#5

Radio 6:

Riley > cocker > ravenscroft > Coe > pop > Radcliffe/mcconie > Matthews > Lamacq > Hobbs > laverne > Morgan > Charles > Keavney

Keavney is like fingers down a blackboard for
me with his tedious northern schtick (I’m a tedious northerner too). Morgan and Charles rub me up the wrong way mainly because they feel the need to talk over the end of songs. I like laverne’s patter but her taste in music is bland. Hobbs is too earnest. Lammo is a bit too 1994. Consistently enjoy Riley’s music the most.

Other radio: I tend to tune into the Aussie regional stations for example RRR (which is Melbournes, there are also others for the other cities) can usually find something good during the daytime here as it’s their nighttime interesting programmes there.

KEXP (from Seattle) also reliably good.

#6

Dark Side Of The Tune with Immortus X is on my local community station, WERU. It’s one of the best shows I’ve ever heard. Past shows here.

The listen again service for the station is a bit crappy unfortunately.

#7

I know what you mean about Mary-Ann Hobbs’s earnestness, but her music selections are brilliant, wide-ranging and frequently surprising. Her show is the best on 6Music I think. I also like Marc Riley and Gideon Coe (although I don’t hear his show as much as the others because of the time it is on).

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#8

Always Gideon Coe.

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#9

Ravenscroft>keavney>Laverne>radmac>lamacq

#10

6 Music ranking:

Hobbs > Riley > Cocker > Coe >>>RadMac > Ravenscroft > Keaveny > Laverne > Letts > Lamacq > Charles > Matthews > Morgan > Peterson >>>:>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kershaw

#12

Tom Ravenscroft and Benji-B. I rarely get through both of their two shows over the course of the week tbh.

#13

Any non-Radio 6 suggestions? My favourite radio thing used to be Mike Davies on Radio 1, but nothing’s really filled the void since they cancelled it.

#14

Trevor Nelson’s Rhythm Nation

#15

On Resonance FM: The OST Show presented by Jonny Trunk. Every Saturday 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM.

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#16

That’s a blast from the past - I went to see him do his Dirty Fan Mail show donkeys years ago in Bethnal Green. I won the raffle for a framed photo of an original letter from spunky Arthur.

http://www.trunkrecords.com/turntable/dfm.shtml

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#18

Marc Riley is great, but his picks feels rather predictable a lot of time - seems like he’s on commission to mention Teleman or Thee Oh Sees. But if I want to hear some quirky guitar bands, he has the go to show.

I really don’t mind Keaveney, but Laverne is the best listening at the 9-5. Iggy’s show is a great unpredictable scattering of songs, as is Jarvis Cocker’s.

I would like to know about more stuff away from the beeb though, I’ve not tried Beats radio.

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Yep, it’s about as glamorous as it sounds. But it’s the first (and last thing) I’ve ever won in a raffle so I was quite pleased with myself. Mrs prob won’t let me hang it on the wall though. Funny that.

#20

Is Beats 1 worth it then? I have been tempted by it. Can you listen to it without the subscription?

#21

Also, we’re listening to Gary Davies on Radio 2 at work. I would not recommend that.

#22

You can stream it live without having a subscription:

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#23

No mention of RBMA yet - plenty of solid gold on there. My faves are Andrew Nosnitsky’s All the Raps and Earl Sweatshirt / Knxwledge’s Stay Inside. Still so much that looks great that I haven’t investigated yet

https://www.redbullradio.com/shows/category/all

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:>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kershaw

A thousand million times this. Liz Kershaw Remembers Things is easily the most painful two hours of radio out there.

It’s like your auntie’s been tanning the sherry at Christmas and decided to try her hand at podcasting.

“Ey…errr…d’you remember The Macc Lads? Ey, they were proper great, weren’t they? What was that one they done…summat about Camberwick Green where it were all kickin’ off. That were a great singl…oh no, 'ang on, that were 'Alf Man 'Alf Biscuit, weren’t it? Ey, what am I like, eh? 'Ere, 'ave I done me Smashie and Nicey impression yet?..”

cut to footage of producer with his head in his hands, fade to black…

“…d’you remember Curly Wurlys?..”

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