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  1. Here's a curveball - how about Slipknot for MSW?
  2. There will barely be a fraction of the energy the crowd in this video has when they play.
  3. I hope so. They are a bucket list act. Even just a one off show in Sheffield would be great. The two Roses singles were underwhelming I thought, they sounded like a band trying to sound like the Roses. Also there's some bangers on the second half of Second Coming. Good Times, Tears, Begging You and, of course, Love Spreads. Hugely underappreciated album, I've always thought, though I'll agree the first half is stronger.
  4. I think that Cure booking was the last time the organisers really thought outside the box. We've had some fantastic bookings for headliners since, but none of them have been particularly surprising. Even RATM, who are to a lot on here the most exciting name in years, have a pretty big history with the festival and it was fairly obvious R&L were at least going to go for them as soon as they announced their reunion. I didn't go in 2012 but I can imagine they didn't draw too big of a crowd either, at least in comparison to the two other headliners that year. I made the mistake of assuming that Pulp will stick around like Blur and the Roses did after their reunion so the fact I didn't get a day ticket in 2011 or see them in Sheffield the following year (low funds) will live with me forever. But I respect the manner in which they chose to bow out. We Love Life is the perfect conclusion to their discography and any new material would just ruin that. I'm also glad the Roses didn't go ahead with this third album they supposedly had in the pipeline. Going by the two new songs, it was going to be a disappointment.
  5. Interesting. As immense as they were in 2009 the crowd wasn't the liveliest and quite a lot of people I spoke to weren't too fussed about them playing, and that was back when that sort of music was a lot more popular with the R&L audience, so imagine if they were booked to play in this day and age. I wonder if other acts like The Cure and Pulp have a similar attitude towards the idea of playing again.
  6. Fair points, but you of course have to take into account that BMTH and RATM have sizeable followings overseas compared to Royal Blood, and I can imagine that puts their Spotify listeners up. Half those acts you listen haven't (yet) played high Main Stage slots at R&L yet, but Royal Blood have twice, and I feel the organisers have been grooming them to eventually headline one day. R&L definitely need a new-ish rock act to push up to headline to freshen things up on the rock front. The only headliner over the past five years who fit that criteria are The 1975. In that time period, meanwhile, we've Kasabian, Muse, Fall Out Boy, Kings Of Leon, Foo Fighters, Liam Gallagher and now Arctics and Rage, all acts who have been in the game well over a decade, nearly three in the case of Foos and Liam. I can't think of anyone better for that than Royal Blood.
  7. I think at this point they've more than earned their shot at it. Three consecutive number one albums, we've had headliners in the past who have achieved less. I'm also sure they'd be a bigger draw than RATM will be this year.
  8. Billie Eilish / The Strokes Royal Blood / Doja Cat My Chemical Romance / Sam Fender
  9. The Manics and The Libertines, who are both generally regarded to be Indie, were punk, or at least the Manics were in their early days. Also thrash metal like Metallica and Slayer were directly influenced by hardcore punk. It was basically punk rock that incorporated classic rock influences, which was so against the grain of punk that it was punk as fuck to do that. Or something.
  10. Kids do like them, they just don't quite have the "cool and artistic" credibility the music press has assigned to the sort of pop acts R&L book.
  11. All correct. I loved going to Download in 2019, a friendly festival with a great atmosphere, but their problem is that they rarely take risks. I think the only times they've took gambles on an unconventional headliner by their standards were Feeder in 2005 and The Prodigy in 2012, so, years ago. They should be looking at what R&L is becoming and planning to overtake it as the UK's premier rock festival rather than just appealing to a very particular niche demographic of guitar music fans. Likewise, TRNSMT could become the number one rock festival if they just branched out from Radio X Indie type stuff. Both festivals need to think outside the box a little. R&Ls move away from rock has blown the market wide open.
  12. It's no co-incidence that R&L started moving more towards pop music after 2017, when V Festival was cancelled. The festival is simply filling the void in that particular market. R&L has always booked genres that are popular among the youth. The problem is that despite the amount of great rock bands to have come out the past five years or so, the music press does very little to promote them. They've been pushing this idea that rock is old, stale, boring and archaic. When there is quite clearly a market for rock music among young people. The occasional band that gets promoted, like Royal Blood and IDLES, seem to excite younger people.
  13. Throw in some Indie to balance it out, and also old school hip hop like Nas, Public Enemy and Wu-Tang along with a few current Grime and EDM stars, and it'd be perfect. Everything for everyone. Just like how R&L used to be, the perfect balance of not being too mainstream, not too leftfield.
  14. Have been thinking this as well. Like you say Download is a little to the heavy side and TRNSMT is a little too Indie. R&L traditionally held the perfect balance between both. In one of my first years of going in 2006, you had the likes of Arctic Monkeys and Kaiser Chiefs sharing the Main Stage bill with Slayer! Would never see something like that nowadays. I think a huge factor in R&L becoming more poppy is the cancellation of V Festival, which in turn used to host a lot of alternative rock acts back in the day.
  15. Liam feels a little underwhelming so far. Kind of reminds me of The Libertines set in 2015. Both came after great subheadline slots by each artist.
  16. Oh wow, Liam did Go Let It Out at Leeds, nice.
  17. I'm at that age now where I have no idea who half these artists are. The Kid Laroi? Never heard of him, don't recognise a single one of his songs, and he's 3rd down.
  18. Just read they're splitting up because they're upset that they struggled to break America. Something even British names as big as the Roses, Manics, Libertines, Blur and Pulp never managed to do. Bunch of fannies.
  19. Well some people expected Catfish to be this generation's answer to The Stone Roses, and there you go. Breaking up after a dreadful set at Reading 😂
  20. No proper live stream then. They did this in 2015 and it was lame.
  21. I'm sure the second Main Stage at Leeds is fairly close to where the Main Stage was originally situated before they moved it around 2010-ish. I will try and dig out one of my old programmes/lanyards from the 2000s to see if I can confirm this!
  22. Liam Gallagher's setlist from the other night: https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/liam-gallagher/2021/the-o2-arena-london-england-2b8cb4b6.html Perfect for a festival headline slot. He played Go Let It Out too!
  23. It seems to me like the second Main Stage is similar to the Other Stage at Glastonbury. It might work, scrapping the NME/R1 Tent for good and just having an open air second stage.
  24. Do they have a massive poster just stuck onto the back of the Main Stage there?
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