Lineup 2020

[Matt42]

1 hour ago, Sam217 said:

https://www.nme.com/news/music/now-james-arthur-accused-reading-leeds-festival-snobbery-not-booking-2559530#3wyKxtr2C7V6EkU8.99

 

Gotta be a strong rumour to headline surely...

This man is surrounded by too many yes men.

[Properbigfan]

Friday-Catfish and the bottlemen (subbed by Tyler the creator) 

Saturday-bmth/Travis Scott (closing)

sunday -stormzy 

[Properbigfan]

Friday-Catfish and the bottlemen (subbed by Tyler the creator) 

Saturday-bmth/Travis Scott (closing)

sunday -stormzy 

[atomised]

It's funny. Everytime someone refers just to Travis I try to work out when they began their revival

[Han Ford]

Honestly feel a bit bad for BMTH if they get booked as a co-head. One of my favourite bands and I love amo, but it definitely hasn't propelled them up enough to go beyond sub-headliner level, and they simply won't sell the day tickets (supposedly like APE).

I respect their artistic integrity to do whatever they want, amo really should've been a That's The Spirit 2.0 though (or with more 'bangers' as Sykes described a lot of TTS as). I'm sure they'd be looking at a solo headliner slot if it had gone that way.

They've lost their hot factor a lot and would honestly look like a solid but unexciting sub-headliner nowadays, which is mad because looking back they were super strong when booked in 2015 before Metallica.

[Chad888]

Paramore or Florence or Wolf Alice will headline and it will be paraded as super woke and the first females to headline RandL.

 

Travis Scott will headline with Foals, Catfish or BMTH underneath him but sold as co heads

 

Stormzy will close out the show and they will put somebody for the older heads like Muse, Strokes etc underneath to shut up the "to many rap headlines" crowd 

[NerdsNatterings]

18 minutes ago, Chad888 said:

Paramore or Florence or Wolf Alice will headline and it will be paraded as super woke and the first females to headline RandL.

 

Travis Scott will headline with Foals, Catfish or BMTH underneath him but sold as co heads

 

Stormzy will close out the show and they will put somebody for the older heads like Muse, Strokes etc underneath to shut up the "to many rap headlines" crowd 

Paramore have already (co)-headlined. Wolf Alice are still a little bit away from headlining, I'd imagine Reading will want to give them a big main stage slot (sub or subbing a co-headliner on the new album) before they get pushed up. At this point I'm wondering if Florence ever will headline. 

At this point I'm starting to believe the Strokes/Stormzy/Travis Scott-Bring Me rumour. It makes a lot of sense, is actually realistic and would sell okay. 

[jumperofftheshelf]

It might be worth mentioning that Festival Republic booked The Strokes for Electric Picnic, so I think them also booking them for R&L, especially when they don’t have any other UK shows lined up makes a lot of sense

[Andre91]

4 hours ago, Han Ford said:

Honestly feel a bit bad for BMTH if they get booked as a co-head. One of my favourite bands and I love amo, but it definitely hasn't propelled them up enough to go beyond sub-headliner level, and they simply won't sell the day tickets (supposedly like APE).

I respect their artistic integrity to do whatever they want, amo really should've been a That's The Spirit 2.0 though (or with more 'bangers' as Sykes described a lot of TTS as). I'm sure they'd be looking at a solo headliner slot if it had gone that way.

They've lost their hot factor a lot and would honestly look like a solid but unexciting sub-headliner nowadays, which is mad because looking back they were super strong when booked in 2015 before Metallica.

Co-headlining is subbing. An argument can be made if the two acts close a site each but that hasn’t always been the case when R&L book co-headliners. 

I can see them letting BMTH close up North whilst Travis does do at Reading. 

amo is more interesting that That’s The Spirit. At least they experimented with lots of different things on amo (to varying degrees of success). TTS was a boring album that very much stuck with one idea. 

I think you’re looking back with rose tinted glasses to 2015 as they were, particularly on here, seen as a weak booking to sub Metallica. That performance wasn’t good at all and was backing track central. I was at the APE show and that seemed to have changed. If they put on the kind of show at R&L that they did at APE, they will blow all the other acts that day away (except Travis, maybe). 

Edited October 24, 2019 by Andre91

[gfa]

1 hour ago, Chad888 said:

Paramore or Florence or Wolf Alice will headline and it will be paraded as super woke and the first females to headline RandL.

