the top five polling at four and five respectively.

Seven National Army from The White Stripes - the only band in the top 10 to feature a female - was voted in at number six, followed by The Flaming Lips' Do You Realize?? and Hurt by Johnny Cash.

Rounding out the top 10 are British Sea Power's Remember Me and Radiohead's There There.

The late Amy Winehouse appears at number 25 with Rehab, behind Lana Del Rey's Video Games at 24, but ahead of Adele's Hometown Glory at 28.

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don't bother fronting, Coldplay is the best thing on that list

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/14/bbc-6-music-radio-3-fm

^^^ This is why corny indie fuxx should never be allowed near positions of actual power.

tom watson makes me long for all politicians to be soulless bots who don't give a shit about music

as for 6music it really is just a retirement home for people who were in terrible 90s bands/vehicle for them to become insufferable national treasures

someone rescue mary anne hobbs

When the Guardian last week proclaimed that garageland blues-rock group Drenge could be future Glastonbury headliners, we didn't quite predict this. Their performance at the Worthy Farm festival appears to have been so epiphanic that it has led to the resignation of former Labour MP Tom Watson.

Posting an open letter to Ed Miliband on his blog today, Watson explained that the continuing rows over the party's Falkirk selection process was a deciding factor for him stepping down as Labour's general election co-ordinator, before signing off the blog describing a pivotal moment he had during an interview with John Humphrys:

"John Humphrys asked me why you were not at Glastonbury this weekend. I said Labour leaders can't be seen standing in muddy fields listening to bands. And then I thought how terribly sad that this is true. So: be that great Labour leader that you can be, but try to have a real life too. And if you want to see an awesome band, I recommend Drenge."

lock thread.

oh i forgot, chuka umunna, we actually have an mp with decent music taste and he's a soulless corporate bot anyway

Bet anything Miliband googled them. xp

I hadn't heard about Chuka Umunna's taste in music before!
I like this Daily Mail hatchet job where some buffoon of a tory mp takes him to task for being rude about London's club scene in a 7 year old message board post:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304227/Internet-secrets-jetrosexual-Chuka-Umunna-party-loving-MP-hailed-Labours-Obama.html

it's hardly a surprise that an MP has really weak taste in music. and enjoys trolling.

But you can see the breadth of 6 Music's tastes in the rest of the top 10, including some bands who we've championed and who've broken through commercially like Elbow, and some brilliant groups who remain out there on the margins of pop like British Sea Power and The National.

this sentence still amazing