A sad day for music

Many a guitar gently wept today as BBC Director General Mark Thompson confirmed that the axe was to fall on 6 Music. Rumours have been circulating for the last couple of weeks about the station’s potential closure, but I have to confess, I didn’t believe they would be mad enough to actually do it.
 
How could they?
 
6 Music is a veritable beacon and bastion of music in its own right. It is a guiding light for all levels of music lover throughout the UK, and beyond. 6 Music’s team of passionate, intelligent and genuinely funny presenters have certainly brightened up my days for the last couple of years – as well as introducing me to some incredible new music.
 
I believe that it is 6 Music’s focus on finding and breaking exciting new artists that will be mourned the most. Chart-based pop-mulch, eighties floor-fillers and smooth classics all have their place, but they don’t exactly move things forward, or in any direction really. In my humble opinion.
 
David Bowie, just one of the thousands of highly vocal protestors that have flocked to the station’s defence, said: “6 Music keeps the spirit of broadcasters such as John Peel alive and for new artists to lose this station would be a great shame.”
 
Well said sir.
 
Shambolic decisions like these need to be fought against, lest we all gradually melt into the mainstream river of X-Factor ooze, as Simon Cowell laughs from his heavily fortified tower.  
 
If you love music, or care about fresh and original broadcasting, join the Save BBC 6 Music Facebook group.