2017 festival

[pop-punk meme]

Along with most of the line up to be fair! was just wondering what stage and position they would play as i'm unaware of their popularity. 

[kells004]

Anyone know when day tickets go on sale?

[Rose-Colored Boy]

4 minutes ago, pop-punk meme said:

Along with most of the line up to be fair! was just wondering what stage and position they would play as i'm unaware of their popularity. 

Third down NME probs

Edited February 24, 2017 by Zac Quinn

[pop-punk meme]

1 minute ago, Zac Quinn said:

Third down NME probs

thank you!

[Andre91]

7 minutes ago, DownboundTrain52 said:

Are You Me at Six really going to go against Kasabian? Mind you, lads against pop-punkers.

Pop punkers? More like watered down radio pandering bollocks. 

[Rose-Colored Boy]

just realised The Wombats subbed NME last year and this doesn't seem so weak after all 

 

[robmongascy]

not as good as i thought it'd be imo but the only thing really letting it down is the lack of big names on the sunday. Can see Haim headlining NME or being 3rd down on main, at a push.  

Hate it when they announce with this style poster, what happened to the one Andy C had?

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Nice to see Everything Everything around though, thought they'd be locked in a bunker this summer 

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

2 minutes ago, Zac Quinn said:

just realised The Wombats subbed NME last year and this doesn't seem so weak after all 

 

And absolute rammed the tent to be fair to them, pants though they are.

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

3 minutes ago, robmongascy said:

not as good as i thought it'd be imo but the only thing really letting it down is the lack of big names on the sunday. Can see Haim headlining NME or being 3rd down on main, at a push.  

Hate it when they announce with this style poster, what happened to the one Andy C had?

I'm guessing that's a later version as everyone on that was announced.

[deadash321]

9 minutes ago, kells004 said:

Anyone know when day tickets go on sale?

Mid day according to RandL twitter page

[BeddingatReading]

This is my 13th consecutive year and I do genuinely think this is the worst announcement since I've been there.

Of the new "alphabetical" bands announced, the only ones I've even heard of are:

Billy Talent, Circa Waves, Lethal Bizzle, Cabbage, Everything Everything, Frank Carter, Moose Blood, Sundara Karma, Charli XCX, Milky Chance, The Hunna & The Sherlocks

The only one who I would actually like to see that I haven't before is Moose Blood......

Am I just getting old or is the lineup just terrible?

[DMCJ2]

Not great for me, might get a Friday day ticket if the line up looks better when they have stage splits + more announced. Saturday + Sunday looking awful.

[JSmurphy]

To be fair, R&L are pretty good at booking acts that you may not necessarily heard, but will end up quite liking by August time. I'm still disappointed at this stage but I shouldn't really be too disheartened until I've given the lineup a more thorough run through.

[Diocane]

Did they say anything about some Eminem exclusive? Can't find info 

[kingcrawler]

1 minute ago, Diocane said:

Did they say anything about some Eminem exclusive? Can't find info 

Just looked through the press release there and there's no mention of any act being an exclusive, which for R&L is odd.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

2 minutes ago, Diocane said:

Did they say anything about some Eminem exclusive? Can't find info 

Nothing in the press release http://www.readingfestival.com/sites/live.inviqa.readingfestival.com/files/images/24.02.17_reading_and_leeds_final.docx

[willutalk]

I guess this leaves me waiting until tomorrow for a Korn style announcement. Too good for the rest of the pack.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

1 minute ago, kingcrawler said:

Just looked through the press release there and there's no mention of any act being an exclusive, which for R&L is odd.

not even the ones they previously listed as exclusive in the big old list at the end, maybe they've just suddenly realised nobody falls for that shit any more and given up on it 

[FakeEmpire]

Presumably we're looking at something like:

Kasabian / Bastille / Two Door Cinema Club / TBC / Jimmy Eat World / Mallory Knox / Rat Boy
You Me At Six / TBC / Circa Waves / Bear's Den

Eminem / Major Lazer / Korn / TBC / TBC / The Pretty Reckless
Flume / TBC / Glass Animals / Everything Everything

Muse / TBC / Haim / Blossoms / Giggs
Marshmello / Halsey / Wiley / Charlii XCX / The Hunna

?
 

 

[Rose-Colored Boy]

1 minute ago, RyanS said:

Presumably we're looking at something like:

Kasabian / Bastille / Two Door Cinema Club / TBC / Jimmy Eat World / Mallory Knox / Rat Boy
You Me At Six / TBC / Circa Waves / Bear's Den

Eminem / Major Lazer / Korn / TBC / TBC / The Pretty Reckless
Flume / TBC / Glass Animals / Everything Everything

Muse / TBC / Haim / Blossoms / Giggs
Marshmello / Halsey / Wiley / Charlii XCX / The Hunna

?
 

 

wait why is there an actual band that exists called 'Marshmello' ffs

[pete76]

42 minutes ago, rivalschools.price said:

Has anyone got the announcement from this time last year?

Im sure it looked grim at this stage but wasn't too bad by the time of the festival.

1st of march last year

[Hawky]

Migos 

Flatbush Zombies

Milky chance 

Haim 

Halsey 

 

Have saved it for me.

[JSmurphy]

I'm sure that it's just an error but there are a few discrepancies between the official website and the poster (Reading):

Counterfeit (Friday poster, Saturday website)
Jaguar Skills (Saturday poster, Sunday website)
Rex Orange County (Doesn't feature on the poster, Sunday website)

Edited February 24, 2017 by JSmurphy

[Rose-Colored Boy]

11 minutes ago, pete76 said:

1st of march last year

So going by that we might potentially have an NME closer still to come, but otherwise we know of everyone playing every major slot on the top two stages. Horrendous. Can't believe they haven't booked Skepta or Stormzy, they might be holding Skepta back to help Wireless but they haven't even announced Stormzy for that either yet.. god love FR

Edited February 24, 2017 by Zac Quinn