groaned when I saw the headline on NME.com, just knew they were referring to Summer Sundae...I don't hate The Magic Numbers, but this is less than thrilling.
Normally a bunch of decent bands on lower down the order so fingers crossed.

might just be my favourite festival. I've been the last two years and have a ticket for this year too.
I think it's just that this first announcement is a tad underwhelming...as said above, Gruff Rhys apart, there's nowt to get excited about - at least not to my ears anyway.
It's not like last year when first reading about Elbow and B&S, I almost pooped myself...but there's still loads of time left for some good stuff to be added, so I'm not worried.

Gruff Rhys is the only thing that I'm excited about musically so far.

However, the overall vibe of this festival, the lack of aggro, the indoor venues, the decent bars, the clean toilets and the city centre location are all things I'm looking forward to.

All it will take is a few decent other acts on the bill and all will be fine. It had better be, I've already got a ticket!

realised today that I had managed to confuse Duke Special with Duke Spirit, ummm...from what I saw when they supported The Divine Comedy last year, that's now two whole bands to look forward too.

for me but its shit every year, i've never been!

aliens are ex beta band.
malcolm middleton is ex arab strap
the displacements have been added to the bill
as has micah p hinson.

and theres still the dance headliners and indoor headliners to be announced.

is well worth checking out, saw her a couple of weeks ago supporting Midlake, quite an intriguing voice

saw this coming, but perhaps every festival has to have it's own "Daphne and Celeste moment", although I expect no such nonsense here. More interesting than The Magic Numbers at least, (apologies to The MN's, I just don't care that much any more).

A not unwelcome addition, strangely attractive, as she appears to be made entirely of triangles.

It's really confusing.