0:00:02 > 0:00:05In September 2016, thousands of people made the journey to
0:00:05 > 0:00:09a small patch of the North Wales coast for three days of music
0:00:09 > 0:00:12and, as it turned out, mud - lots of it.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15This is Portmeirion.
0:00:15 > 0:00:19This is Festival Number 6 and this is Wales Unsigned.
0:00:19 > 0:00:23# I'll always remember
0:00:23 > 0:00:26# The summer in December... #
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Questions are being asked tonight about how hundreds of motorists
0:00:29 > 0:00:33became stranded in a flooded field at Festival Number 6 in Portmeirion.
0:00:33 > 0:00:38In 2016, the festival got more publicity than it probably wanted,
0:00:38 > 0:00:41but on the first day, as the happy campers arrived on site,
0:00:41 > 0:00:43the sun was out and we had a job to do.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47We're following 12 Welsh artists and bands as they perform their way
0:00:47 > 0:00:50to fame and maybe even fortune.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54# The west coast sun where we came from... #
0:00:54 > 0:00:58I'm Heledd Watkins - that's me right there - and this is my second year
0:00:58 > 0:01:01at Festival Number 6 with my band HMS Morris.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Last year, we were part of the Horizons project
0:01:04 > 0:01:06and performed all over the UK.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09This year, there are 12 more unsigned Welsh acts.
0:01:09 > 0:01:13They're ambitious, they're talented and they're single-minded
0:01:13 > 0:01:15and they all want to make it in the music business
0:01:15 > 0:01:18and if you want to get noticed and make a little bit of money,
0:01:18 > 0:01:21that usually means playing at gigs and festivals
0:01:21 > 0:01:23just like this one.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29The first of our bands performing at the village green in Portmeirion
0:01:29 > 0:01:31on Friday afternoon are Cardiff four-piece Tibet.
0:01:31 > 0:01:34# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:01:34 > 0:01:37# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:01:37 > 0:01:39# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:01:39 > 0:01:42# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:01:42 > 0:01:47# There is a place in my brain
0:01:47 > 0:01:51# Where I stay every day
0:01:51 > 0:01:55# When it's hard, get away
0:01:55 > 0:01:58# Now I know, here we are
0:01:58 > 0:02:02# In the world, not in space
0:02:02 > 0:02:06# There's no fear in my place
0:02:06 > 0:02:09# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:02:09 > 0:02:10# Ah-ah-ah
0:02:10 > 0:02:13# And I'm fading away
0:02:13 > 0:02:15# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:02:15 > 0:02:17# Ah-ah-ah, and I'm fading away
0:02:17 > 0:02:20# Thoughts come and go
0:02:20 > 0:02:24# In a way, do they know
0:02:24 > 0:02:27# What it is that makes me
0:02:27 > 0:02:29# Overflow?
0:02:29 > 0:02:33# In my place, there are walls
0:02:33 > 0:02:36# Made of stone, but it's me
0:02:36 > 0:02:39# Who attacks and overflows
0:02:39 > 0:02:42# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:02:42 > 0:02:43# Ah-ah-ah
0:02:43 > 0:02:45# And I'm fading away
0:02:45 > 0:02:47# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:02:47 > 0:02:49# Ah-ah-ah
0:02:49 > 0:02:51# And I'm fading away
0:02:54 > 0:02:57# Something's coming into my place
0:02:57 > 0:02:59# I think it's bothering me
0:02:59 > 0:03:02# Something's coming into my place
0:03:02 > 0:03:05# I think it's bothering me
0:03:05 > 0:03:07# Something's coming into my place
0:03:07 > 0:03:10# I think it's bothering me
0:03:10 > 0:03:13# Something's coming into my place
0:03:13 > 0:03:15# I think it's bothering me
0:03:30 > 0:03:33# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:03:33 > 0:03:34# Ah-ah-ah
0:03:34 > 0:03:36# I'm fading away
0:03:36 > 0:03:38# Ah-ah-ah-ah
0:03:38 > 0:03:39# Ah-ah-ah
0:03:39 > 0:03:46# And I'm fading away-ay-ay-ay. #
0:03:48 > 0:03:50CHEERING
0:03:53 > 0:03:55Also filmed while the weather was behaving itself,
0:03:55 > 0:03:59this is a live acoustic track from Anglesey's Connah Evans.
