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Same for ArrDee. That scene moves on quickly.

Kerry did an interview like a week again saying he hasn’t spoken to Tom since they broke up and doesn’t feel the need to, that Tom despises touring and that he doesn’t think Slayer will be back any time soon 😂 Main Stage sub next year, for sure, I would think.

There were no riots.

Seconded. One of the best headline sets I’ve seen at Leeds.

Biffy are a headline act still. At this festival and Download.

It’s the same for people who say Download should give KoRn a headline slot. Why bump KoRn up when you can have a headline act with KoRn playing under them?

They need just one small tent at night at Leeds playing rock and indie music. They used to have a Propaganda night on the Thursday. There’s needs to be some alternative to dance music. There would be enough people to have a rock/indie night each night in one of the small tents. Hell, even if it’s just one or two nights.

BMTH are too heavy to headline the Pyramid, no matter how much more pop leaning their newer material is. Their songs are still downtuned to hell and contain too many unclean vocals. There is no precedent for a band with vocals as extreme as theirs playing high up the pyramid, let alone headlining. They would make a fantastic Other headliner, however.

It’s their best album. Every single one of them is an absolute superstar on it.

Yeah, that would be nuts. The tour setup is unbelievable, I went last week. I think they will play third down Main in 2025, though. Get that big production up on that big stage. Download is going to be awesome.

They’re free from their label now. I don’t think we’re going to be waiting too long for new material. They’ll capitalise off the most successful year they’ve ever had. This Is Why isn’t crap, btw. It just isn’t.

But you will find yourself looking upwards because of the display. I can only imagine what The Prodigy and Skrillex are going to do with such technology, they’re going to make it a key part of the performance with the graphics and lights they choose. Again, it’s immersive. It’s not completely the same but it brings to mind the Las Vegas Sphere. You would say ‘you’re going to be looking at the stage’ for that venue, would you? No, because the whole idea of it being so immersive is the appeal and the point in it existing. The same for this stage.

The LED display is part of the performance. It’s immersive.

It’s been discussed before but I think Paramore are main headliner or bust. They sold out the biggest tour of their career on this record, won tonnes of awards and the most critical praise of their careers and they’re supporting the biggest tour in the world. They’re only going to get bigger support Taylor. If they’ve got a record out in 2025, I’d bet on them being at R&L. A slam dunk booking.

Bleachers one day?

I’d put money on Foos being there next year.

Some predictions for the big stages… MAIN: Paramore, Olivia Rodrigo & Foo Fighters CHEVRON: Bicep, Chase & Status & Becky Hill RADIO 1: Bombay Bicycle Club, IDLES & Little Simz I think they’ll go back to having 3 Main headliners next year. Maybe they had most of this year’s six booked when they thought they’d still have two Main Stages so that’s why they’re billed as headliners even though we know they’re glorified subs. If they do persist with marketing six headliners, I’ll go with this: MAIN: Paramore, Olivia Rodrigo, Foo Fighters, Tyler the Creator, Tame Impala & Kasabian.

The 1975 secret set for the laughs.

Prodge clash with Gerry PLEASE

The Dance Stage is the old tent, isn’t it? Because for the last couple of years, the tent used for the Dance has been massive and I thought it was the old R1 tent being used. Could be wrong.

Wolf Alice will never headline a major festival like R&L or Glastonbury.

I’ve just had the Official R&L Spotify playlist on for an hour and a bit on a drive and this lineup is absolutely stunning. I’ve just heard so many songs by people I’ve never listened to and I only skipped a couple of tracks, those being the old Skrillex songs because they sound so dated now and a couple of the house DJs. Yours Truly were fun old early 2010s pop punk, Crawlers are great, Bad Nerves and Mannequin Pussy were really good. Jorja Smith has some amazing songs. What a lineup.

Yeah, they’re just subs now, aren’t they. Especially this year, in terms of stage show, what are Gerry and Catfish going to have? A backdrop? What does Lana have? A video screen and a swing? It’s definitely not like the situation you’ve mentioned with BMTH and AM having not setups. I guess it’ll depend on the year.

Also, Chadders can put his pitchfork away now because it’s definitely named after the shape that is a part of their logo and branding 😂 @Chad888

Some interesting quotes from the article for people who don’t want to scan through the full thing: ‘The Chevron will boast the world’s first outdoor floating LED video sky canopy, and has been created especially to host dance music, pop and hip-hop acts.’ ‘The 40,000-capacity open-air venue’s video canopy will be made up of hundreds of thousands of programmable LED lights, “turning the sky into a dazzling, reactive display” and boasted as “a feat of engineering, as the LEDs will appear to be hovering in the air”.’ ‘A press release revealed: “The canopy will bathe the audience with dynamic light and the mesh is 90 per cent transparent, so fans can dance under the open sky into the early hours.”’ ‘I felt that I could still accommodate the six headliners on what would essentially be Main Stage East,” Benn exclusively told NME. “What I was seeing was an emergence of a really strong popularity of dance music coming back again in a very powerful way. We needed to look for a different environment of a stage’ ‘I also really wanted to have a stage that dance acts, hip-hop acts [and] pop acts could all feel that it was their own. The Chevron is building on the Reading & Leeds logo, and it just happened.’ FullSizeRender.mov