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2 minutes ago, NoBuses said:
He couldn't sub but I reckon he'd get a big crowd in an afternoon slot. He has so many classics
Yeah agreed, my mates and I would all be there and I’m sure many other people would be too, just not relevant enough to replace capaldi on the bill for me
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Just now, Paulmcm1998 said:
It's not really that much different from giving the wombats or two door cinema club a 3rd down spot like they all have the hits and none of them are likely to ever headline the thing so it's a good booking in my eyes
Some of the wombats’ biggest songs came out in the last few years and two door have continued to put out a few relatively well performing songs, though granted not as big as their first album. Dizzie Rascal hasn’t been relevant since 2011, so I don’t think he can sub off a hype that died 10 years ago
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They couldn’t have shifted disclosure over to the right when they edited the poster?
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Just a quick question not worth another thread, I assume the shuttle boat to the campsite from the green car park at reading runs on the wednesday for early birds?
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31 minutes ago, Andre91 said:
Showing my age a bit here but what is Kid Laroi? Is he from TikTok? I could Google him but what’s the fun in that? I’ve seen his name mentioned loads but don’t have a clue who he is, and I’m usually at least somewhat aware of most artists who get suggested.
Yep tiktok. His song Without You blew up on there
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2 minutes ago, dentalplan said:
Is it? I think it was growing when it was introduced in 2013 but now rap is so popular that it was last on FR, The Pit and all over R1 and Main Stage (now with a headliner or two every year) so it's not really necessary anymore.
Stage looked tragic in 2019. Dappy!
Aye that's where I got the idea. Just wondering because it does seem like they might have to get rid to make space for another Main Stage. All just a guessing game at the moment.
Yeah I'd say so. Rap in general has definitely spread across the other stages, but the kind of rap that kids out of year 11 listen to is very much still the 1xtra stuff, along with those that are big enough to be on main and R1. Personally, nobody I know of went to the pit or FR for any rap acts and speaking to most people my age, they say they spent all their time in the 1xtra
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1 minute ago, dentalplan said:
Maybe. Maybe I'm just thinking of something FR hasn't caught up to yet.
Another idea that would probably be better than what they have now but not perfect, would be to alternate between 1Xtra and The Pit in the same stage. So for instance this year they could have one day 1Xtra on the day Liam Gallagher and QOTSA headline, and the other two days The Pit.
It doesn't give them the versatility that abolishing the stages would but at least it should mean that they can just programme a stage that is an alternative to what's on main, rather than closing early or having weird gaps in the middle of the day because the main stage draw is too strong.
Not sure they'd want to get rid of/reduce the prominence of the 1xtra though, I feel like it's only growing in popularity
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20 minutes ago, dentalplan said:
Have we talked about the possibility of them getting rid of the Pit and the 1Xtra names but keeping the stages and changing them to genre non-specific stages? The 1Xtra Stage is pretty much redundant nowadays and The Pit has its struggles. Dance Stage obviously has its place but other than that, wouldn't it make sense to just have stages where they can book any act regardless of genre? Like pretty much every festival.
If the R1 stage is gone then forcing themselves to book acts into particular styles because of the remaining stages seems illogical, especially with it being seemingly quite difficult to fill out a full day without opening late or closing early.
So something like: Main Stage East, Main Stage West, Festival Republic Stage, R1 Dance Stage, Pepsi Max Arena, Barclaycard Stage.
I like this idea. It would mix up the groups a bit more since I feel like very specific groups stick to the pit and 1xtra. I didn't go to the 1xtra at all in 2019 because of the kind of crowd that's there 24/7, so it would be nice to open up the stages to everyone while also giving the more niche genres exposure to a wider audience.
Edit: The Dan Carter tweet seems to go against this idea though, no?
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Just a tweet for the Tom Grennan album, disappointing
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1 minute ago, Jack.194 said:
Mate honestly give your source or absolutely no-one will believe you
Idk, sounds pretty convincing to me
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12 minutes ago, K2001 said:
Same here. Although I did read something somewhere on here about all/most of the ones for this year (possibly last year) not actually having a pre announcement before so wouldn’t be surprised 🤷🏻♂️
@Jack.194 Did you notice any trend in pre-announcements over the past couple of years during your browsing?
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3 minutes ago, Gerard the Fab said:
Think we should all have a break tbh lad and just leave it until the announcement
Pretty much what I said in my message, people seem to have got the wrong end of the stick
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Just now, Andre91 said:
My head is gone.
Sorry for updating him on what everyone's been talking about since the last announcement since he clearly isn't up to date, have a break mate
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29 minutes ago, TownNation said:
I'm hoping obviously it's the former and they're pulling in a couple of big names, for co-headline and whatnot. If that is the case tho, who can you realistically cop in those positions?
Won't be any more headliners. A couple of subs tops depending on the Yungblud and AJ Tracey placements and whether R1 is gone or not. Just have to wait and see now, I think every possibility for these positions has been discussed already
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1 minute ago, TheWaters said:
The Vaccinee have just posted a video of them playing Reading a few years ago with no explanation. Probably means fuck all but it’s given me a little hope they might be booked/announcement coming soon.
Probably the best of the “booked too often” lot cuz they’re actually fun live
I’ve seen videos of the frontman looking batshit mental haha, I can imagine the PR team having a good laugh making the announcement
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1 hour ago, Known-Radio said:
Hopefully its just me being negative..... Sold out or not, surely if they had something coming that they knew was really exciting they would want to put it out. If they know there line up is dissapointing they may not want to put it out because they know as soon as they do there will be alot of dissapointed people and potentially alot of people selling there tickets.
