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Why doesn't Reading try and get some bands who haven't already played big gigs the year before? Might help them sell out a little quicker! If they'd had The Cure, Foo Fighters and Kasbian in 2011 I'd imagine they would have fared much better! 2010 was the last time they had had 3 headliners that hadn't already done the rounds.

I know it's not as simple as that but potentially we could end up with a lineup that looks like Blur/The Killers/Pearl Jam which on paper looks great, in reality, The Killers aren't my cup of tea and I saw Blur and Pearl Jam this year...if I hadn't then I'd snap up a ticket. Come on Reading, suprise me!

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Why doesn't Reading try and get some bands who haven't already played big gigs the year before? Might help them sell out a little quicker! If they'd had The Cure, Foo Fighters and Kasbian in 2011 I'd imagine they would have fared much better! 2010 was the last time they had had 3 headliners that hadn't already done the rounds.

I know it's not as simple as that but potentially we could end up with a lineup that looks like Blur/The Killers/Pearl Jam which on paper looks great, in reality, The Killers aren't my cup of tea and I saw Blur and Pearl Jam this year...if I hadn't then I'd snap up a ticket. Come on Reading, suprise me!

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True.... but then again V managed it this year, so did Isle of Wight as did Sonisphere (before it got cancelled) and Download/TITP and Even Bestival!

If you really wanted to see Blur/The Killers/The Stone Roses/Pearl Jam etc etc, chances are you already did this year so unless you were a mega fan, would they be as much of a draw to you this year, they'd all be doing pretty much the same sets.

Foo Fighters,The Cure, Kasabian, The Strokes, Muse.... all did big shows the year before they did Reading.

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True.... but then again V managed it this year, so did Isle of Wight as did Sonisphere (before it got cancelled) and Download/TITP and Even Bestival!

If you really wanted to see Blur/The Killers/The Stone Roses/Pearl Jam etc etc, chances are you already did this year so unless you were a mega fan, would they be as much of a draw to you this year, they'd all be doing pretty much the same sets.

Foo Fighters,The Cure, Kasabian, The Strokes, Muse.... all did big shows the year before they did Reading.

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It depends on your policy - proper exclusives and repeat headliners or neither. R&L has never repeated it's headliners as rapidly as the likes of T and V but that means that their pool is smaller.

The Killers may not have been around last year they've now headlined V three times in six years - I'd rather have a band headlining Reading that played a different festival the year before rather than having the same band headline Reading three times in six years.

One of T's headliners were the same as 2010 and another playing for the third time in six years, again I'd rather have headliners from other festivals the year before than have the same headliners come back so frequently just to be able to say that they weren't around the year before.

If you raise V and T for The Stone Roses along that's a bit of an anomoly, is was very unlikely from the strat that they would play R&L due to their manager/promoter's ties to V.

IOW had a good trio if you're into that sort of thing but have always been more open and adventurous, and Bestival certainly don't play by the same conservative rules when it comes to booking headliners. However I certainly wouldn't use Soni as a shining example, sure they were adventurous but it's a perfect example of what can go wrong if you're too adventurous and try and move too far away from the norm or your perceived standard demographic (I think this is what FR are fearful of).

Whether their policy of not repeating headliners but having the same ones as other festivals from the previous year is better than repeating more often I don't know, it seems like their strategy is to concentrate on fostering loyalty and avoiding repeat headliners in their own line-up for those who go every year rather than worrying about what people may have seen at other festivals the year before.

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blur playing primavera aswell, must be doing a uk fest as well!

I've heard that they have no intention of doing UK fests, but I've got to say I find that hard to believe.

Then again I said something similar about Mumfords for this year, but in the end what I was told held true.

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