Jim Caroll has got me salivating with this little nugget of gossip:

Future Days... A Hard-Working-Class-Heroes style festival set in various venues around Dublin this June, the brainchild of the always excellent Foggy Notions heads, featuring Bonnie Prince Billy, Dan Deacon, Baby Dee & more.

So I may get to a festival this year after all...

All the speculation & inside scoop here.

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There's a lot of talk today of Jay-Z pulling out of his Glastonbury headline slot, which in fairness is probably a load of crap.

Tickets are going slow though- the festival usually sells out in a matter of hours, but having gone on sale yesterday morning pre-registered users can still buy tickets today. It's this low ticket traffic and high grumble factor concerning Jay-Z's headlining that has given rise to pull-out speculations.

And the fact that the rapper has just been confirmed as the headliner for the o2 Wireless festival- which is also in the UK, and falls within a week of the Glastonbury fest.

Hmmm...

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Courtesy of Nialler9, Thrill Pier & others:

My Bloody Valentine, Sex Pistols, Sigur Ros, Moby, Wilco, Tindersticks, Massive Attack, Underworld, Super Furry Animals, Fatboy Slim, The Breeders, Elbow, CSS, George Clinton, Chic featuring Nile Rogers, Gary Numan, Franz Ferdinand, The Human League, 808 State, The Roots, The Orb, Mogwai, Faust, Neon Neon, Jamie Lidell, Foals, Lee Scratch Perry, Baaba Mal, The Wedding Present, Sebastien Tellier, Henry Rollins, Billy Bragg, Marty Mulligan, Saul Williams, Booka Shade, Transglobal Underground, King Creosote, Joe Lean And The Jing Jang Jong, Damien Rice, The Duke Spirit, Crystal Castles, Tinariwen, Red Snapper, F*ck Buttons, Micah P Hinson, Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Fish Go Deep, Grand National, Lisa Hannigan, Super Extra Bonus Party, Cinephile, Kings of Convenience, David Kitt, Donal Dineen, Gemma Hayes, The Gossip, Plaid, Kevin Rowland, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Two Gallants, Trentemoller, Richie Hawtin, Paul Weller, James, Bloc Party, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Cornelius, Buzzcocks, DJ Krush, Supergrass, The Coral, Bonnie Prince Billy, Notwist, Goldfrapp, Calexico, Jimmy Cliff, Robyn, Hayseed Dixie, Low, Dirty Three.

Hmmm... meh?

Obviously some (really) good ones, but nothing I'm gonna wet my pants over.

Full lineup at 6pm today.

Most pleasing addition: Sigur Ros/Cornelius

Most popular debunked rumor: Portishead

Still holding out for: The Postal Service/The Knife

Was never gonna happen: The Faint

***UPDATE:
Predictably, rumors are now flying around like crazy. Some worth mentioning are Conor Oberst, Jape & George Clinton and the P-Funk Allstars. Fingers crossed...

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I know Heather Mills is probably a hate figure simply because McCartney is considered a divinity, but still... what a bitch!

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Well actually it doesn't. It started over on the Electric Picnic forum but I have taken the trouble of trawling through all the miscreant posts to find the ones that are actually likely to be true.

So far the only absolute definite is folky singer NEeMA but some other "pretty much assured's" are The Knife, The Postal Service and the Kings of Convenience.

From there the speculation goes wild however. My Bloody Valentine are touring the world this summer and have to play at least one of the festivals here. Hopefully good taste will command them to choose EP. The Cure are also going to be knocking around this neck of the woods at that time and who the hell wouldn't like to see them take over Stradbally? Super Furry Animals are hotly tipped as are the Flaming Lips although the fact that they've both played there before might go against them. Then again it hasn't stopped 2 Many DJ's who might just make it back for a 4th year despite, apparently, being shite at their gig last friday.

As Rob suggested previously, the line-up for Coachella (which is absolute balls in comparison to last years) could be an indicator (as it was last year) although hopefully it won't involve Jack Johnson or My Morning Jacket. Portishead would be fucking awesome and just like MBV hopefully they'll make the smart choice when they inevitably take their moodiness over here. Also from Coachella I'd be happy with Battles, Les Savy Fav, Justice, Múm, Cinematic Orchestra or Holy Fuck.

Glastonbury has announced Neil Diamond as Rob reported yesterday and with that as a threat we can only hope that God has forgiven me for sticking a banger up a cats arse one Halloween when I was 12.

If I havn't made it clear that this is all hearsay and idle banter then please be assured that so far there is no definite announcments and not even the ones I said are definite are in fact definitely definite. In one month the actual line-up is announced and you can shoot me then. In the meantime enjoy the Knife

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