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A lot of people have been complaining and a lot of people have been celebrating because the line-up for this year's festival is either very, very shit or very, very good.

Using only the Main Stage and NME stage, who would you put on and at what place in the lineup would you put them?

This isn't a dream line-up by the way - not necessarily bands you like but bands that fit the traditional vibe of the Reading/Leeds Festival and would make people happy. 8 on the main stage, 6 on the NME stage:

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Friday

–MAIN STAGE–

Headliner - Ministry

Iggy Pop

Paul Westerberg or a reformed Replacements

Swans

Serena Maneesh

The Invisible

Florence & The Machine

The Temper Trap

–NME RADIO ONE STAGE–

Suicide

Mogwai

Pantha Du Prince

Akufen

Einsturzende Neubauten

DJ Shadow

Saturday

–MAIN STAGE–

Headliner - Killing Joke (with special guest Dave Grohl)

Butthole Surfers

The Jesus and Mary Chain

Pavement

Mirrors

Gentle Friendly

Shearwater

Xiu Xiu

–NME RADIO ONE STAGE–

Orbital

M83

Zeke

NEU!

The Jesus Lizard

Four Tet

Sunday

–MAIN STAGE–

Headliners - Sonic Youth

PJ Harvey

My Bloody Valentine

Helmet

Underworld

Vampire Weekend

Beach House

White Lies

–NME RADIO ONE STAGE–

Mercury Rev

Earth

Yanni (not really... I'm just putting him here to test if you've read this far without getting bored)

Lightspeed Champion

David Thomas Broughton

Rob Swift

Guided By Voices

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I think this would be fun:

Friday Main

Kasabian

Beastie Boys

QOTSA

Alice In Chains

The Charlatans

Gutter Twins

Midlake

Bjorn Again

Friday Tent

Weezer

Suede

Gogol Bordello

Carter USM

Mark Lanegan

Televise

Saturday Main

Foo Fighters

The White Stripes

Stone Temple Pilots

The Cribs

Rancid

The Von Bondies

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Ben Folds

Saturday Tent

Primal Scream

BRMC

Dinosaur Jr

Flight Of The Conchords

The Hold Steady

Charlotte Hatherley

Sunday Main

Pixies

Soundgarden

Tenacious D

The Futureheads

Ian Brown

The Bluetones

The Warlocks

Sleater-Kinney

Sunday Tent

Arcade Fire

Massive Attack

Jamie T

Art Brut

Fight Like Apes

S*M*A*S*H

Probably not enough heavy stuff for most tastes, but that really ain't my bag baby.

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Alright this is the line up that I would have wanted and one that they could have realistically got if they liked.

Friday Leeds NME

Florence and the Machine

Bright eyes

Phoenix

Laura Marling

Frank Turner

The Horrors

Saturday Leeds Main

The Strokes

The Libertines

Paul Weller

MGMT

The Coral

Supergrass

Gaslight Anthem

Jet

Sunday Leeds Main

R.E.M.

Stereophonics

Weezer

Biffy Clyro

Sum 41

BRMC

Alkaline Trio

The Subways

Theres no main for the Friday or NME for the other two. Theres no point wanting a band you like on the nme and the main at the same time. They could easily fill it up with the other genres to keep everyone happy.

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I just used this thread as an excuse to do a dream lineup, its no way realistic or ultimate hah..

I reckon quite a few people would like it though

obviously i would hate it because id have a clash with every band on the list.

