Lineup 2015

[kaosmark2]

I have a varied music taste really, if a song has a great atmosphere to it I'll like it.

Ps - that looks like a hell of a fun slide.

Indiscriminate doesn't mean varied

I think the bumps would hurt my crotch personally.

[Asdaprice]

Indiscriminate doesn't mean varied

I think the bumps would hurt my crotch personally.

I still don't like starlight

Shit I didn't see those bumps

[Gucci Piggy]

Indiscriminate doesn't mean varied

I think the bumps would hurt my crotch personally.

Ffs I was about to say something about those bumps.

Exo-Politics is shite; as bad as Starlight. Kaos, what have you done?

[kaosmark2]

Ffs I was about to say something about those bumps.

Exo-Politics is shite; as bad as Starlight. Kaos, what have you done?

Sorry Will

Woah, it's not THAT bad. Bad but be fair...

[Mouseboy11]

I don't get the Exo Politics hate.

[Gucci Piggy]

It makes my head fall off with dullness.

[justanothername]

The Prodigy

Arcade Fire

Rage Against The Machine

[truthpigeon]

Black Keys

Arcade Fire

The Prodigy or Linkin Park

[Tobieski]

Linkin Park will never ever headline Reading again. Ever.

[Asdaprice]

Linkin Park will never ever headline Reading again. Ever.

Probably true. Coulda said that about green day though?

[Dead throne]

Linkin Park will never ever headline Reading again. Ever.

hopefully

[FloorFiller]

Probably true. Coulda said that about green day though?

Green Day do (well, did) still have mainstream credibility / are/were 'current' (as in up until those three recent albums, the masses still gave a shit about them). Linkin Park are like ten years past being anything to do with credible / current. only way they could headline again is if they somehow managed to release a game changing album, and that's just not happening. scorned to forever headline Download every three years

[Asdaprice]

Green Day do (well, did) still have mainstream credibility / are/were 'current' (as in up until those three recent albums, the masses still gave a shit about them). Linkin Park are like ten years past being anything to do with credible / current. only way they could headline again is if they somehow managed to release a game changing album, and that's just not happening. scorned to forever headline Download every three years

Yeah, I think you are probably right. Wouldn't be too surprised if they came back however with another number 1 album (cause the last few have been) but as you said download seem to consistently want and have them.

[FloorFiller]

Yeah, I think you are probably right. Wouldn't be too surprised if they came back however with another number 1 album (cause the last few have been) but as you said download seem to consistently want and have them.

even though they still get number one albums, those albums soon fall off the radar. seems it's a bunch of hardcore Linkin Park fans that are buying the album in the first week and then barely anybody in the following weeks. so yeah, thankfully Download and Sonisphere will keep getting them (and anyway, Download and Sonisphere have such slim pickings when it comes to headliners that it wouldn't be fair if other festivals started snatching them up haha)

[Luke Routledge]

If blink can still headline I see no reason why Linkin Park cant

[thetime]

Green Day do (well, did) still have credibility

Oh!!

[FloorFiller]

If blink can still headline I see no reason why Linkin Park cant

think it's been hotly debated that Blink is a bizarre / somewhat weak booking

Oh!!

come on, those last three albums bombed so badly. i know it was down to bad promotion / Billie Joe's whole ordeal, but they came and went without many people caring (and 21st Century Breakdown was pretty bad too... it was just successful off of the hype of American Idiot)

[kaosmark2]

come on, those last three albums bombed so badly. i know it was down to bad promotion / Billie Joe's whole ordeal, but they came and went without many people caring (and 21st Century Breakdown was pretty bad too... it was just successful off of the hype of American Idiot)

The joke is the idea of Green Day ever having credibility.

[Asdaprice]

even though they still get number one albums, those albums soon fall off the radar. seems it's a bunch of hardcore Linkin Park fans that are buying the album in the first week and then barely anybody in the following weeks. so yeah, thankfully Download and Sonisphere will keep getting them (and anyway, Download and Sonisphere have such slim pickings when it comes to headliners that it wouldn't be fair if other festivals started snatching them up haha)

Don't all number 1 albums fall off the radar? They don't produce many hit singles if that's what you're getting at.

Yeah, I still wouldn't put it past reading, especially if they keep getting shitty old bands that most 20 something's liked when they were 12. Green day and blink fall into that bracket as much as Linkin park do, so it's definitely not impossible.

[FloorFiller]

to be fair a couple of years ago (maybe 2011?) i was convinced that Linkin Park were going to headline R/L (based off nothing but me not being able to think of who else it could be - turns out they did end up scraping the bottom of the barrel but not enough to reach Linkin Park)

unless Linkin Park have another hit (yeah that's what i was getting at) i don't see it happening (and even if it did, can you imagine the uproar? it's bad enough when they're announced for Download, so much so that they've resorted to 'first album in full' gimmicks to keep people interested)

[Asdaprice]

to be fair a couple of years ago (maybe 2011?) i was convinced that Linkin Park were going to headline R/L (based off nothing but me not being able to think of who else it could be - turns out they did end up scraping the bottom of the barrel but not enough to reach Linkin Park)

unless Linkin Park have another hit (yeah that's what i was getting at) i don't see it happening (and even if it did, can you imagine the uproar? it's bad enough when they're announced for Download, so much so that they've resorted to 'first album in full' gimmicks to keep people interested)

To be fair I think the part of the uproar is due to them playing download again so soon, just like blink with reading this year - yet the still get booked.

But yeah I agree it would seem weird without another album with a popular single - but again I bring you blink 182.

Still unlikely, but possible.

[FloorFiller]

if this years rumoured headliners (Blink, Arctics and Paramore/QOTSA) are true then this looks like another 2011 to me - organisers really struggling to get headliners and getting whatever they could, so Blink is a bit of an anomaly (i fail to believe that Blink were their first choice, especially as the festival has made a habit of not repeating headliners so quickly in the past)

but yeah, i suppose it is always possible. really quite surprised it hasn't happened in the last ten years that they headlined (but i suppose the festival hasn't been seemingly stuck for headliners until the last two or so years when the co-headlining stuff came into play)

Edited December 14, 2013 by FloorFiller

[the wonderwhy]

Glad everyone is being fair this evening

[kaosmark2]

Glad everyone is being fair this evening

To be fair, it's not everyone.

[Asdaprice]

To be fair, it's not everyone.

My bad to be fair