Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival has revealed it’s 2014 lineup, delivering a harsh reminder of Australia’s crippling geographical isolation. Headliners include Nine Inch Nails, Disclosure, Queens Of The Stone Age, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pixies and Kendrick Lamar.
The festival took a unique approach to unveiling the bill, using the form of a 26-minute short film, Line-Up, which was screened across Spain and online today. Filmed and set in Detroit, the clip starts in the legendary Found Sound record shop, with the lineup artists revealed through flashes of posters, vinyl covers and t-shirts donned by the actors.
The story follows a record store owner’s adventures through the decrepit city after a mystery man in a hat leaves a vinyl on his door-step. “[It’s] a movie about how life turns around in a loop, just like a record,” founder Pablo Soler told Billboard. The lead character even attempts to make his way to a Pixies concert at one point.
Five Australian acts have also found their way onto the Spanish festival bill. Indie electro darlings Cut Copy have nabbed a top spot on the bill. As has fellow Melburnian Courtney Barnett, the 25-year-old singer known for her hit Avant Gardener.
Representing Sydney will be dance rock duo Jagwar Ma while our west coast contingents will be Perth’s psychedelic rockers Pond. Also performing is legendary Aussie guitarist and former Bad Seed Mick Harvey, who will perform a tribute to French icon Serge Gainsbourg.
Other Primavera Sound acts Arcade Fire, Chvrches, Haim and a bunch of others that will get you booking those last-minute flights quick smart. The 14th annual Primavera Sound Festival will take place on May 29-31 at Barcelona’s waterfront Parc del Fòrum.
Watch: Primavera Sound – Line-Up Short Film
Primavera Sound Full Line-Up
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A Winged Victory For The Sullen
Andy Stott
Angel Molina
Antibalas
Arcade Fire (CAN)
Astro
Belako
Black Drawing Chalks
Black Lips
Blood Orange
Bo Ningen
Body/Head
Boogarins
C+C=MAXIGROSS
Caetano Veloso
Caveman
Charles Bradley
Chrome
Chromeo
CHVRCHES
Cloud Nothings
Cold Cave
Colin Stetson
Connan Mockasin
Courtney Barnett
Cut Copy
Dani Baughman
Daniel Avery
Darkside
Deafheaven
Demdike Stare
Disclosure
Dj Coco
Dj Fra
Dj Zero
Dominick Fernow
Dr. John
Drive-By Truckers
Dum Dum Girls
Earl Sweatshirt
Él Mató A Un Policía Motorizado
El Petit de Cal Eril
El Último Vecino
Factory Floor
Fira Fem
Foals
Föllakzoid
Fort Romeau
Gang Of Youths
Genius Of Time
Glasser
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Grupo de Expertos Solynieve
Haim
Hebronix
Helen Love
Holy Ghost!
Hospitality
Islands
Jagwar Ma
Jamie xx
Jenny Lewis
Jesu
Joana Serrat
John Grant
John Wizards
Jonathan Wilson
Julia Holter
Julian Cope
Julio Bashmore
Junkfood
Jupiter Lion
Kendrick Lamar
Kosmos
Kronos Quartet
Kvelertak
La Sera
Lasers
Laurent Garnier
Lee Ranaldo And The Dust
León Benavente
Linda Perhacs
LNRipley
Loop
Lunice
Majical Cloudz
Marc Piñol
Mas Ysa
Metronomy
Mick Harvey
Midlake
Mishima
Mistakes Are OK b2b Mattis With
Moderat
Mogwai
Movéis Coloniais de Acajú
Neutral Milk Hotel (USA)
Nine Inch Nails
Oso Leone
Pional
Pixies (USA)
Pond
Prurient
Queens Of The Stone Age
Real Estate
Refree
Rodrigo Amarante
SBTRKT
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
Sharon Van Etten
Shelby Grey
Shellac
Sílvia Pérez Cruz & Raül Fernández Miró
Single Parents
Sky Ferreira
Slint
Slowdive
Speedy Ortiz
Spoon
St. Vincent
Standstill
Stromae
Sun Ra Arkestra
Superchunk
Svper
Teho Teardo & Blixa Bargeld
Television plays “Marquee Moon”
Temples
The Dismemberment Plan
The Ex
The Growlers
The Haxan Cloak
The Julie Ruin
The Last 3 Lines
The Mark Eitzel Ordeal
The National
The Range
The Twilight Sad
The War On Drugs
Touché Amoré
Ty Segall
Univers
Vatican Shadow
Volcano Choir
Warpaint
William Dafoe
Wind Atlas
Wolf Eyes
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan
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