Mondo-kun

Depeche Mode are Primavera Sound exclusive. AM are BBK Live exclusive. No signs yet that Jack White and Pearl Jam are touring Europe next year, so it leaves QOTSA as headliners from 2018.

It can be quite the opposite - the 2023 tour is planned, but they couldn't make it to Israel due to scheduling conflicts.

Brace yourselves, ladies and gentlemen… He is in the area.

The interesting thing is that Festival Beauregard stated (then deleted) that Blur have "only two festival shows in France". Assuming that another one is either Garorock or Main Square and both will be held on the same dates (first weekend of July), their RW show is 95% nailed on.

Billie Eilish / Green Day / Machine Gun Kelly Stormzy / Sam Fender FINNEAS / Little Simz / MØ / The Wombats / Becky Hill

No Fred Durst — no party!

Sure, these are just two teasers for the real clues which will follow 🙃

To sell solo shows first. Green Day played in Berlin same year they played RAR/RIP, Foo Fighters too. Or you can be right and promoters still wait for, let's say, RHCP.

Slipknot probably.

If we look at currently announced or rumored headliners across 2023 european festivals, Mad Cool is out of: - Bruce Springsteen (two Spanish shows) - Iron Maiden (three Spanish shows) - Muse (played this year) - Depeche Mode (Primavera Sound exclusive) - P!nk (in Germany on assumed dates) - Florence + the Machine (played this year) - Arctic Monkeys (Bilbao BBK exclusive) - Mötley Crüe / Def Leppard (Spanish stadium show in June) - Robbie Williams (two Spanish shows) - Metallica (played this year) - Taylor Swift (in USA on assumed dates) - RATM (probably out due to Zack's injury) The remaining are Slipknot, QOTSA, The Chemical Brothers, Billy Joel, Blackpink, The Prodigy. I bet on first three of these being there, but to be honest don't have any other guesses.

Usually Early Birds are cheaper because you don't exactly know what you pay for... Festival account commented on Instagram that "first wave of lineup is coming real soon in November", so I can assume it matches the price increase, November 8th.

Arctic Monkeys are playing Bilbao BBK Live, wonder if it reduces their chances of being at Mad Cool 🧐

FIB tickets seem cheap only from the first sight. If you start to sum everyting up (4-day ticket, camping, shower tokens, bus and so on) it ends on the same level of €120+, as in 2019 and before, when lineups were much better.

IIRC for 2022 first they sold early bird tickets (the cheapest ones), then prime tickets (more expensive, but included bag of merchandise), and only then first artists were announced.

Surely they'll announce Szitizen Prime ticket sales. First names probably mid to end of November, until there's a really big artist who wants to announce whole tour at once before that (like Ed Sheeran for 2019).

Considering new price politics I would say Franz Ferdinand, Bastille and Vetusta Morla are headliners and another one yet to come.

Slipknot?

Strange that they haven't put some "Headliner TBA" announcement on the poster (did that in 2022 just to announce Volbeat ten days after). Last time Tenacious D played austrian festival was in 2013 (they headlined among SOAD and Die Toten Hosen), and PWD are huge in german speaking countries, so if there's another headliner than that day is massive by Nova Rock standards, let's wait and see.

Aren't they closing main stage, judging by the poster?

The 1975 owe them a show since 2020, pretty sure they are one of the remaining headliners since they are already announced for Southside / Hurricane. Wonder if Tenacious D could accept the sub position, one of my bucket list bands.

One of these really stands out from the rest 😀 Slipknot / Avenged Sevenfold / Parkway Drive seems fair, the last one could be a big German band (Die Toten Hosen, Die Ärzte...).

Maiden played Volt in 2016 and 2018, so chances for Sziget are still slim but not zero.

I can assume that AM lives are hit or miss. IMO their show at Sziget this year was brilliant. Couple days after at Lowlands they also were good, but nothing special.

I also wouldn’t recommend to hope for an anniversary year that much. 25th Sziget in 2017 was highly anticipated and in the end headliners were mediocre at best.

Not even Szitizen Prime pack this time?