Lauren Laverne (who apparently earns around a quarter of a million a year!!), takes over the Breakfast Show. In the ensuing re-shuffle Radcliffe and Maconie are demoted to the weekend breakfast slot. Is this good news? Radcliffe and Maconie don’t seem over impressed ….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/6-music-announces-schedule-changes
No it’s not good news. RadMac are a fantastic listen in the afternoon and I will miss them. Radio schedule changes always seem to cause the biggest kerfuffle, see the Simon Mayo/Jo Whiley storm in Radio 2.
But this is a definite shame.
Yeah, I was unaware of the Whiley/Mayo changes for a while, but had earlier found his Radio 2 show to be inferior to what he did on 5 Live, apples and oranges I know.
Plays a lot of Floyd does he?
Must admit, I wish they’d left RadMac alone. They are a good pairing and don’t eat the scenery in the same way as Keaveny does. Same goes for Mayo’s Drive time which seemed to have a good groove going .. what with Nige the food guy on Thursdays and Dr Mosh playing Saxon or Motorhead once a week. Now we have Jo Whiley’s inoffensive but insipid witterings. I swear – every time I tune in she is cuing up another Florence & The Machine track and gushing over how great it is. Really??
I love the chain.
Leave 6music alone.
Looks like its back to the iPod.
I used to catch RadMac on the way to or from evening meetings back in the old days before Radio 2 closed down. And then it’s been catching them when travelling around in the afternoon, plus the weekly podcasts. Very enjoyable it has been too.
Driving to work in the morning has meant that the radio was already tuned to Shaun Keavney. I have usually lasted until his voice came on, laughing at his own ‘jokes’. I won’t be tuning in in the afternoons next year.
And to think I insisted the car had DAB radio, so I could listen to 6music. I suppose I’ll still need it for the cricket though. Otherwise it will be the iPod. Or Radio 3, perhaps.
Lauren Laverne’s morning show is excellent, so I daresay she’ll be fine on the breakfast show, though that’ll take her off my radio radar, sadly (I very rarely listen early mornings). Likewise, RadMac’s crazed afternoon show will be sadly missed. Frustrating how these changes almost never seem to be for the better.
I’m all for progress and if 6 Music meets it’s remit it can’t get like Radio 4 where everything stays the same from the 1930s until someone dies – so when I heard there was a reshuffle I assumed some new DJs were coming along and that perhaps Marc Er….Er…Er…Radcliffe and Maconie were ready to reduce their output- not so. So we get mid-morning with “Whispering” Ann Hobbs and her hushed tones and “amaaazing” music followed by Shaun Keaveny – a more irritating version of Vernon Kay. Bleee.
– This is all theoretical of course as I don’t have time to listen to Radio in the day so most of my radio listening is on iPlayer anyway – I can only suggest daytime listeners build their own schedule like I do.
Yes. It doesn’t really matter who’s on when, if you are listening on t’Net.
I only listen to live radio in my car these days and it doesn’t get the DAB stations.
I almost never listen to music radio, unless BBC R4 is being particularly obnoxious, in which case I flip to BBC R3 and then turn the radio off if that’s not interesting enough.
I occasionally listen to Net Radio at home, but rarely live. I probably ought to listen to more music radio to prevent my tastes solidifying too much.
It’ll be interesting to see how RadMac does on a weekend morning. It’s the sort of show that accompanies working well (I have it on on the rare occasions I work from home), much like Mark and Lard did 20 (blimey) years ago, and dare I say Steve Wright before that. There’s a lot of dependency on listener interaction, so if they can keep that going, it should be a good listen.
Clashes with Danny Baker on a Saturday though…
Stopped listening to Danny’s Sat show a while back. Any reason to come back? It’s available on a podcast in full anyway.
Mark Riley … hmmm …. I last saw him, in the flesh, on 3 May 1982, playing guitar with the Fall at the Band in the Wall in Manchester.
Pretty good gig. Have just looked up the setlist on google. I see that it includes my two all-time favourite Fall songs ( Lie Dream of a Casino Soul and Deer Park), played back-to-back. How lucky can one be?
Spectre vs. Rector / Look, Know / Wings / Lie Dream of a Casino Soul / Deer Park / Tempo House / Joker Hysterical Face / Hexen Definitive / I’m into C.B. / Solicitor in Studio / Backdrop / Just Step Sideways / Prole Art Threat
“6Music will be bringing even more music to listeners, particularly in its daytime schedule.”
Er, how? I must be missing something.
Are they saying that RadMac talk too much?
If they are, they’ve goofed by not listening to SK’s breakfast show. Sometimes it seems like it’s a talk station…. and one playing repeats from earlier in the day as well!
When they’re on form, Radcliffe and Maconie are an extremely inventive and genuinely funny duo. Their ability to take an off-the-cuff comment and extrapolate from it often has me grinning from ear to ear – we’re of an age, them and me, so the reference points often chime well. However, I Listen Again, which currently gives me a weekly diet of 15 hours of hilarity and jolly good music. That’ll be cut in half when they are demoted to the weekend slot – and what else is out there to prevent me having to do some work?
Might give the breakfast show a go again – turned off when Phil Jupitus left and Shaun Keavney started – rather stunned if that was 11 years ago
I’m in work before Chris Hawkins finishes and out once Lamaq has started so it will only affect me during the holidays when I don’t manage to get through a whole hour of the breakfast show so the fact the CH will run through the 7:30 will be a good thing. Surely a show starting at 7:30 on a weekday is in danger of being a mid morning show anyway so I would guess that LL will be doing much the same, just a bit earlier.
It shouldn’t really matter when the word ‘music’ is actually in the title of the station, who the DJs are so much but they do give R4 a run when it comes to the talking. SK seems the worst offender to me but Lamaq is close. One show I’ll never listen to is MAH, she’s just tooo irritating. Fortunately she seems to lean towards the sort of music I won’t miss not hearing too.
Petition to save RadMac:
https://www.change.org/p/bbc-6music-keep-radcliffe-and-maconie-on-6-music-afternoons-saveradmac?recruiter=31317747&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=triggered