2025 R&L Festival

[DomDom1984]

On 10/1/2024 at 2:35 PM, foolee said:

Can’t see TOP doing arenas in May and then coming back to Europe in August. Can see Kasabian, Eminem and Charli XCX doing it. Could still see Foos tbh. Would they book SZA after the Glasto stuff? 

They did exactly that in 2019. They're only one day off their Glasgow show of that year.

[NorthernSoul52]

Feel Charli must be nailed on for this and that it will be a guest-studded affair at Reading. (Might get her fella and the rest of his boys up for a Leeds cameo.)

[Andre91]

If it’s Charli and Chase & Status on the same day, I’d have to get a day ticket.  

[NorthernSoul52]

Might do the same, to be fair.

[Andre91]

Reckon we’re going to get someone unexpected like Tyler. 

[NorthernSoul52]

8 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Reckon we’re going to get someone unexpected like Tyler. 

 

I vote Stereophonics.

[Andre91]

Just want The Strokes tbh. 

[NorthernSoul52]

18 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Just want The Strokes tbh. 

Eh. Hit and miss. Can guarantee one would be grand, one would be rotten.

[charlierc]

48 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

 

I vote Stereophonics.

Eh. Huddersfield's close enough to Leeds to rule them out, isn't it?

[charlierc]

43 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Just want The Strokes tbh. 

They still appeal to a Reading-level demographic? I know we had this argument about Muse a few pages back and The Strokes' success was even longer ago than theirs.

 

Although tbf it something to note that when I first went to Reading for a day trip in 2011 that Strokes/Pulp co-headline and Muse were two of the headliners.

[NorthernSoul52]

22 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Eh. Huddersfield's close enough to Leeds to rule them out, isn't it?

Absolutely, but also pretty much in jest. The chance of them ever rocking up in its current guise is about as large as me playing a set full of banjo covers on the Chevron Stage.

[charlierc]

12 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Absolutely, but also pretty much in jest. The chance of them ever rocking up in its current guise is about as large as me playing a set full of banjo covers on the Chevron Stage.

Maybe if we somehow fell through an Interstellar-esque wormhole to wind up back in 2000 when Stereophonics with Tom Jones was heralded as an iconic moment.

[nathanh]

I need to see Charli headline she would kill it

[Andre91]

44 minutes ago, charlierc said:

They still appeal to a Reading-level demographic? I know we had this argument about Muse a few pages back and The Strokes' success was even longer ago than theirs.

 

Although tbf it something to note that when I first went to Reading for a day trip in 2011 that Strokes/Pulp co-headline and Muse were two of the headliners.

I don’t even know if they’d still appeal. Has their era of indie come round again yet? Along with The Libs and The White Stripes. Or are we still a few years away from that era being popular again?

 

 

[NorthernSoul52]

12 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Maybe if we somehow fell through an Interstellar-esque wormhole to wind up back in 2000 when Stereophonics with Tom Jones was heralded as an iconic moment.

Still is an iconic moment.

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, Andre91 said:

I don’t even know if they’d still appeal. Has their era of indie come round again yet? Along with The Libs and The White Stripes. Or are we still a few years away from that era being popular again?

 

 

 

It's on the cusp.

[charlierc]

Just now, Andre91 said:

I don’t even know if they’d still appeal. Has their era of indie come round again yet? Along with The Libs and The White Stripes. Or are we still a few years away from that era being popular again?

Well, Franz Ferdinand's 20th album is 20 this year and is one of the biggest albums from the 2000's indie rock scene, but they're still yet to sell out 2 nights at Shepherd's Bush Empire. So, maybe give it a few more years.

[charlierc]

Just now, NorthernSoul52 said:

 

It's on the cusp.

Thinking about it, I did see a gig announced while I was on holiday of Kaiser Chiefs with Razorlight, The Cribs, The Coral and We Are Scientists taking place in Leeds in May.

 

That feels like a list for an NME Award in 2005/06 thrown into a blender alright.