Steve Lamacq

Original version

6 Music

BBC 6

Music: Rock & Indie

New and classic tracks from established artists, young groups and unsigned bands.

Steve Lamacq: Independent Venue Week with Wet Leg, Grove & Geoff Barrow

Independent Venue Week with Wet Leg, Grove & Geoff Barrow

BBC Radio 6 Music - Steve Lamacq, Independent Venue Week with Wet Leg, Grove & Geoff Barrow

Steve catches up with IVW Ambassadors Wet Leg, and Grove gives us a tour of Bristol

Steve continues his Independent Venue Week tour & today looks at The Louisiana in Bristol. We speak to Wet Leg's Hester Chambers and Grove gives us a tour of Bristol.

All this week we're celebrating Independent Venue Week with a series of special shows by shining a light on a different venue each day and discussing the role independent venues play in their community. 

Thursday is the turn of The Louisiana in Bristol. Geoff Barrow of Portishead will talk listeners through the best of Bristol’s record stores, and we catch up with IVW Ambassadors Wet Leg. Bristol-based artist Grove gives us a tour of some other locations in the city that have been embraced by the differing musical communities, and presenter James Threlfall from BBC Music Introducing in Bristol also takes part in this show. Also, there’ll be performance highlights from Melt Yourself Down at Future Yard in Birkenhead and their supporting artist, MC Nelson.

Steve says: “Independent Venue Week has always played a vital role in helping grassroots venues at a financially perilous time of year. But this time round, it’s even more important to help support the live music circuit after it’s been hit so hard by COVID. It's a chance for us all to rally round and celebrate just how important these places are to emerging artists and alternative performers. We’ve lined up some of our favourite new and established acts for a week of gigs in small grassroots venues around the country and we’ll be talking to promoters and fans about why live gigs remain so important to the music community.”

BBC Radio 6 Music

Classic concerts & sessions from the BBC's vast music store. It's your musical heritage.

BBC 6 Music brings together the cutting edge music of today, the iconic and groundbreaking music of the past 40 years and unlimited access

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Steve Lamacq

Independent Venue Week with Wet Leg, Grove & Geoff Barrow

Genres

Brand

6 Music

About BBC Radio 6 Music