Secret Sets 2021

[Jack.194]

26 minutes ago, NoBuses said:

AM have recorded a new album. Do we dare to dream...?

We definitely shouldn’t

[CG31]

1 hour ago, NoBuses said:

AM have recorded a new album. Do we dare to dream...?

It’s not gonna happen, but if it did that would be unsafe with the amount of people even at a MS

[Andre91]

Big Frank & The Snakes for a Pit/Lock Up set 

Big Joe & The IDLES for a Main Stage set 

Big Rex & The Orange Counties for an Introducing set 

Edited August 16, 2021 by Andre91

[NoBuses]

25 minutes ago, Gerard the Fab said:

It’s not gonna happen, but if it did that would be unsafe with the amount of people even at a MS

Didn't green day do one in the R1 in 2013? That must've been unsafe

[heartsink]

59 minutes ago, Gerard the Fab said:

It’s not gonna happen, but if it did that would be unsafe with the amount of people even at a MS

It would be unsafe 😂😂😂 what you on about? 

[Benj]

47 minutes ago, NoBuses said:

Didn't green day do one in the R1 in 2013? That must've been unsafe

No one knew for sure it was deffo going to happen or exactly when it would be and it  KO'd at about 10am, if I remember correctly, which limited numbers and, ultimately, they roped it off to stop more people from getting in.

AM on a Mainstage wouldn't be an issue, only problem would be getting people into the arena in time, if it KO'd early ala Green Day

Edited August 16, 2021 by Benj

[andyrhodes24]

Blossoms? Playing Victorious on the Saturday, UK tour starts on the Monday, new song out tomorrow? Possibly no spot for them as they’d probably do a main stage secret set?

[Dukey]

The R&L mill guy has tweeted saying apparently Oli Sykes said he’s playing R&L on a live stream 

[Jhold001]

2 minutes ago, Dukey said:

The R&L mill guy has tweeted saying apparently Oli Sykes said he’s playing R&L on a live stream 

Doubt it'll be bring me, he'll probably come out as a guest during yungblud's set. Would love it if BMTH were the secret set though

 

[Andre91]

16 minutes ago, Dukey said:

The R&L mill guy has tweeted saying apparently Oli Sykes said he’s playing R&L on a live stream 

YUNGBLUD collab confirmed. 

[gfa]

4 hours ago, Gerard the Fab said:

It’s not gonna happen, but if it did that would be unsafe with the amount of people even at a MS

if they aren’t safe at main stage where are they safe 😂 festival changing also, so many people wouldn’t be bothered by them honestly although i’m sure even many if not more would get dragged there by their mates

[Andre91]

1 hour ago, gfa said:

if they aren’t safe at main stage where are they safe 😂 festival changing also, so many people wouldn’t be bothered by them honestly although i’m sure even many if not more would get dragged there by their mates

I don’t know what your idea of R&L is but is is wildly inaccurate. You seem to think 99% of attendees are ketty teenagers when they aren’t. Arctic Monkeys, secret or announced, would pull a gargantuan crowd. Every single year, every social media platform’s comments section is filled with people demanding Arctic Monkeys. 
 

Do you actual go to R&L? Because judging by your responses, you haven’t seen that many crowds at the festival (that isn’t satire). 

Edited August 16, 2021 by Andre91

[kjvffm]

 

1 hour ago, gfa said:

if they aren’t safe at main stage where are they safe 😂 festival changing also, so many people wouldn’t be bothered by them honestly although i’m sure even many if not more would get dragged there by their mates

 

10 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

I don’t know what your idea of R&L is but is is wildly inaccurate. You seem to think 99% of attendees are ketty teenagers when they aren’t. Arctic Monkeys, secret or announced, would pull a gargantuan crowd. Every single year, every social media platform’s comments section is filled with people demanding Arctic Monkeys. 
 

Do you actual go to R&L? Because judging by your responses, you haven’t seen that many crowds at the festival (that isn’t satire). 

AM are possibly the single most in demand band for R and L every year. In the context of Reading in the 2020s I'm not sure there's a bigger booking they could make? Drake maybe. They won't play a secret set this year but if they did it would be one of the largest crowds all weekend.

[Andre91]

Arctic Monkeys are too big to do a secret set. 

[Dukey]

How about an Architects secret set and Simon Neill joins them for Goliath 😍

[JackGodwin1905]

You lot are clueless even thinking of an Arctic Monkeys secret set ahah, never in a million years 

[Ives562]

How about greenday again? 

[gfa]

11 hours ago, Andre91 said:

I don’t know what your idea of R&L is but is is wildly inaccurate. You seem to think 99% of attendees are ketty teenagers when they aren’t. Arctic Monkeys, secret or announced, would pull a gargantuan crowd. Every single year, every social media platform’s comments section is filled with people demanding Arctic Monkeys. 
 

Do you actual go to R&L? Because judging by your responses, you haven’t seen that many crowds at the festival (that isn’t satire). 

People who comment on their instagram doesn’t actually speak much. I don’t live under a rock, I know Arctic Monkeys are massive but we are all proper music fans on here - so many people I know go and see like 2-3 acts a day. The crowd would be huge but my point was a lot of people would be dragged by their friends rather than actually be that bothered before. They clearly aren’t headlining this year and a secret set is obviously not happening - my point was simply that it wouldn’t be even remotely unsafe

[m4tt]

6 minutes ago, gfa said:

a lot of people would be dragged by their friends rather than actually be that bothered before.

I'd be going to the Danish if my mates wanted to go see AM. 

[Andre91]

23 minutes ago, gfa said:

The crowd would be huge but my point was a lot of people would be dragged by their friends rather than actually be that bothered before.

I disagree completely. 

[gfa]

1 hour ago, Andre91 said:

I disagree completely. 

You disagree that people would get dragged there by their mates? I’m not saying that 80k people get dragged there i am just saying a decent amount will be - just like every other artist.

[Andre91]

15 minutes ago, gfa said:

You disagree that people would get dragged there by their mates? I’m not saying that 80k people get dragged there i am just saying a decent amount will be - just like every other artist.

You said a lot of people will only be in Arctic Monkeys’ crowd after being dragged along by their mates. They’re one of the biggest bands of the 21st Century in this country. 
 

I think your argument of people not being bothered and being dragged along by mates is a silly point anyway. Crowd size is crowd size. 
 

I just think your idea of nobody at the festival being interested in music is absurd. I have never, ever met anyone (young, old, R&L or non-R&L) at a festival who doesn’t want to see any bands at all and has no idea who is playing. It is a music festival. Even your kids who go ‘for the piss up’ will have SOME acts they want to see.

A band like Arctic Monkeys would be one of the most popular headline bookings the festival could make across all demographics of the audience. 

[CG31]

Maybe unsafe was an over exaggeration. Still think it’d be heaving, bigger than Billie 2019 potentially

[Andre91]

21 minutes ago, Gerard the Fab said:

bigger than Billie 2019 potentially

Bigger than the biggest crowd in Festival history? 

[TornShaun]

4 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Bigger than the biggest crowd in Festival history? 

That crowd was mental! Even as a non Billie fan at the time watched (way back mind) and it was HUGE!