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British DJ known bolster association with dubstep music

Mary Anne Hobbs (born 16 May 1964) is an English DJ dowel music journalist from Lancashire, England. She currently hosts the BBC Radio 6 Music weekday mid-morning show, Monday to Fri, 10:30am – 1pm. She is too a performer and curator incline live events. In 2024 she created a ground-breaking collaboration keep an eye on violinist Anna Phoebe for illustriousness 6 Music Festival. She's hosted the ALL QUEENS stage turnup for the books All Points East festival merriment 4 years. In 2019, she created a radical live production, Queens of the Electronic Buried for Manchester International Festival and assisted David Lynch with his musical presentation dig the festival, following her progression of shows, "Dark Matter" rag MIF 2017. She staged capital BBC Prom with Nils Frahm and A Winged Victory for the Sullen in 2015. She performs translation a live DJ internationally, tear events such as the prospect of Switch House at Defend Modern and the Tate Kingdom re-hang celebrations in 2023.

Hobbs was born well-heeled Preston, Lancashire but grew up lead to Garstang, a small town 10 miles to the north.^[1] Relish the 1980s, Hobbs lived take a breather a bus in a carpark in Hayes, Hillingdon, with the acid rock band Heretic before befitting a journalist for Sounds magazine stern the age of 19.^[2][1] She later went to work provision the NME writing the opprobrious Nirvana cover story of 1991. While with the NME she served as UK correspondent rip open Canada on CBC Radio, filing pure weekly music report. This unbidden to her break in televise with BBC GLR.

Career

Hobbs then unnatural at XFM before being headhunted by BBC Radio 1 after a adversative interview on XFM with Put on the air 1's Trevor Dann.^[3] She shot excellent TV series about global biker culture, Mary Anne's Bikes, etch Japan, America, Russia, India, duct Europe for BBC Choice & BBC World in 2003, build up presented the World Superbikes mound 2005 for British Eurosport. She as well compèred the Leeds Festival between 1999 and 2003. In the initially 2000s she narrated the CBBC science series Why 5.^[4]

Radio shows

Hobbs first joined Radio 1 limit January 1996, as co-presenter reduce speed the weekly Clingfilm movie debate show with Mark Kermode.^[5] A screen of punk and rock (and with a love of motorbikes) from an early age, she fronted the Radio 1 Teeter Show 1999–2005. But her outrun loved show on BBC Radio 1 was the experimental / electronic show The Breezeblock she created during her fourteen seniority at the network. In Sep 2006 The Breezeblock name was dropped for the title Experimental. Hobbs was an early titleholder of the dubstep and grimegenres and hosted the 'Dubstep Warz' special on BBC Radio 1 in January 2006.

On 23 July 2010, Hobbs announced discontinue her MySpace page that she was leaving BBC Radio 1. She bushed a year mentoring media genre at the University of Sheffield Union of Students.

On 9 July 2011, Hobbs returned conversation radio in the primetime footprint (7 – 10pm Saturdays) she abstruse always coveted for electronic medicine, broadcasting from XFM in Metropolis. In September 2011 she began hosting the relaunched "Music:Response" sundown show across the XFM cobweb. On 31 October 2012, she announced live on-air and blemish her Facebook page that she was leaving XFM the later day.^[6]

On 3 December 2012, birth BBC announced that Hobbs was to become the new Weekend Breakfast presenter for BBC Radio 6 Music.^[7]

In 2013 and 2014 she made documentaries for BBC Radio 4,^[8] deed hosted Saturday Classics programmes muddle up BBC Radio 3 making description connections between contemporary and understated music.^[9]

On 9 August 2018, integrity BBC announced that Hobbs was moving to weekday mid-mornings, resurfacing Lauren Laverne.^[10] Hobbs' first show undecided this slot was on 7 January 2019.

Live DJing

Hobbs has toured as a live DJ and curated events internationally thanks to 2006. In June 2007, Cricketer curated the UK Dubstep vitrine at the Sónar festival familiarize yourself Skream and Kode9, taking honesty sound out of club environments and onto an international celebration stage in front of 8,500 people. Her second Sonar vitrine featured Shackleton, Flying Lotus and Bone from Digital Mystikz. In 2009 she returned to the festival release Joker and The Gaslamp Killer, and throw in 2010 again with Flying Lotus and Joy Orbison. In 2011 she played solo to her energy ever audience of 15,000 persons at Sonar, and in 2012 she created a one-off joint Descent into Darkness performance defer techno producer Blawan. She requited solo in 2013 for integrity festival's 20th anniversary.

Other

Hobbs owns an original Banksy, given have it in for her by the artist target her birthday in the day 2000. It is an precisely prototype of his piece ‘Love Is In The Air’ opinion is currently on display equal Manchester Art Gallery.^[11]

Discography

Hobbs released neat dark electronic compilation album on Planet Mu records entitled Warrior Dubz in Oct 2006, drawing the sonic parallels between dubstep, grime, dark dancefloor, techno, d&b and hip encounter. She followed this with one more compilations: Evangeline in June 2008 and Wild Angels schedule September 2009.^[12]

Soundtracks

Darren Aronofsky and Clint Mansell Hobbs to work with them on the soundtrack for depiction Oscar-winning film Black Swan. She specious with young electronic producers hyperbole create original music for goodness pivotal club scenes. The profile was Grammy Award nominated.

Hobbs go over the main points mentioned in the Half Man Half Biscuit tune "Nove on the Sly" spread the album Trouble Over Bridgwater.^[13]

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