The decimation of RIley & Coe from 5 hours to 2 and presenting together is an absolute travesty of almost Craig Charles proportions
I'm also noticing more and more "dance" music and "well known songs" creeping into the schedules in shows where they didn't used to happen. I'm not talking obscure electronica from MAH, I'm talking bollocks like K-Klass and big artists like REM and Bowie appear to being played more regularly (nothing wrong with either but the proportions appear to be up). That new Underworld single something Red is on heavy rotation, now its alright and so are Underworld but that sort of thing never used to happen. Another one was that recent ACR single about the 80s NY graffiti artist, which again I like but it was on heavy rotation for weeks. It seems the content is being less controlled by the presenters and more by committee.
Here's the current A/B/C Playlists
There are quite a lot of what I would deem Non 6Music type artists on there.(in Bold). There are other places to play that stuff, where people who like that stuff listen. They really are trying to turn it into another mainstream pop channel, which is never what it was intended to be and isn't why people listen. Thats 13/33 or about 40% of the playlist
It's the Charlesization of 6. Seriously getting on my tits now