Mancunians do not call Manchester Manny.
A lot of visitors do. Seems like a recent development.
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He was scheduled to DJ after a mate of mine a few years ago. Was a top class tit by all accounts, being rude and demanding my mate finish early so he could get on.
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Seems to be a young persons thing although the first person I remember calling it Manny was Chrissie Hynde on the telly or radio a few years ago.
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Always got the impression no one rates Don Letts as much as Don Letts rates Don Letts.
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Memory is a bit dim, but pretty sure that was the first year i went
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MAH’s voice reminds me of the really boring, really stoned girl you’d get stuck next to in a student party while waiting for a rubbish spliff to circulate around a bedroom. And she plays mostly terrible music.
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I’ve never been to Glastonbury but my impression is that it seems to have become a middle class ghetto over the years - more so than ever… expensive and I don’t think you can jump the fences anymore as friends attest to doing years back
Whilst breathily gushing about how incredible it is…
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The scandal of Glastonbury not paying artists needs to be talked about more. People being booked only if they’ve already got a ticket or having to do 3x8 hour shifts in the bar/tent they are playing in as a “reward” for playing. Disgusting. They say they’re charity focused socialists but are amongst the most exploitative “employers”. A loose term given they don’t actually pay many people. £6m profit last year btw. F****** hippies indeed.
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I haven’t listened in a long while, from memory the trailers were particularly nauseating, presenters and guest presenters trying to out passion each other and convey how passionate they are about music and just how much it means to them to get paid for playing it. Awful.
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All this said, I did hear Iggy Pop play “Holes” by Mercury Rev which is one of the greatest songs ever, so there are diamonds among the irritating presenter dribble.
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Watched him play at Northampton Labour Club around 2010, properly up his own arse and played some absolutely honking tunes as well
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I’ve been here for almost 25 years now (
) exiled from north London and never once heard anyone call it Manny until the last few years. Mostly young folk especially on social media who have arrived and are surprised that somewhere north of St Albans has shops, bars, nice restaurants … running water, electricity.
And don’t get me started on the north-south divide 
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Those cash cows don’t milk themselves you know…
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Such a beautiful record.
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Isn’t it. I got out my crackly first press of the album after posting this and played it last night. Mega record.
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I feel like an old man shouting at a cloud when I complain about 6music but it really is a lot shitter than it used to be.
It feels really contrived now with loads of nonsensical theme days. Most of the presenters seem either bland radio 2 types or pretentious cringe like MAH.
I still like Radcliffe and Maconie mainly because they seem to ham up the boring old blokes schtick just to piss off Samantha Moy.
Music wise it’s Huey Morgan for me. Shame he’s a massive Trump supporting cunt by all accounts.
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Exactly… you get a great show like Huey’s that’s ruined by his very annoying presence. Similarly, I always discover some lovely new tunes between the nailed-on Talk Talk & Joni on Guy Garvey’s show - but can’t stand the guy!
Generally, after a few years of listening constantly - I can see the joins now and am wandering elsewhere. The rigidity of the playlist, the continual need to cross-promote (any song only ever throws back to something on bbc sounds, or forward to something up and coming), the fucking smart speaker nonsense. Please text in, let us know what you’re doing/where you’ve been - I don’t care! Play me something I’ve never heard before! Play some deep cuts! Play any other Wu-Tang track that’s not Gravel Pit. Play the full version of Labi Siffre ‘I Got The’ and not that clumsy edit you knocked up!
I read that the top brass are realising that within a few years that all these 6Music Dads may in fact die and leave them with no listeners - and so… the new recruits bring some early noughties ‘Indie bangers’ and what have you. Been enjoying ROVR a lot either live or on catch-up and whenever I listen to a few hours live of NTS - I found myself shazamming like crazy.
It’s a shame as I really rate Lauren Laverne, Deb Grant, Jamz Supernova and a few others but my god can Craig Charles, Don Letts and (sorry) Huw please do one. I’d like some knowledgable, savvy, non-famous people to get the job of supplying us with what the station’s meant to be about. Old man rant over…
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Pretty much agree with all this. I only listen in the car but that is most days ranging from 20 mins to an hour. Deb Grant is wasted in that slot, and I feel sorry for her having to share space with that Nathan plum. I find the whole morning slots aren’t for me (can’t stand Grimshaw’s air sucking tick, once heard never forgotten), Craig Charles is like Steve Wright with slightly less naff music, Huw and Lamacq are unbearable. Overall agree that the number of times outside Huey, Gid Coe and GP (when I can face his grating shtick) I look up a tune that’s being played is far less than it was a few years ago.
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Oh and Cerys Matthews. Plays some lovely music sometimes but her wittering and reading poetry and some of the guests is all so cloyingly twee I have to switch off a lot of the time.
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