The Wildhearts

It's not much but had to be done -

The 6Music Godlike Genius Vote

added my tuppence worth

replied, but it hasnt shown up

Same here

Me too.

They'll turn up, it took two days for mine to be posted, although they seem to have removed the post I was replying to so it just looks a bit silly now.

The hijack seems to be going quite well though.

Nice hi-jacking. But why have they taken my post down? Bastards.

The feature went out about a week ago at 1a.m.-ish (can't remember, I was in bed!) as part of a late night news programme they do on BBC6.

You'll be pleased to hear Ginger got a mention alongside other 6 Music staples such as Radiohead and Tom Waits! The presenters seemed a bit confused but from what I can gather their tastes are pretty rock-free affairs. BBC6 very rarely play any Wildhearts and in the last 6 months I can only really recall Nemone playing Sick of Drugs and Sean Keaveny playing I Wanna Go... as a listener request. Although an honourable mention goes to Chris Hawkins who played some of the BBC session tracks they recorded - nice one Chris Hawkins!

Sam wrote: Sean Keaveny playing I Wanna Go... as a listener request.

My request (they didn't think Destroy All Monsters was breakfast stuff really).
It is odd that as a whole 6Music does play some good stuff, and not all current chart shit either, but the Wildhearts and their ilk rarely get a look in. At the moment in the day there seems to be an awful lot of reggae-based stuff, which is actually ok when you're at work but the odd Ginger track would go down very nicely...

Radish wrote:

Sam wrote: Sean Keaveny playing I Wanna Go... as a listener request.

My request (they didn't think Destroy All Monsters was breakfast stuff really).
It is odd that as a whole 6Music does play some good stuff, and not all current chart shit either, but the Wildhearts and their ilk rarely get a look in. At the moment in the day there seems to be an awful lot of reggae-based stuff, which is actually ok when you're at work but the odd Ginger track would go down very nicely...

Ask them to play Love U Til I Don't then, that has a reggaeish break down bit hehehe

There's been a shake-up at the station recently hence the departure of Phil Jupitus (who occasionally got Ginger in for chats) and the moving of Gideon Coe to a late night slot. The new head of programming for BBC6 is basically trying to drag more listeners in which has inevitably meant more 'celebrity' dj's and a decline in quality.

Luckily Bruce Dickinsons rock show is still going and is awesome: he'll often Wildhearts it up if they've got something to promote!

Well done on the I Wanna Go request though, it must be the first time that tracks been played on a breakfast show in about 12 years!

Sarc wrote:

Radish wrote:

Sam wrote: Sean Keaveny playing I Wanna Go... as a listener request.

My request (they didn't think Destroy All Monsters was breakfast stuff really).
It is odd that as a whole 6Music does play some good stuff, and not all current chart shit either, but the Wildhearts and their ilk rarely get a look in. At the moment in the day there seems to be an awful lot of reggae-based stuff, which is actually ok when you're at work but the odd Ginger track would go down very nicely...

Ask them to play Love U Til I Don't then, that has a reggaeish break down bit hehehe

black windows!