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Truck Festival 2008: new headliner announced, special guest confirmed

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What's that? That distant rumble... coming nearer? Truck Festival is as good as on our doorstep, and the Oxfordshire two-dayer - supported by DiS no less - has just announced details of another headliner.

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly is to headline the festival's second (Sunday) night, with a special guest in tow. Said person: Walter Schreifels, Rivals Schools frontman. Together the pair will perform as Blimey & The Governors. Sold.

Let's just hope Get Cape's Sam Duckworth doesn't take his last single review too personally, or else DiS is leaving this year's Truck with a black eye.

Also just in: a limited number of day tickets, 100 per day, for the weekend are available as of now; click here if you're only up for half a Truck this year.

Those dates:

Saturday July 19
The Lemonheads
Okkervil River
These New Puritans
Ian Maclagen
Altern-8 and more

Sunday July 20
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Walter Schreifels
Camera Obscura
Frank Turner
Maps
Laura Marling and more

Day tickets are £40 each and more information on the festival can be found at its official website, here.



  • Slam Dunk

    da funk!

  • That's good stuff, but surely............

    Walter should be headlining?

    SURELY?!

    • ahh fuck

      you got my hopes up for Rival Schools.
      i hate get cape

    • He's supported Get Cape before.

      GCWCF is more popular with ver kids than Rival Schools.

      Anyway, Shreifels is only playing gigs now since those t-shirt sales dried up three years ago.

      • Hi Lattitude Festival!

      • he should have used

        worse quality tshirt printers. my rival schools tshirt and hoodie are still sparkly new.

      • Schreifels has a habit of supporting indie of-the-moment types and blowing them away

        This will be good to see i feel

      • wait... what? how does this work?

        will walter be playing any rivals schools stuff?

        sorry. cant handle long sentences today. or short ones.

        • kids are idiots.

        • slightly disappointing

          surely they could find a better headliner

          • haahaha

            thats mad gash

          • Yeah

            He'll be playing Rival Schools stuff and no doubt Quicksand, Walking Concert and solo songs too

            • you

              said it

            • awesome

              so is this Blimey & The Governors thing something they'll do at another time during the weekend, do we think?

              obviously it's absurd looking back, but i thought for a second that a side project would be the headline act.

              not that i care about headliners, just rival schools and quicksand songs.

              • Glad

                i am at 'melt'. If Rival Schools were playing i WOULD have cried.

              • Bugger Rival Schools..........

                reckon there'll be any Gorilla Biscuits/Quicksand covers?!

                • From what Sam and Walter were saying

                  It'll be like a 3 hour set with Walter's related songs first and then Get Cape ones later. Whether or not they'll play somewhere else at the festival as well, I don't know

                • For sure

                  He played an acoustic 'Start Today' when i saw him last

              • the best thing about Truck

                is that it does whatever the fuck it feels like. and this is something that should be celebrated.