BBC Radio 6 Music Festival By Day and Late Line-Up announcedToday, 6 Music revealed the line-up of the 6 Music Festival By Day – a celebration of live music, conversation, comedy and spoken word. It will take place at The Trinity Centre in Bristol, a much-loved historic landmark and a cultural hub for the city, on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 February. Also revealed today are the line-ups for 6 Music Festival Late, club nights on Friday 12 February at Basement 45, and Saturday 13 February at Motion. Highlights of 6 Music Festival By Day include Julian Cope, Saul Williams, Floating Points, Mark Watson, John Grant, Geoff Barrow from Portishead, Dennis Bovell, Adrian Sherwood & Mad Professor, and Don Letts hosting exclusive preview clips of Ring The Alarm - The DJ Derek Story, plus much much more. Across the weekend there will be performances from musicians, poets, broadcasters and BBC Radio 6 Music will be broadcasting live from The Trinity Centre between 10 and 4pm on both days. Tickets go on sale on Monday 1 February at 8am (see ticketing information below). 6 Music Festival By Day, Saturday 13 February at Trinity Centre, 10.30am-4pm: Underworld’s Karl Hyde and Rick Smith will be in conversation with Lauren Laverne while Mary Anne Hobbs will be looking back on the career of Reggae giants Misty In Roots, with frontman Poko. Nemone will discuss music making in the West with some of Bristol’s finest local musicians Roni Size, Benjamin John Power from Blanck Mass and Massive Attack tour DJ, Queen Bee. There will be poetry and spoken word performances hosted by Murray Lachlan Young with Holly McNish, former UK Poetry Slam Champion Deanna, and Kojey Radical. And Shaun Keaveny hosts comedy with Mark Watson and Bristol comedians Cerys Nelmes and Alice Matthews. Both Saturday and Sunday’s events will feature an exhibition of the Bristol music scene in pictures by local photographer Beezer, an Independent Record fair, screen printing, the Jah Lokko Soundsystem, plus cake from the Women’s Institute. Additionally, attendees are welcome to bring their music memorabilia along to be documented for The People’s History of Pop project, a BBC Four series coming later this year telling the stories from four decades of popular music through the eyes of the UK's music fans. 6 Music Festival By Day, Sunday 14 February at Trinity Centre, 10.30am-4pm: Cerys Matthew will be in conversation with the acclaimed singer John Grant, who has continued to build on the incredible acclaim of by his first two solo albums with his latest album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure. There will also be live performances from This Is The Kit and False Lights; plus acoustic sets from Marry Waterson & David A Jaycock and Rozi Plain, whose performances will be recorded for the Radio 2 Folk Show. There are two ways to get tickets for the 6 Music Festival By Day. Tickets for both Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 February events cost £5 and go on sale from 8am on Monday 1 February.
Full details about purchasing tickets, plus terms and conditions, can be found bbc.co.uk/6music. 6 Music Festival Late Friday 12 February at Basement 45, 11.30pm-3am. Tickets priced £10 (plus booking fee & postage): Saturday 13 February at Motion, 12.30-4am. Tickets priced at £15 (plus booking fee & postage): The third year of the Festival will see over 50 acts across three days delivering live music, conversation, comedy and more taking place at venues across the city - Motion, Colston Hall, O2 Academy Bristol and Basement 45, plus Festival by Day at Trinity. With the previous 6 Music Festivals being held in Manchester (2014) and Tyneside (2015), the 6 Music Festival has built a reputation for bringing together emerging and established artists who represent the very best alternative music of the moment. Keep across all the latest updates at #6MusicFestival. While the 6 Music Festival events will be attended by thousands of people, those at home won’t miss out. BBC Radio 6 Music will be broadcasting from the festival across the weekend from Friday 12 February with the network’s presenters coming live from all the venues, day and night. The station will air many of the performances live from Motion, Colston Hall, O2 Academy Bristol and Basement 45, with others recorded and aired in shows later in the week and on future dates. The 6 Music Festival can also be seen and heard across digital platforms. As well as being broadcast on the station across the weekend, highlights from a selection of performances will be available to watch via the BBC Red Button at various times during the weekend of the event and over the following fortnight. Full sets from around 20 acts will be made available on BBC iPlayer for 30 days, and there will be more video and photos from the event showcased on at bbc.co.uk/6music and via the station’s social channels. Last week, 6 Music Festival announced its first fringe festival as part of this year’s Festival in Bristol. The BBC (BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC England and BBC Introducing in the West) are working closely with venues, promoters, organisations and artists across Bristol to put together an exciting programme for The Fringe – supported by BBC Radio 4 Music Festival. More details here.
January 27, 2016 8:32am ET by BBC Radio 6 Music
Comments (0) |