Ken Bruce is leaving radio 2

[matticus]

Yes, but what I'm getting at is as a tax payer funded radio station, BBC should provide a station that covers new and old indie/rock music as their main playlist.
R1 currently playing dance
R2 Numpty Vine talkshow
R6 rave

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gkbg

Music Played:

The Velvet Underground
Sunday Morning

Yazmin Lacey
Morning Sunrise

Bob Dylan
New Morning

Hannah Peel
Sunrise Through The Dusty Nebula

Richard Hawley
As The Dawn Breaks

Mary Margaret O’Hara
A New Day

Beloved
The Sun Rising

Cherise
Sunrise

Lightning in a Twilight Hour
Natural Light

Nick Drake
From The Morning

James McMillan
O Radiant Dawn

Laura Mvula & Metropole Orkest
Like the Morning Dew (

The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun

SAULT
Morning Sun

Beth Orton
Dawn Chorus

William Orbit
Piece in the Old Style I

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
The Morning Of Our Lives

UNKLE
Sunrise (Always Comes Around) (feat. Liela Moss)

Ishmael Ensemble
Morning Chorus

Michael Kiwanuka
Light

The Orb
Perpetual Dawn

Belle and Sebastian
Beyond The Sunrise

Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra
Some Velvet Morning

Boards of Canada
Dawn Chorus

Joy Division
New Dawn Fades

 

[matticus]

I did slightly cherry-pick that show - during the day they do play a lot more "dancey" stuff. But 6Music have led me to so many acts:
Laura Marling
Courtney Barnett
White Denim
Wet Leg
Cake
... I could go on ...

 

[Alex321]

While that by Matticus was a single specific themed show, this is their playlist over the last couiple of hours now
20.01 14:01 - CeCe Rogers - Someday

20.01 13:57 - Lyn Collins - Think (About It)

20.01 13:54 - alt-J - U&ME

20.01 13:51 - DEVO - Through Being Cool

20.01 13:49 - LIFE - The Drug

20.01 13:43 - Voodoocuts - Voodoo's Boogaloo

20.01 13:38 - Billy Nomates - spite

20.01 13:34 - New Order - Shellshock

20.01 13:26 - Gossip - Jealous Girls

20.01 13:23 - The Murder Capital - Return My Head

20.01 13:16 - Malcolm McLaren - Double Dutch

20.01 13:13 - Fun Boy Three - Tunnel Of Love

20.01 13:09 - Siouxsie and the Banshees - Dear Prudence

20.01 13:04 - Belle and Sebastian - When We Were Very Young

20.01 13:00 - Daft Punk - Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)

20.01 12:57 - Jungle Brothers - Sunshine

20.01 12:54 - Overmono - Is U

20.01 12:50 - Jeshi - This Thing Of Ours

20.01 12:46 - Amadou & Mariam - Senegal Fast Food (feat. Manu Chao)

20.01 12:40 - Jonny L - Piper (Grooverider mix)

20.01 12:37 - Phoenix - After Midnight

20.01 12:34 - Babes in Toyland - He's My Thing

20.01 12:27 - Yazzus - Three Deities

20.01 12:24 - Nene H - Hold Ud, Skat!

20.01 12:20 - SPACEFACE - Break It Down

20.01 12:17 - Andrew Juke - Cherry

20.01 12:13 - Yazzus - Bodyroxx

20.01 12:11 - Yazzus - United By Fate

20.01 12:08 - David Löhlein & Rove Ranger - La Playa (feat. Sofia)


There are some Rave in there. But a lot which certainly isn't, including quite a bit of the new & old indie & rock stuff you are asking for.

