I will listen to Huey and Giles if I’m pottering about or driving on a Saturday but agree the overall programming is far removed from the original ethos these days. Big Centrist Dad turnout.
The 6Music ‘rave’ days are absolutely excruciating.
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Im old and i like a lot of music in different genres but i still feel some vestige of territorial pride about certain music and the culture around that music so it does irk me when say, Stuart Maconie talks about Larry Heard the way he does about Blur. Pick a lane dude or just be honest the way the old DJ’s were when they just hated all music!
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I like Stuart, think he’s genuine, I like both those artists too.
I don’t get the reverence Mary Ann Hobbs is held in by 6 music management though, her show is soporific.
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Huey Morgan is from New York would you believe.
Who knew?
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You call Glastonbury “Glasto”
You’d like to go there one day
When they’ve put up the gun towers
To keep the hippies away
December sees Kitzbuehel
Clad in Lowe Alpine
Your children are painfully soulless
Ralph’s in Brize Norton
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I saw Half Man Half Biscuit at Glasto in 85 or 86 - a couple of decades b4 they wrote that
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Were The Waterboys there that year too?
im sure he is and im not suggesting othewise but you have to pick a side unless you’re a music journalist or a DJ and im neither.
Can’t speak for him but i’m guessing he goes by it’s either ‘good or sh1t’ for what he likes.
Just checked it was '86.
Yes, we saw Waterboys on the main stage (also Black Uhuru, The Cure and Gil Scott heron), but spent a lot of time at the 2nd stage where HMHB and Woodentops were highlights
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That must have been excellent. I either saw some footage of the Waterboys that year or I had a bootleg tape - can’t remember - but it seemed like an amazing gig.
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whereas i go by ‘did frankie play this at the ministry and ive just found out what it is’ or i got chased all the way from Groove to Tottenham Court Road station by a bunch of mods carrying this ET’s record. Its about passion but as i said im not a DJ or a music journalist so i dont have to be rational about it. Or have a view on the new Pulp single. Its an absolute blessing and i wouldnt really want to do his job or the BBC’s job but that doesnt mean i cant see, or point out, the fact that they sit aloft on the waves of a sea of passions but they never got their feet wet.
Don Letts was there for the start of Punk. Hard to believe but it’s true! 
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God I love them
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Hates talking about it though.
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The Don seems to have become something of a national/6 Music treasure but every utterance is akin to nails down a blackboard to me. The album he released a while back was quite unbelievably bad given he single handedly turned the punks onto regg…yawn. Strong pass for me.
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Me too.
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I remember seeing comedian Simon Munnery as Alan Parker: Urban Warrior in the comedy tent at Glastonbury in the early 90’s.
He said something along the lines of 'At the moment the fence is there to keep people out, but one day it’ll be there to keep us in… "
Still think of that!
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The only time I went to “Glasto” it was one of the years it pissed down and turned into a collection of mudslides (mid 80s?). It put me off festivals and camping for life.
I also really hate the way they call it Glasto. It’s a practice that’s rife everywhere. Apparently I live in Manny.
I knew it was a mistake to start with the what don’t you get topic, I could be here a very long time …
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