With C3 Presents a huge part of Big Day Out now in Australia, the US festivals Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits now play a huge part in lending us our predictions for the yearly Australian event (C3 also put on the two mentioned events). With Lolla already announced, today we also have been graced with the 2013 lineup for Austin City Limits, which we covered last year. This will be the first year the festival will take place over two weekends at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, as Coachella has seemed to make popular.
The lineup seems to suggest The Cure will head to Australia for the 2014 Big Day Out, with the band also headlining Lolla, as the Red Hot Chili Peppers did in 2012 (and ended up of course headlining BDO 2013). But what does this mean for Depeche Mode or the Thom Yorke project Atoms for Peace? Here’s hoping they consider the journey as well. We’d be surprised if Muse returned so soon, but stranger things have happened. Australia’s own Tame Impala will be waving our flag when they hit the ACL stage… and you’ll also notice a heap of bands on the lineup who will be playing Splendour in the Grass.
But as you know, that doesn’t rule them out for Big Day Out!
Here’s the lineup:
The Cure, Depeche Mode, Atoms For Peace, Kings of Leon, Muse, Phoenix, Wilco, The National, Queens of the Stone Age, Vampire Weekend, Arctic Monkeys, Kendrick Lamar, D’Angelo, Passion Pit, Franz Ferdinand, Tame Impala, Local Natives, Portugal. the Man, Neko Case, Grimes, Jimmy Eat World, Dawes, The Joy Formidable, Purity Ring, Divine Fits, Toro Y Moi, The Shouting Matches, Haim, Smith Westerns, Savages, FIDLAR, Parquet Courts, Autre Ne Veut, Phosphorescent, Wild Belle, Hundred Waters.
Lionel Richie, Kaskade, Silversun Pickups, Grouplove, The Black Angels, Okkervil River, Shuggie Otis, Wild Nothing, Pinback, Foxygen, Reignwolf, Deap Vally, Bright Light Social Hour, Lissie, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, White Denim, The True Believers, Mona, Roadkill Ghost Choir, JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Typhoon, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Dan Croll, Shovels & Rope, Electric Guest, Valerie June, The Band of Heathens, Red Baraat, Jacuzzi Boys, and Widowspeak.
The festival will be held on October 4-6th and 11-13th. Three-day and VIP passes go on sale today through the festival’s website. Stay tuned for more ACL news here on the AU review.
