Lineup 2016

[conroy17]

Kasabian, Too Fighters and Florence or Blur would be my guess for next year, although Kasabian could change, not overly sure on that.

YMAS won't sub next year I don't think unless they complete their next album rather fast and the first single is received well, then they'll sub. If BMTH sub this year then I think YMAS are a very possible future sub as they have similar audiences and the festival are big fans of YMAS anyway.

I had YMAS down as subbing Foos for this year but I thought if BMTH were to headline Download which seems probable at this point then YMAS would make a suitable sub for them and they ain't gonna sub both so I notched The 1975 up a spot and stuck Catfish in 3rd.

[thewayiam]

Hang on. You can't spend months banging on about the size of bands' tours and then when The Vaccines have a pretty big tour (bigger than some recent subs) then reckon Vaccines will sub NME.

The thing is though, their tour wasn't big. They only played a little bigger venue's in places that most likely don't really have smaller one's. You can't really pin it on NME when I have said 4th main being more likely lol.

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

I had YMAS down as subbing Foos for this year but I thought if BMTH were to headline Download which seems probable at this point then YMAS would make a suitable sub for them and they ain't gonna sub both so I notched The 1975 up a spot and stuck Catfish in 3rd.

YMAS won't sub BMTH even at Download.

[Matt42]

Run The Jewels aren't 3rd down mainstage size.

yet

[Matt42]

Florence + The Machine

the 1975

Courteeners

The Vaccines

Twin Atlantic

Enter Shikari

Muse

The Weeknd

Motorhead

Chvrches

Don Broco

Major Lazer

Foals

Disclosure

HAIM

Run The Jewels

Axwell ^ Ingrosso

[Rose-Colored Boy]

For Matt's sake I really hope The Weeknd subbing comes off.

[Gucci Piggy]

Run The Jewels aren't 3rd down mainstage size.

yet

Will be once Radio One latch on to them and they become the new Royal Blood.

[Matt42]

Will be once Radio One latch on to them and they become the new Royal Blood.

Could still happen

[#FreeComTruise]

Muse

The Weeknd

Motorhead

[kingcrawler]

Slipknot

Deftones

A Day to Remember

Frank Turner

Of Mice & Men

Young Guns

Chvrches

Editors

Marmozets

Foals

The 1975

Two Door Cinema Club

Don Broco

Wolf Alice

Circa Waves

Slaves

Enter Shikari

Deaf Havana

Hannah Wants

Foo Fighters

Imagine Dragons

Catfish & the Bottlemen

Phoenix

Band of Skulls

Lower Than Atlantis

We Are the Ocean

Major Lazer (closing set)

The Vaccines

Miles Kane

[DGrant261]

Slipknot

Deftones

A Day to Remember

Frank Turner

Of Mice & Men

Young Guns

Chvrches

Editors

Marmozets

Foals

The 1975

Two Door Cinema Club

Don Broco

Wolf Alice

Circa Waves

Slaves

Enter Shikari

Deaf Havana

Hannah Wants

Foo Fighters

Imagine Dragons

Catfish & the Bottlemen

Phoenix

Band of Skulls

Lower Than Atlantis

We Are the Ocean

Major Lazer (closing set)

The Vaccines

Miles Kane

One I'm in most agreement with yet. Few things, I'd have a three way swap between Chvrches/Don Broco/Frank Turner. Also I think YMAS are more likely than Deftones, otherwise yeah I'd go with that. Maybe someone like Clean Bandit instead of Editors unfortunately also.

Edit: Oh and Flo over Foals imo

Edited June 5, 2015 by DGrant261

[dentalplan]

I really don't see Major Lazer being thrown into an NME closing slot. They'd headline it at the very least.

[kingcrawler]

I really don't see Major Lazer being thrown into an NME closing slot. They'd headline it at the very least.

Yeah I think headlining would be more likely than a closing set, I just had 4/5 acts I thought could be NME headliners so that was the easiest way to fit them all in.

[justanothername]

For Matt's sake I really hope The Weeknd subbing comes off.

Is this also the same guy that he was going on about earlier on in the year? As I really don't know

Edited June 5, 2015 by justanothername

[dentalplan]

Fair enough. That's probably why most people have been including that actually and I just hadn't realised.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Is this also the same guy that he was going on about earlier on in the year? As I really don't know

ye, that was what I was getting at Edited June 5, 2015 by Zac Quinn

[Matt42]

ye, that was what I was getting at

Just that it's difficult to predict who's gonna be massive by next august, After getting a pretty significant boost in popularity. He has a new album out the end of this year with some pretty big collabs. He's far from a pop artist if that's any consolation, think he'd go down well in an R&L crowd.

[Gucci Piggy]

Hope Flying Lotus subs too.

[Gucci Piggy]

Fair enough. That's probably why most people have been including that actually and I just hadn't realised.

Aye I considered doing it and moving Shikari to NME to fit TDCC in, but as you say I think they'd just headline it.

[stevieg1993]

I don't think you'd be majorly out if you predicted them to sub, but I do think that 4th main stage is far more likely.

I think people are under estimating the vaccines. There doing a fairly large tour in November. Venue sizes for vaccines I'd expect from frank turner, day to remember, bring me the horizon etc.

[stevieg1993]

And they've announced a third date at brixton academy

[rawaudioinput]

The Vaccines are seemingly on a decline and by summer 2016 they will probably be a fair bit smaller than they are now; their November tour is very big but I can imagine a lot of the venues will be half full or less

[DomDom1984]

I wouldn't say they're on a decline. Seems to be more just steady to me. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. But it also means they probably won't be troubling the higher end of festivals for a while. Well, not sub or higher anyways.

[Gucci Piggy]

Whilst what dental said about their fest positions not dropping too much, they have now gone from 3rd on Pyramid to 4th on Other at Glastonbury, alongside Clean Bandit and Future Islands, and below Courteeners, The Maccabees and Belle and Sebastian.

Obviously it's a different festival, but if they're being given a lower billing there than The Maccabees, I doubt they'd get higher than The Maccabees at Leeds. Although saying that, Maccabees could probably have played 3rd down at R&L if there weren't other acts available.

Basically I'm saying Vaccines 4th down probably isn't underestimating them.

[dentalplan]

I said that before the Glastonbury lineup was released, though it's still not like they're plummeting like White Lies did. I agree they could be 4th but NME headline would be a little bit of a drop and still a decent slot for them.

What I was mainly pointing out was that Gazza said they could sub NME because of their festival slots while disregarding their tour being quite big and including some arenas, whereas he said Foals couldn't headline because they hadn't done arenas, despite headlining Latitude and Bestival.