I can’t bear her. I’m sorry Nemone, I’m sure you’re a lovely therapist, sorry I mean person – hey everyone did you know Nemone’s a therapist? Probably news to you as she never mentions it.
It’s not her choice of music – that’s 100% dictated by the extremely limited playlist most 6 Music presenters are forced to adhere to (ooh, Foo Fighters again, nice. Oooh, that one track they ever play by A Guy Called Gerald anyone? We’ve not heard it for at least 24 hours…)
It’s her presenting style. For some reason, to my ear at least, almost everything she has to say about anything sounds like a corporate conference voiceover reading a press release for the very first time. Just getting through it, as fast as she can, suddenly slowing down when she realises she’s gonna have time to fill, inflection in the wrong places, always down at the end like she’s just getting it done and doesn’t care. Even when she’s trying to praise something it sounds like she’s just filling the air for the sake of it.
I don’t know how she does it, I’ve tried to impersonate the style and I just can’t NOT inject genuine life into the same sentences she delivers.
I do think someone at the BBC asked her to stop plugging her therapy business though. There was a time whenever she was standing in for someone she would crowbar in a quick therapeutic chill-out session where she’d tell you to CALM DOWN and RELAX MORE and BREATHE SLOWER. It was all a bit ‘Alan Partridge Does Relaxation Tapes’.
Anyway. Nemone. I turn her off for the talky bits. Who’s your least favourite BBC Radio 6 Music presenter now that Huey Morgan has done one?
(Yes fine, the music he played was decent. Shame about the man himself though. I’ve worked with him. He’s horrible.)