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Steve Lamacq

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Age 59
Date of birth October 16,1964
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Islington
London
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Previous show(s) BBC Radio 1
Style Disc jockey
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Job Disc jockey
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Steve Lamacq Life story


Stephen Paul Lamacq, sometimes known by his nickname Lammo, is an English disc jockey, currently working with the BBC radio station BBC Radio 6 Music.

Steve Lamacq to scale back BBC Radio 6 Music show

Steve Lamacq to scale back BBC Radio 6 Music show
Sep 1,2023 3:21 pm

...By Ian YoungsEntertainment & arts reporterBBC Radio 6 Music DJ Steve Lamacq is to scale back his afternoon shows from five days a week to one, saying he s " a bit knackered" after 18 years...

Damon Albarn felt 'quite lost' writing new Blur album

Damon Albarn felt 'quite lost' writing new Blur album
Jul 19,2023 4:21 pm

... " There was a lot on my mind, " he told BBC 6 Music s Steve Lamacq...

Britpop: What prompted the end of the genre that gave us Blur and Pulp?

Britpop: What prompted the end of the genre that gave us Blur and Pulp?
Jul 15,2023 7:50 pm

... " " Broken bands make broken records, " says Steve Lamacq, who co-hosts the Britpop series with Jo Whiley, recreating their influential partnership on Radio 1 s Evening Session in the 1990s...

Black Midi: We should rather terrible as a middle-of-the-road'

Black Midi: We should rather terrible as a middle-of-the-road'
Feb 16,2020 6:22 am

... The experiment were joyful young guitar-slingers made the luxury of 6 music DJ Steve Lamacq in June, to the release of their Mercury-nominated and divisive debut album hit home...

Apr 19,2024 7:07 pm

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Black Midi: "We should rather terrible as a middle-of-the-road'

Apr 19,2024 7:07 pm

(L-R) Black Midi ' s Cameron Picton, Morgan Simpson, Matt Kwasniewski, Kelvin and Geordie Greep as avatars in an Image-band image -

From the Brit School for the Mercury Prize , Black Midi , in spite of all musical Convention.

For The Most hyped new acts that played your Song on national radio is a huge business. These slots are seen as the premium cultural Real Estate .

So for a Black Midi to be a letter to the "fill free 10 Minutes , whatever you are feeling fancy" in front of the drivetime message like a strange turning point.

The experiment were joyful young guitar-slingers made the luxury of 6 music DJ Steve Lamacq in June, to the release of their Mercury-nominated and divisive debut album hit home.

The 43-minute LP consists of tracks born out of long, improvised Jam Sessions , where you ride The Waves of repetition, until you could see something similar to the musical shore.

While the prospect of improvising million listeners would give your average new indie band heart-pounding, front-man Georgy Greep says that you are more comfortable wigging out on air, as plagued by the Protocol of the plays the three-minute pop songs.

'It's kind of stupid, really,"

"It's pretty silly how people music break a lot of the time ', it must be so for a long time after whatever'," he tells the BBC.

"Because, if you listen to an album, even if many of the songs are separated, you only have to hear a Song , you know?

"If you think an album you like, you think you are Song for Song But it's just a thing.

"So the politics of it, the silly it kind of is, really. "

"things like [6-music-appearance] is pretty fun to do", Greep goes on. "And the pressure that it is live on the radio, very cool, I think.

"When we started The Album , what to do, we tried it as a separate thing, as the songs are not live, to try making it a game to replicate.

"Only two things both have their own advantages and disadvantages, and people can like the new album and the live show to compare without. "

Black Midi ' s Wild and eclectic debut, which was described by critics as everything from exciting to frustrating.

Greep says that you care for the Marmite band of the moment, loved and loathed in equal measure.

"That's never a Bad Sign ," he laughs. "At least, that kind of means passion or whatever. There is nothing worse than having something mediocre.

"Even if something is terrible, at least there is something to talk about there. "

The Mercury Prize panel after they called on the 12-strong list for Thursday the prestigious annual album award fall into the former camp.

they are known for their tilt collective cap to a jazz act (Seed-Ensemble this year), But Black Midi 's often uncategorisable sound and Greep's off-kilter vocals make another left field selection.

another tradition is for each of the nominees to perform a lane in front of their classmates and the Greater London four-piece are hardly to be found, The Event organizers so accommodating as Lamacq.

Greep (with the hat) says that the title of The Band , The Album hit home "is a fictitious location,"

in the vicinity of DT-MI, the data appear to record the only sub-three-minute track, or the "radio-friendly" Ducter, like the potential candidate to be played at night.

Others, such as the Western, against the eight-minute mark and, in the case of the lead single Bmbmbm down in a kind of repetitive madness that would also test the fans to The case.

school of the (experimental) rock

The 19-year-old-quotes, Marvin Gaye and Frank Zappa , and his two most important musical influences, But The Band , who met at The Brit School, to remind you of the classic Krautrock of the likes of New! and, if you are in your motor the best.

you can have your Old School , helped start the careers of such of pop stars such as Adele, Amy Winehouse and Jessie J . However, his latest diploma, the singer suggests, there was always room for more "adventurous" abstract sounds on the program.

"Obviously, these people have to be those, known from the Brit school, because they are middle-of-the-road music," claims Greep. "So, you're inevitable to, the name said. to have

"But there are a lot of people, the producers, and the things that you would expect never, went, to go to the fact to The School , just as it is completely false stereotype of it.

"do you really push, you will hear all sorts of stuff and try out all the different forms of music, and it's never steer you in a mainstream kind of direction - it's what you want to do you. "

hit home is out now. The Winner of the years 2019, the Mercury Prize will be announced on Thursday.

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