Reading Festival 2011

[thetime]

besides have you actually seen them live?

[jump]

I'd be surprised, just because i don't think any reading festival headliner has done that in the last 10 years or so.

If you're talking a secret set at glasto park stage, then i concede that would be a possibility. An advertised set though?

Guess we'll find out when announced anyway!

Edited January 24, 2011 by jump

[eFestivals]

I'd be surprised, just because i don't think any reading festival headliner has done that in the last 10 years or so.

If you're talking a secret set at glasto park stage, then i concede that would be a possibility. An advertised set though?

Guess we'll find out when announced anyway!

Just because it might not have happened before doesn't mean that it'll never happen. I know that R/L try to get exclusives, but if one of the bands they were lining up wanted to play Glasto and would knock back R/L if they insisted that they didn't, then it's more than possible that R/L would end up accepting that.

I don't think secret or advertised makes much difference with regard to Glasto. After all, the bands won't be (or at least, shouldn't be) announced for Glasto until long after the R/L tickets have been sold, so there'd be no impact onto R/L sales, which would be their biggest concern.

As I've already said tho, I'm not saying this because I particularly expect to see The Strokes at Glasto this year and at R/L, I'm saying it because it's the sort of situation that I can see happening at some point.

[allan14]

http://www.gigwise.com/news/60838/Reading-And-Leeds-Festival-2011-Headliners-Staggeringly-Good

Headliners are all festival exclusives then...

[VCK]

Well I think Muse and The Strokes are exclusives anyway, as are MCR whether they're headlining or subbing. Not sure if Melvin is implying that he's booked The Rolling Stones, AC/DC and Iron Maiden.

[jump]

would this mean no uk fest or no fests all together?

[allan14]

coz if its no fests that will rule the strokes out of headlining

[jump]

BBC are doing the story too, they've added 2 more quotes of "extraordinary" & "but not a very big increase".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12265342

[VCK]

coz if its no fests that will rule the strokes out of headlining

[joe1990 fresh account]

green day are exclusive, so are mcr, so are the strokes. done and done

[jump]

green day are exclusive, so are mcr, so are the strokes. done and done

[Yellow_Fellow]

green day are exclusive, so are mcr, so are the strokes. done and done

[Joe-]

I thought it'd just be UK exclusive, I'd be kinda bummed if Strokes aren't there. They're the only signs of hope for me.

[harderfaster]

would this mean no uk fest or no fests all together?

[jump]

Where did he say this?

So far all they have done is quoted 3 incomplete sentences, I hate articles like this as they could spin it as they like and claim it's true thanks to a foggy quote.

[harderfaster]

Well, assuming that NME have got all of their info from the Newsbeat article (which seems to be what they've done) then they've made up the UK part.

Or, they've used common sense, and concluded that R/L simply couldn't have 3 'world exclusive' headliners. Think about how many festivals there are in so many different continents, it just wouldn't happen. I think we can safely assume that he meant UK exclusive or, at a push, England.

[jump]

Well, assuming that NME have got all of their info from the Newsbeat article (which seems to be what they've done) then they've made up the UK part.

Or, they've used common sense, and concluded that R/L simply couldn't have 3 'world exclusive' headliners. Think about how many festivals there are in so many different continents, it just wouldn't happen. I think we can safely assume that he meant UK exclusive or, at a push, England.

[SOAD]

Why is there some people on here who always seem to assume exclusive means no other fests at all.. it's pretty obvious it generally means UK or English exclusive. It's insanely rare there is a band who is totally exclusive to a fest... the only one that comes to mind recently was Pearl Jam in 06. I'm not certain if they played other fests that year but guessing they didn't as they were worried enough bout playing Reading.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

It's insanely rare there is a band who is totally exclusive to a fest...

Edited January 24, 2011 by Dave The Hedgehog

[jump]

Why is there some people on here who always seem to assume exclusive means no other fests at all.. it's pretty obvious it generally means UK or English exclusive. It's insanely rare there is a band who is totally exclusive to a fest... the only one that comes to mind recently was Pearl Jam in 06. I'm not certain if they played other fests that year but guessing they didn't as they were worried enough bout playing Reading.

[harderfaster]

Well for one he said no other fests and you had Killers in 08, and I think Blink last year too.

I really doubt UK exclusive actually matters and world exclusive would matter even less.

[SOAD]

Well for one he said no other fests and you had Killers in 08, and I think Blink last year too.

I really doubt UK exclusive actually matters and world exclusive would matter even less.

[SOAD]

The Cure this year at Bestival springs to mind, though I think this is a European exclusive rather than world exclusive.

[joe1990 fresh account]

are we really just gonna list bands who aren't playing anywhere else?

by that logic, bloc party, boom.

[jump]

Blink played loads of fests last year.. Area 4, Rock En Seine etc.. basically all the fests surrounding Reading.

The Killers played a fair few in 2008 also.. like Highfield...