Reading Festival 2011

[Elvin]

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Friday: Muse Thirty Seconds To Mars

Saturday: Daft Punk The Prodigy

Sunday: Foo Fighters Biffy Clyro

[jonnyisRFC]

Gaslight Anthem 4th Year in a row, 2nd from top mainstage

[kev1664]

Gaslight Anthem 4th Year in a row, 2nd from top mainstage

Edited November 19, 2010 by kev1664

[Dave The Hedgehog]

I want Rob Zombie to play, f**king annoyed about Brixton being sold out and the touts on ebay want silly money for tixs.

[jonnyisRFC]

Yeah you're right. There is talk on there official forums of new material coming out next year so I expect to see them back summer 2012 playing a slot they deserve.

[PurpleFire]

Loving The Strokes Roumor!!! This could be shaping up to be one of the best Reading and Leeds Festivals in recent years. Would still love to see Foo Fighters but im only wishing now i belive.

[Vieuphoria]

Really?

The thought of My Chemical Romance and The Strokes headlining, to me at least, sounds weak as piss.

[RichieParf]

Really?

The thought of My Chemical Romance and The Strokes headlining, to me at least, sounds weak as piss.

[Vieuphoria]

yeah but the point is when these bands headlined they had strong other headliners to counteract the "risk".... Razorlight had Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Smashing Pumpkins, Rage had The Killers and Metallica (not that Rage's hype needed any propping up, that set of headliners was really strong), Franz Ferdinand had Muse (at their peak) and Pearl Jam, The Darkness had The White Stripes (at their peak) and Green Day (again at their peak).

I just see having one risky band and one smaller band headline as kinnda weak.

[zeppelin]

Really?

The thought of My Chemical Romance and The Strokes headlining, to me at least, sounds weak as piss.

[rexclark]

Well I can't say I'm too excited about the names being thrown about. The Strokes are good but past thier prime IMO even although they've not been around that long. MCR have some great songs but I don't know if they'll translate well into a headline performance.

I'm just hoping for Suede on the Radio 1 to at least balance things out a bit.

[thetime]

Well I can't say I'm too excited about the names being thrown about.

[rexclark]

think it will be the same for every major festival this year rex. its going to be a year of mass predictable headliners.

[VCK]

think it will be the same for every major festival this year rex. its going to be a year of mass predictable headliners.

[RichieParf]

yeah but the point is when these bands headlined they had strong other headliners to counteract the "risk".... Razorlight had Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Smashing Pumpkins, Rage had The Killers and Metallica (not that Rage's hype needed any propping up, that set of headliners was really strong), Franz Ferdinand had Muse (at their peak) and Pearl Jam, The Darkness had The White Stripes (at their peak) and Green Day (again at their peak).

I just see having one risky band and one smaller band headline as kinnda weak.

[the_mars_volta]

I think it's going to be Linkin Park, The Strokes and My Chemical Romance.

[rexclark]

I think it's going to be Linkin Park, The Strokes and My Chemical Romance.

[Joe-]

I think we need really strong NME headliners.

[willutalk]

How do you make these line-ups??

[Joe-]

How do you make these line-ups??

[sehguh]

just made an account to say my opinion. I plan to go Reading next year and it will be my first festival, as much as it will be real fun disregardless of who plays the Friday line-up is terrible. I wouldn't wanna see the first four bands that night and Slipknot whenever, it's just tasteless metal and sold-out whatever. I'm hoping Radiohead make a new release then they might play but The Strokes would be good, also hoping The Maccabees will play (them having a new album soon) and possibly The Streets (new album too) both on the NME stage. SOAD would be a very nice addition and I would really like to see The Dillinger Escape Plan but they seem abit random, even on the small lock-up stage thingy, is there any reason why you think they will play?

[Yellow_Fellow]

I'd welcome DEP to Reading. People seem to forget, within the last 5 years we've had Slayer, Mastodon, Metallica, Rage Against The Machine, with Slipknot and, although weak to my point, Avenged Sevenfold both booked to play. Reading does have the capability to book heavy acts, which they will hopefully embrace more this year.

Edited December 15, 2010 by Yellow_Fellow

[sehguh]

Also how f**king awesome would it be if At The Drive-In reformed randomly and headlined haha and yeah (I have no idea to tag Fevtival Freak's post here haha) it would nice to have a good mix. Also imagine if Battles played haha they wouldn't fit really but that'd be immense

[Vieuphoria]

I swear battles played a couple years back?

[dan666]

I swear battles played a couple years back?