0:04:01 > 0:04:06# I thought that I could be without your smile
0:04:07 > 0:04:13# I thought that I could live that way for a while
0:04:13 > 0:04:15# But all I want to know
0:04:15 > 0:04:18# Is if I come straight back home
0:04:18 > 0:04:22# Would you be there waiting for me?
0:04:24 > 0:04:26# All I want to know
0:04:26 > 0:04:29# Is if I don't go down that road
0:04:29 > 0:04:33# Would you be there waiting for me?
0:04:35 > 0:04:41# Cos I just hope that time has healed us
0:04:41 > 0:04:46# Drinking Monday mornings to feel love
0:04:46 > 0:04:52# But now you wake and you're not by my side
0:04:53 > 0:04:57# It makes me feel like I'm out of life
0:05:00 > 0:05:03# Like I'm out of life
0:05:08 > 0:05:10# Every time I think of you
0:05:10 > 0:05:13# There's something that I wanted to
0:05:13 > 0:05:17# Just tell you now
0:05:18 > 0:05:21# I can't even remember how
0:05:21 > 0:05:24# This all started, but from now
0:05:24 > 0:05:27# It's all for you
0:05:29 > 0:05:34# Cos I just hope that time has healed us
0:05:34 > 0:05:40# Drinking Monday mornings to feel love
0:05:40 > 0:05:45# But now you wake and you're not by my side
0:05:47 > 0:05:51# It makes me feel like I'm out of life
0:05:54 > 0:05:57# Like I'm out of life
0:06:01 > 0:06:07# Oooh-oooh-oooh
0:06:07 > 0:06:14# Oooh-oooh-oooh-oooh. #
0:06:16 > 0:06:19Portmeirion has a way of bringing you under its spell
0:06:19 > 0:06:22and the village could have been made to host a festival.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27It's a platform for the big names as well as a place
0:06:27 > 0:06:29to discover new acts on their way up
0:06:29 > 0:06:32and you also come across music you wouldn't expect
0:06:32 > 0:06:34at a standard pop festival.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37CHORAL RENDITION OF "You'll Never Walk Alone"
0:06:37 > 0:06:40This festival just gets bigger and so far better every year.
0:06:40 > 0:06:42This is one of the nightly highlights
0:06:42 > 0:06:46as the Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir takes the stage here on the piazza
0:06:46 > 0:06:49right in the centre of Portmeirion.
0:06:49 > 0:06:58# And you'll never walk alone
0:06:58 > 0:07:06# You'll never walk
0:07:06 > 0:07:13# Alone. #
0:07:13 > 0:07:16CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:07:18 > 0:07:20JAZZY MUSIC
0:07:20 > 0:07:21And a torch-lit parade
0:07:21 > 0:07:24leads everyone out of the village for the night.
0:07:24 > 0:07:29Well, everyone except us and a very talented singer-songwriter.
0:07:29 > 0:07:32Tell us a little bit about the song that we're hearing from you today.
0:07:32 > 0:07:36Fly came about from my illustration,
0:07:36 > 0:07:37beautiful illustration
0:07:37 > 0:07:39of a bowerbird I had done
0:07:39 > 0:07:42for my last single, called Anywhere Is Home.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46The song sort of describes a bird
0:07:46 > 0:07:48and that bird you could say is myself.
