2017 festival

[Gozpot]

55 minutes ago, thewayiam said:

Kanye isn't alternative!, he's a hip hop c**t bag! The different is the other two are just hip hop. He sold out 6 02 dates at least, Reading want sales so there is us.

You must be stupid to consider Drake alternative and Kanye to not be.

[OscarEB]

Just to clarify, I didn't mean alternative in its actual sense, but more as an alternative to the other 2 headliners which are more typically suited to Leeds fest - see Momford and Disclosure 

[PastRecedes]

http://www.nme.com/news/music/muses-matt-bellamy-reveals-first-huge-tour-date-2017-1853866?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Muse supposedly touring next year? Thought they'd have taken a bit of time off, but I guess this makes them more of a possibility.

[PastRecedes]

Kanye
Major Lazer

Muse
Royal Blood

Kasabian
Catfish & the Bottlemen

would be pretty huge

[Gozpot]

3 minutes ago, dylangraham said:

Kanye
Major Lazer

Muse
Royal Blood

Kasabian
Catfish & the Bottlemen

would be pretty huge

Can't see them getting Kanye, Muse and Kasabian myself.

Kasabian / Muse / some co-headliners

[rfc_478]

22 hours ago, OscarEB said:

Tbf their first single released off this latest album is shite and as much as I love their older stuff (excluding Mr Brightside) I hope they don't headline. Kasabian, a heavier band (Foo, Linkin Park, etc) and an alternative headliner (Gorillaz, Drake etc) would do for me

Which song is that? The only 'new' one I've heard recently is Peace Of Mind which is a Sams Town-era demo. 

[dentalplan]

1 hour ago, dylangraham said:

http://www.nme.com/news/music/muses-matt-bellamy-reveals-first-huge-tour-date-2017-1853866?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Muse supposedly touring next year? Thought they'd have taken a bit of time off, but I guess this makes them more of a possibility.

Nah Matty B outlined that they'd be doing some US shows and that's it. This being one of em.

[Odessa]

1 hour ago, rfc_478 said:

Which song is that? The only 'new' one I've heard recently is Peace Of Mind which is a Sams Town-era demo. 

I can only assume he means Runaways despite that being over 4 years old.

Really hope we get some album/tour news from them soon. But tbh I'd rather they put out nothing than an album on par with Battle Born, which was mostly terrible. The standard of Brandon's second solo album last year and his comments regarding Battle Born not being good enough give me hope that it'll be a return to form this time around though. Looking forward to the new Christmas song, maybe it'll give us an idea of what direction they're going in.

[siweltrebor]

Am I wrong to expect Blink 182 and Linkin Park at Reading this year, with something else a little more British for good measure.

[siweltrebor]

I think Reading and Leeds will also get the likes of Royal Blood, Wolf Alice, maybe a returning type like Thirty Seconds to Mars.

[VinylDelusion]

12 minutes ago, siweltrebor said:

Am I wrong to expect Blink 182 and Linkin Park at Reading this year, with something else a little more British for good measure.

Blink unlikely due to their massive arena tour in July, Linkin Park probably more likely

[Pop Punk Sucks]

20 minutes ago, siweltrebor said:

Am I wrong to expect Blink 182 and Linkin Park at Reading this year, with something else a little more British for good measure.

Neither will be there. Linkin Park the more likely of the two but still very unlikely due to when they're in Europe and not really being an appealing headliner for the festival in 2017. 

[Gozpot]

11 hours ago, siweltrebor said:

Am I wrong to expect Blink 182 and Linkin Park at Reading this year, with something else a little more British for good measure.

Blink are as good as 100% ruled out.

Linkin Park are unlikely but you never know, seems like there's a few more appealing acts available for R&L to book over Linkin Park unless they did what they did at Download and played Hybrid Theory in full, that or Meteora.

[Hart Attack]

Avenged Sevenfold/Bring Me The Horizon co-headline please.

[Gozpot]

47 minutes ago, Hart Attack said:

Avenged Sevenfold/Bring Me The Horizon co-headline please.

BMTH have pretty much said outright next time they play it'll be as outright headliners or not at all.

Also A7x would probably sub at Reading which they would likely turn down for the fear Andy Copping would say they've devalued themselves and they don't get to headline Download next year.

[Pop Punk Sucks]

He said the same thing about System of a Down and look at them. He doesn't have the luxury of turning his nose up at the likes of System and Avenged as headliners 

[dentalplan]

But it's much less likely to happen now that the same company runs both festivals, so it'd actually be in Melvin's interests to not 'devalue' a Download headliner.

Edited November 15, 2016 by dentalplan

[Gozpot]

SoaD are considerably bigger than A7x and it's surprising SoaD ever took the sub spot.

[VinylDelusion]

Reading and Leeds Twitter account said that first announcement coming late November/early December

[Gozpot]

1 hour ago, VinylDelusion said:

Reading and Leeds Twitter account said that first announcement coming late November/early December

Nothing out of the ordinary in reality then. Will probably see the standard of one headliner, a couple of bigger acts and then a few smaller acts.

[OscarEB]

34 minutes ago, Gozpot said:

Nothing out of the ordinary in reality then. Will probably see the standard of one headliner, a couple of bigger acts and then a few smaller acts.

Need to cut all the suspense bs and adopt this years DL format

[Gozpot]

25 minutes ago, OscarEB said:

Need to cut all the suspense bs and adopt this years DL format

I prefer the method Download tend to use of all 3 headliners early on then drip feed the remaining acts steadily too.

Reading seems to do it because they want to get steadier sales throughout the year, even though ultimately they'd likely end up with the same sales more or less.

[dentalplan]

They have to have time to actually sort out the line up though, and Download takes place at the start of the summer so they shift focus to the next year way before R+L would.

[Andre91]

9 hours ago, dentalplan said:

They have to have time to actually sort out the line up though, and Download takes place at the start of the summer so they shift focus to the next year way before R+L would.

I've never thought about it that way. Makes lots of sense, actually  

[JonSnow]

Guessing its fairly safe to assume the end of November/December is going to be Kasabian then?