Is The “Surprise” Bonnaroo Headliner Going To Be All That Surprising?

February 5th, 2008 // 100 Comments

AP060617039320.jpgSo NME‘s Web site is announcing one of the Bonnaroo headliners at midnight EST, and according to their claims said headliner is going to be surprising! After yesterday’s torrent of riddles and the fact that every clue could be guessed semi-correctly by plugging in the name of any band that appeals to liberal-arts college students–from Dispatch to Metallica to Panda Bear to Hall and Oates–the only “surprise” headliner I can think of at this point is the original lineup of Color Me Badd. Of course, this is the NME we’re talking about, so that surprise will probably wind up being a reuniting relic. Only in this case it’ll be Menswe@r. [NME / Bonnaroo '06 photo via AP]


  1. futurehorse

    Harlem World

  2. El Zilcho!

    I’m going out on a limb and saying Republica.

  3. iantenna

    The Edwin Hawkin Singers

  4. Anonymous

    Rock Bottom Remainders with Bruce Springsteen??

    [www.rockbottomremainders.com]

  5. El Zilcho!

    Te remaining members of The Highwaymen and the Traveling Wilburys are going to form a super-supergroup.

  6. Diglett

    The Misfits, and I mean this one.

  7. Lucas Jensen

    @El-Zilcho: That would actually be sorta bad-assed.

  8. Silverfuture

    Rob Halford’s Fight!

  9. iantenna

    The Fun Boy Three

  10. mike a

    Arrested Development.

  11. mike a

    Me Phi Me.

  12. mike a

    This is like the listing for a new R.T. Clontle book.

  13. Ned Raggett

    Shred, Suck and Score: A New Generation

  14. Jon Can Dance

    The Fat Boys

  15. Oldboy

    The Swingin’ Blue Jeans! Surely you recall “The Hippy Hippy Shake”!?!

  16. Jon Can Dance

    The Riverbottom Nightmare Band

  17. loudersoft

    Yarborough & Peeples

  18. loudersoft

    @Jon Can Dance: hahahahahaha Emmet Otter will be so pissed!!

  19. mike a

    The Three Non-Blondes (minus Linda Perry, who opted out of the reunion)

  20. Lucas Jensen

    @Jon Can Dance: We’re not birds; we’re a jug band!”

  21. Lucas Jensen

    @mike a: OMG.

  22. Lucas Jensen

    Deep Blue Something.

  23. Lucas Jensen

    Dig.

  24. futurehorse

    Driveshaft!

  25. Lucas Jensen

    Number One Cup.

  26. Lucas Jensen

    Possum Dixon.

  27. Lucas Jensen

    Everything (the band).

  28. Lucas Jensen

    Stroke 9.

  29. Lucas Jensen

    Deconstruction.

  30. Lucas Jensen

    Sister Hazel.

  31. Lucas Jensen

    Fury in the Slaughterhouse.

  32. Lucas Jensen

    The Farm.

  33. Lucas Jensen

    Utah Saints.

  34. Lucas Jensen

    Gucci Crew II.

  35. Lucas Jensen

    @futurehorse: Yes!

  36. Lucas Jensen

    Frente!

  37. PeterBjorn&Yawn

    Queensryche will perform all of Empire.

  38. Jon Can Dance

    Garfunkel, Messina, Oates, and Lisa

  39. baconfat

    The KLF

  40. okiedoke

    Strawberry Alarmclock and Cyrcle.

  41. katieee

    @Matos: “The Two Dudes No One Remembers From the Jam”

    Sadly, it could happen.

  42. Chris Molanphy

    @loudersoft: Yarborough & Peeples

    [claps] Bra-VO.

  43. Anonymous

    Big Pig

  44. encyclopediablack

    @Matos: That just me laugh out loud at the library. I will now be escorted out.

  45. encyclopediablack

    @Jon Can Dance: Don’t forget Andrew Ridgely

  46. encyclopediablack

    Another Bad Creation.

  47. The Illiterate

    ABC, XTC, DOA

  48. sncreducer

    Well, the NME site has nothin, but Pearl Jam just posted a Myspace blog saying they’re playing. So I don’t know if they’re that headliner, but there that is.

  49. sncreducer

    It’s Led Zep.

  50. Dick Laurent is dead.

    *cannot stop chortling…which sounds gross, but I’m not guffawing or snickering so…*

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