6 Music! It’s been saved! Hurrah! Really? The question remains Why? It costs £10 million to run the thing. Wait, the wages of the producers and the presenters, but they play records and talk shit; it’s not digging the f******g roads in the freezing cold is it? As for the presenters! I hear radio dj’s each week both student and community radio based that could wipe the floor with them, especially the so-called ‘celebrity’ presenters who are mostly a joke, c-list no-marks who can’t get a proper f**king job. The two good presenters on 6 Music, it has to be said are great, (Steve Lamacq, Tom Robinson) and some of the specialist documentaries are also quality, but these are diamonds in a bucket of shit.

The playlist is frankly what you would expect, a watered down version of R1 and R2. How far from XFM and NME RADIO or a hundred online stations? Not very and this is just so sad as there is definitely enough great music out there to make a killer playlist, and I thought the idea was to break down barriers, not add another brick in the wall. We here at Shake Online certainly receive enough music every week to have a better playlist than they do; it lacks imagination, and it’s all so cool, so happening. Down with the kids, music ain’t about being cool or being heard to be in the know, it’s surely about loving great music and embracing all factions. It’s a damning fact that 6 Music had a rock show and cancelled it, but go read Kerrang!, Metal Hammer or Classic Rock and read how many new releases are out this month, then see how many make the 6 Music playlist because it’s not ‘cool’ or ‘happenin’…

The music is mostly dreadful, shit songs by great bands are still shit songs, and two hours of shit songs is just that… and how they have the audacity to say it’s an affront to John peel to close 6 Music… NO, it’s an affront to John Peel to be on the air and be shit…The great presenters know this.

We started our ‘Revelations’ Radio show to showcase all kinds of music and guess what sometimes we get an album or an EP that we love and we just play the whole thing, NO really we do, and you’re not supposed to, because people won’t listen! What an utter bag of shite, proclaimed and taught by some out of date f**kin’ media course, even many of the the community stations are all starting to sound like piss poor local BBC or ILR stations…

I will clarify this completly by saying that I don’t really give a flying f**k about 6 Music, or in fact any BBC station especially Radio F**kin’ Wales going off at midnite when it could offer out that time slot to future radio stars (don’t get me started on music on TV: Later is f**kin’ shite, PR companies shaping the future of music! I have never been a fan of Mr Holland).

As The Who sang ‘Who Are You’ and it’s an apt question. I’m the guy who used to have friend tape (YES, CASSETTE TAPE) XFM in London when it started and send them to me, that’s how exciting it was. I’m the guy who joined Janice Long at Crash FM in Liverpool to try and change things… and then she went back to the BBC! I’m the guy who spends more time now listening to Triple J out of Australia, East Village Radio out of New York and KCRW/Indie 103 in Los Angeles, Sat Bisla, Ed Harcourt, names you may not know but like Howard Stern names you should! I’m also the guy who is still trying to change things (a United Wales broadcasting a Mike Peters gig last year). Did I fail… Did I F**K… I am still that guy… I’m still trying to make John Peel proud…

The shows I produce and present can stand up next to anything on 6 Music, in fact the Shake Sessions and Revelations would be listened to by MILLIONS if it was on R2 or even after midnight on Radio Wales (Where they switch to the world service for hours when there is a raft of amazing Welsh talent being ignored) To be honest all that matters to me; trying to be the best, play the best, listen, look, learn, adapt, create, without debate… I struggle on week in and week out, 6 Music and the BBC can go straight to hell… In fact…

**********Jj’s Last Word = FUCK ‘EM ********