Staggeringly good headliners

[borobud]

I'm sure everyone will remember the NME/Newsbeat article and the main quote of all 3 headliners been;

"staggeringly good"

So do people think that Muse, The Strokes and My Chemical Romance fit this description (If these are the 3 that is). Bearing in mind 2 of the 3 are playing other UK festivals in non headlining positions, so would this not devalue the image and booking power of Leeds/Reading? And ultimately mean they are not 'staggeringly good' headliners, and R+L are no longer seen as a major player in the festival booking game?

I am optimistic, although i would not have a problem with those 3 headliners all be it they are questionable i think it may be more a case of:

MUSE

elbow

GREEN DAY

my chemical romance

BLUR

the strokes

Or Maybe have The Strokes headling and Pulp as the sub.

Fire away!

Edited March 9, 2011 by borobud

[jump]

I'm sure everyone will remember the NME article and the main quote of all 3 headliners been;

"staggeringly good"

So do people think that Muse, The Strokes and My Chemical Romance fit this description (If these are the 3 that is). Bearing in mind 2 of the 3 are playing other UK festivals in non headlining positions, so would this not devalue the image and booking power of Leeds/Reading? And ultimately mean they are not 'staggeringly good' headliners. And we are no longer seen as a major player in the festival booking game?

I am optimistic, although i would not have a problem with those 3 headliners all be it they are questionable i think it may be more a case of:

MUSE

elbow

GREEN DAY

my chemical romance

BLUR

the strokes

Or Maybe have The Strokes headling and Pulp as the sub.

Fire away!

[purplehaze81]

Bearing in mind 2 of the 3 are playing other UK festivals in non headlining positions.

[mrtourette]

Or Maybe have The Strokes headling and Pulp as the sub.

[Cieran]

Tbh, I can see Melvin pulling something out the bag.. something we have not came across yet.

Blur would most defiantly be a better headliner than f**king MCR.

Edited March 9, 2011 by Cieran

[PurpleFire]

Have to wait and see, its just one of those threads that show peoples opinions and differnced over MCR headlining again.

If the headliners you have there, with Strokes, Muse and Green Day would be a very strong line-up. Very very strong in my opinion, I just hope Mr Benn dosn't thing that 'Staggering' applys to MCR because i think 85% of Leeds Festival goers will think they are 'OK' more 'Suprising' not Staggering!

But as reports on here are saying it will be the three very strong roumours that will headline!

[borobud]

Unfortunately i do not work for Festival Republic no otherwise i'd attempt to book decent bands.

And ah shit yeah forgot Oxegen is in Ireland not Northern Ireland, my mistake but still same principle applies subbing at Oxegen.

I agree i still think there's some twists in the tale. Fingers crossed anyway.

[Dirty Boots]

The Strokes, Muse and My Chemical Romance are not 'staggeringly' good headliners.

[Hart Attack]

I'm still holding out some faint hope for Green Day.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Tbh, I can see Melvin pulling something out the bag.. something we have not came across yet.

Blur would most defiantly be a better headliner than f**king MCR.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

The Strokes, Muse and My Chemical Romance are not 'staggeringly' good headliners.

[borobud]

Someone mentioned yesterday in the post about them announcing UK events when Awesome As F**k live album is released it may just be them bringing the American Idiot musical to the West End but i highly doubt that as it's just been stated that ticket sales on Broadway for it have plummeted due to Billie Joe leaving the role of St.Jimmy and it's threatened with closure over there so i'd say it was unlikely they would be brining it to the West End so god knows what this 'event' may be if it's not American Idiot musical related. Hopefully R+L.

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Come to think of it he didn't actually say "staggeringly good" just "staggering".

[eFestivals]

The Strokes, Muse and My Chemical Romance are not 'staggeringly' good headliners.

anyone who believed Melvin's words would fit their own personal opinion of what is 'staggering' is somewhat of a fool.

It's marketing guff. He's not going to say "we've got three bands, but lots of people will think that A, B, or C is a poor choice", is he?

Yet the posts here get to show that no matter what three bands were the headliners, lots of people would think at least one of them was a poor choice. That's the result of personal opinion, and not necessarily the result of a poor choice of headliners for the festival.

The simple fact is that no matter what people here think, if those are the headliners they're a more than decent choice for the festival - just as Arcade Fire were last year, which at the time lots of people thought weren't even suitable to headline the tent (which just gets to show that the likes of Melvin knows more than those people do).

[mrtourette]

As in "you will be staggered when you realise how average our headliners are".

[borobud]

Come to think of it he didn't actually say "staggeringly good" just "staggering".

[purplehaze81]

The simple fact is that no matter what people here think, if those are the headliners they're a more than decent choice for the festival - just as Arcade Fire were last year, which at the time lots of people thought weren't even suitable to headline the tent (which just gets to show that the likes of Melvin knows more than those people do).

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Yet the posts here get to show that no matter what three bands were the headliners, lots of people would think at least one of them was a poor choice. That's the result of personal opinion, and not necessarily the result of a poor choice of headliners for the festival.

[MJMilz14]

Blur would be something else entirely. Although I feel sorry for the Glastonbury crowd who thought they were onto something special when they headlined a few years ago.

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The difference is though, Arcade Fire were not sub-headlining (or lower) at another festival in the UK or Ireland. In fact AF headlined Oxegen last year.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

You literally have no clue.

[Cieran]

We're getting Muse.. isn't that big enough!?

[danvb]

Benn is just like any organiser/promoter,hyping up things too much.

strokes are top booking,muse is okay,very common for festivals though,mcr is poor booking for headliner-would they even draw many people to watch,im not sure there anything special live either.

now strokes-blur-iron maiden/daft punk/foo fighter-theirs a good list of proper headliners.

[jump]

Benn is just like any organiser/promoter,hyping up things too much.

strokes are top booking,muse is okay,very common for festivals though,mcr is poor booking for headliner-would they even draw many people to watch,im not sure there anything special live either.

now strokes-blur-iron maiden/daft punk/foo fighter-theirs a good list of proper headliners.

[SamSheppard]

I think its about time people got over the fact of MCR headlining...