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So the 6 Music Festival's coming to the NE, which is nice! The main venues are the Sage and the O2 with daytime events in Ouseburn (The Cluny I assume) and The Stephenson Quarter (Stephenson Works I guess).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8qbj5/performances/lwmxn3
The line up confirmed so far:
The War on Drugs
Sleater Kinney
Interpol
Jungle
Villagers
Kate Tempest & Eliza Carthy
Kate Tempest (on her own)
Hot Chip
The Fall
Maximo Park
Ibibio Sound System
Father John Misty
Ghostpoet
Jon Hopkins
Neneh Cherry
Young Fathers
LoneLady
Anyone else going to try and get tickets?
Not even if they were free. Drab dirgers the lot of them.
Not even if they were free. Drab dirgers the lot of them.
I'm struggling to recognise that as a description of Ibibio Soundsystem, Hot Chip or Jungle...
it's not a great line up is it. 😐
Conceded on Ibibo, I stand my ground on Jungle. 😆
it's pretty much the radio6 playlist?it's not a great line up is it.
While I like radio6, I do wish they'd play some more popular stuff, they're like the Indie kid you knew at uni who burnt himself on his coffee because he drank it before it was cool.
Young Father, Lone Lady, Jungle and Hot Chip - yes
Slater Keany - would like to know more..
Am I going, no I'll be in Tenerife, oops.
[i]The War on Drugs[/i]
I'm oot!
(apart from it being "Newcastle/Gateshead" of course 🙂 )
You're just upset that they didn't book Bros.
Have they reformed? Cool!
[i]it's pretty much the radio6 playlist?[/i]
don't listen to it much TBH.
Delighted Jon Hopkins is playing, definitely looking to get tickets for that night
don't listen to it much TBH.
Possibly not the thread for you then eh?
If you want more popular stuff then head off to radio 1 or 2...
but I do listen to, and like to discover interesting and varied bands which is what R6 is supposed to be for, no? If that's what they're promoting, it sort of misses the point of their remit (in my mind)
hey ho.
Just realised they're still announcing them. The Charlatans and Wire are also playing.
edit: and Gruff Rhys
And Royal Blood
edit: and Public Service Broadcasting
we're looking forward to it here 🙂
King Creosote
Jamie T
While I like radio6, I do wish they'd play some more popular stuff,
You'll find One Direction, and the rest of the mono-tonal stuff that makes up the charts on Radio One.
I'd [i]really[/i] like to know your definition of "more popular stuff", seeing as how concerts/tours by pretty much all of the listed artist sell out rapidly.
There's five on that list I wouldn't be that interested in: Maximo Park, Interpol, Jungle, Ghostpoet and Young Fathers.
I'd happily go and see everyone else, though.
If it wasn't three or four hundred miles away.
When I read that list first I thought "Mogwai'll be playing this", then they weren't, now they are. I am fortune teller.
Also I momentarily got Neneh Cherry mixed up with Paula Abdul there
I once got Mel and Kim mixed up.
Line up looks great - Hopkins will be superb as will Interpol - better than last year's line up
so they did the North last year, and the further North again this year. Can we expect them to come to Malvern next year then?
Newcastle's not north. Not really. And you know it Mr Stoner.
Whilst delivering papers,I once found a pron mag in a back lane that featured Mel,or was it Kim?
I was 14."Respectable".
Best of luck with the tickets. 😀
Holy crap don't they GO ON ABOUT IT!! It's worse than the adverts on commercial radio!
Holy crap don't they GO ON ABOUT IT!! It's worse than the adverts on commercial radio!
I tend to listen to it on catch up. That way you can skip them - but yes, the day time shows in particular really do go nuts on the adverts.
Come on now Dezzy Baby. If you think 6 Music is bad, you've clearly never listened to commercial radio recently.
I did some work in a place that had some god awful commercial thing on all day. Within an hour I wanted to hacksaw my own ears off, and hurl them into another dimension
[i]Come on now Dezzy Baby. If you think 6 Music is bad[/i]
Just got a car with a DAB radio, so I thought I'd give 6 another go... all I got was adverts for their festival every single time I put the radio on.
