Primavera Sound 2020

Must say Mad Cool headliners wouldn't do much for me - Taylor Swift, Twenty-One Pilots, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Diplo, Major Lazer, Faith No More wouldn't be my bag.

Credit where its due - the rest of the line up has some good stuff in there and the top tier acts, while not to my taste, will shift a lot of tickets, no question.

Hoping for something quite different for PS.

Ten names announced today:

Chromatics
Bikini Kill
Lorena Álvarez
María del Mar Bonet
La Favi
Les Amazones d'Afriques
Sudan Archives
Park Hye Jin
Mavis Staples
Jenny Hval

Apparently they are gonna do 10 names per day (excluding weekends) via Primavera Radio and that it won't always be focused on headliners because they want to give smaller acts a boost.

Chromatics is a good one, Jenny Hval, Mavis Staples and Park Hye Jin too. Not familiar with the rest.

A poster on eFestivals has claimed Massive Attack are headlining too so that probably means Massive Attack, Lana del Ray, Tyler the Creator and Pavement as four of the bigger acts.

Edit: I didn't listen to the radio show, just trusting that eFestivals posters aren't lying!!

sweetie wrote: »

yeah, the lower part of the bill was better. Were only really stuck for something to see on the saturday after the champions league but we had a great weekend of music all the same.

I'd have been in no condition for anything after the Champions League final.

eFestivals now reporting Kim Gordon for 2020 too. Not sure if they announced her or was she just played on the show, but she'd fit the bill anyway.

Same time tomorrow!

sweetie wrote: »

Over on e- festivals, strong rumours if Massive Attack, national, Joanna newsom and Beck. I'd be happy with those.

Going by there and Reddit, it's looking like:

Massive Attack - Lana Del Ray - Tyler, the Creator - The National* - Beck - Pavement

Hadn't heard Joanna Newsom.

I think it's an OK selection. Massive Attack and the National are fairly regular on festival bills so even as a fan, it wouldn't necessarily be enough to convince you to travel but it'd be interesting.

I've not seen any festival bills anywhere that have appealed to me yet (though it is obviously very early in festival announcement season!)

Strange choice by PS to start trickling out names on their radio show and then to stop all of a sudden.

Edit: that * on the National was to remind me - at Best Kept Secret in the Netherlands, they're doing the 10th anniversary of High Violet. For their standalone shows in Ireland, there was no mention of same. I wonder will we get that - I recall when they played PS in 2018, they played a straightforward show but other festivals (one in Belgium anyway, I think?) got a Boxer anniversary show.

ghostdancer wrote: »

no other festivals had Boxer in full unfortunately.
They played it in full at their own gig in Belgium in November 2017 to be recorded for the live album, and then again at their own Homecoming festival in April 2018.
All other gigs/festivals in those years were just the standard setlist with tracks from Sleep Well Beast.

Very surprised that they'll take High Violet in full to a random European festival (although I haven't seen any mention of them actually playing it in full there, just "celebrating 10 years of....". Perhaps they're recording it for a live album too, although you'd think they'd have just done it in Ireland, or another standalone show rather than a festival.

They're playing it in full at their Homecoming event next year, as they did with Boxer.
Quite strange that they haven't announced the Irish gigs as Boxer in full, if that's what they're going to be doing elsewhere.

Best Kept Secret and Homecoming appear to be the only places they're doing High Violet in full (or in celebration), which seems a little odd.

But I'd also think it'd be strange if they were just moving on from the current album so quickly. They didn't exactly tour it extensively. Only one show in Ireland, for example. We typically get dozens!!

If the time was there, I'd like to see them do two shows - one High Violet and one new album - but I don't think the time is really there based on the other shows they've announced, unless they did one of the Wednesday shows, which isn't impossible but would be a little odd if they're also playing the Thursday for e.g.

They're in Ireland from the Saturday for a few consecutive days of gigs so you'd expect a day off on Thursday or Friday, leaving just the one day for a Primavera show really.

Anyway - I'm genuinely more interested in seeing what's on the under card now. Plenty of the acts I wanted appear to be at BBK or Mad Cool later in the summer (Whitney, Caribou, Angel Olsen just off the top of my head) so I'm curious to see what PS has lined up now.

Les Savy Fav, Caroline Polachek, Die Katapult and Vagina Dentata Organ added this morning.

Not familiar with any of those tbh.

Also, Brockhampton announced a European tour which runs right up to Primevera and doesn't include any Barcelona date so safe enough to expect them to play too.