more stages for Reading/Leeds

[5co77ie]

see news:

http://www.efestivals.co.uk/news/12/121101a.shtml

My guess is that the dance day will now get it's own tent, as for the other 2?

[dip]

That is interesting. I wonder what'll get scaled down to make room?

[thetime]

Thats good news, its basically not changed since I started going since the mid 90s, apart from dance/lock up.

[joshi]

see news:

http://www.efestival...2/121101a.shtml

My guess is that the dance day will now get it's own tent, as for the other 2?

[mrtourette]

Wow, that's quite a bold move. Exciting times.

They'll certainly have to do a lot of re-jigging at Reading, I guess they'll make the arena bigger and re-organise the size and shapes of the various campsites. I still don't think that they'll be able to do anything major like having a second outdoor stage (sorry, third including the BBC Introducing) so it'll likely be more little tents but I'm not sure how wise that is given how empty the current ones tend to be when the main stage headliners are on.

The dance day has been far more popular than the Lock Up for awhile now so I'm not surprised that it's potentially being expanded, although the common argument against expansion has always been the lack of available acts due to it being the same weekend as Creamfields so it'll be interesting to see if they can pull it off.

[willutalk]

A metal stage is needed!!!!

[mrtourette]

Maybe that's what will replace the dance day rather than expanding the lock up to three days.

Edited November 1, 2012 by mrtourette

[willutalk]

Plus Reading needs another Open Air non tented stage. Or it'll be on the backfoot of Download. An out door dance stage with C and S and Skrillex type acts headlining.

[Andre91]

I'd like to see an 'Urban' stage if I'm honest. American Hip-Hop, Grime and hopefully a bit of Garage thrown in there.

I also think the Dance stage will be made into a 3 day thing instead of the one it is now.

A heavier stage would also be good, if only for a day in the same kind of format the Dance stage is at the moment.

It would also be nice if the comedy tent was made a little bigger too.

[the wonderwhy]

Perhaps the new stages will finish at 8/9 or so when the main headliner comes on?

That said, Feeder was PACKED this year, so competing with a main headliner on a little stage can be done

Edited November 1, 2012 by MattDavies__

[DTichborne]

A dance stage running for all three days would be an excellent addition. This sounds like good news anyway, but it's excellent news if they can do that.

[jump]

Has no one else picked up they are going to break tradition and announce a headliner early? If Sabath are booked it could be them to try and put the final nail in Sonisphere.

[mrtourette]

Has no one else picked up they are going to break tradition and announce a headliner early? If Sabath are booked it could be them to try and put the final nail in Sonisphere.

[mrtourette]

It would also be nice if the comedy tent was made a little bigger too.

[Chrisw16]

This is great news, just hope it doesn't change the demographic too much. Another dance stage is obviously good as it's one of the most popular stages but if they start putting big hip/hop or dance acts in high positions like Labrinth or Example then I can see the crowd becoming a but too much like V, which is something I think Reading has done very well in trying to change in recent years.

That said a tent with smaller known dj's would be a good addition, would work better at Leeds though where I presume it could keep on playing till about 4 in the morning.

I'd personally love an acoustic/folk tent.

[lharris92]

only concern with this would be how it affects the camping fields. if it doesn't then excellent

[rug568]

Ohhh this is cool.

[jump]

My money will be one of the stages will be a Red Bull bedroom jam stage that seem to pop up at most fests.

The down side to this is nobody will be able to make posters now since they don't what the extra stages will be.

[Chrisw16]

only concern with this would be how it affects the camping fields. if it doesn't then excellent

[Dead throne]

New stages mean more bands, which means more choice.

[JBarbour]

Leeds it will be easy to do this, tons of space to play with. But how the hell they going to do this at Reading?

Might cheat and share FR stage with another genre (like lock up/dance)

Probably mean ticket prices going up as per

[thetime]

It might not mean theres going to be many more tents just more stages. Could quite easily cut lock up to 1 day and have anothere themed day and you got another stage there.

Cut fr by a day and another themed stage is there already.

[mrtourette]

He did say that they're changing the arena 'quite significantly', so that sounds more than just the same tents sharing different stages on different days.

Edited November 1, 2012 by mrtourette

[mrtourette]

Probably mean ticket prices going up as per

[LondonTom]

Interesting!!! I hope if they do go for more dance type stuff, they keep it similar to what they get in now, rather than mainstream dance acts and "pop".

The arena defiantly needs expanding at Reading, I thought, I didn't expect it to be that small at all! Not for the size of the festival. (Though in some ways a good thing, as it's fucking easy to go from stage to stage!).

What they need is better food options, something like Healthy T from T In the Park. (Just because their changing it up, so may as well get decent grub in!)

Edited November 1, 2012 by LondonTom