2013 Lineup

[thetime]

Eventually it was once the other stages were announced, but the original announcement was underwhelming for a lot of people. There's nothing wrong with saying you don't like something, it's a valid opinion and shouldn't instantly be jumped on as moaning or complaining.

[mrtourette]

Yeah absolutely, it's never going to be perfect for anyone. But there's nothing wrong with pointing out what you don't like about it. Admittedly unrealistic or unfair criticism is silly and some won't exactly be constructive about it, but not everyone is like that, some just like to discuss what they think of it and for some of those people it will be negative.

Edited November 28, 2012 by mrtourette

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Dont you think some people have unrealistic expectations though?

Edited November 28, 2012 by thesecretingredientiscrime

[Gravyshambles]

Has The Boss been ruled out yet?

And I wish I meant the Metal Gear Solid character

[lharris92]

Has The Boss been ruled out yet?

And I wish I meant the Metal Gear Solid character

[the wonderwhy]

Has The Boss been ruled out yet?

And I wish I meant the Metal Gear Solid character

[Gravyshambles]

Thank God, I just saw on twitter that he was doing a tour and thought he might be in with a shout. Glad they're stadium shows

[VCK]

To be fair, with the exceptions of 2008 and 2010, there's been no line-up that hasn't been underwhelming since 2006.

[kev1664]

The only way I can see it being a particularly interesting announcement is if they decide they want to release all their decent heavy bands early to kill off any potential Soni return.

Even then I don't think they're going to want to detract from the March announcement too much. The point of this announcement isn't to sell out tickets, they'll want to sell the vast majority of the tickets in March when they're £5-£10 more so will still want a major announcement then.

Edited November 28, 2012 by kev1664

[kaosmark2]

To be fair, with the exceptions of 2008 and 2010, there's been no line-up that hasn't been underwhelming since 2006.

[insideaway]

I reckon they were pretty underwhelming.

[lightning1000]

not seen the 08 line up but the 10 line was amazing, tho it being my first fest may make a lil bias.

[LondonTom]

I'm sure this isn't a presale though. The presale was just after the festival. This is it I think. You can buy tickets from now until the festival, or until it sells out. I think the only reason for announcing early is to sell a shed load of tickets for Xmas. They are not going to be able to do that just by announcing bands that could easily be at download, because the majority would have bought download tickets, either prior to this announcement or have been bought for Xmas.

[RichieSpenno]

not seen the 08 line up but the 10 line was amazing, tho it being my first fest may make a lil bias.

[SoLoCo]

Reading 2013 site incoming.

[the wonderwhy]

I'm sure this isn't a presale though. The presale was just after the festival. This is it I think. You can buy tickets from now until the festival, or until it sells out. I think the only reason for announcing early is to sell a shed load of tickets for Xmas. They are not going to be able to do that just by announcing bands that could easily be at download, because the majority would have bought download tickets, either prior to this announcement or have been bought for Xmas.

[dentalplan]

I'm sure this isn't a presale though. The presale was just after the festival. This is it I think. You can buy tickets from now until the festival, or until it sells out. I think the only reason for announcing early is to sell a shed load of tickets for Xmas. They are not going to be able to do that just by announcing bands that could easily be at download, because the majority would have bought download tickets, either prior to this announcement or have been bought for Xmas.

[brettredmayne]

Im impressed that we still have not had a leak yet

[Dukeeyyy]

Every time i go onto leedsfestival.com i get asked for a password!

Intrigued by today's announcement, hopefully there'll be a surprise, but can't see it!

[Dukeeyyy]

Im impressed that we still have not had a leak yet

[mrtourette]

I'm sure this isn't a presale though. The presale was just after the festival. This is it I think. You can buy tickets from now until the festival, or until it sells out. I think the only reason for announcing early is to sell a shed load of tickets for Xmas. They are not going to be able to do that just by announcing bands that could easily be at download, because the majority would have bought download tickets, either prior to this announcement or have been bought for Xmas.

Edited November 29, 2012 by mrtourette

[thetime]

Definitely is, the December pre-sale at the year's prices is nothing new, only the announcemnt is. They're still having the main announcement/sale in March at 2013 prices.

If they were willing to sell all of next year's tickets at this year's prices they'd be screaming from the rooftops about a price freeze, they wouldn't miss a PR opportunity like that.

[kev1664]

Has a presale ever sold out though? Or does the time period to buy normally lapse? I'm sure if there was enough demand they would prefer to sell it out now, rather than when the rest of the lineup is announced and tickets normally go on sale.

[mrtourette]

Tourette didnt you guess or get the lineup this year? Any tit bits?

Edited November 29, 2012 by mrtourette

[thetime]

I was given a copy of the press release on the day of the March announcement, but that's because it fell into the lap of a friend. It hadn't happened before and didn't happen for any of the later announcements so I'm not expecting it to happen again unfortunately. I just got lucky on that one day.