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[5co77ie]

news here

http://www.efestival...1/111129a.shtml

[5co77ie]

Lovebox have tweeted a clue :

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Saturday's main stage headliners are a Mercury Music Prize nominated band...

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Suede perhaps? Or New Order?

Edited by Frankly Mr Shankly, 26 January 2012 - 03:12 PM.

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So guessing they didn't win it since they are only saying nominated so Mumford & Sons or Florence is my guess.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

jump, on 26 January 2012 - 03:18 PM, said:

So guessing they didn't win it since they are only saying nominated so Mumford & Sons or Florence is my guess.

Not necessarily, they may just not have wanted to say "winner" because it would limit it so much. I mean lets be realistic, the only bands from the winners list I could see headlining are: Primal Scream, Suede, Portishead, Pulp, PJ Harvey, Dizzee Rascal, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys,Elbow & maybe The XX, Klaxons & Antony & the Johnsons at a push, the rest are too obscure or not around anymore.

[zahidf]

Mumford and Sons are around that time period playing Rockness, so they would be favourites IMO

[jump]

Frankly Mr Shankly, on 26 January 2012 - 04:08 PM, said:

Not necessarily, they may just not have wanted to say "winner" because it would limit it so much. I mean lets be realistic, the only bands from the winners list I could see headlining are: Primal Scream, Suede, Portishead, Pulp, PJ Harvey, Dizzee Rascal, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys,Elbow & maybe The XX, Klaxons & Antony & the Johnsons at a push, the rest are too obscure or not around anymore.

Meh, they could of come up with another clue rather than choosing then overthinking the Mercury one besides there's a good few names on winner alone and Mumford or Florence seems about right to me.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

I can't see them getting Florence. But Mumford are very likely I'd agree.

[5co77ie]

and another clue tweeted:

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This year’s main stage Friday headliners have played 3 times before and we’re HUGE fans. Any guesses?

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^{Has to be Groove Armada, again.}

[zahidf]

Lovebox first announcement

http://www.nme.com/n...dly-fires/62011

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

NME line-up is missing some from the official line-up.

It's a great line-up imo. I'm confused though, are the headliners in this? Hot Chip are playing on Friday, and have played three times I believe, and Friendly Fires are Mercury nominated and are listed on Saturday....

[zahidf]

Hot Chip, Friendly Fires and Holly Johnson are the headliners according to timeout.

What an odd line up choice. Can't see it selling out this year.

[fairy_]

I agree this lineup seems a bit strange; not sure there's much here to attract the fair-weather festival fan?

[Couchy]

Hospitality on the Saturday looks good (I'm sure they did it last year too).

[LondonTom]

Its a decent line up but ..theres nothing really...special about it?

[Couchy]

Might be able to get some cheap tickets off eBay or another way if it doesn't sell out.

[eFestivals]

LondonTom, on 15 February 2012 - 12:10 AM, said:

Its a decent line up but ..theres nothing really...special about it?

I've heard they've got Donna Summer (the real one, not "DJ Donna Summer").

If they have that's mighty special.

[zahidf]

eFestivals, on 15 February 2012 - 08:05 AM, said:

I've heard they've got Donna Summer (the real one, not "DJ Donna Summer").

If they have that's mighty special.

Must be for the disco day on Sunday with Chic and Holly Johnson i guess

Still not exactly a massive ticket seller.

[LondonTom]

eFestivals, on 15 February 2012 - 08:05 AM, said:

I've heard they've got Donna Summer (the real one, not "DJ Donna Summer").

If they have that's mighty special.

Not going lie but I had to google...but I recognize the songs now, that would be something