Bestival 2015 headline guesses

[LondonTom]

Faithless??

Guess it depends if this London show turns out to be exlcusive or not!

Edited February 11, 2015 by LondonTom

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

I think my final guesses at the headliners would be Portishead, Faithless and Kylie - with Portishead and Kylie being announced tomorrow and Faithless being announced further down the line after their summer solo show has been released and sold well.

[Gucci Piggy]

Faithless, Gorillaz and Kylie for me.

[FloorFiller]

I think my final guesses at the headliners would be Portishead, Faithless and Kylie - with Portishead and Kylie being announced tomorrow and Faithless being announced further down the line after their summer solo show has been released and sold well.

Portishead and Kylie would please the opposite ends of my music taste very well. i'd love that (and Faithless would be pretty great as well i guess)

i really hope it isn't Gorillaz. i just can't get excited about seeing them live again at all, despite quite liking their music

[5co77ie]

bjerk?

[LondonTom]

bjerk?

Bestival only repeats sub headliners as headliners doesn't it?

[Frrrraaappp head]

Duran Duran at Bestival would raise chances of a Festival No. 6 slot, which would please the crap out of me.

Festival No. 6 has been put back a week to 4th - 6th so on the same weekend as Electric Picnic, no doubt though some of the same headliners will play both Bestival and EP though which is always the case, I think that you might definitely get Portishead this year, just like we got Bjork eventually after she headlined Bestival a year or two before.

Edited February 11, 2015 by Frrrraaappp head

[smogo]

I had no idea Faithless were still a thing.

Edited February 11, 2015 by smogo

[DomDom1984]

I'd be extremely happy with Portishead. If Belle and Sebastian are the band I'd be least looking forward to from a set of leadliners, they'd be doing not bad.

[Zacko]

Portishead would be a dream, but Bestival is so hard to predict it could literally be anyone.

I think The xx have to be in with a shout, especially after 2012 and the crowd they got.

I wasn't sure whether I was gonna go, but it'll be my fifth one and there's been no reason stopping me going yet, so looks like ill probably be grabbing a ticket tomorrow.

[FloorFiller]

yeah i'd be pretty surprised if The xx aren't one of them tbh! RDB's been very praising of their 2012 performance, and i even remember him mentioning them as a future headliner when somebody asked if they;d be headlining in 2013 (don't know why they thought that, although after Chic, i guess it would've just been the first time it happened). new album out - i don't see why Bestival wouldn't snap them up as one of the smaller headliners

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

I would have had The xx down for 2016 unless they can get an album out beforehand, Jamie xx has an album out this year too so not sure they will get one ready this year

[FloorFiller]

I would have had The xx down for 2016 unless they can get an album out beforehand, Jamie xx has an album out this year too so not sure they will get one ready this year

yeah i was kind of just assuming they did - i'm sure i read somewhere that it's due a 2015 release, so if they release it near the end of the year it'll be ready just in time for Bestival

[dentalplan]

They've been writing it for ages though. The lack of anything this summer or even a hint of anything coming soon makes me think they're unlikely but who knows - they could be just keeping things under wraps then there's an element of surprise in them being announced tomorrow. Parklife announce tomorrow too and would fit in there as well.

[DomDom1984]

The xx COULD do it as a one off. That does happen now and again, no?

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

Yeah definitely, just be odd them going from sub 3 years ago to headlining without and new material

[Gucci Piggy]

Wait is the announcement today?

[Bisque]

I reckon its Faithless +

(& weirdly maybe Kaiser Chiefs)

Hannah Wants

Sigma

Metrik + Futurebound

Pendulum DJ set

Hoping for:

Chromeo

Charli XCX

Enter Shikari

Edit: The XX would be a perfect headliner.

Edited February 12, 2015 by Couchy

[smogo]

I can't find anything definitive to back this up, but apparently the lineup will be on Bestival's Instagram at 9:45am.

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

They've said 10am to a few people, but would imagine a drip feed of artist snaps from 9.45

[smogo]

Now officially confirmed on Twitter: 9:45am it is!

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

I'm not even going this year and I'm looking forward to seeing the line up

[Tr234]

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Edited February 12, 2015 by Tr234

[smogo]

Looking good so far... though we're only getting Saturday's headliner.

[Tr234]

The chemical brothers!