Kanye West

[ArcticMonkeys333]

Of course so unlikely and there is alot of people who dislike him but my goodness he would be good so any news,rumors or chances of him playing

[Yellow_Fellow]

Please! Would love it, not too outrageous imo, it's not unknown of Benn to do this.

[Role Model]

Would be a brilliant booking, but it won't happen. Festival sadly isn't diverse enough, too many people thinking its a ROCK festival.

[rexclark]

No chance. I'd say there's only a handful of Hip Hop artists that'd get booked and I doubt he's in them.

For the record I'd say acts that could get booked would be Eminem, Dre Dre, Wu Tang, Snoop Dogg, Public Enemy, MC Hammer.

[mrtourette]

Also Vanilla Ice.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Please! Would love it, not too outrageous imo, it's not unknown of Benn to do this.

[Yellow_Fellow]

Biggest one I can say off the top of my head is 50 Cent in 2004.. I'm not saying no one expected it because I wasn't into festivals per se back then, but he obviously doesn't fit in with the rest of the lineup, as is my point here.

[jump]

f**k Kanye West!

No chance. I'd say there's only a handful of Hip Hop artists that'd get booked and I doubt he's in them.

For the record I'd say acts that could get booked would be Eminem, Dre Dre, Wu Tang, Snoop Dogg, Public Enemy, MC Hammer.

[Yellow_Fellow]

He isn't dead! Haha!

And is that more controversial than Fiddy?

[jump]

He isn't dead! Haha!

And is that more controversial than Fiddy?

[kibble]

I wouldn't mind it. But it'd probably be Public Enemy out of that list.

[mrtourette]

This would be a spectacularly bad move. Not because I'm a 'small-minded rock fan', but because it would be a spectacularly bad move. Mevin Benn's done it before? Melvin Benn only works on the headliners, so yes he's done it before. Once. 10 years ago. And Kanye West isn't exactly the same sort of artist as Eminem was. 50 Cent was a total disaster. And before anyone strarts pulling out Public Enemy or Jurrasic 5 or Cypress Hill as examples of 'hip hop' that have been at Reading before, they're about a million miles away from Kanye West.

[dirtydenzel]

What happened at 50 cent was a joke.

He was quality and the crowds response to him was laughable, for fans of music who are meant to be open minded.

Think this incident burnt the bookers fingers

Afew years later J5 ripped it up though, get Charli 2na as the small tent headliner !

[mrtourette]

People don't like arseholes. It not as clear cut as not being open-minded, sure there will also be a natural reaction to American RnB/Hip Hop stars but what took 50 Cent to another level is that people hated him regardless of his music, and I think Kanye West would be the same. It wouldn't be as bad as in the last seven years musical barriers have been broken down, but there woould still be a lot of resistence.

[jump]

I completely agree that there would hate (a lot from me alone) towards that twat West but thinking about it he's more accepted with the NME than 50 Cent was, it's probably more on par with MCR than fifty.

[dirtydenzel]

Twat or not, he has consistently produced high quality albums, together with a fantastic live performance.

Good songs, good performer = a sound festival headliner choice.

Unless they continue to re-cycle previous headliners, I think they could do alot worse than step out of their comfort zone and book him, however I highly doubt it.

Over the past, say 10 years of R/L there afew headliners that I think you'd look back and be embarrassed at their booking, with Ken West I doubt that would be the in case in five years time.

[jump]

Twat or not, he has consistently produced high quality albums, together with a fantastic live performance.

Good songs, good performer = a sound festival headliner choice.

Unless they continue to re-cycle previous headliners, I think they could do alot worse than step out of their comfort zone and book him, however I highly doubt it.

Over the past, say 10 years of R/L there afew headliners that I think you'd look back and be embarrassed at their booking, with Ken West I doubt that would be the in case in five years time.

[RichieSpenno]

Would love Kanye. Though I'd rather have him at Glasto, would go down better.

[OKB]

Of course he will not play. Rappers rarely ever make an appearance at R+L.

[Yellow_Fellow]

Take away the music