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  1. 6 hours ago, Coopa said:

    Anyone know when the settlement, lineup/activities are usually announced? Trying to work out which day we are heading down. 

    Probably will be announced imminently as the acts are listed on the settlement section of the line up page on the GM website. 

  2. Thinking through my plan...

    Thursday: Run up Pen Cerrig-calch | bimble about, maybe check out Cinedrome | Try the Lost Map Weird Wave thing | Sister Wives | Spiritualized 

    Friday: Juni Habel | Mega Bog | Minor Conflict | Dur-Dur Band International | Butch Kassidy | Jockstrap | University | Salami Rose Joe Louis | The Comet is Coming or Squid | Slowdive | bit of DEVO | Daniel Avery | Hagop Tcharparian 

    Saturday: Yasmin Williams | deathcrash | Julie Byrne | Morgan Noise | Etran de l'Air | Anna B Savage | Obongjayar | Lankum | The Walkmen | Water From Your Eyes | Mandy, Indiana | Clipping | Confidence Man 

    Sunday: Kanda Bongo Man | Jake Xerxes Fussell | Eddie Chacon | julie | Nuha Ruby Ra | Lilo | Alabaster dePlume | Arushi Jain | Les Savy Fav | Gilla Band | Sudan Archives | Young Fathers | James Holden  

    Friday and Saturday looking the best for me overall but the run of acts in the Far Out Sunday evening is absolutely sublime! 

    Think we're still due a handful of acts so maybe a few more gems might be announced. 

    Top five for me I think will be: Slowdive, clipping, Les Savy Jav, Sudan Archives and Jockstrap. 

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  3. It feels to me that they have a new booking team or at least a totally different booking strategy.  Spiritualised are a notably bigger band than any of their past headliners.  The gulf between headliner and undercard is much more distinct this year.  In previous years, the headliner has been pretty comparable to the much of the top line.  Somewhat subjective I know…but it feels like the budget went on the headliner to the detriment of the undercard when historically it seems that they wouldn’t have had to spend way more on the headliner and in comparison to the other big names.

    Also, the genre of music seems to have shifted as well.  Quite a lot of pop/R&B on the line up this year (although that was also the case last year to some extent I guess) and definitely less of the cool stuff they used to book (Jenny Hval, Moor Mother, SOPHIE, Jockstrap, Kero Kero Bonito, Lightning Bolt, Show Me The Body, Keely Forsyth, Aya, Hinako Omori, Iglooghost, Gazelle Twin etc.) 

  4. 18 minutes ago, xxialac said:

    Final names in.

    The worst lineup in their history. Clear that they’ve spent almost all their budget on Spiritualised at the expense of lots of great second line names.

    Totally agree.  Very disappointing!  Modern Woman, Tapir, Mui Zyu and Just Mustard the only decent undercard names imo. 

  5. 1 hour ago, lac999 said:

    Looks like final headliner could be Mac DeMarco.
     

    Summer tour just announced (https://www.nme.com/news/music/mac-demarco-announces-2023-world-tour-dates-including-london-residency-3432192). Although there is  a two-week gap after his final UK show, this would explain the delay in final headliner announcement. 
     

    They’ve been making their way through the headliners from 2020 (Caribou in 2021 and Kiwanuka in 2022), so this probs makes the most sense with an announcement from GM a few weeks after his tour goes on sale. 

    It makes sense in theory given he was previously booked as you say but the press releases regarding the new tour reference this summer tour being limited to shows in just four cities.
     

    Also, 2 and a half weeks is a pretty big gap to wait around for GM if he’s not doing anything else in between as well. 

  6. On 3/13/2023 at 7:05 PM, DDave said:

    Have the Walkmen been confirmed for the Saturday? 

    Nope, not as far as I know.

    They’ve got Paredes on the Thursday and then start a run of U.K. dates on the Monday.  We think Amyl and Young Fathers are confirmed for Sunday, so on that basis Walkmen probably won’t be Sunday.  Currently guessing they are going to sub the Mountain Stage on the Saturday.  They headlined the FO stage when they last played many years ago. 

    Confidence Man can’t do Friday so currently thinking they are Saturday night FO headliner.

  7. I’m going but this is currently quite underwhelming music wise (although I agree it’s good value). Not sure why they’ve bothered getting a bigger headliner tbh.  Their line ups were more about up and coming acts and left field stuff.

    Apart from Spz, Just Mustard and Mui Zyu are the only two I’m really excited for.

    Tapir! and Modern Woman are both good and worth checking out though.  Pale Blue Eyes are solid but not too exciting.  There is some fairly left field stuff on the line up (Isabella Lovestory, Dos Monos and Quinzequinze) but unfortunately none of it is really to my taste.  

  8. 22 hours ago, benali said:

    Moin were incredible last night. One of the best gigs I've seen for quite a while.

    Playing through a fog of dry ice under spotlights they turned in an intense and spellbinding performance. They have to be in the Big Top, it would not work so well in the Tipi.

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    Was this the King’s Place gig?  I went to the 6 pm show.  It was amazing wasn’t?  The last song - Knuckle - was incredible with the extended ending and intense strobe lighting. 

