MCR For Big Weekend

[This Scene Isn't Dead]

So MCR have been announced for Big Weekend this year. Weren't they supposed to be an exclusive? Reading is just looking so shit this year, and you can tell by the lack of ticket sales!

[Just Jake]

The big weekend is in scotland this year.

Still english exclusives

[jonwl89]

It's in Carlisle, that's still technically England

[PurpleFire]

Its in Carlisle if thats Scotland ill go buy some tartan paint from there!

They are headlining RnL deal with it, theres always somthing else to do!

Edited March 30, 2011 by PurpleFire

[Reading Local]

Anyway Lady Gaga is headlining above them on the day they are playing at Big Weekend so they are still the exclusive headliner at R/L

[Joe-]

I think I'd rather Lady GaGa headline Reading over MCR.

[brfcstar]

Who cares! R1BW is just for all radio 1 workers to have a party its not a proper festival.

[purplehaze81]

It's still pretty pathetic that Reading and Leeds' "exclusive headliner" are subbing at 2 other major British festivals.

[Paul ™]

Since when was R1 Big Weekend a major festival?

[purplehaze81]

As the largest free festival in Europe I'd say it's pretty major.

[mrtourette]

Can you camp there?

[Bisque]

Can you camp there?

Edited March 30, 2011 by Couchy

[This Scene Isn't Dead]

It's not the fact that it's for Radio 1 or if it's a proper festival, it's the fact that Melvin Benn was trying to say that they were an EXCLUSIVE and they really aren't.

[mrtourette]

In that case it isn't a major music festival in the sense that R&L, V, T, Glaso, etc. are and can't really be compared.

[Bisque]

It's not the fact that it's for Radio 1 or if it's a proper festival, it's the fact that Melvin Benn was trying to say that they were an EXCLUSIVE and they really aren't.

[purplehaze81]

In that case it isn't a major music festival in the sense that R&L, V, T, Glaso, etc. are and can't really be compared.

[mrtourette]

I agree he's definitely tied himself up in knots with his obsession with exclusivity and trying to make any kind of tenuous claim that it's true or even matters (the only place you can see MCR playing above 30STM in a field in Berkshire this week!), but aside from that I don't really care if a headliner is playing down the line-up at a gathering of pop fans out on a day trip. I doubt people who have bought tickets for IOW care that they could of seen the Foos for free because I doubt many of them in their right mind would want to go to One Big Weekend.

[Jaybles]

That's besides the point really. Why would you pay for a ticket to see an "exclusive headliner", when you could go and see them for free. And the fact that it's not a 'proper' festival makes R+L look even more pathetic.

[Hota]

i dont think any other festival at this time would choose to take MCR as a headliner tbh

[**shandy**]

This festival is more of a lottery anyway, anyone can get tickets for Reading/Leeds by choice whereas this festival you apply and hope for the best, 20,000 to give away with the majority of them going to the people around the area of Carlisle, North East and Scottish borders. Its basically one big competition with lots of kids and their parents going to see these bands. I'd still say there an exclusive to Reading/Leeds, Isle of Wright goers aint complaining that Foo Fighters are no longer England's festival exclusives to them

[mrtourette]

i dont think any other festival at this time would choose to take MCR as a headliner tbh

[Benj]

So MCR have been announced for Big Weekend this year. Weren't they supposed to be an exclusive? Reading is just looking so shit this year, and you can tell by the lack of ticket sales!

Edited March 30, 2011 by Benj

[This Scene Isn't Dead]

f**k off, you moron. How am I dull because I have a different opinion to you? I'm not going to Reading this year, but I would've loved to. This would've been my 5th year, and I just can't see how the ticket prices are so expensive, and Melvin Benn saying that he didn't book much better bands because they 'weren't exclusive' and My Chemical Romance aren't even that!

[Reading Local]

and now they have The Strokes headlining the second stage at One Big Weekend...lol

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend/2011/lineup/

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Yeah, just about to post that! Very good line-up for R1!