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MC Yallah & Debmaster were due to headline Boat but had to pull out due to visa issues last year.

Magnetic Fields only played two years ago, and it looks like all their dates this year are 69 Love Songs over two nights. Feel Beth Gibbons would have been announced by now.

Actually yes, the second announcements between 2016 and 2019 were all March 1st going by this site's news updates (though they were a month late with 2022's first announcement so don't take that as gospel)

Point of order: this will be the second time they've announced on St David's Day, and we don't know if last year's was delayed by the lack of a Saturday headliner. In 2022 it was on February 10th, and before that (obviously 2021 was different) it was in January, though the 2022 festival was the first time it sold out within a day.

Primavera are advertising them as a European exclusive.

Not touring this album, apparently.

Not that I think they're a band GM would approach anyway but, as with New Order and The National (and also Idles, not that that's an option with them headlining EOTR), I don't think there's any chance of a band playing two outdoor gigs in south Wales in one summer.

Couple of new tracks out yesterday:

Very much doubt it. Album won't be out until the summer at least and, remembering the scale and ambition of her recent tours, she wouldn't tour it in the US until the autumn.

Manchester Psych Fest just made a second set of announcements, mostly British acts (Pigsx7, Goat Girl, Girl Ray, Das Koolies) but including La Luz, A.Savage (Parquet Courts singer) and LA psych-soul band Chicano Batman.

The smart money was on the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, whose European dates were very compressed and there was a separate rumour they'd agreed to and then pulled out of something like Lowlands, which is the same weekend as GM. The Smile toured the US in June which is partly where that speculation came from but it's likely they were working on their album around GM time.

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They've already been announced as playing Manchester the day after Green Man.

Huh. So presumably Sleater-Kinney are Woods subs? Can sort of see them playing before Idles.

Obviously it could be coincidence, but it's very interesting if they're loading that day deliberately and surely would confirm J&MC or similar as headliner.

I don't know if that's just as a lot of acts do, putting the first date of the festival down before the actual day splits reveal. They don't feel a very Thursday-type band.

Twice in a day! They played their (billed) final gig a year ago.

That said, and this might be an interesting general debate while we wait, whilst Phoebe is out of their range right now where would Lucy and Julien go when they return to solo duty?

But Boygenius *are* big enough to headline! (I wanted to look something up in the 2023 thread the other day and was surprised how long that argument/assumption went on for - and a year later you could easily argue they're too big for GM)

That *does* sound unreliable, especially as she's about to play a 600 capacity London gig.

For reasons just discussed they're the absolute opposite.

Thanks! I've changed a few things round since the first go but I should stress it's almost* completely illustrative at the moment. ( * NewDad have gigs from Friday to Sunday, Mdou Moctar over the weekend)

Wouldn't be announced now at all. Last year the date was confirmed on 17th February and even that seemed very early to most people. I do wonder whether they'd want to do the line-up announcement on a Friday morning, though, it's quite busy music-wise.

Yard Act, Chromeo and Gossip are absolutely not going to be added, for a start. I do think we're short of at least one late night Big Top headliner, most likely the Sunday usually decent sized post-punkish band slot (I'm wondering about Viagra Boys, who are expected to be around as they had to pull out of Forwards the same weekend last year, though if IDLES do the Sunday that might be different this time), but the first announcement was far stronger than last year's for "second string" acts so I wouldn't expect much spectacular. The second wave was on 22nd March last year, so with this year's first lot coming out a week later than normal I'd expect something around Easter weeks.

Not sure I'm as keen as on her album but new Mui Zyu this morning.