The first batch of names for Future Music Festival 2010 was unveiled this morning, with some enticements for the FasterLouder-inclined. The travelling rave-up kicks off in Brisbane on Saturday 27 February with returning heroes The Prodigy in the headline slot. The dance punks were of course here in January to close the Boiler Room at Big Day Out and throw down the gauntlet to Neil Young. As announced on FasterLouder last Friday, sartorial Scottish troupe Franz Ferdinand is also locked in for the festival. “It’s good to be different to everyone else,” Bassist Robert Hardy told us in the interview. “We’re all big fans of electronic stuff and the like. In our set these days we have bits that are very electronic. Especially our song Lucid Dreams that has a very big electro coda in it. I mean, we have some very dancey elements to us: we’re hardly a straight guitar act.” Sharing headline honours is Luke Steele and the swordfish girls of Empire Of The Sun, while frequent visitors Does It Offend You, Yeah? will also be getting rowdy again. The rest of the line-up so far is reserved for big name DJs and techno-pop duo Booka Shade.
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