Dear 6Music,
I’m sure you had a really good time at your party in Bristol last weekend. Lots of great live music that you’d like to hear again to relive the experiences. I know some listeners came along to some of the gigs too but the size of the venues meant that the numbers were limited.
The trouble is that what seemed like a great live performance when you were there, doesn’t necessarily translate into a great listening experience a few days later for the vast majority of your listeners who weren’t there.
I’m more than happy to listen to live recordings on the radio (and there’s little doubt the BBC library contains some wonderful live performances) but please consider whether or not the performance lends itself to a radio audience rather than merely being a souvenir for the small coterie of attendees.
Thanks
John
R6 were in Bristol? I just got a car with a DAB radio, so have been listening to a lot of Lamacq, Lard etc, and they haven’t mentioned it once!
I saw a bit of Guy Garvey on the red channel last night but not watched the rest
yet. Will would like to have heard Roni Size.
They do seem to get wrapped up about festivals in general – the Music News segment of RadMac seems to talk about nothing else for months on end from Spring onwards. I realise that a lot of people go festivalling, but a lot more don’t.
I listen to the station on and off throughout the week. It really annoyed me that on Sunday evening when I would otherwise be listening to the brilliant Jarvis cocker I had to listen instead to some terrible terrible act live from Bristol. I had to turn it off as the guy was on for the best part of an hour it seemed. I don’t know who he is but Ive heard him a few times on the station and he is truly awful.
Jarvis on the other hand is as good as it gets. Or pretty close, Guy Garvey’s good too.
So, no, the festival thing wasn’t a success for me.
I absolutely love Jarvis as a bloke and as an artists but I can’t stand him on the radio.
Yeah, I kinda know what you mean, he is a bit polarising. I mean, I cannot stand his music and have never liked it, I just do not get it, which is a bit embarrassing as Ive met him a number of times on social occasions and we’re loosely in the same social circle because of our kids. Having said that he has impeccable taste and I really like him as a person and respect him as an artist (pseuds alert). I’m just pleased that I do like his programme (as, like you, there was every chance I’d hate it – it’s a very thin line).
I’ve also felt underwhelmed by this Bristol festival lark. What truly bemuses me, though, is 6Music’s continued employment of Chris Hawkins, a man who wouldn’t be out of place on Radio Norfolk. Does he know where the BBC bodies are buried, or is there some nepotism afoot, a la The Guardian and a certain writer?
Agreed. That is indeed one of life’s conundrums.
I like Chris Hawkins – I’m glad he does ‘my’ breakfast show every weekday. I’d glad he’s on for my breakfast and drive to work than Shaun Keaveney who simply talks too much!
I feel a bit sorry for poor old Chris Hawkins, because he’s not really terrible at all, but has been cursed with the worst kind of ooh-Gary-Davies-greatmate speaking voice. Even though he’s perfectly at home on 6, he absolutely sounds like hospital radio.
6Music have been over-trailing everything for some time now to the point where you lose the will to live. The Festival is usually the low point of this but they do it with Glasto and their Maida Vale thing as well.
It’s a funny old mix of a station – from the unmissable Jarvis, consistently good Garvey and Huey and the laconic Keaveney to the often unlistenable gush of MAH and almost local radio parodic Liz Kershaw. You only have to have once entered a music shop in Manchester with a couple of mates to get a session on Marc Riley these days.
I tend to leave it on and just get irritated but some of the chat and ad trails are beginning to pall with me. I think it’s a bit pleased with itself now it’s been saved for the nation.
Jarvis: missable.
Not trolling honestly, but I love 6 Music.
Seconded. Just compare it to other music stations, it’s head and shoulders above all the others.
I think it’s because the station is the only one I listen to (and I’ve been listening since day one) that I care about the bad and irritating bits so much.
Radio is the most personal medium I think. Yes bits of 6Music wind me up too but the good far out weighs the bad. IMO.
Dear 6Music
Why haven’t you got a rock ‘n’ roll show?
So the consensus on 6music is it’s a mixed bag? Like all radio stations? Hey at least George fucking Lamb ain’t on anymore…
The Misty in Roots set was a joy, also enjoyed Julia Holter.
I always thought Danny Baker would be a shoo-in for 6 Music what with his wit & record collection.
3 hours every Sunday would be a great end to a weekend.
Actually he could do the weekly breakfast show as well.