Festival News – Incubate programs Battles in Natuurtheater, Lowlands director concedes lack of headliners

 

With de-Affaire having come to a close it is time to look at some recent news of upcoming festivals. Lowlands has announced its full line-up, and even the Lowlands director is not very pleased. He had hoped for Gorillaz, The Strokes, Tool, and Arcade Fire, but either tours were cancelled or not there to begin with. He finds that there aren’t a lot of popular bands touring around that time, hence the non-headliner. He does say that it is not Pinkpop anyway, and that the line-up is very exciting. Personally I’m glad I’m not going, and that does have to do with the “fringe” line-up they are now trying to hype as exciting and daring, and not even with the headliners at all.

In better festival news, Incubate in Tilburg has added a few names to their line-up that we haven’t reported yet (which is because we are late with it, I concede). The band Battles will play the Natuurtheater. Nosaj Thing has also been added to the line-up, and earlier The Fall were announced. Also, if you get active online concerning Incubate and all that it entails, then you might actually get something out of it. Talking about the festival online will earn you credits, with which you can then “redeem them for very cool exclusive merch”. For more info check http://incubate.org/2011/participate/intro. That, to me, is friggin’ awesome, a far cry from conformist thinking and clinging to normative notions.