2012 Lineup

[thetime]

A fall out boy reunion on the Friday maybe?

[muffinman]

you made me spit out my crunchy nut cornflakes.

[VCK]

To be fair Fall Out Boy have always put on a good performance whenever they've played Leeds. Not a huge fan but decent live.

[iPaulo xD]

Fall out boy would be a dream come true

[rexclark]

Fall Out Boy will nevert headline R&L. If My Chemical Romance divided opinion the FAB would be a disaster. Not a risk FR would be willing to take.

[Vacant0]

no one seems to have mentioned guns n roses for reading and leeds, they have announced dates in italy and ireland in may.

[beau1]

Not a bad prediction tbh. I do reckon they'll probably have a couple of bands newer to the festival then the ones you've said. Bands like Lostprophets and Noah and The Whale have played it quite a bit and I don't think they'll want to book them once again if they don't have to. I reckon they'll add a bit of variation like Madness and The National last year. You can get punters who go year in year out like myself you really don't want to see a space used by Lostprophets again.

I actually do reckon there is a chance that The Cure will headline. There's many reasons why I don't think they should. Are they big enough? Would it go down well with the crowd? Would they have 2 headline sets with 2 hours?

[thetime]

They are a lot bigger than both Pixies and The Smashing Pumkins who have both headlined recently, the question of them being big enough is quite frankly a silly one.

The only problem question I can is if they would go down with the crowd, which I don't see why not but it depends on the sort of stuff they play.

[Dukeeyyy]

They are a lot bigger than both Pixies and The Smashing Pumkins who have both headlined recently, the question of them being big enough is quite frankly a silly one.

The only problem question I can is if they would go down with the crowd, which I don't see why not but it depends on the sort of stuff they play.

[Yellow_Fellow]

Dukey, by that logic Arcade Fire weren't suitable for their 2010 headline slot.

[beau1]

theres 2 points not going for the cure.

1. not the market band for r and l.

2. also all there festival dates are early summer rather than late.

will be seeing them at roskilde, so dont care.

Edited January 29, 2012 by beau1

[beau1]

I can't see them fitting in to the R&L 'demographic', if they were up against someone like Chase and Status the tent would be rammed.

[Dukeeyyy]

Dukey, by that logic Arcade Fire weren't suitable for their 2010 headline slot.

[thetime]

That's true, but you saw the crowd AF drew, i watched the first half an hour of their set and have never been able to get close to the front with ease, if Arcade Fire had subbed the crowd would have been much larger, so if The Cure subbed to someone like Foo's for example they would probably get a bigger crowd than headlining.

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

That's true, but you saw the crowd AF drew, i watched the first half an hour of their set and have never been able to get close to the front with ease, if Arcade Fire had subbed the crowd would have been much larger, so if The Cure subbed to someone like Foo's for example they would probably get a bigger crowd than headlining.

[thetime]

The Cure are a headlining band, no question about it, they would not sub. If they don't feel they could draw the right crowd, they just won't play, there's plenty of other places where they'd be appreciated.

[lharris92]

thrash hits have posted a bit of a teaser,

http://www.thrashhits.com/2012/01/sunday-slaylist-speculating-sonisphere-2012/

Well, this week

Sonisphere finally broke their silence

and announced some of the bands that will be playing their Spanish and Finnish festivals this year. As yet there’s still no names for Knebworth, and

as Metal Hammer noted

, some of the names that are playing in Madrid and Helsinki are playing Download in the UK, and therefore seem highly unlikely to make the UK edition of Sonisphere. But it got us thinking – what bands

could

be playing at Knebworth this year?

Now if you’ve been

following us on Twitter

, you’ll know that we’ve said that we know at least two bands that will be playing the UK leg of Sonisphere 2012. And yes, both of them are in this week’s Slaylist. We’ve also added tracks from every other band we’ve heard rumoured to be playing Knebworth (although some of them we

know

are going to be playing Reading, Leeds or Download instead…), so perhaps we’ve got even more of the line-up right than we know. Only time will tell….

There’s at least one rumoured band that we’ve deliberately left off our Slaylist (not that they’re on Spotify, anyway). This band is one of the names that some people are throwing around as a potential headliner….but we happen to know that they are

definitely not

playing at Knebworth. Can anyone work out who it is we’re talking about?

[harderfaster]

They are a lot bigger than both Pixies and The Smashing Pumkins who have both headlined recently, the question of them being big enough is quite frankly a silly one.

[thetime]

Pixies and SP had a reformation factor. The Cure don't (in fact, it looks as though Porl has gone again).

[muffinman]

thrash hits have posted a bit of a teaser,

http://www.thrashhit...onisphere-2012/

here's the list of bands as well.

Van Halen

Foo Fighters

Faith No More

Refused

Rage Against The Machine

Ghost

Sikth

Marilyn Manson

Soulfly

Alice In Chains

Kiss

Misfits

Red Fang

Gallows

Paramore

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Entombed

Iron Maiden

blink-182

Green Day

Enter Shikari

HIM

At The Drive-In

Gojira

Within Temptation

Mastodon

Orange Goblin

Amorphis

Biohazard

Clutch

Skindred

Edguy

DOWN

Helmet

Avenged Sevenfold

Pelican

Children Of Bodom

Alkaline Trio

Electric Wizard

Andrew W.K.

[harderfaster]

guy I work with is a cure obsessive, but he wont go and see them now as basically there not the cure! Its robert smith singing the cure songs.

[lucastang]

Problem is if GnR were booked to headline (a huge risk by Benn), where their demographic is long before RnL, I don't see how The Cure have any less chance headlining then they did. Surely it would be less riskier booking The Cure to headline? GnR somehow managed to draw a crowd, don't see any less at The Cure, let alone to get me started on AF.

[TYLER_4]

the cure wont headline R&L so dont worry about it

[lucastang]

the cure wont headline R&L so dont worry about it

[Vacant0]

Problem is if GnR were booked to headline (a huge risk by Benn), where their demographic is long before RnL, I don't see how The Cure have any less chance headlining then they did. Surely it would be less riskier booking The Cure to headline? GnR somehow managed to draw a crowd, don't see any less at The Cure, let alone to get me started on AF.