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- 1. Presentation by Alesha Lewis MARY ANNE HOBBS
- 2. EARLY YEARS • left school at the age of 15 and went to work in an egg packing factory for £39 per week. • Ran away to London with hard rock band Heretic, working as their lighting engineer, record sleeve artist, wardrobe designer and mechanic. • Her great ambition was to become a music journalist, so she produced a fanzine called Krush and sent it to the editor of Sounds music paper which landed her a job with them at the age of 19. • She went to work for NME and served as UK correspondent in Canada on CBC Radio, filing a weekly music report. This contributed to her big break in radio with BBC, working alongside Mark Lamarr.
- 3. EARLY YEARS • Helped found Loaded Magazine • Narrated the BBC science series Why 5 in 2000. • Shot a TV series about global biker culture 'Mary Anne's Bikes' for BBC in 2003 • Hosted the Leeds Music Festival between 1999 and 2003. • Presented the World Superbikes series 2005 for British Eurosport.
- 4. RADIO SHOWS • Fronted the Radio 1 Rock Show from 1999-2005 • Created BBC Radio 1 electronic show ‘Experimental’ after fourteen years at the network • Was a champion of early dubstep and grime and hosted the legendary 'Dubstep Warz' special on BBC Radio 1 starting in 2006. • 'Dubstep Warz' is widely regarded as the show that broke the dubstep sound globally. • On July 23, 2010 announced she was leaving BBC Radio 1 to spend a year mentoring students at the University of Sheffield Union of Students.
- 5. RADIO SHOWS • Returned to XFM radio in the primetime slot (7-10pm Saturdays) to play electronic music on July 9, 2011 • Began hosting the re-launched evening show "Music:Response” in September 2011. • Became Weekend Breakfast presenter for BBC Radio 6 Music in December 2012. • Now hosts a specialist show called '6 Music Recommends' Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
- 6. LIVE DJING • Hobbs has toured as a live DJ and curated events internationally since 2006. • In June 2007, she curated the UK Dubstep showcase at the Sonar festival with Skream, Oris Jay, and Kode9, taking the sound onto an international festival stage for the first time. • She went on to do 3 more Sonar showcases from 2008-2010. • In 2011 she played solo to an audience of 15,000 people at Sonar • In 2012 she created 'Decent Into Darkness’, a performance with techno producer Blawan. • She returned solo in 2013 for the festival's 20th anniversary.
- 7. DISCOGRAPHY • Released a dark electronic compilation album on Planet Mu records entitled Warrior Dubz in October 2006 • Followed this with two more compilations Evangeline, released in June 2008, and • Wild Angels in September 2009. • Worked on the Grammy nominated soundtrack for Black Swan.
- 8. CHARACTER TRAITS • Driven • Passionate • Friendly • Humble • Audacious • Optimistic
- 9. QUOTES • “Passion is the single most important driving force in the world today. It creates everything good that is all around us.” • “When people ask me for advice about what pathway they should take in their life I just literally have one sentence which is: Charge at your dreams and never look back” • “Sometimes you just have to think - Jesus Christ what are we waiting for? Let’s do it. Whatever we dream of let’s do it!”