Huw Stephens
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Huw Meredydd Stephens (born 25 May 1981) is a Welsh radio presenter who appears on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio Cymru, and BBC Radio 6 Music. Stephens founded the Swn music festival with John Rostron and the annual showcase Welsh Language Music Day. Most recently, he made the short film Anorac about the Welsh language music scene.
Huw hosted the Cofiwch Dryweryn documentary for S4C, focusing on the graffiti that his father painted in 1963.
On BBC Radio 4, Huw performed Cymru Rising, a Welsh language music festival.
Personal life
Stephens was born in Cardiff, Wales, and Meic Stephens' uncle was a writer and literary journalist. Sara, his long-time wife, married him in 2012; they met at Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff.
Stephens was granted an Honorary Fellowship from Bangor University in July 2015. Gruff Rhys, his cousin, was among those to be honoured on the day. The students union at the University had been president by their common grandfather. He was given an honorary degree from the Open University in 2011 for services to education and culture. He received an honorary fellowship from the University of Glamorgan in 2012.
Career
Stephens joined Radio 1 in 1999 as part of the station's new regional success, where he hosted the Wales opt-out with Bethany Elfyn and became the youngest ever Radio 1 presenter. He appeared on Rookwood Sound hospital radio in Llandaff, Cardiff, for a week before. In 2015, he became a joint patron of Rookwood Sound.
Stephens gained a national role as part of Radio 1's One Music strand, which was designed to preserve Peel's show's spirit with DJs Rob da Bank and Ras Kwame. On Thursday evenings, he went on to host the weekend afternoon show and a two-hour new music show, as well as being a regular daytime news show. Stephens appeared on the 22:00–01:00 show from Monday to Wednesday. He appears on Sunday evenings, mainly focusing on new music that has been embraced by BBC Introducing. Steve Lamacq, Lauren Laverne, Mary Anne Hobbs, Marc Riley, and Gideon Coe also appear on BBC Radio 6 Music regularly, deputizing for Steve Lamacq, Lauren Laverne, Mary Anne Hobbs, Marc Riley, and Gideon Coe.
Stephens has long hosted an evening show on BBC Radio Cymru, which was previously part of the C2 music programme; his programme now runs on Thursday evenings under the name Byd Huw Stephens. Before being taken off air in December 2011, Stephens also hosted Bandit, a television show on Welsh-language channel S4C that showcased Welsh language music talent. He founded the "Boobytrap Singles Club," which has released limited singles by Mclusky, The Keys, and Zabrinski among others. Stephens is one of the foundings of Amse, whose titles include Mr Huw, Radio Luxembourg, and Threatmantics. "Music Sounds Better With Huw Volume 1" was released by Wichita Recordings on iTunes in 2009. Gold Panda, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Banjo, Freakout, and Young Fathers were among the 21 up-and-coming artists on display, including Gold Panda, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Freak Out, and Young Fathers.
Stephens is a curator for the BBC Music Introducing Stage, which showcases fresh unsigned and emerging talent at the Reading and Leeds, Glastonbury, Radio One's Big Weekend and T in the Park festivals. He has also invited bands and artists to perform at Sonar, Groningen, and the SXSW music festivals. Since its inception in 2006, he has hosted the Lake Stage at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk, welcomeing Cate le Bon, The xx, Sam Smith, Catfish, and the Bottlemen among others to attend. Onstage and on Green Man Radio, Stephens has been the opening host at the Green Man Festival, and DJ's have appeared onstage and on Green Man Radio.
Stephens became the compere and DJ for Reading Festival's main stage in 2005. He appeared on the National Eisteddfod of Wales, from 2014 to 2018, and has DJed at Green Man, Sonar, Camp Bestival, Bestival, Big Chill, Field Day, and the National Eisteddfod of Wales, where he also performed the Gig y Pafiliwn with the Welsh Pops Orchestra. He has written for The Western Mail, Kruger Magazine, The Independent, The Mirror, and NME, as well as guest-edited the Guardian's music blog. He was the face of Discovery Shed's television show.
In 2007, he founded a new music festival in Cardiff. On 9-11 November, the first Sn Festival took place in the city, with 13 venues in the city, with the exception of 2020. Sn (pronounced "soon") is Welsh for "sound," and the festival brings together new bands, DJs, and performers from Wales, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere, as well as art and films in Cardiff's venues. The Swn Festival is currently hosted by Clwb Ifor Bach.
Stephens co-produced Other Voices, which also featured performances from the Irish festival, alongside regular hosts Aidan Gillen, Annie Mac, and MayKay. He was also the host of the BAFTA Cymru Awards ceremony in that year, which took place at St. David's Hall in Cardiff in September and has hosted it every year. Since 2015, Huw has been covering the Glastonbury Festival on BBC 1 and 2 television, as well as the Reading Festival on BBC4 television.
Stephens was a member of the jury for the 2017 ANCHOR Reeperbahn Festival International Music Award. Huw has also served as a judge for the AIM Awards.
Stephens would be out on Radio 1 in November 2020, but it will be broadcasting on 6 Music and Radio Cymru.
Stephens was announced as the new regular presenter of the weekday evening show at BBC Radio Wales in March 2022, with Byd Huw Stephens currently on Radio Cymru on Thursdays. Janice Long had hosted the Radio Wales show long before her death in 2021.