genres and hosted the legendary 'Dubstep Warz' special on BBC Radio 1 in January 2006. 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 (710pm 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. 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. She now hosts a specialist show for BBC Radio 6 Music, 6 Music Recommends, broadcast Wednesday night into Thursday morning, midnight1am. 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. On 9 August 2018, the BBC announced that Hobbs was moving to weekday mid-mornings, replacing Lauren Laverne. Hobbs first show in this slot was on 7 January 2019. Live DJing Hobbs has toured as a live DJ and curated events internationally since 2006. 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. 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. She returned solo in 2013 for the festival's 20th anniversary. Other 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. Discography Hobbs released a dark electronic compilation album on Planet Mu records entitled Warrior Dubz