First, stormzy headlined APR just 2 years after he headlined reading, and it’s not like he had a massive drop off in popularity in those two years either. I also refute the part about him not being big enough to headline reading anymore. Second, I’ll quote myself again “now some of these may not headline the festival now but they come with a weight,” ie acts like Florence and KOL may not be the reading zeitgeist anymore but they’re still of the calibre of acts that are enough to headline reading. Again, KOL are still doing stadium shows - it’s not like they’re a small band now they’re just not GCSE leavers reading and Leeds zeitgeist anymore. finally yes, the bands like foals and disclosure did Co-headline or headline the other main stage but the point is that Sam fender didn’t come out of the blue… they’d been getting reading “headliners”, even if not outright headliners, for a few years. Boardies is clearly in a seperate era from when two door cinema club, alt-j and James bay were headlining
Summed up perfectly. Let’s hope the 3rd headliner this year is another “fluke” eh
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