Splendour: “We won’t behaving acts like Kanye andColdplay”

Sat 11th Feb, 2012 in Local News

Splendour in the Grass promoter Jessica Ducrou has revealed that the move from Woodfordia to Belongil Field rules out the possibility of acts as big as Kanye or Coldplay headlining the festival in 2012.

In an interview with Noise11, Ducrou has explained that “moving from Woodford to Belongil Field the venue is smaller. 17,500 is what we run at there. [The capacity at Woodfordia was 32000.] That obviously effects how much you can spend on your talent. No, we won’t be having acts like Kanye and Coldplay who are some of the biggest acts in the world. We have some great bands people will be very happy with”.

She refused to comment on the lineup further, simply restating the news that Radiohead and the Stone Roses will not be part of the 2012 festival. However she did offer an interesting suggestion for the announcement of the lineup – “We thought maybe we could have a new strategy and every week release who is not playing. Then by process of elimination people would work it out by the time we normally announce”.

We’re already all but ruled out the likes of Hot Chip, Little Dragon, Underworld and Damon Albarn who have shows in the UK to attend to on the same weekend as Splendour.

As for the Splendour lineup wishlist Ducrou says “we have a hit list of a dozen since we started. Some were The Strokes, Flaming Lips and Supergrass (funnily enough) and we got them. Still on our list Radiohead and The Arcade Fire we would kill for but they don’t tour a lot. And when they decide they want to come but its not when our festival is on we don’t get them”.

The 2012 lineup be announced in late April.