2012 Lineup

[Role Model]

Maybe if Flo headliners the people saying it's a ROCK FESTIVAL can finally move on and give up. I welcome the move, but I'll be nowhere near the mainstage.

[shinobi93]

To be fair, if these are the headliners, I still say it's better than T, especially since I'm not really a Stone Roses fan. It all depends on the undercard really though...

[Mouseboy11]

They must really be struggling.

[LibertinesFanBoy]

Hopefully Flo is headlining the same night as Maccabees headline NME then, cos I really want to se maccabees. Would say thats unlikely though. Hopefully the other NME headliners are good or we have a decent Lock up headliner that night. Definitely not watching Florence and the Machine and her horrible screechy voice.

[BigC]

Neil, when you say "someone" mailed you, do you mean a trusted source, or just any old guy that has no reliability?

[gazza_20]

I'd say Enter Shikari most likely for NME Flo night but that said, it would mean they'd play the same day at R&L as 2010 just one place up.

[kev1664]

Thats me not getting a weekender if its the case, unless there is a seriously mega undercard. Will be the first reading ive missed since first going in 2008. Wanted to do glastonbury shame its fallow year

[st dan]

It really doesn't make any sense to book Flo as a headliner though does it?

Look at the stick Arcade Fire got last year, and they are an amazingly talented alternative band. Again with MCR, but they at least are suited to the festival.

Florence is an above average pop act at best. Melvin must surely have thought about the abuse he and the festival would get if he booked her to headline. Would he purposely try to alienate at least 50% of R+L go'ers ??

It really does make very little sense at all. He cant have expected a positive reaction from the booking if indeed it is true!

[Eop]

If it is Flo then that is defiantly a weak headliner. I'm not going on albums sold or tickets to shows, i see it as she is subbing snow patrol at T who are then subbing Killers at V. I just wouldn't be impressed at the booking, i can easily see her subbing main stage.

It's all opinion i guess (and i guess other festivals, and the majority of people(?) have a different opinion to Melvin (like MCR last year))

[VCK]

In recent years the 2nd headline slot at Reading on Saturday evening has become somewhat of a "legends" slot, so who do we think could play there this year? New Order maybe?

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

I think that's a very disproportionate statement (50% +). Maybe 50% + on here, but of R&L? I very much doubt it.

[Role Model]

It makes way more sense than MCR did, she'll be very popular and bring in a whole new crowd. It's a smart move. She's a huge global success.

[eFestivals]

Neil, when you say "someone" mailed you, do you mean a trusted source, or just any old guy that has no reliability?

someone new, that I have no previous history with - so I have no way of measuring the quality of the info they've sent.

[Buko]

I hope Florance Headlining is some kind of sick joke, if so our "new" headliner gets worse every year.

I could tolerate Arcade Fire & MCR at least worked their way up the bill and in some respects earned there headline spot,

but Florance will raise more eye brows than any other headline act I think I've ever seen on any bill.

[Vieuphoria]

How amazing is this.

[PigOnAntibiotics]

How amazing is this.

[st dan]

It makes way more sense than MCR did, she'll be very popular and bring in a whole new crowd. It's a smart move. She's a huge global success.

[Role Model]

some people on here really don't seem to clued in with the current music scene, wake up, you might not enjoy it, but turn on the radio every now and again and realise what the world is listening to these days.

[Mouseboy11]

That poster suddenly looks quality.

[eFestivals]

Meanwhile, just had another mail, this time from someone with a history with me.

And they're saying, very insistently .....

Green Day.

However, while this guy has a history, it's not 100% perfect. I have no doubt that they have an inside line with some of what they've previously told me, but without it being 100% I can't put too much faith in it because of the better record around the arena tour thing.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

But there is a certain V festival for people who like her and her machine, and they can have the time of their lives and watch Olly Murs and Nicki Minaj too if they want. If thats the way the festival is going, down the more pop route, then i can see it struggling to sell out. It will never compare to V in that stakes, and with Creamfields the same weekend too it will lose out to that crowd to.

[Role Model]

You Got Mail

[Eop]

some people on here really don't seem to clued in with the current music scene, wake up, you might not enjoy it, but turn on the radio every now and again and realise what the world is listening to these days.

[SpecialAgentKit]

Meanwhile, just had another mail, this time from someone with a history with me.

And they're saying, very insistently .....

Green Day.

However, while this guy has a history, it's not 100% perfect. I have no doubt that they have an inside line with some of what they've previously told me, but without it being 100% I can't put too much faith in it because of the better record around the arena tour thing.

[JBarbour]

Meanwhile, just had another mail, this time from someone with a history with me.

And they're saying, very insistently .....

Green Day.

However, while this guy has a history, it's not 100% perfect. I have no doubt that they have an inside line with some of what they've previously told me, but without it being 100% I can't put too much faith in it because of the better record around the arena tour thing.