Looking more at the Pearl Jam/Bonaroo leak. Consequence of Sound have found this out through a source linked to the band rather than the festival. One would presume, therefore, if PJ were playing Coachella, this would have been revealed as well. Logically, therefore, we can rule PJ out

Has a band ever headlined Bonnaroo and Coachella in the same year? I have not checked

For me, I would say there is now a good case for GN'R to be at Coachella. If they are reforming, this is where they will get the most money. Bonaroo appear to want to announce Pearl Jam before Pearl Jam announce themselves, so that gives an indication of the mindset of the promoters.

All the people who are chatty are not chatty just now. Sorum and co I can speak to anytime, not speaking. AEG are always more chatty that livenation, but there is a widespread silence there right now whereas livenation are chatty. Dizzy, not speaking. Slash manager and his admin, chatty normally, notso now. The list goes on.

But, with Pearl Jam touring, Tool touring etc, and the fact that LCD could be regarded as a rock band option, I still wouldn't be confident enough to buy a ticket just yet. I am more confident though that at the beginning of the process where the best guess was Iron Maiden

I think in terms of investigating this, I may wait now until Coachella is announced because people may become a bit more open about plans etc.. It may be that GN'R are doing something, but we are looking at the wrong festival.

I have summarised what I can for now about Coachella in the first post.

So the next questions are, when are the US dates, and what is the shape of the European tour. So far, we have an offer from Rock in Rio, I have one link to Roskilde, we have Slane in Ireland which I presume will happen near to the Reading festival.

More on the wall of silence; I post this because it is relevant to the thread.

This is from a poster Ifdworld at mygnrforum. The post is here http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/to … s/page-177

This is the post;

Now yesterday i was hearing Dean Del Ray's podcast that just came out, and he is a big GN'R fan and supporter of Axl. He has been talking a lot about these rumours and his guest is none other than eddie trunk, so i knew they'd talk about GN'R. And they did, at the very last part of the show, last 15 minutes or something.

But basically dean's question to Eddie is, do you think it will happen, his response is epic.

Not only does he believe it will happen he thinks it might be imminent, because he has a personal relationship with the guys in the band, not just business but they hang out, they send texts back and fourth, they have lunch together whenever they're in the same town, whatever ,it's public knowledge, but recently none of them are available to do anything, they even stopped responding to text messages. Even Steven Adler who always wants to be on and talk is silent, same with matt sorum, Duff is not responding to any text message and so is slash who is also a personal friend of eddie. This never happened before, therefor an announcement should be imminent and they all have gag orders. and based on all the people taking about the future concerts, it's not difficult to connect the dots. i think they might be waiting for coachella, i really hope so, but listen for yourselves and see what you think.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/let-there-be-talk