Comments on: Xfm Manchester is dead. Long live… something else. http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2008/02/13/xfm-manchester-is-dead-long-live-something-else/ <h2>A words-based weblog by Manchester journalist David Quinn</h2> Sun, 15 May 2011 15:42:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Claire Chipchase http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2008/02/13/xfm-manchester-is-dead-long-live-something-else/comment-page-1/#comment-10118 Claire Chipchase Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:24:04 +0000 http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2008/02/13/xfm-manchester-is-dead-long-live-something-else/#comment-10118 Xfm Manchester has become xfm London between the hours of 10am-4pm when it broadcasts live from London.I have been a listener of xfm from the day it first broadcast from Manchester.This is sad sad news that xfm Manchester may disappear from our airwaves.Xfm is the only radio station that plays all of the music that I love without any snide chav tunes. Xfm Manchester has become xfm London between the hours of 10am-4pm when it broadcasts live from London.I have been a listener of xfm from the day it first broadcast from Manchester.This is sad sad news that xfm Manchester may disappear from our airwaves.Xfm is the only radio station that plays all of the music that I love without any snide chav tunes.

]]> By: Matt Whitby http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2008/02/13/xfm-manchester-is-dead-long-live-something-else/comment-page-1/#comment-3060 Matt Whitby Sat, 10 May 2008 17:27:11 +0000 http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2008/02/13/xfm-manchester-is-dead-long-live-something-else/#comment-3060 The dumbing down of 6Music is a disgrace and the sooner George Lamb is replaced the better. The dumbing down of 6Music is a disgrace and the sooner George Lamb is replaced the better.

]]> By: JustHipper http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2008/02/13/xfm-manchester-is-dead-long-live-something-else/comment-page-1/#comment-2679 JustHipper Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:32:33 +0000 http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2008/02/13/xfm-manchester-is-dead-long-live-something-else/#comment-2679 We were so excited when XFM announced they were coming to Manchester, but you're right, all it's been is lowest-common-denominator music stuck back in the early '90's with some radio friendly current stuff. It makes Virgin seem edgy. When you couple that with morning DJ's who have the combined IQ of a pile of bricks making moronic jokes and shouting a lot, the station has been pretty much unlistenable during the hours when most people listen to the radio - who sits around on Friday or Saturday nights for a radio show? There was actually a 10-day period when I woke up every day to the same Snow Patrol song and I haven't listened to the station since. There was no championing of NEW Manchester bands outside of Clint Boon's show, nothing that hadn't already come and gone from the NME and way too much of manufactured pop crap like The Feeling. I'm sorry to say I don't think we're going to be worse off without XFM as they are increasingly obsolete in the face of sites like Last.FM and the growing number of indie bloggers doing podcasting. I fear I may be the only person who hasn't noticed the dumbing down of 6Music - possibly because the only shows I hear are Mark Riley, Tom Robinson and Steve Lamacq, and I can't imagine any of those three dumbing anything down. We were so excited when XFM announced they were coming to Manchester, but you’re right, all it’s been is lowest-common-denominator music stuck back in the early ’90′s with some radio friendly current stuff. It makes Virgin seem edgy. When you couple that with morning DJ’s who have the combined IQ of a pile of bricks making moronic jokes and shouting a lot, the station has been pretty much unlistenable during the hours when most people listen to the radio – who sits around on Friday or Saturday nights for a radio show?

There was actually a 10-day period when I woke up every day to the same Snow Patrol song and I haven’t listened to the station since. There was no championing of NEW Manchester bands outside of Clint Boon’s show, nothing that hadn’t already come and gone from the NME and way too much of manufactured pop crap like The Feeling. I’m sorry to say I don’t think we’re going to be worse off without XFM as they are increasingly obsolete in the face of sites like Last.FM and the growing number of indie bloggers doing podcasting.

I fear I may be the only person who hasn’t noticed the dumbing down of 6Music – possibly because the only shows I hear are Mark Riley, Tom Robinson and Steve Lamacq, and I can’t imagine any of those three dumbing anything down.

]]> By: Robin http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2008/02/13/xfm-manchester-is-dead-long-live-something-else/comment-page-1/#comment-2461 Robin Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:39:18 +0000 http://www.wordsdept.co.uk/2008/02/13/xfm-manchester-is-dead-long-live-something-else/#comment-2461 Listening to George Lamb every day on 6music the idea of DJ-less radio would soon appear more, um, appealing. Listening to George Lamb every day on 6music the idea of DJ-less radio would soon appear more, um, appealing.

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