FRIDAY

MAIN

REM

Sonic Youth

Arcade Fire

Interpol

Fleet Foxes

Mogwai

A Silver Mt. Zion

Bon Iver

NME

Minor Threat

Rites of Spring

Fugazi

At The Drive-In

Sunny Day Real Estate

Jawbreaker

DANCE

Justice

M83

f**k Buttons

Four Tet

SATURDAY

MAIN

Daft Punk

Flaming Lips

Moby

Sublime

Jurassic 5

Gogol Bordello

Neutral Milk Hotel

Of Montreal

NME

King Crimson (early 70s lineup)

Animal Collective

Bright Eyes

Godspeed You! Black Emporer

Beach House

The Antlers

LOCKUP

Capdown

Reel Big Fish

Big D & The Kids Table

Streetlight Manifesto

SUNDAY

MAIN

Beastie Boys

Tool

NIN

Deftones

Coheed & Cambria

The Mars Volta

Brand New

Thrice (Dual Slot)

NME

Leftfield

Gorillaz

De La Soul

Nas

Portishead

The Kills

LOCKUP

Refused

Glassjaw

Thrice

Converge

Okay, I got a bit carried away

Theres probably some bad ordering here, and i've no doubt put a band with a dead member in somewhere

but its the though that counts right?

The idea was to have light, dance, heavy days, with contrasting NME stages, and dance/lockups.

Oh and Friday NME, I know MacKaye, Canty and Piccioto would be dead after those sets, but lets just consider they fully recover before the next.

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Maybe not the ultimate line-up (I'd want Pixies, Bowie, Iggy and Suede added!) but the best I've ever actually seen at a festival was Reading / Leeds in 2002 - only year I've been to Leeds not Reading as it seemed daft to miss out on GnR (this was in the day you could think about the line up for a few weeks before deciding to buy a ticket!)

http://www.I'M A DESPERATE SPAMMER.com/carling-we...al-2002/lineup/

If the main stage isn't good enough in itself, look at the bands on the smaller stages! I remember watching The Libertines as first band on what is now the NME stage on Sunday lunchtime. The Carling Stage is the equivalent of Festival Republic today - Interpol, The Datsuns, BSP and Polyphonic Spree all played it on the Saturday!!

Can't believe it's 8 years ago!! :P

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Main Friday

Daft Punk

Prodigy

Pendulum

Klaxons

Jamie T

Foals

Ellie Goulding

Passion Pit

Main stage saturday

REM

Arcade Fire

Queens of the stone age

Pavement

Libertines

Biffy Clyro

The Cribs

Feeder

The View

Main Stage Sunday

Blink 182

The Offspring

MGMT

Sum 41

Limp Bizcit

New Found Glory

All American rejects

The Drums

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Friday

Main Stage

Libertines/Babyshambles

The Strokes

MGMT

The Cribs

Jamie T

Weezer

Saturday

Jay Z

The Prodigy

Gorillaz

Dizzee Rascal

Pendulum

Mos Def

Sunday

Rage Against The Machine

Foo Fighters

Lostprophets

Cypress Hill

The Hives

The Subways

I've probably missed some decent bands out but there!

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Friday Mainstage

The Strokes

Kaiser Chiefs

The Kooks

The Enemy

The Fratellis

The View

Jack Penate

You Me At Six

Friday NME Stage

Queens Of The Stone Age

Gallows

Jamie T

Gaslight Anthem

Lethal Bizzle

Cajun Dance Party

Saturday Mainstage

Blur

Kasabian

Weezer

The Cribs

Ian Brown

Cypress Hill

We Are Scientists

Eagles Of Death Metal

Saturday NME Stage

The Specials

MGMT

Plan B

Chase & Status

The Magic Numbers

Graham Coxon

Sunday Main Stage

Rage Against The Machine

The Prodigy

Lostprophets

Limp Bizkit

Sum 41

Papa Roach

Billy Talent

Alexisonfire

Sunday NME Stage

The Libertines

Friendly Fires

Vampire Weekend

The Wombats

Lightspeed Champion

Ellie Goulding

I think that would get quite a lot of people buying tickets! What do you think?

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I just used this thread as an excuse to do a dream lineup, its no way realistic or ultimate hah..

I reckon quite a few people would like it though

obviously i would hate it because id have a clash with every band on the list.

