Biggest ever crowd at Reading and Leeds?

[foolee]

Anyone*/band I mean.

[VCK]

All three headliners will draw huge crowds but I think Eminem will get the largest.

I also think the tent will be rammed for Jake Bugg. Really he and The Lumineers should have been in each other's slots.

Edited August 20, 2013 by VCK

[Areophobia]

I also think the tent will be rammed for Jake Bugg. Really he and The Lumineers should have been in each other's slots.

[VCK]

Completely agree with this. Theres at least one strange positioning each year and this is it for this year, as well as the positioning of Editors.

[lightning1000]

I'd say skrillex will have the biggest crowd on NME this year. Maybe Bastille. I expect phoenix's crowd to be atdi small.

[shoptildrop]

I would say RATM in 2008 as crowd was right up to food stands at back and behind them, as I remember standing behind the gap at the top discussing with this guy that you could probably crowd surf from that point the crowd was so condensed.

Pendulum in 2008 in the NME tent was a bit scary too but good fun as you just had to hold on to the people next to you and bounce as a whole lol

[shoptildrop]

Biggest NME stage crowd was Pendulum in 2008 when they played in the middle of the day.

[lightning1000]

Once again, I've been at all these big crowds people are mentioning (leeds) the biggest were prodigy 08, kol 09 and libs 10. Biggest NME were kooks 07 and kasabian 05. No debate, they were by FAR the biggest.

[lightning1000]

For people saying pendulum, imagine all those people crammed outside the tent then double it. That's what it was like for the kooks in 07 and kasabian 05.

[shoptildrop]

For people saying pendulum, imagine all those people crammed outside the tent then double it. That's what it was like for the kooks in 07 and kasabian 05.

[Babyquack]

I've only been 2 years but Foo Fighters were easily the biggest crowd I've ever seen at the festival (Reading) - I was literally at the very back, near where they sell the lineup poster and this was the closest I could get! I did arrive just as they came on stage but it was still heaving!

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

Muse in 11 was massive, i was so far back i went for 2many djs, who had a pretty small crowd. Was convinient as i could go from the bar straight to the middle of the crowd multiple times. And they were much more fun than muse.

[Tobieski]

There are infinite things more fun than Muse

[Muppetmark]

Will anything from this year contribute to this I wonder?

[Bisque]

Deadmau5 has easily pulled the largest Dance Stage crowd when he played late afternoon.

Dizzee Rascal's crowd in 2010 was huge, lots of people there for him & The Libertines on after. Plenty of the crowd left or the NME tent for ES/Pendulum but plenty also headed in for The Libs

[Dead throne]

Muse in 11 was massive, i was so far back i went for 2many djs, who had a pretty small crowd. Was convinient as i could go from the bar straight to the middle of the crowd multiple times. And they were much more fun than muse.

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

It was big to the point where it was completely pointless if you were stood nearer to the back of the crowd as you were squinting to see matt bellamy. I think they had most the festival watching them as not a lot of people were in the nme for sure and the lock up seemed pretty empty for descendents.

[johnmcga]

Really interesting reading people's different recollections and perceptions of crowd sizes. I think so much of it is down to where you stand and what's going on around you!

For my money, in recent years Radiohead, RHCP and Foos last year are the biggest I can remember.

To be honest, with the capacity of Reading now so much more than when I first started going, when the crowd gets really big at the main stage it just spoils things. I ended up stuck in a dead zone for the sound at the Foos last year and it ruined it.

(As a result my expectations for the main stage headliners are actually pretty low this year — all the most memorable headliners for me in recent years have been less-fancied bands on smaller stages. 2manyDJs and Klaxons both spring to mind.)

[jump]

^Radiohead had the smallest crowd for the headliners that year tho.

[Yellow_Fellow]

Deadmau5 has easily pulled the largest Dance Stage crowd when he played late afternoon.

[Matt42]

I expect eminem will get the biggest crowd yet...

[johnmcga]

^Radiohead had the smallest crowd for the headliners that year tho.

[swede]

MIne was def SOAD 2003, that was before the days of the second barrier though. That crowd was so busy the push forward actually broke the first barrier before they even finished the first song, they had to stop the band and take a girl away in an ambulance as she had been cushed under foot, then they had to repair the barrier before System could continue.