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Eh? definitely missed the point....can't see anyone mentioning wristbands, let alone 100 of them.
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EOTR will not be able to cancel tickets very easily - can you imaging the poor stewards on wristband exchange being told to look out for numbers 1087, 1088 and 1089, 3745, 3746, etc etc etc???? And that's assuming they could perfectly identify the seller - not something ebay is helpful about! I'm sure they always keep an eye on guest tickets and would take action regarding future allocations should they have clear evidence of abuse but it is incredibly difficult for a small organisation - they cant possibly afford the same sort of ticket/order tracking systems the big boys have. And we don't want them to - we like the fact that there's no booking fee, just one simple £5 p&p per order.
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Yeah, okay, sorry I was a bit dramatic because I found the announcement very disappointing. Grandaddy will be good, although it seems a cynical reunion rather than a genuinely exciting one, and I'm sure they would be nowhere near headliners if they hadn't split up.
I'm just really disappointed with the undercard. Surely now is the time to be filling it out with some decent mid-level bands (War on Drugs? Real Estate? etc...). Alabama Shakes had better be as successful as everyone is predicting by the time EotR comes round.
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Sorry, I don't think I expressed how seriously f**king stoked I am about this news! Seriously, seriously, seriously happy! Amazing news!
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Grandaddy - okay. Not really headliner material but that's nostalgia for you.
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Like I said on the fb page too though, it's all very well everyone condemming the touts but there were EOTR tickets being sold for double face value on ebay last year and I didn't see anyone from EOTR commenting on this then or cancelling said tickets which it must have been pretty easy for them to do?
Also I thought the comment that someone else made on fb was interesting that they bought a ticket that someone said was one of a large number of 'guest list tickets' that they bought for way over the face price. Any comment from EOTR on this? Just curious given that everyone is condemming the touts. I hate touts as much as anyone else, but it seems to me that the promoters and organisers are also at fault and could do far more to reduce it happening.
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Ok, getting better. Nice to see some new bands, although William Elliott Whitmore is a welcome return.
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Haha I just read that as 'Jim White could be shot' and wondered what the poor guy had done to deserve that!
As for Mumford & Sons, if they're added then there's no way I'll buy a ticket. I'd rather scratch my eyes out with a hot poker than suffer watching one of their smug self important perfromances again. I'm not sure if they'd be even worse than Joanna Newsom last year. At least as bad.
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Glad to hear that! They had the nerve to show up on stage and 'join in' at what, until that point, had been an amazing Nathaniel Rateliff gig at the Borderline last year. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
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Nope none of those are Bella Union...
I'm going with Darren Hayman, Brakes, Herman Dune, along with Mumford & Sons as the next headliner!
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It's the Bella Union list again, but in a different order.
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Isn't it the same but in Holland?
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ha, i knew you were waiting for the position to change before recommencing posting, just so you could say i told you so! sue was more blunt....
despite my protestations the thing about NDH is that its so little effort to get to for me, and i would then get to see those okies - as unfortunately no, i won't be able to see them in shoreditch april
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Ok I've managed to narrow it down to 15...in no particular order:
Radical Face – The Family Tree: The Roots
Tinariwen – Tassili
Beirut – Rip Tide
Nathaniel Rateliff – In Memory of Loss
The Leisure Society – Into the Murky Water
Iron & Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean
The Singing Adams – Everybody Friends Now
Woods – Sun and Shade
Other Lives – Tamer Animals
Liam Finn – Fomo
The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
The Dears – Degeneration Street
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Self Titled
Delicate Steve – Wondervisions
Loney Dear – Hall Music
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I will be seeing John Grant for the third time - I think his slot may just be my musical highlight of 2011
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so far its too much like groundhog day.
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definitely close to the point where i could skip NDH, apart from Other Lives and Diagrams.
