2012 Lineup

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

I take it you're either being ironic or this is a fantasy?

[rob23]

I take it you're either being ironic or this is a fantasy?

[chappiepunk]

Bruce Springsteen would be simply incredible

[Banana Co]

Arcade Fire

Libertines

Arcade Fire

Mumford and Sons

Arcade Fire

The National

[swordfish]

FRIDAY

Bloc Party

The Prodigy

Mumford and Sons

MGMT

The Temper Trap

Foals

Bombay Bicycle Club

Brother

Blood Red Shoes

SATURDAY

BLUR

Pixies

Iggy and the Stooges

Pavement

Gaslight Anthem

Dinosaur Jr

Band of Horses

Cage the Elephant

Yuck

SUNDAY

Foo Fighters

Biffy Clyro

Lost Prophets

Bullet for my Valentine

Brand New

Eagles of Death Metal

Transplants

Parkway Drive

Rolo Tomassi

[rexclark]

Daft Punk/Beastie Boys

Foo Fighters/Biffy

Blur/Bloc Party

[Banana Co]

FRIDAY

Bloc Party

The Prodigy

Mumford and Sons

MGMT

The Temper Trap

Foals

Bombay Bicycle Club

Brother

Blood Red Shoes

SATURDAY

BLUR

Pixies

Iggy and the Stooges

Pavement

Gaslight Anthem

Dinosaur Jr

Band of Horses

Cage the Elephant

Yuck

SUNDAY

Foo Fighters

Biffy Clyro

Lost Prophets

Bullet for my Valentine

Brand New

Eagles of Death Metal

Transplants

Parkway Drive

Rolo Tomassi

[Yellow_Fellow]

Lostprophets subbing? What has the world come to...

[thetime]

Well in 07 they were meant to be subbing but they declined so they could see NIN.

[thetime]

Daft Punk/Beastie Boys

Foo Fighters/Biffy

Blur/Bloc Party

[Yellow_Fellow]

5 years is a long time in the festival world!

[2rare2die]

Could anyone else see Slipknot sneaking a headlining slot? A far better live band than SOAD in my opinion

[Yellow_Fellow]

I wish, it wouldn't be hard to get them in considering the 08 problems..

[mrtourette]

Not without any new material, and that's unlikely.

[friendly spoon]

eagles of death metal

[Yellow_Fellow]

Not without any new material, and that's unlikely.

[mrtourette]

You don't need new material to headline a festival, you just need backing. Why are Muse headlining if what you're saying is true?

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

You don't need new material to headline a festival, you just need backing. Why are Muse headlining if what you're saying is true?

[Yellow_Fellow]

Except this is an OoS show so that falls through kinda...

And Slipknot doing post-Gray shows is big enough,

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Except this is an OoS show so that falls through kinda...

And Slipknot doing post-Gray shows is big enough,

[mrtourette]

There's a world of difference between the situations that Muse and Slipknot are in.

Muse are a genuine headline band, they've headlined before, they've headlined most other UK festivals before, they have massive commercial success and still get a lot of mainstream airplay. Even though their last album was in 2009 because of their touring and exposure they're still recent or relevant, and even if they weren't their status would still mean that they'd be headliners.

Slipknot are not a genuine, automatic headline band and if memory serves me correctly they haven't played above third at R&L before. Sure their last album sold a lot but it was in 2008 abd they don't have the profile of Muse. They're in with the group that also consists of Biffy, Kasabian, QOTSA, etc. where they could be headliners in the right circumstances. Those circumstances for Slipknot would either be new material to boost their profile and make them more attractve to FR (as Melvin Benn banked on happening when he pushed Arcade Fire and MCR up to headline status) or for them to go on some kind of break and hope that their absence and subsequent return would whip up enough interest and desire to see them to make them attractive to Melvin Benn. Maybe a year between Soni 2011 and R&L 2012 would be enough but I doubt it.

[Delicate Balance]

BLOC PARTY

Dizzee Rascal

Florence & the Machine

White Lies

FOO FIGHTERS

Biffy Clyro

Mumford & Sons

The Vaccines

EMINEM

Slipknot

Pendulum

KoRn

[mooseman]

Bloc Party

Mumford and Sons

Vampire Weekend

Maximo Park

The Subways

Brother

Beastie Boys

The Flaming Lips

The Ranconteurs

De La Soul

N*E*R*D

Cage the Elephant

Foo Fighters

Biffy Clyro

Bullet for my Valentine

The Mars Volta

Sum 41

Killswitch Engage

would be niice!

[Tigerdragon]

BLOC PARTY

Dizzee Rascal

Florence & the Machine

White Lies

FOO FIGHTERS

Biffy Clyro

Mumford & Sons

The Vaccines

EMINEM

Slipknot

Pendulum

KoRn

[Delicate Balance]

The headliners could perhaps change.

I'm not convinced that Dizzee followed by Eminem would be the best idea at what is essentially a rock festival though, having them on different days adds a bit more variety to the overall weekend.

Eminem along with Slipknot and KoRn was an acknowledgement to my earlier years of listening a lot to Nu metal and American hip-hop, I know a lot of other people had similar tastes back then so I feel it could work. Also I like the all British feel of the Friday how it is and Eminem would upset the balance a bit.

Foo Fighters don't completely fit in with the rest of their day but it was a similar situation when they played in 2005 and the days don't always have a constant theme to them anyway.

I agree that KoRn isn't the most likely option but there always tend to a be a few like that, that aren't such obvious choices.