some of it was true!

While desperately sad at the imminent closure of BBC 6 Music (everyone seems to be handling BBC Asian’s demise much better) – and the absence of a Sunday night spent listening to weird and wonderful Mexican flute rock or Japanese tango, of a radio station daring enough to play daring new music, and of non-cringeworthy live sets –  SOIWT is a little over email petitions collecting signatures.

Praise be for Proud, then.  The Camden stables venue has organised an impromptu ‘Save 6 Music’ night tomorrow (Wednesday), with live performances from the excellent Kitty, Daisy & Lewis and hip hopper Master Shortie.  The bad news is that Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong will be there, but happily they’ll only be DJing, not making noxious racket as normal.  The Maccabees, The Holloways and Ali Love will also take up deck duties, with more acts apparently to be announced.  Rather than get names on paper, the evening pledges to raise awareness about the plight of “the most iconic radio station of our time”.  You might argue that anyone who’d heard about the event would surely already be aware by default, but they probably mean in the bigger sense…

The Save 6 Music Facebook group has above 150,000 members now; it’s being run by modern culture’s cheerleaders-in-chief, Jon and Tracy Morter – they of last Christmas’ campaign to get Rage Against The Machine in the No. 1 spot.  Mr Morter is clearly letting the fame get to him, though, as he’s also among tomorrow’s disk-jockeys.  Meanwhile, poor Auntie’s received around 8,000 letters of outrage.  People power is so clearly hip right now, but will Mark Thompson give a Beeb?  Let’s hope so.

Proud says tickets will go fast, which probably means they won’t.  But it’s worth booking now just in case.  Try here.  They total £5.50 and all profit goes to Shelter, the heroic homeless charity.