Staggeringly good headliners

[Just Jake]

I think both of these are very unlikely. It doesn't look like Prodigy are doing UK shows, and one of the Beasties is ill with cancer so it seems unlikely that they'd be taking bookings for shows.

[Leyser]

And very many people who think MCR will be in the tent this year

Drop it! Mcr could headline R/L. If they do, fine I will be somewhere else. If Green Day is above them, fine I will be somewhere else. Completely subjective but of you like TITP, go there. We are aware of 3 bands that will probably be headlining R/L how can you base a line up on that.

For all we know the subs are Elbow, Pulp, and System as a special guest

[Yellow_Fellow]

MCR could be in the tent this year, they're no more warranting of a main stage headlining appearance than Lostprophets..

[saints15]

At the time and The Libertines were bigger than Arcade Fire and probably still are, so it wouldn't surprise me if a band bigger than MCR sub

[kev1664]

Paramore were crap last year, the slot was way above them, there sound didn't carry well on the main stage the three bands before them (Cypress Hill, Limp Bizkit & Weezer) sounded much better and tbh all three of them showed paramore up, as well as Blink after them. It just shows that popularity should not be the main criteria when positioning bands at a festival.

[Hart Attack]

Really? I thought they were great, as did everyone I was there with...

[ArcadeMonkeys]

Really? I thought they were great, as did everyone I was there with...

[Guess Who]

I've seen them a few times during their own gigs, 100times better than they were at Leeds, and agreed on the poor sound quality, not sure if it was their fault or not though, is it their job to do it or the sound people/behind the scenes people?

[mrtourette]

Weezer sounded fantastic and Paramore sounded dreadful, I never understood how the sound quality could vary between two bands playing one after the other. It wasn't like the weather suddenly changed.

[Yellow_Fellow]

different sound guys...

[kev1664]

I've seen them a few times during their own gigs, 100times better than they were at Leeds, and agreed on the poor sound quality, not sure if it was their fault or not though, is it their job to do it or the sound people/behind the scenes people?

[Captain Frogarm]

Really? I thought they were great, as did everyone I was there with...

[RichieParf]

You were obviously escorting a group of 12 year old girls to their first reading festival then?

[Yellow_Fellow]

i like paramore but they were terrible.

[Hart Attack]

You were obviously escorting a group of 12 year old girls to their first reading festival then?

[purplehaze81]

At the time and The Libertines were bigger than Arcade Fire and probably still are, so it wouldn't surprise me if a band bigger than MCR sub

[jump]

That's true actually. Maybe some other group will come back from beyond the grave?

[scottt]

People hear what they want to hear. The people that liked them at Reading were people that liked them before they got there. The people that hated them hated them before they got there. Simple maths is good maths.

[Bisque]

Weezer sounded fantastic and Paramore sounded dreadful, I never understood how the sound quality could vary between two bands playing one after the other. It wasn't like the weather suddenly changed.

Edited March 10, 2011 by Couchy

[kev1664]

Probably weather & the sound engineers setting up for Blink. I remember at Reading it got pretty windy at one point on the Sunday, marquees & tents were flying around in Purple before we went to go see Limp Bizkit but that was well before Paramore.

Sound engineers shouldn't cock it up as technically there are 2 PA systems running in a sense. 1 system for the band currently playing & another set up the the band sound checking behind the scenes/on next. They play out of the same speaker stacks, so I guess it's a bit like a DJ mixing between the two bands I guess. This makes turnovers quicker, important for festivals to adhere to their licenses & prevents bands over running. So it should have been fine ie Paramore are crap live.

Glad I saw Sub Focus/Magnetic Man destroying the Dance Tent.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

At the time and The Libertines were bigger than Arcade Fire and probably still are

[saints15]

In the UK, perhaps. Globally, definitely not.

[1mills]

I'll just point out yet again that exactly the same things were being said this time last year about Arcade Fire.

There were actually a very large number of people who thought them only big enough to headline the tent. How stupid does that idea look now?

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Yeah but R&L isn't a global festival

[Leyser]

It's very much a global festival.