Who is the 3rd headliner likely to be?

[Luke Routledge]

Rumblings on the Download forums that the final headliner's Linkin Park.

[zahidf]

Can't see this mentioned anywhere...

Basically, interview with System of a down drummer in Kerrang this week says the final headliner was what persudaed them to play Reading this year, and it's a band they played with years ago.

So, I think it's Black Sabbath or ( Unlikely IMO) Metallica.

[Yellow_Fellow]

Can someone get us a scan of that damn page?

[dentalplan]

Can't see this mentioned anywhere...

Basically, interview with System of a down drummer in Kerrang this week says the final headliner was what persudaed them to play Reading this year, and it's a band they played with years ago.

[Lithium05]

Being the pessimist that I am (27 years as a West Ham fan means I always expect the worst). I think it will be Prodigy.

I don't get it, in my opinion, SOAD are a better choice for headliner than Prodigy. They are just awful "live", might as well just play their music in between sets if they have to have a presence at all, because "Prodigy live" could be recreated by any cretin with a CD player and a couple of loud twats shouting over the top of the music.

Yet Eminem gets shit for being a bad booking for doing the exact same thing.

[LondonTom]

Yet Eminem gets shit for being a bad booking for doing the exact same thing.

[Mouseboy11]

The Prodigy do play live though so it's such a stupid and baseless argument.

Sabbath would be such a crap booking (and I'm a fan). Literally none of your average Reading goers would give a shit.

[dentalplan]

Can't see this mentioned anywhere...

Basically, interview with System of a down drummer in Kerrang this week says the final headliner was what persudaed them to play Reading this year, and it's a band they played with years ago.

So, I think it's Black Sabbath or ( Unlikely IMO) Metallica.

Edited February 15, 2013 by dentalplan

[northernrock]

Are we ruling Blur out yet? I mean the clue we were given was pretty vague. IMO Blur would be the perfect last headliner.

Like others have mentioned on this forum, the average RNL festival fan will not be excited about Sabbath or the Prodigy! So far the line up looks pants compared to last years.

[zahidf]

Are we ruling Blur out yet? I mean the clue we were given was pretty vague. IMO Blur would be the perfect last headliner.

Like others have mentioned on this forum, the average RNL festival fan will not be excited about Sabbath or the Prodigy! So far the line up looks pants compared to last years.

[northernrock]

I'd love Blur, but unless SOAD played with them in the past, then i'd be surprised they would agree to be under them.

I don't think this forum is the average Reading fan. And the average reading fan will come for system subbing sabbath anyway.

[northernrock]

Dont get me wrong however, I love the Prodigy and Sabbath have made some good songs I'm just praying it'll be blur even if it's ATM looking like it's not them.

[zahidf]

They did at RNL in 2003, unless I'm mistaken. Is it even likely that SOAD will be playing under the third headliner? there's still a possibility they could play under Biffy.

[Lithium05]

They did at RNL in 2003, unless I'm mistaken. Is it even likely that SOAD will be playing under the third headliner? there's still a possibility they could play under Biffy.

Edited February 15, 2013 by Lithium05

[northernrock]

The interview was pretty clear that they agreed for it because who they were going to play with, and that this band was the final headliner.

[zahidf]

In that case it'll probably be The Prodigy. Eminem, Biffy and the Prodigy doesnt sound the strongest but it'll still pull a lot of people in. Massively regretting not going last year though being a huge Kasabian and Foo Fighter fan.

[Lithium05]

Nah. I doubt System of a down give a crap about Prodigy.

It'll have to be a bigger international band IMO. Sabbath or Metallica ( Blur possibly, but again, no idea if the band care about them)

[Lithium05]

Don't mind Prodigy subbing Eminem, makes more sense, as I don't think they have grown in stature since their last appearance, but then again, the same could be said for their headline appearance at Download last year...

[northernrock]

Nah. I doubt System of a down give a crap about Prodigy.

It'll have to be a bigger international band IMO. Sabbath or Metallica ( Blur possibly, but again, no idea if the band care about them)

[northernrock]

Can't see this mentioned on this thread, but The Prodigy were taken off the E-festivals rumour list last week. Might mean nothing, but might rule them out completely.

[jump]

Obviously the 3rd headliner is Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, they have reform hype and they toured with System!!!

[jump]

Can't see this mentioned on this thread, but The Prodigy were taken off the E-festivals rumour list last week. Might mean nothing, but might rule them out completely.

[northernrock]

Were Prodigy ever on the R&L rumour list tho?

[Asdaprice]

There's also a shift in opinion of people that liked them from the Californication generation, when I was a teenager they were one of those bands everyone liked now people the same age as me have no intrest in them even fans of them like you didn't go to their show which shows the level of excitement they now generate.

[ladbrokeboy]

Indeed they were