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1 THE FESTIVAL 3 LINEUP 5 PLACES 11 ORGANIZATION AND PARTNERS 12 TICKETS 14 GRAPHIC CAMPAIGN 15 PRESS QUOTES 16 CONTACT 17 2 THE FESTIVAL Primavera Sound has always concentrated all its efforts on uniting the latest musical proposals from the independent scene together with already well established artists, while embracing any style or genre in the line up, fundamentally looking for quality and essentially backing pop and rock as well as underground electronic and dance music. Over the last years, the festival has had the most diverse range of artists. Some of those who have been on stage are Radiohead, Pixies, Arcade Fire, PJ Harvey, The National, Nine Inch Nails, Kendrick Lamar, Neil Young, Sonic Youth, Portishead, Pet Shop Boys, Pavement, Echo & The Bunnymen, Lou Reed, My Bloody Valentine, Brian Wilson, Pulp, Patti Smith, Nick Cave, Cat Power, Public Enemy, Franz Ferdinand, Television, Devo, Enrique Morente, The White Stripes, LCD Soundsystem, Tindersticks, Queens of the Stone Age, She- llac, Dinosaur Jr., New Order, Fuck Buttons, Swans, The Cure, Bon Iver, The xx, Iggy & The Stooges, De La Soul, Marianne Faithfull, Blur, Wu-Tang Clan, Phoenix, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Tame Impala, The Strokes, Belle & Sebastian, Antony & the Johnsons, The Black Keys, James Blake, Interpol and Sleater-Kinney amongst many others. Primavera Sound has consolidated itself as the urban festival par excellence with unique characteristics that have projected it internationally as a reference cultural event. The event stands out from other large music events and is faithful to its original artistic idea, keeping the same standards and maintaining the same qua- lity of organization of past years, without resorting to more commercial bands. Its characteristics and the wide range of bands performing have been the main reasons that have made Primavera Sound the meeting point of artists and festivalgoers from various generations. Year after year, Primavera Sound has attracted a bigger and bigger crowd. Its first edition in 2001 closed with an attendance of 8000 people, an audience that by the latest edition in 2017 had become 208,000. 3 ATTENDANCE ARTISTS 4 LINE-UP PRIMAVERA SOUND 2018 MONDAY GANGES · KELSEY LU · THE MEN TUESDAY THE SEA AND CAKE · ZA! WEDNESDAY BELLE AND SEBASTIAN · HOLY BOUNCER · JAVIERA MENA · KEDR LIVANSKIY · MARIA ARNAL I MARCEL BAGÉS · MAVI PHOENIX · MOUNT KIMBIE Dj Set · SHANTI CELESTE · SPIRITUALIZED with Orchestra and Choir · STARCRAWLER · UMFANG B2B VOLVOX · WILLIKENS & IVKOVIC · WOLF PARADE THURSDAY (SANDY) ALEX G · ALEX LAHEY · ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF · ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO · BAD GYAL · BJÖRK · C. TANGANA · CALL SUPER · CAPULLO DE JEREZ · CARPENTER BRUT · CHVRCHES · DELOREAN presenta Mikel Laboa · EZRA FURMAN · F/E/A · FEVER RAY · FLOATING POINTS Solo Live · FOUR TET Live · GENIUS OF TIME · HERE LIES MAN · HINDS · JAMES HOLDEN & The Animal Spirits · JLIN · KAREN GWYER · KELELA · DJ KOZE · LEVON VINCENT · MADLIB · MALL GRAB · MANO LE TOUGH · MARCEL DETTMANN · MAVI PHOENIX · MOUNT KIMBIE · NAT SIMONS · NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS · NIGHTCRAWLER · NILS FRAHM · OSO LEONE · PÉPE · ROSS FROM FRIENDS · ROSTAM · DJ SEINFELD · SHANTI CELESTE · SPARKS · SYLVAN ESSO · UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA · VAGABON · VINCE STAPLES · THE WAR ON DRUGS · WARPAINT · YONAKA · ZA! · ZEAL & ARDOR · THE ZEPHYR BONES Four Tet presents FOUR TET · DAPHNI · JOSEY REBELLE · CHAMPION FRIDAY ÂME II ÂME · ARCA · THE BLACK MADONNA · THE BREEDERS · CESARE BASILE · CHARLOTTE GAINS- BOURG · CHROMEO · CIGARETTES AFTER SEX · CONFIDENCE MAN · DAPHNI · DEKMANTEL SOUNDSYS- TEM · DOBLECAPA · EL ÚLTIMO VECINO · ESSAIE PAS · FATHER JOHN MISTY · GERD JANSON · HAIM · HONEY DIJON · HUNEE B2B ANTAL · IBEYI · IDLES · THE INTERNET · JOHN MAUS · JORJA SMITH · KNOX FORTUNE · KYLE DIXON & MICHAEL STEIN performing the music of STRANGER THINGS · LA BANDA TRA- PERA DEL RÍO · LA BIEN QUERIDA · MARION HARPER · METÁ METÁ · MIGOS · MIKE D Dj Set · MOGWAI · THE NATIONAL · OMNI · OUMOÚ SANGARÉ · PANDA BEAR · PEGGY GOU · PLAYBACK MARACAS · DJ PYTHON · RHYE · SETH TROXLER Disco Set · SEVDALIZA · SHELLAC · SUPERORGANISM · THUNDERCAT · TY SEGALL and The Freedom Band · TYLER, THE CREATOR · WAXAHATCHEE · DJ WEY · YELLOW DAYS FLOATING POINTS 6 hours dj set 5 SATURDAY A$AP ROCKY · ABRA · ALEKSI PERÄLÄ · ALICIA CARRERA · ARCTIC MONKEYS · ARIEL PINK · BEACH HOUSE · THE BLAZE · BUFIMAN B2B DJ NORMAL 4 · CAR SEAT HEADREST · CHRISTINA ROSENVINGE · CLARO INTELECTO · DJ COCO · DAMED SQUAD · DEAD CROSS · DEERHUNTER · DONATO DOZZY · EVA GEIST · GABRIEL GARZÓN-MONTANO · GRIZZLY BEAR · JANE BIRKIN sings Birkin Gainsbourg Sympho- nic · JAY SOM · JOHN TALABOT Disco Set · JON HOPKINS Live · THE KITE STRING TANGLE · KYLE DIXON & MICHAEL STEIN performing the music of STRANGER THINGS · LIFT TO EXPERIENCE · LINDSTRØM · LORDE · LYKKE LI · MAJID JORDAN · MONTERO · MUJERES · NICK HAKIM · NÚRIA GRAHAM · OBLIVIANS · ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER · ORPHEU THE WIZARD · PETER PERRETT · PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING · RAMZi · REX ORANGE COUNTY · ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER · SLOWDIVE · SOLAR · SUMAC · TOM MISCH · TOLOUSE LOW TRAX · VRIL · VULK · WATAIN Dekmantel presents PALMS TRAX · DEKMANTEL SOUNDSYSTEM · PALMBOMEN II · ORPHEU THE WIZARD SUNDAY ARIEL PINK · THE CRAB APPLES · DAVE P. · FERMIN MUGURUZA ETA THE SUICIDE OF WESTERN CUL- TURE · FLAT WORMS · INTANA · JOE GODDARD · KERO KERO BONITO · MARINA HERLOP · MATTIEL · NORTH STATE · OBLIVIANS · OLYMPIC FLAME · PUPUT · RHYE · RORY PHILLIPS · TEXXCOCO · TIGERCATS · WAXAHATCHEE · XAVIER CALVET 6 PRIMAVERA SOUND 2018: NOW THIS IS A LINEUP · Arctic Monkeys, Björk, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The National, Lorde, Migos, A$AP Rocky and Jane Birkin head the spectacular lineup of the eighteenth edition of the Barcelona festival. God bless musicians, because without them none of this would be possible. A vibrant western filmed in Almeria with an unexpected ending draws back the dusters and reveals the lineup of Primavera Sound 2018 today, one of the most eagerly awaited in recent years. The world now knows the names of the 200-odd artists who make up the list of the eighteenth edition of the festival that will take place from 28th May to 3nd June in Barcelona. A festival is not only its lineup, but a lineup says a lot about a festival. And Primavera Sound’s 2018 lineup is stellar, comprehensive, contemporary, with girl power, and conceived for its fans. There is no small print in this signature, eminently danceable, lineup. A lineup that is lots of lineups in one. A lineup that is yours now. A STELLAR LINEUP The trail of big names of Primavera Sound 2018 is overwhelming: Arctic Monkeys’ comeback tour, after four years without performing live, leads the delegation, Björk