2012 Lineup

[Hart Attack]

If Sonisphere is gone for good, could this mean Reading bringing back more heavy acts? With Sonisphere out of the picture, and thus more rock/metal bands available and a whole target audience now left with just Download, it might open the door for Reading to lean a bit more in that direction again...

[JFKvsNixon]

I think Download has that end of the market sewn up.

[Yellow_Fellow]

I think so. Makes sense.

[Dukeeyyy]

Do you reckon the news that Efests and Strictly have got is the same? Seems a bit of a coincidence.

I really want to find out what this is, i hope it's nothing bad!

[Cydonia_90]

Ah man, this is tense...

[moz4pm]

Don't shoot me down for this friend of a friend info but... A manager at my work just told me her friend who works for one of the ticketing agencies said that the tickets for Leeds are barely selling. Very worrying, I go mainly cos I live here, I wouldn't make the trip to Reading.

[kev1664]

I'm also nervous the way this news is being hyped up.

[kev1664]

Don't shoot me down for this friend of a friend info but... A manager at my work just told me her friend who works for one of the ticketing agencies said that the tickets for Leeds are barely selling. Very worrying, I go mainly cos I live here, I wouldn't make the trip to Reading.

[RichieParf]

Maybe its that ALL the Sonis are going, not just the UK one. It would be ludicrously coincidental if two major UK festivals announced that they were cancelled on the same day.

Edited March 28, 2012 by RichieParf

[lightning1000]

Don't shoot me down for this friend of a friend info but... A manager at my work just told me her friend who works for one of the ticketing agencies said that the tickets for Leeds are barely selling. Very worrying, I go mainly cos I live here, I wouldn't make the trip to Reading.

[JFKvsNixon]

I believe that Soni France and Soni Spain have both announced acts recently, so they're going strong it seems.

[mrtourette]

Do all the people who are "tense" or "worried" really think that this has anything to do with R&L? Learn to read between the lines (or in fact just read).

[rug568]

Cancelling Leeds now would be an almighty fuck up. The bands would be pissed off, some might pull out Reading etc. Also haven't FR increased the capacity?

If there is another UK festival about to be cancelled, i would put my money on T in the Park.

[FortMorris]

Maybe Melvin will cancel Leeds so he has more money to fund our free beer and burgers down in Reading

[RichieParf]

I'm getting annoyed at the number of people (NME, Strictly Reading among them) who are including glastonbury among the year's cancelled festivals in their reports on Soni. Taking a year off, as Glastonbury has always done every few years, is very different to cancellation.

[FortMorris]

There are few from the Soni line up I would want. Hundred Reasons playing Ideas above our stations would be pretty sick.

Hardly anything else though.. not majorly my sort of fest though.

[eFestivals]

I'm getting annoyed at the number of people (NME, Strictly Reading among them) who are including glastonbury among the year's cancelled festivals in their reports on Soni. Taking a year off, as Glastonbury has always done every few years, is very different to cancellation.

if you read shit places you get shit news.

[Mouseboy11]

Any room left for AWOLNATION on the line up?

[mrtourette]

Of course there is, how high do you think they'd play?

[Mouseboy11]

I imagine some around opening the second or somewhere on the FR

Quality live act and their album Megalithic Symphony is great would recommend it!

Edited March 29, 2012 by Mouseboy11

[VCK]

They should move the site back to Temple Newsam. Smaller to accomodate the lesser ticket sales, plus it's easier to get to from where I live than Bramham is.

[rivalschools.price]

Maybe Melvin will cancel Leeds so he has more money to fund our free beer and burgers down in Reading

[FortMorris]

Maybe he will chuck in some cheese too.

[JBarbour]

Its hard to see LN or FR cancelling a festival when some of the top level staff are on their high horse about soni getting cancelled. Although it wouldn't surprise me if they scaled back leeds. Reading and Leeds is FR flagship event it would be a really hard decision to make.

I think soon we'll see LN festivals and FR festivals coming under one 'department' within the company. It would be cost saving and more productive

[thetime]

im sure most festivals are selling as slow as r&l, so lets cancel the lot of them.