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Mmm I'm only going to echo what has been said already...possibly the most underwhelming announcement from EOTR yet. I know I said John Grant would possibly sway me, but with the rest of that lineup I still won't bother. Can we not have someone new?? That's what I always loved about EOTR, that even if I hadn't heard of the bands, 99% of them were great. Now this is the just same old.
At least with John Grant there though there's every chance he'll play a London show too so I can just go see him there instead. I love Grizzly Bear but they're bound to be on the Woods stage, in which case I probably wouldn't bother seeing them anyway. Nope sorry, really disappointed so far.
How are people who bought the jooint tickets feeling about all that overlap too? Suddenly I'm not feeling like I might have made a mistake missing that offer.
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Sorry, I'm too lazy to sort these into the 4 headings, but any of the following would be most welcome:
Akron Family
Gregory Alan Isakov
Liam Finn
Ay Ducane
Monument Valley
Marcus Foster
Fanfarlo
Bony King of Nowhere
Daughter
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Neil Young (yeah ok I'm being optimistic)
Singing Adams
Cass McCombs
Damien Jurado
Dignan Porch
The Minders (please please please!)
Delta Spirit
Radical Face (or any of Ben Cooper's projects)
Electric Owls
Owen Pallett (on his own, not as a collaboration with some orchestra)
Kings of Convenience
Vadoinmessico
Her Space Holiday
Toumani Dibate
The Black Atlantic (not Indie/Blues/Psych but it fits the Black in the name requirement)
Bon Iver (rather see him that Fleet Foxes again if we're talking something slightly more mainstream for a headliner)
John Vanderslice
Josh Ritter
Dr Dog
Mark Kozelek
Jason Lytle
Portugal. The Man
Seawolf
The Boy Least Likely To
Mary Lou Lord
Withered Hand
Lots of new albums due from the list above, so quite a few will be touring I guess, and yeah I wouldn’t be adverse to Gaslight Anthem either - I’m not a huge fan but I’ve seen them before and they do give it their all live.
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Nice spot
Perfume Genius cancelled last time, didn't he?
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John Grant (again) and Department of Eagles might just persuade me to buy a ticket. Otherwise I'd like to see someone new...I don't know, seems a lot of recycling going on between EOTR and NDH this year? Or maybe it's just because I've seen a lot of the bands announced so far and it's not inspiring me so far...
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I have resisted thinking too much about EOTR 2012 up until now after mixed feelings after last year. Aside from the lovely people I know will be there, I'm still on the fence.
In the first announcement I'm pleased about The Antlers, Beach House, First Aid Kit & Grizzly Bear (although I've seen them all before more than once) and I'd like to see Justin Townes Earle & Tindersticks. However, there aren't any 'wow' announcements there for me and nothing that makes me want to run out and buy a ticket yet.
Come on...convince me someone?
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Mmm...admittedly I don't know some of these, but my first thought when I saw it was 'ahh mostly EOTR castoffs' Ok, maybe castoffs is the wrong word, but you know what I mean...lots of ex EOTRers. I love the Low Anthem, but I've seen them a handful of times before and there's not enought yet to make me consider it.
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Loving all the Other Lives love
I'm glad they're touring again here soon, although I wish they weren't playing SBE in London...I hate that place, sound is always so awful. I was disappointed that they didn't have time to play anything off their first album. I love Tamer Animals, but the first album still has the edge for me. I wanted to hear Black Tables at least and Paper Cities.
This year's must-see band?
in End of the Road
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Last year I think it was undoubtedly Other Lives that won the 'most anticipated band' award leading up the EOTR, even warranting their own thread and a whole host of converts from the comments on here.
So who is going to take that title this year? Maybe I'm biased having been a fan for so long and one of their albums being in my top 10 favourite albums ever, but today's Grandaddy announcement (well if I'm honest, more that they're going to be playing together again than headlining EOTR) has really made my week and I hope it leads to a whole new group of people discovering them.
Any other nominations from the line up so far? I see Deep Dark Woods getting quite a lot of positive comments?