0:07:48 > 0:07:53And, um, it's just about also being a musician as well,
0:07:53 > 0:07:55how you've just got to keep at it, you know,
0:07:55 > 0:07:58and if it doesn't work out where you are now,
0:07:58 > 0:08:01you know, fly, or go to another place,
0:08:01 > 0:08:05and just keep at it and keep positive, yeah.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08# Home
0:08:08 > 0:08:13# Nobody knows
0:08:14 > 0:08:18# We float
0:08:18 > 0:08:22# Wherever we go
0:08:24 > 0:08:30# Don't run for us
0:08:32 > 0:08:38# Don't look up
0:08:41 > 0:08:49# Just wait for us
0:08:55 > 0:09:03# I'll fly
0:09:03 > 0:09:11# Till I find another sky
0:09:11 > 0:09:15# I'll fly
0:09:20 > 0:09:23# We roam
0:09:23 > 0:09:27# And rise with the sun
0:09:27 > 0:09:31# Heavy hearts
0:09:31 > 0:09:34# And wake up alone
0:09:36 > 0:09:42# And the breeze won't leave
0:09:44 > 0:09:50# Through the rain, I'll see
0:09:53 > 0:10:00# Just wait for me
0:10:01 > 0:10:05# Wait
0:10:06 > 0:10:14# I'll fly
0:10:14 > 0:10:23# Till I find another sky
0:10:23 > 0:10:28# I'll fly
0:10:31 > 0:10:34# Remember these wings
0:10:34 > 0:10:41# I'll fly high
0:10:47 > 0:10:51# Let this river
0:10:51 > 0:10:57# Lead us where we'll lay
0:10:59 > 0:11:03# The tide will take me
0:11:03 > 0:11:09# Hold me so I stay
0:11:10 > 0:11:15# It's almost day
0:11:17 > 0:11:24# I'll fly
0:11:24 > 0:11:33# Till I find another sky
0:11:33 > 0:11:40# I'll fly
0:11:41 > 0:11:45# Remember these wings
0:11:45 > 0:11:53# I'll fly. #
0:12:12 > 0:12:18Urgh, the joys of festival-going. Friday was lovely. Saturday...
0:12:18 > 0:12:19not so much.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21It looks pretty bad.
0:12:21 > 0:12:22It is bad.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24But let's just get back out there, shall we?
0:12:26 > 0:12:27This is proper rain.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30We thought the whole day might be a complete write-off,
0:12:30 > 0:12:33but our musicians are made of stronger stuff
0:12:33 > 0:12:36and here's our next unsigned Welsh act performing to, well,
0:12:36 > 0:12:40a smaller audience than they deserved. This is Roughion.
0:12:40 > 0:12:41How's it going, you all right?
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Waaaay!
0:12:43 > 0:12:46We're Roughion, we are based in Cardiff
0:12:46 > 0:12:48and we do live electronic music,
0:12:48 > 0:12:52so we are going to invite... Oh, she's already on the stage!
0:12:52 > 0:12:57This is Lois Shenton and this is our debut single Ti And Me.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23# Can we go back
0:13:24 > 0:13:29# Back to a simpler time?
0:13:35 > 0:13:40# Or can we travel through
0:13:40 > 0:13:47# Travel through to an alternate universe?
0:13:50 > 0:13:54# Where no-one knows our faces
0:13:54 > 0:14:00# And no-one knows our place
0:14:21 > 0:14:25# I don't have peace of mind
0:14:25 > 0:14:29# The only peace of mind
0:14:29 > 0:14:34# Is when I see you
0:14:36 > 0:14:40# I want to let go
0:14:42 > 0:14:47# But I can feel your soul
0:14:47 > 0:14:50# From here
0:14:51 > 0:14:56# It's you that haunts my sleep
0:14:57 > 0:15:05# There's secrets I can't keep any more
0:15:23 > 0:15:26# I can't have peace of mind
0:15:26 > 0:15:30# The only peace of mind
0:15:30 > 0:15:37# Is when I'll be with you. #
0:15:39 > 0:15:42Thank you very much. Thank you.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45CHEERING
0:15:52 > 0:15:55On this very wet and windy Saturday afternoon,
0:15:55 > 0:15:58let's head over to the Clough Stage here at Festival Number 6.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01This band's from Denbighshire and they're called Anelog.
0:16:20 > 0:16:24SHE SINGS IN WELSH
0:16:34 > 0:16:39# Mmm-mm-mm-mm-mm
0:16:41 > 0:16:45# Mmm-mm-mm-mm-mm
0:16:48 > 0:16:52# Mmm-mm-mm-mm-mm
0:16:54 > 0:16:58# Mmm-mm-mm-mm-mm
0:17:01 > 0:17:06# Mmm-mm-mm-mm-mm
0:17:06 > 0:17:09# Ooh-ooh-ooh
0:17:21 > 0:17:24SHE SINGS IN WELSH
0:17:34 > 0:17:38# Mmm-mm-mm-mm-mm
0:17:41 > 0:17:45# Mmm-mm-mm-mm-mm
0:18:01 > 0:18:06# Mmm-mm-mm-mm-mm
0:18:06 > 0:18:07# Oooh
0:18:07 > 0:18:12# Mmm-mm-mm-mm-mm. #
0:18:13 > 0:18:15- Diolch, thank you. - CHEERING
0:18:15 > 0:18:16- Thank you very much.- Thanks.
