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Radio 6
Music will ensure the beat goes on, as the 6
Music Festival 2021 takes place on air and across the BBC, from Friday 26th March to Sunday 28th March.
As announced on
Lauren Laverne�s 6
Music Breakfast Show (7.30am-10.30am) this morning (Friday 12th March), the 2021 festival will see nine brand new performances and 18 classic sets from festivals past made available on BBC
Sounds and BBC iPlayer, with highlights broadcast on 6
Music and BBC Four, treating listeners and viewers to an eclectic mix of musical performance, when they need it most.
New performances will come from Bicep, Michael Kiwanuka, and
Laura Marling, all filmed recently at
Alexandra Palace, North London as well as from Poppy Ajudha,
Black Country, New Road, Dry Cleaning, Nubya Garcia, shame and Working Men�s Club, all filmed recently in the BBC
Radio Theatre in BBC Broadcasting House.
These brand new sets will be made available in full on BBC iPlayer and BBC
Sounds from Friday 26th March, with highlights played out on 6
Music between Friday 26th and Sunday 28th March.
Tracks from Michael Kiwanuka,
Laura Marling and Bicep�s performances will also be shown on BBC Four at 11pm on Friday 26th March. Songs shown will include You Ain�t The Problem by Michael Kiwanuka, Song For Our Daughter by
Laura Marling and a special track from Bicep. The programme will also feature Cerys Matthews interviewing Michael and
Laura about being able to finally perform in a live venue after a year of restrictions, albeit with no audience yet.
Samantha Moy, Head of BBC
Radio 6
Music says: �With venues closed across the UK, we are determined to celebrate live music, as we know 6
Music listeners are missing gigs as much as we are. So, we�ve raided the 6
Music Festival archives and moved heaven and earth to record some new performances, to ensure that the festival will go on!�
Laura Marling says: "Really looking forward to sharing the songs I performed at
Alexandra Palace - thank you BBC
Radio 6
Music for inviting me.�
Michael Kiwanuka says: �It feels great to be playing the 6
Music Festival this year, especially because I missed last year - I was so sad and gutted not to perform. This year is a special year because there are very few opportunities to get to play live, with the situation we�re in in the world. So it�s great to be able to express myself the way I know how and with the 6
Music family. It means a lot.�
The following classic sets will be made available across BBC
Sounds from Monday 22nd March, with many also available to watch in full on BBC iPlayer:
Anna Calvi (Liverpool 2019), Bonobo (Glasgow, 2017),
Brittany Howard (Camden, 2020),
Depeche Mode (Glasgow, 2017),
Foals (Bristol, 2016),
Goldfrapp (Glasgow, 2017),
James Blake (Manchester, 2014),
Kelis (Manchester, 2014),
Little Simz (Liverpool, 2019), Loyle Carner (Glasgow, 2017), R�is�n Murphy (Camden, 2020), Savages (Bristol, 2016),
Sleater-Kinney (Tyneside, 2015), The Fall (Tyneside, 2015), The
National (Manchester, 2014), Thundercat (Glasgow, 2017),
Underworld (Bristol, 2016) and Young Fathers (Tyneside, 2015).
BBC iPlayer will also present an eight hour stream of back to back new and classic sets from 2pm to 10pm on Sunday 28th March.
On 6 Music, listeners can hear interviews and performance highlights from Working Men�s Club on
Lauren Laverne (Friday 26th March, 7.30am-10.30am), Poppy Ajudha on Mary Anne Hobbs (Friday 26th March, 10.30am-1pm)
Black Country, New Road on Shaun Keaveny (Friday 26th March, 1pm-4pm), shame and
Michael Kiwanuka on Steve Lamacq (Friday 26th March, 4pm-7pm), Dry Cleaning on Iggy Confidential (Friday 26th March, 7pm-9pm),
Bicep on Tom Ravenscroft (Friday 26th March, 9pm-12am), Nubya Garcia on Gilles Peterson (Saturday 27th March, 3pm-6pm) and
Laura Marling on Radcliffe and Maconie (Sunday 28th March, 7am-10am).
In addition, they can catch
Laura Marling in conversation with Matt Everitt in a 6
Music Festival special of The First Time With� (Sunday 28th March, 1pm-2pm). Listeners and viewers can join the conversation on social media as Now Playing @6Music (Sunday 28th March, 6pm-8pm) unites with BBC iPlayer for a special simulcast of Depeche Mode�s 2017 set at Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow, when they returned to the venue for the first time since playing there 33 years previously.
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Music presenters will also re-play memorable moments from festivals past in their shows, in the lead up to and across the main festival weekend.
Lauren Laverne will look back at Q&As with
Kelis (Manchester, 2014) and
Little Simz (Liverpool 2019). Mary Anne Hobbs will replay moments from 6
Music festival interviews with Jehnny Beth (Camden, 2020), Anna Meredith (Camden 2020), and
Tricky (Bristol, 2016). Shaun Keaveny will broadcast highlights from Matt Everitt�s interview with Ed O�Brien (Camden, 2020). Cerys Matthews will revisit her interview with poet
Roger McGough (Liverpool, 2019), Loyle Carner, who is sitting in for Guy Garvey, will throw back to Kojey Radical in conversation with Mary Anne Hobbs (Bristol, 2016), as well as Kae Tempest in conversation with
Eliza Carthy and Mark Radcliffe (Tyneside 2015). Amy Lam� will relive her interview with
Charlotte Gainsbourg (Liverpool, 2019).
There will also be a host of classic live tracks recorded at past 6
Music Festivals, sprinkled throughout shows, from artists including Baloji (Glasgow, 2017),
Father John Misty (Glasgow, 2017), Floating Points (Bristol, 2016), Gwenno (Bristol, 2016), Hot 8 Brass Band (Camden, 2020),
Hot Chip (Liverpool, 2019), Misty in
Roots (Bristol. 2016), The Comet Is Coming (Liverpool, 2019), The Good, the Bad & the
Queen (Liverpool, 2019) and more.
