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I dunno, WOD has some really great tracks. Stuff like In Chains, An Ocean In Between The Waves, ... Wonderful stuff (and very much its own thing). Fender has borrowed the more... straightforward part of that band (and Springsteen).    I actually sounds more like the Killers on their last albums, but without the great hooks. 

I know a lot about them, I enjoy their music. I know that in terms of their output, they peaked around 21/22 when they put out an album that was more poppy and mainstream compared to their previous sound. As somebody that isn't in to hard hard rock, that was something that got me interested.   Since then they went back into their lane and whilst getting the dedicated fans, they aren't getting the commercial movements that a festival does look at when booking headliners.    They've been unable to generate and hold the generic mass appeal that acts like Sam Fender, Arctic Monkeys, 1975 etc have built in terms of family friendly pop rock that people will think "holy s*** they're headlining, I have to book!".   I'd put it this way—the last 5 Readings I've been to, EVERYBODY I spoke with came to see a specific headliner and the rest of the weekend was a plus - Red Hot Chilis, Eminem, Post Malone, Arctic Monkeys & Dave, Blink-182 & Fred. BMTH will never be the band that people come out of their way to get weekend tickets to see. The people that want to go and see BMTH specifically would be more likely to go to a dedicated show, and not a BBC Radio 1-esque, family weekend out with conformist teens getting wasted in tents.

PSYCHO     I was made an honorary member of the NUM for my work covering the 84 Miners' Strike as a journalist.  Tomorrow I'm taking my grandkids to an ehibition about the strike.  They're looking at the history of coal in South Wales as part of a school project.  How life goes full circle.

Thank you very much. Very helpful. 

Hm, I'll have to count up how many I've been to. Probably not as many as twenty because I've missed a fair few, but can't be far off.