I'm 33 and feel alienated by 6 music. In this digital age, I find it impossible to keep up with new music. I just had a look at the Radio 2 playlist and realised I didn’t know most of what was on there. I wouldn’t even dare to check Radio 1’s!

are no longer down with the kids. That really freaks the kids out.

What is H.E.?

It happened to me about 10 years ago. Consequently, I don't listen to 6Music, only snatches of Radio 2. Anything new I hear comes via Word CDs.

I'm comfortable with that.

when I was chased out of a party by a gaggle of irate teenage girls for the crime of ripping Duran Duran off the turntable and replacing them with Zeppelin.

Would listen to 6music in the day (if we were allowed) apart from George Lamb. Bit sick of Radio 2 at the moment apart from the evening shows such as Radcliff, Lamarr, Harris etc. Can't say it makes me feel too old, the one think that does make me feel old is the very rare time I visit a nightclub or "Towny" bar and they are full of kids drinking alco-pops. I am 92 by the way. Sometimes listen to Zane Lowe on an evening and feel OLD then. Feel OLD at work quite a lot of the time as a lot of young colleagues visit crap trendy bars in town which are horrible.

I don't half start to feel like a grumpy old man when either listening to radio or watching music tv. I guess I'm a bit like Five-Centres above, with most new music being discovered through the written media.

I think its the relentless cheeriness and shouting that pisses me off, and it seems to be invading other aspects of what used to be our genteel life. For example, was at the 20/20 cricket at Edgbaston last night (don't even get me started on the emasculation of our great national sport!) and the dumbing down of the whole event was really depressing. Loud and largely crap snippets of music for each boundary, wicket and between overs. Some female commentator/summariser screeching her inanities at the same time getting so bloody excited I assumed that she was at least being pleasured by several of the home team. It's all about creating a fake level of excitement sadly. If an event is exciting enough in its own right then people will enjoy it. You don't need to be dunking kids in big tubs of water to enjoy cricket...

And while I'm here, and back, sort of, to the subject in hand, just what TV music stations do you chaps watch on a regular basis. My occasional trawls through Sky are almost as depressing as the 20/20.

Sorry...........rant over............I think I need to lie down...

I'm constantly disappointed by 6music. I remember when it first started and it promised programmes for people who were serious and open minded about music. Yet every time I've ever turned it on all I've heard is a parade of tedious whiny indie bands.
A quick look on the front page of their website offers up some news on Oasis, Radiohead and Tim Burgess (is this Q Radio?)whilst I also note mentions of a show hosted by Glen Matlock about the history of punk entitled, wait for it, Anarchy in the UK, and the new 6music playlist additions which include Primal Scream and CSS. There is some promise of a slight variation from the frighteningly dull norm with a show called British Black Music which has the blurb - and I'm going to cut and paste this so I make sure I get the full horror of it accurate word for word - "Pauline Black narrates a six part series on this influential genre".
"This influential genre"?!! It may be that this is just a lazily updated webpage and I'm sure Pauline has done a great job but this is a Freudian slip of the tongue me thinks, that's pretty much all most 6Music listeners and presenters seem to think black music is, simply another 'genre'.

Sadly I think that's the way it looks in the view from Planet Indie.

It all changed for me when Totp went all album based & i stopped religiously following the charts, anyway Totp 2 was always much more fun.