2023 Festival

[wro_lap]

I'm in the camp of definitely buying a ticket nearer the time. I understand some people don't like it but it's my favourite lineup in years (lots of my favourite artists in big slots) so it's a must-go for me

[Muppetmark]

With a bit of a reshuffle id go for a day but at present theres nothing strong enough for me to go back.

[andyrhodes24]

On 1/5/2023 at 1:34 PM, Benj said:

Are/ Were you still all camping??

We do indeed, three of the group take their campervans now so the rest of us stick our tents in that field with them but we do the full weekend. Usually go down the arena from 1pm for the day even if acts aren’t to put taste, we’ll watch and drink to pass the time

[Benj]

2 hours ago, andyrhodes24 said:

We do indeed, three of the group take their campervans now so the rest of us stick our tents in that field with them but we do the full weekend. Usually go down the arena from 1pm for the day even if acts aren’t to put taste, we’ll watch and drink to pass the time

Sounds like us bar the fact we’ve hotel’d it since 2005!

…and we’re not going this year

[Chad888]

If you could go for 1 x 2023 day, how would you rearrange the announced acts to convince you?

 

For me, a main stage run down (top 4 on each stage) then I'd buy a date ticket for sure.

 

15-1600: Tion Wayne

16-1700: Don Broco

17-1800: Trippie Redd

18-1900: Nothing But Thieves

19-2000: Slowthai

20-2100: Loyle Carner

21-2200: Foals

22-2300: The Killers

 

[andyrhodes24]

2 hours ago, Benj said:

Sounds like us bar the fact we’ve hotel’d it since 2005!

…and we’re not going this year

Our group does sound similar to yours, last couple of years I’ve not been convinced we’d go. Surprisingly 2019 was the closest call, only four of us went with a few more opting for a Foos day ticket. That year’s lineup would be a dream now!

[andyrhodes24]

1 hour ago, Chad888 said:

If you could go for 1 x 2023 day, how would you rearrange the announced acts to convince you?

 

For me, a main stage run down (top 4 on each stage) then I'd buy a date ticket for sure.

 

15-1600: Tion Wayne

16-1700: Don Broco

17-1800: Trippie Redd

18-1900: Nothing But Thieves

19-2000: Slowthai

20-2100: Loyle Carner

21-2200: Foals

22-2300: The Killers

 

Even with this I’d be struggling to justify it if I went solely based on the lineup.

12-13:00 YMAS (guest opener)

13-14:00: The Snuts

14-15:00: Don Broco

15-16:00: Trippie Redd

16-17:00: Wet Leg

17-18:00: Slowthai

18:10-19:10: Loyle Carner (not arsed about any of the MSE subs)

19:50-21:20: Foals (none of the MSW headliners are doing it for me either)

21:30-22:50: Billie Eilish/The Killers (can’t split them)

Edited January 9, 2023 by andyrhodes24

[stanh]

1 hour ago, Chad888 said:

If you could go for 1 x 2023 day, how would you rearrange the announced acts to convince you?

15:00-15:35- Muna

15:45-16:20- Inhaler

16:30-17:05- Trippie Redd

17:15-18:00- Wet Leg or Declan McKenna

18:10-19:00- Becky Hill

19:10-19:55- Loyle Carner or Central Cee

20:05-21:20- Bicep

21:30-22:50- Billie Eilish

I'm not huge on any of the MSW headliners at all, if I wasn't able to bump up Bicep, I'd take Foals.

[LazyDavid]

12:15-13:00 - YMAS (guest opener)
13:00-13:30 - Baby Queen (scraping the barrel)
13:30-14:00 - Inhaler (scraping the barrel)
14:00-15:00 - Drinks Break
15:00-15:45 - Don Broco
15:45-16:30 - Nothing But Thieves
16:30-20:00 - Drinks Break
20:00-21:30 - Foals
21:30-23:00 - The Killers

 

Aka there's not enough there for me at all so far even pulling together 3 days

Edited January 10, 2023 by LazyDavid

[Benj]

2 hours ago, LazyDavid said:

12:15-13:00 - YMAS (guest opener)
13:00-13:30 - Baby Queen (scraping the barrel)
13:30-14:00 - Inhaler (scraping the barrel)
14:00-15:00 - Drinks Break
15:00-15:45 - Don Broco
15:45-16:30 - Nothing But Thieves
16:30-20:00 - Drinks Break
20:00-21:30 - Foals
21:30-23:00 - The Killers

 

Aka there's not enough there for me at all so far even pulling together 3 days

While no doubt a little better once the full line up is announced, all these sad concoctions are once again highlighting the loss of the two stages in how little choice now exists.

