Primavera Sound 2013

Primavera Sound announce initial line-up for 2013 jamboree…

With Damon Albarn’s Blur already confirmed, today was the day that one of Europe’s top festivals announced the bones and guts of their early Summer festival and boy did the organisers of the Barcelona leg of Primavera not disappoint. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Animal Collective, The Knife, Phoenix and more were all listed as the big names to descend on Parc del Fòrum. With Damon Albarn’s Blur already announced the real heavyweight name dropped earlier today was the word that the newly reformed The Postal Service – in celebration of seminal record Give Up‘s 10th anniversary – would headline.

The full line-up to date seems to be:

Blur, My Bloody Valentine, Wu-Tang Clan, The Knife, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Phoenix, The Postal Service, Fiona Apple, Hot Chip, The Breeders performing Last Splash, Swans, Band of Horses, Deerhunter, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Dexys, James Blake, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Crystal Castles, Death Grips, Local Natives, Tinariwen, Rodriguez, Daniel Johnston, Neurosis, Dinosaur Jr., Shellac, Hot Snakes, Bob Mould, John Talabot, Disclosure, Killer Mike, Solange, Jessie Ware, Liars, Dead Can Dance, Fuck Buttons, Neko Case, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Fucked Up, Meat Puppets, Dan Deacon, Four Tet, Foxygen, Simian Mobile Disco, The Vaccines, Thee Oh Sees, Matthew E. White, Apparat, Omar Souleyman, METZ, Daughter, Woods, Christoper Owens, DIIV, How to Dress Well, Goat, King Tuff, Mac DeMarco, Wild Nothing, Mount Eerie, OM, The Bots, Glass Candy, Menomena, Camera Obscura, The Sea and the Cake, Daphini, Guards, Merchandise, Savages, Nick Waterhouse, Poolside, and White Fence.

Crikey balls.

Here’s a Spotify list that will grow and grow as I add to it in the coming days.

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– Primavera Sound 2013 takes place in Barcelona, 22nd-26th May