14 Songs for 14 Days: Countdown to Primavera Sound 2010!

May 12, 2010

By Steven B.

There are in fact probably approximately 125+ good reasons (just cast your eye on the tags below) to be excited about Primavera Sound 2010, and if you’ve already bought a ticket (or are still planning to) you’ll probably have your own personal handful. I’ll leave you with 14 (below), one for every day until Primavera Sound 2010 kicks off in exactly two weeks time.

I don’t know about you, but excited doesn’t even begin to describe it for me. The lineup truly looks is as if the organisers carefully studied and then booked my last.fm top played bands. Broken Social Scene! Pavement! The Black Lips! Shellac! No Age! Los Campesinos! Primavera Sound 2010′s lineup, I’m sure you’ll agree, truly is the stuff of dreams, and for that, dear organisers, we salute you.

Eliza and I are already flying over to Barcelona on the 22nd, to find an apartment. We’ll mostly be looking at places in Gràcia, so if you see two slightly bewildered looking people walking around with a map, a dictionary, a notebook and a pen, that’ll likely be us.

Tickets are still available from here, and cost € 180. The timetable has also just been released; you can download it and start puzzling out your own personal PS2010 (I can already reveal that you’ll have to choose between The Drums, Grizzly Bear, and The Antlers…). Oh yeah, don’t forget all the additional bands playing in and around the city!

We here at Letters have no Arms have put together a selection of the very finest songs you may well hear if you were to find yourself at Primavera Sound in two weeks time, titled…

Dr Dog – The Old Days

Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire

Mission Of Burma – That’s When I Reach For My Revolver

Polvo – Mexican Radio

The Clean – Tally Ho

Smith Westerns – Be My Girl

Delorean – Stay Close

Les Savy Fav – Pots & Pans

No Age – Teen creeps

The Almighty Defenders – Bow Down and Die

Moderat – A New Error

The Books – Beautiful People

The Big Pink – Velvet

The Fall – Weather Report 2

Official website

Primavera Sound on Facebook

PS 2010 on Last.fm

Timetable spreadsheet

This map is from last year, so should only be used as reference since things might be different this year.

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