£rd Headliner - Place your bets ....

[GTG]

Bugger! How do you edit the thread title?!?

3rd Headliner, then .....

So, it's a '2011 UK Festival Exclusive' (which thankfully seems to rule out Interpol, but sadly Polly Harvey too.

Has anybody got a list of every band in the world so that we can cross out all the ones who are already playing somewhere else?

A fiver from me on The Decemberists, and after Friday in Leeds I would be very happy with that. And they can bring Blind Pilot with them as well.

Edited March 13, 2011 by GTG

[Outlier]

Why does the UK festival exclusive thing rule out Pj and interpol? I know they are playing electric picnic but that's southern Ireland, which isn't Uk. I think Polly is nailed on, being from Dorset and all, but I'll place my bet on Belle & Sebastian for the better odds.

[shoebox]

I'm going with one of the following:

PJ Harvey

Belle & Sebastian

The Bad Seeds/Grinderman

Decemberists

Bonnie Prince Billy

Joanna Newsom

I can't see it being The National. Think they've just exploded too massively now. For EOTR to get a UK exclusive on them, when the big guns have yet to announced their line-ups yet, well, the costs would be too great. Bearing in mind that Reading/Leeds, supposedly, paid The Libertines a million quid to play last year, just shows the gulf in wealth between EOTR and the others.

So yeah, that's my guesses, spreading my bets a bit, but there you go.

[MrSimonW]

My 50p is on the Decemberists - the announcement date fits (waiting until after they'd finished their UK tour), they're spending the summer stateside so an exclusive, and they're due back in the Autumn for a full European tour.

[Elfy]

Has anybody got a list of every band in the world so that we can cross out all the ones who are already playing somewhere else?

[ljsawyer]

MMJ! MMJ!

[geofelgie]

As I've said elsewhere I've convinced myself it's going to be PJ Harvey...

...so if it is The Decemberists or My Morning Jacket I can suddenly be really happy!

As for a wild card alternative.........Ben Folds?

[ljsawyer]

Is it the Sunday headliner being announced? Mogwai are headlining Saturday so I'm assuming Beirut are doing Friday.

[fogged]

Whoever it is, we should have a much narrowed down shortlist after the big Latitude announcement tomorrow. If PJ or The National are missing from it, the odds have got to shorten on them.

[Elfy]

just had a thought this morning...... dunno if they're still doing live stuff, but TV on the Radio would be excellent

[RealEarthMother]

It won't be The National. They are doing Reading and Leeds.

Edited March 13, 2011 by RealEarthMother

[Elfy]

eels?

[GTG]

It won't be The National. They are doing Reading and Leeds.

Edited March 13, 2011 by GTG

[zahidf]

just had a thought this morning...... dunno if they're still doing live stuff, but TV on the Radio would be excellent

[Elfy]

eels?

[Elfy]

Playing wireless, so no to them!

[SweepingTheNation]

Says 'oo? Only a rumour atm, surely? Leeds don't announce until after Latitude - and EOTR! The National do seem to be the new darlings of the 'Skins' producers though, soundtracked twice in the last 3 excruciating episodes, I think, so Leeds/Reading would be logical.

[Outlier]

Eels are playing T in the park, so it won't be them. Could it be Sonic Youth?

[shoebox]

Eels are playing T in the park, so it won't be them. Could it be Sonic Youth?

[shoebox]

OK, two more names to throw in the hat:

Broken Bells or The Shins?

[RealEarthMother]

Says 'oo? Only a rumour atm, surely? Leeds don't announce until after Latitude - and EOTR! The National do seem to be the new darlings of the 'Skins' producers though, soundtracked twice in the last 3 excruciating episodes, I think, so Leeds/Reading would be logical.

Hadn't really thought the Electric Picnic thing through, had I? I shall have a troubled week now, fretting about Interpol.

Actually, I think that Feis one-dayer in London has the best lineup at the moment.

[RealEarthMother]

Says 'oo? Only a rumour atm, surely? Leeds don't announce until after Latitude - and EOTR! The National do seem to be the new darlings of the 'Skins' producers though, soundtracked twice in the last 3 excruciating episodes, I think, so Leeds/Reading would be logical.

Hadn't really thought the Electric Picnic thing through, had I? I shall have a troubled week now, fretting about Interpol.

Actually, I think that Feis one-dayer in London has the best lineup at the moment.

[Outlier]

OK, two more names to throw in the hat:Broken Bells or The Shins?

[Infinite Jest]

PJ's playing I'll Be Your Mirror, so the question is 'is that a festival?'. (As someone has mentioned on here already).

My money is on her, or maybe Decemberists. (Would love the National, but they're surely too big?)

[SweepingTheNation]

It was listed on The National's Last FM page for a while. Then got taken down, presumably when someone realized they'd jumped the gun on the announcement. Would love to proved wrong but the dates line up.