Lamacq
| Steve Lamacq | |
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Lamacq at Camden Crawl in 2011
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| Birth name | Stephen Paul Lamacq |
| Born |
16 October 1964 Islington, London, England |
| Show | Steve Lamacq & Steve Lamacq's Roundtable (Thursday) |
| Station(s) | BBC Radio 6 Music |
| Time slot | 16:00 – 19:00 Weekdays |
| Style | Disc Jockey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Previous show(s) |
In New Music We Trust, BBC Radio 1 Steve Lamacq's Rock College, BBC Radio 2 |
| Website | Steve Lamacq on 6music |
| Weekenders | |
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| Remix album by Steve Lamacq | |
| Released | 1996 |
| Recorded | 1996 (mixed) |
| Genre | |
| Length | 78:30 |
| Label | London Records |
| Producer | Steve Lamacq |
| Compiler | Steve Lamacq |
Stephen Paul "Steve" Lamacq (born 16 October 1964), sometimes known by his nickname Lammo (given to him by John Peel), is an English disc jockey, currently working with the BBC radio station BBC Radio 6 Music.
Lamacq was born in Islington, London and grew up in Colne Engaine, Essex.
His career in journalism began as a junior reporter at the West Essex Gazette after studying Journalism at Harlow College, Essex. In similar fashion to other music journalists who started fanzines during their teenage years, Lamacq started one called A Pack of Lies.
It was during his time at NME that he began DJing on XFM, when it was still a pirate radio station. He formed a record label in 1992 with Alan James and Tony Smith, called Deceptive Records. The majority of the label's releases shared a punk-pop sensibility, with Elastica being their most successful signing, before the label eventually folded in 2001.
In 1991, Lamacq was unwittingly involved in one of the most infamous events in British rock music of recent times during a post-gig interview at the Norwich Arts Centre with Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers for the NME. After repeated attempts by the band's co-lyricist Richey Edwards to convince Lamacq that they were "for real", Edwards gave up and carved "4 Real" into his forearm with a razor blade. The editorial meeting in which the story was discussed was recorded for a BBC Radio 5 documentary, "Sleeping with the NME", which later appeared as the B-side to the Manics' 1992 charity record "Theme From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)".
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