Looking ahead Get Excited About… 2015

Most of what happens across twelve crazy months can’t be predicted. Nobody had a wager on Samuel T. Herring’s staple dance going viral in 2014, few could have predicted The War on Drugs’ stratospheric rise or Taylor Swift’s brutal beef with Spotify. But there are some things you can predict, yearly events that are obviously going to happen, barring a world catastrophe (or twelve Beyoncé albums in as many months).

The following things have been confirmed: Modest Mouse are coming back with a new album, Lionel Richie and the Dalai Lama are playing Glastonbury, probably not at the same time. Joanna Newsom, Kendrick Lamar and Florence & The Machine are (almost) definitely releasing new records, the latter’s festival schedule already looking crammed even without any UK gigs yet confirmed.

There’s that, and there are also a few certainties and high possibilities that could change the game. Below, we pick out inevitable 2015 highlights that’ll rock DIY’s world, alongside some slightly less plausible but equally tantalising prospects.