Next years headliners.

[stephen07]

Greenday will headline, thats for sure, but the question is whether they will play the 'heavy day' or one of the other two days. If they dont headline on the Reading Sunday / Leeds Frdiay then ACDC will surely be headlining (or less possibly Iron Maiden). I am very confident that KOL or Arctic Monkeys will play but not both together (I think Arctics are most likely as they are british) . Below are some combinations I think possible. Oasis are in with a shout too.

LEEDS DAYS

friday - Greenday

Saturday - Arctic Monkeys or Kings Of Leon

Sunday - Oasis

Friday - ACDC

Saturday - Arctic Monkeys or Kings Of Leon

Sunday - Greenday

Edited September 18, 2008 by stephen07

[nowimjustsentimental]

Just realised I put Flaming Lips twice so I'll replace the Flaming Lips on the main stage with Primal Scream or Glasvegas (who I f**king detest but the NME has crowned "kings of new music". God, they're shite.

[micawber]

Just a pure guess (including the return of many bands to the limelight next year) I could imagine the line up looking a bit like this:

FRIDAY

main stage:

ARCTIC MONKEYS

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS

PLACEBO

THE HIVES

FOALS

radio 1/ nme stage:

BIFFY CLYRO

TV ON THE RADIO

LATE OF THE PIER

ESSER

SATURDAY

main stage:

GREEN DAY

NO DOUBT

FLAMING LIPS

THE CRIBS

GALLOWS

......................

radio 1/ nme stage:

YEAH YEAH YEAHS

VAMPIRE WEEKEND

THE DEATHSET

TWISTED WHEEL

SUNDAY

main stage:

AC/DC (OR AEROSMITH)

NINE INCH NAILS

INTERPOL

THE STREETS

MASTADON

radio 1/ nme stage:

FLAMING LIPS

THE MIGHTY BOOSH (OR FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS)

MUTEMATH

dance stage:

DJ SHADOW/ CUT CHEMIST

SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO

METRONOMY

DATAROCK

concrete jungle:

GLASSJAW

THE BRONX

I'd really love to also see The Cure, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie, One Day As A Lion, Scars On Broadway, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, These New Puritans, Primal Scream and Zico Chain in there somewhere too.

[pink_triangle]

Not so sure about the prestige. I think they are both equal and have relevance to different genres.

[gazza_20]

Greenday will headline, thats for sure, but the question is whether they will play the 'heavy day' or one of the other two days. If they dont headline on the Reading Sunday / Leeds Frdiay then ACDC will surely be headlining (or less possibly Iron Maiden). I am very confident that KOL or Arctic Monkeys will play but not both together (I think Arctics are most likely as they are british) . Below are some combinations I think possible. Oasis are in with a shout too.

LEEDS DAYS

friday - Greenday

Saturday - Arctic Monkeys or Kings Of Leon

Sunday - Oasis

Friday - ACDC

Saturday - Arctic Monkeys or Kings Of Leon

Sunday - Greenday

[gazza_20]

They may both have relevance to different genres but as somoene who prefers leeds to glastonbury even i can accept glastonbury headliner is a more prestigious slot. Gets far more media coverage and viewing figures on the bbc. You only have to look at the money bands will accept to headline glastonbury compared to reading/leeds or v to see clearly it is seen as a more prestigious slot. I dont think any band really headlines reading/leeds without the money being the main priority.

[micawber]

They may both have relevance to different genres but as somoene who prefers leeds to glastonbury even i can accept glastonbury headliner is a more prestigious slot. Gets far more media coverage and viewing figures on the bbc. You only have to look at the money bands will accept to headline glastonbury compared to reading/leeds or v to see clearly it is seen as a more prestigious slot. I dont think any band really headlines reading/leeds without the money being the main priority.

Edited September 18, 2008 by micawber

[twenty_foot_chickens]

Beastie Boys were a punk band, that's why it's heavier in the early days...and yes, they would be the reason i brought my ticket if they played.

Metallica/Rage is not a lack of diversity. What it is i the organizers orgasm. They got 2 of the best live acts in the world, and beat down the line-ups of almost every other festival with those 2 bands alone. And they are MASSIVELY diverse. Other than bad journalists calling them both Metal...It's like saying they're isn't diversity between Public Enemy and Slayer...

Same with Pixies and Foos...they're arn't even close to being that same band. Or even the same genre...Dave Grohl was closer in Nirvana.

Arctics and KOL arn't the same band either...but it's more that 2 bands coming out of the new british music scene (KOL arn't british, but did come from that scene) headlining the festival...i just don't see it. And KOL are most certainly not a south american inspired rock band anymore. The first album sure, the second, fine. But not the third, and really not this new one...they're sound have shifted so massively since YAYMH, they're just another non-discernible rock band. And it's a shame, i loved the first album, and they are undoubtedly fantastic live.

