2021 Lineup

[Dukey]

Can't believe it's nearly 2 weeks to go... hopefully start getting news about maps / set times within the next week or so

[rivalschools.price]

29 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

Haha yes! First thing I'm doing when I arrive for my day at Leeds is having a stroll around to find the (likely) one bar on site that sells it, and then tactically going there between bands! 

Yeah, I try to get my beer from the Danish Quarter whenever I can as the Export is always there.

Is there anyone in the entire festival that actually says ‘oohhh, Tuborg, my favourite’

[nathanh]

11 minutes ago, Dukey said:

Can't believe it's nearly 2 weeks to go... hopefully start getting news about maps / set times within the next week or so

Hopefully! Really exciting times now

[m4tt]

54 minutes ago, rivalschools.price said:

Yeah, I try to get my beer from the Danish Quarter whenever I can as the Export is always there.

A good time is always have in the Danish too. And if you're lucky you might get some shade!

They do the funky cider flavours in there too. Keeps the Mrs happy

[FakeEmpire]

And the Danish is reasonably quiet a lot of the time as, let's be honest, most people at the festival are under 18!

[efcfanwirral]

38 minutes ago, m4tt said:

A good time is always have in the Danish too. And if you're lucky you might get some shade!

They do the funky cider flavours in there too. Keeps the Mrs happy

That strawberry and rhubarb one in 2019 was very nice for one or two, especially early on! 

[m4tt]

22 minutes ago, efcfanwirral said:

That strawberry and rhubarb one in 2019 was very nice for one or two, especially early on! 

Can almost taste it now 😆

[K2001]

Just seen this posted online, bad quality but surely with the placement would mean the other one is where radio 1 was? 

[Tom Connolly]

20 minutes ago, K2001 said:

Just seen this posted online, bad quality but surely with the placement would mean the other one is where radio 1 was? 

if the other stage is where radio 1 was, how is the no clash thing gonna work? gonna have to sprint between stages. the whole idea seems pretty silly to me

[Quorn]

11 minutes ago, Tom Connolly said:

if the other stage is where radio 1 was, how is the no clash thing gonna work? gonna have to sprint between stages. the whole idea seems pretty silly to me

Exactly my thinking, I feel like advertising no clashes is a bit ridiculous if you’ve got no chance of properly seeing consecutive acts. But I guess it would still technically be no clashes

[TheWaters]

The closer we get to the festival the more I realise how much i’m gonna miss the radio 1 and how much i’m not keen on the two main stages. Interested to see how it works this year and for them to trial it but if it isn’t great I really hope they bring back the R1 next year 

[FakeEmpire]

I love the Radio 1 tent so much. You often forget it's daylight until you step back outside. Sound, lighting, viewing points all excellent. Have had so many of my all-time favourite festival moments in that tent.

I understand the reasons behind the changes but do hope they U-turn next year.

[TheWaters]

 

2 minutes ago, FakeEmpire said:

I love the Radio 1 tent so much. You often forget it's daylight until you step back outside. Sound, lighting, viewing points all excellent. Have had so many of my all-time favourite festival moments in that tent.

I understand the reasons behind the changes but do hope they U-turn next year.

An account with a National album as it’s pfp and an account with a National song as a username both opposing the second main stage. Clearly R&L need to book The National to headline the R1 in 2022 imo 

[nathanh]

38 minutes ago, Tom Connolly said:

if the other stage is where radio 1 was, how is the no clash thing gonna work? gonna have to sprint between stages. the whole idea seems pretty silly to me

Right, this was my exact thought process when we got the news from RandLMill a while back, there is no possibility without missing starts/ends of sets to see both acts simultaneously 

[K2001]

26 minutes ago, nathanh said:

Right, this was my exact thought process when we got the news from RandLMill a while back, there is no possibility without missing starts/ends of sets to see both acts simultaneously 

I might be being stupid, but won’t there be like a 10-15 min gap between them? 

