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Mary Anne Hobbs: Radio 1 firebrand at the helm of the pioneering experimental electronic show Thursday nite >> Friday morning 2.00-4.00am)… reppin' next generation dubstep, grime, drum&bass, hip-hop, techno, and radical electronic flavaz in every form... (formerly known as the Breezeblock) |
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Here are just a handful of guests you'll have found mixin' and in session on the show... The Beastie Boys, Squarepusher, Skream, Bjork, DJ Shadow, Digital Mystikz, Ricardo Villalobos, Mixmaster Mike, Oris Jay, Amon Tobin, Kano, LFO, Jeff Mills, Benga, Roni Size & Reprazent, Trentmoller, Klute, Vex'd, Rhythm& Sound, Wiley Enduser, Chris Morris, The Bug + Stush, Warrior Queeen, Ras B, Roger Robinson, Space Ape, Flowdan, Jimmy Screech, Ricky Ranking & Ari Up, Noisia, Liam Howlett, Soundmurderer, Zinc, Kid 606, Evol Intent, Lady Sovereign & Shystie, UNKLE, RJD2, Andy C, Justice, Kanye West, LTJ Bukem, Peaches, 0=0, Cannibal Ox, Mogwai, Virus Syndicate, Luke Vibert, Chuck D, The Mighty Boosh, Amit, Andy Stott, Bruza, Leftfield, Surgeon, Keaton & Hive, Loefah, Sigur Ros, Ben Frost, Hatcha & Crazy D, Jeff Mills, Orbital, DJ Distance, Jammer, Matthew Jonson, Radiohead, Calibre & DRS, Envy, Kode 9, Bad Company, Roots Manuva, Roll Deep, N-Type, D-Bridge, Venitian Snares, Ruichi Sakamoto, Ed Rush & Optical, Andrea Parker, Amon Tobin, Metallica, Limewax, DJ Food, Drop The Lime, Various Production, Isolee, Jimmy Edgar, Photek, Boxcutter... |
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Mary Anne released a definitive underground compilation album in October 2006. 'Mary Anne Hobbs.. Warrior Dubz' features exclusive dubz from some of her favourite artists operating on the UK underground scenes she supports: dubstep, grime, dark dancefloor, techno and drum&bass... |
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Mary Anne left school at the age of 16 and went to work in an egg packing factory for the princely sum of £39 per week. |
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She quickly ran away to London with a hard rock band and lived on a bus with them in a car park in Hayes, Middlesex for 12 months, working as their lighting engineer, record sleeve artist, wardrobe designer… and mechanic. |
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Her great ambition was to become a music journalist. She figured the next logical step would be to produce her own fanzine - Krush. |
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She sent a couple of issues along with a demented CV detailing her adventures to the Editor of Sounds music paper and landed a job with them at the age of 19. |
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At 21, having been profoundly influenced by a snapshot of Metallica, Mary Anne sold all her worldly goods and bought a one-way ticket to Hollywood, where she lived in a garden shed. |
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She spent a year as Sounds US correspondent in the dark underbelly of LA writing about the fledgling thrash metal scene, Jane’s Addiction, Guns N' Roses et al. |
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At Sounds Mary Anne met fellow teenager James Brown (legendary writer and publisher, not the Godfather of soul) who became a lifelong friend. |
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James moved to NME as Features Editor and when Mary Anne returned to London from LA, he promptly poached her to work with him at NME. Mary Anne spent three years on the newsdesk and also worked as a major feature writer there, authoring cover stories on everyone from Ice Cube to Nirvana. |
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She went on with James Brown to form part of the original team he put together to launch Loaded magazine. She worked there as Music Editor, and writing major undercover stories about private detectives, cocaine dealers to the stars and most notoriously a Soho sex club. |
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Mary Anne got her break in radio at BBC GLR on Sunday mornings alongside Mark Lamarr. |
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She presented groundbreaking shows on XFM during their trail broadcasts, which helped to win their licence. |
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She was poached by Radio 1 in 1997 after a particularly confrontational interview with Radio 1's then Head Of Production (Trevor Dann) was bootlegged around the BBC and found the desk of the Controller of the day, Matthew Bannister. |
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Mary Anne's time at Radio 1 has been hectic… she has hosted shows from all the major award ceremonies: Q, NME, Brits, Kerrang, Mercury Music Prize… and made documentaries about artists as diverse as David Bowie and The Sex Pistols… |
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She championed comedy god Ricky Gervais in his pre-Office days… hosted a movie review show with Mark Kermode called Cling Film… founded and fronted the award-winning Radio 1 Rock Show for five years. |
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TV... there’s quite a lot, M.A. hosted live coverage of the ‘World Superbike Championship’ for British Eurosport… she made a series about global biker culture in India, Russia, Japan, the US and Europe for BBC Choice,‘Mary Anne's Bikes’… fronted 27 hours of live coverage at Glastonbury Festival for the BBC… and has guested on everything from BBC2’s ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ to ‘John Peel’s Record Box’ for Channel4. |
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Mary Anne can ride any motorcycle you care to park in front of her too... Her current bike is the gorgeous Kawasaki ER-6n… |
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John Peel – original and endless inspiration |
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Revision as of 15:42, 6 May 2007
Mary Anne Hobbs (born May 15) is an English DJ and music journalist from Garstang, Lancashire. In the 1980s, at the age of 19, she worked as a journalist for Sounds Magazine. She later went to work for the NME, before going on to help found Loaded Magazine. She got her break in radio at BBC GLR, working alongside Mark Lamarr. She then worked at XFM before going to BBC Radio 1. She also presented the show Superbikes 2003 for ITV.
