Mary Anne Hobbs
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 weekday mid-morning show, Monday to Friday, 10:30 am – 1 pm. She is also a performer and curator of live events. In 2024 she created a ground-breaking collaboration with violinist Anna Phoebe for the 6 Music Festival. She's hosted the ALL QUEENS stage at All Points East festival for 4 years. In 2019, she created a radical live show, Queens of the Electronic Underground for Manchester International Festival and assisted David Lynch with his musical presentation at the festival, following her series of shows, "Dark Matter" at MIF 2017. She staged a BBC Prom with Nils Frahm and A Winged Victory for the Sullen in 2015. She performs as a live DJ internationally, at events such as the opening of Switch House at TATE Modern and the TATE Britain re-hang celebrations in 2023.
Mary Anne Hobbs
16 May 1964
Miles Hunt (1990–95)
Mary Anne Hobbs
10:30–13:00 Monday–Friday
United Kingdom
Early life[edit]
Hobbs was born in Preston, Lancashire but grew up in Garstang, a small town 10 miles to the north.[1] 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 the age of 19.[2][1] She later went to work for the NME writing the notorious Nirvana cover story of 1991. While with the NME she served as UK correspondent in Canada on CBC Radio, filing a weekly music report. This contributed to her break in radio with BBC GLR.