16 December 2015
Newsdesk
BBC Radio 6 Music has revealed that the 6 Music Festival 2016 is coming to Bristol from Friday 12 to Sunday 14 February.
6 Music presenters Steve Lamacq and Mary Anne Hobbs made the announcement in a special outside broadcast live from Bristol’s Watershed. Special guests on the show were Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie and some of Bristol’s finest - Roni Size, Tricky, Beak and The Blue Aeroplanes – all were announced today as just some of the acts who will be performing at the festival.
Now in its third year - having previously been to Manchester in 2014 and on Tyneside in 2015 - the 6 Music Festival will take place in venues across the city - Motion, Colston Hall, O2 Academy Bristol, Basement 45 and Trinity.
On Tuesday 19 January 2016, 6 Music will announce the full line-up of bands and artists and the dates the tickets go on sale. The line-up for the 6 Music Festival by Day – a presentation of spoken word, poetry and performance events during the day time on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 February – will be announced on Tuesday 26 January.
Primal Scream: Ahead of its release in March 2016, the band will be performing material from their new album, Chaosmosis, live for the first time at the 6 Music Festival.
Roni Size: For the 6 music festival, Roni Size, DJ Krust and Dynamite MC return with the first official showcase and live broadcast of Full Cycle from their home town of Bristol. Their set will feature classic tracks and new material from the legendary drum and bass label.
Tricky: The 6 Music Festival will be Tricky’s first UK performance showcasing material from his new album, Skilled Mechanics, which is released in January 2016, and this will be his first live show in Bristol since 2012 when he played at The Academy.
The Blue Aeroplanes: This will be the Bristol art-rockers first show of 2016. For the 6 Music audience, they’ll be premiering tracks from their eleventh studio album, Welcome. Stranger!, due for release in September 2016; and the first single, Elvis Festival, will be out in February.
Beak: Formed was in 2009 by three Bristol musicians – Billy Fuller and Matt Williams, and Portishead’s Geoff Barrow – who are currently working on their new album. The Festival will be their first live performance of 2016 and they will be playing brand new material as well as tracks from their BEAK>
DJ Pinch: Bristol's leading man of dubstep, responsible for creating some of the deepest, darkest, most innovative bass music ever produced, led the city’s invasion in dubstep through his pioneering Subloaded nights and releasing music on his own label. Mary Anne Hobbs was an early champion of his sound, and for the festival he’ll be delivering one of his legendary sets.
Mary Anne Hobbs said : “The 6 Music Festival is such a special event because it brings all the elements of what we do as a digital radio station into a physical space; the artists, the whole of the station's staff and presenters, and of course our wonderful listeners. This year, the festival is coming to Bristol, a place where music is such a primary element of the DNA of the city. It’s going to be a truly unforgettable experience."
Steve Lamacq says: “I love getting out of London and going to gigs around the country, so the 6 Music Festival is ideal. Bristol has some fantastic venues - I was there a while back to see a band called The Archie Bronson Outfit and had an excellent night at the Colston Hall so I’m really looking forward to going back there. I’ve also presented a lot of good shows from Bristol over the years including Sound City for Radio 1 in the ‘90s and some gigs for 6 Music, so I know the appetite for music is really healthy around the city. I hope people come along and enjoy it.”
