I love listening to BBC 6Music – it’s by far the best music-playing national digital radio station (and that includes crappy XFM and Virgin) – but I’m constantly astonished at how similar to student radio the output often sounds. That’s to say that it features a lot of the good points of student radio – [...]
I missed this news during the week, but via Phil Gyford have found the news that legendary poet Ivor Cutler has died. I’ve met Ivor several times, whilst working in the Owl Bookshop in Kentish Town, which was local to him. Each time, he’d come in to sign his books and generally try to chat [...]
The 6music dj, tv scriptwriter and Radio Times film editor Andrew Collins has a new blog. His old blog was on the 6music website (which he managed to keep up for 35 weeks, writing stacks and stacks). In the first post of his new blog, he outlines his reasons for switching sites: “The drawback with [...]