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Mary Anne Hobbs was born on 16 May, 1964 in Preston, Lancashire, England, is a British DJ known for association with dubstep music. Discover Mary Anne Hobbs's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 59 years old?
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Her husband is Miles Hunt (m. 1990–1995)
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Mary Anne Hobbs Net Worth
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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, 10:30am – 1pm.
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 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.
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.
Hobbs then worked at XFM before being headhunted by BBC Radio 1 after a confrontational interview on XFM with Radio 1's Trevor Dann.
Hobbs first joined Radio 1 in January 1996, as co-presenter of the weekly Clingfilm movie review show with Mark Kermode.
She also compèred the Leeds Festival between 1999 and 2003.
A fan of punk and rock (and with a love of motorbikes) from an early age, she fronted the Radio 1 Rock Show 1999–2005.
But her best loved show on BBC Radio 1 was the experimental / electronic show The Breezeblock she created during her fourteen years at the network.
In the early 2000s she narrated the CBBC science series Why 5.
Hobbs owns an original Banksy, gifted to her personally by the artist for her birthday in the year 2000.
It is an early prototype of his piece ‘Love Is In The Air’ and is currently on display at Manchester Art Gallery.
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.
In September 2006 The Breezeblock name was dropped for the title Experimental.
Hobbs was an early champion of the dubstep and grime genres and hosted the legendary 'Dubstep Warz' special on BBC Radio 1 in January 2006.
Hobbs has toured as a live DJ and curated events internationally since 2006.
Hobbs released a dark electronic compilation album on Planet Mu records entitled Warrior Dubz in October 2006, drawing the sonic parallels between dubstep, grime, dark dancefloor, techno, d&b and hip hop.
In June 2007, Hobbs curated the UK Dubstep showcase at the Sónar festival with Skream, Oris Jay and Kode9, taking the sound out of club environments and onto an international festival stage in front of 8,500 people.
Her second Sonar showcase featured Shackleton, Flying Lotus and Mala from Digital Mystikz.
In 2009 she returned to the festival with Joker, The Gaslamp Killer and Martyn, and in 2010 again with Flying Lotus and also with new British producers/DJs Roska and Joy Orbison.
On 23 July 2010, Hobbs announced on her MySpace page that she was leaving BBC Radio 1.
She spent a year mentoring students at University of Sheffield Union of Students.
On 9 July 2011, Hobbs returned to radio in the primetime slot (7 – 10pm Saturdays) she had always coveted for electronic music, broadcasting from XFM in Manchester.
In September 2011 she began hosting the relaunched "Music:Response" evening show across the XFM network.
In 2011 she played solo to her biggest ever audience of 15,000 people at Sonar, and in 2012 she created a one-off collaborative Descent into Darkness performance with techno producer Blawan.
On 31 October 2012, she announced live on-air and on her Facebook page that she was leaving XFM the following day.
On 3 December 2012, the BBC announced that Hobbs was to become the new Weekend Breakfast presenter for BBC Radio 6 Music.
In 2013 and 2014 she made documentaries for BBC Radio 4, and hosted Saturday Classics programmes for BBC Radio 3 making the connections between contemporary and classical music.
She returned solo in 2013 for the festival's 20th anniversary.
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.
Hobbs was born in Preston, Lancashire but grew up in Garstang, a small town 10 miles to the north.
On 9 August 2018, the BBC announced that Hobbs was moving to weekday mid-mornings, replacing Lauren Laverne.
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.
Hobbs' first show in this slot was on 7 January 2019.