2025 R&L Festival

[charlierc]

A veritable sausage roll buffet eh? Nice

[p0sterb0y]

32 minutes ago, Muppetmark said:

Bmth x Chappell

Eminem x cench

Travis x hozier 

BMTH < Blink

Chappell Roan < LDR

Eminem > LG

Travis Scott = Fred Again

Hozier > Gerry

Cench < Catfish

 

Think we can expect something like this but I can't imagine them booking 3 rappers considering they haven't had a single rap headliner in the last 2 years. Maybe a indie band like Pulp in for Cench? Idk

[charlierc]

2 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Could see some of those lower down the pipeline, but... maybe not.

I mean, with Kasabian, feel like Reading>Didcot/Abingdon and Sheffield>Leeds is too close. I thought they might be a shout for it tbf, but yeah, not them now.

 

In any case, didn't look like there were any shared names in 2019 (when I visited Truck) or last year, or maybe I'm just being too lazy to truly scroll through the data and check for sure. At the very least the top-end Truck names are likely out, so that's no to the likes of Courteeners, NBT, Franz, Last Dinner Party, etc for R&L. Some of them played R&L '24 though so that's perhaps not a surprise.

[OddRon]

Hope we get Wet Leg

[Andre91]

41 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Brie and cranberry? Hmmm, I have my doubts on that, despite the obvious success of the combination. Keep me posted on flakiness. 

I thought the Brie and cranberry would make the pasty soggy but they’ve come out wonderfully! 
 

However, these are the best of the lot. Stilton and Plum & Apple Chutney Angus Sausage Rolls. Absolutely unbelievable. 

Edited 7 hours ago by Andre91

[Andre91]

1 hour ago, Muppetmark said:

Bmth x Chappell

Eminem x cench

Travis x hozier 

I’d be happy with that as it would mean BMTH and Chappell Roan on the same day. 
 

I struggle to think of two artists I would be less interested in than Eminem and Central Cee back to back. 
 

Would be a bit bummed to miss Travis. Imagine the change in energy from Hozier’s set to his?

[nathanh]

Delete posted twice by accident

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[nathanh]

27 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Would be a bit bummed to miss Travis. Imagine the change in energy from Hozier’s set to his?

I imagine the crowd for Hoziers set would be awful for him because it will be made up of Travis' fans. Of which, I imagine, very few care about Hoziers music.

Despite not caring for Hozier myself I really do hate to see the energy get drained out of a set by a sh*t audience waiting for someone else.

[Andre91]

22 minutes ago, nathanh said:

I imagine the crowd for Hoziers set would be awful for him because it will be made up of Travis' fans. Of which, I imagine, very few care about Hoziers music.

Despite not caring for Hozier myself I really do hate to see the energy get drained out of a set by a sh*t audience waiting for someone else.

Yeah, he’ll be on a hiding to nothing if he’s playing before Travis. 

[tomarchbold]

2 hours ago, Andre91 said:

I thought the Brie and cranberry would make the pasty soggy but they’ve come out wonderfully! 
 

However, these are the best of the lot. Stilton and Plum & Apple Chutney Angus Sausage Rolls. Absolutely unbelievable. 

i told you man!

 

moo and blue is supreme

[Andre91]

Final post from me today about The Great Sausage Roll Experiment. Six different variations, all absolute hits except the Black Pudding & Sun Dried Tomato ones. Not too keen on those (I would eat them but not before any of the others). 
 

Let’s get back to lineup discussion, eh? 😂

 

Travis Scott will pull a Billie Eilish in 2019 level crowd. 

[tomarchbold]

10 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Final post from me today about The Great Sausage Roll Experiment. Six different variations, all absolute hits except the Black Pudding & Sun Dried Tomato ones. Not too keen on those (I would eat them but not before any of the others). 
 

Let’s get back to lineup discussion, eh? 😂

 

Travis Scott will pull a Billie Eilish in 2019 level crowd. 

unhappy to have not been invited

[Chad888]

Central Cee into Travis Scott makes sense because the hype, the material, the crowd demographic. There will be a lot of burned tents that night.

 

Chappel into a rock act with a big show like Foos or BMTH makes the most sense again, because the glammy music fans that enjoy Chappel will enjoy the rock show afterwards.

 

Hozier into Post Malone, again you have Hoziers southern gothic and dark sounds which appeals to contemporary soft music fans, going into Posties white guy hip hop crossovers.

 

This is logical to me, but obviously FR will split the days to sell weekends.

 

FRI// Hozier >> Post Malone

 

SAT// Central Cee >> Travis Scott

 

SUN// Chappel Roan >> Foo Fighters (BMTH)

[OddRon]

Controversial I know but if there’s a particular act that’s gonna attract tent burners, then I don’t want them to be there. 

[tomarchbold]

30 minutes ago, OddRon said:

Controversial I know but if there’s a particular act that’s gonna attract tent burners, then I don’t want them to be there. 

agreed, i do not want travis scott - he attracts a crowd i do not want but thats pretty darn seflish

[Chad888]

1 minute ago, tomarchbold said:

agreed, i do not want travis scott - he attracts a crowd i do not want but thats pretty darn seflish

 

I've said it before—Bru-C, Digga D, AJ Tracey at Reading 2022 were honestly THE worst crowds I've ever seen. Not in terms of size but the middle class British teenagers that are desperate to be gangster with no accountability.

 

Watching an older gent probably 45-50 stood there and some scrote in a Gucci bucket hand did a running punch straight into his stomach, as a gang of teen girls clad in the latest boohoo scant minidresses found it to be the most hilarious thing in the world.

[JH92]

Surprised no one has suggested chatli xcx as a contender. Imo would be a dead cert. My punt / guess.

 

Headliners 

Tame Impala / Charli XCX / BMTH

 

Subheadliner

Lorde / chase & Status / halsey

 

Chevron

Pinkpantheress / Architects / Jamie XX

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[tomarchbold]

2 minutes ago, JH92 said:

Surprised no one has suggested chatli xcx as a contender. Imo would be a dead cert. My punt / guess.

 

Headliners 

Tame Impala / Charli XCX / BMTH

 

Subheadliner

Lorde / chase & Status / halsey

 

Chevron

Pinkpantheress / Architects / Jamie XX

seems charli is headling parklife 

[JH92]

8 minutes ago, tomarchbold said:

seems charli is headling parklife 

Reading never seem to get the acts when they hot!

[Andre91]

I can only talk for Leeds, which doesn’t seem as bad as Reading in general for trouble. 
 

2021 was really bad for campsite trouble but it was the first festival of any kind in two years; people lost their heads like wild bloody animals. Horrible, horrible festival. The worst I’ve ever been to. 
 

2022 was nowhere near as bad. Atmosphere was way more like a normal Leeds. 
 

2023 I didn’t go. 
 

2024 I didn’t see any d*ck head behaviour at all either in the arena or the campsites (and I had a walk around nearly every campsite over the course of the weekend). All of the aggro characters had been replaced with bored ones. 
 

I don’t think booking Travis Scott would attract any different a crowd to who turns up any other year in recent years, tbh. The festival is already full of his target audience. Travis Scott and Eminem? Maybe, who knows? I’m not so sure, myself. 
 

 

Edited 17 minutes ago by Andre91