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6 Music Festival: Craig kicks off the festival vibes!

The 6 Music Festival starts TODAY! Whether you're heading to Manchester or listening from home, Craig is here to help get you in the mood.

The 6 Music Festival starts TODAY! Whether you're heading to Manchester or listening from home, Craig is here to help get you in the mood.

Plus, George Egg stops by with a music-based snack hack, we have a Trunk of Punk dedicated to the music of Manchester, and YOU have the chance to pick the last song of the show.

To get involved, email craig@bbc.co.uk.

Produced in Salford by Audio Always for BBC Radio 6 Music.

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Music Played

  • Working Men’s Club

    X

    • Heavenly Recordings.

  • They Are Gutting a Body of Water

    sour diesel

    • ATO Records.

  • OutKast

    Hey Ya!

    • Arista.

  • The Libertines

    Don't Look Back Into the Sun

    • Rough trade records.

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    Pin

    • Polydor.

  • Sorry

    Billy Elliot

    • Domino.

  • Ibibio Sound Machine

    Electricity

    • Merge Records.

  • Sleater‐Kinney

    The Drama You've Been Craving

    • Sub Pop.

  • Pulp

    Begging for Change

    • War Child Records.

  • Lee “Scratch” Perry & Mouse on Mars

    Rockcurry

    • Domino.

  • Freeez

    Southern Freeez

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll: 1980 (Va).
    • Connoisseur Collection.
    • 6.

  • RIP Magic

    5words

    • DFA.

  • Ezra Collective

    Body Language (6 Music Festival, 27 March 2025) (feat. Sasha Keable)

  • Caesars

    Jerk It Out

    • Virgin.

  • Kim Gordon

    Dirty Tech

    • Matador.

  • Oasis

    Digsy's Dinner

    • Definitely Maybe.
    • Big Brother Recordings Ltd.
    • 9.

  • Fcukers

    if you wanna party, come over to my house

    • Ninja Tune.

  • X‐Press 2

    Muzik X-Press

    • ON THE BEAT.

  • Phoenix

    Consolation Prizes

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Virgin.

  • Neil Young & Crazy Horse

    Cinnamon Girl

    • Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
    • Reprise.
    • 1.

  • Courtney Barnett

    Mantis

    • Fiction Records.

  • Penguin Cafe Orchestra

    Zopf: Milk

    • Music From The Penguin Cafe.
    • Virgin Catalogue.
    • 5.

  • Kelly Lee Owens

    ASCEND

    • dh2.

  • Olof Dreijer

    Echoed Dafnino

    • dh2.

  • Caribou

    All I Ever Need

    • Our Love.
    • City Slang.
    • 001.

  • Tony Joe White & Flying Mojito Bros

    Woman

    • Swamp Records.

  • Nadine Shah

    Kitchen Sink

    • Infectious Music.

  • Arlo Parks

    Get Go

    • Transgressive.

  • Fink

    Memorise Your Senses

    • R'COUP'D.

  • The Fall

    Futures and Pasts

    • Live at the Witch Trials.
    • Cherry Red Records.
    • 10.

  • Buzzcocks

    What Do I Get?

    • EMI.

  • Slaughter and the Dogs

    White Light, White Heat

    • A Dog Day Afternoon.
    • TKO Records.
    • 13.

  • Lykke Li

    Lucky Again

    • Virgin.

  • Hiatus Kaiyote

    Get Sun (feat. Arthur Verocai)

    • Brainfeeder / Ninja Tune.

  • Omni Trio

    Renegade Snares

    • Moving Shadow.

  • Mandy, Indiana

    try saying

    • Sacred Bones.

  • Private Joy & Shy One

    Moonlight

    • Mali.
    • Touching Bass.

  • The Kinks

    All Day And All Of The Night

    • Castle Communications.

  • Kelsey Lu

    Running To Pain

    • Dirty Hit.

  • The Roebucks

    He's My Man

    • Goo Records.

  • XTC

    Senses Working Overtime

    • Virgin.

Broadcast

  • Last Wednesday13:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music