[thetime]

56 minutes ago, TheWaters said:

The closer we get to the festival the more I realise how much i’m gonna miss the radio 1 and how much i’m not keen on the two main stages. Interested to see how it works this year and for them to trial it but if it isn’t great I really hope they bring back the R1 next year 

Just think it is the radio 1 stage but outdoors.

[TownNation]

22 minutes ago, K2001 said:

I might be being stupid, but won’t there be like a 10-15 min gap between them? 

More like 5 minutes 😂

[m4tt]

1 hour ago, Tom Connolly said:

if the other stage is where radio 1 was, how is the no clash thing gonna work? gonna have to sprint between stages. the whole idea seems pretty silly to me

Are there really that many back to back acts you want to see on the main stages to see it as that much of an issue?

Edited August 9, 2021 by m4tt

[Andre91]

12 minutes ago, m4tt said:

Are there really that many back to back acts you want to see on the main stages to see it as that much of an issue?

There will be plenty of people, myself included, who have many, many back to back acts they want to see. 
 

Regardless of whether this is the case, it is an issue if the stages are too far apart. Advertising no clashes and then having the Main Stages more than a couple of minutes walk away from each other defeats the object of no clashes. You’re going to have tens of thousands of people migrating across the arena between every set. 
 

I maintain that side-by-side stages would have worked better. 

[gfa]

2 hours ago, Tom Connolly said:

if the other stage is where radio 1 was, how is the no clash thing gonna work? gonna have to sprint between stages. the whole idea seems pretty silly to me

Its really not that far - bigger issue is bar queues i reckon although from memory the queues are never too bad as barely anyone is 18 haha.

definitely miss the R1 tent - leaves a lot of mid level acts without a suitable stage in my opinion- if they don’t have a fad hit or blow up just before the festival then they will be like 2pm on the main stage with no crowd or clashing with main stage headliners in FR/Dance/1xtra. Also completely stops them booking say Pendulum who are too big to headline dance but would be shit mid-main stage in the day, same for like Bicep too and lots of other dance acts given how much DNB etc is growing

Edited August 9, 2021 by gfa

[m4tt]

5 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

There will be plenty of people, myself included, who have many, many back to back acts they want to see. 
 

Regardless of whether this is the case, it is an issue if the stages are too far apart. Advertising no clashes and then having the Main Stages more than a couple of minutes walk away from each other defeats the object of no clashes. You’re going to have tens of thousands of people migrating across the arena between every set. 
 

I maintain that side-by-side stages would have worked better. 

Fair enough. On the plus side, consider yourself lucky the line up is to your taste and you have lots of back to backs. 

[Benj]

1 hour ago, TheWaters said:

The closer we get to the festival the more I realise how much i’m gonna miss the radio 1 and how much i’m not keen on the two main stages. Interested to see how it works this year and for them to trial it but if it isn’t great I really hope they bring back the R1 next year 

Same here, more so perhaps the loss of the additional FR/ Pit stage.

Overall its a massive loss of choice for in reality no great additional quality, we're at least 12-16 acts or so down a day and the loss of exposure to new bands will no doubt be felt down the line

[Benj]

53 minutes ago, thetime said:

Just think it is the radio 1 stage but outdoors.

It will be interesting to see what it looks like look and feel wise, if it is much smaller than the standard mainstage, then the talk of '6 headliners' will indeed be balls, there will clearly be and A and B team feel to it.

The more I think about it the more I think its really not going to be popular at all. There's loads of casual types who just camp in the same spot all day in front of the mainstage. The constant migration will be an utter pain in the arse when pretty much the whole festival is going end to end every hour.

[m4tt]

20 minutes ago, Benj said:

Same here, more so perhaps the loss of the additional FR/ Pit stage.

Losing the Pit for a day is so shit. Especially considering they're already diluting it with acts that imo shouldn't be playing the stage. 

[r55N]

Spiritbox just cancelled Reading because of the Limp Bizkit tour cancelation. (their instagram)

Can’t see how both things are connected unless Bizkit were supposed to be secret set.

shame really, was looking forward this gig:///