Reading & Leeds Festival: Bands Announced

lets all do a happy dance

Jimmy Eat World, Incubus, Arcade Fire, Pixies, Foo Fighters, and Bloc Party headlining so I don't have to watch Iron Maiden.

Beeeaaaaaaautiful.

Apart from the Pixies the mainstage this year sucks arse.

Don't go then. D'oy.

Looks good.

Pixies, QOTSA, The Tears, Babyshambles, The Arcade Fire, Iron Maiden, Iggy and the Stooges and The Futureheads are all good. But two things piss me off:
1. The Killers playing above QOTSA, that is a bloody disgrace.
2. Kasabian/Bloc Party headlining. Now don't get me wrong here, I hate Kasabian but quite like Bloc Party. The problem is that BANDS WITH ONE ALBUM SHOULD NOT HEADLINE THE FIRST OR SECOND STAGE AT A MAJOR FESTIVAL.

Kasabian are playing the same time as Pixies. Anyone watching Kasabian deserves their fate of utter disappointment.

Nice bands, but Leeds festival is one of the most badly organised events i've been to. The venue is shit as well.

Decent line up. Dreadful festival. I've still booked my tickets on musical grounds but I'm actually considering the exorbitant hotel costs this year... that's what credit cards are for, I think...

there's a couple of bands playing i really want to see playing the main stage this year (Pixies, Iggy,) which is both good and suprising,

though i expect most of my time will once again be spent in the new bands stage. anyone heard anything about who might be playing this stage? i heard that The Kills are rumoured, maybe they are headlining this stage again like last year?

also I completely agree with the two points small pox made, about the Killers and the Kasabian / Bloc Party first album headline slot point.

think this initial line up is better than the initial line up last year, with bloc, arcade fire and pixies, all bands that i do really want to see. have to see how far the festival budget can stretch, with the icelandic airwaves tickets costing a packet.

i quite like the slope at leeds - lets you see the stage better if you just want to sit and smoke.

i shall probably be going but don't feel too inspired. pixies and iggy should be cool, and I am an unashamed fan of Iron Maiden, but the rest is meh, though it usually is I suppose

is mike watt still playing for the stooges?
if so maybe he'll do some other stuff too...
god hes cool.

Wow.
What a crock of shit.

Yay: Elbow
Interesting: Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, Futureheads
Meh: Foos, QOTSA, Pixies

Its alright though, there'll hopefully be loads of great bands playing the carling stage to be announced...

Iron Maiden
Marilyn Manson
Incubus
Iggy and the Stooges
NOFX

Hm... Download-cum-Reading festival. Have we not seen these bands at festivals FAR too many times before??

Sometimes, Sparrow, I think we are too old for this game...

This is a pretty underwhelming, uninspiring line up so far.

Its kinda depressing that so far the only two bands I want to see are both only there to rake in the cash and as old as my parents. I'm hoping that Dead Meadow and Comets on Fire will be there but I somehow doubt it.

Sod Glastonbury, sod Reading. I reckon that Benicassim followed up by La Route du Rock should make for a more enjoyable music orientated langers experience this year..

i think by believing the stooges probably arent that great now i'll live without going. the killers playing above qotsa is a bit of a joke, surely?

Pixies, Qotsa, Stooges. That's about it. I hate the NME-ness of this line up. Plus half these bands played Glastonbury or Reading last year really far down on the bill. No Hip Hop?

The Killers above Qotsa is a fucking outrage, I might well start a petition.

I've realised what's happened. As we've moved away from the single and more towards albums, a "One Hit Album Wonders" situation was created, whereby mediocre bands with not much to say do really well and have indie credibility even though they're just clones of much better bands. But their time is limited, as by the next album, almost no one will care, and all they can do is release an almost identical second album, because they weren't very original in the first place. See - The Libertines, Babyshambles, Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, The Darkness, The Futureheads, Kasabian, Razorlight etc...)

anyone up for staying on after qotsa and throwning shit at the killers as they perform their album?

What five other (feasible) bands would people add to this lineup? Some choices off the top of my head:

1: The Mars Volta
2: The Secret Machines
3: Weezer
4: Trail of Dead
5: RJD2

I think I may buy a day ticket to see The Stooges; Maiden should be a laugh too.

I'm quite looking forward to this now - was doubting whether I'd go to Leeds this year as the whole festival "scene" is really pissing me off, what with tickets costing a bomb and selling like hot hot hot cakes becuase going to a festival is the "thing to do". So hurrah for arcade fire, bloc party pixies futureheads incubus and elbow (although im not sure what it will be like listening to elbow on the main stage I think they're better for smaller tents)!
And why is everyone kicking up a fuss about Kasabian? Everyone will be at the main stage for the Pixies so Kasabian will not enter the equation at all. Surely. Right?

Five bands to add

1.) Rocket From The Crypt
2.) Blood Brothers
3.) Fear Before the March of Flames
4.) Capdown
5.) Rammstein

That would be totally Mexico.

Shit, i should of put 5 bands that I would like to be added to reading.

How come Incubus are on the main stage? When will people realise they are actually crap. AARGHH

Friday at Reading looks the best day. The problem with Reading is that it is full of 14 and 15 year olds going to their first festival and that creates problems as many of them act like twats. Like erm I may have at Reading '03.

don't suppose anybody knows if the dresden dolls are playing?

Hopefully they'll add some Ben Kweller, or some Presidents of the United States of America, or some Kerbdog.

Or the Chuckle Brothers.

The last Leeds I went to was the one that got it nearly shut down ('03?). Apparently the atmosphere is better, but I think a little 'hazing' is par for the course. I agree that its mainly kids acting like twats, but they've got to learn somewhere as they'll never listen to us old-timers about how to behave. I quite like the rawkus atmosphere though (not the fear-for-your-life-rioting-and-pillaging). I went to ATP last year and everyone was a bit too cool for me.
I'd love to see Mars Volta, Secret Machines and Blood Brothers announced. And Kerbdog too. Possibly Roots Manuva as well.

Let's all go to spain. I can't wait for that lineup to be announced, but I'm going anyway.

Toilets constantly cleaned, always with paper and smelling like daisies..

no mud..

35 degrees ... bands playing at 3am when it's still about 20 degrees.. lie on the beach all day

Tents under canvass so you don't boil to death

Hundreds of open showers with no queues, people just shower and go. All the spanish get naked.

And it's damn cheap

It's about £90 for a ticket, then flights are cheap at about £70-£100. It's soo worth going to.

Last year's line up included kraftwerk, the charlatans, lou reed, primal scream, belle & sebastian, love+arthur lee, brian wilson, scissor sisters, chemical brothers, dandy warhols, franz ferdinand, spiritualized, lcd soundsystem, air, tindersticks, kings of leon, teenage fanclub, snowpatrol, wire, electrelane, soulwax...