Lineup 2020

[jump]

2 hours ago, ModBoy said:

Could the curve ball be Queen and Adam Lambert? I haven't looked at the dates of their tour next year so they may not be able to...but they done TRNSMT last year and feel they could do any festival tbh, even the younger audience of Reading and Leeds will know a load of Queen? Just a thought

They still have a stigma about them from killing off Sonisphere, somewhere like Isle of Wight might be able to get away with them but I'd be surprised if a bunch of 70 year olds and a reality tv star would be booked for R&L.

[gfa]

1 hour ago, jump said:

They still have a stigma about them from killing off Sonisphere, somewhere like Isle of Wight might be able to get away with them but I'd be surprised if a bunch of 70 year olds and a reality tv star would be booked for R&L.

How did the kill it off? I tried googling it but nothing really came up. They played like 4 years before it died ? 

[Sam Y]

Could the curveball headliner be blur? 

[jump]

6 minutes ago, gfa said:

How did the kill it off? I tried googling it but nothing really came up. They played like 4 years before it died ? 

It was more stigma than them actually killing it off as when American Idol's Adam Lambert & the other guys from Queen and the rest of the line up were announced it took a big backlash for a piss poor line up with them as the focus point of it. It did really badly with sales to the point it was cancelled and it never truly recovered, it was often mocked for it's non-announcements for the years that followed. It forced Kilimanjaro to only bother with Sonisphere UK unless they had acts like Metallica and Iron Maiden (which they did once) but with competition from R&L and Download the pool was too small for them to put out a decent line up to compete with them.

 

 

[Andre91]

KISS apparently cost the most but sold the least amount of day tickets for that particular Sonisphere. 

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33 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

KISS apparently cost the most but sold the least amount of day tickets for that particular Sonisphere. 

You mistyped Download 2020 as Sonisphere

Edited October 2, 2019 by jump

[dentalplan]

12 minutes ago, jump said:

missed typed

Seriously?

[jump]

4 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Seriously?

Ducking automobile!  Fucking autotype!

[Guest]

Lil Nas X gonna sub next year.

[Matt42]

2 minutes ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

Lil Nas X gonna sub next year.

I think you’re lost on your way to the Coachella thread

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Matt42 said:

I think you’re lost on your way to the Coachella thread

Never forget

[Matt42]

Meh I’m not knocking it never happening I just think he’s not quite as big here as he is in the US. Old town road was a moderate hit here, but over in the states it broke records.

It depends whether he’s here to stay or not I guess.

[TKOCF]

7 hours ago, Sam Y said:

Could the curveball headliner be blur? 

Good shout, if they’re not at Glastonbury, can see them being booked if they’re about.

Edited October 2, 2019 by TKOCF

[jj200]

9 hours ago, TKOCF said:

Good shout, if they’re not at Glastonbury, can see them being booked if they’re about.

Can't see it being blur as damoln ablon has announced a new project.

[sarahuertlop]

When do you think they will announce the first headliners?

[Hart Attack]

2 hours ago, stanh said:

probably late october/mid-november... altho a few years back we didnt get anything til like late feburary

When I started going the first announcement was traditionally on the last Monday of March. ?

[R Shah]

Foals have confirmed 2020 Spring UK tour. No dates yet but cities are Birmingham, Blackpool, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London.

That sounds like a small tour so I'd say they're still defo in the mix for Reading.

[Sam Y]

Foals

Stormzy / BMTH

Blur 

[TommyS]

On 2/5/2018 at 5:03 PM, randlfan said:

BBK, AM, MCR reunion.

 

So is this not happening anymore ? 

[Matt42]

If she sells out 4 nights at the O2 on her debut album Billie is an outright headliner, not a co headliner.

Also I imagine she’s now even more ruled out than she was before.

 

[dentalplan]

Is she bigger than Kendrick?

[NerdsNatterings]

3 minutes ago, dentalplan said:

Is she bigger than Kendrick?

Possibly, but possibly would coheadline for a similar reason (set length)? 

[dentalplan]

Just now, NerdsNatterings said:

Possibly, but possibly would coheadline for a similar reason (set length)? 

Didn’t he coheadline because there was meant to be two main stages?

[NerdsNatterings]

Just now, dentalplan said:

Didn’t he coheadline because there was meant to be two main stages?

Fair enough I didn't know that. Then maybe Billie will be a solo headliner, she's definitely big enough (if she isn't I don't know who is). 

[dentalplan]

Just now, NerdsNatterings said:

Fair enough I didn't know that. Then maybe Billie will be a solo headliner, she's definitely big enough (if she isn't I don't know who is). 

What I was getting at was that there isn’t really a ‘too big to coheadline’ when one of the worlds biggest and most expensive headliners did exactly that at Reading a couple of years back. Certain types of acts won’t coheadline I’m sure but I don’t see anything to suggest Billie would be that type of act.