Guy Garvey, Bernard Sumner and more announced as BBC 6 Music Celebrates Libraries
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Guy Garvey, Public Service Broadcasting, DJ Yoda, Scroobius Pip join as 6 Music shows love for libraries
What’s the longest you’ve ever kept a book from the library for? Shaun Keaveny, the host of 6 Music’s breakfast show, could be helping set the slate clean next month.
Public Service Broadcasting will discuss their use of the archives at the British Library“The libraries we visit are beautiful buildings,” says Garvey, describing his life-long love of the buildings.
“They are parts of our history, they celebrate the things that Manchester has done first and they also remind us of our gloomier hours.
“They’re not just about old books – they’re also important for our community today as places where people can meet, learn and share ideas.”
Garvey’s trip will include visits to the neo-gothic John Rylands Library and the Portico Library. And another band more usually seen at the centre of cacophonous gigs rather than serene reading rooms, Everything Everything, are playing a live session as part of a residency at the Central Library.
“As a band, we see the library as the brain of the city,” says bassist Jeremy Pritchard, who will be musing over perceptions of libraries and the limits of what a modern “super library” might be.
“It’s the place where a vast collection of often contradictory interpretations reside and are presented impartially.”
Down at the British Library, Steve Lamacq will be hosting the first ever live broadcast of a radio show from the hallowed corridors, emanating from an Entrance Hall which offers a Sound Archive of Beatles manuscripts, original demos by The Who and 2,000 complete programmes by the godfather of 6’s ethos, John Peel.
Public Service Broadcasting and DJ Yoda – last seen collaborating for Museums at Night at the RAF Museum, although the band have thrilled the library before – will be creating new tracks from the archive, explaining their techniques and the way they use old material along the way.
Other highlights will include a literature-themed Mary Anne Hobbs show, a special poem written by Scroobius Pip, citations from Elizabeth Gaskell collections by actress Maxine Peake on Radio 3 and readings by Welsh actor Celyn Jones, who is playing Dylan Thomas in the poet’s new biopic, Set Fire to the Stars.
- BBC 6 Music Celebrates Libraries runs November 8-21. Visit bbc.co.uk/6music for the full schedule.
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