If it was a choice between 6 and commercial, yes, I'd go with 6, but luckily I've got an iPod 🙂
hoping to get tickets for kate tempest
DezB - Member
Holy crap don't I GO ON ABOUT IT!! It's worse than the adverts on commercial radio!
I obviously seem to have a unique ability to just tune out such stuff, which the Beeb has done as long as I've been listening to it, and just completely ignore it.
Might be worth developing such a skill yourself, saves a lot of unnecessary angst.
And possibly an ulcer.
Ah but I bet they're doing it in a grating geordie bint accent, much like they had to run all their trailers with a grating mancunipudlian bint accent last year.
Might be worth developing such a skill yourself, saves a lot of unnecessary angst.
And possibly an ulcer.
Not really. If you'd understood my previous post, you'll have seen that I just plug my iPod in.
Ah but I bet they're doing it in a grating geordie bint accent, much like they had to run all their trailers with a grating mancunipudlian bint accent last year.
Lauren Laverne.
It's perfect.
Lauren Laverne.
I imagine she might object to being called a Geordie.
Anybody else having a go for Sunday tickets?
🙁
We got saturday tickets but couldn't do sunday. Anyone else going?
I once got Mel and Kim mixed up.
I always confuse the lead singer of the Foo Fighters with the drummer from Nirvana.
Not really. If you'd understood my previous post, you'll have seen that I just plug my iPod in.
Then you miss all the new stuff they play that doesn't get played anywhere else.
As far as I've been able to make out, the festival ads get played once per daytime show, so, as I ignore Keavney these days, I only hear them twice.
lemonysam - Member
Lauren Laverne.I imagine she might object to being called a Geordie.
As she's a Sunderland lass, I imagine being called a Geordie might get a slightly frosty reception. 😀
We got saturday tickets but couldn't do sunday. Anyone else going?
Looks like it's just me...
[i]Then you miss all the new stuff they play that doesn't get played anywhere else.[/i]
I haven't got the patience to wait for that... iPod battery ran out this morning, switched to radio, got that annoying John Peel wannabe and he played an old Blur track, Cream, 2 other old things I can't remember and some generic indie from Django Django. But most of the time was taken up by him mumbling on trying to be amusing. It's just not the radio station for me. (I don't think there is one!)
the trailers are doing my nut in too. Every 30 minutes they're shouting the names of bands like they're reading out the phone book. Apparently all these bands are appearing "side by side" and not one after the other like at a normal festival 😕
The bint doing the trailers is not LaLa but she does have a rather wonderful accent...
The ballot for the free stuff is up:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1vLlY9tx81vQM1NQXRP73pg/6-music-festival-by-day
[b]The Cluny: Music from...
[/b]
Girl Band
Slaves
The Wave Pictures
Joanna Gruesome
Slug
The Wytches
Fat White Family
The Pop Group
[b]The Cumberland Arms: Folk
[/b]Kate Tempest & Eliza Carthy in Conversation
Marika Hackman
Songhoy Blues
Moulettes and Kings of the South Seas performing and in Conversation with Mark Radcliffe
Tom Robinson with Gerry Diver
Stornoway
[b]6 Music by Day: Sunday
The Boiler Shop: Music, Conversation and Record Fair[/b]
Du Blonde featuring Beth Jeans Houghton
Cerys Matthews with Tim Burgess
Guy Garvey
BBC Introducing in the North East with Tom Robinson present special guests Hyde & Beast and Woman's Hour
Northern Soul Past & Present – a panel discussion with Stuart Maconie, Elaine Constantine, Tomas McGrath, Richard Searling, Ady Croasdell and Paddy Grady
Beardyman – Creates an Album In An Hour
Steve Lamacq interview with Gaz Coombes
Wolf Alice
BBC Introducing in the North East with Tom Robinson featuring Shields, Tessera Skies and Yellow Creatures