And this is their official main playlist for this week
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5JDPyPdDGs3yCLdtPhGgWM7/bbc-radio-6-music-playlist

A LIST​

Belle and Sebastian - When We Were Very Young

Billy Nomates - spite
Caroline Polachek - Welcome To My Island
Daughter - Be On Your Way
Gaz Coombes - Long Live The Strange
Jamie T - 90s Cars
Kendrick Lamar - Count Me Out
Phoenix - After Midnight
Santigold - No Paradise
Special Interest - Cherry Blue Intention
Young Fathers - Rice
yunè pinku - Fai Fighter

B LIST​

A Certain Ratio ft. Ellen Beth Abdi - Afro Dizzy

Dave Okumu - Blood Ah Go Run
Iggy Pop - Tracks from Every Loser
Jacana People - Awara
Jadu Heart - Freedom
Jeshi - This Thing Of Ours
Jockstrap - Greatest Hits
The Murder Capital - Return My Head
Rozi Plain - Help
Sega Bodega - Kepko
Sudan Archives - Freakalizer
SUEP - In Good Health
Sylvan Esso - Echo Party
Yot Club - feel good

C LIST​

Dave Rowntree ft. juliyah - Tape Measure

Gemma Rogers - The Great Escape
H. Hawkline - Milk For Flowers
Hamish Hawk - Money
Jay Carder - Eva's Stoned
Jehst ft. Confucius MC & Eva Lazarus - One Horse Town
Nuha Ruby Ra - Self Portraiture

 

[matticus]

Yot Club - feel good

I was today years old I didn't realise it was spelled that way

 

[Brandane]

I find myself listening to Spotify a lot more than any radio station now. Some of the playlists are very much in keeping with what I want to listen to. e.g. currently it's the Punk mix. Undertones, Clash, Jam, Stranglers, Blondie, Motors, Ramones, Buzzcocks, Ruts, Skids, Pistols, Sham 69 etc....

 

[Jameshow]

Just listened to Michelle visage tonight awful presenter along with Lisa tarbuck, and Claudia winkleman.

Painful to listen to..

Who thinks these people are suitable presenters for prime R2 programmes?!

 

[Gwylan]

Just listened to Michelle visage tonight awful presenter along with Lisa tarbuck, and Claudia winkleman.

Painful to listen to..

Who thinks these people are suitable presenters for prime R2 programmes?!

Anyone who will advertise dandruff treatment must be a bit dodgy

 

[hobo]

BBC being PC
These presenters must be preventing any new talent from getting a foot ithrough into Auntie Beebs door.
Steve Wright, Gary Davis for gawd sake get Ken replaced with some young talent.

 

[hobo]

Hey I like BBC 6 but the Beeb were thinking of axing that a few years ago.

 

[biggs682]

Just listened to Michelle visage tonight awful presenter along with Lisa tarbuck, and Claudia winkleman.

Painful to listen to..

Who thinks these people are suitable presenters for prime R2 programmes?!

Michelle Visage's show is hard going , Claudia is ok but wouldn't fancy listening to her every day

 

[Cavalol]

Besides perhaps 'Mark & Lard' and Terry Wogan, Ken is genuinely the best DJ to have graced the airwaves. Just as R2 had turned a bit of a corner with the odious Steve Wright packing in his weekday afternoon slots and being replaced by the great Scott Mills, too.

 

[Jameshow]

BBC being PC
These presenters must be preventing any new talent from getting a foot ithrough into Auntie Beebs door.
Steve Wright, Gary Davis for gawd sake get Ken replaced with some young talent.

Forget them what about the real oldies....

Tony Blackburn

Paul O Grady .....!

 

[Venod]

Besides perhaps 'Mark & Lard' and Terry Wogan, Ken is genuinely the best DJ to have graced the airwaves.

Are you been serious, I can't comment on Mark and Lard as I have never heard them, I can listen to Ken Bruce during Pop Master and thats about it, and couldn't listen to Wogan at all, he was dire.
As for all the so called celebrity DJs, what are they thinking.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

M&L were of their time, but excellent in their time iyswim. R1 Breakfast they so weren't, mind

 

[Jameshow]

Are you been serious, I can't comment on Mark and Lard as I have never heard them, I can listen to Ken Bruce during Pop Master and thats about it, and couldn't listen to Wogan at all, he was dire.
As for all the so called celebrity DJ, what are they thinking.

I have to get to my destination before pop master, cannot stand it!