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Arcade Fire are reported to be headlining Primavera Sound Festival in 2014 - and not David Bowie as mocked-up billboards suggested.
Music fans were unneccessarily excited today when David Bowie was rumoured to be headlining the Barcelona event next year, after an image of a billboard featuring the Thin White Duke on the line-up surfaced online. Primavera is a festival plagued by fake line-up leaks each and every year - and it seems that the Bowie image was in fact was in fact a Photoshopped fake of the genuine Arcade Fire advertisement.
Fan site Arcade Fire Tube tweeted the following (reportedly REAL) image, confirming the band's appearance at Primavera:
Arcade Fire to headline @Primavera_Sound 2014! #Barcelona #Spain pic.twitter.com/wgFxCnqMQI
— Arcade Fire tube (@ArcadeFiretube) November 4, 2013
Now, speculation turns to what UK festivals Arcade Fire are destined for next summer. Glastonbury perhaps?
The mocked up Bowie image that was too good to be true looked a little something like this.
Um, David Bowie for Primavera Sound? "@simbenia: Ésta es la confirmación del #PS14 que muchos estamos esperando. pic.twitter.com/ggnJhJvFQ2”
— Derek Robertson (@derekrocks) November 4, 2013
Earlier this year, rumours of Bowie making his live comeback with a world tour in 2013 have been denied his guitarist and long-time collaborator, Earl Slick.
Slick, 60, plays on Bowie's latest comeback record The Next Day. When the guitarist was in London for the annual Meltdown Festival - this year curated by Bowie's friend Yoko Ono, Slick said that there would be “no Bowie live dates this year.”
His dismissal follows on from similar claims from The Next Day's producer Tony Visconti, who told NME: "He’s fairly adamant he’s never gonna perform live again… One of the guys would say, ‘Boy, how are we gonna do all this live?’ and David said, ‘We’re not’. He made a point of saying that all the time.”
However, back in March Bowie's wife Iman hinted that we could see the live return of the Thin White Duke. Speaking to Grazia magazine she said: "We have a 12 year old in school, so we are stuck, we can’t travel. Our schedule is around her, so I don’t know. We’ll have to go visit him, but we won’t be on tour with him because she’s in school.”
Bowie's last full live show was at Hurricane festival in June 2004, before he was forced to cancel the remaining dates on his Reality tour due to illness. See footage of him performing 'Heroes' from the show below:
