Volcano Choir — Bon Iver mastermind Justin Vernon's other band — will be featured on the second announcement of this year's Harvest Festival.
Vernon gave Triple J's Zan Rowe the scoop: "We got a great offer to come down to Australia and play at the Harvest Festival, and I'm excited. It's one of my favourite places to be and to play and I can't wait to be here in November."
He also revealed he's looking to squeeze another Oz tour into the Volcano Choir calendar this year: "Maybe we'll get there one more time in 2013 after November, who knows. Whenever I come, I always spend extra time. I'm very at home there."
That's the good news. The bad news is that he won't be going back to Bon Iver soon, if at all.
"I don't really write songs anymore," he told Rowe. "The last Bon Iver record was a very 'sitting down with a guitar and writing' kind of record. I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.
"I'm really honoured that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature. All of the music I've been making shifting away from Bon Iver feels really good... so if I ever do go back to Bon Iver it will be all the better for it."
The first Harvest announcement included Massive Attack, Franz Ferdinand, Primus, Goldfrapp and Neutral Milk Hotel; the full second announcement is due soon.
