[Closed] Reading Festival line up leaked

Haven't read any of them

Jane's Addiction!

What a load of rubbish. Two or three bands there I'd bother with. Though if Henry Rollins is doing some of his spoken word stuff then that's well worth checking out.

And Madness... on the main stage... WTF?!!

That's pretty kick-arse actually. There's a few 'oohs' there for me, but I reckon top of my list of "Bands I'd Really Like To See Again" are The Offspring. I saw them somewhere farty forever ago and it was a highlight gig for me.

Incidentally,

Muse are stellar live. Worthy headliners and well worth scoping out even if you're not a 'fan'.

agree with Mr Blobby (I must be getting old)

incidentally Muse are shocking live!!!

Agree with ron jeremy (and I'm not that old... assuming you are the real RJ!) Muse really have been awful live the times I've seen them. I can see why people think it's an amazing show but I really just don't get them. All seems very contrived.

Wow, cool line up, The Joy Formidable are ****ing brilliant, I'd watch everything on that list, Crystal Castles are just ace live, Everything everything are cool, Warpaint are ace as well.

Might have to book

Pretty average. There's probly only half a dozen bands on there I'd want to see. Muse, Pulp, Elbow, The Joy Formidable, Jane's Addiction, and Seasick Steve. Last time I went to Reading, in '95, I saw 36 bands, Bjork, Neil Young, Pavement, Mudhoney, White Zombie, Star69...

Mmmmm 95... 8)

Fat chance of me keeping a count of how many people I saw at a festival!

I think this is the third festival lineup I have seen "leaked" in the last month.

I wonder if the festival goers will take their junk away with them this time. That whole area looks like a tip when the festival clears out. I don't hold out much hope.

Got my tickets... Looks grand to me, but I do understand that not everyone can make the distinction between "a good bill" and "bands I want to see" 😉 As long as we get the good Muse not the weirdly detached and absent Muse she'll be right.

mtbfix, it's been getting better at least but you're spot on, the site's just grim by the last day... It's not even people leaving rubbish behind, it's happily living knee deep in their own filth for days, just chuck it on the ground. Then of course there's the "destroy everything" people who can't be bothered even to take their tent down for the red cross so set it on fire or jump on it, what a bunch of fudds (2 years ago we saw some poetic justice, some tool decided to jump on his tent and destroy it, and broke his collarbone. Shame)

Crystal Castles, Death From Above 1979 and The Naked & Famous I'd like to see... the rest? Average, hasbeens or re-forms! Parp!

The text is too blurred for a reading festival.

It's not blurred. Had your eyes checked lately?

Awful line-up, just awful. Nothing relevant at all. Interpol, Crystal Castles and Seasick Steve are the only decent acts.

Interpol. Relevant?
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Thanks for the leak; saved me some cash.

Watching Madness, Muse and My Chemical Romance whilst not being able to use a flushing toilet and hemmed in by 19 year olds with bad sunglasses and worse personal hygiene.

Maybe I'm getting old, but I actually would rather kill myself.

Leaked? Fred Dinenage just announced the line up on the local news! (Meridian)

How?

If Death From Above 1979, Deftones, Jane's Addiction, Jimmy Eat World and Henry Rollins were all performing on the same day I'd get a day ticket, but having seen them all between one and four times apiece I wouldn't pay whatever the weekend tickets costs these days.

I went every year between 1994 and 2004, but I was starting ti feel pretty old by then and I was only 24, reckon I'd feel ancient now I'm 31!

Somebody mentioned 1995 further up the page...that was a great year.

Pavement, Buffalo Tom, Teenage Fanclub, Green Day (at the peak of their post-Dookie rise to fame), Smashing Pumpkins, Hole (with a frankly deranged Courtney Love and sexy new bassist Melissa Auf der Maur freshly recruited), dEUS, Foo Fighters in their second UK appearance, Neil Young, Soundgarden, Bjork, Mudhoney, Guided By Voices.

I think that was as good as the festival ever got for me...seem to recall weekend tickets were about £60 too, less than the cost of a day ticket now 😯

bravohotel8er - Member

I went every year between 1994 and 2004, but I was starting ti feel pretty old by then and I was only 24, reckon I'd feel ancient now I'm 31!

Oi! We're not old, we're [i]veterans[/i] And nah, you'd not be that old, well, you'll be twice the age of about half the crowd but then 20 year olds get made to feel old by that lot.

has nobody mentioned the strokes???????

I think I said something like "Oh, are the Strokes still going?" followed by "Ah, they were bloody awful at Gig on the Green, I went off and saw Idlewild and broke my hand in an unexpectedly hectic moshpit and that was still better than watching any more of the Strokes".

But YMMV 😉

Talking of 1979, went to that one and few of the bands listed below, wouldn't pay a quid to watch this years lot.
Should have been Thin Lizzy on the Sat night, but replaced by The Scorpions who were superb

The Cure
Wilko Johnson
Motorhead
The Police
Gillan
Steve Hackett
Cheap Trick
The Scorpions
Molly Hatchett
Climax Blues Band
Whitesnake
Peter Gabriel

tim minchin would be watchable.. other than that it looks like an utter yawn fest..