 

Travis Scott will headline with Foals, Catfish or BMTH underneath him but sold as co heads

 

Stormzy will close out the show and they will put somebody for the older heads like Muse, Strokes etc underneath to shut up the "to many rap headlines" crowd 

Can't exactly see Muse/Strokes below Stormzy to be honest - strokes wouldn't accept it and muse are bigger than stormzy

[jump]

1 hour ago, Chad888 said:

Paramore or Florence or Wolf Alice will headline and it will be paraded as super woke and the first females to headline RandL.

 

 

Garbage, Bjork and Girlschool have them beat by decades.

Edited October 24, 2019 by jump

[Chad888]

1 hour ago, jump said:

Garbage, Bjork and Girlschool have them beat by decades.

 

Yes but the news media forget that and will act as if this is groundbreaking, especially following this years big talk that 50% of acts will be women on the main stage.

[Chad888]

MIST will be the sunday rap act, Tyler the creator will HL the R1 stage, Cardi B will be on saturday

[1986]

I can't attest to BMTHs size but I wouldn't use APE as much of a gauge when judging their Reading placement. Reading is much more their crowd than a festival that had Bon Iver and Mumford & Sons on the same weekend. I know APE only sells by the day but I think that makes a difference. 

[Matt42]

Travis and The Strokes are believable because they are both doing Lollapalooza shows - which means there’s a chance that they will be heading up the European Lolla shows. In puts them both in the frame to be in Europe exactly around the time of R&L.

[jump]

6 minutes ago, 1986 said:

I can't attest to BMTHs size but I wouldn't use APE as much of a gauge when judging their Reading placement. Reading is much more their crowd than a festival that had Bon Iver and Mumford & Sons on the same weekend. I know APE only sells by the day but I think that makes a difference. 

The London day festivals are sold on their line ups, most people don't even refer to them by the festival's name but rather just whoever is headlining and like you said they are sold as separate events.. It has also never stopped the other London days festivals, British Summer Time had Justin Bieber and Green Day the same year, Wireless had Deadmau5 and Drake the same year, Gunnersville had Doves and You Me At Six the same year etc.

[1986]

12 minutes ago, jump said:

The London day festivals are sold on their line ups, most people don't even refer to them by the festival's name but rather just whoever is headlining and like you said they are sold as separate events.. It has also never stopped the other London days festivals, British Summer Time had Justin Bieber and Green Day the same year, Wireless had Deadmau5 and Drake the same year, Gunnersville had Doves and You Me At Six the same year etc.

All fair points, I was going to go further by saying BMTH was on a Friday and the undercard (RTJ and IDLES aside) appealed more to the heavier side of their output/ fans. So maybe the metal heads didn't like the poppier band they are now and the R1 listeners didn't want to spend the day watching metal bands so both sides couldn't be bothered to book the day off. But conjecturing wildly now and making excuses for a band I don't even like . I still think they would go down well at R/L.

[Dukey]

1 hour ago, Chad888 said:

MIST will be the sunday rap act, Tyler the creator will HL the R1 stage, Cardi B will be on saturday

If Cardi B is playing I'll make sure I'm as far away from that stage as possible.

[jump]

22 minutes ago, 1986 said:

All fair points, I was going to go further by saying BMTH was on a Friday and the undercard (RTJ and IDLES aside) appealed more to the heavier side of their output/ fans. So maybe the metal heads didn't like the poppier band they are now and the R1 listeners didn't want to spend the day watching metal bands so both sides couldn't be bothered to book the day off. But conjecturing wildly now and making excuses for a band I don't even like . I still think they would go down well at R/L.

So we just need to make sure Bring Me don't play the Friday on either site, there's no rappers, pop or heavy acts on the line up and they will go down at R&L  

[1986]

1 minute ago, jump said:

So we just need to make sure Bring Me don't play the Friday on either site, there's no rappers, pop or heavy acts on the line up and they will go down at R&L  

I'm sure they would appreciate that  

[jakecase]

Red Hot Chili Peppers are to drop an album late this year or early 2020. Would that put them in the running, or maybe they'll do something like IoW? 

[jamieaslee]

What are people's thoughts on the new The 1975 single?

[Dangerbreaks]

1 hour ago, jamieaslee said:

What are people's thoughts on the new The 1975 single?

Meh. Ends better than it starts but more of an album track than a single in my opinion at least. 

[Tom Connolly]

2 hours ago, jamieaslee said:

What are people's thoughts on the new The 1975 single?

just get them back headlining again next year. let them have the friday/saturday night as a residency 

[Dim Sum]

I still do think Coldplay are still in line to headline really tryna get my head around seeing them on a poster and kinda can see it plus there two new singles are both pretty decent.

Edited October 24, 2019 by Dim Sum