Primavera Sound 2011

honru

So... first ten names will be announced on Tuesday, at which point 1,000 "early bird" tickets will go onsale for €99.

I'll probably get my ticket regardless. Can always sell it on if I can't go for whatever reason. Or if the lineup isn't great, but that's unlikely to be the case.

indiewindy

Great spot, will be buying my ticket on Tuesday

Mushy

Any rumours? Wanna know what bands will be around festival season.

jefreywithonef

99euro seems ridiculously cheap! Does that mean there's no camping area for people? Last year's line-up was amazing.

indiewindy

Monzo wrote: »

99euro seems ridiculously cheap! Does that mean there's no camping area for people? Last year's line-up was amazing.

Theres no camping, its beside a metro line and a bus line into the city centre. last year they kept the €99 price until January, this 1000 allocation is new

honru

Mushy wrote: »

Any rumours? Wanna know what bands will be around festival season.

Haven't a clue tbh. Usually whoever is playing Coachella gives a solid indication but they've been announcing Primavera acts progressively earlier each year.

Mushy

f®eak s©enery wrote: »

Haven't a clue tbh. Usually whoever is playing Coachella gives a solid indication but they've been announcing Primavera acts progressively earlier each year.

Ah sure only one day away really.

honru

First names:

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Blank Dogs
Broadcast
Comet Gain
Dan Melchior und Das Menace
The Fiery Furnaces
Half Japanese
Papas Fritas
Sonny & The Sunsets
Triángulo De Amor Bizarro

No headliners surprisingly but I'm a big fan of The Fiery Furnaces and with Half Japanese to boot as well... good start already.

/ticket booked.

Sr. Pirotecnic

They said there will be a big announcement in a fortnight. Rumour mill says David Bowie!

Tix were €99 til Dec 31st last year, they're not being so generous this year.

honru

Sr. Pirotecnic wrote: »

Tix were €99 til Dec 31st last year, they're not being so generous this year.

Yeah, and with the success of this past summer's edition* and the attention the event is getting in the media outside of Spain, there is less incentive for the organisers to sell tickets at these low price points. The "early bird" prices used to run through to the year of the actual festival.

* = I don't think this year was a complete sell out, but it was close. Day tickets for Friday (the day Pixies played) had sold out afaik.

Toast

Sr. Pirotecnic wrote: »

They said there will be a big announcement in a fortnight. Rumour mill says David Bowie!

It is a running joke that Bowie is rumoured each year.

Sr. Pirotecnic

Toast wrote: »

It is a running joke that Bowie is rumoured each year.

ha ha :rolleyes: saw it on a few message boards and thought there might be something in it.

€99 tickets bloody sold out! Now €115.

honru

Sr. Pirotecnic wrote: »

€99 tickets bloody sold out! Now €115.

And there's a ticket limit of 1,000 on those as well.

honru

Second batch of tickets are sold out in a snap too. Now tickets are priced €130 for two weeks. By this rate it will cost almost whatever the full price was after presales by next year. :eek:

New UK ATP event in Minehead for next May was announced there, less than two weeks before Primavera. Wouldn't mind seeing Animal Collective, Meat Puppets and The Frogs on the lineup!

indiewindy

Yeah, should get a good few of those atp bands playing it, the national are playing Portugal a few days before prima so could be a good bet, got my ticket, still no receipt yet

Cianan2

I always forget about primavera tickets going on sale so early... Definitely gonna go again this year... I frickin love Barcelona! Any more updates on the line up?

indiewindy

Pulp have just been added to the line up on their reunion tour

lordgoat

indiewindy wrote: »

Pulp have just been added to the line up on their reunion tour

Just came in to post that. Should be immense.

sallycinnamon_

Snap! Pulp, I can't believe it. I probably will go to this now seeing as I'll be living in Spain at the time

Is there camping at it or what? How much are tickets? My Spanish is poor!

indiewindy

Tickets are €130 plus booking fee until November 15, then they will probably rise to €140 or €150 which going by earlier years should be the max price, no camping allowed.
http://www.primaverasound.com/pc/?page=entradas&lang=en

honru

Don't know much Pulp myself (apart from Common People) so I'm a little indifferent to them being added. I'll give Different Class a proper listen. Didn't know they been going since the late 70s!

indiewindy

More bands added
flaming lips
the national
mogwai
animal collective
suicide
John Cale
swans
Belle & sebastian
Mercury rev (performing deserters songs)
fleet foxes
Lovely:D

honru

Some great additions there... Animal Collective, Suicide, Swans (whom I missed when they played here last month).

I'll have to give a listen to The National and Fleet Foxes.

lordgoat

That is some line up. Think i'm there.

Miguel_Sanchez

I think I'm giving up on festivals. They all just seem too good.

indiewindy

Some more bands added tonight, all for the pitchfork stage
Aias,
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Cloud Nothings, Das Racist, Emeralds
The Fresh & Onlys,
Games,
Gang Gang Dance,
Julian Lynch,
Male Bonding,
Twin Shadow,
The Walkmen.

honru

More info updated... Grinderman confirmed as co-headliner for the main event and the following acts play the closing party on Sunday 29 May:

Mercury Rev
Deakin
My Teenage Stride
BMX Bandits
The Vaccines
Me and the Bees

honru

http://primaverasoundinternational.wordpress.com/

Last entry of the year and the latest on the festival. We are still working on the last details of the line up which will be ready by the end of January. Maybe we will keep some slots open to programme later and make the most of our annual date with SXSW. Meanwhile we are mainly focused on improving the production and on getting rid of any problems from previous editions. As I already told you there will be changes in the position of the stages in order to improve the circulation around the festival site. The news is that we will see the birth of a new stage that will be mainly for new bands. It is in a brilliant place, very close to the sea and I think that those of you who enjoy concerts where the public is closer to the artist will love it. And as a promise is a promise and I gave my word that I would reveal the programme of the Wednesday night in the Poble Espanol as soon as possible I can, unofficially, reveal that another of the guest artists that night will be Echo & the Bunnymen who will play their first two records back-to back. But as I said this is unofficial. We will be back with more confirmations mid-January. Happy New Year to you all.

Gabi

Echo and the Bunnymen... deadly.

Looks like most of the remaining lineup will be announced within the next month. Strange that he mentions that there will a new stage for new bands by the sea... doesn't that fit the description of the Addidas stage last year?

indiewindy

More additions today, the final big names will be announced at the end of January

Low
shellac
Caribou
Jon Spencer Blues explosion
pissed jeans
Seefeel
Dean Wareham playing galaxie 500
Autolux
The Album Leaf
Oneohtrix Point Never
Phosphorescent
money mark

honru

Loads of acts announced today... Interpol, PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens, DJ Shadow.

Most happy about Einstürzende Neubauten, Public Image Limited and Pere Ubu.

lordgoat

f®eak s©enery wrote: »

Loads of acts announced today... Interpol, PJ Harvey, Sufjan Stevens, DJ Shadow.

Most happy about Einstürzende Neubauten, Public Image Limited and Pere Ubu.

It's a pretty amazing line up.