2024 Festival

[Benj]

More stages? 👀

[49Lawson]

15 minutes ago, Andre91 said:

Pendulum in the daylight will be absolutely fine. 

Wasn’t a problem at all at Download last year

[Benj]

2 minutes ago, nathanh said:

More stages to be announced makes me wonder how the hell they are planning to fit this all in?

Noticed it same time as me, no idea how this is all gonna work. New map will be as exciting as the lineup drop!

[nathanh]

1 minute ago, Benj said:

More stages? 👀

I need a map to visualise this all because what is being canned?

[Guest]

I'm sure more stages will be stuff like introducing, alternative, Leeds late night stages and Arcadia at Reading if that rumour turns out to be true.

[Dukey]

That lineup is unreal 

[gblock]

3 minutes ago, Benj said:

Noticed it same time as me, no idea how this is all gonna work. New map will be as exciting as the lineup drop!

Might just be the alternative stage and that small dance stage, can’t remember it’s name but it was 18+ last year in between FR and 1xtra

& introducing ofc

Edited February 1 by gblock

[Will b]

This has not gone down well on insta 

[Benj]

1 minute ago, SomeoneListeningIn said:

I'm sure more stages will be stuff like introducing, alternative, Leeds late night stages and Arcadia at Reading if that rumour turns out to be true.

Assuming Chevron is where the big tent used to be, R1 is the dance tent. There is still room for one more where the 1 Xtra was post 2019.

Would be a proper return to form if they were back to 5 decent stages AND 6 headliners 

[gblock]

Just now, Will b said:

This has not gone down well on insta 

Shock 😂

unless it’s AM and Drake they don’t care

[gblock]

Just now, Benj said:

Assuming Chevron is where the big tent used to be, R1 is the dance tent. There is still room for one more where the 1 Xtra was post 2019.

Would be a proper return to form if they were back to 5 decent stages AND 6 headliners 

I think that is going to be the case, they must have realised the 2 main stages just didn’t work
Are you coming over for this year now?

[LazyDavid]

Just about enough there to get me to Blink day:

Blink - Prodigy - Two Door - Spiribox - Neck Deep (x2) - Denzel Curry - The Amity Affliction will do

Edited February 1 by LazyDavid

[andyrhodes24]

Poster dropped on Twitter, guess we’ll have to wait for the inevitable NME interview for info on the stages, nothing on the R&L website

Edited February 1 by andyrhodes24

[nathanh]

Theres a silence in here whilst we take in what just happened

[Benj]

10 minutes ago, gblock said:

I think that is going to be the case, they must have realised the 2 main stages just didn’t work
Are you coming over for this year now?

Feel like I have to!

Will see what mates think. After a nice relaxing festival in perfect weather last year, may be hard to persuade them. Think I’m for it

[FloopFiller]

Easily best lineup they’ve had in years. Great mix of stuff for fans of the older R/L lineups and the new imo. Maybe it’ll prove to be an outlier as they’ve just managed to bag the best of who’s available this year, but hopefully a sign of it getting back on track, especially after last year’s lineup seemed to go down so badly for the most part. 

[gblock]

12 minutes ago, Benj said:

Feel like I have to!

Will see what mates think. After a nice relaxing festival in perfect weather last year, may be hard to persuade them. Think I’m for it

Man I’m regretting not buying the loyalty tickets now

Looks very very good

[losing43]

Are Prodigy and Blink likely to clash do we reckon?

[Chad888]

Taking away whos already been announced, that is a very poor announcement for the casual music fan that aren't dedicated listeners to every upcoming artist and genre like [the people that frequently spend all their free time a music centric forum].

 

Wombats, Two Door, Fontaines DC, Bru-C ... that's pretty much the extent of the announcement for broadly known/liked acts

Edited February 1 by Chad888

[Chad888]

1 minute ago, Chad888 said:

Taking away whos already been announced, that is a very poor announcement for the casual music fan that aren't dedicated listeners to every upcoming artist and genre like [the people that frequently spend all their free time a music centric forum].

 

Wombats, Two Door, Fontaines DC, Bru-C ... that's pretty much the extent of the announcement for broadly known/liked acts

 

[VCK2]

Shiiiiiit, we've got the Radio 1 tent back AND the second open air stage (assuming that's what the 'Chevron stage' is).

I'm confused though. Are Lana, Catfish and Gerry basically just subbing the main stage, but billed as headliners (like FOB were in 2016, or TOP in 2019)?

[nathanh]

I'm unsure how this will go down with the GP. It lacks the names that they will hear on radio. Its a lineup for people tuned in to music rather than just whats publicly well known

 

Do we think theres any of that to be added or no?

Edited February 1 by nathanh

[VCK2]

48 minutes ago, Benj said:

More stages? 👀

Lock-Up to return with Sublime headlining please.

[moz4pm]

Probably the best lineup they've had for 7-8 years, glad to see them getting back more to their roots. If I was ten years younger I'd probably go. There's 12-15 bands on there i'd go see which is about 12-15 more than the last 5 years.

[VCK2]

3 minutes ago, nathanh said:

I'm unsure how this will go down with the GP. It lacks the names that they will hear on radio. Its a lineup for people tuned in to music rather than just whats publicly well known

 

Do we think theres any of that to be added or no?

Just like how R&L was prior to about 2018.