Mary Anne Hobbes
| Mary Anne Hobbs | |
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Hobbs DJing in 2008
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| Born |
16 May 1964 Preston, Lancashire, England |
| Show | Mary Anne Hobbs |
| Station(s) | BBC Radio 6 Music |
| Time slot | 7:00 – 10:00 Saturday & Sunday |
| Style | DJ (experimental) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Spouse(s) | Miles Hunt (1990-95) |
Mary Anne Hobbs (born 16 May 1964) is an English DJ and music journalist from Lancashire, England. She currently hosts the BBC Radio 6 Music Weekend Breakfast show, Saturday and Sunday 7 – 10 am, and her 6 Music Recommends show, Wednesday night into Thursday morning, midnight – 1 am. She is also a curator of live events. She staged a BBC Prom with Nils Frahm and A Winged Victory for the Sullen in 2015, and created a radical series of shows, "Dark Matter", for the Manchester International Festival in 2017. She performs as a live DJ internationally, at events such as the opening of Switch House at TATE Modern.
Hobbs was born in Preston, Lancashire but grew up in Garstang, a small town 10 miles to the north. In the 1980s, Hobbs lived on a bus in a carpark in Hayes, Hillingdon, with the hard rock band Heretic before becoming a journalist for Sounds magazine at age 19. She later went to work for the NME before going on to help found Loaded magazine. While with the NME she served as UK correspondent in Canada on CBC Radio, filing a weekly music report. This contributed to her big break in radio with BBC GLR, working alongside Mark Lamarr.
Hobbs then worked at XFM before being headhunted by BBC Radio 1 after a confrontational interview on XFM with Radio 1's Trevor Dann. She shot a TV series about global biker culture, Mary Anne's Bikes, in Japan, America, Russia, India, and Europe for BBC Choice & BBC World in 2003, and presented the World Superbikes series 2005 for British Eurosport. She also compèred the Leeds Festival between 1999 and 2003. In the early 2000s she narrated the CBBC science series Why 5.
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