2019 festival

[ob123]

Anyone see VANT being booked?

[Pr0paneNightm4re]

30 minutes ago, ob123 said:

Anyone see VANT being booked?

Could be a potential for a Thursday night band at Leeds maybe. I know they played main in 2017 but they’ve dropped off significantly since

[jamieaslee]

A lot of people speculated that The Streets would play Leeds this year and apparently Mile Skinner said he would be back with them at his DJ set on Relentless too. Parklife were promoting it as 'first festival in 8 years'. Any chance of a last minute announcement similar to N*E*R*D last year? Despite that going down horribly in the end 

[Tom Connolly]

21 minutes ago, jamieaslee said:

A lot of people speculated that The Streets would play Leeds this year and apparently Mile Skinner said he would be back with them at his DJ set on Relentless too. Parklife were promoting it as 'first festival in 8 years'. Any chance of a last minute announcement similar to N*E*R*D last year? Despite that going down horribly in the end 

not really a slot for them is there? perhaps in between YM@6 and The Wombats? 

[jamieaslee]

6 minutes ago, Tom Connolly said:

not really a slot for them is there? perhaps in between YM@6 and The Wombats? 

I was thinking possibly above or below Blossoms?

[Tom Connolly]

13 hours ago, jamieaslee said:

I was thinking possibly above or below Blossoms?

that would make sense but it’d seem illogical poster wise, anderson paak would lose his font. unless they put the streets at the bottom of that day as special guests and then they just play in that slot

[Benj]

On 6/11/2019 at 1:48 AM, Andre91 said:

There’s going to be about 11 people in the tent watching PUP so I’d definitely go and catch them on their own tour and watch Royal Blood instead. 

I can’t help but feel that PUP/their management have cocked up by choosing to play Reading. Imagine the reception they would have got at 2000 Trees compared. Maybe it’s just the pull of playing ‘the’ Reading Festival. 

I’ll be one of the 11

[jamieaslee]

2 hours ago, Tom Connolly said:

that would make sense but it’d seem illogical poster wise, anderson paak would lose his font. unless they put the streets at the bottom of that day as special guests and then they just play in that slot

Special guest would make the most sense, you're right. - I imagine it would attract quite a few last minute day ticket sales at Leeds.

Even without special guest, would have given Paak the clout for the majority of the promo before bumping down

[Jericode]

Highly doubt anyone's getting added to Saturday main stage, they usually have nine bands per day on main stage and they've already got nine announced for every day bar Friday.

The Streets played 2011 after their last album, have they released anything since then to make it worth bothering to book them?

[jamieaslee]

At what point were official stage times announced last year? Remember it being slightly earlier than usual 

[jamieaslee]

On 6/13/2019 at 3:52 PM, Jericode said:

Highly doubt anyone's getting added to Saturday main stage, they usually have nine bands per day on main stage and they've already got nine announced for every day bar Friday.

The Streets played 2011 after their last album, have they released anything since then to make it worth bothering to book them?

They're headlining a stage at Glasto, smashed Parklife, sold out fairly big venues pretty quickly at £50 a ticket, so I'd say they're still pretty in demand due to how hard it is to see them. Also, they're playing in Australia in July, then a festival in Belgium the week before Leeds, one can hope

[rivalschools.price]

Frank Iero are touring with Laura Jane Grace in UK in August so must be a good possibility of being added to Reading/ Leeds

[Jericode]

Just now, rivalschools.price said:

Frank Iero are touring with Laura Jane Grace in UK in August so must be a good possibility of being added to Reading/ Leeds

I'd say he's a dead cert, the tour starts the day after the festival and LJG is already on the bill.

[Jericode]

Blaenavon have dropped out for health reasons.

[Tom Connolly]

It’ll be interesting to see who replaces them to headline the stage

[rivalschools.price]

7 minutes ago, Tom Connolly said:

It’ll be interesting to see who replaces them to headline the stage

History shows that the replacement will be at the bottom of the bill and everyone else will move up a place, especially as the day is sold out anyway.

[TKOCF]

Yeah, according to the poster, I can see SWRMS taking their place as headlining that stage. Hope they’re feeling alright. 

[jamieaslee]

Could fit a decent sized secret set in there now then

[rfc_478]

Bump SWMRS up, then I can see both them and Chvrches! 

[Tom Connolly]

the poster says TBC for the headline slot so i’d imagine it’ll be a direct replacement. Frank Turner anyone?

[wro_lap]

21 minutes ago, Tom Connolly said:

the poster says TBC for the headline slot so i’d imagine it’ll be a direct replacement. Frank Turner anyone?

He's playing a festival in Northampton on the day Blaenavon would have been playing Reading

[jamieaslee]

Assuming that there will be a final main stage act announced for The 1975 day, who do we think that could be? IDLES have a very RnL shaped hole in their tour and The Streets tour ends in Belgium the week before, but that might just be wishful thinking

Edit: IDLES are playing a festival in Northampton actually, not sure which day/ whether they could do both

Edited June 24, 2019 by jamieaslee

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, jamieaslee said:

Assuming that there will be a final main stage act announced for The 1975 day, who do we think that could be? IDLES have a very RnL shaped hole in their tour and The Streets tour ends in Belgium the week before, but that might just be wishful thinking

It won't be anyone as big as either of those. Will probably end up being a band you've never heard of.

[dentalplan]

As if Idles are playing Shambala and not R+L. That’s nuts.

[Andre91]

IDLES for the secret set. 

They’re headlining Ally Pally in December. What a madness.