The summer festival season is already in full swing, with Falls, Southbound, Peats Ridge, Pyramid Rock and more already dusting off their various successes to prep for next year’s iteration. Big Day Out, Soundwave, and Laneway are all just around the corner, but the cat is already out of the bag for one of Australia’s biggest musical events that’s much further down the calendar.

Though it’s still well over six months away, it seems there’s already reason to start gearing up for Splendour In The Grass, with multi-membered revellers The Polyphonic Spree confirming their place on the Byron Bay festival bill for 2013, reports FasterLouder.

Band/cult leader Tim DeLaughter himself let slip with the news in an exchange with a fan over Twitter, all but confirming that the band would be bringing their 40+ rock and roll orchestra to Aussie shores in time for Splendour.


When asked if the ensemble would be playing sideshows, DeLaughter offered a simple “for sure.”

It’s the first time The Polyphonic Spree will have hit our shores in two years, and five since playing Splendour in 2008; conveniently the same amount of time it’s been since they released The Fragile Army, their last studio album.

However, thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign the band have a new album due in May, as well as a live album and concert documentary, both set for release just next month, as well as funding for extensive touring in 2013, including it would seem a trip down under for their rather large touring crew.

There are also whispers of other acts rumoured to be gracing the Splendour stages, but the only other solid lead – as FasterLouder points out – is OutKast rapper Big Boi, whose latest album Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumours was released shortly before Christmas.

Big Boi’s suspected Splendour appearance is based on a Tweet to Theophilus London, confirming that he’ll be touring Australia in July. Conveniently, Theophilus supported Big Boi when he last did his Australian rounds.

If last year’s Splendour was anything to go by, we’ll have to wait until mid-April before we get the full Splendour lineup, which sold out in record time in 2012. But considering last year’s lineup, which featured Jack White, At The Drive-In, Smashing Pumpkins, Flume, The Shins, and many more – the wait will most definitely be worth it.

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