The self-deprecation and belly laughs really did help.Thanks for visiting our Etsy shop and for supporting UK Handmade products. Thanks to the whole team for making me feel at home for the last nine years. After all, I know it’ll be familiar and welcoming, wherever it is.įor now I’ll end with a simple thank you. Though I might venture out to wherever Shaun W Keaveny does sit himself down, with a gentle sigh. Right now, I’m not prepared to take that step. Eventually that means I’ll no longer be target audience and I’ll have to find a new home. The startling this about that is that with each day that passes, it is less true. It’s one of the few things that still makes me feel young. I like the music they play and enjoy listening to fresh voices playing fresh sounds.
We crave the familiar, and there is nothing more familiar that the sound of a warm, welcoming northerner somehow achieving that trickiest of tasks and making their show sound like it is being broadcast just for you. This is undoubtedly a good thing.īut change is uncomfortable. We are hearing more diverse voices, covering a more eclectic mix of music than a station that previously had its foundations firmly in the British rock and indie scenes.
Perhaps that’s a more comfortable fit in 2021.īecause that’s the other thing. Rockanory suggests a link up with Absolute Radio. I am hoping beyond hope this is simply because of his current contractual obligations to the Beeb. Like a shark swimming, confused, into a British harbour town, Shaun was edged from the place he should be, and was doing his level best to see it positively.Īs yet, we don’t know what Shaun’s next radiomove will be. Being the consummate professional, Shaun has given his all to the afternoon slot, but his wit and dour and deadpan, yet enthusiastic observations on life never felt like they were quite in the right place. If we are honest with ourselves, we probably knew that the move from breakfast marked the beginning of the end a changing of the guard. With Shaun we know we’re not getting that. The closest I’ve got to feeling like this previously was when Adam and Joe went their separate ways. The loss of some has been felt more than others, but genuinely, I feel bereft at losing Shaun.
Middle aged shout outs have made me smile for years – in fact from long before they seemed like they could be written to describe my own life. He’s been a mainstay of my time listening to the station, and one of the reasons the dial has barely shifted – and certainly not for anything other than a temporary aural excursion. Popular, but without sacrificing substance in favour of style, or even a broader audience. Knowledgeable, but not as the expense of interest. The truth is they fit perfectly in that middle space. But what about the presenters? Where would they fit on the popular music spectrum that extends from Radio One at one end to, I suppose, Radio 2 at another? I was the target audience and liked the music. When I tuned to 6music for the first time, I didn’t know what to expect. People still talked of transitor radios and turning on the wireless. We’d not had DAB for long up here in the North. Shaun has been part of my life since 2009, when I first picked up a DAB radio from an Amazon flash sale. People come in and out of our lives all the time.
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