Too cutting edge for 6 Music?

Back, for a moment, to 6 Music, where it was understandably not the happiest of birthdays for the digital station, which turned eight years old last week. It has only one more birthday left if Mark Thompson's plans are rubber-stamped by the BBC Trust. But Monkey can't help but feel that the station turned the self-flagellation factor up to 11 last week with its only slightly unfortunately timed competition – The Axe Factor. "Join our vote for the greatest guitarist of the last 30 years!" Oh, that sort of axe.