#bringbackthebigtent

[nathanh]

14 hours ago, Chad888 said:

 

If you could go for 1 x 2023 day, how would you rearrange the announced acts to convince you?

 

For me, a main stage run down (top 4 on each stage) then I'd buy a date ticket for sure.

 

Controversially Im quite a big fan of the lineup as it is but i thought id get involved

15:00-15:35- MUNA

15:45-16:20- Inhaler

16:30-17:05- Chase Atlantic

17:15-18:00- Wet Leg

18:10-19:00- Becky Hill

19:10-19:55- Steve Lacy or Central Cee

20:05-21:20- Lewis Capaldi

21:30-22:50- Billie Eilish

[Benj]

My local festival has just announced its lineup and has me pining for Reading after all!

It doesn’t get much less inspired than this - 

[James4]

3 minutes ago, Benj said:

My local festival has just announced its lineup and has me pining for Reading after all!

It doesn’t get much less inspired than this - 

Sunday looking not half bad.

[Benj]

2 minutes ago, James4 said:

Sunday looking not half bad.

Sunday is decent and you could prob realistically cherry pick a really good day from across the weekend, I won’t be spending 300 dollars on a general admission ticket

[gfa]

9 minutes ago, Benj said:

My local festival has just announced its lineup and has me pining for Reading after all!

It doesn’t get much less inspired than this - 

Looks completely fine if you want to see bands? Far better than spending 1000s of dollars flying to the UK at least

[BenG92]

Tool, Deftones and Sublime are all at Sonic Temple this year. It's like someone tailor made a festival for me. If RATM were on that bill I'd probably have to take a bloody loan out to go. 

[Benj]

17 minutes ago, gfa said:

Looks completely fine if you want to see bands? Far better than spending 1000s of dollars flying to the UK at least

Yup it’s fine, just boring (although prob less so than Reading for me), would rather see Yungblud than 90% of that and ultimately there’s less choice at any one time than Reading  

Sadly being America there’s no way any of me getting there than by car and all that entails, so I wont be attending

Edited January 10, 2023 by Benj

[Chad888]

Lewis Capaldi is a bigger act than Sam Fender, the fact Lewis is MSW yet Sam MSE is evidence of the festivals downfall. Fender should be on the MSW at best at this stage of his career.

Lewis Capaldi is a solo male pop star that sings love songs. He should be nowhere near Reading festival.

Reading Festival is meant to be the biggest alternative music fest, it's about fucking the system.

Edited January 13, 2023 by Chad888

[Andre91]

22 minutes ago, Chad888 said:

Lewis Capaldi is a bigger act than Sam Fender, the fact Lewis is MSW yet Sam MSE is evidence of the festivals downfall. Fender should be on the MSW at best at this stage of his career.

Lewis Capaldi is a solo male pop star that sings love songs. He should be nowhere near Reading festival.

Reading Festival is meant to be the biggest alternative music fest, it's about fucking the system.

Look. At. Sam. Fender’s. Tour. Dates. 

[stanh]

1 hour ago, Chad888 said:

Lewis Capaldi is a bigger act than Sam Fender, the fact Lewis is MSW yet Sam MSE is evidence of the festivals downfall. Fender should be on the MSW at best at this stage of his career.

Lewis Capaldi is a solo male pop star that sings love songs. He should be nowhere near Reading festival.

Reading Festival is meant to be the biggest alternative music fest, it's about fucking the system.

Sometimes I really can't tell if you are being serious or just trolling.

[Chad888]

3 hours ago, Andre91 said:

Look. At. Sam. Fender’s. Tour. Dates. 

Am I meant to look up gematria? Is it an occultic message?

[gfa]

17 hours ago, Chad888 said:

Lewis Capaldi is a bigger act than Sam Fender, the fact Lewis is MSW yet Sam MSE is evidence of the festivals downfall. Fender should be on the MSW at best at this stage of his career.

Lewis Capaldi is a solo male pop star that sings love songs. He should be nowhere near Reading festival.

Reading Festival is meant to be the biggest alternative music fest, it's about fucking the system.

Great trolling

[Huwey]

On 1/10/2023 at 3:57 PM, Benj said:

My local festival has just announced its lineup and has me pining for Reading after all!

It doesn’t get much less inspired than this - 

Better headliners than rnl for my taste (bar lumineers)  national and flaming lips aswell, but , in general a bit shit 

[jonnyx]

Those headliners - sell out 

Our headliners - limp to a sell out. 

[gfa]

6 minutes ago, jonnyx said:

Those headliners - sell out 

Our headliners - limp to a sell out. 

Not in the UK 😂