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Yves Tumor is worth checking out - hipster/pitchfork friendly, but heavily influenced by 90s indie shoegaze/US alternative. I'd assume there's maybe another dozen bands across the three days, to match last year. You'd hope someone big and less poppy for that last day in particular.

I think things have been heading that way for a while. I think I saw something with Live Nation where they said they want to sign up artists for festival "tours". I imagine that's much cheaper - probably for both parties. Don't the Kalorama people do BBK and Casa Mijas too? They've certainly have a lot of crossover and with BBK I wonder if they're able to do deals for one year's BBK at the same time as the following year's Kalorama.

Not at Primavera Porto though- although Prodigy were added late as a headline name last year and neither were they. The theory is that Blur/Nick Cave were added the last two years after Primavera Porto - possibly because they had deals where they couldn't be announced at other Portuguese festivals till that one had gone ahead.

It looks a bit of an outlier for Pulp's tour - Justice are still playing at the end of August too though.

Interesting. I'd have thought that Sunday looks a more likely spot for a late announcement. The spread of acts seems a bit off to me - I know a lot of festivals try to push day tickets with similar artists, but they were selling months of three day tickets on the back of a first poster, that is almost entirely made up of the first two days acts.

Is that a guess about the headliner for the 30th, or do you know something?

Does anyone have an idea of who might be on the dance stage? To match last year's poster, we're still nearly 30 names short, but there were 16 on the Panorama stage. Not sure if many/any of the current line up would be.

Yeah - If it's Justice, surely they would balance that poster out by appearing Sunday. Saturday seems like overkill.

This was the full line-up last year. Blur and the Prodigy weren't even announced till June - although this year they may have announced more of the headliners early. https://clashfinder.com/s/meokalorama2023

More, if it matches last year. There were 63, so that's potentially another 45 left (assuming Death Cab and the Postal Service are counted separately). 16 of those were elecronic/dj acts on the Panorama stage, and not sure if anyone other than Overmono might fit that description from the 18 announced so far.

I thought the Cala Mijas story was that they want to go ahead, but are having issues with the site/licensing/local politics? Whatever is happening, they'd have to provisionally book bands, and I don't think The Smile are bothered enough to put at asterisk next to the date 🙂

Today's instagram post suggests they might be gearing up for an announcement. Ties in with last year's dates. Spring is already in the air in Lisbon!Stay tuned 👀

Fingers crossed. They're still touring European festivals at that time.

I don't think the connection has to be with the organizers. If anything it would probably be part of the band's deal with Primavera Porto because they don't want to lose ticket sales to another festival. If a band is playing Primavera in Porto and Barcelona it is likely a bigger deal, so they'd have more power to ask them not to announce other festivals that might compete for sales.

Do you mean that the June announcement is for bands playing at Primavera Sound, so they have to wait till after it's happened?

May not be so long. Last year they announced 9 names in late November, another 40 mid-March, and then the final names in June. The final one was Blur, Prodigy and more. This time the first announcement was bigger (about 20), but I've got my fingers crossed for a March unveiling for most of the rest, like last year.

These are the terms and conditions on my ticket, if that helps. No name on the actual ticket. A compra e utilização deste bilhete implica a aceitação das seguintes condições: Uma vez adquirido, o bilhete não poderá ser trocado ou reembolsado. Este bilhete não é nominal e pode, portanto, ser transferível. Apenas será válida a primeira leitura do código à entrada do recinto. É obrigatória a troca do bilhete por uma pulseira nos pontos disponibilizados pelo festival antes da entrada no recinto. A organização reserva-se o direito de alterar o programa do evento em qualquer altura. A Fever não está envolvida na organização do evento e não será responsável pela mesma. A organização reserva-se o direito de admissão. A Organização e a Fever não podem ser responsabilizadas por bilhetes que não tenham sido adquiridos nos pontos de venda oficiais do evento. Qualquer bilhete danificado ou com sinais de falsificação autoriza a Organização a recusar o acesso ao recinto. O bilhete deve ser conservado até ao final do evento. Não é necessário apresentá-lo em formato físico. Não é permitida a entrada de objectos que possam ser considerados perigosos pela Organização, bem como a utilização de câmaras fotográficas ou de vídeo no interior do recinto. É proibida a revenda não autorizada deste bilhete. Este bilhete não pode ser utilizado para quaisquer fins promocionais ou publicitários. O organizador e a Fever não podem ser responsabilizados por qualquer perda, dano ou roubo do bilhete ou de qualquer propriedade pessoal durante o evento. Os titulares de bilhetes autorizam a realização de gravações de vídeo e de som enquanto parte do público. Este bilhete está sujeito às regras do local e às Condições Gerais de compra do evento e da Fever.

Nation of Language and English Teacher are playing Meo Kalorama around that time, so they're not just in the UK. Plenty of crossover already between that and ReS too. Looks like loads of good undercard bands are playing late August.

The instagram post was reported in a few papers, and you remember correctly. She said, "And some of my favourite artists playing shows too? Why…YES!!" Which I assume means support, rather than standalone shows. https://www.nme.com/news/music/adele-announces-new-residency-in-munich-3579749

Sam Smith lists the 29th on their site, as do Yard Act - but that's the first day of the festival, so I think it's more their website design. The Kills on the 30th is the only other one I can see. Suspect they won't be giving splits till day tickets go on sale.

But they won't ever turn it up that loud, so where's the fun? Apparently I was at the very first night of Despacio, in the very same location you'll be tonight.

Soulwax I'd love (although that would be another act shared with Rock en Seine - if it's going to be a cut and paste, will Gossip play as well?). Is Despacio anything special? I can listen to records at home 😉

My bet would be The Killers, given than Maneskin are playing all over, and were already predicted. The Killers played Mad Cool just two years ago and don't appear to be playing other festivals, but are (semi-)conveniently in the UK just before this date.

2018 was great - I came away thinking there were almost too many good acts 🤣 But 2022 was probably up there with Primavera 2013 as my favourite festival ever music-wise. Looking at this year, there are only a handful of bands that I would even be slightly bothered about. Curious as it's still a huge line up of bands across a lot of styles.

Bought my tickets 5 minutes ago. Considering it's only a first announcement, and a short one at that, there are already eight that I'd want to see already. Expect the rest to be disappointing now 🤣 But also looking at the announcements for APE and Rock en Seine, hopefully there might be quite a few more to my taste!