Reading Festival 2011

[Dan R]

Am I the only person who finds rumours of Foo Fighter's Green Day, Strokes, Muse, Kasabian and so on really dull?

What I love about R+L is that they take risk's with headliner's, offering alternative's to the constantly touring, obvious festival bands

It's just exciting when you see a line-up with some thought put into it, and a bit of originality

[paulomas]

well yeah, i agree with muse. but foo fighters havent played for years and the strokes havent played since 2002. there's only a certain amount of bands out there who are big enough to headline a festival. unfortuntely they go on a rotation until other bands get big enough to do it.

you have other festivals like glastonbury who can get completely unique and different headliners each year because it caters for so many different music tastes. the problem with R and L is that its either rock or indie really

[Budweiser]

Friday

Greenday

Saturday

Foo Fighters

Sunday

System of a Down

Edited August 16, 2010 by Budweiser

[Dukeeyyy]

something along the lines of:

Fri (Leeds), Sun (Reading)

Main Stage

Linkin Park/ Iron Maiden

Soundgarden

Avenged Sevenfold

Feeder

Dropkick Murphys

Less Than Jake

Rise Against

36 Crazyfits

Zebrahead

My Passion

Radio 1/Nme Tent

Glasvegas

The Temper Trap

The XX

Sat (Lee) Fri (Rea)

Main Stage

MUSE

The Strokes

Vampire Weekend

The Enemy

Editors

The Subways

Good Charlotte

Foals

Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly

Blood Red Shoes

Radio 1 / Nme Tent

Bullet For My Valentine

Gogol Bordello

The Hives

Sun (Leeds) Sat (Reading)

Main Stage

Foo Fighters

The Prodigy

30 Seconds to Mars

MGMT

The Coral

White Lies

Bombay Bicycle Club

Goldheart Assembly

Young Guns

Radio 1 / Nme Tent

Hot Chip

The Dead Weather

The Mars Volta

Edited August 14, 2010 by Dukeeyyy

[lharris92]

something along the lines of:

Fri (Leeds), Sun (Reading)

Main Stage

Linkin Park/ Iron Maiden

Soundgarden

Avenged Sevenfold

Feeder

Dropkick Murphys

Less Than Jake

Rise Against

36 Crazyfits

Zebrahead

My Passion

Radio 1/Nme Tent

Glasvegas

The Temper Trap

The XX

Sat (Lee) Fri (Rea)

Main Stage

MUSE Green Day

The Strokes

Vampire Weekend

The Enemy

Editors

The Subways

Good Charlotte

Foals

Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly

Blood Red Shoes

Radio 1 / Nme Tent

Bullet For My Valentine

Gogol Bordello

The Hives

Sun (Leeds) Sat (Reading)

Main Stage

Foo Fighters

The Prodigy

30 Seconds to Mars

MGMT

The Coral

White Lies

Bombay Bicycle Club

Goldheart Assembly

Young Guns

Radio 1 / Nme Tent

Hot Chip

The Dead Weather

The Mars Volta

[rexclark]

Muse say they're taking a break after this current tour, so I'd say they're unlikely. I'm going with something like My Chemical Romance, The Strokes and Green Day. Wouldnt be suprised to see a new headliner like Kaiser Chiefs or somebody instead of either GD or Strokes though.

[Vieuphoria]

Friday

Offspring

[rexclark]

They could only just reach 2nd top now... no way will they headline. Maybe an NME headliner... but far too small to be main now.

[Vieuphoria]

Yeah totally, 3rd seems like a fair place for them as of this moment. 2nd is too high for em. They're part of a large group of bands who were huge, but really arent popular anymore.

[Smally]

Kaisers were boring last year. I can't remember who I was gonna watch but I ended up at the back being very disappointed.

[rexclark]

I still say Daft Punk for headliner, It would be an immense booking.

[Smally]

Glassjaw to headline the lockup.

[rexclark]

Soulwax, Viatlic, 2 Many DJs and Erol Alkan for the Dance stage. This years Dance stage is shit.

[Smally]

f**k yes to all.

[ap3311]

Looks good but Soundgarden would never sub, they'd headline Download instead for sure.

Would also swap Muse for someone better. Soundgarden or Green Day would make that one hell of a lineup.

[rexclark]

Looks good but Soundgarden would never sub, they'd headline Download instead for sure.

Would also swap Muse for someone better. Soundgarden or Green Day would make that one hell of a lineup.

[Electricityscape]

Speaking of Dj's. I'd like to see Deadmau5 on the NME stage somewhere.

[JonnyHarper]

I don't understand why people think the offspring are big enough to headline, they haven't done anything remotely notable in years and even back in the day they weren't that huge.

[Vieuphoria]

I still say Daft Punk for headliner, It would be an immense booking.

[Asher7]

Can we just clear this up once and for all. Soundgarden are big enough to headline. They're a very big band, they haven't played in europe for 10 years, there's massive hype for them to return and they're at least as big as Blink and Arcade Fire. Besides, they will almost certainly be offered headlining slots at both sonisphere and download, as both organisers are big fans. Why would they reject those offers for sub-headline spots at reading and leeds. If R&L want to get Soundgarden (which I don't think will happen) they will HAVE to offer a headlining spot.

Meanwhile Offspring are sub-headliners at the highest.

[Vieuphoria]

Can we just clear this up once and for all. Soundgarden are big enough to headline. They're a very big band, they haven't played in europe for 10 years, there's massive hype for them to return and they're at least as big as Blink and Arcade Fire. Besides, they will almost certainly be offered headlining slots at both sonisphere and download, as both organisers are big fans. Why would they reject those offers for sub-headline spots at reading and leeds. If R&L want to get Soundgarden (which I don't think will happen) they will HAVE to offer a headlining spot.

Meanwhile Offspring are sub-headliners at the highest.

[rexclark]

I think that seems really dull. I've really never seen the fuss over them. I think i'd have them down to headline Other stage at Glasto.

[Electricityscape]

I guess it all depends what music you like but I can assure you that a Daft Punk live show is unlike anything else you will ever see.

[rexclark]

Not a huge fan of Daft Punk but i'd go to see them just for the display.

[PigOnAntibiotics]

Reading would never get someone like Daft Punk as a headliner. Justice to headline NME is entirely possible though.

Muse are going away for a few years now, so they won't be playing Reading 2011.

Looks like Green Day are wrapping up for a while as well.

Linkin Park are dead certs as 2011 headliners, they haven't played Reading in years and they've got a new album coming out soon. Can't see any reason they wouldn't be doing 2011 festivals and they've done both Download and Sonisphere relatively recently, can't see where else they'd want to play.

The Strokes and Foo Fighters look pretty likely as headliners as well.