    I’ve been obsessed with them ever since I saw you recommend them on here a while back - so thank you! 

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  9. On 3/2/2023 at 7:10 PM, Mambonumberfive said:

    Great job on the Clashfinder!

    Was it clarified somewhere that Thursday was definitely Mountain Stage open as it was last year and that the line up yesterday included the GM rising?

     

    see they have just announced “ look out for more acts plus final headliner”

    No we've not yet got confirmation that the Mountain Stage will be open on Thursday.  Hopefully it will, as I thought that was a good addition. 

    The initial line up will have included acts that will play on Rising, yes.  There will probably be more to come though, including the finalists of the GM Rising Competition. 

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  10. 1 hour ago, Aeroplane Over the Sea said:

    Excellent work. Do we have any slots in there that we’re confident of already?

    DEVO being Friday night headliner is all but confirmed I think as they are doing shows on Saturday and Sunday already (and I’m assuming they’re not doing Thursday). 

  11. Really like the line up. Huge variety.

    I think the most exciting or interesting bookings are clipping., Dur-Dur Band and L’Etran de L’Air.  Headliners could have been a hell of a lot worse given other U.K. festival line ups - DEVO particularly exciting given this will be their first U.K. show in AGES (I think since 2009?).  

    Very happy with Slowdive, Les Savy Fav, Sudan Archives, Jockstrap, julie, Anna B Savage, Julie Byrne, Gilla Band, Lankum, Young Fathers, Snail Mail, Beth Orton, Mega Bog, Deathcrash, Yasmin Williams, Juni Habel, Daniel Avery, Marie Davidson and James Holden.  If Les Savy Fav or Gilla Band headline Walled Garden one day that’s got set off the weekend potential. 

    Wasn’t aware of Horace Andy but am told he has legendary status so that’s on me!  Should be a fun set by the sounds of things.  Arushi Jain also sounds very cool from first few listens.

    Credit also to the GM bookers who got DEVO, Walkmen and Delgados, all of whom are pretty rare (appreciate Delgados are at a few other U.K. fests this year though). 

    Excited to see who the final headliner is…

  12. First three clues most likely: Lankum, Beth Orton and Warmduscher. 

    I like the shout for Gina Birch for the final clue.  Gina is one half of the punk band The Raincoats.  You can see a shop called Macintosh on the street view.  She has a new album out and is touring this summer.  It sort of works both with the Macintosh shop and also the Vivienne Westwood shop, given the Raincoats are a very famous punk band, Vivienne being heavily associated with the punk movement/aesthetic.  Gina also supposedly attended the very first Sex Pistols show - another connection to Vivienne. 

  13. Although I’d like it to be Coby Sey, I think the clue is possibly a bit more cryptic than just the name of the street being the album name.

    The coordinates seem specific to the Vivienne Westwood store to me and I think it’s got something to do with that…some sort of punk band like Le Tigre, Mhaol or Petrol Girls…but can’t connect the dots. 

  14. 6 minutes ago, timeforheroes said:

    Interesting they said we tried, potentially a real life manifestation of the argument here and everyone is kind of correct.

    Boygenius want (deserve?) Headliner money and that isn't where GM see their profile right now.

    My guess is that GM had already booked its headliners by the time Boygenius were an option and then they would have been too expensive for a non-headline act.

  15. 15 minutes ago, SweepingTheNation said:

    Aaaaaanyway... we've not even talked about potential other headliners. The possibility of Orbital is very interesting, and if that's the case I assume they'll be Saturday with Boygenius Friday (as their London date is Sunday), but it'd be someone dancey on Saturday regardless which means there'd have to be another marquee experienced headliner on Sunday but with a lot of names being ruled out I'm not sure who that would be right now.

    If two of them are Boygenius and Orbital, then I think that rules out Jamie XX and Bonobo as headliners, although I think Bonobo could maybe do FO one evening potentially.

    I think that leaves: Simz, First Aid Kit, Jessie Ware, Loyle Carner, FKA Twigs, Iggy Pop, Aphex Twin, Young Fathers, Devo, Slowdive and Suede as potential headliners in terms of them being around at the right time.  Some of those are more likely than others.  I think Simz or First Aid Kit are the most likely.  It could also be someone more out the blue as well of course and I still think there’s a remote chance of The Smile given the GM band booker’s twitter activity. 

    Looking forward to some clues, which might start today.

    EDIT: First Aid Kit now have a show in Ireland on 21 August so I reckon they’re even more likely now…

  16. 1 hour ago, collectivisedfarming said:

    Caroline as in band Caroline (not Polacheck who I'd also like to see there) would be ideal for the garden. I saw them at earth in Dalston last year and it was an amazing show. 

    Yep that’s what I meant! They’d be amazing in that slot. 

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  17. Boygenius is a great booking for GM on paper.  They are probably the most hyped up super group (or indeed band full stop) on earth at the moment and this will be their debut U.K. show.  It’s a great get for GM. 

    Whether or not they put on a good headline show in reality is another matter…I will probably be elsewhere.  Hopefully caroline headlining Walled Garden or Fever Ray headlining Far Out.  

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