who would you like as fr tent headliner?

[thetime]

who would you like as fr tent headliners, and dont be silly by saying soad, metallica and guns and roses.

I would love billy bragg, my vitriol and bat for lashes.

[Lithium05]

InMe would be a nice surprise for the AM clash.... though I feel that's about as likely as the three you mentioned.... Failing that how about The King Blues or Sonic Boom Six (possibly more likely for the lock-up though)

[Dermot]

I'd quite like Late of The Pier on saturday to walk off to if i get bored of radiohead

[tdrules]

I definately agree on Bat For Lashes, maybe Little Boots could headline it too?

[DaveElNino]

65daysofstatic (though I feel like I say that every year).

Los Campesinos! would be great to have back, though I doubt they've got big enough to do it.

Secret Machines would be immense, similarly Patrick Wolf.

British Sea Power would be good as well.

Of course, I say this, but as I'm hoping for Rise Against to be headlining the lock-up against either Arctic Monkeys or Kings of Leon, and I'll not miss Radiohead so there's likely to be only one night where I'd seriously entertain the idea of seeing the headliner.

Thinking on it, 6 years of the festival, and I've only ever seen one headliner in there.

[scottt]

Manchester Orchestra? There new album is pretty good.. not really sure how big they are though.

Also, The Horrors new album is pretty amazing. Not normally my thing, but i cant stop listening to it, so wouldnt mind them.

[ploobz]

Regina Spektor is doing T and Oxegen, she'd be ace. TV on the radio? although they might be too big

[DaveElNino]

TV On the Radio are in the States that weekend.

[MossIcon]

soad, metallica and guns and roses...

bt rele,

Cold War Kids? if they're not too big.

Innerpartysystem, they wer good at GIAN

Twin Atlantic, if they're big enough

would quite like the rapture or the young knives, but don't see much chance

[Ice Fatality]

Decemberists please!

[Chr!s]

Iglu and Hardy, Chas n Dave, Andrew WK

FTW

[scottt]

Decembrists would be good, as would Regina Spektor.

Andrew WK lol i wish

[flossy_]

any of these (Just not on Radiohead day!)

Patrick Wolf

Bat For Lashes

Nouvelle Vague

Empire of the Sun

New Young Pony Club

Mute Math

[fat_man_joe]

Wow there's been some great bands mentioned in here so far! British Sea Power, Decemberists, My Vitriol and Secret Machines are great calls and would be brilliant.

Metric I still think could do it. The Bees maybe? The Dears?

[TheUnpolished]

Nine Black Alps

Stephen Malkmus

Dinosaur Jr

The Lemonheads

Echo & Bunnymen

I would also like to see:

Old romantic killer band

Dinosaur pile up

Baddies

[thomasowen]

I'd love MIA but I doubt it. Realisticly Animal collective would be cool, Bats for Lashes, Late of The Pier, Patrick wolf...

[fat_man_joe]

Oooh Starsailor?

[rexclark]

Jarvis Cocker, Super Furry Animals and Empire Of The Sun.

[The_Functions]

MIA wont she's in the states and WAY to big, I'd think she would headline NME or be like 3rd on Mainstage, she's huge nowadays..

Also Animal Collective are surely way to big? I expect them to have the slot Last Shadow Puppets played last year..

I may just be completely delusional about the size of those aforementioned bands.

BUT, in answer to the original question i would like:

The Fall, Yo La Tengo, Albert Hammond Jr again, Beirut, Bon Iver, No Age, Joan Of Arc (they definitely deserve it, i'm not sure how big they are. They're playing a gig in Liverpool for $6 pretty shocking)

^any of these.

[thomasowen]

MIA wont she's in the states and WAY to big, I'd think she would headline NME or be like 3rd on Mainstage, she's huge nowadays..

Also Animal Collective are surely way to big? I expect them to have the slot Last Shadow Puppets played last year..

I may just be completely delusional about the size of those aforementioned bands.

BUT, in answer to the original question i would like:

The Fall, Yo La Tengo, Albert Hammond Jr again, Beirut, Bon Iver, No Age, Joan Of Arc (they definitely deserve it, i'm not sure how big they are. They're playing a gig in Liverpool for $6 pretty shocking)

^any of these.

[The_Functions]

They most certainly have grown in popularity

They just released what the critics are already calling one of the albums of the year. Its already made it into a couple of '100 greatest indie albums of all time' list and in Amazons is was something like 30. BBC Radio 6 are fully bumming Merriweather aswell.

It was so hard to get tickets to their Liverpool gig, I've never seen so many people relying on touts for tickets for a gig before. We paid 30notes each off touts and that was just as the doors were shutting.

I reckon they've atleast doubled in popularity since last time solely on the success of Merriweather Post Pavilion.

[thomasowen]

They most certainly have grown in popularity

They just released what the critics are already calling one of the albums of the year. Its already made it into a couple of '100 greatest indie albums of all time' list and in Amazons is was something like 30. BBC Radio 6 are fully bumming Merriweather aswell.

It was so hard to get tickets to their Liverpool gig, I've never seen so many people relying on touts for tickets for a gig before. We paid 30notes each off touts and that was just as the doors were shutting.

I reckon they've atleast doubled in popularity since last time solely on the success of Merriweather Post Pavilion.

[VCK]

Super Furry Animals.

They headlined the New Band Stage at Oxegen and TITP in 2005 which is roughly the same size as the FR stage and they've hardly been setting the world alight in the four years since (although why not is beyond me as they are a great band).

Happy Mondays, maybe less likely as they're doing V (although bands playing smaller stages at both fests in the same year has happened before). They're just one of those bands I've always wanted to play Leeds.

Both would make a very very nice alternative to Radiohead or Arctic Monkeys.

Edited April 20, 2009 by VCK

[thetime]

Super Furry Animals.

[bartycrouch]

Innerpartysystem would be immense in there!

I would love to see them play FR.

Whoever said Nine Black Alps, good shout!

I hope Fighting With Wire play again. They did FR last year but they clashed with Frank Turner so I missed them