The first line-up announcement was made on Triple J this morning. Initial thoughts: much better than last year’s first announcement, but again devoid on any single band that I’d push my own grandmother out of the line to get the last ticket for…

This year, those lucky enough (or skillful enough - more about that later) to get tickets will get to see: Vampire Weekend, Devo, Sigur Ros, Wolfmother, Gyroscope, The Living End, The Presets, Tricky, Cold War Kids, Pnau, The Vines, The Wombats, The Grates, Operator Please, Ben Lee, Scribe, The Music, The Fratellis, The Panics, Van She, Mstrkrft, Band Of Horses, Lightspeed Champion, The Gin Club, Laura Marling, and Brown Birds from Windy Hill.

If you went to Splendour last year, or even if you tried and failed to get tickets, you’ll remember what a fiasco the online ticketing system was. At 9am, everyone was put in a virtual line for tickets, then thousands of people getting kicked out of said line when the servers crashed and had to join the line again from the end. Madness and frustration!

Except if you, like me and a handful of others, were already in the line at 8:30am. I had my tickets booked at 9:03am and I could go about my day, avoiding the high blood pressure and throbbing supraorbital vein. I’m still undecided as to whether I should impart this knowledge onto you, dear reader, as if too many people find out about it, I might miss out myself! Let’s wait until ticket info is announced.

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