2017 festival

[MIchael_scarn]

1 hour ago, Stuielooie said:

Any idea when the next announcement/poster is gonna be dropped?

Another 2/3 weeks if its like last year, hoping it's sooner though could really do with another announcement

[Jacksamthompson]

I hate this bull about exclusives. so many loop holes / lies. If say, I was a huge major lazer fan based in somerset and I bought my Reading ticket on the promise it was an exclusive, i would be fuming. 

[Pop Punk Sucks]

Not sure Somerset is exactly brimming with Major Lazer fans tbh

[thewayiam]

1 hour ago, Jacksamthompson said:

I hate this bull about exclusives. so many loop holes / lies. If say, I was a huge major lazer fan based in somerset and I bought my Reading ticket on the promise it was an exclusive, i would be fuming. 

Yeah it's stupid, although I don't like them the same with Disclosure/Foals last year. It's clear Reading and a couple of others are having an issue getting exclusives now and it's really only until certain ticket sales, FR knowing Eminem will sell.

[Mattymooz]

Just now, thewayiam said:

Yeah it's stupid, although I don't like them the same with Disclosure/Foals last year. It's clear Reading and a couple of others are having an issue getting exclusives now and it's really only until certain ticket sales, FR knowing Eminem will sell.

Which is why it makes even less sense with Major Lazer. They knew that day would sell out no issues but they still lied about ML being exclusive?!?!? It's so silly

[dentalplan]

It's not like Glastonbury tickets are cheap or easy to get for that Somerset based Major Lazer fan and what they'd have now is a guarantee of seeing them.

It's worlds apart from if, say, there was somebody up in Glasgow that has booked a day ticket and trains and all that to Leeds to see Kasabian exclusively only to find out they were playing Glasgow Green.

[Stuielooie]

It's also fantastic that on the reading website in the news section still has both Major Lazer and Kasabian as UK Festival exclusives

 

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Our next act are the number 1 smashing, dancehall-rejuvinating trio Major Lazer, who are playing R&L as a UK festival exclusive. 

http://www.readingfestival.com/news/muse-are-your-first-randl17-headliners-plus-major-lazer-bastille-architects-and-more

 

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With their sixth studio album set for release this spring, rock juggernauts Kasabian will be joining us at #RandL17 for a UK Festival Exclusive.

http://www.readingfestival.com/news/kasabian-are-your-second-randl17-headliners-plus-fatboy-slim-two-door-cinema-club-jimmy-eat

 

Could atleast try and cover it up on the news articles and not just the posters!

[Foals/Disclosure]

Any chance of Happy Mondays headlining the FR stage? Seem to be touring again

[Matt42]

Major Lazer were in the first announcement so they were probably booked for R&L before being booked for Glastonbury

so they probably were an exclusive at the time of their booking

[FloorFiller]

6 hours ago, Matt42 said:

Major Lazer were in the first announcement so they were probably booked for R&L before being booked for Glastonbury

so they probably were an exclusive at the time of their booking

Or FR did what a lot of festivals seem to do and used Glastonbury's late lineup announcement to their advantage for a couple of months. I doubt Major Lazer were booked for Glastonbury any later than when they were announced for this, and there are other notable ones on G's lineup too (Green Man's exclusive claim on Future Islands for example, which seems far less impressive of a booking now that they're not an exclusive).

[thewayiam]

2 hours ago, FloorFiller said:

Or FR did what a lot of festivals seem to do and used Glastonbury's late lineup announcement to their advantage for a couple of months. I doubt Major Lazer were booked for Glastonbury any later than when they were announced for this, and there are other notable ones on G's lineup too (Green Man's exclusive claim on Future Islands for example, which seems far less impressive of a booking now that they're not an exclusive).

I think they are all having trouble stopping them wanting to play Glastonbury so as you say they have a clause that stops their announcements being until the poster thus makes it a LOT smaller chance of a ticket.

[JSmurphy]

7 new bands for the Jacks Rocks stage: Broken Witt Rebels, The Blinders, The Sundowners, The Wholls, Trampolene, White Room, Bang Bang Romeo. 

[VCK]

1 hour ago, JSmurphy said:

7 new bands for the Jacks Rocks stage: Broken Witt Rebels, The Blinders, The Sundowners, The Wholls, Trampolene, White Room, Bang Bang Romeo. 

Good band.

[dentalplan]

Definitely looks like the Jack Rocks Stage line up.

I see its not on the Leeds website so I guess the stage has relocated from Leeds to Reading.

[pepesilvia]

Is anyone else seeing stage splits for currently announced acts on the lineup page? http://www.readingfestival.com/line-up

Not in the right order and some acts are missing (dance stage isn't in it) but interesting. 

Edited April 4, 2017 by pepesilvia

[dentalplan]

2 minutes ago, pepesilvia said:

Is anyone else seeing stage splits for currently announced acts on the lineup page? http://www.readingfestival.com/line-up

Not in the right order and some acts are missing but interesting. 

Good spot Pepe. Looks like Haim are headlining NME then. 

[harryy]

4 minutes ago, pepesilvia said:

Is anyone else seeing stage splits for currently announced acts on the lineup page? http://www.readingfestival.com/line-up

Not in the right order and some acts are missing but interesting. 

yeah cant wait to see ratboy headline 

[pepesilvia]

5 minutes ago, harryy said:

yeah cant wait to see ratboy headline 

If there's ever been a more qualified headliner in R&L history, i haven't seen them 

Edited April 4, 2017 by pepesilvia

[harryy]

1 minute ago, pepesilvia said:

If there's ever been a more qualified headliner in R&L history, i haven't seen them 

great booking

[TornShaun]

[Stuielooie]

So we've basically got Stage Splits and gaps for new announcements...

30STM for Sunday sub then?

[JSmurphy]

Top work. 

[Mattymooz]

8 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Definitely looks like the Jack Rocks Stage line up.

I see its not on the Leeds website so I guess the stage has relocated from Leeds to Reading.

Damn hope this means we're getting the relentless stage too

[Sam217]

45 minutes ago, TornShaun said:

Interesting that Eminem doesn't appear on the saturday

[Stuielooie]

1 minute ago, Sam217 said:

Interesting that Eminem doesn't appear on the saturday

Look at the bottom, he has his own main stage for the whole weekend!

The Leeds version of this is correct though.