2025 R&L Festival

[kirkwood]

8 minutes ago, BenG92 said:

As a reminder, for 2024 they dropped 3 more big names (Prodigy / 21 Savage / Jorja Smith) 6 days after the initial reveal

This reveal is a month later than last year though so who knows whats going to happen

[Andre91]

2 minutes ago, CG31 said:

Add Architects inbetween I say

Nah, don’t bother with those bores. 

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

8 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Becky will 100% headline the Chevron. It’s made for artists like her. Shikari subbing BMTH would be lovely.

Shikari have said its their biggest ever slot so must be sub.

Edited December 5 by Chavmeisterdeluxe

[Andre91]

The whole two Main Stages and 6 headliners thing was such a massive failed experiment. A period we will look back on and scratch our heads at in years to come. 

[jonnyisRFC]

Amyl And The Sniffers

Bloc Party

Soft Play

The Chats

High Vis

BMTH

Enter Shikari

 

There’s quite a lot for me for the first announcement tbf! 
 

[jonnyisRFC]

Btw, if anyone is unaware of High Vis, go and listen to them right now. 

[Andre91]

1 minute ago, Chavmeisterdeluxe said:

Shikari have said its their biggest ever slot so must be sub.

Where have they said that? 

[Chad888]

Remember that 2 headliners dropped out though (Foo Fighters and Central Cee). 

 

It was BMTH | Travis Scott | Foo Fighters

 

With (unbooked) | Central Cee | Chappel Roan & Hosier

 

This is news from my mate out in Doha...

 

Foos dropped out and Chappel got jumped up. Central Cee was then left limbo where they had 3 headliners and him with Hosier the glorified 3rd leftover. He wanted headline, they offered 2nd. He pulled out.

 

 

[jonnyisRFC]

I know the line up never really goes down well on twitter, but Jesus Christ 😂 read the replies to R&Ls post on twitter, people HATE it. 

[Andre91]

6 minutes ago, Chad888 said:

Remember that 2 headliners dropped out though (Foo Fighters and Central Cee). 

 

It was BMTH | Travis Scott | Foo Fighters

 

With (unbooked) | Central Cee | Chappel Roan & Hosier

 

This is news from my mate out in Doha...

 

Foos dropped out and Chappel got jumped up. Central Cee was then left limbo where they had 3 headliners and him with Hosier the glorified 3rd leftover. He wanted headline, they offered 2nd. He pulled out.

 

 

Don’t believe you. 

[charlierc]

7 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

The whole two Main Stages and 6 headliners thing was such a massive failed experiment. A period we will look back on and scratch our heads at in years to come. 

It was an interesting idea but yeah, they do seem to have been quick enough to can it.

 

I think there's a universe where it could've worked given I'd seen it at both Mad Cool & Lollapalooza Paris and thought it was quite smooth but the way they did it didn't really work. It is what it is.

[tomjfx]

I really thought they'd got Eminem 

[charlierc]

6 minutes ago, jonnyisRFC said:

I know the line up never really goes down well on twitter, but Jesus Christ 😂 read the replies to R&Ls post on twitter, people HATE it. 

It's not really gone down much better on the Reddit or Facebook comments either tbh.

[charlierc]

Just now, tomjfx said:

I really thought they'd got Eminem 

Perhaps it was just a case of Eminem or Travis with the money they had to play with.

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

10 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Where have they said that? 

From kerrangs article

 

"Speaking about their return to the fests, Enter Shikari say, “It’ll be great to be back at Reading & Leeds for 2025. We’ve got a long history with the festival, having first played in 2007. We’ve set records for the amount of crowd surfers over the barrier, and the amount of sets played over the weekend, so it’s awesome that we’ll be back again playing our highest ever slot on the bill. Right now, it’s looking like these will be our only UK shows of 2025, so we’ll have to make them count. We’ll be like uncaged animals by then.”

[Tom Connolly]

can’t even lie i think it’s a brilliant lineup 

[Newjem]

20 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Just put Wallows on for the first time and they’re really good. 

Can you gimme 13 reasons why?

[callum97]

So Saturday at Reading could be 

 

BMTH / Shikari / ? / ? / pale waves / Bilmuri 

[jonnyisRFC]

Just now, callum97 said:

So Saturday at Reading could be 

 

BMTH / Shikari / ? / ? / pale waves / Bilmuri 

I really don’t mind enter shikari, but are they really big enough to sub? 

[TownNation]

10 minutes ago, tomjfx said:

I really thought they'd got Eminem 

Same, gutted they haven't but a few acts I'd like to see and just have to wait for an Eminem tour at this stage I think.

 

Intrigued to see more acts in the weeks and months to come so I can start planning properly.

[mentalgellar]

Buzzing to see Bilmuri on this line up.

[Jericode]

Bilmuri is a great get, they really surprised me supporting Sleep Token

[SleepingGiants]

Not everyone will agree but I think for the price the lineup is pretty shocking and a sign of how far the festival has fallen.

 

The undercard is diabolical for a festival of such stature - you can easily see better undercards at fractions of the price (see Superstruct).

 

and then the headliners! A couple of them wouldn’t have even subheadlined even 5 years ago! 
 

I do struggle to understand what people see in the lineup other than a huge waste of money.

[Andre91]

The more I look at it, the more I like it. 

[Andre91]

Soft Play headlining the Radio 1 Stage against Hozier would be a smart booking and something I could see being a reality. 
 

Wunderhorse to headline it against BMTH?