Barcelona’s Primavera Sounds showed everyone how to announce a festival line up. Almost two hundred names adorn the festival poster and they will all feature at The Parc del Fòrum from Wednesday May 31 through Sunday June 4 2017, whilst the Raval neighbourhood will once again be the headquarters of the increasingly attractive free programme in the centre of the city.

Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, Frank Ocean, The XX, Aphex Twin, Grace Jones, Slayer, Solange And Van Morrison top the bill at the seventeenth edition of the festival. But the smaller print is just as interesting.

Granddaddy, Broken Social Scene, Japandroids, Swans, Gojira, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Converge, The Damned, St Etienne, The Afghan Whigs, Sleaford Mods, !!!, Badbadnotgood, The Zombies, Royal Trux, Against Me!, Shellac, Glass Animals and Wild Beasts are all in the second tier of acts, while Julia Jacklin, Joy Orbison, Let’s Eat Grandma, Preoccupations (formerly Viet Cong), Skinny Puppy, Wave Pictures, and The Wedding Present are down with the optician’s favourites.

The Primavera Sound 2017 full festival tickets in Barcelona cost €175 until 7th January. They can be purchased here in English. Instalment plans and VIP tickets are available. 

Dinosaur Jr., on tour behind current album Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not & one of the live highlights of this year's Primavera Sound, have been added to the bill of the 2016 Liverpool Music Week (26/10/16-05/11/16).

Also announced this week is the line-up for the DIY Mag Breaking Out element of the event, which will include such up-an-comers as Amber Arcades, Let's Eat Grandma and Dream Wife. 

Wristbands for the entire event start at £50 (available here) or you can but tickets for the individual shows (event website here) and acts previously confirmed include John Carpenter (another great performer from Primavera), Warpaint, Cat's Eyes, GoGo Penguin and She Drew The Gun.