Manchester International Festival on 6 Music
Listen to highlights from 6 Music's coverage.
Underworld's Manchester Street Poem - 6 Music Mix
Underworld's Karl Hyde heads to the Manchester International Festival with Elizabeth Alker
Release date:
![]()
Dark Matter—Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone
Stuart Maconie is joined by Mary Anne Hobbs for live music from Dark Matter in Manchester.
Release date:
![]()
Home—Now Playing @6Music
Tom Robinson curates a playlist of listener suggestions on the theme of home.
Release date:
![]()
Underworld’s Manchester Street Poem - Preview—Underworld's Manchester Street Poem - 6 Music Mix
A new 6 Music show takes you on an immersive audio journey through Manchester's streets.
Kojey Radical on the Freakzone
Kojey Radical describes his live show, ahead of his performance for Dark Matter at MIF17.
Mary Anne Hobbs explains Dark Matter
She reveals the inspiration behind her curation at the Manchester International Festival.
Underworld's Karl Hyde on putting homelessness in the spotlight
Karl speaks about the installation featuring people with real experience of homelessness.
“You’re isolated and feel nobody understands” - Karl Hyde on homelessness
Underworld founding member, Karl Hyde describes his Street Poem on homelessness.
"People are moved by these stories and want to help" - Karl Hyde prepares to conclude his homelessness exhibition
Karl Hyde reflects on the impact his Manchester Street Poem has had on people.
Tony Walsh celebrates 200 years of Manchester music in poetry
Performing an excerpt of his poem, And The Dreamers.
Guy Garvey takes a virtual walking tour of Manchester's music history
From Liam Gallagher’s boutique to the site of The Fall's first ever gig.
Karl Hyde's Desert Island Disco
The Underworld frontman shares his Desert Island Disco tracks.
![]()
Kiran Leonard takes Guy Garvey on an inter-planetary journey performing live at the Manchester International Festival
Performing and explaining his latest work, Song of the Husband.
![]()
"I’m a geek" – Laurie Anderson has always been an early adopter of technology
Stuart and Mark talk to Laurie about her show We Need To Talk About Technology.
Bernard Sumner is ready to embrace his past
Bernard looks back and to the future for New Order's new show.
"Kanye was quite nice and sort of normal really" - Sampha on working with a music icon
Stuart and Mark find out what working with Mr West is like.
"He changes the world from here" Artist Phil Collins explains why his new work Ceremony pays homage to Engels in Manchester
Artist Phil Collins on his work Ceremony premiering at Manchester International Festival.
"It's about commemoration, it's about memory" - Jóhann Jóhannsson on his filmmaker debut Last and First Men
Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson explores his transition to filmmaker in Last and First Men.
"Most of the actual experience was fairly brutal" - Mark Watson on surviving The Island with Bear Grylls
Comedian Mark Watson chats to Mark and Stuart about surviving working with Bear Grylls.
Stealing Sheep perform live at the Manchester International Festival
Stealing Sheep perform live re-works of their tracks for Mark and Stuart.
![]()
"Doing one record's a throwback, two plants us in the '70s" - James have no regrets about sticking to the album format
Jim and Saul from James explain how the band's songwriting fits traditional releases.
"The closest sound in nature to music" - Chassol reveals the challenges of composing for birds
The pianist and composer details the process he went through to record the natural world.
Whose heartbeat is part of the soundscape for New Order's Manchester International Festival shows?
Dave Haslam and Nadege Feyrit explain Breathless, their New Order pre-show soundscape.
“We put the problems we had back then down to youth” – The reformation of Ride
Andy Bell and Steve Queralt talk to Mark and Stuart about reforming.
