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Festival line-up update: Field Day, 6 Music Fest, Melt! and more

By Aly Barchi | Published on Wednesday 22 January 2014

So, the Beeb is staging an alternative radio-station spin-off festival this year (alternative to BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend, that is), in brand new Manchester event the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival. Linked, as you’ve guessed, to indie hub BBC 6 Music, its two-day line-up is fronted by The National and Damon Albarn, with James Blake, Jake Bugg, Wild Beasts, Franz Ferdinand and Haim also down to play live. Unlike Big Weekend, you have to pay for your own tickets, which go on sale this Friday.

In Field Day (which this year is more Field Weekend) news, acts inc SBTRKT, Blood Orange, The Horrors, Courtney Barnett and East India Youth have been tacked to the London festival’s Pixies and Metronomy-headed bill. Which is ace.

Stay tuned for more on all that plus a scorching first line-up edit to Germany’s exclamatory Melt!, and details of additions newly made to Rhythmtree and Westport Music Festival, and a last-minute reminder of the acts on show at Brazil-based MecaFestival…

BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC FESTIVAL, Victoria Warehouse, Manchester, 28 Feb – 1 Mar: The National, Franz Ferdinand, Haim, The Horrors, Midlake, Kelis, Bombay Bicycle Club, Wild Beasts, Metronomy, Drenge, Jagwar Ma, James Blake, Luke Sital-Singh, Nick Mulvey, Jimi Goodwin, Lykke Li, Kiran Leonard, Outfit, Craig Charles, Groove Armada (DJ set), Tim Burgess, X-Press 2, Mary Anne Hobbs, Peter Hook, Gilles Peterson, Nemone, Don Letts. www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8gmxj

FIELD DAY, Victoria Park, London, 7-8 Jun: The Horrors, SBTRKT, Temples, All We Are, Blood Orange, Courtney Barnett, Charlotte OC, DJ Barely Legal, East India Youth, Éclair FiFi, Erol Alkan b2b Daniel Avery, Evian Christ, Fat White Family, Gerd Janson, Ghostpoet, Huw Stephens, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Jackmaster & Oneman, Jagwar Ma, Lunice, Moxie, Pawws, Ryan Hemsworth, SBTRKT, Simian Mobile Disco, Slackk b2b Samename, SOHN, Sophie, Teleman, Tim Burgess (DJ), Todd Terje, Vessel. www.fielddayfestivals.com

MECAFESTIVAL, Maquiné, Brazil, 24-26 Jan: Charlie XCX, Friendly Fires, Klangkarussell, Savoir Adore, DJ Pedro Bertoletti, DJ Juli Baldi, DJ Fran Piovisan, DJ Daniel Lacet, The First Limbo, CallMeLolla, Audac, Copacabana Club, Bonde do Rolê, Aldo, Database, DJs Zeh Pretim, DJs All For Music, DJs Club688, Mimpi Film Festival, Acústico Gelpi, Rio Shock, The First Limbo, Thiago Pethit, CallMeLolla, Audac, Copacabana Club, Aldo, Filipe Mustache, João Brasil, Fatnotronic, Cix & Yasmin, Ricardo Brautigam, Rapha Lima, Filipe Mustache, DJ Zeh Pretim, Guil Salles, Dre Guazzelli, Database, Ale Salles, F82, Lalai + Ola, Dago Donato. www.mecafestival.com.br

MELT!, Ferropolis, Grafenhainichen, Germany, 18-20 Jul: Portishead, Royksopp & Robyn, Moderat, Fritz Kalkbrenner, HAIM, Metronomy, Erol Alkan b2b Daniel Avery, Baauer, Bilderbuch, Bonaparte, Boys Noize, BrEaCh, Brodinski, Chet Faker, Chromeo, Dillon, Dusky, Ellen Allien, FM Belfast, Fuck Buttons, Gesaffelstein, Ame, Dixon, Kim Ann Foxman, Mano le Tough, Marcus Worgull, Recondite, Jackson and his Computer Band, Jagwar Ma, Lone, Lulu James, Kolsch, Mighty Oaks, Milky Chance, Modeselektor, The Notwist, Kele Okereke, Omar Souleyman, Ten Walls, Tensnake, Thees Uhlmann & Band, Tiga, tINI. www.meltfestival.de/en.html‎

RHYTHMTREE, Three Gates Farm, Shalfleet, Isle Of Wight, 18-20 Jul: Da Lata, Hackney Colliery Band, Myles Sanko, The Outlanders, Warra, Resonators, Batch Gueye, Lokkhi Terra, Funkshy. rhythmtree.info

WESTPORT FESTIVAL, Westport House, County Mayo, Ireland, 28-29 Jun: Sinead O’Connor, The Divine Comedy, The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain, Kila, The Selecter, Bjorn Again, Tony Joe White, Bootleg Beatles, The Hot Sprockets, The Kilfenora Ceili Band, Alien Envoy, The Cast of Cheers, Lisa O’Neill, Daithi, We Cut Corners, Enemies, Windings, Tvvins, Elaine Mai, Dott, Boyfights, The Depravations, Rudy Trixx, It Was All A Bit Black & White, My Fellow Sponges, Zero Era, and Tracy Bruen. www.westportfestival.com

WYCHWOOD, Cheltenham Racecourse, Gloucestershire, 30 May – 1 Jun: Newton Faulkner, Gentleman’s Dub Club, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, LaChiva Gantiva, Bipolar Sunshine, Glitches, Lloyd Yates, Sam Garrett, Phoria. www.wychwoodfestival.com