Bestival 2014

[FloorFiller]

Janelle Monae would be a great addition, and hopefully the Friday Big Top headliner will be worth the wait. somewhat resting my opinion of the lineup on it (also hope we still have the Saturday sub left to come although it could definitely be Wild Beasts)

[mattgimmeshelter]

Genuinely think this years bestival is one of the best they've ever had.

[Tuna]

The undercard is great for me, I keep forgetting how many great bands have already been announced: Wild Beasts, Bonobo, Caribou (!), Darkside, 2 Bears -- throw in Beck, Outkast and possibly Janelle and Portishead and I'm well on my way!

[thelionsmouth]

Really hadn't realised how good/big the lineup was until I just looked at it.. quite excited.

[hoils]

Genuinely think this years bestival is one of the best they've ever had.

Really? I've been to every one since 1994 and I think this year's line up is really weak. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Edited May 4, 2014 by hoils

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Really? I've been to every one since 1994 and I think this year's line up is really weak. Maybe I'm just getting old.

Well it's only existed since 2004...

[mattgimmeshelter]

It could just be down to my taste really

As shit as they looked at coachella, Outkast is a good booking and someone I'd love to see

Foals are a band I really really like

Chic... meh, I never saw the hype to be honest.

Beck - great booking

Disclosure - I'm a big fan of

Busta Rhymes - Just a really good booking, curveball act

Then you've got names amogst like Major Lazer, Paloma Faith, Basement Jaxx, London Grammar, Sam Smith, Wild Beasts, Clean Bandit, Carribou, Chase and Status (DJ), Diplo which just strengthen it.

They've done very well so far.

Edited May 4, 2014 by mattgimmeshelter

[dentalplan]

Announcement Tuesday according to Facebook.

FN6's announcement is expected to be middle of the week too. May be connected. Perhaps not though, most major FN6 acts are getting swallowed up by Bestival.

[hoils]

Well it's only existed since 2004...

Like I said, I'm getting old...

[smogo]

Today's announcement is apparently coming at some time before 2:30pm, and will be announced first by the NME. Are they sponsoring a stage perhaps? Maybe they're running the Sunday Big Top lineup.

UPDATE:

"today we are announcing Your Favourite New Bands! a stack of the most exciting new acts around…keep an eye on @NME for all the details!"

Edited May 6, 2014 by smogo

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Hopefully it won't just be a load of shitty NME flavour of the week canon fodder.

[CanbyBlaine]

Oh god, i would be excited if NME were removed from that sentence

[smogo]

It's probably the lineup for the stage formerly known as Replay with Rob da Bank.

[smogo]

Saint Lou Lou

Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats

Wild Smiles

Glass Animals

Front Bottoms

Rosie Lowe

Womans Hour

Ezra Furman

Jessy Lanza

Indianna

The Bulletproof Bomb

Cousin Marnie

MNEK

Pional

Factory Floor

MØ

Fat White Family

John Wizards

Black Orange Juice

Sivu

Hockeysmith

Happyness

Wytches

Bo Sarris

Congopunq

Wolf Alice

Childhood

FTSE

Melt Yourself Down

Fe

Rag n Bone Man

Ergo

Beaty Heart

The God Damn

Vaults

Kate Tempest

Tourist

The Correspondents

Joel Compass

Edited May 6, 2014 by smogo

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Better than I expected it to be with NME being involved. Some decent additions & some I'm going to check out.

[Tuna]

Fuck I only recognise half a dozen of those, anyone got any recommendations?

[dentalplan]

Hmm. Well I'd recommend checking out Wytches, Fat Whites, Uncle Acid, Wild Smiles. Happyness and Ezra Furman are kind of good too. Melt Yourself Down are good fun to watch and I kinda dig John Wizards too.

Seems like they've picked a pretty good bunch there.

[Tuna]

Also Tune-Yards are missing from that list, also announced today.

Thanks for the recs Dentalplan, and I shall recommend MO and Factory Floor in return

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Glass Animals are pretty decent too.

[thelionsmouth]

Definitely Wytches, will be seeing them. Would also think The Correspondents, FTSE, Uncle Acid, Congopunq and the Bulletproof Bomb are worth a view, though I may not catch all of em.

[CanbyBlaine]

I really want Ben Frost and James Holden to be announced. Is that asking too much?

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

Almost pains me to say but at the moment I wish I'd chosen Electric Picnic over Bestival this year, the line up is looking much stronger.

[FloorFiller]

Almost pains me to say but at the moment I wish I'd chosen Electric Picnic over Bestival this year, the line up is looking much stronger.

the Electric Picnic lineup is brilliant isn't it? pretty much the best bits of the Bestival lineup with added greatness on top

[Paul ™]

EP looking great as always

Bestival isn't doing it for me am afraid, I'd choose EP too.

[smogo]

Okay, so Pet Shop Boys are Festival No.6's final headliner. Portishead still don't have any UK dates announced but are doing these festivals:

ATP, Iceland, 10-12 July

Melt, Germany, 18-20 July

La Route du Rock, France, 13-16 August

Pukkelpop, Belgium, 14-16 August

Rock en Seine, France, 22-24 August

Electric Picnic, Ireland, 29-31 August

And Bestival still doesn't have a Friday night Big Top headliner announced. I do think we've probably had all the big names we're going to see, but I'm still holding out a little iota of hope....