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Queen being booked for this year wasn't particularly popular but on the day it was rammed and they were fantastic, not sure Rod will be the same though, he is a bit (well a lot) old granny in his appeal, and if he starts belting out his American songbook stuff there will be a mass exodus.

unless they pull out someone massive for Friday, which won't happen, sales will be even worse than last year and another festival will bite the dust.

you have to wonder how the delay in announcing the festival will affect the lineup, you can't start booking people for a festival that you don't know is going ahead.

 

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  On 12/2/2016 at 6:11 PM, dentalplan said:

I see Foals are still touring next summer. Could see them headlining the Friday. Might not be a big enough booking to get them out of the shit but perhaps better than James or Snow Patrol.

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christ where have Snow Patrol fucked off to!? had almost forgotten they existed

Foals + another co-headliner maybe but i can't see them doing it outright

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Foals would maybe do a reasonable job at selling tickets to Arcade Fire fans who are unsure about going over for them, although the problem with Foals is that anyone who really wants to see them will surely already have done so this year at the arena tour, Glastonbury or R&L so hard to see them too shifting many tickets.

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  On 12/2/2016 at 6:59 PM, kingcrawler said:

Foals would maybe do a reasonable job at selling tickets to Arcade Fire fans who are unsure about going over for them, although the problem with Foals is that anyone who really wants to see them will surely already have done so this year at the arena tour, Glastonbury or R&L so hard to see them too shifting many tickets.

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Glad you said that, it'd fall flat on it's arse imo. I can't see how Biffy helps IOW or Download either though as neither sells out. At Glasto, Download wouldn't really have to care and anyone who wants a tickets now just has a resale.

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  On 12/2/2016 at 6:59 PM, kingcrawler said:

Foals would maybe do a reasonable job at selling tickets to Arcade Fire fans who are unsure about going over for them, although the problem with Foals is that anyone who really wants to see them will surely already have done so this year at the arena tour, Glastonbury or R&L so hard to see them too shifting many tickets.

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I get the feeling that the big slots at R+L and Glasto exposed them to new audiences and they were getting a lot of acclaim for the performances each time, considerably so at Reading where they seemed to go down best of all of them. For the Friday coheadline slot think they could do, have done and probably will do worse than Foals.

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  On 12/2/2016 at 7:08 PM, dentalplan said:

I get the feeling that the big slots at R+L and Glasto exposed them to new audiences and they were getting a lot of acclaim for the performances each time, considerably so at Reading where they seemed to go down best of all of them. For the Friday coheadline slot think they could do, have done and probably will do worse than Foals.

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Foals with a new album would be a great draw but Foals on the third year of an album isn't gonna do a thing to stop the festival falling on it's arse next year, although something spectacular aside, whoever they announce is gonna have a hard time mustering anything more than a muted reaction at this point 

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  On 12/2/2016 at 7:12 PM, FloorFiller said:

Foals with a new album would be a great draw but Foals on the third year of an album isn't gonna do a thing to stop the festival falling on it's arse next year, although something spectacular aside, whoever they announce is gonna have a hard time mustering anything more than a muted reaction at this point 

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Exactly. We're talking about a slot The Black Keys and Stereophonics have played recently so I thought Foals as an act that actually headlines festivals would've been a relatively sound option. :lol: Foals on a new album wouldn't be doing that slot and will no doubt headline Glasto rather than opening for Chase & Status or whoever.

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  On 12/5/2016 at 5:50 PM, SERRIDGER said:

Looks like Stone Roses are headlining Reading/Leeds so that them rules out for the Friday. Really do think they need a good headliner for Friday and not this Co headliner nonsense , which basically means 2 sub headliners from other festivals 

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I don't think there's anything to the idea that's currently going mad on twitter. The photos of lemons in Leeds might be genuine, but there's none genuinely reported from Reading.

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  On 12/14/2016 at 8:52 AM, sisco said:

And they've announced Bastille too, wouldn't they have been a better co-headliner?

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Yeah why couldn't they just announce Bastille, and actually promote a new act as a headliner?

 

What a terrible set of headliners they have gone, that festival is on it's knees.

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Think the key thing for IOW is they've completely lost they're USP! 

For all the hate V festival gets it knows who it's aiming for, R&L too even the smaller festivals like Victorious and Kendal but the IOW!! It's basically like Giddings gets pissed sticks his iPod on shuffle and randomly rings/books people

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