Hot Chip, Bastille among Wales’ Festival No.6 headlinersFebruary 11, 2016 - 14:25 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Hot Chip and Bastille are set to headline this year's Festival No.6 - and there'll also be a David Bowie tribute with "special guest vocalists", Gigwise said. The beautiful Welsh festival takes place in Portmeirion from 1 - 4 September, and those headliners will be joined by the likes of Aurora, Gwenno, Roisin Murphy, Oscar, Lucy Rose and Echo & The Bunnymen. In another first, the festival has commissioned No.6 composer-in-residence Joe Duddell to work with the Manchester Camerata chamber orchestra on an exclusive David Bowie Reimagined performance. Their performance will feature arrangements of iconic songs from across Bowie’s career, with very special guest vocalists on each song. This is just the first wave of acts for the festival - which is usually one of the highlights of summer's festival season. A second wave of artists and the arts and culture programme are set to be unveiled over the next few months. Festival No.6 takes place in Portmeirion, Wales between 1 - 4 September. See the full line-up so far below. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds / Hot Chip / Bastille / Blossoms / Aurora / C Duncan / Roots Manuva / Roisin Murphy / David Bowie Reimagined / Django Django / Echo & The Bunnymen / Frances / Gwenno / JP Cooper / Lawrence Taylor / Lucy Rose / NGOD / Oh Wonder / Oscar / Roots Manuva / Roisin Murphy / The Amazons / Ths Is The Kit Photo: Richard Gray Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan. Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”. 41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience. Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |