BBC 6 Music

I really like the Manic Street Preachers but I'm not going to tell you my favourite lyrics, nor do I give a fuck what your favourite ones are

If you tolerate this, then your children will shop at Next

6music in the evening, but R3 in the day.

Add me to the mostly listens to Radio 3 train. Apart from the run from Huey Morgan to Blessed Madonna on Saturdays, when 6music is actually good.

#alldayrage I might tune in for a bit

Christ… it’s only Thursday

Anybody who is so keen on Glastonbury is already there.

Huey Morgan can get to fuck. Odious cunt.
Giles to Blessed Madonna is agreed, best bit of the weekend.

I like now playing too. And Gideon Coe, the rest not so much.

And then to look forward to 24/7 replays for the next week.

Glastonbury coverage lots of swearing and lamack wetting himself over supergrass.

Lamacq’s never got over the fact it’s no longer 1995.

Still annoyin but not as much as steve wright who is finally packing in his r2 show 20 years too late.

Small world.

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Creepy Gollum-looking fuck. Lamacq too, etc and so on.

really annoyin - no g

Think I might get a bit murderey if I have to hear that fucking Phoenix song many more times…

I've actually switched stations a few days this week for the first time in about 3 years - started listening to Jazz FM during the day now. (and mostly it's because I've got a bit of a crush on Deb Grant, and I like jazz. Can't really go wrong.)

From the days before 6Music;
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/aug/08/reel-lives-how-i-tracked-down-the-class-of-nmes-c86-album

She is doing the early shows this week 5.30-7.30 am

Brilliant I remember it all so well, thanks for sharing

A link to a Guardian article is pretty much my modus operandi.

I always thought the '87 Peel Festive 50 was the best.
I now need to check who else from the C86 'graduated'.
Obviously plenty of Wedding Present, but who else?

'87 was that amazing Smiths session featuring Half a Person, London etc wasn't it? Plus a bucket load of The Fall?

Or am I thinking of 86 maybe?

Nah, you're correct.
Each year it was a ritual of buying TDK C120 tapes,
and,
being ready, with the finger on the record button as each section of the F50 was broadcast.

Here it is.

Both The Fall and The Smiths, and The Wedding Present for that matter,
had had too many tracks in the F50, splitting their voting, as the countdown approached the No.1

Part of the attraction of the F50 was it reminded you what had been featured through John Peel's shows, what you had enthused about, and what you had missed.

I can't remember if I had heard Sugarcubes Birthday before this show,
but,
Anne Nightingale then played it as frequently as The Waterboys Whole of the Moon.

Depends what you mean by 'graduated'?

If we assume NME was trying to promote new bands, I'm implying did any subsequently get a Peel Session, and show up in a Festive 50.

I'm guessing John Peel had more listeners than copies of NME sold.

‘Bands you associate with MySpace’

Fuuuuucking heeeeeeeell lammo

Here’s all of John Peel’s Festive 50s in one 64 hour Spotify playlist!
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1GYlfWwpsEKGNX9oilckgX?si=VuwmQi8LRfaRen69P0ygyQ