BBC 6 Music

I think it is overdue. There's only so much "indie" that you can play. I like the idea of expanding the representation of other genres as promised in the Ravenscroft and Grant early evening shows.
 
Thatā€™s a shame. Really like Riley did heā€™s on a good slot for me to catch him. I prefer him to Steve Lamacq who I find is more one dimensional. Itā€™s a huge slash in hours.
 
No I quite like him but never listen much these days because of this.

"The changes are being made amid fears that 6 Music, which attracts 2.5m weekly listeners, is losing its ā€œalternativeā€ ethos, with ā€œindie rockā€ replaced by dance tracks also played on Radio 1."

Every time I put it on these days seem to catch an interminable dance track and usually switch it off and put a CD back on before its finished. The music used to be so good but sometimes it un listenable.
And that's coming from someone who used to tape John Peel everynight and spend the next day adding the best tracks to a cassette compilation. Still have loads of them.
 
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No I quite like him but never listen much these days because of this.

"The changes are being made amid fears that 6 Music, which attracts 2.5m weekly listeners, is losing its ā€œalternativeā€ ethos, with ā€œindie rockā€ replaced by dance tracks also played on Radio 1."

Every time I put it on these days seem to catch an interminable dance track and usually switch it off and put a CD back on before its finished. The music used to be so good but sometimes it un listenable.
And that's coming from someone who used to tape John Peel everynight and spend the next day adding the best tracks to a cassette compilation. Still have loads of them.
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Makes no sense
Riley and Coe are probably the antithesis of dance music
 
"And that's coming from someone who used to tape John Peel every night and spend the next day adding the best tracks to a cassette compilation. Still have loads of them."

Glad it's not just me then.(y)
 
Sorry, I seem to be at odds with everyone else. Radio 6, as I understand it, has a remit to bring new music to us, music that is not going to be championed elsewhere on the BBC music stations. I don't see why that should be limited to "indie" music. There is very exciting new music to be found across many genres. Folk, Jazz, Blues, Dance, Reggae, Ska, etc. For example, I discovered the music of Max Richter through R6 (neo-classical?) and I'm not a fan of Mary Anne Hobbs and think she plays too much dance stuff for me but she does present me with music that I would not have otherwise heard and that can ONLY be a good thing. The best piece of music, your next favouritest song ever might be a "dance" track that you would never have heard, this is where humans picking music is so much better than the algorithms of Spotify or YouTube which largely only give you what you have said that you like.
 
Muttley said:
Sorry, I seem to be at odds with everyone else. Radio 6, as I understand it, has a remit to bring new music to us, music that is not going to be championed elsewhere on the BBC music stations. I don't see why that should be limited to "indie" music. There is very exciting new music to be found across many genres. Folk, Jazz, Blues, Dance, Reggae, Ska, etc. For example, I discovered the music of Max Richter through R6 (neo-classical?) and I'm not a fan of Mary Anne Hobbs and think she plays too much dance stuff for me but she does present me with music that I would not have otherwise heard and that can ONLY be a good thing. The best piece of music, your next favouritest song ever might be a "dance" track that you would never have heard, this is where humans picking music is so much better than the algorithms of Spotify or YouTube which largely only give you what you have said that you like.
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100% agree, and I love both Marc Riley and Gid Coe, but would argue that they don't only play "indie" (whatever that actually means) especially Gid. I also love Deb Grant, and will miss her on JazzFM during the day, however I can take or leave Tom Ravenscroft.

It seems a lot of 6music listeners want something that plays nothing but Britpop, 90's guitar bands with a bit of "friendly" dance music thrown in (Underworld, Prodigy etc). Catering to the sort of white middle aged bloke (it's always a bloke) who claims to have eclectic tastes "everything from Carter USM to Ned's Atomic Dustbin" but actually just wants a radio station playing the bands that were considered alternative when they were growing up.

For me the first step would have been to reduce significantly Steve Lurpack's time, as there's only so much Fontaines DC and Slaves that one man can play, and fill some of that time with someone like Deb Grant or even Marc Riley.
 
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I used to like BBC 7 when it was replays of old comedy shows and radio programmes.
Since it was absorbed into BBC Radio 4 Xtra - its crap.(n)
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