1 of them...sure...almost certainly...but my guess is it Arctics will put out a 3rd album start of new year...and then they'll headline leeds...we'll see

[ste4_20]

Looks quite good, but I don't think that you're allowed Flaming Lips on 2 days

[thomasowen]

No way could Rage against the machine be called Metal, Metallica could be but That is stretching things a bit

[VCK]

No way could Rage against the machine be called Metal, Metallica could be but That is stretching things a bit

[pink_triangle]

I was thinking more about this earlier today (very sad I know). I came to the conclusion that neither festival has much prestige status to anyone outside of the circle of fans inhabiting these forums. I mean, no one gives two hoots about who played Glasto or Reading in 2007, say.

[micawber]

If glastonbury isnt more prestigiuous than reading/leeds then why do bands accept far less money to do glastonbury?? Its not like they play substantially longer sets in reading/leeds or spend far more money on special effects. If its nots prestige thas bringing the price down what is it??

[Greeny_Musicchild]

It's funny that you say only bad journalists would call rage and metallica 'metal', as i'm starting a journalism course in a weeks time, and i'd define them both as metal bands. Getting my career off on the wrong foot. I have next doubted that rage and metallica are two of the best live bands going, but at the end of the day, I, and my others, would consider them to be similar and place them within the same genre of music, and so on that basis, I don't feel there's much diversity between them...it's far from saying that there's no diversity between Public Enemy and Slayer - I can see the comparisons between Slayer and Metallica; but Rage and Pubic Enemy, musically, are a world away.

[twenty_foot_chickens]

Ok, i'll give you it, fine. They are both Metal bands. However, metal is expansive. Rage's unique sound is, at least in my musical world, a long way from the straight thrash Metallica play...but...Rage and Public Enemy musically being a world away??? now that would start your journalism course on the wrong foot.

Get Rage's first album, and get It Takes A Nation Of Millions to Hold Us Back, stick on the former, then after it's done put on the rage album...and oh do rejoice at the massive similarities you will note.

Public Enemy were one of the biggest musical influence on Zac's vocals, and if you listen, Tom's guitars. Listen to how Terminator X's scratching work and compare it to Morellos repeating electronic guitar sound, the way he uses phasers and the toggle switch on his guitar. PE's influence in Rage is massive, absolutely huge.

Rage is Hip-Hop for metal-heads, not Metal for base-heads.

obviously Straight, on the face of it, musically, they are very different. But they ain't a world away. They're barely one street away.

plus, listen to 'She Watched Channel Zero' by Public Enemy, and rejoice in the Slayer sample...fantastic. Metal and Hip Hop are much closer than you think.

[Greeny_Musicchild]

I understand the hip-hop influence on Zac's vocals, no question about that, but musically I fail to see how something like 'Bring the Noise' can be compared to 'Killing in the Name'. They sound completely different! I know that they use the Slayer sample, but that's something in itself, the way that both bands create their music is different. Public Enemy are all about samples, scratching etc... Rage are like any other metal band. I have no doubts in my mind that Public Enemy have influenced Rage, muisically and in politics, but on the face of it, and in deep thought, I feel to see the real musical comparisons.

Like the Beastie Boys, they were punk band who rapped, but then became a straight up Hip-Hop act, and I can barely hear the musical similarities between 'Sabotage' and 'An Open Letter to NYC' - the same band but yet so different.

I do accept however, that at first, I was too closed to the idea that Public Enemy and Rage were similar.

[Technodanceaphobic]

If glastonbury isnt more prestigiuous than reading/leeds then why do bands accept far less money to do glastonbury?? Its not like they play substantially longer sets in reading/leeds or spend far more money on special effects. If its nots prestige thas bringing the price down what is it??

[Matticus]

its to do with the honor and exposure of headlining glastonbury.

[thomasowen]

Glasto may have more kudos (yet again it too has its fair share of embarresing headliners eg Basement Jax, the Killers with their sound problams was a shambles). I believe Reading is a much more personal festival and many of the bands seem to love it eg Rage playing their last show here in 2000 and first since reforming this year, Muse were inspired to form a band after going to Reading, Bloc Party met at Reading.

[Greeny_Musicchild]

its to do with the honor and exposure of headlining glastonbury.

[Sparticus]

Glasto may have more kudos (yet again it too has its fair share of embarresing headliners eg Basement Jax, the Killers with their sound problams was a shambles). I believe Reading is a much more personal festival and many of the bands seem to love it eg Rage playing their last show here in 2000 and first since reforming this year, Muse were inspired to form a band after going to Reading, Bloc Party met at Reading.

[Greeny_Musicchild]

if u think rage played for any other reason than the cash, you're seriously deluded. I've not been to glasto but will be going next year for the sheer variety, also other than the 2 kewl 4 skul lot who go so they can say they were at glastonbury this year, it'll be nice to go somewhere a bit more chilled. I love the banter at leeds but not all the aggro that comes with it, people being mongs and trying to burn each others tents.

[Sparticus]

I agree, but i also do think if rage got offered glasto they would have done it.

[pja92]

maybe in the future if they're not still on the reunion tour next year, but it's highly likely they were approached having played before, but what major fest is going to let u play another festival in the same country for a margin of the price. kinda wish i hadn't seen them though, i liked the illusion that they were some untouchable live band, and they played a standard set with few thrills, definately had no hunger in them to put on a stellar show.

[VCK]

Erm, didn't Rage do TITP before Reading this year?