Hobbs performing at Glade Festival in 2007

Mary Anne Hobbs is an English DJ and music journalist from Garstang, Lancashire. In the 1980s, at the age of 19, she worked as a journalist for Sounds Magazine. She later went to work for the NME, before going on to help found Loaded Magazine. She got her break in radio at BBC GLR, working alongside Mark Lamarr. She then worked at XFM before going to BBC Radio 1. She also presented the show Superbikes 2003 for ITV.

A fan of rock, heavy metal and motorbikes from an early age, she fronted the Rock Show and the experimental / electronic Breezeblock on BBC Radio 1 for a number of years. In September 2006 the Breezeblock name was dropped for the title 'experimental', but the show retained the name of its host in the title. Most recently, Hobbs has been a notable champion of the dubstep and grime genres; she has released a dubstep compilation album on Planet Mu records entitled Warrior Dubz, and is curating a stage dedicated to the genres at the Sónar festival in 2007.

External links

• Biography at Radio 1
• Mary Anne Hobbs Radio 1 Show
• Mary Anne's MySpace profile
• Mary Anne Hobbs Archive

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