{"id":31431,"date":"2023-02-17T16:50:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=31431"},"modified":"2023-03-07T22:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T22:19:03","slug":"disappointment-for-cardiff-music-fans-as-bbc-radio-6-festival-moves-to-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/disappointment-for-cardiff-music-fans-as-bbc-radio-6-festival-moves-to-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointment for Cardiff music fans as BBC Radio 6 Festival moves to Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BBC Radio 6 Festival will move to its &#8220;permanent home&#8221; of Greater Manchester, leaving fans of the Cardiff music scene disappointed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first BBC Radio 6 Festival took place in Manchester in 2014, but was held in Cardiff last year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The live music weekend included artists such as Khruangbin, Little Simz, Gruff Rhys and Bloc Party. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bloc Party live at BBC 6 Radio Music Festival 2022, Cardiff <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A2I9wgkNY2\">https:\/\/t.co\/A2I9wgkNY2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mLHdwk6TOs\">pic.twitter.com\/mLHdwk6TOs<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alexi Garc\u00eda \u2022 \u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0456 (@alxcia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alxcia\/status\/1510628374745694212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The BBC told CJS News that the move is part of plans to move Radio 6 Music to Salford. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are strengthening our commitment to Greater Manchester by making the region the festival&#8217;s permanent home&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dylan Jenkins is a Cardiff based DJ, who&#8217;s also known as DJ Dilys. Although he says it&#8217;s a shame the festival won&#8217;t be travelling to different cities in the future, Cardiff &#8220;is a more creative option&#8221; than Manchester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Cardiff at the moment has a very exciting music scene with lots of up and coming bands in English and in Welsh. This is very in keeping with Radio 6 Festival&#8217;s general ethos of trying to be a music discovery platform&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together with the city&#8217;s grassroots music venues, Dylan says it&#8217;s &#8220;an exciting place to be musically&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although he thinks &#8220;Manchester is well equipped to host the festival, Cardiff is a better option in the sense it&#8217;s more exciting and it&#8217;s more different&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gareth James, who attended the festival last year, is also disappointed with the decision. He says it&#8217;s &#8220;a real shame to see Radio 6 Festival move to a major English city just like everything else seems to be now a days&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking about his experience last year, he said &#8220;it was great to see these big music acts coming to Cardiff, particularly Khruangbin. They came all the way from Texas and had never visited Wales before&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"488\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-16.00.52-1-1024x488.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-16.00.52-1-1024x488.png 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-16.00.52-1-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-16.00.52-1-770x367.png 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-16.00.52-1-293x140.png 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-16.00.52-1.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-16.00.52-1-1024x488.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-16.00.52-1-1024x488.png 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-16.00.52-1-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-16.00.52-1-770x367.png 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-16.00.52-1-293x140.png 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-17-at-16.00.52-1.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit: BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the festival won&#8217;t be coming back to Cardiff in the future, the BBC say they &#8220;continue to support artists from across the UK and beyond&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiff music fans disappointed with BBC Radio 6 new permanent home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":31432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,6],"tags":[21,1075,23,34],"coauthors":[900],"class_list":["post-31431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cjsnewsteam","category-news","tag-cardiff","tag-festival","tag-music","tag-wales"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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