A fan of rock, heavy metal and motorbikes from an early age, she fronted the Rock Show and the experimental / electronic Breezeblock on BBC Radio 1 for a number of years. In September 2006 the Breezeblock name was dropped for the title 'experimental', but the show retained the name of its host in the title. Most recently, Hobbs has been a notable champion of the dubstep and grime genres; she has released a dubstep compilation album on Planet Mu records entitled Warrior Dubz, and is curating a stage dedicated to the genres at the Sónar festival in 2007.
Mary Anne Hobbs: Radio 1 firebrand at the helm of the pioneering experimental electronic show Thursday nite >> Friday morning 2.00-4.00am)… reppin' next generation dubstep, grime, drum&bass, hip-hop, techno, and radical electronic flavaz in every form... (formerly known as the Breezeblock)
Here are just a handful of guests you'll have found mixin' and in session on the show... The Beastie Boys, Squarepusher, Skream, Bjork, DJ Shadow, Digital Mystikz, Ricardo Villalobos, Mixmaster Mike, Oris Jay, Amon Tobin, Kano, LFO, Jeff Mills, Benga, Roni Size & Reprazent, Trentmoller, Klute, Vex'd, Rhythm& Sound, Wiley Enduser, Chris Morris, The Bug + Stush, Warrior Queeen, Ras B, Roger Robinson, Space Ape, Flowdan, Jimmy Screech, Ricky Ranking & Ari Up, Noisia, Liam Howlett, Soundmurderer, Zinc, Kid 606, Evol Intent, Lady Sovereign & Shystie, UNKLE, RJD2, Andy C, Justice, Kanye West, LTJ Bukem, Peaches, 0=0, Cannibal Ox, Mogwai, Virus Syndicate, Luke Vibert, Chuck D, The Mighty Boosh, Amit, Andy Stott, Bruza, Leftfield, Surgeon, Keaton & Hive, Loefah, Sigur Ros, Ben Frost, Hatcha & Crazy D, Jeff Mills, Orbital, DJ Distance, Jammer, Matthew Jonson, Radiohead, Calibre & DRS, Envy, Kode 9, Bad Company, Roots Manuva, Roll Deep, N-Type, D-Bridge, Venitian Snares, Ruichi Sakamoto, Ed Rush & Optical, Andrea Parker, Amon Tobin, Metallica, Limewax, DJ Food, Drop The Lime, Various Production, Isolee, Jimmy Edgar, Photek, Boxcutter...
Mary Anne released a definitive underground compilation album in October 2006. 'Mary Anne Hobbs.. Warrior Dubz' features exclusive dubz from some of her favourite artists operating on the UK underground scenes she supports: dubstep, grime, dark dancefloor, techno and drum&bass...
Mary Anne left school at the age of 16 and went to work in an egg packing factory for the princely sum of £39 per week.
She quickly ran away to London with a hard rock band and lived on a bus with them in a car park in Hayes, Middlesex for 12 months, working as their lighting engineer, record sleeve artist, wardrobe designer… and mechanic.
Her great ambition was to become a music journalist. She figured the next logical step would be to produce her own fanzine - Krush.
She sent a couple of issues along with a demented CV detailing her adventures to the Editor of Sounds music paper and landed a job with them at the age of 19.
At 21, having been profoundly influenced by a snapshot of Metallica, Mary Anne sold all her worldly goods and bought a one-way ticket to Hollywood, where she lived in a garden shed.
She spent a year as Sounds US correspondent in the dark underbelly of LA writing about the fledgling thrash metal scene, Jane’s Addiction, Guns N' Roses et al.
At Sounds Mary Anne met fellow teenager James Brown (legendary writer and publisher, not the Godfather of soul) who became a lifelong friend.
James moved to NME as Features Editor and when Mary Anne returned to London from LA, he promptly poached her to work with him at NME. Mary Anne spent three years on the newsdesk and also worked as a major feature writer there, authoring cover stories on everyone from Ice Cube to Nirvana.
She went on with James Brown to form part of the original team he put together to launch Loaded magazine. She worked there as Music Editor, and writing major undercover stories about private detectives, cocaine dealers to the stars and most notoriously a Soho sex club.
Mary Anne got her break in radio at BBC GLR on Sunday mornings alongside Mark Lamarr.
She presented groundbreaking shows on XFM during their trail broadcasts, which helped to win their licence.
She was poached by Radio 1 in 1997 after a particularly confrontational interview with Radio 1's then Head Of Production (Trevor Dann) was bootlegged around the BBC and found the desk of the Controller of the day, Matthew Bannister.
Mary Anne's time at Radio 1 has been hectic… she has hosted shows from all the major award ceremonies: Q, NME, Brits, Kerrang, Mercury Music Prize… and made documentaries about artists as diverse as David Bowie and The Sex Pistols…
She championed comedy god Ricky Gervais in his pre-Office days… hosted a movie review show with Mark Kermode called Cling Film… founded and fronted the award-winning Radio 1 Rock Show for five years.
TV... there’s quite a lot, M.A. hosted live coverage of the ‘World Superbike Championship’ for British Eurosport… she made a series about global biker culture in India, Russia, Japan, the US and Europe for BBC Choice,‘Mary Anne's Bikes’… fronted 27 hours of live coverage at Glastonbury Festival for the BBC… and has guested on everything from BBC2’s ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ to ‘John Peel’s Record Box’ for Channel4.
Mary Anne can ride any motorcycle you care to park in front of her too... Her current bike is the gorgeous Kawasaki ER-6n…
John Peel – original and endless inspiration
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