It's months away yet, but all the rumours circulating over who may or may not be playing have got me really keen!

Can't wait for the first announcement! :D

The Strokes are headlining. Mumford & Sons and Temper Trap obviously on the line up.

Exactly :D

From FasterLouder today:

 

Though the official Splendour line up is still to be officially confirmed we can add another name to our growing list of acts for the festival – former Verve leadman Richard Ashcroft and his new band The United Nations of Sound.

 

The leak has come via Ashcroft’s official website where the news section reveals that “Richard Ashcroft’s new band RPA & The United Nations of Sound have confirmed their first live dates [including] the bills of Summer Sonic Festival in Japan and Splendour in The Grass Festival in Australia.”

 

The bands debut album, intriguingly produced by Chicago hip-hop pioneer No I.D, is due for release in early June.

 

Goldfrapp’s tour drummer has also accidentally leaked that the pop act will be gracing the Splendour lineup, while a Pixies facebook update suggests they’ll also be in attendance.

 

And of course there are those suspiciously-close-to-Splendour tours from Mumford and Sons, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Temper Trap and The Strokes.

never thought much of richard ashcroft solo. cant see 30 seconds to mars going down well with the splendour crowd. goldfrapp has become super-poppy of late so they've kinda lost me too.

 

im really hope for at least one other really good act to go see at a sideshow.

Yeah I was surprised too... at the moment though Mumford and Sons, the Strokes and Temper Trap are enough to pull me in :P as well as the fact I've never been to a camping festival before!

 

I'm also hoping for a couple of better acts too though.

dont get too excited. its hell trying to get tix to splendour. so lets get over that hurdle first before thinking about who you're going to see lol.

 

i wonder if the move up into queensland will have any impact on ticket demands......

Lol yeah I know that. But I'm trying to remain optimistic :P

I managed to get bdo tix so I'm *hoping* I'll be able to get splendour tix :P

so how much are tix this year? its a 3 day fest so im guessing alot more than previous years.

 

im guessing the strokes will headline sunday night. the pixies for saturday night? powderfinger on friday night would be amazing??!!!?? we'll just to wait until tomorrow morning to find out!!

The Strokes

Pixies (only Australian show)

Ben Harper & Relentless7 (also only Australian show)

The Temper Trap

Mumford & Sons

Florence and The Machine

Scissor Sisters

Empire of The Sun

The Ting Tings

Band of Horses

Goldfrapp

Richard Ashcroft & The United Nations of Sound

Grizzly Bear

LCD Soundsystem

Angus & Julia Stone

Hot Chip

Wolfmother

Passion Pit

Midnight Juggernauts

Jónsi

Paul Kelly

Laura Marling

Lisa Mitchell

Midlake

The Vines

Miike Snow

Kate Nash

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Broken Social Scene

Tame Impala

The Magic Numbers

K-OS

Operator Please

Bluejuice

Little Red

Ash

The Middle East

Whitley

Yeasayer

Miami Horror

Delphic

We Are Scientists

Foals

Alberta Cross

Surfer Blood

Space Invadas

British India

Washington

Philadelphia Grand Jury

Clare Bowditch

Band of Skulls

Two Door Cinema Club

The Drums

The Mess Hall

Violent Soho

School of Seven Bells

Fat Freddy’s Drop

Last Dinosaurs

John Steel Singers

Yacht Club DJs

Jonathan Boulet

Dan Sultan

Oh Mercy

Cloud Control

Boy & Bear

Ernest Ellis

Tijuana Cartel

Frightened Rabbit

The Joy Formidable

Skipping Girl Vinegar

Gypsy and The Cat

Money For Rope

JaC Stone

Zennith

Tim & Jean

Bag Raiders

Van She Tech

 

Epic much?

:dead:

 

...

 

Tickets on sale 6 May. I'm going to try my best to get one!

I hate to think how much it'll be though...

Pixies <3

Event+Camping Tix sold out after about 3.5hrs. with Event only tix still available. im not even trying to buy tickets but i managed to get on in about 45mins, so its not too bad.

GOT THEM!

Lucky enough to get them within about half an hour... the site was terrible, I was originally queued at number 828 and then the server failed and I was pushed back to 13000! But it all turned out, YAY :smug:

CAN NOT WAIT!

 

Apparently they were sold out by about 2pm yesterday.

^^

 

to say that i am jealous is a massive understatement.

+1

42 days!

Yes I am counting down... it's getting me through these exams!

 

I know I'll be pretty much talking to myself in this thread but oh well :p

 

My friends and I are starting to gather up tents, eskies etc to bring, and I've bought a battery-powered camera and a battery-powered phone charger already.

One of my friends is coming shopping with me next week to buy clothes to wear, as we're pretty resigned to the fact that the ones we wear could possibly get ruined :P

 

If anyone wants to post any tips on how to survive a camping festival (this will be my first one) please, share! :awesome:

well im going to see 4 sideshows. so almost as excited for late july and early august!

I thought you were only going to 3? Who are you seeing?

LCD Soundsystem, Mumford n Sons, Angus n Julia and Laura Marling.

I would go if I could...

You almost are, minus the "festival" part, haha :P

Another year, maybe!

 

EDIT: oh and 37 days... it's now close enough for me to start counting! :lol: