Coachella festival 2006

Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Editors and Hard-Fi are among the bands set to join headliners Depeche Mode and Tool at California's Coachella festival on April 29 and 30.

The strong presence of British talent is further represented on the bill with appearances now confirmed by The Duke Spirit, Lady Sovereign, The Subways, White Rose Movement, Ladytron, Nine Black Alps, Art Brut, The Magic Numbers and first time Coachella players The Zutons.

"I've heard it's dead cool and that it's in the desert," Zutons frontman Dave McCabe told NME.COM about saying yes to the event. "I'm looking forward to it a lot and I know we'll have a good time. We're going to be all deserted up and smooth as the sand."

Scissor Sisters lead the pack of top American talent confirmed alongside TV On The Radio, Be Your Own Pet and Giant Drag, whose frontwoman Annie Hardy has only been a Coachella punter until now.

"We are super excited to play Coachella this year," she said. "I love that there are so many different bands that you can see in one place. There's nothing like it over here."

Although the line-up is almost complete, promoter Paul Tollett told NME.COM more big bands will be announced in the coming weeks.

Tickets for the event went on sale through Ticketmaster earlier this month priced at $85 (about £45) for a day ticket and $165 (£100) for a weekend pass, click right.

The current line-up is:

Day 1:
Depeche Mode
Franz Ferdinand
Sigur Ros
Common
Damien Marley
Atmosphere
Carl Cox
My Morning Jacket
Ladytron
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
Posca
Cat Power
Animal Collective
Hard-Fi
Devendra Banhart
She Wants Revenge
The Walkmen
The Juan Maclean
Audio Bullys
Lady Sovereign
Deerhoof
The Duke Spirit
Editors
Stellastarr
Lyrics Born
The Zutons
White Rose Movement
Colette
Wolf Mother
The Living Things
Nine Black Alps
Youth Group

Day 2:
Tool
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Bloc Party
Paul Oakenfold
Scissor Sisters
Matias Yahu
James Blunt
Mogwai
TV On The Radio
Sleater Kinney
Gnarls Barkley (Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo)
Coldcut
Digable Planets
Amadou Mariam
Little Louie Vega
Mylo
Seu Jorge
Phoenix
Wolf Parade
The Go! Team
Metric
Imogene Heap
Art Brut
Dungen
The Dears
Jamie Liddell
The Magic Numbers
Los Amigos Invisibles
Jazzanova
Michael Mayer
Mates of State
Gilles Peterson
Gabriel & Dresden
The Subways
Minus the Bear
Be Your Own Pet
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