Lineup Monday, no wait Tuesday...

Actually, it'll come out on the 26th, as I've been saying for the last week or two. I hate being misquoted. I'm misquoted often.

Don't judge me on anything other than what's in my personal guarantee grouping. I should have used a word other than "Probably" because the vast majority of you can't grasp what the difference between "Probably" and "My personal guarantee" are, so "Probably" is now "Perhaps" because I don't want to read all the complaints when a "Probably" isn't on the lineup. In a few days, you can judge for yourself how you felt about the accuracy of this blog, and feel free to let me know if you want this to continue next year (monklish@gmail.com). However, let it be known that there were an above-average number of bad apples posting in my comments section, even by internet terms, so the likelihood of this venture continuing in this form have dropped severely.

Also, the term "Budgetchella" has been thrown around too often. There will have been some money spent, and most of you will like the upper tier of the lineup. And though I hate to admit it, it appears that I was rather wrong about some claims that I had made about acts that "absolutely will not be there" (per my words--paraphrased, not per reality). Personally, this is shaping up to be my favorite lineup, yet.

My personal guarantee (i.e. I has sufficient knowledge that I trust these will occur, that is, I've been told that these have been making arrangements to attend the festival as contractually paid acts or clear evidence exists on the internet to confirm their attendance as a paid act):

A Place to Bury Strangers
Adele
Armin Van Buuren
Bajofondo
Band of Horses
Buraka Som Sistema
Chairlift
The Chemical Brothers
Crystal Castles
Deerhunter
Drop the Lime
Evil Nine
Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand
Girl Talk
Glasvegas
Gui Boratto
Hercules and Love Affair
The Hold Steady
Instituto Mexicano Del Sonido
The Killers
Kings of Leon
Kode9
Late of the Pier
Los Campesinos
Lupe Fiasco
Lykke Li
Morrissey
Mr Oizo
N.A.S.A
Neil Young
No Age
Noah and the Whale
O'Death
Paul Weller (of the Jam)
Peanut Butter Wolf
Primal Scream
Public Enemy
Roni Size
Sebastian Tellier
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Black Keys
The Bloody Beetroots
The Bug
The Gaslight Anthem
The Knux
The Original Wailers featuring Junior Marvin, Wya Lindo & Al Anderson
The Presets
Themselves
Tinariwen
The Ting Tings
TV on the Radio
White Lies

Perhaps (I have faith based on certain knowledge that these should occur, that is, there have been discussions between the bands/agents and the organizers and both parties tend to agree on terms but I don't have sufficient evidence due to various reasons to believe this to be 100% true):

Alabama 3
Animal Collective
Basement Jaxx
Beck
Blur
Boards of Canada
Boris
Built to Spill
Comedians of Comedy
Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele
Dirty Projectors
Estelle
Friendly Fires
Flying Lotus
Gang Gang Dance
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Jamie T
Jay Reatard
Jenny Lewis
Leonard Cohen
Kimya Dawson / The Moldy Peaches / Antsy Pants (one of those)
The Knux
Ladytron
Lily Allen
Mastodon
Moby (DJ)
My Bloody Valentine
Paul Oakenfold
Robyn
Steel Pulse
The Faint
The Heavy
The Mountain Goats
The Prodigy
The Specials
The White Stripes
Underworld
Wilco

No factual basis other than I've heard it's possible (My faith is wavering based on various factors that these might occur, that is, these names have been thrown around by the organizers and people that I know which aren't associated with organizing the festival and/or they seem relatively unlikely to occur to me on a personal level):

Eminem
Far
Freebass
Future Sound of London
Jedi Mind Tricks
Mogwai
Paul McCartney
Radiohead
Royksopp
Social Distortion
The Sword
The Vaselines
TRVSDJAM
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Won't be there:
Daft Punk
David Byrne/Talking Heads (bah/clearly)
Depeche Mode
Fischerspooner
Jarvis Cocker (apologies to the uber fans that asked about this 20 times in my comments section)
Oasis
PJ Harvey
Pulp
Radiohead
R.E.M.
Simian Mobile Disco



Reunion rumors (and which ones I'll say "probably" for):
The Avalanches - probably
Big Audio Dynamite - nope
Operation Ivy - nope
Pavement - nope
Roxy Music - nope
Screaming Trees - nope
The Kinks - ...
The Replacements - probably
The Smiths - ...
The Stone Roses - ...

More edits later on if I hear back from people.