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Well, like I've said before, it's like putting Sonic Youth on as a main stage headliner. They could f**king do it and they'd still get a great audience - and the gig would be amazing - but Festival Republic just wouldn't want to take the risk.

If you put Sonic Youth (or, indeed, The Jesus and Mary Chain) as a headliner, what you'd be faced with is a thousand and one chavs and idiots all going "who da fock r dey? I wanna c Pendulam LOLZZ!!11" - and what makes it worse is that Festival Republic try to cater to these imbeciles, as if they have a voice worth hearing.

What the festival becomes, then, is a place to soak up enjoy popular culture rather than a place to promote good alternative music that isn't necessarily popular but is great to listen to all the same.

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Incidentally, Belle and Sebastian are headlining Latitude this year. I'm considering getting some tickets because it's around my birthday. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's on July the 17th (which is my birthday).
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I don't reckon it would be a shit crowd, to be honest. You wouldn't get a w*nker in a crowd of Sonic Youth fans. I've been to a few of their concerts in my life and I've never met a dull person. They wouldn't pull in the numbers (unfortunately) at Reading/Leeds but to be honest, who gives a shit? Most people who go to see them know that when they see them, they are one of the greatest bands in the world. Whilst everybody else is watching The Libertines we can rest assured knowing that we're watching somebody far better, and we'd take comfort in that.
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The National to headline, they have a big gap in their tour dates http://www.americanmary.com/tour.php

The Antlers also have a big gap, would be epic http://antlersmusic.com/tour/

Frightened Rabbit my third choice hopefully will also play http://www.myspace.com/frightenedrabbit

Keeping my fingers crossed lots and lots. If I ask for it enough then who knows, they might play.

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