0:18:16 > 0:18:19A bonus track now from one of our unsigned bands who didn't
0:18:19 > 0:18:22make it to Festival Number 6, but they did make it to
0:18:22 > 0:18:27the BBC studios at Maida Vale where our next programme is based.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29This is Newport band Casey.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32# I know I promised not to call
0:18:32 > 0:18:34# But I left so much unsaid
0:18:34 > 0:18:37# And you barely said a word at all
0:18:37 > 0:18:41# But I knew exactly how you felt
0:18:43 > 0:18:45# How fast did we decay?
0:18:45 > 0:18:49# Cos I remember falling into love
0:18:49 > 0:18:51# But never out again
0:18:51 > 0:18:54# It felt like one day I woke up
0:18:54 > 0:18:56# And we weren't there
0:18:56 > 0:19:00# We'd lay our bones in the same bed at night
0:19:00 > 0:19:05# But our love had disappeared
0:19:05 > 0:19:08# Sink beneath the bed sheets
0:19:08 > 0:19:11# Drowning in the thought of us
0:19:11 > 0:19:14# A bloodless vessel, empty
0:19:14 > 0:19:19# Toothless, I've been thinking of a way to let you know
0:19:19 > 0:19:22# Hell is loving you in my sleep
0:19:24 > 0:19:25# And waking up alone
0:19:25 > 0:19:28# I guess I just couldn't bring myself to face the fact that maybe
0:19:28 > 0:19:30# We were never what I wanted us to be
0:19:30 > 0:19:33# Maybe the love that we had made was not the beautiful home
0:19:33 > 0:19:35# I always imagined that we would build
0:19:35 > 0:19:37# Because you were the light of my life
0:19:37 > 0:19:39# But no matter how brightly you shone
0:19:39 > 0:19:42# The shadow you cast was never dark enough to cancel out the glare
0:19:42 > 0:19:44# I should have left sooner
0:19:45 > 0:19:49# Maybe you were never there
0:19:50 > 0:19:52# You never saw it as us
0:19:52 > 0:19:56# Only ever you and me
0:19:56 > 0:19:58# You were the blood in my veins
0:19:58 > 0:20:01# You only came to watch me bleed
0:20:01 > 0:20:07# Our love set me on fire and you stood and watched me burn
0:20:07 > 0:20:15# You told me once you couldn't love me but I guess I'll never learn
0:20:28 > 0:20:31# You told me once you couldn't love me
0:20:31 > 0:20:36# Like it will go on
0:20:36 > 0:20:39# I sink beneath the bed sheets
0:20:39 > 0:20:41# Drowning in the thought of us
0:20:41 > 0:20:44# A bloodless vessel, empty
0:20:44 > 0:20:49# Toothless, I've been thinking of a way to let you know
0:20:49 > 0:20:59# Hell is loving you in my sleep and waking up alone. #
0:21:06 > 0:21:10That was Casey at the BBC Maida Vale Studios.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14And now back to Festival Number 6.
0:21:15 > 0:21:20It's the morning after a very, very wet day before
0:21:20 > 0:21:23and this is the result.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30And so I managed to squelch my way to somewhere a bit less muddy
0:21:30 > 0:21:35and caught up with Rhys and Sion from our next unsigned Welsh band.
0:21:35 > 0:21:39I'm not one to judge, but I think your choice of footwear for
0:21:39 > 0:21:41this event is a little bit inappropriate.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43What have you got to say for yourselves?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46These are the shoes I wear to play drums
0:21:46 > 0:21:49so I can't be playing drums in wellingtons,
0:21:49 > 0:21:50you know. So...
0:21:50 > 0:21:54Yeah, well, my wellingtons were a bit out of shape.
0:21:54 > 0:21:55I've been with the sheep
0:21:55 > 0:21:59so we don't want any of that stuff on the pedals.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02- You could imagine. - Yeah, I can imagine.
0:22:02 > 0:22:06I'd get very angry if there was sheep dung all over my pedals.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Sheep dung, that's a very nice way of putting it, isn't it?
0:22:13 > 0:22:16So tell us a bit about the song Digon that we're hearing today.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19It's a song on our EP, Translated Enough.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23So, I don't know what's it about, though?
