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Great Bookings of the past 3 years

deadpheasant

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Reading and Leeds have had their share of horrendous bookings. But they also had some surprisingly fantastic bookings. Here are a few of my favourites:

1. MF Doom (2013), alternative tent Saturday

2. At the Drive In (2012), Saturday NME headliner

3. System of a Down (2013), subheadliner Friday

4. Feeder (2012), FR headliner Saturday

5. The Cure (2012), headliner Friday

6. Editors (2013), 5th down main Sunday

7. Nine Inch Nails (2013), Sunday subheadliner

8. Klaxons (2014), Dance subheadliner Sunday

9. Macklemore (2014), subheadliner Sunday

10. Joey Bada$$ (2014), 1extra headliner Sunday

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Not in the past years but Refused for this year is a great booking and so are Run The Jewels

2014 (not a surprising year in terms good bookings, but still some great acts)

The Wonder Years :fuck:

letlive.

QOTSA

2013

System Of A Down

Nine Inch Nails

Biffy Clyro

And So I Watch You From Afar (didn't watch them though :lol: )

2012

Mastodon -> The Cribs -> At The Drive-In (I how I wish I was there)

The Cure

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Older bands are becoming more rare, so when one is booked and in a great slot it makes me happy.

The NME on Saturday in 2012 was perfect for showing how the two main stages can counter balance each other.

Refused this year will be great and Weezer or Interpol would be inspired bookings.

Friday 2013 mainstage BMTH-Turner-Deftones-SOAD-Green Day was very strong.

As for 2014 Friday had some excellent bookings. Metronomy/Courteeners/Temples/Drenge. Jimmy/VW/QOTSA. Orwells/Fat Whites. Brody Dalle/Skints. All strong bookings and perfect for their stages imo

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nah it was the best of a poor situation - shoulda had it outright and had Paramore headline Sunday :ninja:

I agree with you on both points and on the 2nd one, I don't even like Paramore that much and I prefer Blink but they were fantastic

Courteeners/Drenge

Really? I thought Courteeners and Drenge was a bit obvious choices and Drenge are gonna be there quite frequently now I'd say, but I do agree with you on Vampire Weekend

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Definitely At The Drive in and The Cure in '12 absolutely tremendous

Slightly longer ago, LCD Soundsystem in '10, truly wonderful

LCD were exceptional... until they pulled the plug on them, whilst letting Axl Rose carry on for another hour, shit behavior by Festival Republic

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For me a great booking isn't necessarily just a great set - there's been plenty of them. But a great booking is one that makes you go WOW when you hear the line up and they then deliver. Gonna go back a bit further than 3 years though.

2012 - The Cure - didn't see it live, but saw the set on TV, would have loved to have been there.

2010 - Weezer - had wanted to see them for a long time and the set they did was amazing

2010 - Bad Religion - was worried they might be a bit old but no - fantastic

2008 - Tenacious D - until they were announced, I hadn't even realised they toured!

2007 - NIN - was just a breath taking set. Hurt was the perfect end to the set.

2003 - Metallica - first time I'd seen them and they did not let me down

2001 - Rancid - brilliant

2001 - Marilyn Manson - had heard about his sets and was at the age to really enjoy it.

2000 - Slipknot / Limp Bizkit / RATM / QOTSA /Amen /Daphne & Celeste - my first full Leeds fest and a good chunk of bands that I loved that I could see for the first time - plus the D&C bottling!

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This is off the top of my head and my experience really...

2014 - QOTSA, Arctic Monkey, Royal Blood, Duke Dumont, Wilkinson, Catfish

2013 - Eminem, Biffy, Chase & Status, Skrillex, Bastille, Disclosure, Iggy Azalea, Chvrchs, The 1975

2012 - Kasabian, Paramore, Foster the people, Passion Pit, TDCC, Dry The River, Of Monsters and Men, Alt J, Modestep,

Tried to do it slightly differently to everyone else, rarther then look at bands I liked I looked at bands who I remember having either large crowds or bands which have now moved up to bigger things. Because surely that's what people will remember when they are looking back at festivals from the past.

That's kind of why 2014 doesn't have many as of yet, but I guess if we look back in 5 years time there will be acts who were on the FR or Introducing stage that went on to bigger things.

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