6music idiocy AKA I hate change

[Capt.Midnight]

Caught a bit of Lamacq's show today. One of the text-in features was - and I promise I'm not making this up - 'what old telephone numbers can you still remember?'.

Not quite as exciting as last week's 'when's the latest you've arrived at a gig?'.

I remember spending each weekday in tiring, depressing rush hour traffic in Leeds City Centre, listening to Simon Mayo repeatedly ask his callers what they were having for tea. It was then that I realised my life had hit peak bleak. Thanks Steve.

Shortly after this year of concrete audio misery, I realised my car radio did infact have DAB installed.

[Endicott]

peak bleak.

I bought a cheap DAB add-on for my car radio so I could avoid Chris Evans in the morning and listen to Shaun Keaveny instead. Kill me now.

[idunnosomename]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwYQqgsqFU4/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

I want them punching the air, Ken!

[lazyhour]

I want them punching the air, Ken!

Ha!

The music appears to be playing without him actually doing anything.

[Pauline Walnuts]

Ha!

The music appears to be playing without him actually doing anything.

Not real music played by real musicians as played back by real DJs on real turntables?

[bobloblaw]

YES! Tom Waits to DJ for 6 with Iggy!
Not especially bothered with Mr Pop's usual show but this growl-off is Christmas come early

https://x.com/BBC6Music/status/1726903545964732679?s=20

[George Oscar Bluth II]

TIL

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/mar/01/popandrock2

Fascinating time capsule of a piece:

For the under-30s, music is something to be shared and swapped and downloaded, legally or otherwise. It doesn't need to be owned because it's everywhere. If they do buy it, it may be in a form as slight as a mobile ringtone.

[Deskbound Cunt]

T-shirt day on 6 Music today. In its 16th gruelling year.

What band t-shirt are you wearing? We'll play them!

Needless to say it's was one of Steve Lamacq's dull, boring-as-fuck ideas. Now it's taken over the whole day.

The music has been fine to great to fantastic. But the presenters pretending to be excited about a bloke wearing a Nirvana T-shirt.

Theres a horrible bit of my brain I sort of hope Lamacq gets caught for some dodginess. Just so his grip over 6 Music can get washed away. It'll probably something dull as fuck like he bought a load of USM records to get them into the charts.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

I wore a Phish t-shirt yesterday. If only I'd known. I could have worn it today instead and asked them to play some really shit music

[OpenMikeKnight]

Does nobody else think that wearing band t-shirts is just really naff?

[iamcoop]

Does nobody else think that wearing band t-shirts is just really naff?

Nah I think it's fine. It's a good talking point. There's a guy in my work building that I've never spoken to even though we get the lift together quite often. A couple of months ago he was wearing a Sisters of Mercy shirt and I was like "oh, cool band" and BAM. Now we're married.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

My ex kept my Sisters of Mercy t-shirt. I bet she binned it or used it to clean windows or something

[Sebastian Cobb]

Does nobody else think that wearing band t-shirts is just really naff?

Think it's fine so long as its not showy. Hungover on a Sunday in the pub in a faded overwashed beastie boys t-shirt is fine. T-shirt straight out the wrapper of last night's gig = get outta here.

[iamcoop]

Think it's fine so long as its not showy. Hungover on a Sunday in the pub in a faded overwashed beastie boys t-shirt is fine. T-shirt straight out the wrapper of last night's gig = get outta here.

I've got a friend that buys one at the merch table at a gig and then immediately puts it on over his other tops. Come on mate, there's no place for genuine excitement and living in the moment, I'm trying to look sullen and cool here.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I've got a friend that buys one at the merch table at a gig and then immediately puts it on over his other tops. Come on mate, there's no place for genuine excitement and living in the moment, I'm trying to look sullen and cool here.

Heh. My mate Bob disappeared at a PWEI gig that I was enjoying massively 'for a smoke' and came back with a t-shirt from the stall as a present. He unfortunately  died at 30 due to cancer, so it's a treasured possession now, I don't wear it.

I get your churlish post but also can't really blame someone for shoving a t-shirt on rather than carrying it. I remember being about 17 and driving to a gig by myself, getting in and immediately deciding to buy a 7" not realising they'd never sell out, it became such a burden to lug around I think I resorted to shoving it up my back and tucking my t-shirt in.

