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Haha Brummie Beatles sounds like a brilliant idea (weird, I was only listening to All You Need Is Love this morning). I've been to a couple of small festivals and I liked how chilled out they were, but one day, one day! When the line-up is unmissable, I'll have to try a big one.
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It seems very odd that the tacked on day last year is the only day this year that seems to have had much organisation and thought gone into it. Announced early with a well thought out bill announced in the following weeks. It's the only day that holds a candle to last year.
I think that expectation from last year may be a problem - their 2nd-on-the-bills last year were cracking quality acts that you would either not see at other festivals, or certainly not that high on the bill. Dave Matthews 2nd from the top at V or Reading...never. Fleet Foxes were on early afternoon at Glasto. But they were well placed acts that went with the respective headliner and that the people who HRC is aimed at would want to see regardless of whether they are tearing up the charts.
Whilst Ben Harper isn't on the same level as FF or DM (IMO), it's still the only evidence this year that good thinking is going on when it comes to planning bills. PJ could have put that bill together themselves it's so well suited to them. I am hoping for several collaborations.
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I'm not aware of any Foo plans at the moment, so he could well be. I would imagine that you will get some kind of special guest.
I had heard it was Richie Sambora who was going to come on stage with Springsteen, as he was seen watching from the side.
I'm leaning towards Wonder for the Sat night - as I can't see why they would turn down the oppertunity to have him if he's available. For me personally it's not as interesting a line-up as last year - but the PJ day looks to be one of the best Day bills of the summer, and the calibre of the other two acts is likely to provide sell-outs for both those days!
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There's never been a "hard rock" act, it's just the sponsor name. Hard Rock itself doesn't even have a sole connection with hard rock, just all kinds of rock music.
Like T in the Park. You shouldn't go expecting music to drink tea in a park to...
(I know T is the Tennents logo...)
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I was hoping McCartney would play on Sat when I already have Gaslight Anthem tickets, and there'd be a good headliner for the Sunday. Boo.
Bet the Sat headliner will be ace now. Oh well...GA have sold out, so if the Sat headliner is once in a lifetime and awesome I'll sell my GA ticket, I'll see them on the Friday anyway with PJ.
Also - Paul McCartney = Hard Rock????? Yet more evidence they need to change the name back!! It's embarassing enough having the Hard Rock logo printed 12 times on the stage alone (we know you sponser it, we see your stands and we saw it on the ticket...enough!!), but it's just compounded by the fact that what's coming off the stage is blatently not hard rock. I dare them to advertise it as AOR Calling instead. Hyde Park Calling was a far better name. Hard Rock Calling could be anywhere in the world - it's not special.
Hmmm. This reads back far tetchier than I intended. I wish I didn't think McCartney was a c*@!. It'd be easier.
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Enquiring minds want to know! I guess having the PJ announcment before Xmas just makes everything seem like it's taking longer.
I don't entirely reckon Slash could do a second on the bill slot without having a tip-top vocalist, and far *FAR* better songs than were on his first solo album.
14 yr old me is still disapointed with that pile of poop.
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Hmm...the Scottish papers seem to think that McCartney will be officially announcing the Hampden Park date within the next 24 / 48 hours, along with other UK dates. I reckon that we might hear something within the next few days then to confirm him either way. I hope he's on the Sat when I already have Gaslight tickets!
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He sells out Arena tours pretty well, and at the very least it should look good. Not sure how well his voice is holding out though. Meatloaf and Slash would be a line-up that I would see simply cos I'm in London anyway for that weekend - it's not the sort of line-up that would convince me to make the trip up from plymouth in the first place.
I actually get the feeling they might be struggling for headliners this year - either that or they are trying to get different headliners from the other fests after having two duplicates last year, not that I was fussed!
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Gaslight have just had venue upgrades for their headline shows. That pretty much confirms it for me - they'll get announced as headliners of both the Saturday and the Sunday soon.
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If Pearl Jam are the only 'exclusive' headliners then it's going to be very difficult to sell 2x60,000 tickets in 3.5 months for headliners that might also be playing elsewhere, and that will have had their other major shows go on sale first. For me that points towards them having 2 other 'exclusives' in their belt somewhere...but time is moving on, and people might have spent all their money on the other festivals!
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Coheed and Cambria and The Hold Steady are both playing London shows in the week leading up to HRC. I'm not sure of CoCa as a HRC band unless one of the days is considerably more Hard Rock than the others, but The Hold Steady have HRC written all over them - they'd be ace and I'd love to see them added. Plus I already have tix to CoCa's headline at the Forum, I can't afford THS headling tix as well!
I would imagine that come first week of March the bigger slots will all get confirmed.
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Ben Harper deserves to be higher up than Wolfmother, for sure... Still cool though.
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I'm not fussed about duplicates of last year when it's Harper and Gaslight. They went down so well last year, with both their profiles rising significantly, that it would be silly not to book them if they are in the country at the time. To be honest if they got rid of Wolfmother and added Fleet Foxes and Dave Matthews to the Pearl Jam day I'd drive up to London and hug each and every one of the bookers right now. I'd never seen Dave Matthews or Relentless 7 before the last festival (heard a few Matthews tracks, and seen Ben Harper years ago supporting Metallica of all people!) but they both blew me away and I'd be more than happy to watch them again.
I think with one or two exceptions that I've wiped from my mind, last years Sat and Sun main stage line-ups were some of the best and most coherent 'one-day festival' style line-ups I've seen in a very long time. It looked like genuine thought had gone into them. Apart from the twat that booked James Morrison.
Hoping for Midlake on the Pepsi stage this year. Coheed and Cambria are playing the Forum on the 24th, so I wonder if they will get a slot on the Sat or Sun, I think they'd go down well.
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I don't think RATM will do HRC, but I reckon there's a chance they will use the Hyde Park stage set-up for the free gig. That stage will be set up in Hyde Park for 2 - 3 weeks for various gigs, there's bound to be a day where it's unused that a promotoer could nab up for this free gig. If the stage is already there then it'll cost the promoter a huge amount less to put on.
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The Gaslight Anthem's UK dates leave them free for both Glasto and HRC.
June 22 - Birmingham (UK) Academy 1 (headline show)
June 23 - Glasgow (UK) ABC (headline show)
June 24 - Manchester (UK) Academy 1 (headline show)
June 25
June 26 - London (UK) HMV Forum (headline show)
June 27
June 28
June 29 - Oxford (UK) Academy 1 (headline show)
After their performance last year, I can't see the organisers being worried about having them 2 years in a row! Their new album should be out that week too.
Even if their not - then the chance of PJ on Fri and a GA headline show on the Sat make for a great weekend!
Hard Rock Calling 2010
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