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Mary Anne Hobbs returns to Xfm

By | Published on Tuesday 29 March 2011

Mary Anne Hobbs

Having departed Radio 1 last September, Mary Anne Hobbs has announced that she is to return to radio in July. She will present a new Saturday primetime show on Xfm from 9 Jul, which will kick off with a series of ‘audio postcards’ from festivals where she is DJing this spring, including Coachella.

Announcing her return via her website, Hobbs said: “I broadcast my first ever radio show for Xfm… it was simply the most exciting thing I had ever done, and it changed my life forever. 20 years ago, we were broadcasting for just four weeks each year with temporary licences, on what was originally a pirate network. The station’s signal had only a 25 mile radius from our base on Charlotte Street in London’s West End. Yet the scent of revolution was high in the air”.

She continued: “This was a time before the internet was established and the only man in the UK doing anything meaningful on legal radio was John Peel. It’s hard to explain just how thrilling it was to be part of the family who created the first radical alternative radio network – a whole station – and changed the way we communicate about the music we love for all time. So much has changed across our generation; music and culture enriched immeasurably by global internet access. Yet, 20 years later, the value of everything we stood for at the outset is as vital and powerful as it’s ever been”.

Finally, she said: “In 2011, Xfm have given me the opportunity to deliver the music that I am so passionate about on a primetime platform. This is such a victory, not just for me, but for all the artists I believe in and all the live listeners who care so deeply. I’ll broadcasting from Manchester across the world at www.xfm.co.uk bringing future sound and guest mixes from the most forward thinking artists on earth. Dubstep, UK funky, minimal techno, deep house, hip hop, electronica, grime, neo-folk and art house rock… no holds barred”.



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