APW Festival

Speculated line-up

August 8th
Headliner: Bjork
Sub-headliner: The Strokes
Others: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Broken Social Scene, The Rapture

August 9th
Headliner: The Flaming Lips
Sub-headliner: Sonic Youth
Others: My Bloody Valentine, Portishead, Mogwai

August 10th
Headliner: Radiohead
Sub-headliner: Sigur Ros
Others: Bright Eyes, Mars Volta, LCD Soundsystem

Source

Well since Radiohead is confirmed as the headliner on 8/8 and 8/9, clearly false.

Rumours that are THAT top loaded are obviously pulled out of someone's rear.

The Flaming Lips as a headliner supported by My Bloody Valentine…really?

that would be an amazing line-up - among the best i've ever seen - but it does indeed smack of wishful thinking.

IMO, that list is an all-star line-up of bands that have mainstream pull yet also have indie/underground cred (or remnants thereof). more power to goldenvoice if they can actually pull that off. would make coachella east 1000% better than coachella west!

who knows, maybe those "radiohead headlines two days" rumours are false and RH will play their second NYC date somewhere in the city (hopefully not during the festival).

can't wait to see what the confirmed line up is… and what VFest replies with. best outcome we could hope for: VFest is moved to another weekend, ideally in september.

Originally posted by The Parkers are dead:
The Flaming Lips as a headliner supported by My Bloody Valentine…really?

Yeah, I guess I don't see how Flaming Lips or Sonic Youth are bigger then the MBV or Portishead reunions.

MBV had one seminal album. Portishead are a niche band.

really? i think that the lips and SY have more mainstream drawing power than MBV and PH. although their reunions are big news, they've been out of the limelight for some time. not many youngins will be flocking to see them, as they haven't heard of them… and, unfortunately, flocking is what festival organizers need.

I'd bet either the Lips or Sonic Youth have both sold more albums in the US than MBV and Portishead combined.

Originally posted by Julian, good manners AFICIONADO:

Originally posted by The Parkers are dead:
The Flaming Lips as a headliner supported by My Bloody Valentine…really?

Yeah, I guess I don't see how Flaming Lips or Sonic Youth are bigger then the MBV or Portishead reunions.

Originally posted by sweetcell:
really? i think that the lips and SY have more mainstream drawing power than MBV and PH. although their reunions are big news, they've been out of the limelight for some time. not many youngins will be flocking to see them, as they haven't heard of them… and, unfortunately, flocking is what festival organizers need.

I guess I missed a bunch of youngins a-flockin' last time I saw Sonic Youth and the Lips.

Didn't we all agree that Portishead was too big for 930 at this point? That Merriweather was more likely? When was the last time the Lips or Sonic Youth played Merriweather? I think the Lips/SY have more consistant drawing power in America but I think PH/MBV's first shows in the US in a decade are a one-time bigger draw. Just me tho.

I agree that Portishead is Merriweather worthy…as an opening act, like Modest Mouse.

Lineup out. Other then Radiohead… massively unimpressive.

Congratulations, All Points West festival! You've got an ace up your sleeves, so to speak, what with your pair of Radioheads and, now, a duo of stories in Pitchfork news within the same 24 hour period! Where can you go from here? Why, into big announcement mode? We'll join you.

The All Points West Festival– August 8-10 in Jersey City's Liberty State Park, put on by the folks who bring you your Coachella year in and year out– has announced its initial lineup, and boy howdy, it (almost) makes a person wanna spend a long weekend in New Jersey!

Apart from Radiohead and Sunday headliner Jack Johnson, we've got Animal Collective, Cat Power, the New Pornographers, Girl Talk, the Roots, Underworld, the Go! Team, Metric, CSS, Andrew Bird, Black Kids, Chromeo, Amadou & Mariam, Rogue Wave, Mates of State, Juana Molina, the Black Angels, Jason Isbell, Neil Halstead, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Youssou N'Dour, Kings of Leon, the Felice Brothers, Sia, Duffy, Little Brother, Nicole Atkins, Michael Franti & Spearhead, K'Naan, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Alberta Cross, the Virgins, Forro in the Dark and Your Vegas all making the trip.

So is this a camping-type dealy?

Originally posted by lukas:
So is this a camping-type dealy?

I don't believe so.

Originally posted by Julian, good manners AFICIONADO:
Lineup out. Other then Radiohead… massively unimpressive.

wow… knocked the wind out of my sails. mostly due to the hype raised earlier in this thread - my bad. to be fair, i'd be excited (in varying degrees) to see Animal Collective, the New Pornos, Girl Talk, the Roots, Underworld, Metric, Chromeo, and Rodrigo y Gabriela. not bad, but not 3 days worth
of excitement. and jack jonhson? really? apparently i need to tune in to maintream music more often, 'cause i was only vaguely aware of who is was… and now he's headlining both coachellas. weird.

Originally posted by lukas:
So is this a camping-type dealy?

nope, plan on hotels. if you're looking to save $, stay out of manhatten and look inland at anything near a NJ Transit rail station - LSP is within walking distance from the PATH train, which connects to NJ Transit. there are cheapies around newark airport, although that part of jersey is especially ugly. if you get something in jersey city or hoboken, you can even take the Hudson Bergen Light Rail that run right to LSP.

Really not too impressive. It looks like I'll be at Virgin Festival.

I might have to drive up to All Points West to pull a Borat on Nicole Atkins and Chan Marshall, though.

Everybody in charge of Virgin Fest would have to die, and then their replacements die at the funeral, in order for V-Fest to not top this.

If they do single day passes, I'd show up Friday for the Radiohead set maybe, but I can't imagine VFest not being much better then this (Radiohead aside).

Hey Seth,
Please bring us Cat Power, too. Thanks!

They are really off…were they bored OR not enough "music news" to report?

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Speculated line-up

August 8th
Headliner: Bjork
Sub-headliner: The Strokes
Others: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Broken Social Scene, The Rapture

August 9th
Headliner: The Flaming Lips
Sub-headliner: Sonic Youth
Others: My Bloody Valentine, Portishead, Mogwai

August 10th
Headliner: Radiohead
Sub-headliner: Sigur Ros
Others: Bright Eyes, Mars Volta, LCD Soundsystem

Source

Originally posted by wanderlust j. marshmallow:
They are really off…were they bored OR not enough "music news" to report?

Hey, buddy! You try to come up with a VFest prediction that gets 7% of its bands correct. It's harder then it looks!