6 Music Festival in Liverpool
BBC 6 Music Festival arrives in Liverpool in March, Getintothis’ Lewis Ridley gives the full programme of events ahead of the week long event.
The big news in Liverpool this week is that BBC 6 Music are moving into the city for a week of events in March, concluding with a three day festival across the city centre.
Announced live on air on Tuesday morning from The Bluecoat, Mary Anne Hobbs reveales that Merseyside would be descended on for the festival from Friday March 29 – Sunday March 31.
Names like The Good, the Bad, and the Queen, Anna Calvi, Bill Ryder Jones and IDLES have reverberated around the country, and Liverpool, being Liverpool, has taken it upon itself to spreadeagle across the back end of March with a full programme of live events.
Added to the lineup a week prior to the event is John Grant, who’ll play at Mountford Hall on the Friday. He performed at the first ever 6 Music Festival in Salford in 2014 and headlined the festival in Bristol in 2016.
The addition means that Marika Hackman will be moving to Eventim Olympia, joining Anna Calvi, Bodega and She Drew the Gun.
John Grant will play at Mountford Hall (Credit: BBC)
Before the festival proper has begun, the preliminaries will kick in with venues like The Jacaranda and the Cavern Club swinging into action, the latter hosting a special BBC Introducing showcase with Zuzu and Queen Zee amongst others.
At the other end of the soirée, Getintothis will join forces with Culture Liverpool and many more music organisations to close the festival with a curtain closer at Phase One. It’s a collaboration with Liverpool music’s movers and shakers, featuring Chester’s Peaness and Wrexham’s Kidsmoke along with Merseyside’s Seatbelts and RongoRongo, which will see the week finish is style.
Included in the fringe element of the festival is Baltic Triangle based festival Threshold, with the likes of Seafoam Green, Katie Mac and Mersey Wylie performing.
Tickets for the festival proper went on sale this week, but fringe events and the BBC Introducing evening in the Cavern Club are not included, but often free entry, if you can get in!
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You can view the full lineup for 6 Music Festival and 6 Music Fringe, including day splits and venues, below:
6 Music Festival 2019
- Thursday March 28
BBC Introducing at the Cavern Club
The Mysterines, Zuzu, Queen Zee, Red Rum Club
Bill Ryder-Jones
- Friday March 29
By night
Eventim Olympia
Anna Calvi, Bodega, Ex:RE, She Drew The Gun
Mountford Hall
Bill Ryder Jones
Ex:Re
John Grant
Late
Invisible Wind Factory
2ManyDJs, Erol Alkan, Max Cooper, Nemone, Breakwave
The Coral
- Saturday March 30
By day
Camp and Furnace
The Coral, BC Camplight, Little Simz with Lauren Laverne, Skinny Pelembe, The Comet Is Coming, Craig Charles (DJ Set), Justin Robertson (DJ Set),The First Time: Craig Charles and Matt Everitt, IDLES in conversation with Steve Lamacq, Making Music in Liverpool with Liz Kershaw, The Dancefloors of Liverpool with Nemone
By night
Eventim Olympia
The Good, the Bad, & the Queen, IDLES, Stealing Sheep, Villagers
Mountford Hall
Jon Hopkins, Little Simz, slowthai
Late
Craig Charles (DJ Set), Renegade Brass Band, Elliot Hutchinson (Dig Vinyl) DJ Set
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
- Sunday March 31
By day
Camp and Furnace
Julian Cope, Julia Jacklin, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Clinic, Gaika, Roger McGough, Jess Green and Amina Atiq, 6 Music Bingo with Jonny Bongo, Julian Cope in conversation with Mark Radcliffe, Roger McGough and Cerys Matthews, Psych in the City with Stuart Maconie, Charlotte Gainsbourg in conversation with Amy Lamé
By night
Olympia
Chali 2na & Krafty Kuts, The Cinematic Orchestra, Jungle
Mountford Hall
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Fontaines D.C, Gang of Four, Hot Chip, Marika Hackman
6 Music Festival in Liverpool
6 Music Fringe
- Friday March 22
The Jacaranda
LIMF Academy Showcase
The Great Hall
Angel Field Festival: The Phil Shotton Big Band
O2 Academy
Liverpool Rocks
- Saturday March 23
24 Kitchen Street
Acid Arab, Humble Abode Present Peach
The Great Hall
Angel Field Festival: The Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra, Pixels Ensemble
- Sunday March 24
The Great Hall
Angel Field Festival: Kerem Quartet – 30 Years On
- Monday March 25
The Capstone Theatre
Angel Field Festival: An Evening of North West Bands
- Tuesday March 26
Warehouse Theatre
Angel Field Festival: Interruptions
Capstone Theatre
Angel Field Festival: Symphony of a Great City
- Wednesday March 27
The Great Hall
Angel Field Festival: An Evening with Liverpool Hope University Concert Band
SPQR
- Thursday March 28
Capstone Theatre
Angel Field Festival: The Sounds of Opera
St Francis Xavier’s Church
Angel Field Festival: Musica Argentina
Shipping Forecast
The Bido Lito! Social with Yank Scally
- Friday March 29
24 Kitchen Street
Discwoman: Volvox, Ciel & Juana
The Senate Room
Angel Field Festival: Music from the Heart of Siberia
Liverpool Central
Merseyrail Sound Station Live
Arts Club
SPQR
Eyesore & the Jinx
- Saturday March 30
Sound
Eggy Records Showcase featuring Eyesore and The Jinx, Beija Flo, Bill Nickson, Hannah and the Wick Effect, Astles, Ana Mae and Dan Disgrace.
Capstone Theatre
Angel Field Festival: Music for the Mind and Soul
The Senate Room
Angel Field Festival: Immix Ensemble – Dream Makers
- Sunday March 31
Phase One
6 Music Fringe Closing Party featuring Peaness, Kidsmoke, Seatbelts and RongoRongo.
Threshold Festival runs from Friday March 29 – Sunday March 31
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