any colour as long as its black.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Tracks currently playlisted on BBC Radio 1 AND BBC Radio 2 AND BBC 6music:

Lily Allen - Smile; Keane - Is It Any Wonder (Radio 2 playlists the whole album); The Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way; The Zutons - Valerie; Embrace - World At Your Feet; Franz Ferdinand - Eleanor Put Your Boots On; Razorlight - In the Morning.

Tracks currently playlisted on 2 of either BBC Radio 1; BBC Radio 2; BBC 6 music

The Automatic - Monster; Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces; Muse - Supermassive Black Hole; Pink - Who Knew; Red Hot Chili Peppers - Tell Me Baby; Rihanna - Unfaithful; Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway; Dirty Pretty Things - Deadwood; Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends; Jamie T - Sheila; Jose Gonzalez - Hand On Your Heart; Guillemots - Made Up Love Song 43; James Morrison - You Give Me Something; Paolo Nutini - Last Request; Rooster - Home; James Dean Bradfield - That's No Way To Tell A Lie; Editors - Blood; Pipettes - Pull Shapes.

No. of tracks on radio 1; radio 2; 6music A list also on another stations music lists:

11/19 (radio1); 7/10 (radio 2); 11/14 (6 music).

partial selection of artists only appearing on radio 2 playlist (this week, info on other weeks not located)

Morrissey; Richard Ashcroft; Shayne Ward; Sandi Thom

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Actually it's even more depressing seeing how the automatic reaction of...virtually EVERYONE is kneejerk denial that the lack of black artists on these playlists could POSSIBLY be racist, and the utter refusal to see what to me is very very obvious prejudice.

I love 1xtra but when it was created I wrote an article in the student rag saying that I feared that it would become an excuse for black music to be ghettoised - the fear that the people in charge of the mainstream BBC stations would think "oh, those uppity black people have their own station now, we can ignore them again hurrah". LO AND BEHOLD IT HAS COME TO PASS.

And after reading Peter Robinson's singles reviews in the Guide on Saturday I will reiterate: RACIST.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

1Xtra, like the MOBOs, was born out of mutual desire on both sides if anything. the ghettoisation was already prevalent in the music/scenes, in fact it seems to be the only way it really works at all ala wanting to keep it underground/real/street level. on that basis 1Xtra and it's mandate can only ever be niche. a self-propelling subcultural cycle.

there really aren't enough black people or people who feel they can relate (and yeh maybe part of the problem is they feel that relating is as important as it is) to the music in this country of which a proportion would be interested enough in elevating the music in the way we often would like to see.

from Radio 1's point of view i guess they think they can be more popular, powerful and successful by perceiving/defining (along with NME and co.) a monoculture rather than reflecting multiculture because in practice the former is both easier (economical?) and more profitable, presumably. and there just really aren't enough African or Caribbean-descended people in this country (of which a proportion would be actually interested and excited in the music industry/scenes) for a shift to occur!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes I really wish the British 'urban' scene would get its head out of its arse sometimes about crossing over, because its attitude towards mainstream success makes me want to slap people. On the one hand it wants it - all well and good - on the other it either refuses to go all out for commercial sounds, or tries to do it in a completely cack-handed way. There's no happy co-existence of underground and mainstream as there seems to be in the US.

Peter Robinson slagged off the Pussycat Dolls in the Guide, really lazy anti-r&b criticism of the sort you've read a thousand times before. And then he praised Mogwai :o And they call that man a pop fan!

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

PCDs ARE crap tho! come now

[if72.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that John Robinson?

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

what did Robinson say in The Guide?