0:22:23 > 0:22:25It's quite a beast kind of thing so, yeah,
0:22:25 > 0:22:28let the audience think what it's about.
0:22:28 > 0:22:32HE SINGS IN WELSH
0:22:52 > 0:22:55HE SINGS IN WELSH
0:23:18 > 0:23:21HE SINGS IN WELSH
0:23:41 > 0:23:44HE SINGS IN WELSH
0:24:58 > 0:25:02What a weekend. One I definitely won't forget in a hurry.
0:25:02 > 0:25:08A few last thoughts from me before a brilliant final song.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10I've had a fantastic time here in Portmeirion.
0:25:10 > 0:25:11I've been performing,
0:25:11 > 0:25:16I've eaten too many Scotch eggs and I've been stuck in the mud.
0:25:16 > 0:25:20Join me next time when we'll be in the legendary Maida Vale Studios
0:25:20 > 0:25:24in London but playing us out now, this is Afro Cluster.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27One, two, three. Mash it up!
0:25:36 > 0:25:38# You can't go wrong
0:25:39 > 0:25:41# Hey, ah-ha-ha-ha-ha
0:25:45 > 0:25:46# You can't go wrong
0:25:53 > 0:25:56# You can't go wrong
0:25:56 > 0:25:58# You can't go wrong
0:25:58 > 0:25:59# You can't go wrong
0:26:01 > 0:26:02# Hit a crossroads
0:26:02 > 0:26:03# But not lost, though
0:26:03 > 0:26:06# A war begun, something I can't condone
0:26:06 > 0:26:08# Reaching out, communicate Even Morse codes
0:26:08 > 0:26:10# Decision's up to us Where we must go
0:26:10 > 0:26:12# So I step up, embrace the unknown
0:26:12 > 0:26:14# Unafraid of what's coming Still in control
0:26:14 > 0:26:16# One of a dice and I'll toast There were young foes
0:26:16 > 0:26:18# Stepping stones to the next episode
0:26:18 > 0:26:20# No hostile takeover
0:26:20 > 0:26:21# Only come with one goal
0:26:21 > 0:26:22# Move your shoulder
0:26:22 > 0:26:23# Well, our sounds get down
0:26:23 > 0:26:27# Ladies, shake what your mama gave you like you've been Tasered
0:26:27 > 0:26:28# The party's eminent
0:26:28 > 0:26:29# Bacardi's kicking in
0:26:29 > 0:26:31# Fellas misbehavin' Sipping on the gin
0:26:31 > 0:26:33# Sin city's like King's Landing
0:26:33 > 0:26:34# Play the game to win
0:26:34 > 0:26:36# Feel the brush when we bring the killer touchline
0:26:36 > 0:26:39# Buggin' out while we find our souls
0:26:39 > 0:26:41# Stepping out of your comfort zone
0:26:41 > 0:26:43# From the night till the early morn
0:26:43 > 0:26:46# You can't go wrong
0:26:46 > 0:26:47# You can't go wrong
0:26:48 > 0:26:50# Yeah, ah-ah-ah
0:26:54 > 0:26:56# You can't go wrong
0:26:58 > 0:27:00# Buggin' out while we find ourselves
0:27:00 > 0:27:03# Stepping out of your comfort zone
0:27:03 > 0:27:05# From the night till the early morn
0:27:05 > 0:27:07# You can't go wrong
0:27:10 > 0:27:12# You can't go wrong
0:27:19 > 0:27:21# You can't go wrong
0:27:23 > 0:27:25# You can't go wrong... #
0:27:27 > 0:27:29One last time.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32This is for you, and you, and everyone that put this together,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35and the love's been around.
0:27:35 > 0:27:36# You hear
0:27:36 > 0:27:38# You hear the s...
0:27:38 > 0:27:40- # Sou...ou... # - RECORD SCRATCHES
0:27:40 > 0:27:43Festival Number 6, lose yourselves!
0:28:07 > 0:28:09# You can't go wrong
0:28:09 > 0:28:11# You can't go wrong
0:28:11 > 0:28:13# You can't go wrong
0:28:16 > 0:28:18# You can't go wrong
0:28:18 > 0:28:21# You can't go wrong
0:28:22 > 0:28:29# You can't go wrong. #
0:28:31 > 0:28:34CHEERING AND APPLAUSE