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reading-leeds disappointment?

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by jono_key

i bought tickets with not looking at the line up, any one else a little disappointed?

I know there will be more additions but.... i would like to see converge, weezer, youthmovies, battles and future of the left added please. what would everyone else want?

jono_key | 09 Apr '08, 18:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

doubt it

but Brand New.
Manchester Orchestra and what you said.

The bands announced at the start are never great anyway.


^^ this

the line up always gets better. thank god tbh


what would everyone else want?

You to use your money more sensibly in the future,keeping it in your pocket till you know that someone you like is playing!


i would like to see converge, weezer, plain white t's

glassjaw, all those other bands i want and then to still be alive for RAGE AND 'TALLICA!!!!


I'm pretty please with the line up really

Metallica are there and that's good enough for me.

I'd like to see Weezer again. And Hundred Reasons and Frank Turner are always good to see.


From what i've heard

Weezer suck live?


They were great on the two occasions

I saw them (both in 1995 mind!), but, pulled out of the two dates when I was due to see them in 2001 after their triumphant return.

By all accounts sometimes they put in a bit of a half hearted effort with Rivers playing the whole ironic rock star role........


I've only seen them once

and they were really good. They played all the songs you'd want them to play.


Would be good to have The Breeders

others who I would like to see playing (who there is a chance of having on) would include The kills, Fiery Furnaces, !!!, Yeasayer, Twighlight Sad.

I hope that at least one of those headline on another stage as well, as the other headliners don't really excite me. Would have been good to have someone like Hot Chip headlining the R1 stage but they won't be playing now as they're at V.


!!! were ace last year

Really want to see them again.


^this won't be happening now

!!! have announced some US dates around then. Boo! And yes they were awesome last year.


bitch please

the reading lineup is never truly exciting until the nme and carling stages are announced in full.


fingers crossed

for The Breeders, would like to see Mountain Goats and MIA on there too


*tuborg

from one shit beer to another...


agreed...

Last year I spent almost all my time in the NME tent. Ash stole the festival, but Biffy were a close second. Couple in the Carling (notably Bloof Red Shoes and Cajun Dance Party) were right up there as well


Oh don't act so surprised

of course Reading/Leeds has an awful line up. It's the music festival for people who don't like music.


^^^

self-righteous wanker


Weezer

Won't be playing will they? They'd have been announced already - bands of their stature are always announced first. There's usually a "special guests" slot on one of the days, but not this year. Which might be a good thing, because I was convinced it would be Weezer one year, and it ended up being Placebo. Fuck. Right. Off.


Erm well no, it's true.

That's why Leeds and Reading are full of so many cocks- people go "for the crack" not for the music.


converge won't play

bet ya


You never know what the lock-up will yield

it's a long shot, but it could happen

I'm hoping for (on any stage) The Dillinger Escape Plan, Every Time I Die, Circa Survive, Poison the Well, The Bronx, Reuben, Converge, Fuck Buttons, Anathallo and Idiot Pilot.


that would be pretty decent

i expect gallows will headline though?


Yeah

probably. as long as Gallows is the alternative to the killers, i'm down with kids on that one


^if the lock up looks ANYTHING like that

it will make my year


yeah, i was thinking

the same. Grabbing a ticket off eBay could be on the cards if the smaller tents get decent line-ups.

You won't catch me camping though


yeahhhhh camp :)

come camp with me we can rave it up on the night!


majorLOL

at the comment above saying
"of course Reading/Leeds has an awful line up. It's the music festival for people who don't like music."
how were 65dos?


if the lineup becomes

worthy of my money-parting and i go, i shall pop by to play on many occasions, but i'll be running back to get showered etc before i'm seen in any arenas again. I like cleanliness to much, i get huffy otherwise.

65dos isn't til 29th, it was Portishead on Saturday (amazing!)

And Poison The Well? I only went and missed the Glasgow show :(


have you seen them before though?

this was my first time seeing them (PTW im talking about) and they were absolutely stunning.the sound was incredible (we were stood at the back didnt want to get sweaty)


Alas not

missed them when they played last year too. Booooo.

Ah well, they'll be back, Arnie-styleeee.

Gutted you had to go to Fibbers though. My sister lived in York for 6 years and showed me it when i was down. The word 'dive' doesn't even scratch the surface, eh?


haha i know

its such a shithole.in contrast to the town (york is a town isnt it?) which is one of the prettiest places ive ever been.granted im not well travelled but it is very picturesque


A city, buster.

The minster is a cathedral (or so i am to believe). I wish i were in York right now instead of looking out my window to the beautiful(ly industrial) SECC :(


York is a city

and Posion the Well were fucking bliss! I also apologise to any one there, I was the guy at the front head banging too much, although not that fat manchester guy who stage invaded and tried crowd surfing, he was a hoot though.


He was a fucking dude

He was from Manchester and tried to start a fight with the guy in York's Yummy Chicken.

I wish more people would stage invade at Fibbers, they're meant to be strict on that shit, but they don't really care (or they couldn't see him, haha)


Don't get one off ebay

well not now anyway. They will release some on the day and will also have some on the door. Or if you do ebay wait until close to the time (when peole have their tickets delivered) and you can probably get one for less than cost price.


totally.

i don't bow to touts, but thanks for the heads up.


the bronx

played last year, and they have a policy that they dont have the same band on the same stage two years in a row, IIRC.


i say

THE BRONX 4 THE MAIN STAGE!!!!!!


i hate the main stage

at Leeds. Not necessarily the lineup (though oftentimes this contributes), but it's too vast and overwhelming, i think bands lose alot (e.g. Dillinger Escape Plan, Amen, Slipknot, Vex Red, whoever else i watched there in 2002)

S'all about the tents - Alec Empire & Apehx Twin were beastly that year


i reckon they are all quite likely

looking at past line ups anyway


but ETID and Circa Survive have never played, i'd love it if they did

but what about the past makes them likely?


Every Time I Die

have their new record out, which means possible festival appearences to promote

Circa survive...touring their latest record, just done two UK tours, maybe they're down for their first major UK festival appearences?

HOPE FUCKING SO.


In the past

the lock up has put on good bands, those are good bands, hence they're playing.

you must see the awesome logic in this.
you will learn.