BBC introducing stage

[mrtourette]

Last year there were 13 bands per day (36 announced and 3 acoustic 'secret' sets) and so far they've announced 36 bands, so I'd say it's referring to the acoustic set they put on each day.

[mrtourette]

Max Raptor Saturday Reading/Sunday Leeds at around 5ish.

[insideaway]

Who played accoustic sets last year?

[Mouseboy11]

Rise Against played one I know that.

[Spud001]

And The Joy Formidable and Ed Sheeran

[ReynholmIndustries]

Who do we reckon for this year then? I'm hoping for Graham Coxon on Friday (at Reading), Los Campesinos on Saturday and Gaslight Anthem/Frank Turner (if he is a Mongol) on Sunday.

[mrtourette]

Blood Red Shoes

[Vieuphoria]

The Cure

The Cure

The Cure

but realistically maybe....

Friday - Graham Coxon

Saturday - Metronomy

Sunday - Pulled Apart By Horses (so everyone can be happy about them playing every stage and celebrate and such like)

[mrtourette]

They've already played the BBC Introducing stage.

Wouldn't be surprised if The View (or maybe some of them) pitched up on the Sunday.

[Vieuphoria]

I know they have but isn't it the stage they first played? So they could do that one as a nice horah moment after they've done their mainstage slot.

[mrtourette]

Ah OK, that makes sense.

[mrtourette]

Haven't seen this before but the day splits are now on the official site:

Friday Reading:

MIKILL PANE

PROXIES

SAMOANS

LADY LYKEZ

WET NUNS

ATTENTION THIEVES

FISH TANK

PARK BENCH SOCIETY

DANICA HUNTER

FAMILY OF THE YEAR

WE WERE FRONTIERS

MARSICANS

Saturday Reading:

HAWK EYES

SARAH WILLIAMS WHITE

CUT RIBBONS

IFAN DAFYDD

ESCAPE TO NEW YORK

MAX RAPTOR

HILDAMAY

RIO

DEAR PRUDENCE

BLACK MOTH

BACKYARDS

VENGEANCE AND THE PANTHER QUEEN

BEARFOOT BEWARE

Sunday Reading:

ESCAPISTS

DEAF CLUB

WE WALK ON ICE

MARMOZETS

DINGUS KHAN

EMPROR AND DUPPY BEATZ

RACHEL SERMANNI

SEASFIRE

THE ESTABLISHMENT

CROOKED TONGUES

GLASSBODY

Interestingly (maybe) whereas there's normally 12 bands announced and a 13th 'surprise' acoustic set there are only 11 bands scheduled for the Sunday at Reading and already 13 for the Saturday at Reading. Either a mistake or there won't be an acoustic set each day as has previosuly happened.

[dip]

Tall Ships headlining the Sunday at Reading. Incredible band.

[mrtourette]

Where did you get that from?

[dip]

Big Scary Monster/Blood and Biscuits twitter/facebook.

[mrtourette]

Cool, that takes up one of the slots and leaves the other for an acoustic set. Wonder why they weren't in the announcement.

Edited August 7, 2012 by mrtourette

[dip]

No idea, they've had a lot of festivals recently so maybe that held them up, or maybe it was a late booking?

So so happy with this though

[jump]

Tall Ships headlining the Sunday at Reading. Incredible band.

[Mouseboy11]

I was hoping AxeWound might turn up considering Matt Tuck and the Cancer Bats are around.

[huntyyy]

I was hoping AxeWound might turn up considering Matt Tuck and the Cancer Bats are around.