will perform her resplendent Utopia in her first visit to the festival andNick Cave and The Bad Seeds will finally bring the cathartic Skeleton Tree to the stage in what promises to be a historic concert. These are only the highlights of a stellar list which consecrates The National and The War On Drugs as two of the most crucial rock bands of this generation, A$AP Rocky and Migos as the epitome of today’s hip hop and trap worldwide scene, and Lorde as the new 21st century pop star. As a culmination, this edition also provides the opportunity to see a legendary artist such as Jane Birkin singing songs from her homage record to Serge Gainsbourg accompanied by a 50-pie- ce orchestra. And that is only the beginning. A SIGNATURE LINEUP In these times of fragmentation and impatience, Primavera Sound remains committed to storytelling. The festival lineup cannot be understood only via its individual parts as each artist has been meticulously cho- sen and plays their integral part: each name has its raison d’être. That is why the free jazz legends Art En- semble of Chicago can coexist alongside the all stars of hardcore Dead Cross (with Mike Patton from Faith No More and Dave Lombardo from Slayer), a flamenco freethinker such asCapullo de Jerez alongside local punk heroes La Banda Trapera del Río, the unclassifiableSparks , the return of Mike D (revisiting the clas- sics by the much-missed Beastie Boys), John Maus and of Peter Perrett of The Only Ones, the new radical project by Fermin Muguruza with The Suicide of Western Culture alongside the celestial post-rock by Lift to Experience, Madlib’s futurist sound and the African tradition of the diva Oumou Sangaré, or Watain’s black metal alongside the electronic experimentation of Nils Frahm. Altogether they make up the character of Primavera Sound. A LINEUP WITH GRRRL POWER Year after year, the booking team takes into careful consideration the representation of very diverse origins, sensitivities and backgrounds. In 2018, Primavera Sound yet again backs girl power. Stars such as Björk and Jane Birkin head up an array of talent which includes impressive figures: starting with Jane and Serge’s own 7 daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg, continuing with Haim, Fever Ray, CHVRCHES, Beach House or Warpaint and ending with the return of Lykke Li. There will also be emerging artists such as Lorde, Ibeyi, Maria Arnal, Hinds, Waxahatchee, Yonaka, Vagabon, Jorja Smith, Javiera Mena, Jlin, Bad Gyal and Sevdaliza who are the future of music. At all hours, in all styles, on all the stages: women are the driving force. A LINEUP WITH FLOW In parallel, black music continues to gain ground throughout Primavera Sound, a reflection of the current music scene. This edition will welcome a new king of hip hop, A$AP Rocky –who will come with his third eagerly awaited album– and the very popular trap trio Migos –who became the sensation of 2017 thanks to their anthem Bad and Boujee–. The festival’s long-running commitment to this genre is definitely confirmed with the return of its prodigal children Vince Staples and Tyler, The Creator, with two of the best albums of 2017, as well as Drake’s protégés Majid Jordan and the regeneration that The Internet, Thundercat, Jorja Smith and Kelela bring with them, to mention just a few. A CONTEMPORARY LINEUP As well as looking back for generational references and towards other latitudes to search for new voices, the Primavera Sound lineup always takes the pulse of contemporary music.