Daughter, Savages, Hinds, Julia Holter, and more join the BBC 6 Music Festival lineup

19 January 2016, 11:00 | Written by Laurence Day

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The BBC 6 Music Festival, hosted this year by the city of Bristol, is completing its line up.

6 Music are revealing the line up throughout the day.

Some highlights include Daughter, Foals, John Grant, Hinds, Savages, Bloc Party, Everything Everything, White Denim, Underworld, Poliça, Yeasayer, Mount Kimbie, Julia Holter, Laura Marling, Ezra Furman, C Duncan, The Pop Group with Geoff Barrow, and Beirut.

Also playing the festival are Suede, !!!, Buzzcocks, Mystery Jets, Sherwood & Pinch, Bliss Zion, Frank Turner, Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve, Ray Mighty, Gilles Peterson, Roots Manuva, Dennis Bovell, Golden Rules, Rozi Plain, Hooton Tennis Club, Guy Garvey, Gwenno, Blanck Mass, DJ Queen Bee, Bob Mould, Roisín Murphy, Blossoms, Matthew Herbert, Fresh 4, Misty In Roots, 2 Kings Records Soundystem, The Moonlandingz, Auntie Flo, Appleblim, Field Music, The Invisible, This Is The Kit, and Steve Mason.

The DJ will celebrate soundsystem culture and is curated by Don Letts.

The new names join Primal Scream, Roni Size, Tricky, BEAK>, Pinch, and The Blue Aeroplanes.

Read our recent feature with Daughter called Sex and Loneliness, and today's in-depth interview with Savages, A Candle To Curse The Darkness.

BBC 6 Music Festival 2016 takes place 12-14 February, at a variety of venues in Bristol City Centre, including Motion, Colston Hall, O2 Academy, Basement 45, and Trinity.

Tickets are available from 25 January.