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Hoping for a couple of Foo Fighters, MCR, BMTH or MGK. Olivia Rodrigo would be a superb pick too. Looking forward to next year reverting to traditional size main stage subs rather than “six headliners” and FR hoping we don’t notice.

They’ve announced a mid-July Cardiff gig now as well as an Edinburgh date, can only imagine it means they’ll kick on after R&L. Give me some arena dates

Fully confident I’m the only person wanting to see Gerry then Prodigy

Think it’ll be a mini tour of venues like the Ritz, academies, Ally Pally etc, but hopefully they do a good few dates. Sets them up nicely for an arena run in November/December.

Played our lass some Sleep Token and she said it’s Rob from Don Broco behind the mask, that’s me done for the week

Someone’s sorted* the clashfinder btw: https://clashfinder.com/s/read24/? Leeds: https://clashfinder.com/s/leeds24/

Cheers, the proper poster is ridiculous. This edited poster shows just how stupid the day splits are, Blink vs Prodigy, Fred Again vs Sonny Fedora. There’d be proper rock, dance and indie days if Fred/Lana swapped with LG/CATB

Have to share this review of TLDP’s Prelude To Ecstasy, a very good riposte to some of the discussion we’ve seen on here the last few days: https://www.live4ever.uk.com/2024/02/review-the-last-dinner-party-prelude/

Predicting the Blink, Prodigy, Gerry and TDCC clashes is going to haunt me right until the week of

Poster dropped on Twitter, guess we’ll have to wait for the inevitable NME interview for info on the stages, nothing on the R&L website

@Benjcongratulations sir on the success of the #bringbackthebigtent campaign 🫡

Get anyone like that and this festival will have truely gone to the dogs

I’m on the case in the background at work, no news yet 😂

Funnily enough in one of the interviews I read (BBC I think) they were talking about how they were playing a South London pub with 30 people in the crowd and a videographer with an indie YouTube channel was randomly there filming. He did a video on them and it helped them grow and get signed. I do like stories like that in all fairness

Unlike Wet Leg who got the push because people at The Guardian and their local vegan cafe thought they were cool

It’s purely the marketing for me, personal opinion of course but musically I think TLDP and Wet Leg are two of hundreds of bands with a similar(ish) sound. Not saying TLDP haven’t put the work in but they’ll probably be announced in a 4pm main stage slot at R&L tomorrow having played 300 cap venues last year. It’s a big rise and they’ve obviously got something going for them but it’s been an inflated rise. I’d not heard of them before their recent round of interviews off the back of the Brit Award Rising Star award

It can also go the other way fwiw, Wargasm are still shite even with the backing

It’s the marketing I have a problem with. Indie’s always been popular but Wet Leg are as bang average as any other indie band. Benj’s point at The Last Dinner Party is a good example, not identical musically but in 2023 they were playing clubs, all of a sudden they’re playing every academy in the country at £35 a go this year and are getting decent airtime, interviews and other promotion. By no means the first band to make the jump but there’s nothing groundbreaking about them. At least Wet Leg will get cast aside now with them coming through

There’s so many generic, samey artists around that it’d be a huge coincidence if it wasn’t formulaic. Once a genre is tried and tested it’d be easy to do

This is some of the background I was after, cheers! After Wet Leg I look at artists who blow up overnight with a very sceptical eye. Or maybe I’m just getting old, I’d never heard of Raye until about a week before the first announcement

I wouldn’t read too much into the news highlight, it’s standard email marketing. Genuine question but is Raye genuinely decent or is she being driven by industry, awards and reviews?

It looked like one band wanted to be there and the other didn’t in 2022. Arctics were shocking. BMTH‘s staging is also insane.

I know they get a lot of stick but Catfish’s headliner reveal post got the most engagement of the lot. Whether that translates into ticket sales is another question but it does mean something.

Don’t think some of the setlist exactly lended itself to pits but it was far from dead on Friday. No Happy Song was a shame, 2021 tour and Leeds Fest did seem livelier though.

It’s a good point, he didn’t encouraged pits as much as he used to on Friday. I wonder if that’s because they’ve had to pause gigs on this tour a few times due to injuries, according to setlist.fm. Although, my other half says he did egg on the crowd but sounded like he wasn’t supposed to. Side note, just remembered I saw a lad in the Sheffield pit with his arm in a sling, still going for it. Proper made me laugh