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New York experimental pop act Chanel Beads have EOTR listed on their label's site.

Don't know about dropouts, but MC Yallah & Debmaster are playing Supersonic that weekend having dropped out of it and EOTR due to visa issues last year, and Vagabon and Altin Gun who were both due to play in 2021 are in the UK/Europe that weekend. There might also be some more shares with the various Psych Fests that weekend.

Oh, right. I can find Camera Obscura, the Lemon Twigs, Mdou Moctar, Sam Morton, Big Special and mui zyu.

Of EOTR size? Not a lot that have been announced and aren't already there. Goat Girl, maybe. John Grant's got a new one coming but he'd likely have been added by now. Cassandra Jenkins was a big fan of EOTR and just announced a new record this week. Les Savy Fav would be quite something for late night Big Top (though I'm leaning towards English Teacher taking that slot, both because the festival evidently loves them and they're now a top ten album act)

I really wouldn't read absolute accuracy into a message that refers to three solo artists as "three incredible new bands".

They always use "full line-up" to mean "so far". They're still 21 acts down on last year.

Arlo Parks confirms for Friday. There's been a few confirmations and other new dates recently so I've updated the Clashfinder to suit.

I don't want to necessarily cast aspersions on the Play EOTR process but OTG is a long-time collaborator with and current DJ for Little Simz - in fact he opened for her on US tour last year.

If you're interested, the current state of day self-confirmations (or just unavailable on any other day): Thursday: Bonnie Prince Billy, Richard Dawson, NewDad Friday: Baxter Dury, Mdou Moctar, Militarie Gun, King Hannah, HotWax, mui zyu, Lip Critic, Wine Lips Saturday: Clarissa Connelly, Flamingods, Palehound, Sam Amidon Sunday: Ty Segall, Nation Of Language, Thus Love, Dawn Landes, Julianna Riolino, Maple Glider, Florence Adooni, Upchuck

Ignore this, they've self-confirmed for Sunday. However, as per earlier posts, Richard Dawson has confirmed for Thursday.

Was this the infamous Zoo Thousand? https://mulebritannia.substack.com/p/zoo8festival

It starts on the Thursday.

New Manchester Psych Fest additions. Altin Gun pulled out late in 2021.

The Itch's debut single. Turns out they used to be two-thirds of Regressive Left.

I'd say there's a scarcity value to them, and I can't see them playing anywhere else, but also for scheduling I tend to go on what order the festival lists them in, and on the graphic and line-up page they're tenth, between Ezra Collective and Mount Kimbie who are very likely going to be Mountain subs - though I should add that's not foolproof as eighth are BC,NR who surely aren't going to be Mountain subs or headline a stage they were third from top of two years ago. While I have the document open I may as well list the self-confirmations (and those that can't play any other day) I know about: Thursday: Sleaford Mods (possibly Metz and Sheer Mag) Friday: Jon Hopkins, Jesus & Mary Chain, Hurray For The Riff Raff Saturday: Big Thief, Osees, Max Cooper, Ibibio Sound Machine, Nabihah Iqbal, Mannequin Pussy, Lonnie Holley Sunday: Sampha, Explosions In The Sky, Ezra Collective, Pictish Trail, Muireann Bradley, Fabiana Palladino

Royel Otis have far more Spotify listeners than three of the headliners and are only 50,000 behind the other one. Should they be headlining by that metric?

Interestingly Nation Of Language have the Thursday listed on their website tour dates, and while that's not unusual to see as a holding position it features at the end of a run of UK gigs and they're playing Meo Kalorama on the Friday, so they're either flying there and back unnecessarily or opening Woods.

Jesus & Mary Chain have self-confirmed for Friday, which means I'd say, huge surprise permitting, the Mountain headliners and (Thursday aside) subs and Far Out pre-midnight headliners are pretty much set for what's on the clashfinder through confirmations, available days and supposition.

New PRAH signing NiCKY has self-confirmed in an interview.

Second announcement was March 22nd last year, 12th April in 2022, 2nd April 2019, 7th March 2018. So, yes, though I'd guess it'll be week beginning 8th April now.

That's Monday and Tuesday. They're already listed for Supersonic on the 30th and have gigs on the 29th and 31st.

Thanks - weirdly enough I had a look at a few of the bigger to middle names yesterday and all three new-to-me self-confirmations were in the days I'd already allocated for them.

Looks like they have an association with Chai Wallahs: https://www.chaiwallahs.co.uk/artists/conservatoire-folk-ensemble God knows how they're all going to fit onto that stage, though.

Ringo Deathstarr and Blushing just announced a UK tour beginning 1st September.

Two weeks after Green Man with no European dates announced for before - and also the first announced date is the Sunday of End Of The Road.