Mad Cool 2017

[stubbs]

Cage the Elephant confirmed for the Friday

[DDave]

If it wasn't for Green Day and the Foos I'd have been going to this, starting to become a really good undercard.

[gregory]

[DDave]

[gregory]

Here's the full poster;

 

Edited February 8, 2017 by gregory

[stubbs]

final 4 bands to be announced 20th Feb it would seem

[pete76]

hopefully final 4 bands will be much better than today's terrible announcement. Anyway i got Foos, dinosaur Jr, Ryan Adams, Wolf Alice, Spoon, KOL, Rancid, Deap Vally, Green Day, Warpaint, Kurt Vile, Xavier Rudd. That's enough to make me happy. 

[gregory]

1 minute ago, pete76 said:

hopefully final 4 bands will be much better than today's terrible announcement. Anyway i got Foos, dinosaur Jr, Ryan Adams, Wolf Alice, Spoon, KOL, Rancid, Deap Vally, Green Day, Warpaint, Kurt Vile, Xavier Rudd. That's enough to make me happy. 

Yeah this announcement is not my cup of tea at all, apart from Foals who I'll see at FIB the week after anyway. Oh well, time to investigate some new music  How many non-Spanish bands were added today? I can't tell the difference. Is UNKLE in small writing the British duo or someone else with the same name?

[Noeliam]

1 minute ago, gregory said:

Yeah this announcement is not my cup of tea at all, apart from Foals who I'll see at FIB the week after anyway. Oh well, time to investigate some new music  How many non-Spanish bands were added today? I can't tell the difference. Is UNKLE in small writing the British duo or someone else with the same name?

 

Trip Hop

[stubbs]

I'm guessing 1 of the 4 could be Jimmy eat world, who seem to have been mentioned a few times?

Just been looking to see who is at Nos who could be playing, or could we get someone from the new festival in Glasgow thats T's replacement. Would like to see Biffy come back and play, though i doubt they'd book them 2 years in a row.

[stubbs]

3 minutes ago, gregory said:

Yeah this announcement is not my cup of tea at all, apart from Foals who I'll see at FIB the week after anyway. Oh well, time to investigate some new music  How many non-Spanish bands were added today? I can't tell the difference. Is UNKLE in small writing the British duo or someone else with the same name?

Dunno, i was hoping WAS were we are scientists, but i dont think it is, and google brings up nowt for WAS.

[pete76]

carry on praying for Live, Bush, Primus :-P

[e2p2]

What a great undercard! 

[the wonderwhy]

Slowdive, Savages, Cage The Elephant and Junior Boys are cracking late announcements 

Edited February 8, 2017 by MattDavies__

[gregory]

28 minutes ago, stubbs said:

Dunno, i was hoping WAS were we are scientists, but i dont think it is, and google brings up nowt for WAS.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Standard apparently 

[Ashleebanks95]

Catfish and the bottlemen  I'm sooo happy!

[gregory]

As we all like a moan; so despite raising ticket prices, and extending the opening hours to 6am this year, there'll only be 63 bands on the lineup, and 10 of them are winners of a local talent competition. :/ A bit of a cop out for a 5-stage, 3-day festival. 

Edited February 8, 2017 by gregory

[Finge]

Quite surprised they announced Foals since they are quite a big name at Benicassim already. Why not also grab The xx and Royal Blood since they started stealing acts from other Spanish festivals .

Can't say I'm really disappointed with the new additions, but I guess we all hoped to have a few more big names after we discussed the bands that are touring. The fact that they are holding back 4 names for 20th Feb makes me positive. If it were just some filler acts or Spanish bands they could have announced them today already so I assume/hope it will be a couple of international bangers to generate attention and boost the ticket sales for the last time.

[neacaisa]

7 hours ago, gregory said:

As we all like a moan; so despite raising ticket prices, and extending the opening hours to 6am this year, there'll only be 63 bands on the lineup, and 10 of them are winners of a local talent competition. :/ A bit of a cop out for a 5-stage, 3-day festival. 

Well, the first edition always is a promotional one, I think festivals rarely are profitable on the first couple of editions. Obviously, they target the long run so it's normal to get yearly increases of prices and/or line ups shrink or quality downfall.

[stubbs]

10 hours ago, gregory said:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Standard apparently 

Punk funk dance rock according to their wiki

[pete76]

Cruilla's line-up. Festival in Barcelona, same weekend as MCF (sharing Ryan and Lumineers) and BBK (sharing Die Antwoord and 2DCC), wondering if they gonna share anything else? 3 good festivals in Spain during the same weekend.

 

[Mondo-kun]

40 minutes ago, pete76 said:

Cruilla's line-up. Festival in Barcelona, same weekend as MCF (sharing Ryan and Lumineers) and BBK (sharing Die Antwoord and 2DCC), wondering if they gonna share anything else? 3 good festivals in Spain during the same weekend.

 

TDCC, Die Antwoord and The Prodigy were on Mad Cool last year, so they probably can be ruled out.

According to rumours there are Jimmy Eat World and Beach Slang among the last four bands, while the other two are complete mystery. 

I still hope for Royal Blood.
 

Edited February 9, 2017 by Mondo-kun

[Ashleebanks95]

On 09/02/2017 at 1:09 PM, Mondo-kun said:

TDCC, Die Antwoord and The Prodigy were on Mad Cool last year, so they probably can be ruled out.

According to rumours there are Jimmy Eat World and Beach Slang among the last four bands, while the other two are complete mystery. 

I still hope for Royal Blood.
 

I'm hoping for Royal Blood and the Vaccines 

[Nikolay S.]

The Hives are playing with Green Day and Rancid in Hyde Park on July 1st, so they might be announced for Mad Cool (keeping my fingers crossed!).

Also, hoping for Royal Blood too here!

[Mondo-kun]

Seems Jimmy Eat World are out - starting from July 6 they are supporting Incubus on their US tour.
So no clues at all for monday lineup update...