Is Late Junction the Mark & Lard of the noughties?

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Okay - so its not quite as funny but I have found myself drifting more and more to listening to Late Junction almost religiously over the last few weeks - much like I did with M&L in the early nineties. Am I turning into an old hippy?

― Pete, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What ar you on about Pete?

― Graham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Verity Sharp likes Zappa far too much for my liking - and a lot of the recs they play are like the most predictable 'avant' choices evah - but it's still better than 'Mixing It'...

― Andrew L, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

must listen to the radio more.

― Alan T, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What station is this on?

― Christopher Lyons, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Details here: Late Junction

― DJ Martian, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I keep meaning to listen to it ever since I saw whatserface in the Guardian Friday Review's round my record collection feature. She's num, but I understand I am not alone in this view.

I think she's more like the new 'Whispering' Bob Harris.

― N., Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I quite often start to listen but drift off during a particularly long raga, and then my heart's just not in it anymore.

― Ellie, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Verily Radio 3 ROCKS. I like 'LJ' and 'Mixing It' well enough, it's just a shame that Radio 1 doesn't have he guts or the gumption to broadcast these [type of] shows (at least before midnight). It may have done during the days of Mark & Lard's 'Graveyard Shift', but a lot has changed in ten years at wunnerful 1 FM. I just can't relate to most of what Steve Lamacq plays.

― DavidM, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

just looking at the show's playlist for the last few weeks (the weeks where i have been away from the UK) it can be as bad as the banalities of daytime radio, which is why I don't listen to it.

there's far too much 'world' music, far too much 'polished', 'cultured' stuff for my liking. The 'avant' choices are predicatble, as andrew has said. On the other hand, verity sharp is a fox and her voice melts my heart.

Some of it is OK (indian ragas) but there's too much rub. like kronos quartet, for instance.

but mixing it's marcus russell is much better. rather have twenty minutes of his choices (don't like robert dandall, in fact i hate the guy) than 2 months of late junction (not saying all of them are good, but it's often inspired stuff, even if he does like radiohead).

pete- you're not turning it into a hippy but yo must stop it now before it's too late.

― Julio Desouza, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blimey. Is that the best-looking DJ EVER??

― the pinefox, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pinefox- with a voice to match as well. but she listens to zappa (a lot of ppl have a prob. w/that).

― julio Desouza, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ranging from Mali to Bali, and from medieval chant to 21st-century electronica

I shall try this show when at work tomorrow, but I suspect that the first sign of medieval chanting will send me flipping to Grooverider or Westwood or something.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought you liked world music Martin!

― Andrew L, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It might well be. I'm sick of John Peel now, he hardly plays anything that amazing now. I've yet to catch a proper Late Junction show, but that compilation CD is pretty cool, especially this humming piece that starts off the cd..

― jellybean, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought you liked world music Martin!

Andrew neatly demonstrates the uselessness of a term that encompasses Zairean guitar pop and medieval chanting, among loads of other things. Obviously no one likes world music, but I'd be surprised if anyone dislikes it completely either.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

I challenge anyone to watch the video entitled "Late Junction 10th Birthday Video Documentary" - halfway down this page -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp52

and not feel themselves beginning to turn into Johnny Rotten, werewolf style..

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 09:45 (fifteen years ago)

Ha, I just watched some of that and wasn't too enraged, but I have to say that it is kinda typical Late Junction that they only ever play bluegrass hoedowns when they're played by bands called such things as Farmers' Market who turn out to be fronted by a mildly depressed-looking Norwegian in a grey suit who smugly declares that he plays 'the worst instruments like the banjo and the accordian'.

― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 11:13 (fifteen years ago)

BTW I only ever listen to this programme when I'm zonked out in the bath and generally too far gone on Radox to turn it off.

― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 11:17 (fifteen years ago)

Never gonna drink that stuff again imo.

― Chaim Poutine (NickB), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 11:18 (fifteen years ago)

nine months pass...

I like the show & Fiona's voice.

― StanM, Thursday, 2 June 2011 14:35 (fifteen years ago)

seven years pass...

BBC fucking them over. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/27517e7d-3e1c-4fba-8f29-cc5e84457fac

― Dan Worsley, Friday, 15 March 2019 17:44 (seven years ago)

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