The Splendour In The Grass 2014 lineup gets officially announced tomorrow, Wednesday 23rd April, but one of the music festival’s major acts has already been confirmed.

Having previously been heavily rumoured to headline Splendour In The Grass 2014 after they revealed world tour plans for their 20th Anniversary reunion, hip hop duo Outkast are now locked in for the three day music festival.

Over the weekend, the Atlanta-bred group listed an appearance at Splendour In The Grass on their official tour page. Though the post has since been removed, Outkast were down as playing the first night of the Byron Bay music festival on Friday 25th July, and will likely appear at the top of the bill when the official lineup announcement is made tomorrow morning.

Outkast have just completed the second weekend of Coachella 2014 after performing for the first time together in nearly a decade the weekend previously for the first of their 40 booked festival appearances for 2014.

Despite the anticipation, the hip-hop duo of André 3000 and Big Boi turned in a middling 90-min set for that was awkwardly cut short after Killer Mike arrived on stage for a touted performance of ‘The Whole World’ to close their opening Coachella weekend. “Though the post has since been removed, Outkast were down as playing the first night of the Byron Bay music festival…”

Outkast’s second Coachella performance, last Friday night, was far better executed and received according to Consequence Of Sound, as the pair delivered a 23-song set replete with their biggest hits (‘B.o.B.’, ‘Hey Ya!’, ‘Roses’, and ‘Ms Jackson’) which should whet the rappetite for Splendour audiences.

Other bands rumoured for the Splendour 2014 lineup expected to appear on tomorrow’s official announcement include London GrammarMetronomy, and rising dancefloor extraordinaire Yahtzel. Other artists that have turned up in the rumour mill include recent Australian visitors Mikhael Paskalev and Sky Ferreria and Dew Process signees Circa Waves.

Many of those featured on the lineup for Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival – on the same weekend as Splendour – could also make the trip to the North Byron Parklands site, such as Foster The People, Lorde, Damon Albarn, The Pains of Being Pure At HeartBasement Jaxx, Manic Street Preachers, Franz Ferdinand, SBTRKT, Bombay Bicycle Club, Jungle, Bloody Beetroots, and Australia’s own John Butler Trio.

Then there’s the bands that played the Splendour & Falls Festival SXSW 2014 showcase; namely Skaters, Basecamp, De Lux, Drowners, Tor Miller, Wolf Alice, Jetta, BBC Sound of 2014 picks Chlöe Howl and Royal Blood, plus Gossling and Dune Rats.

All will be revealed in less than 24 hours.

Splendour In The Grass 2014

Splendour In The Grass 2014 lineup revealed on Wednesday 23rd April

Friday 25, Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 July
North Byron Parklands, Byron Bay

http://splendourinthegrass.com/

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