Headliners

[Twisted_Panda]

BEEEEEASTIE BOYS

[rexclark]

BEEEEEASTIE BOYS

[Dukeeyyy]

for me would love to see greenday, muse and foo fighters, realistically greenday, foo fighters and someone else

Radio 1 would love prodigy, soundgarden and the enemy is good and realistic

[VCK]

R.E.M.

[thomasowen]

Maybe the fact I've always wanted to see this happen has made me ridiculously optimistic but let's have a look at the facts. Two of the headliners look set to be Green Day and one of Blink 182 and My Chemical Romance. They won't go for an all-heavy set of headliners. They haven't since Mean Fiddler took over in 1989, and they especially won't have three headliners similar in style. They'll need an Indie-ish headliner to balance it out, and here is an analysis of the "usual suspects" for the Indie headliner and why they won't play:

- Kings Of Leon: Headlined 2009, doing V anyway.

- Arctic Monkeys: Headlined 2009.

- Kasabian: Doing V.

- The Killers: Too soon after they last played, although this didn't stop V or TITP...

- The Strokes: Won't headline both R/L and IOW in the same year due to contracts etc. But I expect them to be 2nd.

- Franz Ferdinand: No way near big enough to headline any more.

- Razorlight:

- The Stone Roses: City haven't won the Premiership yet, but give it a few more years!

Now, Stipe and the boys have an album out this year, don't seem too shy from doing UK festivals to promote their album. Also, Green Day seem to be doing the Friday at Reading. And MCR/Blink won't headline the Sunday as they don't have the reputation nor longeivity nor worldwide acclaim that the likes of Radiohead, Metallica, Pumpkins, etc. have had. So we'll need a "legendary" act in the picture. Like R.E.M. Maybe they won't ram the place out, and maybe the organisers know this, but does a strong headliner need to pull a large crowd? I'm sure most will agree that Radiohead, Pixies, Pumpkins, Pearl Jam and even Metallica all made great choices for headliners, but none of them spectacularly rammed the place out.

In short, I think it will happen, therefore it will.

[Vieuphoria]

I don't know about you but I think that the rumours going round for R+L are worse than Download? How did that happen?

This is what I wanna see

Main:

Greenday, Foo Fighters, Muse

Blink 182, MCR, Linkin Park

NME:

Soundgarden, All American Rejects, James Morrison?

Other Bands - Electric Six, Jet, Kid Rock, KISS, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Nickelback

and what about Pendulum and Prodigy again?

Who do you want to see?

Edited January 25, 2010 by Vieuphoria

[gr4h4m]

I really don't know where to begin to point out what wrong with this post.

How about the fact that Slipknot pulled in probably the biggest headlining crowd I've ever seen at Download? How about the fact that last years Download was the first to sell out in years, despite increasing the capacity. How about that claims that Corey's voice is "finished" is utter nonsense, he doesn't scream as much anymore because the sounds moved on from there, but when he does the old songs he's spot on.

Seriously, if ignorance is bliss, you must be the happiest man on the planet.

[rivalschools.price]

R.E.M.

[thomasowen]

wasn't their last uk tour a flop? i know that they booked the 75000 capacity millenium stadium for one of their dates and had to downgrade it to cardiff international arena(not sure of the capacity,but only 6000 to 8000 at very best,maybe lower)

not sure about the rest of the dates

[stylishkids]

wasn't their last uk tour a flop? i know that they booked the 75000 capacity millenium stadium for one of their dates and had to downgrade it to cardiff international arena(not sure of the capacity,but only 6000 to 8000 at very best,maybe lower)

not sure about the rest of the dates

[theramm]

REM would be superb but I'm not holding my breath. Morrissey could be another? Jay-Z is doing Isle of Wight and isn't exclusive so there's another very real possibility (in that he's over here & doing fests) that seems to fit the R&L demographic well.

[gr4h4m]

REM would be superb but I'm not holding my breath. Morrissey could be another? Jay-Z is doing Isle of Wight and isn't exclusive so there's another very real possibility (in that he's over here & doing fests) that seems to fit the R&L demographic well.

Edited January 25, 2010 by gr4h4m

[rexclark]

Daft Punk. I know it won't happen but it woyukld be good for the festival to go for a big dance headliner to mix it up a bit. Chemical Brothers would be superb as well.

[gr4h4m]

Daft Punk. I know it won't happen but it woyukld be good for the festival to go for a big dance headliner to mix it up a bit. Chemical Brothers would be superb as well.