Hopefully i'm just reading into this too much and being a bit of a downer
Yeah people selling on their tickets means nothing to FR, the money is already in their pockets. Realistically they have no need to do anything now since they've sold everything already, so the ball is very much in their court when it comes to the next step and they can do whatever they like. With that said, the wait for another announcement could mean that they are hoping to secure another couple of names to make it a great announcement and please the fans, or it could mean that they're sitting back and relaxing because the important part is done. Could go either way
Edit: Another possibility is they're trying to negotiate with reading council first and that's delayed because the council want to wait to see how the roadmap goes, just another idea
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36 minutes ago, Jack.194 said:
Bit of a mammoth post, apologies.
Spent the past half hour or so looking at previous announcements to see what days/months are most common, and just generally what patterns there are. Also looked at ‘pre-announcements’ and saw how common they were, and how long before the actual announcement a pre-announced usually comes.
I only went back to the 2015 festival, as that’s the first one I attended. I’ve also counted big announcements only, so only announcements that contain: headliners; a large number of fairly prominent acts (I haven’t included the BBC Introducing Stage or Alternative Stage announcements); or a change of poster.
Here’s what I found.
Pre-announcements:
Pre-announcements happen for the absolute majority of Reading and Leeds announcements. 18/24 announcements (75%) had some sort of ‘we’ve got some names for you coming up’ style pre-announcement, with the most amount of notice being 2 weeks 3 days, and the least amount of notice being 3 hours. The majority of pre-announcements - 5/18 or 27% come exactly 1 week before announcements.
Pre-announcements by day of the week:
The majority of pre-announcements (38%) came on a Friday, and there were no pre-announcements at all on Tuesdays.
Monday - 3
Tuesday - 0
Wednesday - 2
Thursday - 2
Friday - 7
Saturday - 3
Sunday - 1
Pre-announcements by month:
The majority of pre-announcements (27%) came in February, although 22% came in January. There were no pre-announcements in June, July, September, October, and December.
Announcements (by day of the week):
The majority of announcements (38%) came on a Thursday, and there were no announcements on Saturdays or Sundays.
Monday - 2
Tuesday - 7
Wednesday - 3
Thursday - 7
Friday - 5
Saturday - 0
Sunday - 0
Announcements (by Month):
The majority of announcements (29%) came in February, with no announcements in June, July or October.
This whole thing is obviously heavily inspired by TheGlastoThingy, of which I am a big fan. I’m also a bit of a numbers and stats geek, so loved doing this.
If anyone finds it interesting I’d happily go back to further years (although at a point it gets tricky, as the RandL Twitter account - which is the source I used - only goes back to 2009, and isn’t the easiest to de-code in the first few years of the account going live. Or I could add more minor announcements such as the smaller stages, or single band announcements - of which there’s quite a few.
So, from a purely statistical point of view (which means it’ll almost certainly be wrong, especially considering the fact the last two festivals have played fast and loose with announcement trends) I’m predicting our next announcement to be a full poster with stage splits, and I’m guessing it’ll come Thursday 25th March, with a pre-announcement coming 6 days before on Friday 19th March.
Enjoy!
This is the kind of post I love to read, great work mate 👍
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Since they were last mentioned I had a look at some of Circa Waves' live sets and they look like they bring heaps of energy, so I've gone from being happy with them as an addition to having my fingers crossed they'll be added
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46 minutes ago, Gerard the Fab said:
Don’t get me started buddy
Here we go
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10 minutes ago, thewayiam said:
Even though I've not seen live music properly for a long time, I have zero regrets in not doing so. It's not a top tier Reading lineup by far and now they have the sell out they don't need to spend on anyone too big at all. It's all just save from a year we couldn't go ahead.
I'd expect most of the lineup (big names at least) to be agreed at least verbally by now. I don't expect the sellout to have much of an effect on it
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Hello FR, announcement soon please lads
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Just now, Andre91 said:
We can’t be talking where the stages will be placed again.
We can’t be talking about whether the R1 stage will still be a thing again.
Damn it, this thread needs a lineup announcement ASAP.
It's all we've got mate, now where do you think the dance tent will be??
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Just now, Gerard the Fab said:
They’ve since come out saying no main stage clashes, they’re alternating
Sounds like they decided they didn't need as big a lineup since they can sell out the festival anyway. Shame
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21 minutes ago, OnlyRevolutions said:
also just noticed this on the article that was posted on the website when the line-up was announced
'Yeah that’s right, 2 main stages, 6 headliners and no clashes between the headliners. We repeat NO CLASHES!'
'no clashes between the headliners' implies that other acts lower down the bill could clash with each other, so maybe these stages aren't going to be as close to each other as we were expecting and that MSW can just act as the R1 tent with acts playing when other acts are playing the main stage
4 minutes ago, Dukey said:Could be true - and then maybe 8/9 bands per main stage
That would sort out the problem of losing a load of acts then. While it'll be a shame to lose the atmosphere of the R1, my main concern was the number of slots lost.
This brings a new factor into the placement of the stages though; can't have the two stages too close together if they'll have acts on simultaneously.
Edit: The wording of that article is too specific for me to overlook it. I don't have hope for the R1 anymore
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Not sure they'd go for three heavy bands to headline R1, maybe one tops. More likely to be one pop/rap, one rock and one dance