Mad Cool Festival
The National
Mad Cool
When: 11-13 July
Where: Madrid, Spain
Who’s headlining: Bon Iver, The National and The Cure
Who else is playing: Vampire Weekend, The 1975, The Smashing Pumpkins, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Hives, Alma, Bonobo, Jorja Smith, Jon Hopkins
Tickets: €79 day ticket, €175 for the three days
Rather than select a couple of 2019’s festival circuit headliners, Madrid’s rising mega-gig just went ahead and booked pretty much all of them. Talk about a one-stop shop for rock.
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Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes, Lykke Li, Metronomy's Joe Mount and Rosalia Credit: Getty Mad Cool 2019 announce impressive line-up for their Welcome Party
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Prophets Of Rage's Tom Morello, Lauryn Hill, and The Gossip's Beth Ditto Credit: Getty Prophets Of Rage, Empire Of The Sun, Lauryn Hill, and The Gossip lead final names for Mad Cool 2019
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Sharon Van Etten, Iggy Pop, Robyn, Vince Staples, Yonaka Credit: Getty The Mad Cool 2019 line-up just keeps on getting better
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Noel Gallagher, Bon Iver, Vampire Weekend, The Cure, The 1975 and The National are all set to perform at Mad Cool 2019 Credit: Rex/Getty Mad Cool Festival announce epic 2019 line-up and major site improvements
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The 1975's Matty Healy and The National's Matt Berninger Credit: Getty The 1975 to join The National at Mad Cool Festival 2019
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Nine Inch Nails live at Mad Cool festival 2018 Credit: Derek Bremner/NME Nine Inch Nails bring blinding light and blistering energy to their Mad Cool 2018 set
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Dua Lipa brings fans to tears at Mad Cool 2018
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Depeche Mode at Mad Cool Credit: Derek Bremner/NME Depeche Mode played all your favourite Depeche Mode songs at Mad Cool (and Gahan wore a waistcoat better than Southgate)
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QOTSA at Mad Cool 2018 Credit: Derek Bremner/NME Queens Of The Stone Age rage against fenced-off VIP area at Mad Cool; Josh Homme tells security, ‘You work for me tonight’
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Rag & Bone Man at Mad Cool Credit: Derek Bremner/NME Rag & Bone Man at Mad Cool? Rag & Bore Man more like
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Credit: Derek Bremner/NME NME’s famous Alex Turner Challenge: Mad Cool Edition
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Credit: Derek Bremner Sofi Tukker battle technical difficulties during euphoric set of pure pop at Mad Cool Festival
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Oh go on Big Moon, let us in your band
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Wolf Alice's Ellie Rowsell Credit: Derek Bremner/NME The story of Madrid's sweltering Mad Cool Festival 2018 in pictures
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Credit: Derek Bremner Arctic Monkeys nod to Jack White as they headline Mad Cool 2018 in style
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Perfume Genius live at Mad Cool 2018 Credit: Derek Bremner/NME Perfume Genius makes awkwardness endearing at Mad Cool festival 2018
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Credit: Getty Massive Attack cancel Mad Cool performance due to the sound of Franz Ferdinand across the festival
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Credit: Derek Bremner/NME Jack White at Mad Cool: a honky-tonk ‘Hotel Yorba’, and a true great on the fieriest of form
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James Bay covers Tina Turner and channels his inner rockstar at Mad Cool Festival 2018
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Eels live at Mad Cool Festival 2018 Credit: Derek Bremner/NME Eels wrote us a song to soothe England's World Cup losing blues
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Kasabian at Mad Cool Festival 2018 Credit: Derek Bremner/NME Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno clarifies his comments about new bands headlining festivals
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The duo said the zine was an "old school punk touch" Credit: Derek Bremner/NME Slaves are releasing a ‘play along at home zine’ to go with their new album
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Tame Impala’s long-awaited live comeback at Mad Cool festival was a technicolour ‘Currents’ victory lap
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Eels live at Mad Cool 2018 Credit: Derek Bremner/NME Eels' Mark ‘E’ Everett reveals what powers the Freedom Of London gives him
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Credit: Derek Bremner Leon Bridges gets Mad Cool on its feet with glorious, gospel infused set
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Kasabian dedicate ‘Fire’ to snooker player at Mad Cool 2018
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Post Malone gets the crowd cussing his exes at late night Mad Cool festival set
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FIDLAR at Mad Cool festival 2018 Credit: Derek Bremner/NME FIDLAR share love for 'Brit c**ts' Slaves and air blistering new material at Mad Cool 2018
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Credit: Derek Bremner/NME Slaves get Mad Cool 2018 off to a boiling hot start