FRIDAY

MAIN

REM

Sonic Youth

Arcade Fire

Interpol

Fleet Foxes

Mogwai

A Silver Mt. Zion

Bon Iver

NME

Minor Threat

Rites of Spring

Fugazi

At The Drive-In

Sunny Day Real Estate

Jawbreaker

DANCE

Justice

M83

f**k Buttons

Four Tet

SATURDAY

MAIN

Daft Punk

Flaming Lips

Moby

Sublime

Jurassic 5

Gogol Bordello

Neutral Milk Hotel

Of Montreal

NME

King Crimson (early 70s lineup)

Animal Collective

Bright Eyes

Godspeed You! Black Emporer

Beach House

The Antlers

LOCKUP

Capdown

Reel Big Fish

Big D & The Kids Table

Streetlight Manifesto

SUNDAY

MAIN

Beastie Boys

Tool

NIN

Deftones

Coheed & Cambria

The Mars Volta

Brand New

Thrice (Dual Slot)

NME

Leftfield

Gorillaz

De La Soul

Nas

Portishead

The Kills

LOCKUP

Refused

Glassjaw

Thrice

Converge

Okay, I got a bit carried away

Theres probably some bad ordering here, and i've no doubt put a band with a dead member in somewhere

but its the though that counts right?

The idea was to have light, dance, heavy days, with contrasting NME stages, and dance/lockups.

Oh and Friday NME, I know MacKaye, Canty and Piccioto would be dead after those sets, but lets just consider they fully recover before the next.

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Friday Mainstage

The Strokes

Kaiser Chiefs

The Kooks

The Enemy

The Fratellis

The View

Jack Penate

You Me At Six

Friday NME Stage

Queens Of The Stone Age

Gallows

Jamie T

Gaslight Anthem

Lethal Bizzle

Cajun Dance Party

Saturday Mainstage

Blur

Kasabian

Weezer

The Cribs

Ian Brown

Cypress Hill

We Are Scientists

Eagles Of Death Metal

Saturday NME Stage

The Specials

MGMT

Plan B

Chase & Status

The Magic Numbers

Graham Coxon

Sunday Main Stage

Rage Against The Machine

The Prodigy

Lostprophets

Limp Bizkit

Sum 41

Papa Roach

Billy Talent

Alexisonfire

Sunday NME Stage

The Libertines

Friendly Fires

Vampire Weekend

The Wombats

Lightspeed Champion

Ellie Goulding

I think that would get quite a lot of people buying tickets! What do you think?

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Hmmmm...

Don't enjoy Joshi's line-up

Don't enjoy Swellx's line-up

Don't enjoy 1karim's line-up

To be fair, most of the bands on all the lists have played at the festival in the last 3 years, there's no real development, and no real unique headliners that would change the typical festival lineup to make it more diverse and interesting.

It's basically like asking somebody what the greatest film of all time is and only getting things like Watchmen and The Dark Knight as answers, or at the very best just name-dropping The Godfather just because everybody else lists it.

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Its very difficult to find good music that was produced >10 years ago. One of the main source of new bands for kids is magazines, websites - why would they write an article about a band from the 90s, let alone 80s or 70s. And then TV channels, sure, those channels will have their "top 20 songs of the 90s" but all rock stations will be filled with the more mainstream side of things, what sold well, etc.

Im only just 18, id say I had a pretty broad taste in music. The only way ive heard of some bands is through people older than me suggesting them, sites like pandora.com (when it used to work in the UK), and looking at bands influences and looking at how genres developed - ie bands like Minor Threat, Rites of Spring, and going even further back in time, King Crimson (who I found through liking post/progressive rock bands like GY!BE)

As you say, its ignorance. But festivals could sort that ignorance by sticking a band on who havent had a write up in NME or Kerrang in the past year, or regularly get tv play. NoFX is quite a good booking for that reason, less people will know their music than bands in similar and lower spots (lim bizkit, the maccabees, billy talent, you me at six) but for a punk rock band, they are good, and deserve that spot. Yeah they could have stuck them as lockup headliners and loads of people would have loved it, but instead they put them on mainstage.

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