Lineup 2014

[dentalplan]

Get out. If Superfood made an album anywhere near as good as Join the Dots they'd stand a chance of crawling out of Peace's shadow.

[Yellow_Fellow]

Not even comparable bb

[dentalplan]

nah bun, they're far better than The Reverb Pedal and the Jing Jang Jong

Not even comparable bb

[Yellow_Fellow]

I meant Superfood to Peace!!

[dentalplan]

Oh. I didn't compare the two. I said they were in their shadow because they're always banded together 'cos of the 'B-town' thing. If I was gonna compare them to anyone it'd be Darlia because they're both part of this unwanted Britpop revival thing going on, and they're both really shit.

[the wonderwhy]

Dance to the Radio stage has been announced: Toy, Superfood, Honeyblood, Fryars and Post War Glamour Girls. Not bad eh?

fuck sake that's Leeds only isn't it?

[nickybu]

Wasn't sure where to post this bus is the Volt Charging worth it for the weekend?

[kemosabe]

Right ordered my ticket. Does anyone have the email for seetickets

[sjseabass]

Apparently Arctic Monkeys snuck in a second R&L headline set prior to this year when we weren't looking: http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/c2pp77/reading-2014--arctic-monkeys--reading

The rest of the listings, if anyone cares (I think Friday was already posted? Meh):

Fri

Vampire Weekend // Paramore // Queens of the Stone Age

Sat

Foster The People + Imagine Dragons // Jake Bugg + Bombay Bicycle Club // Arctic Monkeys

Sun

Maverick Sabre + Clean Bandit // The Kooks + You Me At Six // Blink-182 + Disclosure

Last year I found it frustrating that there were actually quite a lot of exclusives playing - SOAD, Deftones, NIN, Fall Out Boy, BMTH, Brand New etc etc - yet they just showed the bands playing everywhere last summer (e.g. Bastille) instead, despite having already shown their sets at both Glastonbury and T a couple of months earlier.

This year they have such slim pickings they have no choice.

[nickybu]

Do they sell fanny packs at the festival?

[dentalplan]

Apparently Arctic Monkeys snuck in a second R&L headline set prior to this year when we weren't looking: http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/c2pp77/reading-2014--arctic-monkeys--reading

The rest of the listings, if anyone cares (I think Friday was already posted? Meh):

Fri

Vampire Weekend // Paramore // Queens of the Stone Age

Sat

Foster The People + Imagine Dragons // Jake Bugg + Bombay Bicycle Club // Arctic Monkeys

Sun

Maverick Sabre + Clean Bandit // The Kooks + You Me At Six // Blink-182 + Disclosure

Last year I found it frustrating that there were actually quite a lot of exclusives playing - SOAD, Deftones, NIN, Fall Out Boy, BMTH, Brand New etc etc - yet they just showed the bands playing everywhere last summer (e.g. Bastille) instead, despite having already shown their sets at both Glastonbury and T a couple of months earlier.

This year they have such slim pickings they have no choice.

I don't think SOAD, NIN or Deftones allowed their set to be shown. I know Fall Out Boy were on telly, can't remember about BMTH though.

[sjseabass]

I don't think SOAD, NIN or Deftones allowed their set to be shown. I know Fall Out Boy were on telly, can't remember about BMTH though.

I'll let them off then. If I ran the festival, I'd find that extremely frustrating - the TV coverage is the way a lot of the public will get an impression of the festival, and if all the exclusive acts just refuse to be shown, and with that ruling out a lot of last year's more 'alternative' acts, it means people get the impression it's another identikit festival where you just go to watch fucking Bastille again.

Of course this year it basically has turned into that festival anyway. They probably don't care.

Just read my post back and I completely forgot Brand New actually cancelled. Obviously bleached it from my brain in sadness.

[mattgimmeshelter]

Usually they show the biggest acts on TV

as they did last year

and this year.

[dentalplan]

I'll let them off then. If I ran the festival, I'd find that extremely frustrating - the TV coverage is the way a lot of the public will get an impression of the festival, and if all the exclusive acts just refuse to be shown, and with that ruling out a lot of last year's more 'alternative' acts, it means people get the impression it's another identikit festival where you just go to watch fucking Bastille again.