[Deskbound Cunt]

I used to wear this one.


https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Girls-Aloud-line-up-by-lazarusheart/22243084.22W0K?country_code=GB&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAsIGrBhAAEiwAEzMlCxAHzOQIYJjCo6ab0rhQZcdpNNiLH8O03nKDJXzujKjW_kaoc3cSYhoCMusQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

[Brother James]

A tip-of-the-hat to Huw Stephens, who I think is doing a fine job of the 'Round Table' hour on Thursdays ...

[Red82]

Does nobody else think that wearing band t-shirts is just really naff?

I still wear them, but in the Summer only and not every day.

[Deskbound Cunt]

Ffs. Wrong thread. Breaking the Law.

[Chicory]

I thought the big joke about 'wear your old band t-shirt day' was that the only person who can still fit into stuff they were wearing thirty years ago is Lamacq himself.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I thought the big joke about 'wear your old band t-shirt day' was that the only person who can still fit into stuff they were wearing thirty years ago is Lamacq himself.

I went to Jehst gig a while back and wore a Jehst tee I've had since I was 17. He was kicking around on the way out went out and said 'fucking hell I got those  printed 20 years ago, can I get a photo?'.

[gilbertharding]

Does nobody else think that wearing band t-shirts is just really naff?

Ummm... 40+ year old men wearing a copy of the same band t shirt they happily wore when they were 20? I'd never let it happen to me. For one thing - it's like all fashion: if you're old enough to have worn it first time around, you're too old to wear it now. And, like, what if someone I knew back then saw me (never gonna happen, but)? They'd think I hadn't changed at all.

20 year olds wearing copies of the same band t shirt I had when I was their age? Or anyone wearing anything they like? Sure, go ahead.

Think the only band t shirt I have (and wear) now is a Stuyvesant Phys Ed Leader one (a copy of the one worn by Ad Rock in the Fight for your Right video).

[gilbertharding]

More in @gilbertharding only listens to Chris Hawkins news - but he does this thing every morning just before 7am, where he plays a new record by a new act and introduces it (or worse, plays a recording of the artist introducing it) with a bit of blurb straight from the press release, about what the artist thinks the song is 'about' and it never fails to make me ill-disposed to whatever it turns out to be. Probably because what the song turns out to be is so utterly banal and pointless... I dunno - it seems purposely designed to kill whatever magic (If any) there might have been about the song.

[fuzzyste]

Does nobody else think that wearing band t-shirts is just really naff?

its even worse when people wear the t shirt of the band they are seeing at a gig, I actually think its insane people do that

[Famous Mortimer]

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its even worse when people wear the t shirt of the band they are seeing at a gig, I actually think its insane people do that

Pretty sure I wore a Fall t-shirt last time I saw them.  God, I'd better see a psychiatrist.

[jobotic]

I have a Stereolab t-shirt from when I first saw them 78 years ago. It's very out of shape but I did wear it to the reunion gigs pre-Covid. What a cunt.

To make up for it when I go to football matches I wear the full home or away kit of the opposing side. Costing me a fortune.

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

I have a Stereolab t-shirt from when I first saw them 78 years ago.

Was that at their legendary Free Trade Hall gig on V.E. day?

[gilbertharding]

its even worse when people wear the t shirt of the band they are seeing at a gig, I actually think its insane people do that

I'm afraid I have to confess as well. In fact, I'm (well, I used to be) one of those headcases who buys a T Shirt from the merchandise stand, and put it on there and then over the top of the T Shirt I'm already wearing!

I KNOW!!!

[iamcoop]

More in @gilbertharding only listens to Chris Hawkins news - but he does this thing every morning just before 7am, where he plays a new record by a new act and introduces it (or worse, plays a recording of the artist introducing it) with a bit of blurb straight from the press release, about what the artist thinks the song is 'about' and it never fails to make me ill-disposed to whatever it turns out to be. Probably because what the song turns out to be is so utterly banal and pointless... I dunno - it seems purposely designed to kill whatever magic (If any) there might have been about the song.

Much has been said on here about "The Hawk" but I've just started listening to Radio 3 in the morning before work now. It's absolutely grave-tier radio from the big man day in day out