Lily Allen. Photograph: Samir Hussein/Getty Images
The BBC is an extraordinary establishment when tranquil by the right people. Unfortunately I think it"s going by a really apocalyptic proviso at the moment.
We"re in the runup to a ubiquitous choosing in that it"s seeking increasingly expected that David Cameron will be the budding minister, and I think that whatever decisions are being finished right away are being finished so with a perspective to who will be in assign of the nation this time subsequent year.
If you see at all that"s happened in the last year or so at the BBC – with Russell Brand, with Jonathan Ross, with losses – you can"t assistance but feel that they are frightened of receiving risks. What is function right away reflects a huge, politically encouraged reshuffle.
It will be horrible if they do confirm to close BBC 6 Music, and I goal that the recoil they"ve perceived so far will have them think twice. Clearly it will go on to means an uproar, that is the last thing the BBC want. Perhaps they weren"t awaiting this turn of seductiveness in a niche station. I review that they wish to deposit in peculiarity over quantity, but how does that have sense? If they close 6 Music, instead of acts similar to Seasick Steve and presenters similar to Lauren Laverne, it will be the Pussycat Dolls and Fearne Cotton on Radio 1. The usually approach this preference will be savoury is if they soak up the elements of BBC 6 Music that set upon a chord with the open in to one of their alternative channels, such as Radio 2.
That would meant creation a joining to showcasing new and unsigned bands, not only bands on vital labels, and giving space to bands who haven"t got a height anywhere else, not only the subsequent hyped act. But overtly I don"t feel really carefree that this will happen. Closing BBC 6 Music is bad headlines for unsigned acts and new British music.
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