BBC Radio 6 Tune Pageant to Go back to Manchester in March 2025

BBC Radio 6 Tune Pageant will go back subsequent spring, having discovered an everlasting house in Higher Manchester.

Scheduled to happen between March 26-29, 2025, the four-day match is about to convey a mixture of are living performances and DJ units to venues around the area. The scoop used to be introduced continue to exist air this morning (Dec. 3) via broadcaster Nick Grimshaw, who’s lately masking the 6 Tune breakfast display whilst common host Lauren Laverne is recuperating following remedy for most cancers. Laverne is because of go back to the display within the new yr.

Right through the competition, the 6 Tune workforce can be broadcasting are living from MediaCity U.K. in Salford. Present presenters come with Iggy Pop, Huw Stephens, Mary Anne Hobbs and previous London night time czar Amy Lamé.

The 6 Tune Pageant is the station’s flagship match, and is aired throughout plenty of BBC radio, tv, and on-line channels. Since 2023, it has taken position in Higher Manchester, whilst earlier iterations of the competition had been hosted in several towns every year around the U.K. together with Cardiff, London, Glasgow, Liverpool and Newcastle.

In a press free up, Samantha Moy, Head of BBC Radio 6 Tune mentioned: “We’re in point of fact proud that our competition brings listeners really distinctive performances from the artists they love, along a birthday party of the improbable acts which are rising from Higher Manchester – and 2025 can be no other. We’re so having a look ahead to bringing the entire station to Higher Manchester once more and for 4 days of fantastic are living song.”

The road-up for the 2025 version of the 6 Tune Pageant can be introduced in February. The 2024 match noticed performances from headliners Younger Fathers, Gossip, and The Smile, whilst the likes of CMAT and Hak Baker additionally made appearances around the weekend.

In January 2014, the BBC introduced the 6 Tune Pageant in Manchester with headliner Damon Albarn. Within the years that experience adopted, the development has noticed units from world-renowned acts together with Depeche Mode, Fontaines D.C., Father John Misty and Neneh Cherry.