Mary Anne Hobbs: Last News

Two Shell have been playing "ghost2" as part of the impish U.K. electronic duo's chaotic and confusing live sets for a while now.

This time next week, the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival will be well underway, as a string of Manchester’s best music venues open their doors and prepare to host a variety of world-class acts.

The Smile, Young Fathers and Gossip will headline this year’s BBC 6 Music Festival – check out the full line up below.The event will take place from March 7-10 in Greater Manchester at the City’s Victoria Warehouse.Young Fathers will perform on March 7 with Hulme and Moss Side based NIA community choir. They will be supported by Hal Baker and SHERELLE, who will perform a DJ set.March 8 will see Gossip headline at their first UK show in over four years.

Lizzo decaled her love for Scotland ahead of her gig at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow on Wednesday evening. The Grammy award-winning US star was snapped leaving a hotel in the city centre after flying in from Paris earlier this week.

All Points East in London’s Victoria Park with The Chemical Brothers and Kraftwerk.

6 Music stage at this year’s All Points East festival will feature performances from Gilles Peterson, Norman Jay, Sherelle and more.Returning to the Victoria Park festival as official broadcast partners, 6 Music has today (May 25) announced the line-up for its stage at the two-weekend event, taking place August 19-20 and August 25-28.Peterson along with fellow 6 Music presenters Mary Anne Hobbs, Tom Ravenscroft, AFRODEUTSCHE, Jamz Supernova and Don Letts will curate the stage; each presenter will also perform DJ sets themselves on the days they oversee.Acts performing on the stage across the two festival weekends include Benji B, Colleen “Cosmo” Murphy, LUXE, Nabihah Iqbal, Nia Archives, Planningtorock, Shy One, Tash LC & Mina and more.“After our hugely successful first year of welcoming BBC Radio 6 Music as All Points East’s broadcast partner in 2021, it’s brilliant to have them back hosting the 6 Music stage,” Jim King, CEO of European Festivals at AEG Presents, said in a press release.

Bluedot has added some more names to its 2022 line-up. Joining headliner Bjork and the Halle orchestra will be UK hip hop and grime artist, and MOBO nominee, Kojey Radical.

Heavy Consequence, Hausswolff performed her parts on a Nord C2D synthesiser.Have a listen to a five-minute preview for ‘Metta, Benevolence BBC 6Music: Live On The Invitation Of Mary Anne Hobbs’ – featuring artwork by painter Samantha Keely Smith – below:In a press release, Sunn O))) noted that “to enter the legendary John Peel studios was to enter a temple of music and experimentation, liberty in ideas and sound”.The session came towards the end of an ambitious touring cycle for ‘Life Metal’ and ‘Pyroclasts’, with the material having “actualised and evolved” over time, becoming what the band have described as the “vast, open and bright hyper-saturated arrangements” they performed at Maida Vale.‘Metta, Benevolence BBC 6Music: Live On The

Four Tet has shared “4T Recordings”—once the alias for Kieran Hebden’s earliest solo dabblings, now the name of a track from his new album, Sixteen Oceans. He premiered the track, which you can hear below, on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC 6 Music show this morning. In a tweet, he announced the album will be released next Friday, March 13. Find physical editions of Sixteen Oceans at Rough Trade. (Pitchfork may earn a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.)