2012 Lineup

[mrtourette]

Those figures along with this year's sales patterns would be really interesting but I doubt they'd give them up easily. I'm a bit rusty with regards to my A-level Business Studies but I believe that if FR were a public or private limited company it's accounts would be publicly available form Companies House, although i) I'm not sure what type of company it is, and ii) I don't know if their entertainemnt costs would be broken down in enough detail.

I'm not sure about the 2008 theory, it's three years ago now. I'd have thought that last year's line-up with GNR and Libertines, while maybe not as extravagent as 2008, would be more likely to affect this years budget or want FR to make more profit this year to make up for it. Also would FR have been heavily fined in recent years for to breaking their licence due to GNR playing after the curfew and the problems with fires?

[jump]

Those figures along with this year's sales patterns would be really interesting but I doubt they'd give them up easily. I'm a bit rusty with regards to my A-level Business Studies but I believe that if FR were a public or private limited company it's accounts would be publicly available form Companies House, although i) I'm not sure what type of company it is, and ii) I don't know if their entertainemnt costs would be broken down in enough detail.

I'm not sure about the 2008 theory, it's three years ago now. I'd have thought that last year's line-up with GNR and Libertines, while maybe not as extravagent as 2008, would be more likely to affect this years budget or want FR to make more profit this year to make up for it. Also would FR have been heavily fined in recent years for to breaking their licence due to GNR playing after the curfew and the problems with fires?

[mrtourette]

Yeah I knew the Libs were expensive, GNR must have been towards the upper end of the headliner pay scale as well.

[rexclark]

Did the Libs not get £1 Million? Then I'd assume Blink and Arcade Fire getting less than that between them and GnR getting the bigger amount.

So all in all at a guess the four of those bands could cost at least £2.5 Million and I'd imagine it was probably more so thast could explain why less has been spent this year.

Melvinn is a smart business man. It perhaps hasn't worked out this year but they'll learn from their mistakes and I think next years line up could be very strong.

[jump]

Did the Libs not get £1 Million? Then I'd assume Blink and Arcade Fire getting less than that between them and GnR getting the bigger amount.

So all in all at a guess the four of those bands could cost at least £2.5 Million and I'd imagine it was probably more so thast could explain why less has been spent this year.

Melvinn is a smart business man. It perhaps hasn't worked out this year but they'll learn from their mistakes and I think next years line up could be very strong.

Edited May 20, 2011 by jump

[JC-Mo'Fucka]

I'd like to see...

Daft Punk

Jay Z

Garbage

Wombats

Gogol Bordello

Blur

Manic Street Preachers

Specials

Primal Scream

Gaslight Anthem

System Of A Down

Prodigy

Korn

Rob Zombie

Rancid

[kirstykustard]

Beastie Boys

The Prodigy

Green Day

Lostprophets

Foo Fighters

Biffy Clyro

[Banana Co]

Beastie Boys

The Prodigy

Green Day

Lostprophets

Foo Fighters

Biffy Clyro

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Beastie Boys and The Prodigy hate each other.

Also, why won't Prophets sub?

[Banana Co]

Beastie Boys and The Prodigy hate each other.

Also, why won't Prophets sub?

[mrtourette]

They're shit and they aren't big enough.

Tenacious D have a new album out at the end of this year/start of next year, I can see them subbing someone like the Beasties.

(The first person to start babbling about them subbing Foos and Dave Grohl coming onstage deserves to be shot for being so bloody predictable).

[mrtourette]

They're shit and they aren't big enough.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

They're shit and they aren't big enough.

Tenacious D have a new album out at the end of this year/start of next year, I can see them subbing someone like the Beasties.

(The first person to start babbling about them subbing Foos and Dave Grohl coming onstage deserves to be shot for being so bloody predictable).

[mrtourette]

How are they big enough now when they've played numerous times before and never subbed? That's a genuine question, I don't know much about recent/planned releases and how well they went down.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

How are they big enough now when they've played numerous times before and never subbed? That's a genuine question, I don't know much about recent/planned releases and how well they went down.

[mrtourette]

If they get a massive push. And I think some would say that they've already reached their peak. But I don't know much about them so they may well.

[rexclark]

I really can't see Lost Prophets getting any bigger. Quite the opposite I'd imagine.

[JT436]

Yeah, their last album got nowhere near as much coverage as the previous 2, at least in my experience. They could possibly headline the NME again if it got enough success, but I don't think they're ever gonna get any higher up than that again.

[VCK]

New idea:

FRIDAY

MAIN STAGE

System Of A Down

The Prodigy

Incubus

Bullet For My Valentine

Stone Temple Pilots

Less Than Jake

Flogging Molly

Streetlight Manifesto

Elliot Minor

Cancer Bats

NME/RADIO 1 STAGE

Brother

Mona

SATURDAY

MAIN STAGE

Foo Fighters

Biffy Clyro

Pendulum

No Doubt

Rancid

You Me At Six

Billy Talent

Sick Of It All

Airbourne

NME/RADIO 1 STAGE

Maximo Park

Two Door Cinema Club

SUNDAY

MAIN STAGE

Kasabian

Mumford & Sons

The Gaslight Anthem

The Vaccines

Death Cab For Cutie

Bombay Bicycle Club

The XX

One Night Only

The Young Knives

Wiley

NME/RADIO 1 STAGE

Pavement

The Subways

[Banana Co]

A lot of those placings are completely wrong. Brother and Mona are too high, Mumford and gaslight anthem could be moved down a slot, although I think it's weird to have gaslight and them Mumford. Vaccines won't do a Mumford so they are too high, One night only would possibly open the main stage.

[saints15]

A lot of those placings are completely wrong. Brother and Mona are too high, Mumford and gaslight anthem could be moved down a slot, although I think it's weird to have gaslight and them Mumford. Vaccines won't do a Mumford so they are too high, One night only would possibly open the main stage.

[Banana Co]

A lot can change in a year though, although I do accept that some of them are too high as things stand now but things can change quickly

[saints15]

I was taking the year and a few months into account and I still don't think brother would ever get to the level of headlining NME.

[Banana Co]

Yeah I guess, although they probably think they should be headlining next year!

[JWC126]

Love Brother. They're arrogant little feckers, but they do make some great singalongs. They're not lyrically insightful, they're not The Smiths or Stone Roses, but they could be another Oasis. I reckon they might just be ten years late and a lot of people get turned off by arrogant bastards now when ten years ago that was all the rage.