BBC 6 Music

I'd never heard of her before she subbed for LL last year. Utterly fucking dreadful. Regardless of what I think of other presenters, I at least get the impression that their enthusiasm for the music mostly comes from genuine appreciation. Not sure she's ever heard much of the stuff she plays, you can tell when she misreads her notes.

As for MAH, she constantly speaks in a really weird fashion which grinds my gears, "Debaser is the name of the tune, Pixies made it" being her standard way of telling you what the previous record was. Also can't ever give a 'shout out' to anyone without adding "I see you".

The worst thing during the day is the playlist. Does a good job of turning something you initially enjoy into one that you hate hearing yet again.

Quite enjoy Keaveny's self-deprecation, may be a Northern thing. The running gags get a bit tiresome though'. Am in on the hate for Lamacq, the only thing more banal than his voice is the 'wacky' theme tune under it.

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The Fontaine D.C. track at the moment is painful. My daughter asked what it was about.

Gid Coe, Don Letts, & Tom Robinson are all still great though. Huey, Cerys, Tom Ravers, all doing good things too.

Lamacq is the sound of my youth - once won a quiz on his show, where the answer was Elastica (who’d have thought). I aspire to a diet of bitter and crisps, but don’t disagree with much of the above

I really like Cerys - genuinely discover new stuff through her show. Always happy to listen to Gilles. I like Iggy but strongly suspect he’s being blackmailed by Sleaford Mods’ publicist - why else would he play them EVERY WEEK.

I don’t get why Tom Robinson is on so much - once heard him read out a band biog which was a rip-off of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, without a flicker of recognition from him (I feel I might have posted that before on this thread)

Guy Garvey is perfect on a Sunday afternoon. Shame he's off for a month.

The faux wonder and whimsy in MAHs voice does get on my tits but she earned my undying respect when she played Sunn O))) at midday on a Tuesday years ago.

But yeah Guy Garvey, Marc Riley, Iggy, Gideon Coe, Tom Ravenscroft, Lauren Laverne all brilliant. Only thing worth the licence fee.

Exactly. I can forgive her for sounding like a stoned Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter when she constantly plays a stream of amazing stuff i've never heard of before.

Not one mention of Craig Charles? IMO his show is great. And when he stands in for Lamacq, it's such a refreshing change.

Did you know he was in Elbow? He hardly ever mentions it...

‘Songs from the 90s that they don’t play on the radio any more’ is pretty much peak lamacq.

I turn on 6 Music to see what peak Lamacq sounds like and he's playing album I worked on 25 years ago.

suspect tongue in cheek

Awkward, I had to turn it off. I can only cope with B&S in very small doses. Sorry.

Thanks. - I was wondering how to describe her but you've nailed it.

I could do with some lockdown radio help. At the moment I like 6 music in the morning until Lauren finishes but have to turn off when MAH starts fauxmoting.

I usually switch to RNE Radio 3 (Spanish) or NTS.

Any other station recommendations?

I do love Cerys - terrible band but superb radio presenter.

Craig Charles is the only reason I'd ever listen to 6 Music these days

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I'm torn about Guy. Elbow is an off button when played, but his knowledge and love of some quality music balances this off. I think his show is well paced for the slot it sits in too.

@Muppetteer CC is good too yeah, again a perfect Saturday evening energetic show.

MAH - can't stick her, but plays good stuff and gave my mate a shoutout yesterday, which spurred me to drop her a line and speak for the first time in a few years*. Which was nice.

Glad to hear that Lamacq's a twat irl - always good to have preconceptions confirmed.

tbh there is barely one of them I'd call a good presenter - just a case of who plays the better music and is less annoying.

*edit - my mate, not MAH

No apology needed, I turned the radio off.

Not a station but - radiooooo.com (5 x letter o I think) is great - pick an area/decade and enjoy! If you pick somewhere very obscure in the 1930s or something though, you might listen to everything in its playlist quite quickly.

AccuRadio is ok if only for the varied genres .
https://www.accuradio.com/christian/

Did you know Marc Riley was in the Fall and he's a big Bowie fan ?

People should try kexp for independent sounds much like 6 music but far less plugging themselves and that friggin loyle carnet trailer.
https://kexp.org/top-903-albums-2020/

It wasn’t so much belle and Sebastian that was peak lamacq, more his dogged determination in hauling the 90s out of its grave and parading it in front of listeners like some sort of macabre puppet of decaying memories. I could imagine him furiously onanising as listeners tell him about a t-shirt they bought at a Shed Seven gig once and how they still have it somewhere or maybe an ex girlfriend took it. Either way it was their favourite gig and.... he’s done, right across the sleeve of an Idles vinyl promo.

3l4 of Shed 7 were in the year below me at school (if anyone needs a t shirt)

I do bear a grudge against Mat Everitt professional sycophant and plagiarist the only man on the planet to find Sean Keaveney funny.
My mate was TourManaging/Driving/ Merch. a band at Glastonbury, I was ligging.
Going backstage Security tried to be funny/flirty/creepy with a member of the band reading her pass and saying “The Strange Boys but your a girl” my mate and I go into a routine about being conned by the music industry....saw Gorilaz and was disappointed there weren’t large primates, I found out The Dobie brothers weren’t actually brothers OR called Dobie etc.ertc.
The I heard Everitt repeat it virtually word for word I suspect he was behind us in the queue.

@Velocio earlier while the B&S album playback was going on I dusted off my old copy and was perusing it when I saw your name credited on the sleeve and thought “must be a coincidence” but clearly I was wrong. Some songs on that record really were atrocious with abysmal singing and a chronic overdose of twee.

As for Lammo... bless him, clearly not to everyone’s taste, but he’ll always have a place in my heart for playing my (admittedly also rather twee) old band’s poorly recorded bedroom demo on his radio 2 (!) show, describing as a ‘superb all round band effort’, aw.

plug alertOur second EP, only 11 years between recording and release, was a 2020 lockdown project of mine, and is being finally released on Friday. I’m sending it to Steve again but I doubt he’ll play it this time (even tho it’s actually much better than our old one).