2012 Lineup

[VCK]

I was thinking about The Gaslight Anthem - a fair number on here keep predicting them for 4th or 5th but how about 3rd? There's usually an American band who get placed higher than we expect them to (The National, Vampire Weekend, The Raconteurs, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and I have a feeling they'll get bigger with this new album so it could be a good slot for them.

[TYLER_4]

Where has this theory that Bloc Party are loved by the a huge amount of the Reading audience come from? It's not like they get extremely large crowds for their shows when they've played. The only reason they've played as much as they have is because FR are so lazy with their bookings that they force Bloc Party onto the audience.

And I'd class a lazy booking as a easy, repeated, no thinking outside of the box act. I'm off to Optimus Alive in Portugal in July and by looking at the line ups from the past 3-4 years, no repeat bookings have screamed out to me on the line up. It's shocking that a festival such as Reading and Leeds has to continuously look at booking the same acts.

[Vacant0]

I was thinking about The Gaslight Anthem - a fair number on here keep predicting them for 4th or 5th but how about 3rd? There's usually an American band who get placed higher than we expect them to (The National, Vampire Weekend, The Raconteurs, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and I have a feeling they'll get bigger with this new album so it could be a good slot for them.

[Vacant0]

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Edited January 31, 2012 by Vacant0

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Maybe. If their new album does really well, then ye. Them or The Black Keys seeing as they're already absolutely huge in the US.

I can't be bothered scrolling back pages so, have we been told that Bloc Party are one of the headliners?

[TYLER_4]

i think the black keys would be a better headliner than BP but there we go yeah they could sub. But theyre not as big over here so third down is quite likely i would have thought.

[stylishkids]

Erm, have you seen the videos of their 09 and 08 performances? Their crowd is damn huge and they sing every word. Even better is their 09 headline set on the Other Stage at Glasto, again, the crowd is massive. If people didn't like them then why would they get such huge crowds? Saying that people only see thwm because FR force them is just silly imo.

[Yellow_Fellow]

Reading loves Bloc Party. I can't think I've heard the crowd sing any song as loud as they did Flux in 09. Awesome show.

[sjseabass]

A lot of it is down to the idea of having a 'new' headliner, isn't it? In the vein of Arcade Fire, Razorlight, Franz Ferdinand, The Darkness, MCR (almost new).

Franz Ferdinand and the Prodigy's popularity has already peaked. Perhaps Bloc Party's hasn't.

Edited January 31, 2012 by theevilfridge

[moz4pm]

screw bloc party, they're shit, i've been every year since 04 and i'll never watch them

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

Were you at any of those 3 festival performances? Crowds have a habit of looking bigger on the television than they do when you are actually there. If you look at The Ting Ting's crowd who were just before Bloc Party at Glasto then their crowd I'm sure would look similar if not bigger

[Gingo]

Somebody has edited the Reading/Leeds wiki for 2012... seems some bog standard guesswork of the bands doing the rounds

[beau1]

Somebody has edited the Reading/Leeds wiki for 2012... seems some bog standard guesswork of the bands doing the rounds

[Bisque]

FUCK I'VE BEEN ASLEEP ALL DAY & I'VE MISSED ALL THIS!!!

Erm, have you seen the videos of their 09 and 08 performances? Their crowd is damn huge and they sing every word. Even better is their 09 headline set on the Other Stage at Glasto, again, the crowd is massive. If people didn't like them then why would they get such huge crowds? Saying that people only see thwm because FR force them is just silly imo.

[eFestivals]

One of Neil's riddles appeared to refer to BP.

it certainly seems that lots of you think it refers to BP.

But what if you're wildly wrong? There's hundreds of thousands of bands but you've decided I'm meaning just that one. You might be wrong.

[dip]

I hope they are.

[JBarbour]

it certainly seems that lots of you think it refers to BP.

But what if you're wildly wrong? There's hundreds of thousands of bands but you've decided I'm meaning just that one. You might be wrong.

[Poppington]

it certainly seems that lots of you think it refers to BP.

But what if you're wildly wrong? There's hundreds of thousands of bands but you've decided I'm meaning just that one. You might be wrong.

[Andre91]

FUCK I'VE BEEN ASLEEP ALL DAY & I'VE MISSED ALL THIS!!!

Bloc Party have easily drawn some of the biggest crowds in the years I have been, including in the old NME tent. I can only reiterate the above quote.

Yup, but like many other Reading goers we can't wait to see them back!

It creates a bit of a buzz + new album + new headliner (+ Foo's) = sells tickets to the young R&L crowd = win for Melvin.

To say they can't headline is horse shit (especially at R&L) & that its a lazy booking is a bit right, but also risky as say SOAD is a bigger band.

I'd say The Killers would be a lazy booking.

[eFestivals]

But I do think people look into your posts way to much, way over analysis

in this case far too little actually. I gave a very adult clue that has only illicited the most child-like analysis.

[she bangs the drums]

in this case far too little actually. I gave a very adult clue that has only illicited the most child-like analysis.

[purplehaze81]

efests can you at least tell us if we are wrong about Bloc Party?

[eFestivals]

child-like again.

If you think I've giving it away that easily you don't have a clue how I do things.

[Calzum]

On Wikipedia, must be legit

Garry Glitter fuck yeah

[eFestivals]

Not the headliner I've been hoping to give you info about, but I believe that Kaiser Chiefs will be towards the top of the main stage line-up.