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@dooks
yeah same here. then on getting home crank up mark riley on 6 while chopping veg, having a beer or whatever. then after eating do the washing up to more of the hapless boy lard or gideon coe after that.
saturday mornings are all about adam and joe till it's time to go out and do whatever plus you've got russell howard and steven merchant on sundays if you're at home.
i don't have a fsking clue what's in the top 10 either as i haven't listened to radio 1 or watched saturday morning kids tv for about 15 years.
i always make time for the best bits of 6 music tho. i just love it man. i love that most of shows have their own very different agendas and identities (indie/folk/country/americana/rock/metal/reggae/funk/soul/unsigned/vinyl collecing/WHATEVER) and a totally free rein to play what they like within their own loose remits. i dig that they don't discriminate between great old stuff and great new stuff. i like that the audinece is small enough that if you contact any dj you'll usually get a response, if not on air at least a friendly email or text back from the djs. check out any one of lardy boy's playlists:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/marc_riley/tracklisting.shtml
i reckon riley is the only candidate even remotely worthy to be considered in the same ball park as peel. i've found so much new stuff though that show.
getting a digital radio a few years back totally rekindled my love with music again.
sorry to labour the point but lamb's repertoire of lame as fuck catchphrases, playlist of plodding mainstream indie, apparently boundless ignorance of the wider woirld of music and thouroughly offensive treatment of many interviewees just does not work on that station.
EDIT - guy garvey is great too. and bob dylan when they have his theme time radio hours. even lamacq isn't too bad (apart from his britpop obsession. LIVE IN THE NOW STEVE!) plus there's documentaries like the extended pet sounds one the other day... yep - thank fuck for 6 music basically. i'd long since given up on radio after the capital takeover of XFM, when after LBC went talk; but 6 got me back into radio in a big way. can't really imagine life without it now.