Of course this year it basically has turned into that festival anyway. They probably don't care.

Just read my post back and I completely forgot Brand New actually cancelled. Obviously bleached it from my brain in sadness.

I think there's more exclusives this year than last. Feels that way.

Usually they show the biggest acts on TV

as they did last year

and this year.

Maverick Sabre

[mattgimmeshelter]

I think there's more exclusives this year than last. Feels that way.

Maverick Sabre

Pretty sure don brocco were shown last year.

My point still stands, Vampire Weekend, Paramore, QOTSA, Arctics, Jake Bugg, Imagine Dragons, Disclosure, Blink are being shown on TV

just as most of the top half of the mainstage was last year - bar eminem of course... only because he requested not to.

[dentalplan]

Was looking forward to seeing Mack le moré too.

[sjseabass]

I think there's more exclusives this year than last. Feels that way.

Ehhh, I feel the opposite, but that's probably because a bunch of last year's exclusives were a. big and b. had been nowhere or very rare in the year or two up to the festival (Green Day, SOAD, Eminem, NIN, FOB, etc), whereas this year you have the likes of Vampire Weekend (whored themselves out last year) and Enter Shikari (could them playing be any less interesting?) as the exclusives. Macklemore is the only big act that hasn't been at Reading itself or another festival since 2012.

[mattgimmeshelter]

Ehhh, I feel the opposite, but that's probably because a bunch of last year's exclusives were a. big and b. had been nowhere or very rare in the year or two up to the festival (Green Day, SOAD, Eminem, NIN, FOB, etc), whereas this year you have the likes of Vampire Weekend (whored themselves out last year) and Enter Shikari (could them playing be any less interesting?) as the exclusives. Macklemore is the only big act that hasn't been at Reading itself or another festival since 2012.

Vampire Weekend played Glastonbury/Longitude last year and that's it... hardly whoring themselves out.

Enter Shikari would of been playing this year anyway, regardless of when they last played. They have a new album being announced/previewed around now anyway.

[sjseabass]

Vampire Weekend played Glastonbury/Longitude last year and that's it... hardly whoring themselves out.

Arena tour as well though. SOAD / NIN / Eminem / FOB had been absolutely nowhere.

[mattgimmeshelter]

Arena tour as well though. SOAD / NIN / Eminem / FOB had been absolutely nowhere.

SOAD and NIN yes - were exclusive

but Both Eminem and FOB had other dates, of course Eminem had less because he is a bigger act and plays bigger shows. He wasn't even on a full tour anyway, short promotional tour before announcing his next album.

Which is what I expect Macklemore is doing this year.

[rawaudioinput]

There are definitely a LOT more bands on this year's line up who have toured extensively recently than compared to 2013

[dentalplan]

Ehhh, I feel the opposite, but that's probably because a bunch of last year's exclusives were a. big and b. had been nowhere or very rare in the year or two up to the festival (Green Day, SOAD, Eminem, NIN, FOB, etc), whereas this year you have the likes of Vampire Weekend (whored themselves out last year) and Enter Shikari (could them playing be any less interesting?) as the exclusives. Macklemore is the only big act that hasn't been at Reading itself or another festival since 2012.

I guess but I don't think that many viewing on telly are that fussed about when the last time bands were here. A big factor to a few of the more exclusive acts you mentioned is that there was no Sonisphere last year so the likes of NIN, SOAD, Deftones, FOB could come to R+L quite easily. Still, Paramore, Vampire Weekend and Gerard Way on European exclusives are good. General exclusivity on Courteeners, Macklemore, QOTSA, Shikari and probably a few other shitters too.

[rawaudioinput]

Paramore aren't really great as a European exclusive seeing as they mean naff all on the mainland

[dentalplan]

I didn't know that.

[rawaudioinput]

They do what are comparative to big academy tours, played four down at Rock am Ring in 2013

They're not unknowns, but they'd never be capable of headlining a major European festival